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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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Episode 128: The Apple Tree

July 4, 2023

  Knowing where you are, where you are going and, most important, where you would like to go is all about the life of an apple tree.   Links & Resources: Link to Sound File for Visually Impaired: Click Here Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean’s […]

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Episode 127: When You Assume…

June 21, 2023

  If you start a line of reasoning with a presumption, you can only go one way. For most creative businesses, the presumption makes no sense so you can only go the wrong way. The old saying is true, when you assume, you make an…oh you know the rest.   Links & Resources: Link to […]

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