Inspired Creators: Creator Archetypes pt. 1
Welcome to our third episode in our six-part series on Inspired Creators, where we’re musing on recovering from burnout, embodying your ideal creator archetype, finding your energetic creation wave, and what the Witch Wound has to do with our intuition and creative output.
This week we’re digging into our Creator Archetypes, which we’ve developed to help you find the perfect content strategy for your unique skills, so you can actually get paid to create and prevent future burnout 💸🎨
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“Your audience doesn’t always know better than you; they don’t always know exactly what they want.”
“We’re all pretty good at making content, but how does one make the money? And there are many people who never make money from the content that they make, which sucks.”
“I think it’s really confusing to figure out how to make money as a content creator.”
“The evolutionary is so good at jumping from thing to thing to thing, trying new things all the time, that they don’t always give themselves enough time to breathe and really experiment and settle into something that they’re trying out.”
“The patron creator archetype, when they’re light, when they’re balanced, they are generous and luxuriant in their time. And the content that they make is well-concept.”
“The patron creative archetype should feel free to express their beliefs and what they are experimenting with. And challenge the status quo —- not just replicate it in their own little cloistered community.”
“I think this is something that we don’t talk about a lot as content creators, is that, yeah, we’re entrepreneurs. So we work for ourselves in a way, but also we work with the people who pay you.”
“People come for your content, but they stay for your uniqueness. Don’t forget that.”
“For stoic, finding your unique intersection is the goal because that’s going to be your POV.”
“When the stoic is in balance, they are deliberate and consistent in their practices and in their craft, and their content.”
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Show Notes
The five creator archetypes
Figuring out how to make money as a content creator
Different ways to make money and which strategy works best according to your archetype
Making content that feels reciprocal, and feels regenerative
Different ways to exist as a content creator
The three archetypes that we're going to cover today: the trend-spotting evolutionary, the patron, and the stoic
Some examples of the trend-spotting evolutionary, when it is light, and when it’s in balance
Great samples of patron content creators, when they’re in balance and when out of balance
How to stay away from toxicity within a community
Consuming up and being consumed—- a secret to avoiding burnout
The cons of overly doing free content online
The balance of free to paid content
What happens when you make your content extremely difficult to access
How we can get back into balance
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Why Michelle and her team came up with Quantum Con?
Stoic when in balance and when not
Finding your unique intersection
Resources & People Mentioned
Hunter Harris on Substack