Creatives on Camera: Artists and Crafters Using Video to Teach, Sell and Inspire Online
Creatives on Camera explores how artists, makers, and creative educators turn what they know into workshops, courses, and income.
Host Lyric Montgomery Kinard shares real conversations about teaching online, finding students, pricing, simple tech, and building a business that works in the real world. If you want to teach your craft but feel stuck on where to start—or how to make it sustainable—this podcast shows you what’s actually involved.
Creatives on Camera: Artists and Crafters Using Video to Teach, Sell and Inspire Online
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What if you stopped trying to reach everyone and started building something real for the people who actually need you?
In this episode, I'm talking with Maddie Kertay, founder of the Badass Quilter Society, a values-driven creative community for progressive quilters, crafters, and makers. Maddie built her Patreon from a simple sticker subscription into a protected, paid community space with thousands of engaged members. Her approach is grounded, practical, and refreshingly direct: you don't need virality, you need connection.
We talk through how she structures her Patreon tiers, why a $3 barrier to entry changes who shows up, how she went from fewer than 300 Instagram followers to over 105K in two years by being unapologetically clear about who she is, and how she set a financial baseline from day one so her business could actually support her life.
If you've been wondering whether you need a bigger audience before you start, this conversation will shift that thinking entirely.
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