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Starving Artist No More | Jennifer Jill Araya
039: Fix Forward
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039: Fix Forward Oct 24, 2023

A few weeks ago, I woke up to an email from a creative entrepreneur that I’ve been coaching over the past few months. This wonderful artist had recently faced some pretty big obstacles in...

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038: The Price of Success is Failure
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038: The Price of Success is Failure Oct 17, 2023

Over and over again, in my work as a creative entrepreneurship coach, I hear some variation of the question, “but what if it doesn’t work?” Fear is a natural part of trying...

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037: Creative Entrepreneurship & Kite Flying
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037: Creative Entrepreneurship & Kite Flying Oct 10, 2023

Figuring out your strategy to make your creative business work is much easier said than done. You might think you know how things work in your creative industry, and you might be doing all the...

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036: Scarcity & Scheduling
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036: Scarcity & Scheduling Oct 03, 2023

I’ve said before that your beliefs about what is possible for you and your business will be the limiting factor in how your business grows, which is absolutely true. But your beliefs about...

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035: Priorities
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035: Priorities Sep 26, 2023

The life of a creative entrepreneur is a busy one. There is a lot on your plate on any given day! You need to do the creative, artistic work that your business is built on. But you also need to...

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034: Maker & Manager
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034: Maker & Manager Sep 19, 2023

The life of a creative solopreneur is one of constantly being pulled in two different directions. Direction 1: the creative stuff! The reason you’re a creative entrepreneur in the first...

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033: The Making of a Habit
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033: The Making of a Habit Jul 25, 2023

What habits do you have? What are the things that you do automatically, on a regular basis? When we talk about habits, often the first place we think of is at bad habits we have – smoking,...

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032: Progress, Not Perfection
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032: Progress, Not Perfection Jul 18, 2023

In almost every artistic training program the world over, regardless of the specific creative discipline, the pursuit of perfection is a driving factor in the training. I spent hours in the...

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031: Say No to the Hustle
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031: Say No to the Hustle Jul 11, 2023

I have a bit of a controversial thought to share: Hustling isn't a good thing. Allow me to explain why I say that. Hustling is all about working harder than everyone else and doing everything...

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030: Future-Shaped Decisions
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030: Future-Shaped Decisions Jul 03, 2023

This episode is originally being released on July 3, 2023, meaning that as I’m recording this, it’s the midpoint of the calendar year. Recently, on The Half Marathoner substack...

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029: Be a Good Boss
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029: Be a Good Boss Jun 27, 2023

Funny story. I’ve had this topic, being a good boss, on my list of upcoming podcast episodes for months. Literally. For week after week after week, I’ve had this episode marked down as...

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028: What to Do When You Donā€™t Get the Gig
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028: What to Do When You Donā€™t Get the Gig Jun 20, 2023

The life of a creative entrepreneur is one of gig work. I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, “gig economy.” For workers in many industry, this gig economy is a totally new...

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