Episodes

Our guest Brianna Greenspan, co-author of multiple books including one with the Miracle Morning series shares her story of removing the mask and choosing to entirely opt in and show herself. From birth, Brianna experienced the challenges of living in a world where nobody could tell her what was going on. She shares what being “different” translates into while growing up with chronic illness and the life-saving lessons she learned along the way. One of those lessons was uncovered while unpacking trauma and learning how to love herself.

Episode 3 of the series: How To Grow A Creative Business While Living With Chronic Illness. Stuck is a feeling I am very familiar with and if you are living with chronic illness then you'll know there's often a feeling of your body ruining all the plans and all the things. In this episode, I'll share with you 3 questions that have helped me to get out of feeling stuck. Show Notes: http://www.craftedtothrive.com Visit thrivewithnikita.com/mini-course and use the code THRIVE to get it Free! That’...

Our expert guest on the show is Kendra Toothill, she's a Holistic Women’s Health Therapist with over 10 years of clinical experience and she's known as the "Scar Lady". I met Kendra in The Advance and application or invite-only networking community and I was intrigued because my scars are so tied to so many major moments in my journey as a chronic illness warrior. As you heard in my last episode I believe and know that the mind and body connection is real so why not get to learn more about the scars and how they affect us.

So in this episode, I'm sharing what I've learned over the past year about the mind and body connection, and Y'all we are not in a world that speaks or lives in the reality of this. I am no scientist but as I've recently gone back to school to become a professional certified essential oil specialist and soon aromatherapist, I’ve learned more about the body and mind, it's changed everything. I do think intuitively I understood this and that's why my coaching business has focused on getting clear ...

Highlights in this episode: A new series on how to grow a sustainable creative biz w/chronic illness Learn the truth about uncertainty Positive lesson's we learn from uncertainty How living with uncertain primes you succeed in your business Show Notes: http://www.craftedtothrive.com Visit thrivewithnikita.com/mini-course and use the code THRIVE to get it Free! That’s my special gift to my podcast tribe! Okay, it’s time to hop into this new episode. Enjoy! Support the show (https://www.buymea...

n this episode I get to chat with Ampjar’s head of community partnerships Kimberly about the importance of using collaborating marketing to build your branding business. This is especially true of those living with chronic illnesses. We will be talking about how to implement Ampjar to create authentic relationships and marketing by tapping into an audience that aligns with your business. Kimberly will feature case studies from our best-performing members and the strategies they use for big resul...

Are you looking for permission to pause, pivot, or reset? Well, here it is, and I'm being transparent and sharing why I'm doing it myself. Season 2 of the podcast is drawing to an end. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ThriveNikita)

In this episode, we are talking with Dani from Handmade Seller Magazine about how to create passive income in your business. Who doesn’t like to hear the ‘cha-ching’ from our shop or PayPal account? It’s all the sweeter when all we had to do is make or do it once. In this chat, Dani and I share the pros to adding passive income, the mindset around the fear of why some don’t do it and we give some ideas on how to add passive income for different types of creative businesses. For our show notes v...

How to develop the quality of resilience when it comes to building our businesses and living with chronic illness? Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. The challenges that come with both of these paths in life can be stressful and can at times makes us want to give up on the lifestyle and dreams we long for. But if we can build an even stronger ability to have resilience, and to see life through this lens as a regular practice then we are more likely to thrive even in...

There are so many different hotlines out there for so many different things, which is amazing. But can you believe with 133 million-plus people living with chronic illness in the United States, there wasn't a hotline until recently, and is being brought to you by another chronic illness, warrior woman, Cyndii Sinex founder of Chronic Illness Hotline. I am just so excited for you to hear this conversation where Cyndii talks about the reason why she started this nonprofit, the challenges of run...

Our guest is Rebekah Scott, from South Dakota. Her whole vibe reminds me of Chip and Joanna Gaines on HGTV but on a whole different level of cool. I was first introduced to Rebekah in the November 2018 Issue of the Handmade Seller Magazine. In this episode, Rebekah shares her story to help other women lean into their power and give themselves the permission to pause and slow down. Here a few main things Rebecca and I talk about during this episode: Why and How to slow down, How to look at yours...

In this episode, we are talking with Dani from Handmade Seller Magazine about where should you start selling online? Should it be on Instagram, Facebook, Etsy, Squarespace, Shopify, where are the places that you should start selling your beautiful makes, art, and other creative things? Where should you take that product-based business and start selling? For our show notes visit: www.shescrafted.com Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ThriveNikita)