Busy Rewilding with Smeeny Made Wild | For the creatives and small business owners staying wild in a world that’s trying to tame us

You Know What You're Doing...So Why Does It Still Feel This Hard?

There's a point in creative business where you feel like you keep hitting the same walls and it's not because you don't have the information, strategy, or talent. You've taken the courses, watched the YouTube videos, listened to the podcasts, and have shown up consistently, but why does it still feel hard? So many creative business owners stay stuck even when they know what they need to do and in this episode, we talk about one decision that finally helped me get to the next level. In this episode: * Why being in a room with the right people hits differently than any course or YouTube video and what that tells us about what's actually missing * The difference between having all the information and having the capacity to actually use it * Why you can't always see what's holding your business back when you're the one inside it * Chereen's honest story of hitting a ceiling after years of bootstrapping and DIYing * What it actually feels like to have someone walking alongside you in your business and looking at the whole picture with you * Why good support isn't just mindset work or following someone's formula Book a free 30 minute Rewilding Session https://calendar.app.google/MwJ1jR2F4qTicfpUA [https://calendar.app.google/MwJ1jR2F4qTicfpUA] Download the free Rewilding Business Audit below and start asking the questions that matter. Chereen has been using it herself and would love to hear what lands for you. ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit] Connect with Chereen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://smeenymadewild.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.com/] ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild [https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild]

The Myth of Momentum (and How You Actually Grow as a Creative Business)

Slowing down or wanting to stay small doesn't mean you're falling behind or any less successful as a business owner. Giving yourself space to do this is how you actually build something sustainable. In this episode: * Why slow, intentional growth isn't the opposite of ambition * How I restructured my business to work in seasons and started making the same sales with less time and energy * Why letting go of revenue was actually the move that opened a new chapter * How slowing down created space to grow in a way that was more aligned with my bigger mission * What it looks like to lead your business from a deeply rooted place Download the free Rewilding Business Audit below and start asking the questions that matter. Chereen has been using it herself and would love to hear what lands for you. ⁠⁠⁠https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit⁠⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit] Connect with Chereen: ⁠⁠⁠https://smeenymadewild.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.com/] ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild [https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild]

Why Traditional Business Advice Doesn't Work for Creatives (And What to Do Instead)

If you've ever followed the "right" business advice and still felt like something was deeply off, this episode is for you. We're getting into why the systems and frameworks we've all been handed were never actually built for the way creatives think, work, and grow. Here's what we're exploring: * Why hustle culture and traditional business advice aren't neutral. They're rooted in systems that have never valued the way creatives actually operate * The coaching and marketing industry's ick factor, and why real mentorship looks nothing like what's being sold to you * The starving artist trap and why wanting to make money from your creative work isn't a betrayal of your values * Why the soft life pendulum can swing too far, and what a more honest middle ground actually looks like * How to stop measuring success by someone else's milestones and start defining what it looks like for you in this season Plus I'm walking you through a few practical ways to start auditing your own business ecosystem, including how to spot the goals and strategies you've absorbed versus the ones that are actually yours. Download the free Rewilding Business Audit below and start asking the questions that matter. Chereen has been using it herself and would love to hear what lands for you. ⁠⁠https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit] Connect with Chereen: ⁠⁠https://smeenymadewild.com/⁠⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.com/] ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild]

Why Change Feels Impossible, Even When You Know It's Not Working

⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit]We've all heard the advice: just start, make the change, take the leap. But if it were that simple, none of us would be stuck. In this episode, we're going deeper into what actually keeps us from making the changes we know we need to make, and why it's not a personal failing. It's something way more layered than that, so let's get into it! Here's what we're exploring: * Why burnout isn't just about overwork, and how misalignment is often the more persistent culprit * The identity trap that keeps us holding on to things we've outgrown, even when they're no longer lighting us up * How the "competence trap" turns not quitting into a measure of our worth * Why our nervous system always knows before our brain catches up, and what it's trying to tell us * The difference between a failure and simply outgrowing something Rewilding audit https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit [https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit]Ecuador retreat: https://trovatrip.com/trip/south-america/ecuador/ecuador-with-chereen-leong-schwarz-oct-2026 [https://trovatrip.com/trip/south-america/ecuador/ecuador-with-chereen-leong-schwarz-oct-2026] Connect with Chereen: ⁠⁠https://smeenymadewild.com/⁠⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.com/] ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild]

Are you chasing the wrong thing? The trap most creative business owners fall into

This podcast is built around one big idea: that who you are and what you build are not separate things. They are part of the same ecosystem. And when you stop asking yourself who you are, the business you build will eventually stop fitting the life you actually want. Busy Rewilding is the space to start asking those questions again, without waiting for a crisis to force you there. In this episode: * Why so many of us end up chasing someone else's version of success without even realizing it * The "train" we all get on and what it actually takes to step off of it * The two core pillars of rewilding your life and business * How nature's cycles are a better model for business than hustle culture * Why knowing who you are is not a soft, feel-good idea but the actual foundation everything else gets built on Not sure if you're building something that's actually true to you? Download the free Rewilding Business Audit below and start asking the questions that matter. Chereen has been using it herself and would love to hear what lands for you. ⁠https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.myflodesk.com/rewildingaudit] Connect with Chereen: ⁠https://smeenymadewild.com/⁠⁠ [https://smeenymadewild.com/] ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/@smeenymadewild]