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Episode 138: Abundance

November 28, 2023

Holiday season is upon us. Maybe rest is in sight and a moment to reflect on what is necessary for you and your business. Start with abundance.

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Episode 137: You Go First

November 7, 2023

The key to sustained value, important clients and great work? Proaction. If you do not go first, there will be no story, no spark only reflection. Fluency not brilliance. If it really matters to you and your creative business, you have to go first.

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Episode 136: Is It Frivolous?

October 24, 2023

When you see what it all costs to create, it is very easy to say, why? When the world demands crisis, how can you talk about things that are not in crisis? How do you navigate the responsibility of living as opposed to surviving? It is called being an artist and appreciating the timing of it all will always lead back to you.

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Episode 135: Money And Power Are Not The Same Thing

October 10, 2023

The axiom that the client is always right is not true for creative business.  If you let someone’s wallet dictate the limits of your power to do what you do, it will be lesson in self-inflicted pain.  Let’s talk about how to make sure you do not do that. The show is yours to run.

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Episode 134: Trust Is Fluid

September 26, 2023

Building your name is not the same thing as making promises and keeping them. Confusing them costs you. The trick is to understand intentionality.

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Episode 133: Time Is Everything

September 12, 2023

I am just around the corner. Be there soon. An hour later you ask: Which corner? And what does soon mean? Time is all you have and leaving its definition to negotiation, or worse, to the decisions of others is self-inflicted pain you can no longer endure.

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Episode 132: Interpreting Data

August 29, 2023

  It is fifty degrees one day, ninety the next. On average it is seventy degrees so no need to buy a coat or a swimsuit.  You can use information to justify your complacency or you can determine what matters to you and act accordingly.   Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually […]

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Episode 131: Multiple Revenue Streams

August 15, 2023

  If you build your business on the next project, then the pressure to take what comes next is overwhelming.  Digging deeper holes does not mean only one thing.  It is all about skimming the cream off the top…   Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here Host: Sean Low […]

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Episode 130: The Importance Of Structure

August 1, 2023

  A slinky stretched out down the stairs is the same toy as the one sitting on the shelf unless you bend or break a rib. So too your creative business. Structure is everything.   Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being […]

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Episode 129: Your Business Is Not A Factory

July 18, 2023

  We all grew up and are taught the value of a factory.  Efficiency. Low cost. Scale. And you have tried to force your creative business into the paradigm. You measure volume of work, hours, effort, not ideas, emotional intelligence or really anything reflecting the value of relationship.  Your creative business is not a factory […]

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