Creative Entrepreneurs

Episode #585: Community, Ceremony, and the Art of Evolving: A Conversation with Chelsea Renee

By Tracy Matthews / April 15, 2026

What Does It Actually Mean to Evolve? Not just pivot. Not just rebrand. But actually, deeply evolve, the way you shed a skin you did not even realize you had been living in. That is the question I…

Episode #584: How to Stretch Yourself to Make 10K (or More) This May and Bring Your Clients Along for the Ride

By Tracy Matthews / April 14, 2026

What Would You Do With an Extra $10,000 This Month? Not next quarter. Not “someday.” This May. I know that might feel like a stretch. That is kind of the whole point. In this episode of Creatives Rule…

Episode #578: The Sales Rhythm Your Business Is Missing (And Why Willpower Won’t Create It)

By Tracy Matthews / March 12, 2026

You Don’t Have a Sales Problem. You Have a Rhythm Problem. If you’ve been showing up, creating, learning, and still staring at inconsistent sales numbers, let me offer you a reframe: the problem probably isn’t what you know.…

Permission to Be in Process: How One Entrepreneur Chose Reinvention Over Burnout with Stacey Owen

By Tracy Matthews / August 19, 2025

Permission to Be in Process: The Sacred Art of Entrepreneur Reinvention What do you do when you’ve built something successful, but your soul is screaming for more? This is the question that kept Stacey Owen up at night.…

Stop Selling Products, Start Selling Transformation: The $8,000 Bracelet Story with Stacey Brass Russell

By Tracy Matthews / August 13, 2025

Stop Selling Your Product and Start Selling This Instead The $8,000 Bracelet That Changed Everything Picture this: A successful business coach walks into the Cartier mansion in New York, slightly nervous that they’ll think she’s “not a big…

The Permission to Be Seen: Breaking Free from Small Business Invisibility with Heather Noska

By Tracy Matthews / August 7, 2025

How Small Business Owners Can Break Free from Invisibility What if the thing keeping your business small isn’t lack of strategy, but lack of permission to be fully seen? I had one of those conversations recently that stayed…

Finding Your Edge: The Powerful Questions That Change Everything

By Tracy Matthews / August 5, 2025

The Questions That Will Change Your Business (And Your Life) What if I told you that your next breakthrough isn’t hiding in a new strategy, but in a single question? Last month, I was coaching a brilliant entrepreneur…

How to Scale Yourself Before Your Business with Leadership Expert Elizabeth Hartke

By Tracy Matthews / July 30, 2025

How to Scale Yourself Before Your Business: Why Most Entrepreneurs Are Doing It Backwards Ever feel like you’re working harder than ever but somehow moving backwards? You’re not broken. You’re just doing it in the wrong order. Here’s…

Why Creatives Are Conditioned to Avoid Their Finances (And How to Fix It) with Catherine Licari

By Tracy Matthews / July 23, 2025

The Fashion Industry Awakening That Changed Everything What happens when a fashion magazine assistant realizes that the most talented designers are going out of business, not because they lack creativity, but because no one taught them how to…

Why You Should Thank Every Asshole in Your Life + The Million Dollar Question That Reveals Your Money Blocks with Danielle McKinley

By Tracy Matthews / July 16, 2025

When Your Money Story is Secretly Running Your Business Have you ever wondered why you seem to hit the same income ceiling year after year? Or why looking at your financial statements makes you want to hide under…