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Creative Thursday with Marisa — 294 episodes

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345 It's Not a Motivation Problem

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344 22 Years In: Yes You Can Make 6 Figures with Your Art - The Truth About Selling Art, Teaching Online, and Integrity

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343 Artist Success Stories featuring Mo Miller, Dena Carter, and Emily Posey

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342 If I Were Starting to Sell My Art Today…Here's What I'd Do First

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341 Artist Success Stories - From "I'm not an Artist" to Loving Marketing

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340 What I Wish I Knew When I Started Selling Art Online

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339 Why Planning isn't the Enemy of Creativity

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338 Are People Still Buying Art? Thriving as an Artist in Uncertain Times

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337 Artist Success Stories with Molly Ovenden, Anita Driessen, Cindy Scheule and Jen Duregger

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336 How to Prioritize What Matters Most in 2025

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335 This is How You Make Time for Your Art

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334 How I make BIG Business Decisions

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333 3 Ways I Found Success as an Artist

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332 Artist Success Stories - Transforming Self-Doubt and Fear into Turning Points with Lisa Kurt, Jessica Tepora, Dionna Vereen

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331 12 Ways to Create Income in Your Creative Business

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330 Why Creatives are Crushing it in the Membership Space with Special Guest Membership Expert, Stu McLaren

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329 20 plus Lessons Learned from 20 Years in Business

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328 Artist Success Stories from Courage to Consistency with Heather Harrington, Joanna Smith and Marissa Parsons

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327 Favorite Organization Tools for Social Media Planning + Project Management

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326 Best Practices + Tips for Organizing your Social Media Imagery

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325 How to Plan Your Social Media Creation + Posting

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324 How I Structure my Day to Achieve My Goals

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323 Did You Hear the News?

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322 Artist Success Stories featuring Molly Ovenden and Leah Selk

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321 What keeps you from selling work?

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320 How to Get (the Right) Support as a Creative

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319 - Mastering the Energy of Selling Your Art (part 3)

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318 - Mastering the Energy of Selling Your Art (part 2)

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317 - Mastering the Energy of Selling Your Art (part 1)

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316 - Money Mindset Manifestation for Creatives with Creative Coach Nick Demos

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315 What to do when You're not Feeling Your Art (or Your Art Business)?

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314 Artist Success Stories

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313 Want to be an Overnight Success?

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312 - Are you an Impostor?

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310 - My Go To Tip to Inspire Your Creative Practice

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311 - Meet my Mom, Erika - A Mother + Daughter Conversation

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309 - 15 Ways to Profit from Your Art (part 2)

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308 - 15 Ways to Profit from Your Art (part 1)

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307 Recurring Revenue, what could that make possible for you?

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306 Artist Success Stories featuring Tracey Diamond, Tracey Hayes and Grace Gallaher Fitzpatrick

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305 What happened to Etsy? and 3 Tips to Selling Art Online

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304 16 Lessons learned from 16 Years in Business

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303 What's the Best Environment to Spark Your Creativity with a special guest Alyssa Van Guilder

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302 A simple tip to help you focus

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301 I just Want to Feel Like an Artist Again

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300 Letting go of You're Limiting Beliefs as an Artist - with guest Artists Jeanette Bergstrom, Erwin Ong and Marie-Laure Delage-Carlson

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299 How to Wrap Up 2022 + Get Ready for 2023!

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298 What Worked What Didn't 2022

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297 When You're Not Feeling Creatively Inspired, Try This!

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296 My Best Tip for Kickstarting Your Creativity

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295 My New "GameChanger" Planning Tip!

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294 Why I Don't Recommend Selling in Collections

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293 This is the Exact Strategy I used to Grow a 6 Figure Art Business

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292 Artist Success Stories

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291 How do I Know I'm ready to Sell my Art

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290 My Art's on TV!

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289 My Biggest Takeaways from the Profitable Artist Plan + 4 Ways to Adapt to ALL the Industry Changes

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288 How to get seen on Social Media with Not Your Average Marketing Founder Zach Spuckler

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287 What qualities separate a Struggling and a Thriving Artist?

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286 Are you being too Salesy?

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285 Let's talk about the Slow Build when it comes to growing your Art Business

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284 If I Could Only Do 1 Thing Differently in My Art Business it Would Be This

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283 At Square One Building Your Art Business? 3 Steps to Get Started

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282 Healing from Surgery + How I Won't Be Doing Business the Same

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281 Do You Discount Your Art?

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280 But, Can You Make 💰 With Your Passion?

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279 How Can You Reach More of Your Audience?

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278 How Do You Show Up Consistently Online, While Also Honing Your Craft?

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277 Keeping your Creative Spirit Intact with Artist Jo Blake

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276 Not Making Money Yet? Listen Before You Give Up…

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275 Are You Fitting Your Gifts in the Gaps of Someone Else's Dream? with James Wedmore, Founder of Business By Design

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274 Thinking of Teaching Online? & Want to Build Recurring Revenue in your CREATIVE BIZ!

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273 Tips on finding Your Artist Voice

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272 How to Get Clear on Your Dreams

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271 Do You Have Shiny Squirrel Syndrome?

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270 Your 2 Biggest Artist Assets

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269 The Slow Business Movement

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268 Tired of Feeling Overwhelmed + Confused? Answer these 3 Questions

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267 Why Not You? with Artist + Photographer Marie-Laure Delage Carlson

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266 The Art of Prioritizing

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BONUS Reclaiming Your Health + Fitness After 40 with (my love) Comedy Writer + Fitness Master Sean Hogan

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265 New Year Planning? Start Here!

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264 One Step at a Time with Pastel Artist , Yvonne Sellick

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263 What Worked What Didn't 2021

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262 Investing in Yourself: Why, When and How Much?

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261 Why You Might be Getting in Your Own Way

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260 How to Kickstart Your Creativity

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259 How the Holidays can Inspire Your Creativity

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258 How to Tame the Overwhelm Monster

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257 3 Tips for Intentional Creating

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256 What are your Planning Non-Negotiables?

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255 Travel Tips with a Side of Love for Santa Fe

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254 Don't Make These Mistakes on Instagram

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253 Don't Hand in Your Resignation

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252 Crafting Your 90 Day Plan

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251 Artist Success Stories - Dreaming BIG + Making it Happen

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250 I Don't Wanna Do Reels!

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249 This Might Make You Angry

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248 Choosing the RIGHT Online Shop Platform

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247 Let me tell you about our FIRST Small Studio Sunday! (happening this Sunday!)

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246 How to Find Your Artistic Voice

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What would having your own Art business make possible for you?

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244 Healing Trauma for Artists with Dr. Don Wood

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243 How Much Do You Need to Hustle?

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242 Changes starting now!

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241 Embarking on my Journey of Healing with EMDR

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240 Your Mid-Year Check-in

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239 Calling All High-Achieving Artists

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238 Why I'm not the Right Mentor For You

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237 The Elephant in the Room

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236 Amplifying Your Superpower

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235 Getting your Work Seen + Sold with Marketing Expert + FB Ads Agency Owner Zach Spuckler

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234 Becoming Debt Free

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233 Avoiding Artist Burnout

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232 3 Myths about Online Teaching for Creatives

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231 Adding Revenue with Online Teaching, is it Right for You?

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230 Email Marketing for Artists

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229 Don't Rush the Process

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228 From $4 for $24K in 4 Weeks (part 3)

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#227 Selling Your Work, What's Your Story? (part 2)

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226 The BEST Advice to Sell Your Art (part 1)

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225 How to Make Decisions You can Trust with Intuition Expert Lisa K.

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224 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

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223 Artists, is Clubhouse for you? Let's discuss!

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222 Retiring Creative Thursday...all the details behind this Decision

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221 Don't Rush The Timing

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220 My Most Liked Instagram Post Ever

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219 "Be Brave Enough to Be The Light"

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218 Transforming your To Do List into a Done List

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217 So You Want to Sell More Art This Year? This is How

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216 How Do You Want to Feel in 2021?

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215 Reflect + Renew + Reframe

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214 What Worked, What Didn't in 2020

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213 Three Tips to Creating Your Perfect Plan

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212 Let's talk about the Social Dilemma and If I continue this Podcast

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211 How to Get Over a Creative Block

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210 Artistic Discovery + Reinvention during a Pandemic with Contemporary Dancer + Choreographer Seda Aybay

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209 Finding Certainty in Uncertainty

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208 Give it a Little Distance

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207 How do you want to feel? with Flamenco Dancer + Online Entrepreneur Rina Orellana

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206 4 Tips for Stability during Chaos

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205 This shift in perspective will (also) change your life

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204 Once choice That Changed My Life + My Income

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203 From Art School Teacher to Online Entrepreneur; a Conversation with Sarah Kelly

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202 The Mistake that Almost Cost me my Business

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201 How I sold $2K of Art on a Train from Paris

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200 Are you Hiding?

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199 Licensing isn't the Answer

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198 Be Nice with Hollywood Set Decorator (and Finder of Things) Karin McGaughey

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197 Pursue What Brings You Joy with Maker + Designer + Author Anne Weil

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196 Make it Your Own with Artist + Designer + Master DIY-er Robert Mahar

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195 Knowing When it's Time to Take a Pause

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194 Just Pick a Thing with Writer, Illustrator, Feelings Translator Emily McDowell

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193 How to Balance it "All" with Casting Director, Modern Quilter and Author Alyssa Haight Carlton

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192 One of the Most Important Choices; with Sewing Teacher and Pattern Designer Christine Haynes

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191 #1 Reason Artists Don't Sell Work

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190 Busting 3 Artist Myths When Selling Your Work

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189 Why Pricing Your Art is Not Like Real Estate

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188 (not) Business, Art or Podcasting as usual

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187 The Duty of the Artist

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186 My Fertility Story (part 3)

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185 When your Collector LOVES your Work In Progress #WIP (but it's not finished yet!)

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184 My Fertility Story (part 2)

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183 My Fertility Story + Journey to Motherhood (part 1)

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182 It's Time for me to Tell My Story "Teaser" for Sunday's Episode

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181 The Possibilities with Recurring Revenue for the Creative with Stu McClaren

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180 The Power of Connection and Community with Floral Designer and Artist Alyssa Van Guilder

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179 From Financial Loss to Financial Freedom with Artist and Paint Party Pro Heidi Easley

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178 15 Ways to Find Peace in Quarantine Times

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177 Financial Relief for Creatives and Small Business Owners with Claire Van Holland

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176 Virtual Working from Home Tips

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175 We Need You Now

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174 Small Business Survival Guide: Lemons into Lemonade

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173 30 Days of Making Art & Sharing Beauty and Inspiration with the World

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172 Finding Your Center in the Midst of Chaos

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171 Don't Rush the Music

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170 Celebrating 13 Years as a Working Artist - The Tipping Point

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169 Is it Safe to be Vulnerable

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168 Are You Betting on You?

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167 Your Confidence is Waiting on You

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166 Want to Sell Your Art? *Start Here*

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165 Conversation with Artist, Mentor Nicholas Wilton: on What Makes Great Art and Brings You Alive

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164 Taking 1000 Women Artists to 7 Figures

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163 Celebrating WINS! & Doing the Work

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162 When You're Feeling Small Potatoes

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161 How I'm Planning My 2020

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160 What Worked What Didn't Work 2019

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159 Year in Review 2019

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158 What To Do When Your Art Doesn't Sell?

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157 The Successful Artist's Plan for 2020

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156 Introducing Small Studio Sunday: Celebrating and Supporting Independent Artists

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155 My Biggest Lesson Learned for 2019

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154 Can You Show Your Own Art?

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153 What if it's not a Hell Yes?...wait what if it is?

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152 Introducing The Expansive Artist

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151 Why Today is Your New Beginning

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150 Healing through Art and Creativity with Keita Thomas

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149 What to do When You've Reached Capacity

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148 How to Get Your Online Shop ready for the Holidays!

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147 Why now may be the time for you to leave Etsy

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146 Let Loss into Your Heart with Leslie Peters

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145 If Not Now, When?

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144 Is Today Your Turning Point

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143 What's your next "Step out of your Comfort Zone"?

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142 The Art of Dancing with #IDONTWANNA

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141 The Beauty in the Slow Build

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140 Why this is the New Non-Negotiable

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139 How to Sell your Art Online ~ Step 3

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138 How to Sell Your Art Online ~ Step 2

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137 How to Sell your Art Online ~ Step 1

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136 So you want to be an Artist?

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A Paint Brush and a Dream

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134 How to Know if You've Bit off More than you Can Chew?

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133 Five reasons why it's time to book your next Trip ASAP

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132 Why it's So Important to Handle your Sh*t

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131 Courtesy when it comes to Creativity - and there may also be thoughts on the Game of Thrones

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130 How to Evolve as an Artist in Business

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129 What is your Life's Work?

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128 My 2 Biggest Business Mistakes

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127 How to Turn Your Passion into Profit

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126 How to Discover Your Passion

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125 Where to Focus? Time Management Tip No. 4

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124 Nicole Swartz on pulling vs. pushing, evolving your business and taking care of your clients

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123 Working for "Exposure"

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122 Alina Serebryany on Finding Your Customers and a Reframe that will Dramatically change how you Market

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121 How to Transform Your Failures

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120 Ashley G. Poirier on the reason for your struggle and designing + building a business from the heart

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119 7 Best Lessons, Tips and Advice for Building a Sustainable Creative Business

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ct118 How to Set Boundaries: Time Mangement tip no. 3

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ct117 Honoring Procrastination + Down Time: Time Management Tip no. 2

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ct116 Marisa + Sean talk Love & Valentine's Day #coffeetime

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ct115 How to Manage Your Time Tip no. 1

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ct114 Staying True to Your Vision

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ct113 Is Instagram Ruining the World

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ct112 Are you Creative?

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ct111 The Meaning of Creativity

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ct110 What Does Being Creative Mean to You?

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ct109 Planning with Purpose for 2019

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ct108 When things go "Wrong" no. 3 What Happens if the Net doesn't Appear

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ct107 Celebrating 1 Year of a Return to Podcasting

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ct106 When things go "Wrong" no. 2 My Designs were Stolen

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ct105 When things go "Wrong" no. 1 How my First Book met it's End

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ct104 Not Your Usual Thanksgiving Appreciation Podcast

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ct103 What to do When Life Feels Out of Control

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ct102 What to do When you have No New Ideas

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ct101 The Secret to Being Creative

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ct100 Helen Dardik: On Why it's Not All About Talent & What life is really Like as a Working Artist

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ct099 Apparently I've Made it (new & from the Podcast Archive)

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ct098 Unpacking your Money Mindset with Bonnie Tsang

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ct097 Art and Money: My Thoughts 10 Years Later

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ct096 Five - I mean! - 10 Tips to Soothe Anxiety

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ct095 What if 90% is Good Enough?

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ct034 Oh Money, My Story from the Podcast Archive 2008

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ct035 Art and Money; from the Podcast Archive 2008

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ct094 Alex Theis: On Being Limitless, Helping You WIN! and Starting Your Own Podcast

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ct093 Paying it Forward! + 5 Top Business Podcasts

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ct092 5 Ways to Make Money as a Creative

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ct091 REAL TALK on Being your TRUEST Self and why you MUST see Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

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ct090 Iris Scott: on Making Joyful Art, Staying True to Your Vision, and Selling Paintings for 5 Figures

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ct089 Why You Don't Have to Brave it All Alone

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ct088 The Value of Taking Time (and Silence) for Yourself (feat. Hawaii)

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ct087 How to Know if Online Teaching is Right for You?

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ct086 When Will I Start Making Money?

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ct085 3 Reasons Why You MUST see "Won't you be My Neighbor" ASAP

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ct084 My BIGGEST Business Tip + thoughts on new Etsy Fees

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ct083 Are you Making Progress?

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ct082 Are You Excusing Yourself out of Your Success aka my Podcast Confession

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ct081 Betz White: on Redefining Your Business Philosophy & Pacing Yourself

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ct080 What Living a Life with Passion and a Love of the Planet have in Common

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ct079 Art Fair & Show Supply List and Best Practices

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ct078 Tami Romani: on how to Unlock your Authentic Voice

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ct077 Are You Supported

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ct076 How to Handle Overwhelm

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ct075 Are you Investing in Yourself?

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ct074 Diane Bleck: on what it takes to grow a Creative Career into a Seven Figure Income

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ct073 The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling: Review

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ct072 Cal Patch: on landing a dream job at Urban Outfitters and how her love for clothing design lead to discovering her true calling

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ct071 What's Happening with Social Media?

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ct070 Embracing Self Doubt

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ct069 How to Build a Sustainable Business

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ct068 How To Attend a Conference

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ct067 Claire Van Holland: on financially empowering the creatives

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ct066 Step out of your Bubble

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ct065 Laura Nelkin: on finding life work Balance + staying Nimble

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ct064 Cathy Nichols: on transforming Adversity into Strength #metoo

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ct063 Susie Gahremani: on the Joys and Challenges of life as an artist and children's book illustrator

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ct062 How to Find Balance

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ct061 Diana Fayt: on Relevance, Resistance and what it takes to have Longevity as a career artist

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ct060 Design Your Life

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ct059 Jyl Johnson Pattee: on why Pain is Pivotal in experiencing Joy, the reverse bucket list, and why relationships always matter most in Marketing and Social Media

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ct058 Sean Hogan: on overcoming painful Shyness to become a Comedian and Groundlings Theatre member

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ct057 Amber Dusick: talks Un-Pausing, pumpkin pie, and the necessity of Passive Income

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ct056 Cheryl Arkison: on the importance of a Daily Creative Practice and the Morning Make

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