Advance Your Art: From Artist to Creative Entrepreneur

MEET DAVID DREBIN: A graduate of Parsons School of Design in NYC, David Drebin is a multidisciplinary artist working in various art forms producing limited edition works including Photographs, Lightboxes, Neon Light Installations, Diamond Dust works and more. Following his first solo exhibition at Camera Work in Berlin in 2005 and the release of his first comprehensive illustrated book “Love and O...

MEET SOON YU: Soon Yu is an international speaker, award winning author on innovation and design and Forbes contributor who has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine and New York Times. His latest book, Friction , asks businesses to consider adding MORE friction for their customers and employees in order to create greater engagement, meaning, belonging, r...

MEET SIMON T. BAILEY: With over 2,000 clients, from more than 50 countries, over the course of 30 years, Simon T. Bailey has the knowledge, wisdom, and life experience to help you find your spark. Simon T. Bailey’s purpose in life is to help you discover your brilliance. Through motivational speeches, direct one-on-one success coaching, 9 personal and professional development books, a national tel...

MEET ASHER LAUB: Asher’s notable musical career began with classical violin training at the tender age of 2—leading to his first formal concert with the Buffalo Philharmonic at 13. Since then, Asher’s ability to improvise across multiple genres has inspired an innovative career as a cutting-edge electric violinist. Asher’s engaging solo performances have made him a co-headliner at iconic venues su...

MEET MARK DRAGER: Mark launched his creative production company Phanta Media back in 2006, grew it to a little over $2mm in revenue, and then slowly watched as it all crumbled around him. Through the hard lessons learned and working to not make the same mistakes twice, today Phanta focuses less on “keeping the machine fed” and more on doing extraordinary work with really cool people. We Do Hard Th...

MEET PATRICIA [TRISHA] RICKETTS: Patricia [Trisha] Ricketts received a lifelong love of music, the written word, the visual arts, and healthy arguing from her Irish Catholic family of origin. She’s been penning essays, short stories, poems, and novels for most of her life as she raised three wonderful children and has watched seven grandchildren grow. However, after receiving a scholarship to the...

MEET TIM TORTORA: Tim Tortora started working in Hollywood over 30 years ago as a tape operator in a recording studio and worked his way up through the ranks to CFO by 2008. He learned a lot along the way and worked with some amazing people and some of the biggest companies ( Harpo Films, Mandalay Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Disney, TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures) He did it all having no fa...

MEET LISABETH POSTHUMA Lisabeth Posthuma was a teacher, photographer, and (most importantly) video rental clerk before becoming a writer. She holds one of those degrees from a really expensive private liberal arts college that no one can afford (including her). She grew up obsessed with teen soaps (which her therapist says explains a lot) and likes to brag about that one time she attende...

MEET AARTHI RAMAMURTHY: From meeting her husband over AOL chat in India to building products that delight millions at Xbox, Facebook, and Netflix, to launching the Good Time Show and hosting conversations with guests like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sonam Kapoor - Aarthi Ramamurthy is the original tech optimist. Her industry insights and success as a Y Combinator-backed founder...

MEET GILAD PAZ: Gilad Paz is a rock singer, classical tenor, and crossover performer with extensive experience that ranges from the clubs of NYC’s Lower East Side to Carnegie Hall to  America’s Got Talent ! Marketability as a performer has always been part of Gilad’s career philosophy, and he always looks for ways to combine different genres and create shows that are tailored to their target...

MEET CARLA STICKLER: Carla Stickler is a professional multi-hyphenate advocating for the inclusion of artists in STEM. Currently a software engineer, she made a dramatic return to the stage during the height of the 2021/2022 covid surge in New York. She was featured on NPR, ABC, Vulture, Inside Edition, and Nightline for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway after 7 years away from the...

MEET JASON AZEVEDO: Jason created his first manufacturing company with just $600 when he was only 15 years old. At this young age, he was able to establish business with some of the greatest companies in the world such as Starbucks, Nike, Disney, Marvel, Volkswagen, Audi, Lucas films, dodgers, and NBA teams. By the time he was 20 he was already making millions in revenue.  Taking back US Jobs...

MEET DR. FRED MOSS: Dr. Fred Moss is a "non-diagnosing psychiatrist" who has served the mental health industry for nearly four decades. He has consulted with patients, practitioners, physicians, facilities, organizations, groups, hospitals, nursing homes, shelters, drug/rehab facilities, jails/prisons, and more. Known as the Un-Doctor, Dr. Fred uses conversation, communication, creativity, and dee...

MEET FRED JOYAL: Fred Joyal is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and business advisor. Along with a lucrative career in advertising and marketing, he co-founded the most successful dentist referral service in the country, 1-800-DENTIST, which, over 30 years, generated over $1 billion in revenue. He has written two books on marketing, dabbled in stand-up and improv comedy acted in bad movies and ex...

MEET CBABI BAYOC: Cbabi (pronounced Kuh-bob-bi) Bayoc is an internationally-known visual artist and illustrator residing in St. Louis, Missouri. His subjects include family, children, music and a bunch of other cool stuff designed with line, bold color and phunk! Bayoc, whose birth name is Clifford Miskell, Jr., adopted his name CBABI (Creative-Black-Artist-Battling- Ignorance) during his time at...

MEET MICHAEL CLEMENTS In 2010, Michael founded ArtJamz, which provides at-home paint kits and online classes to guide anyone through the process of creating a jamming work of art. Since the start, more than 200,000 people unleashed their inner artists with ArtJamz. When Michael is not working for the company, he is a full-time creative and outsider artist who has exhibited in a...

MEET CECILIA FERRON: Cecilia Ferron is an Italian violinist. She began studying the violin at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. She completed the first part of her musical growth with Maestro Fabrizio Pavone at the Conservatoire de la Vallée d'Aoste she continued her studies at the Music Academy in Hamburg, Germany, where she obtained her Master with full marks. She specializes in Berlin w...

MEET EMMANUEL PROBST: Emmanuel is Global Lead, Brand Thought-Leadership at Ipsos and an adjunct at the University of California at Los Angeles Emmanuel’s background combines over 16 years of market research and marketing experience with strong academic achievements. At Ipsos, Emmanuel supports numerous Fortune 500 companies by providing them with a full understanding of their custom...

MEET BRENT EVISTON: Drawing is Brent’s lifelong passion. He has studied numerous forms of drawing including observational drawing, figure drawing, anatomical drawing, architectural drawing as well as more contemporary forms of experimental drawing. Brent is also a sought after drawing instructor.  In 2016 Brent created The Art & Science of Drawing, a series of bestselling, award winn...

MEET JUDY RODMAN, Judy Rodman is an award-winning vocal coach, recording artist, live performer, public speaker, published author, songwriter, musician, studio producer, podcaster and vocal consultant with over 50 years of success in the music industry. Named ‘Best Vocal Coach” by Nashville Music Pros and "Vocal Coach in Residence" by TC Helicon's VoiceCouncil Magazine, Judy teaches her vocal trai...

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MEET SAMOA BLANCHET Samoa Blanchet is a Creative Mastery Mentor and host of The Creative Mastery Podcast. She works with Creatives by more deeply defining who they believe themselves to be and what they think they can create so that they strike the perfect tone with every expression of their unique work. After working in the graphic design industry, Samoa realized she had a greater creative potent...

MEET SHANNON LOHR: As the Founder & CEO of Factory45, Shannon Lohr works with idea-stage entrepreneurs to launch fashion brands that are sustainably and ethically made. Shannon got her start in 2010 when she co-founded {r}evolution apparel, a sustainable clothing company for female travelers and minimalists that was featured in The New York Times, Forbes.com, and Yahoo! News. Through her onlin...

MEET SIMON SEVERINO Simon Severino helps business owners in SaaS and services discover how to be able to run their company more efficiently which results in sales that soar. He created the Strategy Sprints® Method that doubles revenue in 90 days by getting owners out of the weeds. Simon is the CEO and founder of Strategy Sprints which is a global team of certified Strategy Sprints® Coaches which h...

MEET AMY KARLE Amy Karle is an internationally award-winning bioartist working at the nexus of where digital, physical, and biological systems merge. Karle is also a provocateur and a futurist, opening future visions of how art, science, and technology could be utilized to support and enhance humanity while making advancements in technology towards those goals in the process of making her artworks...