Hello, and welcome to the Starving Artist No More Podcast and Blog. Beginning November 1, 2022, I will be releasing a new podcast episode every Tuesday, and the transcript of the episode will be published here so that you can consume this content in whatever format you prefer, whether that is with your ears or with your eyes. The trailer for Starving Artist No More is already live, and the trailer transcript is below. I am so excited to share with you! 

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Being a creative entrepreneur is HARD. Every weekday, I wake up and go to my office – which for me, like for many artist business-owners, is just down the hall from my bedroom. In that room just a few doors down from my bedroom, I am expected to create incredible masterpieces that will move my listeners and shape the audience’s experience … and that my clients pay me for. These creative projects require my time and my focus and my energy, and I love it. I love what I do. I love getting into the flow state in my work. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of being fully absorbed in the creative process, and truth be told, that’s why I do what I do. I know you know what I’m talking about. That’s why you’re a creative entrepreneur. That’s why you’re an artist.

But once that creative work is done, my work isn’t finished. I can’t clock out and leave my office and go back to my personal life, because I have a BUSINESS to run. Like many creative entrepreneurs, I am a solopreneur, meaning I have no employees or partners in my business. I mean, my husband Arturo is so supportive and amazing that he might as well be my partner, but in truth, I am alone in my creative work, both the “create” side of things, and the “business” side of things. Every single task in my business ultimately rests on my shoulders. I am responsible for all of the marketing in my business. I am responsible for maintaining the financial books. I do the billing and the invoicing, and I do the project management. Oh yeah, and I do the creative work too. I am both a creative AND an entrepreneur.

And this is a hard place to be. Where do you go from here? How do you grow from here? How does a creative, an artist, build a business that scales? How do you go from starving to thriving?

Hi there. Welcome to the Starving Artist No More Podcast, where we will endeavor to answer those questions.

My name is Jennifer Jill Araya, and I am the creative entrepreneurial mind behind Starving Artist No More, a business coaching community dedicated to helping creative entrepreneurs cast off the “starving artist” and find thriving fulfillment from their businesses. This new weekly podcast will give you the tools you need to build your creative business into one that meets your needs holistically: personally, creatively, and financially. Every Tuesday I’ll share with you ideas, processes, strategies, and mindset adjustments that will help you move beyond the harmful “starving artist” stereotype into a place of abundance, joy, and fulfillment in your creative, artistic work.

As creative entrepreneurs, our creative time is driving force behind our businesses. Our businesses run on our creative energy. Starving Artist No More is all about teaching you how to build, grow, and scale your business when your creative energy is the product you are selling. New episodes will drop every Tuesday and can be downloaded wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more at StarvingArtistNoMore.com. Don’t forget to share and subscribe. Thanks for listening. I can’t wait to see what you create.