Purposeful conversations with solo business owners in the creative industries.

If your creative business is a beloved but neglected plant, how much would you like to resurrect it from wilting and browning?

I can help you find your business green fingers.

You’re an artist, photographer, or designer who wants to develop sales and marketing skills to craft a profitable, joyful business.

We’ll till the soil, nurture the roots of your business, and watch new shoots pop up.

Slowly and deliberately, let's grow your sustainable, creative small business.

It’s refreshingly simple.

Let’s give you and your creative business more focused attention, shall we?

Group Workshops

Something extraordinary happens when creative minds gather to share, support, and cheer along.

Workshops are dotted throughout the year. Click below to explore the next sessions and book your place at upcoming events.

Cultivate one-to-one calls

One-to-one, meaningful support to bolster your creative business. Spacious, gracious, and lively, these are conversations with purpose.

Bouncing ideas around with another brain is time and energy well-spent. Maybe I can be that second opinion for you.

The Garden Shed free marketing tips

Twice-monthly or so emails from my creative brain to yours, for free.

‘Do you offer gardening advice?’ I’ve been asked.

No, but there are a lot of business and gardening connections and I try to find and share them like my life depends on it.

“Jo continually helps me clarify exactly where I want to stand in the world and in my business. I leave our calls feeling firmly rooted in the right place.”

Jayne Emerson, Author, designer + founder of the No Rules Textile Society.

A wanderer, and a wonderer, in Wales.

Your gentle creative guide.

I’m Jo McCarthy - a nomad in North Wales. My mission is to nudge and support you as you unravel your extraordinary abilities to market and sell your creativity.

I’ve helped 100s of creatives for almost 7 years. I know that you can craft a less ordinary life.

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