Season 1
Episodes
028: What to Do When You Donât Get the Gig
The life of a creative entrepreneur is one of gig work. Iâm sure youâve heard the phrase, âgig economy.â For workers in many industry, this gig economy is a totally new thing. In decades past, engineers and computer...
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027: Networking for Feast, Not Famine
The feast or famine cycle is a vicious thing. If youâre not familiar with that term, âfeast or famineâ refers to the awful roller-coaster-like situation when your business vacillates between months with tons of work,...
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026: Marketing for Feast, Not Famine
The feast or famine cycle is the bane of every creative business and every creative entrepreneur I know. âFeast or famine cycleâ refers to the stomach-dropping ride that you experience when your business flip flops...
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025: Make Your Own Luck
Do you have any friends or colleagues who just seem lucky? Who appear to have great opportunities fall in their lap all the time? I know that, from the outside looking in, it can sometimes seem like other people have...
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024: Overriding Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome. Iâll bet that you have a visceral reaction just to hearing me say those two words. Every creative that Iâve ever known has dealt with imposter syndrome at some point during their artistic career....
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023: What I Wish Iâd Known
If you could go back to the very beginning of your journey as a creative entrepreneur, what would you tell yourself? What pieces of advice would have made your journey to this point a little smoother if someone had...
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022: Outsourcing for Creatives
One of the most common pieces of advice that business coaches give entrepreneurs is to outsource. A lot of discussion in the world of entrepreneurial coaching deals with how to build a team around you, how to delegate...
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021: Your Unique Pace
Our culture tells us we need to hustle and go! Work work work, busy all the time. Thatâs what weâre supposed to do right? Thatâs what weâre supposed to be. And I donât want to deny that there are elements of that...
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020: Getting More Done
How do you use your time? During your work days, are you efficient and focused with your time? Time is one of our most precious and most finite resources. As artist business owners who sell our time and creativity...
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019: SMART Creativity (Goal Setting for Creatives, Part 2 of 2)
When youâre thinking about what you want out of your creative work, the ways in which you want to grow your artistic business, how do you figure out your strategy to get there? How do you figure out exactly what your...
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018: Purpose and Flexibility (Goal Setting for Creatives, Part 1 of 2)
Goals and goal-setting are sometimes really hard for creatives. I work with a lot of artists who struggle to set goals within their creative work. They want the freedom to pursue any project that strikes their fancy,...
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017: What You Can Control
What can you control in your business? You may hear me ask that question and have an instant, knee-jerk reaction. âIâm a solopreneur. I do everything in my creative business. I control it all!â Or maybe you have some...
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