Ep 617: Part Two with Amy Roadman
Missed Part One? Listen here!
Having established her community studio through careful listening and intentional growth, Amy Roadman now faces the challenge many creative entrepreneurs encounter: balancing business sustainability with personal fulfillment. What happens when you're finally the boss but struggle with pricing your work, protecting your creative time, and growing at the right pace? In Part 2, Amy shares how she navigates charging what she's worth (especially when protecting her team's time), finding resources through local grants and networks, and creating a business model that honors both her lifestyle goals and financial needs. Her journey reveals that perhaps the truest measure of success isn't found in rapid scaling or maximizing profit, but in building a creative business that provides both community connection and enough personal freedom to remember why you started making in the first place.
Listen Now:
Resources in this Episode
Click here for Amy’s Instagram
Looking for Support?
Are you trying to figure out how to create your own unique version of a creative life, but feeling a little lost as to where to start? Or overwhelmed with the results of an internet search to a recent question about side-hustling a small business? The Community is the place to be not only for pragmatic educational resources from experts who have been there before, but equally important, for moral support for fellow makers on their own search to building their uniquely creative life as well.
With over 100 makers from all over the world, The Community is where you can dive deeper into any of the topics we’ve started talking about here on the podcast. Whether it’s the debate back on episode #509 about choosing between Etsy or your own website, or trying to sort out what type of side-hustle or full-time business works for your own personal life after hearing so many different kind of stories here on the podcast, if you’ve been listening along and find yourself wishing for more at the end of an episode, The Community is that more. Learn about more of the perks of membership by clicking the button below or send me a message and I can put you in touch with one of our members so you can get an insider’s perspective.
Never Miss an Episode
Join our email crew for episode updates, business resources from Rebecca and monthly photo tips not shared elsewhere!
Love this podcast?
Consider supporting the creation of an episode! Each episode of the Maker’s Playbook takes about 3x as long to create as it does to listen. That means, a 1 hour interview episode with your favorite maker takes about 3 hours after the recording to get from our computers into your headphones. We love bringing these conversations to you and your support allows us to do more of that - hopefully a bit faster & with a bit more sleep.
