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The Peaceful Creatives Podcast

Welcome to The Peaceful Creatives Podcast with Cat Byrne - Founder and Creative Director of Gatto, my own dream creative business and mentor for creative service providers who want to build a peaceful, sustainable and joyful creative business by booking in advance, connecting with and attracting their perfect people and becoming confident creative experts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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25:06

Why Undercharging is Stealing Your Peace

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/03/06

In this episode, I’m diving into a conversation about pricing, but not in the way you might expect. This isn’t just about making more money. It’s about how undercharging impacts your energy, creativity, and day to day experience in your business.You’ll hear why pricing too low doesn’t just affect your income - it affects your confidence, your client relationships, and even your love for your work. I’m sharing how undercharging leads to overthinking, burnout, and resentment, and why raising your

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29:02

How I Quit Instagram & Stayed Booked Up

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/02/27

In this episode, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes of how I pressed pause on Instagram - without the pressure, guilt, or fear of disappearing - and stayed booked up with dreamy clients in a peaceful schedule.You’ll hear why I made the decision, the unexpected benefits that came from it, and the strategies that kept my client work flowing without constantly showing up online. If you’ve ever felt trapped in the content hamster wheel or wondered if social media is truly essential for booking clients,

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26:52

Let's Stop Your Constant Overwhelm

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/02/20

In this episode, I’m sharing what helped me step out of the constant state of stress and start running my business with more ease, clarity, and control. If you’re feeling stretched too thin, always playing catch-up, or wondering if it ever gets easier… this one’s for you.Booked Not Busy is now closed until May! Join the waitlist here I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below:Sign up for The Confident

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30:07

What Would I Do to Get Booked Up in 2025?

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/02/13

I've been booked up with dream clients in my business since 2017. But what would I do if I was starting right now? What would I focus on to go from stressed out, inconsistent and overworking to booked up peacefully?Booked Not Busy is open now! Join us here I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below:Sign up for The Confident Creative ExpertI hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to

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27:02

How to Make Your Creative Offer More Peaceful

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/02/06

Your offer is your bread and butter. Being in client delivery means that how you feel in your projects is usually how you'll feel in your business - so how do you make your offer more peaceful? What are the elements you can refine to make it work so much better for you? Let me share my best offer tweaks with you!I also share more about my group program Booked, Not Busy which is opening on the 5th February! Or join the waitlist here for early access and the Build Your Booked Up Offer Bonus 👀I

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33:59

Burnt Out to Booked, Not Busy - My Experiences & Lessons

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/01/30

I'm sharing more about my experience with going from extremely burnt out to booked up with a peaceful, stress-free work week! In the decade I've been running my business, I've gone through so many cycles of burnout from overworking to feast & famine to undercharging. Not only do I talk about what my journey looked like, I'm sharing the tips to get out of that place intentionally.I also share more about my group program Booked, Not Busy which is opening on the 5th February! Join the waitlist here

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26:02

How I Plan My Client Booking Schedule

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/01/23

Let me share exactly how I plan my booking schedule for creative clients in my design studio. Every year, I plan my entire booking schedule for the whole year and this process helps me reach my income goals, create more space in my schedule and keep my creative business peaceful.Is it just about the organisation? Nope! In this episode, I share how this booking schedule is a full strategy and the pieces of the strategy that most creatives miss out which is why they stay busy and unpeaceful.I also

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17:42

Behind the Scenes of My "Unbrand" (& New Podcast Name...

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2025/01/16

It's been a little while since you've seen me around here... but I'm back and the podcast has a brand new name! Wondering where The Daring Designers Podcast went? Well it's now The Peaceful Creatives Podcast and I can not wait to share more episodes.Why the name change? My own brand went through a big transformation at the end of 2024 in what I like to call my "unbrand"! Taking the two branches of my business and bringing them together to share all of the work I love to do. Get all of the behind the

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17:35

Building More Human-ness Into Your Business

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2024/04/10

Have you ever thought about how we as humans bring so much uniqueness to our businesses - our experiences, our successes, our failures, our skills and struggles, our goals and versions of success... Yet we're often given the same steps to follow to get to where we want to be.As a mentor (and as a designer!), I love to bring more human-ness into the businesses of the designers I work with and I'd love to share some of my favourite lessons that I have learnt as I've tried to build my business with

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22:22

Choose Your Own Version of Consistency

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2024/04/03

When it comes to consistency, we're told that this is a MUST DO in business. From consistent marketing (you have to post on Instagram five times a week, you have to create more video content, you have to engage with your audience every day), to showing up consistently (you should be working on your business every week, you should join more programs, you need to work on more passion projects) - we know consistency is a must.But what we're not told as much, is that you get to choose what consistency

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49:17

Business Beginner to Booking in Advance in Just One...

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2024/01/24

The Clubhouse is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening for this week only! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up here ✨Today I'm chatting with the lovely Sarah from Design Gals! Sarah launched her business just over 12 months ago and has spent the entire time building her business with strategy, intention and her personal version of success in mind. After joining me in The Clubhouse, she work on not just trial and error and any old

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26:48

12 Benefits to Booking Design Clients in Advance

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2024/01/10

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨I could have gone on for a really long time with this episode talking about the benefits of booking in advance! But I stopped at the twelve that I find are the most important and can have the biggest impact on your business, your

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22:11

Focusing on Sustainability Over Quick Results

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/12/20

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨When you have your eyes on big goals and know you have what it takes to get there, it can be easy to focus on whatever feels like it’ll get you to where you want to be quicker. But sometimes the things that get us to reach those goals

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22:07

Make Your Design Business Marketing Easier

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/12/13

The Clubhouse waitlist is Open! My signature group mentoring program for designers is opening on the 15th January for waitlist members to sign up with an exclusive 1:1 bonus! If you'd like to learn more and work with me in 2024, you can sign up to the waitlist here ✨Ok here's a biggy - I want your marketing in your design business to be SO much easier and I know it can be too!! We have such a set idea of what marketing has to be and what we have to achieve that we sometimes lose focus of the goal -

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20:18

How to Stop Projects Draining Your Confidence

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/12/06

I'm back with an episode all about confidence! One of the areas I see as the biggest drain in a designers confidence is IN your projects - getting feedback, waiting on clients, missing deadlines, and desperately wanting your work to be approved.I know this was one of my biggest areas of the old confidence wobbles - until I started working through the tips I'm sharing in this episode!I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident

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20:03

How to Raise Your Pricing Confidently

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/11/08

I'm jumping into money chat this week and pairing it with my other favourite topic - confidence! Confidence and money are so wrapped up in each other and it can be so hard to set your pricing, quote your pricing, and raise your pricing, confidently.It sometimes feels like you're just plucking numbers out of thin air, seeing what other people charge and following the lead or even just agreeing to whatever your clients say their budget is. But being more confident with your pricing allows you to reach

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20:05

5 Things You DON’T Need in Your Design Business

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/11/01

This week, I'm talking about a few things you don't have to do in your design business (if you don't want to!) There are so many strategies, tasks, platforms etc that we're told we need to use in our business and I'd love for you to just do the things that work perfectly for you as a creative and a business owner. Just because they work for one person doesn't mean they work for everyone!I really hope you enjoy the episode! To hear more from me, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The

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14:45

Building Consistency From Scratch

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/09/27

In this first episode back, I'm sharing a little story from my week and the analogy I built from it all about consistency and how we hold ourselves back from consistency by making huge plans, comparing ourselves to others or trying to be perfect.I really hope you enjoy the episode! As mentioned in the episode, you can sign up for my weekly email series, The Confident Creative Expert below:Sign up for The Confident Creative ExpertI hope you enjoy today’s podcast and head to the links below to connect

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22:20

Unsustainable Practices to Evolve Away From

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/08/23

I'm talking sustainability again this week, and why wouldn't I, it's my favourite topic! Today I'm talking through four unsustainable business practices that you may be experiencing in your business that we need to evolve away from to have a sustainable, consistent and joyful design business.After sharing my own experiences in the last episode, I really wanted to chat about areas you can focus on to build more sustainability in your own business and create long-lasting foundations for your

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28:52

Sustainability Lessons from 10 Years in Business

The Peaceful Creatives Podcast ·

2023/08/16

As of this year, I have been running my design studio for ten years (!!), and in that time have managed to build my dream job which has been my most sustainable and secure job so far. We're so often told how working for yourself isn't sustainable and isn't secure that I just wanted to share a few lessons that I've learned in building my business with sustainability, consistency, and joy as my main priorities.This is more of a chatty episode where I talk through a few pivotal moments and lessons that

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