As business artists, we’re tugged by oppositional forces. On one tug, you might savor your solitary creative time but protect and hoard your public engagement time. That’s why my team and I show several writers and designers in this ilk ways to expand their audience by engaging their audience. Or you might relish public engagement and…
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To be a brave artist or business artist means you challenge the World of Buzz and deliver a different kind of medicine than the white noise being broadcast.
Here’s to the creative heroes – the people you admire and who reflect the best in you back.
The people who risk their comfort to make part of the world a little better.
The people who will not be hushed, squashed, or swept aside in service of their creative medicine.
The people who still work hard every day because they find value in real work and in the soul of craft.
Poetry startles us to listen to an interior voice we business artists often forget or ignore. Poetry more than any form might be the innovator’s language whether she identifies herself as poet or not. Innovation to create, to combine, to think, to make, to feel, to live anew.
Maybe we hold back because we fear we’ll be taken from or that we’ll run out of ideas.
The funny thing is this: When you create something, the very process of creating creates more ideas. When you see that something you created makes a difference to someone, you wake up driven to create more. When you solve one person’s problem, you feel fueled to discover other solutions.
STAND UP FOR YOUR BEST WORK To be a business artist, you’re called to shape your hours and days in ways that support your taking regular action on the work that matters. Whether you work from a corporate office, a living room table, a home studio, or a small business – your patch of the…
Many moons ago, I let one project after another drive me. You know the impulse. You or your team can chase after one project after another. An Etsy shop. A new tool or product. A new book. A new studio. A new podcast show. A new interview series. A new workshop. But living in Project Land…
Hyperbole repels me. Still, call it a movement. A wave. A surge. A revolution. An evolution. A tide of creative people and business people are driving one another to do business as unusual. To do business as art. We’re not bonded by trade or profession. We’re bonded by hunger. We hunger for something different. We want…
Business artists take small risks for great gains. Sometimes that means looking a little foolish when underneath there might be a shred of wisdom. One hopes. Sometimes that means appearing to act a little out of character when in fact you’re acting with your whole contradictory character. Sometimes that means looking unpolished and unscripted to stop stalling…
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