WHAT IF you didn’t have to choose between doing what you love and earning what you need? ARE YOU spending countless hours creating, posting, and promoting your business—yet still not meeting your income goals? DO YOU DREAM of time and financial freedom, but feel trapped in a cycle of striving hard and overwhelm? Each episode offers real-world strategies for creative entrepreneurs looking to build a sustainable income—without sacrificing passion. Practical systems, expert insights, personal growth, and how to have passive profit. We explore smart moves for small business, including how a secondary low-pressure income stream can give your creative business the breathing room it needs to thrive. It's time for harmony between work and life, get out of survival mode, increase your income, reduce financial stress, and build the lifestyle you’ve been longing for. I’m Veronica—wife and adoptive mom, ex-corporate leader, and lifelong photographer, maker, and handicrafter. When I turned my craft into a business, I found myself underpaid, constantly stressed about marketing, and feeling like my passion was declining quickly. Then I discovered a second income stream—one that runs efficiently in the background, offers financial stability, and frees up time to create again. That changed everything! Today, I help other creatives design a business that brings both peace and profit—without the pressure. If you’re craving more ease, breathing room, and joy while still earning well—WELCOME. Let’s build a business you don’t need to escape from. I’m so glad you’re here. Get to know more here: ✅ Learn more about my Extra Income-Stream Information: https://go.vekija.info/podcast 📩 Email me: support@vekija.info 🎬 Youtube: @vekija-info 📲 Facebook & Instagram: vekija & co | #vekija_and_co
Feeling overwhelmed by your online business? In today’s episode, we’re breaking down five simple systems that make your business run smoother, calmer, and much more efficiently — without complicated software or long planning sessions. Inside this episode, you’ll learn:
How to build a “future-you” content folder
The 15-minute weekly routine that brings instant clarity
Automation tips so you stop repeating the same tasks
Ever feel stuck in that messy middle — the space between starting something exciting and actually seeing results? It's all too familiar. In this episode, we're talking about how to stay consistent when life gets complicated, how faith can steady you in the waiting, and why small steps count more than you think. Because you’re not failing, you’re forming.
🎯 Why consistency doesn’t mean perfection
🧘🏼♀️ How to stay faithful and...
Have you ever caught yourself saying, “I could never do that”? Maybe it’s learning a new skill, starting a business, or putting yourself out there.
You’ll hear about: 💡 Why “I can’t” is rarely true and how to reframe it, with empowering questions 🔥 The connection between passion and endurance (and how to keep going when excitement fades) 🌱 How faith and visualization help you grow into your purpose 💬 Why it’s time to redefine s...
Numbers don’t lie... but they can liberate you! If tracking stats feels boring or overwhelming, this episode will change your mind. 💡
Veronica shares how understanding just a few simple metrics: money, marketing, and time, can help you make smarter business decisions, reduce stress, and actually grow your creative business more effectively. Whether you sell on Etsy, Ravelry, Shopify, or run your own online venture, you’ll learn ho...
Ever wondered how creative entrepreneurs manage to juggle multiple businesses — and still have time to live?
In this episode, Veronica sits down with Lyra, a fellow business partner and creative entrepreneur who’s found the perfect blend of hands-on business, parallel to a secon...
Still buzzing from the online business conference in Germany! In this mini-episode, I share 3 areas that can shift everything: keep learning, share what you know, and show up - even when you don’t feel ready. Growth happens when you do. 🌱 Online business growth, Entrepreneurship mindset, Female entrepreneurs
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What if your love for handmade goods could spark a community event that sellers and shoppers talk about long after the doors close?
In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of my own journey organizing unique “sell-out-of-a-suitcase” style craft markets where creativity, community, and even cinnamon rolls all came together.
You’ll learn:
How to crunch the numbers so your market is profitable and affordable for sellers.
What if feeling like a fraud was actually proof you’re on the right track? I don't know about you, but I have definitely felt it. Like any moment, someone’s going to “find you out”? That’s imposter syndrome — and it’s way more common than you think.
In this episode, I share how imposter syndrome has shown up in my own journey (from airline offices to photography studios to online business), and why I’ve come to see it not as a we...
We can’t actually manage time - it keeps moving no matter what we do. But what we can do is steward it. Stewardship means caring for our time, being intentional with it, and choosing how we spend it. It's about how shifting from time management to time stewardship helps to focus on what really matters. We'll share powerful stories from people in our business who, despite crazy schedules, found pockets of time to build online busin...
Everyone talks about work-life balance, but let’s be real — it rarely works out that way. Some days are all work, some days are all life, and balance feels impossible. That’s why I’ve learned to focus on harmony instead — building a rhythm that actually supports my lifestyle. In this episode, I’m sharing 7 adjustments I made to create more work-life harmony. These changes made life more harmonious, peaceful, and sustainable. If yo...
How about an effective exercise to clarify which direction your business could go?
In this episode, I share how to clarify your business idea using my MI-MAP (My Identity Map) exercise to connect your strengths, struggles, experiences, and wins to explore what your (possible) business can be built around.
We’ll talk about how to avoid distractions that hinder you and keep you tempted to start something new before you even got going...
Feeling stuck or overwhelmed in your business? In this episode, we walk through a 6-𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘽𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙩 to help you see what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus next. You’ll learn how to: 1 - evaluate if your business still fits your strengths 2 - clarify your audience 3 - refresh your offers 4 - improve your visibility 5 - track your money and 6 - simplify your systems.
With quick fixes you can ...
Belief isn’t just “nice to have” in business—it’s the foundation that holds everything together.
In this episode of Crafter’s Online Business Playbook, we’re diving into how faith, mindset, and daily habits shape your success as an entrepreneur. From shifting out of the employee mindset to creating routines that reinforce your confidence, you’ll learn how to protect your peace, grow your resilience, and keep showing up for your vis...
Is your mindset helping you build the business and life you truly want—or holding you back?
In this episode, we explore 6 core mindset shifts that every entrepreneur needs to grow a business that’s not just profitable—but peaceful and fulfilling too.
This isn’t another productivity talk. It’s about uncovering your natural gifts, recognizing excuses, building momentum even after failure, and learning how to say no… so you can say YE...
Is your passion still fueling you—or draining you? In this very first episode, I’m sharing my personal story of how I turned burnout, financial pressure, and creative fatigue into a business that finally supports me, more than I thought it could, and what I love to do.
Whether you’re a knitter, maker, Etsy or Ravelry shop owner, or blogger with big dreams and limited time, this episode is for you. I’ll take you behind the scenes o...
Whether you’re a creative maker, Etsy or Ravelry shop owner, blogger or have an online shop or business with big dreams and limited time, this podcast is for you. My journey went from corporate stress and underpaid creative work to building a second income stream that brought peace, purpose, and freedom back into my days - creating space to peacefully work on my passion projects without stress or time pressure.
This isn’t a get-ric...
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
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