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Episode 148: Client Management, Sunk Costs, and Grit

March 5, 2024

Managing the client experience is a singular challenge for every creative business. For the most part, projects are for an extended period of time with many ups and downs both for activity and emotion. The key to success is vision and grit. It is also a deep understanding of sunk costs. Enter the story of Graham Sutherland’s portrait of Winston Churchill. Listen in…

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Episode 147: New Constraints, The Underneath, An Apple Tree and Horses For Courses

February 27, 2024

Constraints are nothing new. Creative businesses have always operated in a window. I have never met a designer who is perpetually free to create as she sees fit without regard to budget, style or even geography. The new reality we all find ourselves in is that a new constraint has been foisted on all of us. The price of every physical human interaction is now perpetually present. It means the intrinsic nature of art has become ever more indelible. Enter the underneath, an apple tree and horses for courses. Listen in…

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Episode 146: Gatekeepers, Validators and Choosing Yourself

February 20, 2024

Who controls your fate as a creative business? How you do attract business without standing on the street corner and screaming? Who chooses you, helps you get chosen and what do you owe them when you do? What value gatekeepers? Let’s talk Duncan Hines. Listen in…

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Episode 145: Imagining The Future

February 13, 2024

Creative business is literally about creating a world that has never existed. To imagine. Too often though we get trapped into the curse of knowledge, and lose the humility to know that you do not know. History has shown that failure to imagine the future is the curse of intelligence and the demise of the well intended. For creative business, it is the road to commodification and irrelevance. So let’s talk about how to avoid tunnel vision. Listen in…

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Episode 144: Race To The Top

February 6, 2024

By all accounts 2021 will be a rebirth for creative business. We will hopefully put the pandemic behind us and art will reemerge. The question will be how to handle it. My advice, race to the top. To do so you will have to be radically, unapologetically, idiosyncratic. You will need to convince yourself that best is indeed a verb, not a noun because when you do you will invest in the best of you, you art and your creative business. And from there you will justly reap the rewards of being on the top. Listen in…

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Episode 143: All Things Pricing

January 30, 2024

  Pricing is a fraught subject no matter the time. Through in a global pandemic and cultural upheaval in the United States and the rubber band stretches ever thinner. As with all things foundation is everything. What “it” costs is not the same thing as what you cost. Oh and cost is for toothpaste, investment […]

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Episode 142: Faith And The Courage Of Conviction

January 23, 2024

Faith is the courage of conviction. Faith is the prerequite to courage and integrity. Faith is facile and simultaneously hopeful and hopeless. Faith is what you need to see your creative business through. Enter the story of the swimming dog, Craigslist and letting kids have cake for breakfast. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 7 | Original Air Date: 6/23/2020

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Episode 141: A Gentle Goodbye

January 9, 2024

So the time has come for me to say goodbye to the podcast. I feel like the thoughts are complete and I am compelled to focus on writing. A few thoughts on what it means for me to have shared as I have for the past 140 episodes.

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Episode 140: Find Your Voice

December 19, 2023

The essence of humanity is to be seen and heard. It is pervasive in all things and for all endeavors, none more so than for creative business. The reason is that creative business is the ultimate expression of self. Live there and make it your culture.

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Episode 139: Perfect Egg Reprise

December 5, 2023

So you want to start something new or continue going on a new endeavor. How do you go about thinking about whether it makes sense to start and/or keep going? Remember The Perfect Egg.

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