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039: Fix Forward
A few weeks ago, I woke up to an email from a creative entrepreneur that Iâve been coaching over the past few months. This wonderful artist had recently faced some pretty big obstacles in their creative business and...
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038: The Price of Success is Failure
Over and over again, in my work as a creative entrepreneurship coach, I hear some variation of the question, âbut what if it doesnât work?â Fear is a natural part of trying anything new, and for most artists and...
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037: Creative Entrepreneurship & Kite Flying
Figuring out your strategy to make your creative business work is much easier said than done. You might think you know how things work in your creative industry, and you might be doing all the things that should be...
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036: Scarcity & Scheduling
Iâve said before that your beliefs about what is possible for you and your business will be the limiting factor in how your business grows, which is absolutely true. But your beliefs about the possibilities available...
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035: Priorities
The life of a creative entrepreneur is a busy one. There is a lot on your plate on any given day! You need to do the creative, artistic work that your business is built on. But you also need to reply to emails, manage...
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034: Maker & Manager
The life of a creative solopreneur is one of constantly being pulled in two different directions. Direction 1: the creative stuff! The reason youâre a creative entrepreneur in the first place! This is the creative,...
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033: The Making of a Habit
What habits do you have? What are the things that you do automatically, on a regular basis? When we talk about habits, often the first place we think of is at bad habits we have â smoking, doomscrolling social media,...
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032: Progress, Not Perfection
In almost every artistic training program the world over, regardless of the specific creative discipline, the pursuit of perfection is a driving factor in the training. I spent hours in the practice room during my...
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031: Say No to the Hustle
I have a bit of a controversial thought to share: Hustling isn't a good thing. Allow me to explain why I say that. Hustling is all about working harder than everyone else and doing everything imaginable to get the job...
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030: Future-Shaped Decisions
This episode is originally being released on July 3, 2023, meaning that as Iâm recording this, itâs the midpoint of the calendar year. Recently, on The Half Marathoner substack (which is an awesome newsletter if...
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029: Be a Good Boss
Funny story. Iâve had this topic, being a good boss, on my list of upcoming podcast episodes for months. Literally. For week after week after week, Iâve had this episode marked down as the next episode I was going to...
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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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