162. WHY THE BUSINESS SIDE FEELS SO HARD FOR CREATIVES

And she very kindly told me what a typical week for her looks like.

So her week changes all the time, depending on what's on and what stage each project is at.

There are site visits, there's checking on progress or solving problems on site.

There's some plans and some are not.

So she has to stay really flexible and then she needs to be in a position where she can drop other things when she needs to.

There's visiting showrooms and suppliers to source for projects.

Then there's all of the desk work, so invoicing and sourcing and tracking deliveries and lead times, updating systems to keep everything organized.

And then there are all the inquiries and the marketing, the discovery calls and the emails and the planning and everything.

making social media content and updating the website.

And she has been doing pretty much all of that on her own.

And then on top of all of that, she has a project management system that she really enjoys using, where she tracks everything for each project.

So things like the client communication, documentation, schedules and specifications.

She uses Xero, which actually is exactly the same accounting system that we use.

and has an accountant for that side of things.

And she keeps everything else in Notion.

And then in her words, and she also has good old fashioned note taking.

If you just kind of pause and think about that for a moment, and I would imagine for a lot of you listening, it sounds very much like your week as well.

So I want to say this really, really plainly for Rosie and for everybody.

We are already extraordinary problem solvers.

That comes to us very naturally, being creative.

In more traditional businesses, what's being offered usually sits within all of those processes as one part of the running of it.

But for creatives, there's a whole other enormous element on top because you're also the one dreaming Everything up, you're designing it, you're making it and you're pouring yourself into it.

You were doing all of that in your business and very often you're running your whole life alongside it as well.

You're looking after the people around you, juggling so many different things all at once, every single day, every single week.

So often we tell ourselves we're not very good at the business side when actually we're quite extraordinary at it.

And she very kindly told me what a typical week for her looks like.

So her week changes all the time, depending on what's on and what stage each project is at.

There are site visits, there's checking on progress or solving problems on site.

There's some plans and some are not.

So she has to stay really flexible and then she needs to be in a position where she can drop other things when she needs to.

There's visiting showrooms and suppliers to source for projects.

Then there's all of the desk work, so invoicing and sourcing and tracking deliveries and lead times, updating systems to keep everything organized.

And then there are all the inquiries and the marketing, the discovery calls and the emails and the planning and everything.

making social media content and updating the website.

And she has been doing pretty much all of that on her own.

And then on top of all of that, she has a project management system that she really enjoys using, where she tracks everything for each project.

So things like the client communication, documentation, schedules and specifications.

She uses Xero, which actually is exactly the same accounting system that we use.

and has an accountant for that side of things.

And she keeps everything else in Notion.

And then in her words, and she also has good old fashioned note taking.

If you just kind of pause and think about that for a moment, and I would imagine for a lot of you listening, it sounds very much like your week as well.

So I want to say this really, really plainly for Rosie and for everybody.

We are already extraordinary problem solvers.

That comes to us very naturally, being creative.

In more traditional businesses, what's being offered usually sits within all of those processes as one part of the running of it.

But for creatives, there's a whole other enormous element on top because you're also the one dreaming Everything up, you're designing it, you're making it and you're pouring yourself into it.

You were doing all of that in your business and very often you're running your whole life alongside it as well.

You're looking after the people around you, juggling so many different things all at once, every single day, every single week.

So often we tell ourselves we're not very good at the business side when actually we're quite extraordinary at it.