Creative Chaos

Let's just admit it: price is a touchy subject. We all want to charge the most we can for what we offer, but how do we get started? How do you know when to charge more? In this episode, I've put together a list of five steps to help with setting your initial prices and raising them when the time comes.

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I've been saving this episode for something significant and episode 50 feels pretty significant to me! So here it is, the advice I wish I would've received the first day I got that beat up (but still very new to me) camera in my hands. This one is for all those newbie photographers out there!

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"But when are you going to get a real job?" You've probably heard something like this more than once in your career (I know I have), and boy is it frustrating. But what can you do? In this episode I cover 5 ways for creatives to be taken more seriously among the more traditional-minded people they love.

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If you're like me, you set some serious goals for yourself in January. Now it's time evaluate what's working and what isn't. In this episode, I use a 5-step process to examine 4 of my personal goals. I talk about progress, failure, how I plan to make the most out of what's left in the year and how you can too.

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One of the biggest struggles of life as an artist is bringing honesty and depth to your work. But how do we do this, exactly? In this episode, I discuss 4 of the most valuable lessons I learned during my training to be a counselor and how I still use each of those lessons to bring more honesty to my own creative work.

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We associate burnout with doing too much: spreading ourselves too thin, taking on too many projects. But burnout also happens for another reason, one that took me years to address in my own business. If you're at the edge of your rope, listen to this first before throwing in the towel.

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We all have our own definition of "making it," whether it's hitting $100k or publishing our first book, and sometimes it feels like that goal is getting farther and farther away. If you've been struggling in the same creative career for years and still haven't "made it," one of these 5 reasons might be the culprit.

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As a creative, your work days are pretty full. Answer emails? Check. Schedule sessions? Check. But how do you sit down and paint? Write a song? Write a book? I wondered the exact same thing. In this episode I explore 5 principles for making sure the creative part of your work day is as productive as possible.

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In Episode 41 we talked about getting people onto your email list, in this episode we talk about what to do with that list. We discuss the benefits of segmenting your list, why consistency is more important than you may think, ways to ensure your subscribers will continue opening your emails, and more!

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For most of us, we have two separate lives: our work life and our personal life. Try as we may to keep them both separate, it's not always easy. In this episode, I talk about how significant changes in my personal life have affected my business, and what methods of coping I've found to be most effective.

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