Your Creative Mind

Your Creative Mind

By Izolda TrakhtenbergBusinessEntrepreneurshipArtsPerforming Arts
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Your Creative Mind episodes

  • Business: How to skyrocket your productivity
    In this micro-episode recorded at the Panera, I describe funneling. This fantastic and simple technique will increase how much you get done. And it will transform what you focus on into the specific thing you need to do to succeed.
    As part of the process, you'll need my free template for the Show Up Journal. You can get it here.
    Subscribe to the podcast to get daily tips, techniques, ideas on creativity and the business of creativity.
    6 min
  • Creativity: How to Prepare to Make Art
    In order to free your creative spirit, you need to prep the mundane parts of your life. Flaubert said, "Be regular and orderly in your life so you may be wild and original in your work."
    Listen to this micro-episode for tips on how to do just that.
    5 min
  • Business: Tax Season and Creatives - How to Set Yourself Up For Success
    If you're like me, tax season makes you want to tear your hair out. I know many creative entrepreneurs who go bonkers trying to sort everything and be ready to do taxes on time and correctly.
    Every year, I promise to do better about sorting and preparing everything to do my taxes, and every year I fall behind and stress out at tax time.* But not this year. This year I've started a ritual that made taxes easy and mostly stress-free.
    Listen to the episode to learn what I did to make taxes easy and not mind-numbingly stressful.
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    Show Notes:
    after:2019/4/7 before:2019/4/15
    Self-Employed Estimated Taxes IRS website.
    https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/estimated-taxes
    How to find get the estimated taxes that you paid for this year (or whatever year you need).
    Call 800 829 1040 to get the amount verbally. You’ll want to choose all the options that let you talk to an agent. When you get a live person, ask them for the dates and amounts of your estimated tax payments for the year you want. Then, order a transcript for later so you have written proof of how much you paid in estimated taxes.
     
    * NOTE: I'm not a tax professional. This is just what I am doing to sort my receipts to make doing my taxes easier.
    14 min

About Your Creative Mind

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Behind every book, play, and song is a person juggling self-doubt, deadlines, and the drive to create. On Your Creative Mind, Izolda Trakhtenberg talks with writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals about how they create and how they manage the stress and anxiety that often come with creating. Izolda and her guests explore the unexplained mechanisms and personal experiences that shape creative artists, writers, and others.