HeyJaredCreative Campfire: Conversations for Creative Entrepreneurs
A show for the creative freelancer.Pull up a chair by the fire for candid conversations about the creative entrepreneur and freelancing.
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EP 37: The Logo Designer Who Refuses to Gatekeep with James Barnard (opens the original)
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Episode Summary Shelly sits down with James Barnard — logo designer, Adobe speaker, and founder of the Designerrrs design community — met while doodling at a craft table at Adobe 99U in NYC this past June. James shares: his winding path into design (failed record producer, years of data entry, self-taught Photoshop), why it took a decade to niche into logo design, and how one TikTok video bragging about a LogoLounge feature turned into 70 leads and three months of bookings overnight. pricing on
EP 36: Why Photographers Undercharge (Money Shame, Pricing, and Second Shooters) with Patrick Fore (opens the original)
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This week is a pod swap, Campers — we're gathered around a fire shared with Patrick Fore of The Terrible Creative. Patrick reached out about joining forces, and what came out of it was a raw, honest conversation about money shame: the stories we inherit from our families, the fear behind undercharging, and how to separate the emotion of money from the math of running a business. IN THIS EPISODE: - How childhood money stories (layoffs, blue-collar roots, "money Saturdays") quietly shape how we pr
EP 35: AI Workflow for Creatives: Move Faster on the Stuff You Hate with Dawn Heumann (opens the original)
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Twenty years in commercial food and lifestyle photography will teach you a lot about reinvention — and this week's guest is doing exactly that in real time. Dawn Heumann joins Shelly by the fire to talk about what happens when you dismantle a perfectly curated Instagram, the vulnerability of showing up on video to the AI systems Dawn has built to run cold outreach, content planning, and client research — and lands on the bigger question every commercial photographer is asking right now: what doe
EP 34: Food Photography, Slowed Down: Costas Millas on Craft & Going Solo (opens the original)
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This week at the fire, Shelly welcomes Costas Millas, the fine artist, graphic designer, food stylist, and photographer behind Made by Mr. Millas — for a conversation about creative process, patience, and building a solo business after two decades in design. Costas walks through how his food art stories began with a pink-and-black rhubarb series for an Instagram photo competition, the making of his award-winning Spaghetti series, and the deeply personal journey behind No Colour, his self-publish
EP 33: Making Nature Cool Again with Storytelling with Angus Light, Locate Productions + Tim Bullen, Secret Campsite (opens the original)
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Gather 'round Campers, this one was recorded around a real campfire, deep in the woods at The Secret Campsite in Sussex. Shelly sits down with her longtime friend Angus Light , founder of Locate Productions, for a conversation about building a B Corp production company inside one of the most wasteful industries on earth (advertising) and then, with the campsite's own founder Tim Bullen, who worked in luxury goods advertising and marketing segmentation before it was a thing, the conversation turn
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