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Hosted by Ben Burns & Stephanie Owens · arts · EN
Maker Division is a podcast for designers, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, and makers building businesses they love — without burning out, selling out, or pretending we have it figured out. Hosted by Ben Burns and Stephanie Owens, two creatives who've spent the last decade-plus in the trenches: freelancing for scraps, growing studios from zero, leading creative teams, and learning the hard lessons that nobody talks about at design conferences. Each episode brings honest conversations about pricing, positioning, portfolios, lead generation, client work, hiring, and the messy middle of running a creative business. Sometimes we go deep on tactics. Sometimes we get into mindset. Always, we keep it real. No hype. No gurus. No "take massive action today." Just real frameworks, hard-earned lessons, and straight talk from people who've actually built the kind of businesses you're trying to build. New episodes weekly. Welcome to the Division.
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Signup to Generate a PitchMaker Division is a podcast for designers, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, and makers building businesses they love, without burning out, selling out, or pretending we have it figured out.
Maker Division is hosted by Ben Burns & Stephanie Owens. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Scale Your Creative Team | Ep 14" (30 October 2026, 70 minutes), "Lead Generation for Creatives: What Actually Works? (Part 1) | Ep 12" (2 October 2026, 69 minutes), and "Is Your Branding Process Doing Too Much? | Ep 11" (25 September 2026, 93 minutes).
Maker Division publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 64 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for Maker Division is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Maker Division requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Maker Division's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Maker Division are Design Services and Business & Management Consulting. Maker Division has an arts audience.
Ben Burns & Stephanie Owens hosts Maker Division, an arts podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Maker Division
Do you actually need a team to scale your creative studio—and what changes when you stop doing everything yourself? In this episode, Steph and Ben use their agree and disagree cards to challenge some of the most common...
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Business has slowed down—but how are you marketing your creative business? If the answer is “I’m not,” that may be the problem. For this episode, Steph secretly filled a cocktail shaker with 15 ways to generate leads...
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What turns a logo project into a professional branding process—and when does that process become too much? In this episode, Steph and Ben trace the different paths shaping how they approach branding today. Ben’s first...
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A $50 logo. A $300 interior-design project. Two rough beginnings—and the lessons that shaped how Steph and Ben built their creative businesses. ROCK YOUR INCOME STREAMS The first Maker Division Birthday Bash drop is...
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The thing holding your creative business back may not be the problem you think it is. In this episode, Steph and Ben pull back the curtain on the work at the heart of Maker Division: coaching creative business owners...
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Should every creative pick a niche — or has that advice done more harm than good? In this episode, Steph and Ben put their decade-plus experience helping creatives build and grow their practices on the record. They...
Episode #4
Creatives go into business to create... and then resist creating unless somebody else is paying for it. Ben and Stephanie get into why. They break the resistance into four camps: the ROI camp who won't spend an...
Episode #3
Not every project needs a case study or a cap deck. Some of your best work just needs to be seen. Ben and Steph break down the three ways creatives show their work to clients: the lookbook, the capabilities deck, and...
Episode #2
FREE WORKSHOP: Design Your Lookbook Join us this Tuesday for a free workshop, Design Your Lookbook , taught by Stephanie Owens: https://makerdivision.myflodesk.com/lookbook This episode is brought to you by Maker...
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