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Starving Artist No More | Jennifer Jill Araya
027: Networking for Feast, Not Famine
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027: Networking for Feast, Not Famine Jun 13, 2023

The feast or famine cycle is a vicious thing. If you’re not familiar with that term, “feast or famine” refers to the awful roller-coaster-like situation when your business...

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026: Marketing for Feast, Not Famine
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026: Marketing for Feast, Not Famine Jun 06, 2023

The feast or famine cycle is the bane of every creative business and every creative entrepreneur I know. “Feast or famine cycle” refers to the stomach-dropping ride that you experience...

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025: Make Your Own Luck
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025: Make Your Own Luck May 30, 2023

Do you have any friends or colleagues who just seem lucky? Who appear to have great opportunities fall in their lap all the time? I know that, from the outside looking in, it can sometimes seem...

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024: Overriding Imposter Syndrome
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024: Overriding Imposter Syndrome May 23, 2023

Imposter syndrome. I’ll bet that you have a visceral reaction just to hearing me say those two words. Every creative that I’ve ever known has dealt with imposter syndrome at some point...

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023: What I Wish I’d Known
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023: What I Wish I’d Known Apr 04, 2023

If you could go back to the very beginning of your journey as a creative entrepreneur, what would you tell yourself? What pieces of advice would have made your journey to this point a little...

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022: Outsourcing for Creatives
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022: Outsourcing for Creatives Mar 28, 2023

022: Outsourcing for Creatives

One of the most common pieces of advice that business coaches give entrepreneurs is to outsource. A lot of discussion in the world of entrepreneurial coaching deals...

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021: Your Unique Pace
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021: Your Unique Pace creative and financial sweet spot gratitude mindset Mar 21, 2023

Our culture tells us we need to hustle and go! Work work work, busy all the time. That’s what we’re supposed to do right? That’s what we’re supposed to be. And I don’t...

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020: Getting More Done
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020: Getting More Done Mar 14, 2023

 How do you use your time? During your work days, are you efficient and focused with your time? Time is one of our most precious and most finite resources. As artist business owners who sell...

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019: SMART Creativity (Goal Setting for Creatives, Part 2 of 2)
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019: SMART Creativity (Goal Setting for Creatives, Part 2 of 2) Mar 07, 2023

When you’re thinking about what you want out of your creative work, the ways in which you want to grow your artistic business, how do you figure out your strategy to get there? How do you...

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018: Purpose and Flexibility (Goal Setting for Creatives, Part 1 of 2)
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018: Purpose and Flexibility (Goal Setting for Creatives, Part 1 of 2) Feb 28, 2023

Goals and goal-setting are sometimes really hard for creatives. I work with a lot of artists who struggle to set goals within their creative work. They want the freedom to pursue any project that...

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017: What You Can Control
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017: What You Can Control entrepreneurship goal-setting mindset Feb 21, 2023

 What can you control in your business? You may hear me ask that question and have an instant, knee-jerk reaction. “I’m a solopreneur. I do everything in my creative business. I...

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016: The Six Components of a Thriving Creative Business
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016: The Six Components of a Thriving Creative Business Feb 14, 2023

What are the components that make up a thriving creative business? If you listen to business coaches who are working and teaching in the non-creative business spaces, you’ll frequently hear...

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