Helping creative entrepreneurs learn to be more resilient. I help people get un-stuck.
You’re not qualified. You’re not smart enough. You’re too young. You’re too old. You don’t have enough experience. These are lies. You don’t need permission to make stuff. You don’t need permission to shake stuff up, to break stuff… You just need to be alive. Existence is the only prerequisite for making art. If you’re […]
In such a we-all-get-a-trophy world, we expect to win. So when we fail, we feel like that’s it. We’ll never get to be successful because we are by definition failure. We didn’t get a trophy. We must not be good enough. I want to encourage those who feel like they’re failing today. If you’re failing… […]
Walt Disney famously used the phrase “How can we plus it?” when talking with his creative team. What can we add here to make this frame better? How can we add to this to make it a better experience? But it’s also just as important what you take out. What are you minus-ing? What things […]
The most condemning critics live inside our own heads and we let them boss us around way too much. I heard Chris Brogan say on a his podcast once: “We are fighting the war between our ears.” When you look at like that, as if there’s a war, that means we can use strategy to […]
If you’re a creative entrepreneur in business for yourself, you know that what you create has a direct correlation to your bank account. Sometimes things are great and money is not a problem, other times, not so much. So I want to talk for a minute about solutions and fear. Fear screams loudest when we […]
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