I’ve been listening for over a year and can’t believe I’m just leaving a review! I love listening to Jess while I’m working. She gives amazing advice for Etsy sellers and I love that it’s different from the hustle culture advice most selling podcasts push. She’s shown me that I can have a thriving online business while living life and doing things I love.

This is the best Etsy podcast I have listened too. The guests are wonderful and inspiring and it is a wealth of knowledge and suggestions. Thank you ~PW

This is the creative business podcast I've been looking for! Jess does what other "business" podcasts don't, she talks in a voice that creatives can relate to with info that fits our world. It's also refreshing to listen to someone who doesn't base success on using social media!

Jess is so good at asking the questions that you really need the answers to, getting to the nitty gritty details of running a creative business. The Create & Thrive Podcast is the best, most practical and most helpful podcast you could listen to.

Jess and her guests give the best advice for creatives who are looking to take their hobby and turn it into a business. I love this show!

Really enjoy the podcast and the content but the background noise is kinda distracting.

Hands down, the most helpful, applicable and full of practical advice podcast for running a handmade business. Jess, I couldn’t thank you you enough for sharing so much of your experience and tips to help us grow and become successful. This podcast is a treasure!

Jess and her incredible guests shine the brightest of lights on what it means to create a sustainable creative freelance business that works for you! Engaging, inspiring, and educational are just a few of the words I’d use to describe the time you’ll spend with them. Thanks so much for putting out such a spectacular show Jess - keep up the great work!

I recently subscribed to this podcast and I have listened to Episode 203 with Katie Salmon twice already! Her tips on designing for smart phone instead of inbox were an AHA! moment for me. I’d been looking for this very information for a few days and here it was yesterday on my morning commute!

Jess Van Den is wonderful! Her podcast is definitely one of THE BEST I've listened to on starting and running a handmade business. She is incredibly inspiring, caring, encouraging, motivating, and positive. I would never have been able to start my business without her. Jess also tells it like it is and includes the hard parts about running a sole-prop business without glossing over the work and sometimes tears that can be involved in this endeavor. Her topics and interviews are spot on. You will not be dissapointed!!!! She is amazing. Thank you, Jess!

Jess Van Den is a human help manual! The information she shares is practical. Her instructions are clear. Her enthusiasm doesn't come from puffed up promises. It comes from a genuine desire to help handmade crafters succeed. I'm so glad I discovered this podcast.

To the point. No overinflated promises of magic results (which we have all figured out by now are complete BS). Real help for real makers who struggle to get their biz going and/ or thriving. I listen multiple times to the episodes that are timely for me and go back and look for past episodes that are relevant to my current place in the journey. Jess is amazing!

What I have really gained from this podcast is help and tools for MINDSET and PLANNING and PRODUCTIVITY. This is not just a ‘make more sales on Etsy’ or whatever show. Those won’t try help me because I’m trying to get down to the personal level of where I am struggling. And Jess really covers this in detail! Understanding people are all over the map and giving varied options and tools for people to help themselves. I’ve been listening only one month, for real one of the best podcasts / coach / help I’ve ever heard. I sincerely thank you Jess!!!!!

Happened upon Create and Thrive a couple months ago and have really enjoyed listening to Jess. Have been planning to start my own business for awhile, her podcast is so insightful and full of great information, feeling more courageous about my endeavor Will definitely check out her courses!

This show is unapologetically sharp, trusting the listener to take in the guidance and to take action. I love how Jess credits her listeners with intelligence and drive. It’s empowering.

I stumbled upon this podcast when I was just setting out on my entrepreneurial journey and binge listened to every.single.epsidoe! Jess is incredible and such an amazing teacher. Her advice is thoughtful, insightful, and comes from such a place of caring. I have since joined the Thriver's Circle and took her course Set Up Shop and have found an amazing community of support and connection within this maker community :)

Found you a few weeks ago and I’ve been binge listening to all of the previous episodes every time I’m driving. Thank you!!

I love listening to Jess and hearing her talk about how she balances her life and stays grounded while running a successful business, in additional to all her fabulous business advice.

I look forward Create and Thrive Podcasts each week and am ready to start my journey in creative business. Great information presented in a calm, clear, direct and personable way.

Jess host of The Create & Thrive Podcast highlights all aspects of creativity in this can’t miss podcast. The host and expert guests offer insightful advice that is helpful to anyone that listens!

I started my creative business just over two years ago. I’ve been listening to Create & Thrive since the very beginning (and even before), and I truly believe I wouldn’t be where I am without it. I was able to take my business full-time one year ago! It is possible! Jess’s fun personality, honesty, and easy-to-apply tips and advice are exactly what so many of us need. This isn’t for big business with million-dollar goals, like so many other business podcasts. Thank you! Create & Thrive is for us regular, small-scale, creative and handmade businesses that simply want to live a happier and more fulfilling life doing something we love.

Great podcast! Very en pointe. A job by any other name is still a job. Times have changed for us handmade types. Makers like me now have a chance to pursue our creative professions more than ever since the Internet. Hard work, yes! But we are in control! Thanks, Jess! Wish you were around when I was much younger! Could have used some sage advice and boost of confidence back then. But the good thing is that I have it now! Yay! Thanks also for inspiring others so that they may be more confident about their futures. Rozani

Jess is amazing and I feel so lucky to have finally found her podcast. I've been making handmade jewelry for five years and I can say that in listening to her podcast for the last month or so I have learned so much about how to proceed in the real world. Jess gives you so much stunningly helpful free information in this podcast and makes you want to join her thriver Circle and buy her courses just because she is so darn cool and you know that you're going to get great benefit from them. Her voice which speaks with balance and passion and compassion for other creative business people is sorely needed in this dog eat dog world. I plan to join the thriver circle when it opens and I know it's going to be a no-brainer business decision that will benefit me for many years to come. Thanks Jess for all you do!!

This is truly one of the most useful, inspiring podcasts out there for small, creative business owners or makers that are thinking of starting a business! The advice can be applied to beginners as well as advanced business owners. Jess is very easy to relate to and interviews a great variety of guests to answer questions spanning a broad spectrum, covering every topic imaginable! Thanks Jess for all of your help and great advice!

The February 1st podcast withe the co-op store is my dream business!!! I want to scream with excitement as I write this review at my desk!! Is Christina available to speak with in detail? I'm so ready to write my business plan! Thanks Jess!

Recently discovered Jess's podcast and I've become addicted to listening to them while working in my studio! As a one-woman business, her advice really gives me encouragement and definitely helps me see things in a new perspective. Overall, I recommend checking her podcast out if you're a small business owner or in the handmade community.

I discovered this podcast and within a matter of days had listened to every single episode. She truly inspired me to quit waiting and get started on my business. She is so knowledgeable, honest and encouraging and her guests are a joy to listen to as well. A must listen for creative businesses.

Great podcast for makers and small business owners. The topics are practical and the tone is inspiring!

I've been listening to Jess on this podcast since the beginning. Every week she has a great new topic for makers, from social media, to Etsy shop tips, and interviews with makers and shakers in the small handmade biz world. I enjoy getting a new episode each week! Thanks Jess for everything you put into making this podcast happen!

I was seriously considering starting a handmade business when I stumbled upon Jess's podcasts and mentoring group. Now I know I want to have my own handmade business, and listening to Jess is giving me a pathway for how to do it smarter, and with more clarity about my goals.

I have recently subscribed to Create and Thrive podcast and am thoroughly enjoying it. Jess has a way of teaching a creative what it takes to successfully build their business. Very informative and timely.

Jess’s podcast is just the best one out there for Handmade Business owners. She’s one of us, she gets it, and she shares all of her learnings and insights in a friendly, easy to listen to way. I’ve never met Jess in person, but I feel like she’s a friend, a kindred spirit and definitely a very valuable mentor. I’m so fortunate to have come across this absolutely brilliant, helpful podcast as well as her Thriver’s Circle, which I recently joined. She has boosted my business AND my business mindset immeasurably. Thank you, Jess!

I run Allie's Handmade Blankets, and I love listening to this podcast! She helps handmade shops with the business side of selling handmade creations. I've run my business for almost 5 years and I have learned lots of neat tips!

Jess makes a really great podcast. It has a more relaxed feel, like she’s just talking to you over a cup of coffee about the topic. She’s highly informative, doesn’t waste any time, and has a wonderful speaking voice that is really pleasant to listen to.

Absolutely love Jess's podcast, it is truly like having a great friend giving you business advice. Caught up on all the past episodes on my drive to my other job while I work to make my Etsy shop my full time business! Not only does Jess give really helpful & practical but she gets me pumped that it is possible to make my business successful!!! Love it, keep it coming Jess!!!!!

This series is fabulous!!! I wish there were more. Jess has amazing insight, all practical and very business savvy, plus she has such a lovely voice. There’s a lot of advice out there, but hers is so useful and easy to apply, probably because she is a crafter, a business owner and an educator. LP owner of Phoebe&Egg.

Discovered Jess’ podcasts a few months ago and with each listening I appreciate them more and more. Jess is calm, real and insightful. I listen to them as I work in my studio and they always give me some sort of practical wisdom or understanding and inspiration-often both. If you have a small, handmade business, Jess’ podcasts and blog are great companions.