Audacity Works

Send us Fan Mail Join me for an hour long conversation with one of my oldest friends and favorite collaborators, photographer Max Cooper.  You'll hear plenty of stories of our past escapades as well as me giving him shit 1 or 4 times.  Sorry Max, you just bring it out in me.   What you'll hear: Why he chooses to practice more archaic forms of his discipline like pinhole photography, in s...

Send us Fan Mail Join me for a 20 minute salty soapbox rant (didn't mean to, but it sure happened)!   You'll hear: This episode was inspired by the many questions I have gotten that sound a lot like "how do you get over feeling guilty about earning money?" Money, sex, and food are the bone-deep relationships that are always a labyrinth to navigate. "No one is coming to sav...

Send us Fan Mail A friend, student, and wonderful patron Cris asked me to talk about the process of making Creatrix and the gremlins I met along the way.   You'll hear: How long it took to get from this idea being a twinkle in my eye to a living breathing thing The #1 piece of advice I'd give to anyone who wants to host a retreat 6:00 The one thing I was almost quite an idiot about (but...

Send us Fan Mail Greetings and happy May errbody!  In this episode, I'm giving you my 2 cents on best practices for being a kickass artistic collaborator. You'll hear: Here's the pretty thing I made!   I'm relaunching Diamonds in the Dark this week, and anyone who enrolls before Friday at midnight will have access to a LIVE session of the Buttermelt Workshop  What kind of colla...

Send us Fan Mail All about seasonality, and a bit of a spicy rant about why we need it so much.  As well as me waxing poetic about slutty gardening, candle pouring, and having time that I never wanted (but am actually enjoying). You'll hear: Diamonds in the Dark is relaunching next week, I hope you'll join me for the relaunch, it'll be fun!  Sign up here for the email list:  https:/...

Send us Fan Mail Please join me for an hour of the chats with my super cool accountant, the great Sandi York of Fit Money Coach !   The older I get, the more I see the consequences of not pursuing financial literacy even though *insert all the reasons it is perfectly horrible to learn financial literacy*.  I want to at least give you some resources that I know for a fact to be excellent and trustw...

Send us Fan Mail As promised to Rachel- a whole bunch of advice on the do's and don't of creating a demo reel!  Rachel asked:  " I have a request for a podcast episode, as an "amateur" aerialist who is trying to gig more, I feel comfortable with rates in my local area and am working on getting insurance, but I don't have a demo reel. And all of my footage of performan...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is brought you to by my friend KT's question:  " Honoring the rib ache!  It’d be really cool to hear a deep dive on it/your experiences ignoring and following that feeling.  I revisited the idea recently when I found myself doing a bunch of random shit I wasn’t enjoying just to make more money." What you'll hear:  BossUP 2024 is live and I'm S...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you the wonderful Elizabeth Finn for inspiring this episode with her very good question: How do you navigate the tension between being a generous performer and remaining true to your artistic integrity? My obvious first answer which will surprise no one 4:45 The very first and most important reason I continue to espouse my first obvious answer 5:29 What the audience REALLY w...

Send us Fan Mail It is my great pleasure to have as my guest this month, International circus artist and business coach to circus artists around the world, Ulrike Storch.  Ulrike's actionable response to burnt out artists Why talent is bullshit  (I love this!) How she found her special sauce through paying attention to what was pissing her off How she was able to design different versions of...

Send us Fan Mail Woo corner is just around the...corner.  S ign up here !  I don't want to say that it could save your life but, you know.  It could save your life.   What you'll hear in this episode: The three things you need to create something out of nothing: Vision, Resources, and Skill 3:15 Why I think Vision is the most important 4:00 Questions you can ask in fleshing out your visi...

Send us Fan Mail What you'll hear: All about Ostara!  Episode 21 Dragon egg reel on the gram Register for The Buttermelt Workshop!   In Charleston SC Sunday March 24, 2024 1-3pm at Cherry Bombs Pole Studio Gentle advice for how to curate your consumption of news media 3:30 Rule numba 1 for getting gigs (or any other kind of work) you actually want to be doing:  9:00 Ramit Sethi's briefca...

Send us Fan Mail Inspired by a question from my fren Michelle (thank you Michelle!) who asked what are all the ways to operate in the industry? What you'll hear: The Movement Maestro has opened the door to the Instagram Intensive, Round 15!  If you want to give your relationship with social media a total makeover, enrollment is open until Friday, March 16th only.  Click here to get in on that...

Send us Fan Mail Pregame:  The Audacity Project, Cycle 26 is enrolling THIS WEEK ONLY! Please welcome our guest for March, the wonderful Shannon Morse of The Green Door Life!  Shannon and I became fast friends around 2013, and she is the woman responsible for teaching me how to eat at the age of 33.   What you'll hear: How we met (we don't know, but you'll hear two stories about vis...

Send us Fan Mail A buffet episode is where I take as many questions as I can answer from readers in about 20 minutes.  I get a lot of amazing questions that I don't always have 20 minutes of material about, but I still think they are incredibly valuable and I want to address them.  Solution?  Buffet episode!   What you'll hear: Woo corner is coming out Friday, March 1st in the morning! ...

Send us Fan Mail You have until Friday, February 23rd to join the waitlist for The Audacity Project, Cycle 26! Sweet Retreats at Casa Chango - where I've been all of February The single most powerful thing you can do to grow your community, use your community, and create opportunity (cut to 5:00 if you're in a hurry) Scarcity vs. abundance mindsets- it's not even about the woo, but...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is by request from Leasha the Kiwi (thanks babes!) as a follow up to Episode 65:  Dealing with Competition in Small Communities.  Spoiler- part of my advice was to lean into what sets you apart.  Excellent question, let's dive into it.   What you'll hear: The Audacity Project, Cycle 26 waitlist is wide open and ready for you, if you're looking to get yo...

Send us Fan Mail Join me and my great friend, aerial athlete, educator, and powerhouse: Shannon McKenna, for a very fancy conversation! If you're looking for the waitlist for Cycle 26 of The Audacity Project, you can find it right here. Highlights include: How we met (we don't remember) and how we became close (because those are different things) by going through The Artist's Way to...

Send us Fan Mail Join me for a full-on expose on Patreon, and what it's like to run one and best practices The Audacity Project Cycle 26 waitlist is open now!   8 weeks of targeted group coaching for artists and creative entrepreneurs to get their shit together.  We're enrolling in late February, and this waitlist is definitely the place to be. Do yourself a favor if you're consider...

Send us Fan Mail From this episode: Navigating Toxic Studio Culture, Episode 11 -  a proximally relevant episode from yesteryear Tension arises between organizations in a small community when they have differing value systems.   Are you the problem?  Two questions you can ask yourself. If you aren't paying yourself because you don't need the money, you don't have a sustainable busin...

Send us Fan Mail Episode by request!   My own thoughts and rituals surrounding pre and post-show rituals, and ways I keep my performance the primary function of my day (spoiler alert:  it's not by doing more things).   I'll throw out some suggestions for keeping your nervous system nice and tidy- including foods to eat and when to eat them.  And don't forget to bring food with you p...

Send us Fan Mail What you'll hear this week: In Wilmington this Friday, 1/12/24?  Come see me at the opening of  Blood Meal! Blood Meal : in case you have no idea what I'm talking about My amazing collaborator Katina Bitsicas Episode 55:  Creating in Isolation (particularly if you don't want to) Listen to this if you want more context for "Making the Room Happen" Episode 3...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year and welcome to the FIRST EVER guest episode!  It is my distinct pleasure to bring on Dr. Shante Cofield, aka the Movement Maestro, who has been and continues to be a massively positive influence in my life.  A PT by trade and a coach and online biz owner by choice, Shante uses her platform to inspire coaches and business owners to do the damn thing using savvy strat...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Land Outside of Time, that weird week between Crimmas and NYE where nothing gets done, and that's a Good Thing.  I hope you're enjoying it.  First off, you have ONE WEEK to get on the mailing list for January's Woo Corner!  Coming out 1/4/24, join here, it's good for your health:  https://rachelstricklandcreative.ck.page/ This episode starts out...

Send us Fan Mail What is ambient performance, and how long should a set be?  How many sets are enough?  How many are too many?  And how long can we really expect one person to do slow moving splits on the fabric in one evening? And who actually wants to see that for hours and hours at a time? defining ambient performance, especially in terms of aerial performance my own spicy opinions based on my...