Hello fellow ABC & MasterHearts!
I'm Nicola Newman, a creative business coach, award-winning artist & mentor for Creative Hearts who want to Flourish, Flow & Prosper. After 20+ years of experience running my own creative business full-time, I love getting to share what I've learnt with others.
Here's the official part... :D
…to dissolve creative blocks, develop a loving relationship with themselves, nurture their creativity and reframe the beliefs and patterns that keep them from following their heart and making the creative contribution they would love to make in the world.
My approach is to embrace gentleness, playfulness and self-care to navigate self-doubt and instead cultivate deep self-trust so you can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together your body of work, make money doing what you love and leave a creative legacy you’re proud of.
I offer courses, in-person retreats, a monthly community, and private and group coaching. I love working with my clients - it truly brings me SO much joy.
I'm here in George's community because I'm keen to rekindle the practice of making authentic videos as part of my marketing.
After some big life changes (caring for my aging mother, living on board a 35-foot sail boat for three years while cruising the east coast of Australia, and now settling down in a new country town), I'm feeling the pull to focus more on reaching new audiences with my work, and I feel like video will be a great way to do that.
I am an HSP, INFJ, and I love reading, yoga, walking, snorkelling and of course painting. Being around other Creative Hearts and heart-centred entrepreneurs lights me up. I love being able to work gently from home, honouring my needs for quiet time, contemplation and creative expression.
I'm so excited to meet you all and look forward to connecting throughout the year! Thanks for reading!
Nic :)
Hello fellow ABC & MasterHearts!
I'm Nicola Newman, a creative business coach, award-winning artist & mentor for Creative Hearts who want to Flourish, Flow & Prosper. After 20+ years of experience running my own creative business full-time, I love getting to share what I've learnt with others.
He…
I'm curious how
I like the idea of creating courses live in this way and am curious as to how you do the backend. I understand you use Simplero to deliver everything - is that who adds the subtitles or is there another step?
Thank you!
I'm curious how
I like the idea of creating courses live in this way and am curious as to how you do the backend. I understand you use Simplero to deliver everything - is that who adds the subtitles or is there another step?
Thank you!
I've discovered a tool which I think could be interesting to you - I'll be trying it out for the first time today. It's called tl;dv, and promises that I'll be able to record my meeting screen (without having a paid subscription which would allow me that option), and also add timestamps (manually, when changing topics) to the video as I go along,,,,and theoretically it also creates a transcript. Truthfully it sounds like a lot to handle, especially on the first try, but I'll keep you posted if it turns out to be useful!
Thank you for answering this on the live Q&A call today,
If you don't know what a HAT manual is, check out the Joyful Productivity course where
I've been procrastinating on creating these for such a long time. I'm not sure what was holding me back. My stubbornness perhaps!
Anyway, I have a cooking workshop coming up this weekend. It's probably the fourth one I've done in the last year. So not something I do super regularly, and there are a lot of steps in putting it together. The perfect candidate for a HAT manual. So this morning in a co-working session, I sat down and wrote it out. What a relief 🤪 to get all that information down and organised.
The headings I used to structure the HAT manual are:
It is a little overwhelming to see all the steps involved, but the good news is they are spread out over a series of days and weeks. I don't have to do everything in one day (thank goodness for that!), and if I've forgotten anything, I can simply add it in for next time.
So, I'm celebrating the creation of my first HAT manual 🎉 If you'd like to take a look, let me know and I can share a copy with you.
If you don't know what a HAT manual is, check out the Joyful Productivity course where
I've been procrastinating on creating these for such a long time. I'm not sure what was holding me back. My stubbornness perhaps!
Anyway, I have a cooking workshop coming up this weekend. It's probably the fourth one I've done in the last year. So not something I do super regularly, and there are a lot of steps in putting it together. The p…
If you don't know what a HAT manual is, check out the Joyful Productivity course where
I've been procrastinating on creating these for such a long time. I'm not sure what was holding me back. My stubbornness perhaps!
Anyway, I have a cooking workshop coming up this weekend. It's probably the fourth one I've done in the last year. So not something I do super regularly, and there are a lot of steps in putting it together. The perfect candidate for a HAT manual. So this morning in a co-working session, I sat down and wrote it out. What a relief 🤪 to get all that information down and organised.
The headings I used to structure the HAT manual are:
It is a little overwhelming to see all the steps involved, but the good news is they are spread out over a series of days and weeks. I don't have to do everything in one day (thank goodness for that!), and if I've forgotten anything, I can simply add it in for next time.
So, I'm celebrating the creation of my first HAT manual 🎉 If you'd like to take a look, let me know and I can share a copy with you.
Congratulations
How good it must feel to have it all mapped out for your cooking workshop! 🎉❤️
I'm celebrating being hired for a speaking engagement with my ideal audience, that arose from netcaring and appreciation!
Just before Christmas, I was in the audience at a corporate event spotlighting East Asian female entrepreneurs. At one point, one of the panel interviewers offered useful tips to the audience about allyship, which touched me deeply as I would have loved someone like her in my corner when I worked in corporate.
A few days later, I sent her a Loom (I love making and sending video messages!) to let her know how much I enjoyed the event and what her stance on allyship meant to me as an East Asian woman myself. I encouraged her to keep up her impactful work! She thanked me for my message and connected with me on LinkedIn.
Fast forward to this week. She messaged me and asked if I would speak at her company's Lunar New Year event this month, on any topic of my choice! The audience will be primarily members of the Asia-Pacific employee resource group and allies, plus others who attend the event out of curiosity.
After an exploratory call yesterday, I accepted the speaking invitation! The topic I'll be speaking on is, "Beyond the Bamboo Ceiling - Celebrate Your Asian Traits and Be Your True Self At Work". I'm super excited as it's one of my favourite topics!
This is a dream come true and I'm humbled and grateful. 18 months ago, I felt a desire to serve East/South East Asian people, to help them embrace their Asian traits as strengths and gifts in their workplace. A sub-set of my niche of helping introverts to express themselves confidently and authentically.
I'd meet Asian corporate people, tell them what I do... and no interest. I wondered if I was wasting my time. Looking back with honesty, I was connecting from a place of neediness and agenda. Like a butterfly catcher casting her net, desperately trying to catch butterflies! Deep down, this way of approaching people didn't feel good in my heart and no doubt they felt it too and ran away from me!
The difference that made the difference this time is that I connected with this person without agenda. I truly appreciated her and wanted her to know why. I didn't mention my coaching services at all and didn't feel any need to, because it was about one human appreciating another. I trusted that if she would look me up if she wanted to know more about me. This. This feels good in my heart.
It was not that my ideal audience doesn't exist... it was how I was showing up for them.
I also celebrate spending the past year de-conditioning from bro-marketing approaches (and continuing to do so) thanks to George, George's courses and kind, supportive people (like you!) in George's community. 💖🙏
I'm carving out a way of marketing that feels true, enjoyable and sustainable... hip, hip, hooray! 🥳
I'm celebrating being hired for a speaking engagement with my ideal audience, that arose from netcaring and appreciation!
Just before Christmas, I was in the audience at a corporate event spotlighting East Asian female entrepreneurs. At one point, one of the panel interviewers offered useful tips to the audience about allyship, which touched me deeply as I would have loved someone like her in my corner when I worked in corporate.
A few days later, I sent her a Loom (I love making and sending…
I'm celebrating being hired for a speaking engagement with my ideal audience, that arose from netcaring and appreciation!
Just before Christmas, I was in the audience at a corporate event spotlighting East Asian female entrepreneurs. At one point, one of the panel interviewers offered useful tips to the audience about allyship, which touched me deeply as I would have loved someone like her in my corner when I worked in corporate.
A few days later, I sent her a Loom (I love making and sending video messages!) to let her know how much I enjoyed the event and what her stance on allyship meant to me as an East Asian woman myself. I encouraged her to keep up her impactful work! She thanked me for my message and connected with me on LinkedIn.
Fast forward to this week. She messaged me and asked if I would speak at her company's Lunar New Year event this month, on any topic of my choice! The audience will be primarily members of the Asia-Pacific employee resource group and allies, plus others who attend the event out of curiosity.
After an exploratory call yesterday, I accepted the speaking invitation! The topic I'll be speaking on is, "Beyond the Bamboo Ceiling - Celebrate Your Asian Traits and Be Your True Self At Work". I'm super excited as it's one of my favourite topics!
This is a dream come true and I'm humbled and grateful. 18 months ago, I felt a desire to serve East/South East Asian people, to help them embrace their Asian traits as strengths and gifts in their workplace. A sub-set of my niche of helping introverts to express themselves confidently and authentically.
I'd meet Asian corporate people, tell them what I do... and no interest. I wondered if I was wasting my time. Looking back with honesty, I was connecting from a place of neediness and agenda. Like a butterfly catcher casting her net, desperately trying to catch butterflies! Deep down, this way of approaching people didn't feel good in my heart and no doubt they felt it too and ran away from me!
The difference that made the difference this time is that I connected with this person without agenda. I truly appreciated her and wanted her to know why. I didn't mention my coaching services at all and didn't feel any need to, because it was about one human appreciating another. I trusted that if she would look me up if she wanted to know more about me. This. This feels good in my heart.
It was not that my ideal audience doesn't exist... it was how I was showing up for them.
I also celebrate spending the past year de-conditioning from bro-marketing approaches (and continuing to do so) thanks to George, George's courses and kind, supportive people (like you!) in George's community. 💖🙏
I'm carving out a way of marketing that feels true, enjoyable and sustainable... hip, hip, hooray! 🥳
Oh gosh, I love reading this story
I love what you wrote here, "The difference that made the difference this time is that I connected with this person without agenda."
I'm celebrating the new speaking engagement with you! Congratulations.
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