articles for creative lives & businesses
The Ripple Effect of Creation
12 years ago I recorded my first full length album. The journey was tumultuous, my resources thin and the songs precious to me. I was surviving on stories of home recorded albums and "did I know Radiohead recorded that in a stairwell" type tales. I wanted so badly...
10 Opportunities for Marketeers
For a very short lived period I reinvented myself creatively as a fair trade fashion designer. Being fashion ambivalent at best, it was a strange tangent (I blame baby brain) and, predictably, turned out to not really be the business path for me. It was a wonderful...
A+ All Round
It's on the journey to the big vision that the learning happens, the creating and the growth. The destination is amazing but it's the road there that makes up the heart of this creative life. Sometimes the milestones may not sound that impressive when you're plugging...
Rock Mamma
Attention uber confident creating Mamas, there is nothing to see here, you can go about your business, move along! Actually maybe send me an email about how you do what you do first so I can share ideas with other mamas out there! But for Mamas who experienced a...
Fake Coffee
Recently I stumbled upon some articles I wrote for a blog that was never fully birthed called “Rock Mama”. This is an a reflection on my first post children networking event. So step back in time with me to a distant land called 2010, where I was new to mamahood and...
Practice + Toddler
Recently I stumbled upon some articles I wrote for a blog that was never fully birthed called “Rock Mama”. So step back in time with me to a distant land called 2010, where I was new to mamahood and yet to find an awesome babysitter, although honestly I still...
Sometimes you just gotta get a sitter
Recently I stumbled upon some articles I wrote for a blog that was never fully birthed called “Rock Mama”. So step back in time with me to a distant land called 2010, where I was new to mamahood and relive the first time I invested in a sitter for some child-free...
Perfectly Thin Skinned
You are Perfectly Thin Skinned.When I was little I wanted to be an actress. A world famous, award winning Hollywood star. If my cousins were to assemble and discuss early childhood traumas, being sternly directed in family performance extravaganzas by their ambitious...
Ways to reach customers without social media
10 marketing strategies for artists that do not involve social media! Oh lordy so here we go. Social media and marketing for artists. I made the mistake of sharing some advice in an online entrepreneur group I belong to (not for artists) about how much time and energy...