Jenny Parks is an illustrator who has taken her personal obstacles and turned them into a book series designed to help others who may be struggling in the same ways she has. Getting her book ready to publish along with starting her new logo company, Rooted, have kept her on track to building the business and life she wants for herself and her art. Her willingness to use her own challenges as a way to channel her art and offer a support system for those in a similar situation has enabled her to stay on the path she knows she wants to pursue and has given her the will power to keep going.
For anyone who feels they need a way to navigate through challenging times, here is the perfect dose of inspiration and motivation to help you find your light and focus on fulfilling the vision you know is yours alone to fulfill.
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ROOTED LOGO ART: http://www.rootedlogoart.com/
THE DEPRESSED YOGI: https://thedepressedyogi.com/
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Marcos Santana is a Broadway choreographer, actor and dancer who has performed in and choreographed some of the greatest shows on Broadway, including the original cast of the Tony Award winning In The Heights and currently the Gloria and Emilio Estefan musical On Your Feet. He has built a successful career in what is considered the third hardest career path to follow in the U.S.: choreographer.
Marcos talks about how his passion for what he does combined with a tenacity to "take as many punches as possible" has enabled him to find the success he has and become an outstanding business owner in the process. This metaphor applies to every artist who has a vision for their work and knows success comes in the midst of putting your work before every obstacle bound to step in your way.
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Marcos’ Book Recommendation: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Laurie Kahmi is the Chief Investment Officer of LCK Wealth Management at Hightower, leads their efforts in establishing investment strategies for their clients. Through her over three decades of experience between Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investments Group, Kidder Peabody and Dean Witter, Laurie’s experiences encompass serving institutional and corporate entities by managing their pensions and stock programs, transitions of personal wealth from liquidity events such as business sale or initial public offering (IPO), and financial planning and private wealth management for individuals, families and institutions. Her experience in private wealth management is specifically with high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth executives, business owners, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, non-profit organizations andcorporations, and she continues to focus on clients in these categories who can benefit from her experience.
These credentials and her career that has been focused on patterns in the economic climate of today make Laurie the perfect person to discuss how artists can begin to create wealth within our businesses, regardless of how much you’re making now. Stay tuned, as Laurie breaks down what normally feels like a minefield of financial talk into simple, practical terms you can begin to implement into your business and life, right now.
Michael Raver is an actor and writer who decided from the very beginning of his career that he was going to do what he knew worked for him as an artist: create his own work. He was met with several challenges with producers and influential industry professionals telling him he wasn’t going to find success in this approach. But Michael decided to follow the path he knew was true to his heart.
As a result, Michael has now performed at Lincoln Center, The Pearl Theatre Company, Tony Randall’s National Actor’s Theatre, regional theaters across the country and in film and television. His play Fire on Babylon was nominated for The Robert Chesley/Victor Bumbalo Foundation Award, as well as being named a semifinalist for The O'Neill Conference. He has served as a judge for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction and regularly contributes pieces for NYC Monthly, Hamptons Monthly, playbill.com, CoolHunting.com, The Huffington Post and Classical TV.
If you’re ever in doubt about going against the grain in order toremain true to your mission as an artist, stay tuned as this discussion will help inspire you to stay on your own path.
Ana Micka is a Facebook ads expert who works with artistic businesses and healers to help them pinpoint their true ideal clients and connect with them by way of introduction and value to form a relationship that results in longstanding, happy and repeated clients.
Many artists have a wide range of misconceptions about how Facebook ads work, and how to structure a Facebook ad campaign that actually brings results. As my Facebook ads partner, Ana shares her story of how she created her company as well as tips on what it takes to begin building a Facebook ad campaign that brings measurable results while staying true to your mission for your art.
Willy Somma is a photographer who, like most photographers, has evolved into her craft organically and from a completely authentic lens. However, she has discovered that she has a layered mission aside from simply following her passion for photographing women to reveal their truly powerful natures. She wants to use her art to create a movement that helps women everywhere step into their power and discover their ability to move in the direction they know is right for their lives.
So she had laid out a five-year plan that is clearer than any artist I’ve worked with and is now in the process of fulfilling her vision, one photograph at a time.
For any artist who as the ability to see what they want for their careers, this interview will serve as an inspiration to keep moving into that space and learn to work in small circles to achieve your goal inevitably.
Torange Yeghiazarian is the founding artistic director of Golden Thread Theater Company, the first American theater company devoted entirely to plays from or about the Middle East. Based in San Francisco, they are celebrating their 20th anniversary. Torange’s artistic life began with her career in acting, but she quickly realized she wasn’t going to be able to work on the kind of stories she was passionate about sharing. Aremenian and from Iran herself, she wanted to reach other women and men in the Middle Eastern community and create a space for their stories to be heard. So she started her own theater company, and never looked back.
What’s so extraordinary about Torange’s story is how she chose a narrow niche to focus on, and when time got tough in her business she simply paired down and focused on that niche even more, which resulted in a huge pay off for her mission and is a testament to the power of staying true to your vision as an artist and taking your business seriously in the process of seeing it through.
Christine Torrey is a private wealth advisor for Hightower’s LCK Wealth Management’s team, specializing in financial planning. As a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) designee, Christine works with growing wealth management clients to draw insights from their current finances in the context of their future goals, to build their future net worth She is also an active volunteer for New York Cares and various other philanthropic initiatives.
Christine has worked with wealthy individuals and families in private wealth management for nearly two decades. But the real reason you want to listen to this interview is because she has a vested interest in helping women at any income level learn how to take what they have now and put their money to work for them, both now and for the future. For every artist listening, the tips that Christine shares are ones you will be able to put into practice right now as you work on setting up a foundation for growing your business with your art!
Susannah Perlman is the founder of ARTHOUSE.NYC, a full-service event planning, art exhibition and theatrical producing agent devoted to all things artistic, larger than life and quintessential New York. Her company has opened doors for unconventional as well as mainstream artists to gain exposure in ways they could not have achieved on their own by making their work accessible, visible and revealing their WOW factor unlike any other gallery could do.
Susannah is an inspiration for any artist who has a “multi-passionate” mind and struggles to figure out how to put all of those pieces together to build a meaningful and impactful business that fulfills a vision to change the world. Susannah’s business is doing just that, one artist at a time.
Eric Baker is a legendary graphic designer whose business in New York City has designed work for some of the most respected artists and business owners in the world, including but certainly not limited to Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, The Museum Of Modern Art, The New York Times, Saturday Night Live and the infamous and most respected restaurateur Danny Meyer.
Eric built his business by consistently staying true to his vision for his work and the value he placed behind that vision, which has led him to become a trailblazer in his industry and to making some decisions that did not at the time make sense to many people but him. But he is a business owner who knows how to listen to his instincts and trust himself above anyone else, which has consistently led him to a fulfilling business and life that most everyone who knows him admires and that he wouldn't trade for the world.
Leah Guzman is an artist and art therapist whose body of work is all about connecting the mind, body, and soul through art. She is a painter who also offers online courses that focus on the Chakras and energy combined with art for those who are interested in exploring their own energy centers through art.
Leah has been building her business over the last several years, but recently realized she was blocked in her root chakra, which was related directly to self-care and her relationship to money. So she has worked on remedying that by improving her relationship to money and learning how to run her business from a more empowered, clear focus that has given her a foundation to springboard her business from. Have a listen, as Leah’s story is one that will inspire any artist who feels resistance around the financial side of your business toward creating one you feel energized around and motivated toward growing, your way.
Adrian Correia is a cinematographer who has shot films, trailers music videos and promotional work for some of the top brands and has worked with some of the top talent in the film industry including Julianne Moore, Kevin Spacey and Daniel Craig. He also shot the first two seasons of my original web series, Gray Matters, where the production quality was the best of the best.
But what I find most inspiring about Adrian’s work is what drives him to create and build a business with his art. He is candidly forthcoming about how his relationship with his father helped shape his path in life and how he is reminded about what drives his work and keeps him grounded in the decisions he makes and who he chooses to work with each and every day. Have a listen, as Adrian’s story is one that will remind every artist that your Why is what truly matters to the life of your business.
Since I first aired my interview with Anthony Davenport, owner of Regal Financial, a company he built to become one of the top credit repair and protection agencies in the U.S., his episode has had more downloads than any other in the Artists In Business podcast.
When I first talked with Anthony I asked if he would be open to doing a part 2 interview, and he was- so I felt there was no better time than the present to do that, so you can apply some of the very important tips he shares about how to revamp your credit profile for your personal life and business, avoid the very serious epidemic of identity theft and build the healthiest business credit you possibly can, no matter what stage of business you are in. Stay tuned- and prepare to take notes, as you don't want to miss this incredibly valuable half hour of credit advice!
Anne Dickinson is the founder of Stop The Profit LEAKS formula, a program that helps her work side by side with business owners to identify and eliminate money leaks, ignite profits and improve cash flow and liquidity to create a strong, healthy business.
Anne has worked in the Defense and High Tech industries, packaged and sold assets, dissected and improved operations set up treasury departments and owned successful entrepreneurial ventures. She is also a sculptor, having majored in sculpting in undergrad and has a passion for the arts, knowing that artists can run the best businesses in the world once they know how to run their businesses from a financial point of view. This is an interview you’ll want to take notes on, and apply to your own business starting right now!
Jim Culleton is a Dublin-based theatre director and artistic director of the Olivier Award-winning Fishamble: The New Play Company. For Fishamble, he has directed productions of new plays which have toured throughout Ireland, UK, Europe, Australia and the US. He has also directed for the Abbey Theatre, and for many theatre companies internationally.
But Jim started out as an actor needing to find a way to build his business so he could do exactly what he envisioned doing as an artist true to his craft, and Fishamble was a byproduct of his commitment to his work. Stay tuned for some serious inspiration and solid business advice from one of the top artistic entrepreneurs in his industry!
Donna Triska is a mixed-media artist whose work spans a wide gamut of themes maintaining her unique and specific style that is recognizable anywhere. Donna is member of Artists In Business, and one of the first artists to take the 14-Day Art Biz Challenge and see outstanding results in her business growth in spite of some extremely challenging circumstances threatening to hold her back. Have a listen, as her story will both motivate and inspire you to build your business with your art, your way.
Jon Stancato helps singers, actors, speakers, and others fall in love with the beauty, range, power, and expression of their own unique voices and create a space where working on the voice is working on the self. He also directs plays, reads tarot, climbs rocks, and makes a mean cocktail!
Jon has taught at the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art in London and holds regular classes at Judson Church New York City. But the one thing you really want to listen to in his story is how he deliberately and authentically built his business into a thriving entity without compromising the integrity of his art – in fact, he used his business to help pronounce and further identify his vision for his work. Have a listen- you don’t want to miss this one!
Paul Xavier Ryan helps photographers and cinematographers create predictable and consistent incomes with their businesses. What qualifies him to do so? He created a seven-figure business by the time he was 24, and he’s just 25 now, and just getting started.
Stay tuned for this discussion as Paul reveals how his personal circumstances lead him to become the kind of business owner he never thought he could achieve so quickly, and how you can do the same in your business with your art.
Rachael Figueroa is a television producer who has worked with some of the most respected personalities in television, including P-Diddy, Oprah and Bobby Flay, just to name a few. And she attributes her success to her willingness to work hard, stay humble and learn as much as she can in every job she is granted. Her humble attitude and tenacious personality represent what every artistic business is capable of achieving: a map to the destiny she desires in her heart.
Rachael shares tips, advice and guidance for all artists wondering what step to take next to grow their businesses with their art their way. This conversation is one every artist can benefit from, and I'm honored to share it.
Molly Marie Keyser created a six-figure photography business and then decided she wanted to teach other photographers how to do the same. So she created an online course for photographers to take about how to build a six-figure business, and then decided she would create a course about how to create an online course!
Molly shares tips and strategies that got her to where she is today, so you can do the same with your business with your art.
Sue Van Dame is a jewelry maker who stumbled into her craft accidentally, thanks to her husband’s desire to take a jewelry class. She has since created the company Lonesome Dovey and has taken huge steps to build her jewelry business. After taking the 14-Day Art Biz Challenge, she was able to grow her business by over 80%.
Sue is an inspiration to every artist who desires to follow her heart. I think you’ll enjoy her story.
Alexis Fedor interviews MK Semos, owner of Decorazon Gallery on how to find the right artistic representation