We're telling the future! Spooky stuff! Once a quarter, we're taking a look at the trends popping up in art, business, and marketing and understanding how to use them in our indie art.

This quarter we're diving into the Authenticity Trends marking every corner of the online and media landscapes. But don't worry, to hop on these trends, you won't have to overshare on social media. It'll be much easier than that.

REFERENCES:

Hollywood Reporter article about the Duplass/Netflix deal: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/netflix-rights-mark-duplass-mel-eslyn-series-penelope-1235890593/

IndieWire article about the Art Directors Guild: https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/art-directors-guild-ending-production-design-initiative-program-1235002230/

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There you are. Facing the cursor. Waiting for Lady Inspiration to strike. Knowing that your precious creative alone time was bought and paid for by racing through your tasks at work, ignoring calls from your mom, silencing the group chat, consuming illegal amounts of caffeine, and forgoing lunch.

But now that you have the creative alone time? Nothing. Nada.

Your brain is as empty as your ex's promises.

You're in good company. It happens to the best artists. Consistently! Regularly! But the best artists have learned how to defend against it... with systems.

In today's episode, we'll go through 6 systems, inspired by the Holland Codes, to help you structure your creative process so you can make that fresh-to-death art that breaks through and blows up.

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From social media, to advertising, to community-building, how to make it as an indie artist is going through a massive transformation. There are so many ways to break through as an artist that weren't possible even just 5 years ago.

In today's episode, we'll break down the Big 3 Changes making this new paradigm possible. You'll finish the episode having gained clarity on how you can leverage this new paradigm in your work, and figure out some clear action steps for what comes next.

SOURCES from today's episode:

The Artist is Online: https://outland.art/maya-man-digital-performance-art/

Gen Z Broke the Marketing Funnel: https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/consumers/gen-z-broke-the-marketing-funnel

Crossover Success: Versatility as the Key to Innovation for Indie Artists: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/crossover-success-versatility-as-the-key-innovation-for-indie-artists-1234990524/amp/

What Are the Chances? Success in the Arts in the 21st Century: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/chances-success-arts-21st-century/

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How do artists manage their time? How do you get things done when you have a million ideas and a million other pressing responsibilities? And how does time management improve your confidence and ability to create work? All of this in today's episode about the three "Creative Neglect" time management principles to help indie creatives do better work.

Plus, your Qs about the writing process!

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No one wants to fail. Unfortunately, it's a 100% necessity if you want to succeed. But when you know how to fail better, iterate quickly, and double down on what failure teaches you, you become well on your way to turning those losses into wins.

In this week's episode, we'll explore how to fail better, 4 ways to transform failure into success, and how to integrate failure as part of our creative process.

Plus, two listener questions this week about marketing, email lists, and content creation!

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The Transition Era. It's a tough one. When you're in between gigs, or looking to change careers, or trying to figure out how to make money as an artist, the career decision making process can easily go from exciting to exhausting within one Google search. There are so many choices. So many options. So many opinions from experts telling us what path we should follow. But for so many of us, it can feel like "I don't know what to do with my life/career" so how could I even make a choice. And around and around we go.

In this week's episode, we're talking about Choice Overload, the two kinds of decision-makers, 4 ways to approach decision making, and 2 big misconceptions about regret.

Plus an exercise at the end for making a decision + our Artist Timeline career quiz down below!

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Art jobs aren't like other jobs. There's no clear ladder toward success. You can follow all the career growth advice you want, but careers for creative people are just...different. They're non-linear. They're nebulous. They're cyclical. Sometimes they feel directionless.

And that's because an artist's career path is more like a spiral than a straight line. It can make it hard to plot out how each point leads to the next. So in this episode, we're talking about the 5 Levels of the Artist Timeline to figure out where you are, what your challenges are, and what you should do next.

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