Creativity & Business: Can Creativity and Business Coexist?
Can artists be both creative and good at business?
Creativity: How to Prepare to Make Art
In order to free your creative spirit, you need to prep the mundane parts of your life. Flaubert said, “Be regular and orderly in your life so you may be wild and original in your work.” Listen to this micro-episode for tips on how to do just that.
Business: Tax Season and Creatives – How to Set Yourself Up For Success
If you’re like me, tax season makes you want to tear your hair out. I know many creative entrepreneurs who go bonkers trying to sort everything and be ready to do taxes on time and correctly. Every year, I promise to do better about sorting and preparing everything to do my taxes, and every year…
What to look for when evaluating speakers
What defines an expert? At what point do we think, “They know their stuff!” In the case of art, I’ll bet you’ve seen art the critics hail as masterpieces that you secretly think is bunk. And yet that “art” hangs on museum walls. We give critics’ views more weight because we hope they know more…
Creativity & Business: Creativity, Commerce, and Subjectivity
How do we judge a piece of art as worthy? Who decides the truth worth? Does art have intrinsic value or everything about it subjective? Listen to this micro-episode for ideas on this complicated topic.
Creativity and Business: Know your tools
How knowing what you’re using can revolutionize your work & life. Figure out what your tools can do. It sounds like a simple thing to say. But we often use tools we don’t really know. Think about something as basic to your work as Microsoft Word. You probably know how to do a lot. But…
Creativity: Permission to Create
How do you give yourself permission to create? What does it take to make room in your life to pursue your creative muse? Listen to this micro-episode to find out.
Creativity & Business: How to Navigate the Day-Job/Creativity Transition
This micro-episode details the process of pulling out of the one and transitioning into the other. Our brains need the space to move between them. If we make that space, we will be more productive and creative. Listen to the episode to get ideas on how
Creativity: How to Free the Caged Bird of Creativity
This micro-episode will spark your creative drive. Listen to it to be inspired to get started.
Creativity & Business: The Art and Business of Photography with Thomas Michael
Thomas Michael is an artist with a camera. He began his career in front of the camera in the 1980s in Milan, Paris, and New York. Then, he transitioned into photography in 2004. He shoots the fashion and events industries. He has also made a name for himself as a specialist in corporate headshots where…