Starting a Creative Business: Entrepreneurship for Creatives 101
Release Date: 09/21/2021
The secret to being a better artist- What makes art good or bad?
Creative Happy Hour
What's the secret to being more creative and better at art? The answer might surprise you. In this uplifting episode, we talk about good art, bad art, and art that flies away. You'll also get to explore the repulsive candidates for the world's most disgusting cocktail and learn about the Museum of Bad art in Boston. Join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities.
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How can multipassionate creatives build a cohesive personal brand?
Creative Happy Hour
Think Frida Kahlo. Karl Lagerfeld. Lady Gaga. Andy Warhol. Creatives whose work, life, style, and values are inextricably enmeshed, exponentially increasing their creative reach and impact. That is the power of the personal brand. A brand clearly communicates its values, goals, and value added to its ideal customers. But creating a brand is daunting, isn't it? And how do you achieve this clarity if you're a multipassionate creative, artist, or creative entrepreneur?
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Starting over on social media (for multi passionate creatives)
Creative Happy Hour
Love it or hate it, social media is the most convenient, easily updatable way for most multi passionate creatives, artists, writers, musicians and creative entrepreneurs to showcase who they are and what they do. But at some point, many of us have perhaps felt frustrated: social media, or the algorithm, doesn't seem to be working for us anymore.
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Law of Attraction for creatives: Manifesting your best creative life
Creative Happy Hour
You've scoffed at The Secret...that Ferrari on your vision board never materialized...you've repeated affirmations in the mirror but your book is still not a bestseller and your paintings aren't being shown at Art Basel this year. But wait. Actual scientific research has proven that the principles of manifesting do work when you are trying to build your best creative life and work towards your creative dreams. We chat with Hallie Avolio, manifesting guru, about how this can all work for creatives.
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Trendy or trend proof? Trends, creativity & creative entrepreneurship
Creative Happy Hour
Everywhere you see the headlines touting new trends that we MUST adopt if we want to remain competitive in the artistic, creative, and entrepreneurial space. But what is a trend? How does it begin, peak, and fizzle out, and should we adopt trends or focus on being iconoclasts? What are some of the most egregious trends that have shaped the art and creative worlds, and what are some of the creative marketing trends we should be aware of as artists, creatives, and creative entrepreneurs?
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Why multi passionate creatives should start a podcast...and how!
Creative Happy Hour
When you’re a multi passionate creative, having a podcast can be a great way to explore, express, and promote some of your many passions. Podcasting can give you newfound authority, hone your voice, and give you access to other extraordinarily inspiring creatives. But most busy creatives assume it's hard to do, or that it takes too much time or technical skills. In this episode, you'll learn how to start a creative podcast the easy way.
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The creative entrepreneur's secret weapon: creative marketing
Creative Happy Hour
Marketing your work is hard. It can feel too much like self-promotion, it can feel like it takes time out of our creative pursuits, and many of us wish it wasn't part of our job.
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FEAR: How it impacts creativity and your creative success
Creative Happy Hour
Many multi-passionate creatives have tons of great ideas all the time. When they move on to the next idea without seeing one side through, some people assume that it's because they got bored or because of shiny object syndrome. But that's not the complete story. Often creative ideas and projects remain unfinished or even don't get started because fear makes us talk ourselves out of it.
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How to beat imposter syndrome to become your authentic creative self
Creative Happy Hour
Imposter syndrome- that sinking feeling of being a fraud, of not being good enough, that certitude that you're going to get found out and exposed as a fake at any moment- affects a disproportionate number of high achieving creatives, actors, writers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs. In this episode we get drunk on the creative possibilities of how to reframe impostor syndrome to become your most authentic, fearless creative self.
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How to become an expert when you're a multipassionate creative
Creative Happy Hour
Multipassionate creatives are people who tend to explore many passions. Often our careers and paychecks reflect that, and we feel that we are not taken seriously. Becoming an expert sounds like it doesn’t gel with the personality of a multipasisonate creative, but in fact it is the logical career path. In this episode we talk about why being an expert is important especially for a multi passionate, how to decide on an area of expertise, how to become an expert, and what to do with that expertise.
info_outlineIf you're an artist, writer, musician, or creative thinking of entrepreneurship, consider this episode of Creative Happy Hour your accelerated Creative MBA. We'll be getting drunk on the creative possibilities of starting your own creative business, from ideation to analytics, in lingo that won't scare off creatives. We'll also be chatting with serial creative entrepreneur and creative biz owner Jill Cherry, the multi passionate creative behind Modern Quilt Co. about making money as a creative.