greetings
Being a CREATIVE SOLOPRENEUR can fulfill your life’s purpose. But what if what your business needs are more than you can give? You work tirelessly to support your business vision and process, and guess what burnout happens…a lot. A Hand Maid can help! If you feel like you could use some help pushing thru a barrier, recharging your vision, or just need some behind-the-scenes help to keep things moving smoothly, Hand Maid Creative’s got you back.
Let’s brainstorm ways we can collaborate to enhance your “power of one” workforce and get some balance back.
A Different Approach
At Hand Maid Creative, we believe in the spirit under which your solo business was formed and see it as a vital part of its future growth.
We won’t tell you to change your culture or anything else that makes your business amazingly unique to you.
Unique Solutions
Though our services are divided into basic areas of strategy, planning, and creativity, we treat all our clients as individuals and don’t think a one-size-fits-all solution will work.
We’ll help you develop a customized plan of support, with any budget.
Quality vs Quantity
We value your time and use time management tools to make sure every minute of support we provided is useful, thoughtful, and impactful.
We help cut out the bull and the clutter of running a solo business, to help provide clarity and sometimes sanity.
why call yourself a hand maid?
Handmaid: the dictionary definition includes a personal maid or female servant.
Being a solopreneur for over 20 years, I have always had visions of supporting other businesses. In 2010, way before Hulu came out with The Handmaid’s Tale (which I binge watch), I knew the most important lesson I learned from running a business, was to make the conscious choice of what services I could enlist other like-minded solopreneurs to help me make sure I keep family first. I found creative ways, including barter, to help find clarity and more time to focus on what services I loved; not on tasks that took me twice as long or that I resented doing. I thought I could do it all, but in reality, I could do the parts of my job that I loved the most, better when I contracted services that I was less than happy with (like cleaning my studio bathroom). I felt like a servant to my business.
Then came 2 special needs kids, and the needs of my family put a huge strain on my emotional energy and I realized something had to give. I was running 200+ client portrait studio and I was burned out offering my emotional bandwidth to my clients and then my family. And to be honest, on many days, my business owned me, not the other way around. I thought about all the business lessons I learned and began offered to other small business owners just like you.
I knew from this experience, I could help other businesses find their way back to creative freedom. And that’s where Hand Maid Creative began.