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- Episodes
- 2021
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About HONESTLY, IDK
We know nothing, which is why we seek more knowledge every day. The aim for us is not to teach anything, but to learn and grow together with the creative community in a business context by sharing relatable real-life experiences.
- Publisher
- Emmanuel Dankyi
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 17 Feb 2021
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2021
Latest episodes
19 episodes in the feed.
30 Sept 2021
I WAS KIDNAPPED FOR THIS EPISODE. LOL
My good friend Tabitha ambushed me after her episode and decided to interview me instead, find out things I haven't thought of in a while about my life and my career as a creative living in Ghana. On this episode, I share my experience on my journey so far, where I'm headed and how some of the learnings I've picked up over the years as a creative entrepreneur can help other people grow as well. And oh, October is my birth month so if anybody wants to gift me with a free book or some animation courses online, i'd be grateful lol. Also, an apple watch won't be bad *coughs* Ok bye. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Follow me on the internet for whatever reason you'd follow someone: @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x (https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish) Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com (https://www.limexhoney.com/)
16 Sept 2021
SOCIAL MEDIA & CREATIVE MENTAL HEALTH
Being a creator on today’s digital age requires that you put yourself and your work online. Once it’s out there, you subject yourself to critique and comments that might be hurtful to you as a person. Sheldon is one of the biggest creators in Ghana and has seen online abuse firsthand (with attacks both on his work and persona) today’s episode discusses these issues and takes a dive into how he navigates these mental waters. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Find Sheldon on the internet: @k (https://www.instagram.com/spencer_zill/)wadwosheldon on all platforms www.k (https://spencerzill.com/)wadwosheldon.com Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x (https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish) Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com (https://www.limexhoney.com/)
9 Sept 2021
EXPORTING YOUR TALENT TO THE WORLD
As a young creative growing up anywhere in the world, one of the things we dream of is to be able to export our work to other markets, to see our work on the big screens and to enter into rooms that sometimes seem possible only in our dreams of course. Today's guest has seen and done it all. Coming out of Africa and playing in the big leagues, working with international clients like MTV, DSTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy central, to mention but a few. One thing we try to find out is, HOW? How he did it and how we can also do it. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Find Spencer Zill on the internet: @spencer_zill (https://www.instagram.com/spencer_zill/) on Instagram www.spencerzill.com (https://spencerzill.com/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x (https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish) Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com (https://www.limexhoney.com/)
2 Sept 2021
CREATING CONTENT FOR STARTUPS
Playing the social media & content game can be a very tricky one. Especially if you're trying to sell goods or services. It can either be a blissful flow of dopamine as a results of lots of love and engagement or a sad cycle of never-ending experiments that leads to crickets all the time. In today's episode, we sit down with Yayra Nutakor, Co-Founder of Fooveo (a digital video marketing agency) and our one and only Instagram Queen of reels to discuss what small businesses and creative freelancers can do to grow their following, build community and most importantly generate leads from social media. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Find FOOVEO & Miss Yayra on the internet: @fooveo (https://www.instagram.com/fooveo/) on Instagram @yayra_nutakor (https://www.instagram.com/yayra_nutakor/) on Instagram Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x (https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish) Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com (https://www.limexhoney.com/)
26 Aug 2021
CREATING MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INCOME
As a female creative trailblazer and the brilliant mind behind BaseCamp Initiative, Sunita Kragbe has been paving the way for capacity building in Ghana through Creative Thinking ecosystems since 2018. With a wealth of experience in Advertising, Branding, Design, and Marketing, across parts of Europe and Africa, Sunita’s body of work in the Creative industry has contributed to award-winning pieces for esteemed brands such as Coca-Cola, DSTv, Airtel and KFC, throughout her time at Ogilvy & Mather Ghana. She's currently the global creative director at Workspace Global, helping the team put out some amazing projects both locally and internationally. In today's episode with Sunita, we take a look at how creatives can begin to think about creating multiple streams of income, building up towards a life of financial freedom while doing what they love. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Find Workspace Global & Basecamp Initiative on the internet: www.workspaceglobal.com (https://www.workspaceglobal.com/) basecampinitiative.com (https://www.basecampinitiative.com/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x (https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish) Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com (https://www.limexhoney.com/)
12 Aug 2021
WHAT'S STOPPING YOU?
Being a medical doctor is not something that is normally simultaneous with art as a whole. The existence of this doctor friend of mine defies this 'sort of' unspoken rule over here that the sciences and the arts do not blend smoothly. He's a full-time doctor and a full-time CG Artist and on this episode, we take a look at his story and how this is even possible in the first place. But in the wise words of Dr. Onyina, "nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it, there's always a way around it" A bit of a disclaimer: we're going to be geeking out a lot about some 3D terminologies and creative language. If you're not a 3D artist, please bare with us. There are still awesome gems to be picked from the episode regardless. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Find Yaw on the internet: @yaw_cg_md (https://www.instagram.com/yaw_cg_md/) on Instagram Yaw Onyina on artstation (https://www.artstation.com/yaw_cg) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x (https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish) Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com (https://www.limexhoney.com/)
5 Aug 2021
BUILDING A CREATIVE ECOSYSTEM
Building communities is something that I've been passionate about for a while. Especially creative communities, because I believe we can achieve a lot together for the industry as a strong unit. This is one of the main reasons we started dEX (https://www.instagram.com/dex_ghana/). Today's episode takes a look at how Natalie and her team at New Comma (//www.new-comma.com) are working towards building an African Creative Ecosystem and her creative journey so far. Be sure to check out their platform, sign up, and connect with other amazing African creatives. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Find Natalie & New-Comma on the web: Sign up today on new-comma.com (//www.new-comma.com) @new.comma (https://www.instagram.com/new.comma/) on Instagram @new_comma (https://twitter.com/New_Comma) on Twitter @Nataliiee_N (https://twitter.com/Nataliiee_N) on Twitter Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
29 Jul 2021
PERSONAL GROWTH & HOW IT UNLOCKS CREATIVITY
Personal growth and development is one thing not many people are very intentional about. We mostly grow into roles and narratives we're used to and comfortable in, but barely question why things are the way they are. In this episode, we hang out with Miss Tabitha, Mother of 4 creative dragons and a few cats, product designer, creative director, and pattern designer to find out how she began her journey to self-discovery. We also discuss how that journey reflects in her work and how she's able to juggle all her dragons without breaking down. lol As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Her Favorite Podcasts: Enjoying Everyday Life by Joyce Meyer (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joyce-meyer-enjoying-everyday-life-tv-audio-podcast/id152564324) The Call to Mastery with Jordan Raynor (https://open.spotify.com/show/19qKMnrMtfVphxO7efQl9o?si=jsBDXefnRPqg-x3MRRvwbg&dl_branch=1) A bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek (https://open.spotify.com/show/0wjYlCNxLDgFUUjZMaP6Dx?si=rRzxbXw6SYCehACaMCnefQ&dl_branch=1) Honestly, IDK (of course lol) (https://open.spotify.com/show/49LfzRKaNWtEsON2y4YjQ0?si=BQS0QbJCTNWZakitEu9dAQ&dl_branch=1) The Futur with Chris Do (https://open.spotify.com/show/5K96ryZCjCmxqMzEotvS8h?si=-YUQQ099RMylebYKj4RiXQ&dl_branch=1) Her Favorite Books: Kindly go Back and listen To the last 15 minutes of the podcast ;) Check out all Tabitha's baby dragons on the web Quest Handmade (https://www.instagram.com/questhandmade/) Accent Rattan (https://www.instagram.com/accentrattan/) Mindful Inking (https://www.instagram.com/mindfulinking/) Geomadic (https://www.instagram.com/geomadic/) Her Personal Instagram: @dearlytabby (https://www.instagram.com/dearlytabby/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
22 Jul 2021
DOING WORK YOU LOVE
In the relatively short time, I've known Fanny, she's moved from doing illustration as a simple hobby to a full-time professional illustrator. Her transition is something that is interesting considering she was scared to make the jump at first but she seems to be enjoying it now. In this episode, we take a look at where she was, where she is now, and what inspired her to chase after what she loved to do most. Also most importantly, how she's making money from it now. As always, don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Check out Dissirama on socials Instagram: bydissirama (https://www.instagram.com/bydissirama/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
21 Apr 2021
How much is your time worth?
TIME IS MONEY! yeah, it's a cliche, but a very real cliche that helps people reach peak business success if taken seriously. Time is something that is loosely disrespected in our part of the world and so I don't really blame us when certain things happen in our workspaces. But we're trying to do better to change the narrative. How do we start thinking about our time differently? How do we even calculate how much our time is worth? how do we properly manage our time to maximize our output? Our big-daddy design guru shares a few tips to help us begin our time-conscious Journey. Put down some notes, and share with a friend if you find this useful. Season 2 will be dropping in July. till then, don't miss us plenty. lol See you soon. A few points to think about; How much does an hour of your time cost? What do you spend most of your time doing? What value are you providing for your time? How much does your life cost to live? Be intentional about your time. Clients appreciate timely delivery over dope work. Daniel's videos: Thinking beyond the logo Become a strategic designer Making clients choose you Find Daniel here: Daniel's website (https://iamdanielampofo.com/) [iamdanielampofo.com] Instagram: @iamdanielampofo Twitter: @iamdanielampofo Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
15 Apr 2021
Dealing with Emotions as a Creative
They say creative people can be very emotional beings, but we barely ever speak about our emotions with others no matter what we're going through. We'd rather get to work to try and forget about it. But is this helpful? if not, how can we do our best to get ourselves out of these emotional lows, creative blocks, etc. We explore this and more on this episode of the podcast with Miss Tsetsewaa Yawson, a very good friend, confidante and advisor sometimes. lol. Everybody, meet everybody's official hypewoman. Share with your friends if you find it helpful, and take some notes for yourself. Enjoy! Find Kuukua here: www.tsetsewaa.com (http://tsetsewaa.com/) Instagram: @tsetsewaa (https://www.instagram.com/tsetsewaa/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
8 Apr 2021
Building Equity as a Creative
Equity, equity, equity, what the hell is it? we hear all these techies and entrepreneurs throwing this term about all the time. Do we understand it? how do we build it? how can it benefit us? why should we care about it? we explore these questions and more in this episode where we discuss how we can level up our skills and build more value as creative people who obviously want to make money doing what we love the most. If you're a creative person, and you love making money doing what you love doing, this one's for you. Take some notes, share with a friend and come back for more. A few points to think about; Build Value Think long term Explore wide, then dig deep Create products from your skills Be professional about your work Think like a business and not as a freelancer Daniel's videos: Thinking beyond the logo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW9nQus0_Tk) Become a strategic designer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx1X3kf0BxY) Making clients choose you (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOWSMM0CZNg) Find Daniel here: Daniel's website (https://iamdanielampofo.com/) [iamdanielampofo.com] Instagram: @iamdanielampofo (https://www.instagram.com/iamdanielampofo/) Twitter: @iamdanielampofo (https://twitter.com/iamdanielampofo) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
2 Apr 2021
Why do you do what you do?
Why do you do what you do? who at all are you? why the heck do you exist in this life at all? don't have answers to these questions? don't worry, we really don't as well. In this episode, we try to look within ourselves to try to fish out some answers to these questions and we did make some pretty interesting self-discoveries. It was helpful for me, I hope it helps you at least start your journey to answer these questions too. Share with a friend if you do find it helpful. :) A few points to think about; Spend time with yourself Find comfort in the silence, boredom, and loneliness It's important to know why because it helps shape your future Listen to the voices around you channel the negative voices around you to good Listen to yourself Learn about yourself if you’re lucky enough and your passion solves a problem, you’re still in the money-making business. This is probably my favorite episode. lol Find Benn here Instagram: @benn_arthur (https://www.instagram.com/benn_arthur/) Twitter: @benn_arthur (https://twitter.com/benn__arthur) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
25 Mar 2021
Creativity & Self Discipline
Creativity is an art that requires us to keep thinking outside the box, being unorthodox at times, and feeling free all the time while staying productive and staying alive as a business. In this episode, we discuss some experiences we've had, working with and managing junior creatives. Managing creative people is unexpectedly one of the hardest things we've had to learn, even though we are creative people ourselves. lol Shoutouts to all the creative directors and project managers out there. Don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Check out Cleopas on these channels; Youtube: Joshua Cleopas (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIdr_M9IWh4Q8hm0r45TqUQ) Instagram: Joshua Cleopas (https://www.instagram.com/joshuacleopas/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
18 Mar 2021
Life as a Creative Entrepreneur
Today we turn the lens inward to ourselves; myself and my Co-Founder, to discuss our journey leading up to the moment we decided to start an agency together and how our lives have changed since we began. It's a little heart to heart that hopefully leaves a lot of gems for people to learn from. We hope you enjoy this episode, Kindly leave a rating, and share with your friends! A few points to think about; Learn effectively by breaking down things. Reverse engineer everything Share your work Intern every small opportunity you get Start now, deal with the consequences later Whatever you do, do it for the right reasons. Find Benn here Instagram: @benn_arthur (https://www.instagram.com/benn_arthur/) Twitter: @benn_arthur (https://twitter.com/benn__arthur) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
11 Mar 2021
Navigating Awkward Worksplace Moments
A continuation of the conversation we had about building and running teams. What to do when things get awkward in the workspace? we've been there, and this is how we dealt with it. Emotional topics can be stressful to discuss in the workplace so we'd rather compartmentalize till it's too late and we blow up in people's faces. Are you leading your peers? that can get awkward as well. We hope this conversation is helpful to you. And as always, don't forget to take notes and share with your friends and team members A few points to think about; You can't make everybody happy Earn the trust of your team members You're not the leader because you're better than everybody else Watch Ted Lasso Eldad is always talking and making noise on social media. lol You can find him here Instagram: @eldad.nutakor (https://www.instagram.com/eldad.nutakor/) Check out his badass agency: @qodehub (https://www.instagram.com/qodehub/) www.qodehub.com (https://qodehub.com/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
4 Mar 2021
Building and Running Teams; what we’ve learnt
In this episode of honestly not knowing anything, we have Mr Eldad Nutakor with us talking about how he's been able to build a killer team over at his company (Qodehub) as a design team lead. He's been doing this for a couple of years now so we can take his word for it lol. We take a deep dive into how to hire, how to possibly fire, how to even know who to hire and how to get the team to move the business from A to whichever letter you want to get to. As usual, enoy the conversation, leave a review, share your thoughts online and share this podcast as well. Cheers! PS: This was originally meant to be the second episode but we rearranged things last minute. Don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink A few points to think about; WHY are you building the team? Learn how to find the right person Build relationships instead Find out who can be interesting as a person Get people to take ownership of the vision. Make it 'Our' vision instead of 'my' vision Build frameworks and systems Eldad is always talking and making noise on social media. lol You can find him here Instagram: @eldad.nutakor (https://www.instagram.com/eldad.nutakor/) Check out his badass agency: @qodehub (https://www.instagram.com/qodehub/) www.qodehub.com (https://qodehub.com/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
25 Feb 2021
Your Network is Your Net Worth
This podcast is all about learning and growing together as creatives in an ever-growing business world. We know nothing, which is why we seek more knowledge every day. The aim is not to 'teach' but (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/)to learn and grow with the community by sharing our experiences. Cleopas is a very good friend of mine and a super dope creative designer, videographer, youtuber, art director, among many other things. He's a creative powerhouse running a creative powerhouse called VOME. In this episode, we discuss the importance of building a network of ONLY QUALITY PEOPLE because one of the things more important than the ability to do good work is the network you find yourself in. We dive into how we've been able to build networks of our own on the client-side and on the peer side as well, and how that has helped our career. Don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink A few tweetable points; You're only one person away from a thousand people. You're also the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room Iron sharpeneth iron Learn to elevator pitch yourself Evaluate your circle Be confident in yourself and your abilities Know the right people even before you think of knowing the skill. You'll learn on the job. Most people want good enough work. Focus on building trust instead. Check out Cleopas on these channels; Youtube: Joshua Cleopas (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIdr_M9IWh4Q8hm0r45TqUQ) Instagram: Joshua Cleopas (https://www.instagram.com/joshuacleopas/) Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x Follow our agency @limexhoney Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com
17 Feb 2021
Bootstrapping your business with zero money
This podcast is all about learning and growing together as creatives in an ever-growing business world. We know nothing, which is why we seek more knowledge every day. The aim is not to 'teach' but (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/)to learn and grow with the community by sharing our experiences. Our first Episode features Mr. Foster Akugri, serial entrepreneur & leader, SB incubator, and Hacklab to mention a few. He's had a lot of experience building businesses and helping startups and ideas get funding. He shares with us his experiences in the business world and gives us some tips on how to build and run our own creative businesses. Don't forget to take notes & share some of your learnings on social media. *wink *wink Things to read about: Leadership Problem identification Multiplier effect The marginal cost of production What makes a good product? Value propositions Tracking and collection of data Accounting principles How to prepare a service agreement How to manage accounting books The value of time People management Setting benchmarks, OKRs & KPIs Relationship building & strategic partnerships Digital resources Quickbooks (https://c70.qbo.intuit.com/qbo70/login) Zoho Books (https://www.zoho.com/books/) Wave (Wave is no longer available to people outside the US) Books to read Built to last The Toyota way Shameless Plug. Follow me on social media for whatever reason you'd follow someone @jnrkay (https://www.instagram.com/jnrkay/) & @jnrkay_x (//) Follow our agency @limexhoney (https://www.instagram.com/limexhoney/) Check out our website; www.limexhoney.com (//www.limexhoney.com)
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