What does it take to level up your creative career and land high-value clients while maintaining balance in your personal life? In this episode, Mike Janda sits down with creative entrepreneur and educator Kady Sandel to uncover exactly that. They dive deep into personal branding, transitioning from low to high-value projects, breaking free from the feast-and-famine cycle, and the game-changing power of networking. Plus, Kady opens up about her inspiring journey from Serbia to the U.S., sharing her strategies for...
What does it take to level up your creative career and land high-value clients while maintaining balance in your personal life? In this episode, Mike Janda sits down with creative entrepreneur and educator Kady Sandel to uncover exactly that. They dive deep into personal branding, transitioning from low to high-value projects, breaking free from the feast-and-famine cycle, and the game-changing power of networking. Plus, Kady opens up about her inspiring journey from Serbia to the U.S., sharing her strategies for finding clients and successfully balancing business with family life. You won’t want to miss this episode packed with actionable insights!
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🎙️ About What the Helvetica? Podcast
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”What the Helvetica?” is an engaging series of conversations between Michael Janda and guest entrepreneurs, delving into the realities of building a business. What happens behind the curtain? What crucial insights remain unspoken? It’s not all sunshine and roses; ”What the Helvetica?” dives deep to unveil the raw truths of entrepreneurship—good, bad, and ugly—and listeners may learn a thing or two along the way.
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🤝 Connect with Michael Janda
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Michael Janda is an award-winning creative director, designer, and agency veteran. In 2002, he founded the creative agency Riser, which provided design and development services for clients that included Disney, Google, Warner Bros., Fox, NBC, ABC, National Geographic and many other high-profile brands. Michael sold his agency in 2015 and now spends his time speaking, developing books, courses, and social media content to help creatives level-up. He is the author of “Burn Your Portfolio” and “The Psychology of Graphic Design Pricing.”
Instagram: https://instagram.com/morejanda
YouTube: https://youtube.com/morejanda
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/morejanda
Website: https://michaeljanda.com
Courses: https://morejanda.teachable.com
Community: https://morecreativeacademy.com
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👋 Connect with Kady Sandel
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Kady Sandel is a business coach for designers and the CEO of her own design agency in Austin, Texas. She is the host of The Profitable Graphic Designer podcast, which has helped over 20,000 designers grow their businesses. She is also the creator of the popular 12-week program The Profitable Designer, and The Creative CEO Accelerator.
Kady went from $65 logos to charging $10k+ per project, all by applying the business-building strategies she teaches at Aventive Academy. Kady is also an author with a bestselling book in the Logo & Branding category, titled BrandFix - Brand Strategy for Busy Entrepreneurs.
Website: https://aventiveacademy.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aventiveacademy/
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