I'm Darren Cooper, and I believe something that might sound crazy...every one of us is an artist.
Not the kind with a paintbrush. The kind that looks at their life, their message, and decides it's worth giving to the world.
Every episode, I sit down with ordinary people doing extraordinary things with their one life (coaches, leaders, entrepreneurs, pastors), those who had something worth creating, and finally stopped waiting for permission.
My hope is simple. That somewhere in their story you hear your own. And that you walk away convinced that your voice matters and your art deserves to e
How One Tweet Built a Fulfillment Company | Create Your Art Ep. 030
Cody Brahnam had zero followers when he posted his first tweet about supply chain margins. One reply turned into a consulting client, then a 3PL contract, then a borrowed warehouse, and today Ship Smarter is one of the fastest growing fulfillment companies in Indianapolis. In this episode of the Create Your Art Podcast, Darren sits down with Cody to unpack the first domino, how cognitive reframing helped a self-described "ops guy, not a sales guy" sell millions in services, why servant leadership became his growth strategy, and why the worst thing that can happen when you use your voice is that nobody sees it.
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🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS:
⚡️ Your biggest startup cost is time, not money. "Everyone's got the same 24 hours in a day. How are you going to spend it?"
⚡️ Reframe what scares you. Cody stopped "selling" and started solving problems, and his sales process hasn't changed since day one.
⚡️ The first domino is small. "I'm not a sales guy, but I've sold a lot of millions of dollars of services. It's because I just took that first step."
⚡️ Content is digital real estate. Something you post today can help someone years from now.
⚡️ Fundamentals beat dashboards. Keep the main thing the main thing, and the main thing is helping people.
⚡️ Use your voice, even if it shakes. "The worst thing that can happen is that nobody sees it."
⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Cold open
00:57 - Meet Cody Brahnam
01:50 - The real cost of growth
03:45 - From Chomps to a pipe dream
05:14 - The tweet that changed everything
07:03 - What a 3PL actually does
08:56 - Why logistics is an art
10:45 - The Create Your Art hat story
12:24 - The voices that say you can't
14:53 - Cognitive reframing and selling
17:33 - Wantrepreneur to first domino
20:49 - What hitting send felt like
22:37 - Content as digital real estate
24:01 - Helping as the foundation
25:24 - Pressure is a privilege
27:15 - Who you're becoming
29:38 - Being where your feet are
32:51 - Sponsor break
33:18 - Under the hood of Ship Smarter
36:42 - Radical accountability
38:37 - Unloading the container
41:23 - Small town servant roots
43:17 - Fundamentals beat dashboards
46:01 - Day one in the living room
48:38 - The warehouse at Sunday lunch
51:26 - The tape gun
51:51 - Quitting the W-2
54:14 - The domino effect
56:01 - Youth as an insecurity
57:24 - Use your voice, even if it shakes
58:10 - Where to find Cody
59:59 - Who Ship Smarter serves
01:01:43 - Final takeaways
CONNECT WITH US:
Website: https://1898creative.com
Darren's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darrenandrewcooper
CONNECT WITH CODY:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cody-branham
Ship Smarter on X: https://x.com/shipsmarter
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HASHTAGS:
#createyourart #entrepreneurship #firststep #servantleadership #ecommerce #3PL #personalbrand
30 Sept 2026
CYA Ep 028 Chad Temple Segment 2
Chad Temple spent 33 years as a pastor before he stepped out to launch indyNetwork, and the fear that showed up was the same one he felt as a teenager throwing a party nobody came to. In this conversation with Darren, Chad opens up about the voice that told him he was a phony, the "doorway conversations" that happen before anyone commits to showing up, and the fear he says was harder than any business risk: what his adult kids would think when they finally saw him afraid.
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🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS:
⚡️ The fear of being exposed as a fraud does not go away with age or experience, it just changes shape.
⚡️People decide whether to commit to something in the doorway, before they ever fully step inside.
⚡️Real leadership is not the absence of fear, it is doing what you said you would do while afraid.
⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:01 the voices that show up when you step out.
02:25 the party nobody came to.
04:20 the cost of encouragement versus the cost of doing it.
04:50 the fear of what his kids would see.
08:59 what actually answers the fear.
CONNECT WITH US:
Website: https://1898creative.com
Darren's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darrenandrewcooper
CONNECT WITH CHAD TEMPLE:
Website: https://www.indynetwork.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076282504518
Instagram: @_indynetwork_
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC0MK0GHY_DlzWIEeA9SueVA
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HASHTAGS:
#createyourart #findable #leadership #fatherhood #ministryleadership
22 Sept 2026
You Can't Fake Thirty Years of Faithfulness
Chad Temple spent thirty years walking the same routes, knocking on the same doors, showing up for the same families, long after most people would have quit or moved on. In this segment, he tells Darren the stories that explain why. A pay phone in the Bronx. A neighborhood that stayed loyal after a full year of silence. A route captain who drove straight into a crime scene asking "is it one of my kids." A blizzard that didn't stop a promised Snickers bar from getting delivered by hand. This is a conversation about what it actually costs to become the kind of person or organization a community can count on without asking twice.
➡️ FREE CONTENT CLARITY AUDIT https://link.1898creative.com/widget/bookings/1898-creative/audit
🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS:
⚡️ Consistency, not charisma, is what makes you unforgettable to the people you serve
⚡️ Trust survives a gap in contact when it was built on years of showing up before that
⚡️ The decision to follow through has to be made before the hard moment arrives, not during it
⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
CONNECT WITH US:
Website: https://1898creative.com
Darren's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darrenandrewcooper
CONNECT WITH CHAD TEMPLE:
Website: https://www.indynetwork.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076282504518
Instagram: @_indynetwork_
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UC0MK0GHY_DlzWIEeA9SueVA
If this episode helped you, please:
👍 Give it a thumbs up
💬 Share your biggest takeaway in the comments
🔔 Subscribe for weekly content strategy insights
📲 Share with a fellow entrepreneur who needs to hear this
HASHTAGS:
#createyourart #faithfulness #consistency #communityimpact #showupanyway
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