Ep. 15 - Tena Clark, Grammy Award Winner and Author of "Southern Discomfort" On How To Go With Your Gut

How do you create business opportunity when you are invisible and starting a new business? What does it take to be prepared for it when potential success arrives at your doorstep? How do you find the courage to turn down a "golden parachute" during an economic downturn? Learn from Grammy-award winning producer, songwriter, entrepreneur and author of "Southern Discomfort" Tena Clark as she talks with us about her journey to creative salvation and sustaining international success. This is The Honest Field Guide podcast, where you will get the unvarnished truth in a robust conversation from veteran business owner and serial entrepreneur JinJa Birkenbeuel, CEO of Birk Creative and millennial entrepreneur and Birk Creative content strategist Esther Ikoro about the hope, horror and beauty of entrepreneurship. (Portrait art created by Chloe Bartlett, commissioned by Birk Creative.) -- New season concept: On our new season of the Honest Field Guide Podcast, we present some of the world's top entrepreneurs that are quietly and consistently creating their own masterpieces of success through their businesses and ideas. They are not famous and are not Instagram stars--yet. Rather, they are thriving in their creativity, diversity, authenticity and are in some way, creating social impact through entrepreneurship. We are going beyond celebrating and rather are peeking inside the minds of business owners that keep making money moves and bringing their processes of invention to the forefront. Often, we are so busy working in and on our businesses, we forget how amazing we are and even the small tactics we deploy to push beyond barriers should not be taken for granted. As an entrepreneur, always remember that our natural instincts can be honed and repackaged and used again and again to keep growing our businesses. Our conversations on The Honest Field Guide are a reminder of our extraordinary talents--despite the fact that we are diverse, unique and dare we say creatively divergent.