In this episode, I dive headfirst into the intriguing intersection where creativity meets commerce. We’re going to have some real talk about whether that marketing degree might just outshine our (not so) trusty fine arts diplomas. Spoiler alert: Business skills can be the secret sauce for monetizing our art.
But that’s not all! We’ll explore the problem-solving superpowers that creatives wield, the importance of marketing (because let’s face it, we’re not just painting in a vacuum), and those sneaky business aspects that often fly under the radar. Trust me—I’ve got stories to share, from gallery openings to balancing spreadsheets.
So grab your favorite sketchbook, adjust your metaphorical beret, and join me. We’re rewriting the rulebook: Creatives don’t just belong in art studios; they belong in boardrooms too! Let’s turn our brushstrokes into business strategies and our passion into profit.
Feel free to grab your favorite beverage and hit play—I promise it’s a journey worth taking! And hey, if you’re listening while sipping a mocha in a quirky café, you’re officially part of the tribe! 🎙️🌟
Is there anything else you’d like to chat about? Maybe the best way to organize your paintbrushes or the secret handshake of the creative business club? Let me know—I’m all ears! 🎨👂✨
Creatives and entrepreneurs have so much in common - let's bridge the gap of acknowledgement and leverage our creativity!
Stay tuned for upcoming episodes (post episode #7) for interviews with exceptional creatives and entrepreneurs from around the world!
And stick around to follow the journey of an artist in business school (me!) - hope I am able to help you in your journey to career freedom!
In this episode, I dive headfirst into the intriguing intersection where creativity meets commerce. We’re going to have some real talk about whether that marketing degree might just outshine our (not so) trusty fine arts diplomas. Spoiler alert: Business skills can be the secret sauce for monetizing our art.
But that’s not all! We’ll explore the problem-solving superpowers that creatives wield, the importance of marketing (because let’s face it, we’re not just painting in a vacuum), and those sneaky business aspects that often fly under the radar. Trust me—I’ve got stories to share, from gallery openings to balancing spreadsheets.
So grab your favorite sketchbook, adjust your metaphorical beret, and join me. We’re rewriting the rulebook: Creatives don’t just belong in art studios; they belong in boardrooms too! Let’s turn our brushstrokes into business strategies and our passion into profit.
Feel free to grab your favorite beverage and hit play—I promise it’s a journey worth taking! And hey, if you’re listening while sipping a mocha in a quirky café, you’re officially part of the tribe! 🎙️🌟
Is there anything else you’d like to chat about? Maybe the best way to organize your paintbrushes or the secret handshake of the creative business club? Let me know—I’m all ears! 🎨👂✨
Creatives and entrepreneurs have so much in common - let's bridge the gap of acknowledgement and leverage our creativity!
Stay tuned for upcoming episodes (post episode #7) for interviews with exceptional creatives and entrepreneurs from around the world!
And stick around to follow the journey of an artist in business school (me!) - hope I am able to help you in your journey to career freedom!
I feel like if as creatives, we would have, instead of opted for a fine art degree, we went for a marketing degree. And then just continue doing our art on the side, I think would be much more able to, actually make a living from our work. I find that creatives are able to problem solve a lot more effectively than those that aren't as creative, or that don't engage with that creativity. so often. Because what creativity allows us to do is take different concepts and abstract concepts and put them together in a unique way. Which can, a lot of the times, offer solutions that weren't readily available before. I think that's also why a lot of creatives are able to, like, find shortcuts for things. Where as soon as they learn how to do something, they're like, Okay, cool, now how can I do this, faster, or better, or how can I make this look nicer, even, you know? There's this element of almost perfectionism that we all kind of carry in our pocket and our little inner devil monologue That can be highly beneficial when pursuing anything within the business world or business school You know, we're going to have to be able to work well with others and be adaptable and problem solve and find solutions to things and think outside of the box and innovate. These are all things that already come more naturally to those that are more creatively engaged. So I just find it kind of funny that business and creativity get so, get so pulled apart like they're not almost one in the same. Naturally, there's some aspects. of business that creatives maybe struggle a lot more with. For example, for me, like, STEM stuff, like Maths. Oh my god. And I think a big part of that is just that I haven't really engaged with Math in a long time. That muscle hasn't been worked in a while. So I become overwhelmed when I have to do like simple Math problems. But, y'know, there are foundations that we're all able to gain with a little hard work and some time and effort, that I just don't see why a creative would necessarily be so wrong for, creatives sometimes get A lot of crap for being a bit peculiar and weird, maybe a bit of an outsider, and let's face it, a good amount of us really like that. I knew I very much liked that when I was, you know, properly maintaining a creative practice. I wanted to be different and I wanted to be outside in the public and be visibly creative. I loved when people would come up to me and be like, Hey! Are you an artist? Or I would go with my trousers that had paint on them or when I'd have paint on my hands and it was like, Yeah, I'm an artist. Which I think, especially as a student in school, In a fine arts degree is, you know, you're young and you're just trying to almost prove to the world that you're full of potential, you're this big up and comer. And I think if we're able to take that with us, that same sense of like identity with this creative practice and apply it towards a business degree or business activities, I think we'd be able to find, even more happiness with our lives as artists. Because a lot of the times, the big, creatives that are out there, artists, musicians, there's a big focus for them and their team on public relations and marketing. And getting deals, and there's just all this other stuff that we don't see very often. The background stuff. And thankfully for YouTube, there's been, definitely a wave of several years of other creatives educating people on that. Which is amazing. Like, that's fantastic. It's what I hope to be able to do with this podcast and this channel as well. But if you're thinking about going into a Maybe consider doing a little bit of a shift. You might not like the education as much. But I think it would be a lot more beneficial for you in the long run. Because if the focus is not on the long game, most of what I say is kind of ridiculous. Like, why the fuck would I go into a marketing degree if I want to be an artist? Like, if I go to an art school, they should technically be teaching me this stuff, right? They should be teaching me how to be an artist in today's world. But they don't. In my experience, most of my cohort have experienced the exact same thing that I have, where they don't really know how to function outside of university as an artist, like as a professional artist, you know, trying to make money from their work. And it's, it's hard. I mean, setting up a business of any sort, starting anything is hard, takes effort and time. But I think that by going into a business master's, at least for myself, is going to be so empowering. I'll not only, like, learn the lingo, the how to's and get to know the right people and how to sell, like all the stuff that I already get really engaged with, like I already have a desire to put those things together. I've always been a generalist. I've always been someone that cannot or decides or chooses or simply just refuses to specialize in one thing. Whereas now, it feels like I'm actually forging a path that I want to walk down, my own path. And I think that by honing the side of me that really enjoys business stuff, and sales, and networking, and talking to people with the other side, the more introverted, the more, almost like, sensual and delicate, and If I'm able to put those two together, I think I have a much bigger chance of creating a life and living a life that I'm more happy and proud to be living. And that's why I'm pursuing the business master's because I think having the artistic skills already gives me a leg up. I think I'm already more prepared. Also, having life experience after my BA to see that, like, actually. Like the studies I got, it wasn't as effective. It wasn't what I was hoping it would be. It took me to a worse spot almost, at least in mindset, to where I was when I began my BA. Yeah. So I definitely think creatives have a leg up in the business world. It's just a matter of applying yourself to learn and develop skills that you maybe have a negative connotation with or poor relationship with. But, like, imagine if you're able to forge a path where your creativity can sit center and you have the foundation in the business world to launch your own thing. I mean, that, to me, just sounds perfect. having decided to take a year, almost two years, to do a business degree, one, affords me the time to, like, take in as much information as needed, because it's basically part of the whole system, you know, But also let my brain kind of naturally find solutions and ideas and then start putting them together. And I mean this podcast is exactly that as well. I want it to be more of like, almost documentation of the process. but I also want to offer, you know, tips and guides and maybe some helpful advice for people that are in the same boat as I. Hopefully this will be, a helpful channel and or podcast for you.
