S3: The power of an instagram community, with Joanne Hawker, designer and founder of 'March Meet The Maker'

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business, Personal Journals

5.0 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week Holly sits down with Joanne Hawker, cards and accessories designer, to talk community and small business - two of her favourite topics. A designer by day, Joanne is also well known as the brains behind the Instagram challenge and phenomenon, ‘March Meet the Maker’.

‘March Meet The Maker’ is a tool to help shine a light on the makers across the world, by challenging them to share their ideas, favourites and what inspires them.

In this conversation, Joanne discusses her journey from working full time on a Pepper Farm in Devon, to realising her dream of quitting her job, and running her own successful small business. She talks about why she had a calling to create such a movement of people and what the power of community has given her and the creatives that she champions.

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0:00.0	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to my podcast Conversations of Inspiration
0:06.6	founder of Not on the High Street and Holly and Co. I'm the UK Ambassador of Creative Small Businesses.
0:13.7	I believe that having a business doing what you love is the key to a happy, fulfilled life,
0:20.3	and my dream is to help everyone start theirs.
0:24.0	I'm here to offer advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement,
0:29.0	and in my view, the greatest way to do this is by sharing stories.
0:33.6	So I've reached out to all my favorite small businesses,
0:37.0	acclaimed entrepreneurs, and those who just simply inspire me
0:41.8	and ask them to share theirs. With thanks to our sponsor Nat West
0:46.3	who have helped bring this free podcast to life. Here are my conversations of
0:51.6	inspiration.
0:53.0	This week on Conversations of Inspiration, I have the great pleasure of chatting to Joanne Hawker,
1:02.0	designer of greeting cards and accessories,
1:05.2	Joanne is also the brains behind the Instagram challenge and phenomenon March Meet the Maker.
1:11.5	A tool to help shine a light on the makers across the world by challenging
1:16.0	them to share their ideas, favorites and what inspires them. As Joanne said, allowing them to share their creative talents without feeling like
1:26.4	they're selling to anyone. Joanne and I got to know each other better at my home,
1:31.7	where we talked about the journey from working full time on a pepper farm in Devon
1:37.3	to realizing her dream of quitting her job and running her own successful small business.
1:43.0	Why she had the calling to create such a movement of people
1:47.0	and what that power of the community has given her
1:51.0	and the creatives that she champions. I love shining a light on the names of the future,
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