Wildly Creative Life with Brooke Schultz

Kristin Sweeting is a wedding photographer + biz coach for creative people whose work has been featured in People, Brides, and much more. She's the host of the Dangerous Creatives podcast + offers a mastermind and Study Abroad trips for photographers to help them create aligned businesses that prioritize rest. I got to talk to her while she is on summer sabbatical, so we talked details about how to make a sabbatical happen, her story and how she found herself in a position of needing to make serious $ from her photography after becoming a single parent, she breaks down the surprising things she did to move the needle there and she also breaks down her strategies for building multiple streams of revenue and exactly where to start.

Connect with Kristin: https://www.instagram.com/kristinsweeting/

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Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle

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This week's episode covers a few Q+A's addressing all kinds of creative problems such as imposter syndrome, what to do when creatively bored, and how to create when you're exhausted.

Get More from Brooke: FREE Class to Spot Your Best Images: https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/zJD107

Apply for our last ever LoveSoaked Retreat: https://brookebschultz.com/love-soaked

Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz/

The mundane can be flattening, don'tcha think?

I've been thinking about being tired vs. being uninspired, because a lot of times I will go into a creative process and feel tired, and have lots of other things weighing on my mind.

But once I'm there, I feel on fire, and in flow, time and space collapse.

I'm having so much fun, I'm challenged but I'm also up to the challenge. I'm dancing in that magic space between mastery and mystery. In today's episode, we'll explore the tension between creativity and the mundane. When we prioritize inspiration in our lives, we can trust the process a little better and move our creative work forward. Shortening the creative cycle so that we can find a spark and follow it up with action.

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Apply for our last ever LoveSoaked Retreat: https://brookebschultz.com/love-soaked

Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle

Heartful magazine first issue: https://heartful.brookebschultz.com/

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz/

Writing is sovereignty. When we wrap language around our experiences, we get juiced with power. So why do we have so much resistance? Should we aim to change the world with our creative work? How can you make a living as an artist without giving yourself over to what other people want? Joy gives sound advice on these questions as well as how to get started with writing, how to follow your creative intuition, what audiences want to read, and the many iterations of her creative business.

Get More from Brooke:

Apply for our last ever LoveSoaked Retreat: https://brookebschultz.com/love-soaked

Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle

Heartful magazine first issue: https://heartful.brookebschultz.com/

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz/

Writing is sovereignty. When we wrap language around our experiences, we get juiced with power. So why do we have so much resistance? Should we aim to change the world with our creative work? How can you make a living as an artist without giving yourself over to what other people want? Joy gives sound advice on these questions as well as how to get started with writing, how to follow your creative intuition, what audiences want to read, and the many iterations of her creative business.

 

Get More from Brooke:

Apply for our last ever LoveSoaked Retreat: https://brookebschultz.com/love-soaked

Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle

Heartful magazine first issue:
https://heartful.brookebschultz.com/

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life:
https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz/

A creative life consists of an array of moving parts, and we can often get lost in the weeds and forget the VERY most important thing in creativity. It's deceptively simple: do the work. Make the creations. CREATE.

And yet, there are so many ways we mess this up and get it wrong.

In this episode you'll learn:

• the most common traps that hold creators back from doing the work
• hidden dangers that keep creators in ruts, stuck, and lead 'em to burnout
• surprising places to cut the fat so you increase your capacity to make more work

Mentions: Chase Jarvis Creative Calling: https://www.amazon.com/shop/brookebschultz

Marie Forleo: https://www.marieforleo.com/

Get More from Brooke:

Apply for our last ever LoveSoaked Retreat: https://brookebschultz.com/love-soaked

Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle

Heartful magazine first issue: https://heartful.brookebschultz.com/

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz/

Creativity is a sensitive biz to be in. Sometimes we expect too much of ourselves and expect this insane amount of unrealistically fab output and the truth is we are human and also often sensitive as artists and sometimes you just feel off–and yet, it's not always practical to cancel everything when you feel this way, so what can you do? Walk through with gentle awareness. Today's meditation will help you do just that.

Get more from Brooke:

Apply for our last ever LoveSoaked Retreat: https://brookebschultz.com/love-soaked

Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystyle

Heartful magazine first issue: https://heartful.brookebschultz.com/

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz/

The third and final day of Spark Workshop is here!

Get ready for: a finale packed with goodness -

• A framework you can use over and over to move yourself out of ruts, burnout and change - needed times in your creativity, business and life!
• Clarifying your idea for your 6 week project so you can gain tons of momentum!

Join us for the REPLAY here: https://brookebschultz.com/creative

The Spark workshop continues!

Get ready for: what resistance can mean + how we move through it. If you're experiencing resistance in any phase or at any point in your creative practice (which everyone does) - this is for you. Day 2 of the Spark Conference will cover...

• identity shifts that stick
• the one thing that can kick overwhlem to the curve

Join us for Day 3 of Spark here: https://brookebschultz.com/creative

The Spark workshop is here!

Get ready for: (re)discovering the joy of the creative process, even if you're burnt out, have a ton on your plate, and

• sidestepping your resistance so you can put on your crown, own your power and be bold
• going from stuck to a sizzling, crystal clear idea for a project you can execute in 6 weeks that has the power to get you noticed–by ideal clients + customers who are excited to pay top dollar, national media, dream collaborators/brands, or just your own highest self. (all of these have happened to my students).

Join us for Days 2 + 3 of Spark here: https://brookebschultz.com/creative