Stories

Real founder stories from across Australia — behind-the-scenes lessons, wins and setbacks, told by the people who built the business, not written about them.

• Bye: It’s scary to expose the truth — POETRY By Shakas Designer
• I feel and see yet there is something wrong with me. Could it be possible that my heart is a tree, growing apples to give out and being taken like eve? — Adam and Eve is that a story we should believe? I believe in the universe, not that women are cursed ✌️ .
• Your a beautiful risk — POETRY by Shakas Designer: Written in 2018
• I accidentally fell in love with the boy I met at a party — He accidentally, without knowing had me giggling and laughing: POETRY POST by Shakas Designer
• Happiness from the minute we met: POETRY by Shakas Designer — I went to a party where no one knew me. I was dancing, eyes closed, carefree, no ones was watching.
• POETRY POST 🌻 — The journey into your third eye may be scary
• Beginning: sun and waves ☀️🌊 The sun hurts, I’m sunburnt, — POETRY POST ☀️🌊 Written by Shakas Designer 2018
• POETRY POST 🥀 — We act and react in certain ways when we’re afraid
• POETRY POST 🌊 — We’re brain washed by tvs and paying tickets in advance for entertainment that stimulates us for a tiny second
• Yes I’m late, I’m exhausted and drained, — POETRY POST by Shakas Designer
• My life has always been colourful. Lines and dots representing the troubles. — POETRY POST by Shakas Designer
• Peace out: ✌️ Aiming to quit — POETRY POST from before owning a quitting my job to travel australia, starting a tour company, designing a unique beach bag, launching an app in canva
• FIND YOUR REASONS: — POETRY POST 🌻🌻 I love you when your excitement takes over the conversation and your smile distracts me from thinking.
• Canva is a huge part of my own journey. I’ve used it for years, I’ve built every carousel in it, I’ve taught clients how to use it, and now… I’m developing an app inside it… — Yep - I’ve been developing my own app which will be avaliable inside Canva.
• What is chaotic energy @shakasdesigner — I batch created and scheduled a run of carousels and AI reels, and the result was something I don't always have when I'm in the middle of posting: the time, the creative energy, and the actual desire…
• How Do You Repurpose Content Without Sounding Repetitive? — Shakas Designer — Memory, 20 April 2022
• The real issue with marketing on social media — and what you can do about it
• Not everyone sees your content the first time. — In fact, most people don’t.
• How is The Culo Village different from Substack? — People keep asking me whether they should use Substack or The Culo Village, as if it's a contest. It isn't. One builds a readership for new writing, the other pulls together everything you've already made so it can still be found.
• Should Founders Post About Themselves or Their Business? — Both, but not in equal amounts and not for the same reason. Business content builds authority. Personal, relatable, human content builds connection. You need the connection before anyone cares about…
• What Is the Best Way to Organise Years of Content Across Multiple Platforms? — A Substack wouldn't organise Kylie Jenner's story. It would just add to it.
• Why was The Culo Village created? — I built The Culo Village because having an audience and owning your work turned out to be two completely different problems, and most founders only ever solve one of them. The Village exists…
• Should Founders Start a Substack? — Substack isn't growing because newsletters came back in style. It's growing because ownership became the moat.
• Should founders write a newsletter? — When I heard Kylie Jenner reportedly looked at Substack, it cut straight through the usual assumption that newsletters are for people who haven't made it yet. Reach and ownership solve two completely different problems, and most people only ever build one of them.
• What Does 'Rented Audience' Mean, and Why Does It Matter Even If You Have a Huge Following? — Kylie Jenner has 400 million followers and she's still looking at Substack
• How Can Founders Turn Raw Footage Into Multiple Content Formats? — Once you learn the different social media editing style formats, you'll be able to confidently show up in that archetype.
• You filmed the video. You had the insight. And then... it sat in your camera roll for a month because trying to think of the perfect words to put on the screen felt like too much work. — I built CULO Creative a canva integrated app because being a founder without a clear workflow in one platform without constantly switching tools is so annotying
• Are you wasting money on ads without testing your content organically? — Article in the culo village
• What Happens to Old Social Media Posts? — Old social media posts don't disappear in the sense of being deleted, but they become practically invisible.
• Founders burning out — I almost fell victim to using ai to generate content with my real face