In this episode, Katie Hunt walks you through a five-day exercise, about 30 minutes a day, that ends with one clear priority for your quarter and a plan to get there.
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I've been having a lot of conversations lately about Faire. Some of you love the platform. Some of you hate it. And a lot of you are somewhere in the middle, trying to figure out your next move. In this episode, I’m walking you through what Faire does well, the two very different ways brands use the platform, and the four things our Paper Camp alumni do to keep more of their money in their pockets.
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When you're deciding which products to add to your line, you probably think about sales data first. But that's only part of the story.
Amita Nair has built Amicreative into a cohesive, intentional brand by making product decisions from four angles: financial performance, design aesthetic, what customers actually want, and whether the product fits her brand voice.
In this episode, she walks through how she's learned to say no to products that make business sense but don't fit her story—and why that clarity matters.
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This week’s podcast episode features someone I've admired for a long time— artist, author, illustrator, and creative entrepreneur Lisa Congdon. Lisa has been building businesses around her art for nearly 20 years, and in this conversation we talk about something that I think a lot of established brand owners will relate to, and that's what happens when you've built a successful business but you realize it's no longer the business you want to run.
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This week’s podcast episode features one of my Advisory Board clients Melissa Hyatt, who is an artist and surface pattern designer. Melissa shares how her career evolved from the corporate design world to entrepreneurship, why she intentionally built multiple revenue streams in her business, and how one unexpected setback became kind of the catalyst for creating a business that's more resilient and also more fulfilling for her.
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In this episode, wholesale expert Katie Hunt shares the true cost of not doing Paper Camp.
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This week’s podcast episode features a case study with Paper Camp alum Rachel O’Neill of Loftipop.
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This week’s podcast episode features a case study with Paper Camp alum Sherry Lam of Sherry's Palette.
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This week’s podcast episode features a case study with Paper Camp alum Charina Cabanayan of Orchid & Pine.
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In this episode, wholesale expert Katie Hunt shares her recap of the 2026 Faire Summer Market.
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In this episode, wholesale expert Katie Hunt shares 4 big areas where you may be leaving money on the table in your business.
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This week’s podcast episode features Kirstie Lee from A Jar of Pickles. We talk about everything from balancing a corporate career while building a product brand to hiring your first employee, expanding into wholesale, building a devoted direct-to-consumer audience, and why treating your business like one big experiment has opened doors to opportunities that Kirstie never even planned for.
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This week’s conversation is for anyone who has ever looked around their home, their studio, or their storage unit and thought: “we officially have too much inventory and we are running out of space.” We're talking about what happens when your business starts to outgrow your space and how to know when it might be time to make a move.
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In this episode, wholesale expert Katie Hunt shares why customer retention is important yet often overlooked.
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In this episode, wholesale expert Katie Hunt dives into the topic of how many SKUs should you have as a product-based business.
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This week I'm sitting down with returning guest Audrey Woollen of Urbanic and we're talking about navigating a huge business transition. About a year ago, Audrey decided to close her retail shop and we'll talk about that today. Audrey opens up about the difficult decision it was to close after being open for nearly two decades.
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Today's episode is a really practical conversation for anyone that is preparing for wholesale trade shows, especially if you're newer to exhibiting or you're trying to decide whether trade shows are the right next step for your business. I'm joined by Karen Sawyer-Meehan of Pier Six Press.
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Today I'm joined by my friend Kimberley Yurkiewicz, owner of Measure Twice, an independent gift shop in Brooklyn, New York. In this episode, we are catching up about buying patterns, rising product costs, what brands are getting right and wrong when pitching stores, and why industry standards still matter.
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Today I am joined by best selling author Austin Kleon, the author of Steal like an Artist, Show Your Work, Keep Going, and his newest book, Don't Call It Art. We talk about the pressure to always be professional, the fear of looking stupid or not knowing everything, and why staying curious actually matters so much as we grow our businesses and ourselves as creative leaders.
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In this episode, wholesale expert Katie Hunt dives into a topic that may make some of you really uncomfortable, but may save your business. We're talking about raising your prices.
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