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Episode 68: Greed Is For Fools

September 21, 2021

Knowing what you need to live the life you wish is the key to your success as a creative business. How much do you need and how much do you want to work? If you set your business up to be greedy, you will be. The result will be the illusion of success and failure. Let’s talk about The Giving Tree.

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Episode 67: What Are You Looking For In A Client?

September 14, 2021

We all give lip service to the idea that you are interviewing a potential client as much as they are interviewing you. But are you really? Do you know what you need? Let’s talk the legacy of Karen Ann Quinlan.

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Episode 66: When The Game Changes, You Need To Change Too

September 7, 2021

  COVID has caused major disruptions and required alternate ways of doing business. It means that your business model needs to account for risk and perhaps change altogether. Let’s talk 3 point baskets.   Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative […]

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Episode 65: There Has To Be A Paragon

August 31, 2021

Your ideal project — the one that gives you the best chance of success has to be known. What this timeframe, thought process, looks like has to be known to everyone. It is from there that you leap. Let’s talk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

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Episode 64: Do One Thing Less

August 24, 2021

Fall is upon us and the instinct is to race ahead. What if you did one thing less? What would you have to charge to do it? Can you choose not to chase the shiny penny. Let’s talk The Perfect Egg.

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Episode 63: The 21 Day Challenge

August 3, 2021

  I will be taking some time off after this episode (airing August 3rd) and will be back on August 24th. Yep, 21 days. So a 21 Day Challenge is in order. Let’s talk about three radical changes, the problem with incremental change and an opportunity from me to you.   Links & Resources: Link […]

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Episode 62: Frustration

July 27, 2021

We should all chart our own course much deeper than simply a strategy to find uncharted territory. Be true to your soul as an artist, where there are no boundaries of possible only the imagination of what could be. What would your creative business look like then? Who says you have to charge any way that someone tells you to. Fifty years next year. Let’s talk HBO.

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Episode 61: Choosing What To Measure

July 20, 2021

Since the dawn of the industrial age, if we can measure it, we will. For creative business, those standards are and will always be amorphous. How do you value an idea? Let’s talk trains and clocks.

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Episode 60: Losing Trust, It Is Personal — Sort Of

July 13, 2021

The line between personal and creative is blurry at best. You are professional but you are also an artist required to move beyond the technical. Trust is sacrosanct and incredibly fragile. Be intentional, purposeful but not indulgent. The arrogance of opinion is defined when there is no humility. Let’s talk about July 7th.

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Episode 59: Go Over The Bar Backwards

July 6, 2021

We are all in it now. The world has reopened (in the U.S. anyway) and the thrush of work is there. More then ever you are called upon to reinvent your creative business. Enter Dick Fosbury…

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