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From Burnt Out Artist to Joyful Creative Coach: The Power of the “Perfect...
Listen to this success story: Eleanor Chaney is an artist and educator who has worked as an illustrator, exhibited her prints in shops and galleries, and taught skills-based arts and crafts classes to...
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Finding the Venn diagram of the work that pays well and the work you want to do
Listen to Stephanie’s story in her own words: After studying illustration in school, Stephanie Shafer stumbled into working as an art director. Although the job paid well, Stephanie felt frustrated...
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Frustrated filmmaker overcomes a crisis of confidence to find rapid success
Listen to Avantika’s story in her own words: As an accomplished filmmaker, Avantika Hari Agrawal has always been full of ideas. She enjoyed the creativity, opportunity, and potential that came with...
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Sewist overcomes burnout to stitch together a stronger business model
Listen to Martha’s story in her own words: Production sewing coach, Marty Remsen felt like no matter how much effort she put into her business, she wasn’t seeing tangible results, and started to...
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From riding the rollercoaster to piloting the plane—how one artist brought...
Listen to Rauni’s story in her own words: Rauni Higson is a silversmith based in Snowdonia: a picturesque, mountainous region in North Wales. She began her work as a silversmith 25 years ago, and...
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How being brave just ONCE brought forth a world of opportunities, and...
If you have big dreams of starting a creative career… If you can imagine making something awesome and ambitious… …then you can also imagine screwing it all up, being found out as a loser and a fraud,...
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Resetting for the New Year: the power of a self-compassionate annual review
I’m about to ask you to do something hard, but before I do, I want to tell you a little story. Last month, I wrapped up the autumn class I teach each year called “Illustration Projects.” The title is...
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How to build an ethical creative business that honors your core values
In this article, you’ll get an activity that will show you how to use your core values to build an ethical creative business that can help make the world a better place. Yes, seriously. Obviously, in...
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Celebrating 6 new creative businesses!🎉🙌
I’m so incredibly proud to introduce you second cohort of the Autonomous Creative Incubator! We’ve all been working so hard for this day, and it feels incredible to be helping launch these new...
View ArticleGet paid without guilt: 6 lessons I’ve learned
We’ve been holding the Simplify to Amplify Roundtable monthly for several months now, and I’ve fielded many burning questions about creative business, from how to answer the dreaded “what do you do?”...
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