July Retrospective: Back in July 2014, I wrote a daily series exploring the realities of navigating the creative economy. Twelve years later, looking back at these entries (and my original awful hand-drawn illustrations!), I’m struck by how the core truths of a creative career remain completely timeless. Each day this month, I’m opening up the archive […]
Day 4 – SWOT Analysis
July Retrospective: Back in July 2014, I wrote a daily series exploring the realities of navigating the creative economy. Twelve years later, looking back at these entries (and my original awful hand-drawn illustrations!), I’m struck by how the core truths of a creative career remain completely timeless. Each day this month, I’m opening up the archive […]
Day 3 – Competition
July Retrospective: Back in July 2014, I wrote a daily series exploring the realities of navigating the creative economy. Twelve years later, looking back at these entries (and my original awful hand-drawn illustrations!), I’m struck by how the core truths of a creative career remain completely timeless. Each day this month, I’m opening up the archive […]
Day 2 – What Are You Selling?
July Retrospective: Back in July 2014, I wrote a daily series exploring the realities of navigating the creative economy. Twelve years later, looking back at these entries (and my original awful hand-drawn illustrations!), I’m struck by how the core truths of a creative career remain completely timeless. Each day this month, I’m opening up the archive […]
Day 1 – Welcome to the 31 Day Challenge
July Retrospective: Back in July 2014, I wrote a daily series exploring the realities of navigating the creative economy. Twelve years later, looking back at these entries (and my original awful hand-drawn illustrations!), I’m struck by how the core truths of a creative career remain completely timeless. Each day this month, I’m opening up the archive […]
The Mindful Freelancer: Nine Attitudes for Thriving in the Creative Economy – Part 2 – Patience
This is the second of a series exploring Jon Kabat Zinn’s 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness as they relate to freelancing. The first post explored ‘Non-Judging.’ This time, we are going to explore the idea of ‘Patience.’ You can watch Zinn discuss patience in this short video. Learning to work with the natural rhythms of freelance […]
The Mindful Freelancer: Nine Attitudes for Thriving in the Creative Economy – Part 1 – Non-Judging
I’ve been freelancing in the creative economy since the early 90’s. It’s been a wild rollercoaster ride with incredible highs and some not-so-fun lows. The first step in me gaining some sense of agency with my freelancing was doing my MA in Creative Entrepreneurship in 2010-11. This gave me a set of business tools that […]
Pivoting When You Don’t Know Where the Other Foot is Going to Land
These are uncertain times. Every time I look at the news these days I’m doing a double take over what has been said or done (or threatened). While a lot of it is rhetoric, it is having a load of negative effects, and most people think it’s going to get worse before things get […]
Help! My Child Wants to Go Into The Arts
As a child and young person I really only had one career in mind: actor. And bless my parents, they never really tried to discourage me. Well, my mom did say to me well into my 40s, “I don’t know why you didn’t become a lawyer, you would have been so good…” They didn’t discourage […]
Confidence Doesn’t Exist. Quit Chasing It.
I was recently asked to present to a group of artists on the topic of ‘confidence.’ I led with the statement that ‘Confidence doesn’t exist. It comes and goes. Quit chasing it.’ Well, I ruffled some feathers. Someone immediately posted in the chat ‘confidence most definitely does exist!’ – Does it? How do you know? […]
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