About a month ago, I shared a mindset shift that helped me through a period of self-doubt. I was working on a challenging project, but instead of asking “Can I do this?” I shifted gears to ask “Is it worth it?” Knowing that the project meant something to me, that I found it important enough …
If you’ve been following me on Instagram over the past few months, you might have noticed some changes. (Or, you might not have, because freaking algorithms.) I am still technically making jewelry, but a lot of my time and energy right now is going into publishing books and related products specifically aimed at artists and …
Read more “Two books that influenced my business strategy this year.”
This week, I got a question from someone who had just read Try It & See, and it was so key I realized it warranted a blog post of its own. Here’s what she asked: “One thing I’d like to know more about is the ‘launches and releases’ being the most important things you could …
One of my projects last year was to launch a book club with my friend Amber. Each month, we picked a book that we both loved and then developed resources to help other takes action on the themes of the book. It was a project we were both excited about, as it really hit our …
Read more “Why it takes more than passion and strengths to build a successful business.”
I have a confession to make. I’ve never written a business plan in my life. In college, I was an Entrepreneurship minor, and in the final course of the program, you wrote a business plan. But in a major case of senioritis, I didn’t take that course, opting instead to take Wood and Mixed Media, …
Read more “what traditional business planning misses about being an artist”