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The Candid Creative PodcastAre Wedding Features Just Ads? & Manifestation MusingsIn this episode of The Candid Creative, Manda Worthington and Lys Lytle take on two thought-provoking topics in the creative industry. First, they discuss British Vogue’s “vendor features” and the blurred lines between advertising and editorial recognition. Is paying to be “featured” worth it, or is it just another way vendors inflate their credibility?Then, they shift gears to chat about manifestation. Is it a real tool for success, or just a trendy concept? Manda and Lys share their candid thoughts, personal experiences, and a few laughs as they explore whether manifestation is something they buy into—or no...2025-01-1450 minThe Candid Creative PodcastA Cunning Caterer, Letting Go of Clients, Portfolio Ethics and more!In this Q&A episode of The Candid Creative, Manda Worthington and Lys Lytle answer questions and share insights for wedding creatives and entrepreneurs. They start with a story about a vendor controversy that made waves in the industry, then dive into listener submitted questions!This episode is packed with advice and candid discussions designed for wedding planners, florists, and other creatives who want to elevate their businesses while staying true to their values. Tune in to learn, laugh, and tackle the challenges of running a creative business in the wedding industry.2025-01-0741 minThe Candid Creative PodcastRiches in the Niches, BichesIn this episode of The Candid Creative, Lys Lytle and Manda Worthington dive into a hot topic in the creative business world: niching down. Does narrowing your focus really lead to more revenue, a stronger brand following, and clients that are a perfect fit? Or has it become just another overhyped buzzword?At first, both hosts are a bit skeptical—questioning whether focusing on a single niche actually helps grow your business. But as they dig deeper, they explore the potential benefits and challenges of committing to a niche, especially in the wedding industry.Tune in...2024-10-2926 minThe Candid Creative PodcastOur Lowest Moments In Business and What We Learned. This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are sitting down together and sharing their lowest moments in business, and what they took away from those low points. The two dive into a few topics before going into today’s main takeaway, such as pricing “concerns” that some people may have for business coaching and masterminds. Manda shares how she transitioned into percentage pricing as she broke through to the luxury market, and Lys talks about her persistence with showing up every day and putting in the work for the future payoff she believed was coming. Join in on th...2024-07-1649 minThe Candid Creative PodcastQ & A: Showing Your Face on Social Media, Inquiry Calls, and Breaking Up with Your Business Partner. This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are diving into your questions and giving us their genuine and unfiltered takes. Should you show your face online if you want to break into the luxury industry? Do you try to jump on a call with every inquiry you get? And, how can you “break up” with a business partner? Listen in and join this week’s conversation on The Candid Creative Podcast!To Stay Updated with Lys and Manda:The Candid Creative Podcast on Instagram...2024-07-0922 minThe Candid Creative Podcast4 Website Changes to Increase Inquiries This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are taking a deep dive into the 4 changes you can implement on your website that will help increase your inquiries. To start the show the two revisit AI, how it is implemented in their businesses, and some of the do’s and don’ts of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in today's creative entrepreneur landscape. Manda and Lys share 4 important insights and changes that you can make to your website in order to increase your inquiry responses such as reducing friction on the inquiry form itself, your website’s first impression, and more...2024-07-0243 minThe Candid Creative PodcastShould You Have a Close Relationship with Clients? This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys and jumping into the whether or not you should have a close relationship with your clients. To start the show Lys talks about dealing with hail damage, and Manda unpacks photographers’ attitudes towards the ownership of their photos before they jump into this week’s discussion. The two touch on how they have evolved their client relationships to a more minimalist relationship instead of the trend of being “besties” with all of your clients, and Manda talks about how differently she treated client relationships at the start of her career as...2024-06-2534 minThe Candid Creative PodcastQ & A: Difficult Clients, Working on Commission, and Setting Your Standards. This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are diving once again into your questions and sharing their insights on everything you want to know. How do you deal with difficult clients? Do you ask for commission? And, how can you set your standards ahead of time to help combat the indecisive clients that change their mind too often? Listen in and join this week’s conversation on The Candid Creative Podcast!To Stay Updated with Lys and Manda:The Candid Creative Podcast on Inst...2024-06-1827 minThe Candid Creative Podcast4 Traits Every Creative Entrepreneur Needs to Succeed This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are diving into the 4 traits that they believe every creative entrepreneur needs to succeed as a business owner today. Lys starts the conversation by sharing with Manda how much she is enjoying her new level of fame with having a Reddit thread in her honor, Manda’s literal nightmare. After they explore all of the incredible feedback Lys is receiving on Reddit, the two jump into this episodes’ main subject while touching on points like “delusional” confidence, what consistency actually means, and where problem solving comes into play as an entrepr...2024-06-1145 minThe Candid Creative PodcastBuying Instagram FollowersThis week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are jumping into the discussion on buying Instagram followers. They both start the show by sharing their personal histories with buying followers and whether or not they would recommend it to someone today after their experiences. Manda and Lys talk about some of the misconceptions that having a high follower count can have when it comes to your business, and if the route that some take to get there is worth it in the end. They share what it means to have a high follower count with little to...2024-03-2620 minThe Candid Creative PodcastHow To Deal With Negative FeedbackThis week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are diving into how to handle negative feedback. To start the show, Manda jumps right into the current trend of people being overly sensitive when money and pricing are talked about on social media. Lys shares how she sees people continuously being slightly dishonest about doing their services for free, or better yet, WHY and HOW they are able to do certain services for free. As they get into this week’s main topic the two share how you can determine if it is truly negative feedback or is it...2024-03-1850 minThe Candid Creative PodcastListener SubmissionsThis week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are diving into your listener submissions! Lys narrates the questions as Manda tries to keep it together during some of these wild stories while they both give their advice, commentary, and laugh along with you all. Listen in on the conversation with Manda and Lys as they share your submissions including DJs with a “Vegas Vibe”, rowdy grooms, children going missing, and much more!Mae & Co Shop:www.maeandco.shopFlowering Minds Creative Reels Course:http...2024-03-1252 minThe Candid Creative PodcastIs Work-Life Balance a Sham?This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are fully pulling back the veil on the idea of a “Work-Life” balance. As the show starts, Lys shares her recent experience with “cold plunging” before they get into this week’s topic. They dive into the listener submission that inspired the episode and the two elaborate on how they see the idea of “work-life” balance being different for everyone’s situation. Manda and Lys talk about how the idea of work coming in the way of living a fulfilling life may not be the case for everyone’s job, and how somet...2024-03-0537 minThe Candid Creative PodcastAre Digital Products Really Worth It?This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda and talking all about whether or not you should sell digital products as a creative business owner. They start the show by diving into listener submissions as they give their thoughts on a number of “unpopular opinions” before they get into the episode’s main topic. Manda and Lys really unpack what it can take to create and sell a digital product or if it is even right for your business. They even talk about the fact that there may be better ways to earn that extra income in your b...2024-02-2752 minThe Candid Creative PodcastBonus Episode: Marketing Must Use - ManyChatThis week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are diving into an incredible marketing tool, ManyChat. ManyChat allows you to automate two-way, interactive conversations in Instagram dm’s, Facebook Messenger, and SMS to grow your brand and audience reach. Lys jumps into some of the different use cases and features of ManyChat while Manda asks about who could benefit from it most. They talk about how offering a digital product of some sort is a good idea for most brands, and how Lys is utilizing ManyChat currently with her brand. Lys goes over the benefits of ManyChat co...2024-02-1925 minThe Candid Creative PodcastBranding: Personal vs Business Part 2This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys are continuing their conversation on personal branding vs business branding. Last week they focused a bit more on the personal side of branding, and this week they dive into the business side. To start the show, Manda shares an interaction she had been having with an Instagram bot page, and Lys gives a short recap on last week’s episode. The two talk about the best way to build trust with your audience, and what kind of content you could be putting out there or as a creative business ow...2024-02-1255 minThe Candid Creative PodcastBranding: Personal vs Business Part 1This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys start the show by diving into their thoughts behind Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship, and what may possibly be happening behind the scenes of it all. As the conversation pivots into the subject of branding, they lay out the difference between personal branding and more business faced branding. Lys talks about how someone who maybe isn't fully comfortable with showing their face with their business can take tangible steps towards that goal, and Manda shares how she sees the world of marketing always changing in the creative en...2024-02-0548 minThe Candid Creative PodcastListener Submissions: Vendor Responsibility, Revamping a Venue Space, and God Bless America.This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys jump right into each other’s completely unique Instagram explore pages and Manda is blown away by Lys’s algorithm. The two go back and forth reading listener submissions asking about vendor responsibility, revamping venue spaces, and what do you do when you have fallen out of love with your business but you can’t just close up shop? During the enlightenment of the week, Manda reflects on starting group coaching calls and how they have already evolved quickly, and Lys dives into how much fun she is having learni...2024-01-2254 minThe Candid Creative PodcastCommunity, Competition, and Feet FreaksThis week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Manda and Lys laugh about a surprising effect that occurred after a boosted post on Manda’s post involving the feet enthusiast community. Manda feels indifferent about it, and Lys has a business opportunity planned. They dive into the mindset of “community over competition”, and how each side can affect your personal and business lives. (#LetsCompete). Manda brings up how comparison may actually be the bad guy in the whole situation, and Lys talks about how she sometimes puts up the blinders to other florists on social media to help her stay true t...2024-01-1537 minThe Candid Creative PodcastIs Wedding Tax A Sin?This week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda are diving into “Wedding Tax” and letting you know exactly where they stand on the subject. They two talk about when and how they raise their prices, and they jump into their comment sections filled with plenty of opinions and give us the play by play on how they responded back. Lys snaps back at trolls who can’t let the world NOT hear what they wouldn't spend on a wedding, and Manda tells us something else she is giving up yet again. To Stay U...2024-01-081h 03The Candid Creative PodcastProductivity Hacks For Working From HomeThis week on The Candid Creative Podcast, Lys and Manda dive into their productivity hacks they use for working from home. Manda starts the show talking about cutting out caffeine in her life, and Lys jumps into the challenge of turning on the work switch when you are sitting at home and not necessarily wanting to work. They chat about the importance of using a calendar in a way that helps you prioritize your time while setting boundaries for your work/life balance, timing your activities, being motivated by achievements, and the relationship you have with your clients. This...2024-01-0744 min