I Am A Creator

How Courtland Allen, founder of Indie Hackers, didn’t let five years of failure or burnout stop him from pursuing his dream. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/courtland-allen for show notes and more information.

After getting an engineering degree, running a record label, and then a marketing agency, Chris Craft landed back at the art he loved as a child—writing. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/chris-craft for show notes and more information.

Homesteader and author Deborah Niemann never dreamed that her love of goats could turn into an online business, the ability to save goats all over the world, or security in her own self-reliance. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/deborah-niemann for show notes and more information.

When Wall Street money wasn’t patching up the hole in his soul, online coach Khe Hy left 14 years of the “dream job” to write to his 36 email subscribers. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/khe-hy for show notes and more information.

What happens when you ask yourself, “What if?” For creator Jenell Stewart, the answer was the freedom to be herself, a new understanding of her value, and the start of a new business. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/jenell-stewart for show notes and more information.

After 30 years of working in her craft, cartoonist Jessica Abel realized she had taken a grassroots marketing approach to build a full-time business and now teaches other artists how to do the same. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/jessica-abel for show notes and more information.

Online video coach XayLi Barclay learned the best lessons from her grandma—one including the limitless potential of a creator. Find out how giving her 110% to everything led her to creative possibilities she didn’t even know existed. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/xayli-barclay for show notes and more information.

With a nickname synonymous with stubborn relentlessness, it’s no surprise that editor John Fox takes each rejection as a chance to improve his craft. Find out how knocking on all the doors finally opened the right one. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/john-fox for show notes and more information.

For writer Jessica Pena, every day is a gift. “I can’t be hurried,” she likes to say. This is her story about chronic illness, trauma, and how a conference changed her life. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/jessica-pena for show notes and more information.

It never occurred to Dave Barnes to not write songs when he picked up a guitar. But he didn’t think of himself as a songwriter; he was just having fun. And two decades later, with many hit songs and a Grammy nomination under his belt, he still struggles with the same self-doubt that all creators experience. But what makes a creator is the willingness to live in that space. Visit https://kit.com/resources/creator-stories/dave-barnes for show notes and more information.