Creative Legends
Creative Legends
Podcast Description
A raw, honest, and inspiring podcast where creative professionals share the real side of being a creative professional—the wins, the fails, and design tales. Hosted by CJ Cawley, a logo and brand designer who’s been through the wringer, Creative Legends dives deep into the journeys of logo designers, brand identity experts, and creative minds from around the world.
If you're a creative looking for motivation, real talk, and a bit of chaos, this is the podcast for you.
🔥 No fluff. No ego. Just creative legends sharing their truth.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as the realities of freelance design, overcoming setbacks, and the intricacies of building a creative career. Episodes cover specific stories, like Jack Chitty's transition from zero clients to designing for global brands, discussing serious topics like burnout and external validation alongside inspiring breakthroughs.
Sticky Notes is the podcast hosted by CJ Cawley and Jack Chitty. Two brand designers sit down each week and unpack the reality of running a creative business. No fluff, no gatekeeping, no pretending they’ve got it all figured out. We talk about the wins, the failures, and everything in between. From niching (or not), finding clients, pricing your work, and building a brand… to creative blocks, self-doubt, and the messy side of freelancing that no one really shows.
This week, CJ and Jack unpack the reality of finding clients as a freelance designer. From saying yes to everything in the early days, to learning how to attract the right opportunities as your career grows. They share stories from their own journeys, including cold emails, awkward client experiences, social media, passion projects, and the uncomfortable truth about what it really takes to get noticed.
We get into:
👉 How we both found our very first freelance clients
👉 Why most cold emails and DMs don't work (and what to focus on instead)
👉 The role social media played in building their design careers
👉 Why finding clients and finding the right clients are two completely different challenges
👉 How passion projects can lead to paid work in the industries you actually want to work in
👉 Why saying no to the wrong project can be harder than finding a new one
👉 The question every freelancer eventually has to answer: ”How bad do you want this?”
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