articles for creative lives & businesses
Welcome to the new website!
Welcome to the brand new website for Creative Consultancies. Please come and have a visit, look around and stay a while! We hope we can help you with your next cultural event, to get planning or with your general arts and cultural needs. Check out our upcoming events...
Celebrating the Wins
My kids have started the Christmas count down which means everyday I have a reminder system in place that there are only 6 weeks left before visitors, school holidays and silly season descend. It’s easy this time of year to get swamped by the unfinished to do list...
It’s Time To Claim Your Niche
One of the things that is often most challenging about working with creatives is when I ask them to niche down or focus on their work. Niching is simply the process of identifying exactly what you do best and love most and focussing in on that. Many times it is a web...
Techno Wrangling
Techno wrangling is one of those areas that so many of my clients struggle with. In this techno age, most people running a small business are reliant on various forms of technology. Personally, I have my own love-hate relationship with it. Mainly, I'm a lover, but...
Money Tips for Creatives
A life in the creative industries for many arty folk can bring with it a pocket full of money worries and poverty consciousness and a whole lotta heads in the sand. Taking control of your finances might not sound all that exciting but it brings with it a creative...
Self Care for Creatives
In 2017 Entertainment Assist conducted a study into the mental health of entertainment industry workers in Australia and the results were pretty horrifying. The rate of suicide was more than double that of the general population. Experiencing moderate to severe...
3 Visionary Creatives to Inspire You
Recently, I ran my Creative Visioning Workshop again. It always blows me away how profound this work around vision clarity is. It really is like magic when it comes to creating a business and a life you feel deeply passionate about and fulfilled by. I could regale...
3 steps to finding your niche
If you're not really sure about what your niche is, here are three steps that might help you work them out. 1.Vision I'm always coming back to vision clarity because for me it is the number one most important thing to have under wraps. Usually, when you're crystal...
Investing in Your Creative Life
So, you've got some money blocks. Well, you're not alone! The creative industry is rife with a pervading poverty consciousness, one which I believe is holding us back as an industry from truly thriving. If you’re finding investing in your creative career and business...
Creative Vision and The Dixie Chicks
Tonight was movie night with my book club (I know “book club”, rock and roll). 5 of us kicked back in our PJs with Maltesers and popcorn and watched The Dixie Chicks documentary “Shut Up and Sing”. The documentary (and the sugar high from the maltesers) really got...