Business of Being Creative with Sean Low

Fairness matters and if your client is acting poorly, you do not get any brownie points for sucking it up. Only adults in the room please. Original Episode Number : 121 | Original Air Date: 2/21/2023 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site !...

When you think about it, the statement "I hope…" is almost always about something external happening that may or may not directly affect you, but is certainly in your universe. You have no control over "I hope". The results of "I hope" are as random as a flip of the coin. In the context of your art and your creative business, please, pretty please, kill hope and find your faith. Original Episode N...

Creative business is about being vulnerable. Vulnerability is the fuel for trust. The question is where, when and why should you be vulnerable? Original Episode Number : 98 | Original Air Date: 5/10/2022 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's si...

Knowing what you need to live the life you wish is the key to your success as a creative business. How much do you need and how much do you want to work? If you set your business up to be greedy, you will be. The result will be the illusion of success and failure. Let's talk about The Giving Tree. Original Episode Number : 68 | Original Air Date: 9/21/2021 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The...

When you see what it all costs to create, it is very easy to say, why? When the world demands crisis, how can you talk about things that are not in crisis?  How do you navigate the responsibility of living as opposed to surviving?  It is called being an artist and appreciating the timing of it all will always lead back to you. Original Episode Number : 136 | Original Air Date: 10/24/2023 Links & R...

There is always a better way, better than what I might offer, what you might offer. Who cares? There is no end to better, only the work to get to the very place you will never reach. When the delusion of better resides at your fingertips, we give up the search and the meaning of the search itself. Let's talk about a dog swimming in the ocean. Original Episode Number : 83 | Original Air Date: 1/18/...

Where were you a year ago? What has changed? What will you do with 2023? Are you willing to add a zero? Original Episode Number : 117 | Original Air Date: 12/20/2022 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean or record a voice message directly through his show's site ! Link: Join Sean's Collective of B...

Art is impactful to the patron as they find themselves in it. We enjoy art from our own worldview. The ultimate Rorschach Test. Artistry, on the other hand, is a singular journey. How you, the artist, take us from here to there is idiosyncratic. Can you choose to be a chameleon? Let's talk Bernie Madoff. Original Episode Number : 48 | Original Air Date: 4/20/2021 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low...

The difference between those rising and those who know is professionalism. What does it mean to be a professional? Simple. When you know who you are you will no longer need to dodge bullets. To level up means you have to ignore the stairs. Original Episode Number : 95 | Original Air Date: 8/3/2021 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's t...

I will be taking some time off after this episode (airing August 3rd) and will be back on August 24th. Yep, 21 days. So a 21 Day Challenge is in order. Let's talk about three radical changes, the problem with incremental change and an opportunity from me to you. Original Episode Number : 63 | Original Air Date: 8/3/2021 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have you...

Knowing where you are, where you are going and, most important, where you would like to go is all about the life of an apple tree. Original Episode Number : 128 | Original Air Date: 7/4/2023 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!!  Email Shawn  or  record a voice message directly through his show's site ! Li...

What do you get paid for and why? What you do not define will be defined by others. Let's talk about the Flux Capacitor. Original Episode Number : 82 | Original Air Date: 1/11/2022 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!!  Email Shawn  or  record a voice message directly through his show's site ! Link:   Join...

What was is no longer. What is has to be redefined with history in mind but also ignored. The question is whether you will be willing to share your voice to a new chorus or if you will allow vestiges to remain your North Star. Original Episode Number : 111 | Original Air Date: 9/27/2022 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and a...

Unless you really value the next thing you do, you will be unaware of the margin. When you misprice your margin you will find yourself doing everything you do not want to do. Self-inflicted pain. Let's talk about unintended consequences. Original Episode Number : 77 | Original Air Date: 11/30/2021 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's...

If you are in creative business, your voice matters. Pretending it does not is an illusion. Truth may not be palatable to some and that is okay. They just cannot be your clients. To make it so though, you have to go first. Original Episode Number : 106 | Original Air Date: 7/19/2022 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advic...

We tell ourselves stories. Our memories are shaped by our own biases. We live in the definition we have given ourselves. Why? For the most part, for your creative business it ultimately becomes about choosing to be the Sun or the Moon. Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!!  Email Shawn  or  record a voice...

The essence of humanity is to be seen and heard.  It is pervasive in all things and for all endeavors, none more so than for creative business. The reason is that creative business is the ultimate expression of self. Live there and make it your culture. Original Episode Number : 140 | Original Air Date: 12/19/2023 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own...

We are at a moment in time when your ability to tell your own story is more important than having someone else tell it for you. The real question though is what is the aim? Celebrity? Opportunity? Growth? Legitimacy? Let's talk Marcy Blum and Rishi Patel. Original Episode Number : 70 | Original Air Date: 10/5/2021 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own...

The axiom that the client is always right is not true for creative business.  If you let someone's wallet dictate the limits of your power to do what you do, it will be lesson in self-inflicted pain.  Let's talk about how to make sure you do not do that. The show is yours to run. Original Episode Number : 135 | Original Air Date: 10/10/2023 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Be...

We all rely on our intuition to drive us forward. Intuition is a function of experience, natural gifts, education and maybe even just age. We use intuition to form opinions on just about everything. However, when the world changes, so too our intuition. Let's talk photography. Original Episode Number : 55 | Original Air Date: 6/8/2021 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Cr...

At a certain point change in circumstance demands change in behavior and we need to appreciate what leverage means to all of us.  Especially those who have never been here before. Original Episode Number : 126 | Original Air Date: 6/6/2023 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn  or  record a voi...

Art is impactful to the patron as they find themselves in it. We enjoy art from our own worldview. The ultimate Rorschach Test. Artistry, on the other hand, is a singular journey. How you, the artist, take us from here to there is idiosyncratic. Can you choose to be a chameleon? Let's talk Bernie Madoff. Original Episode Number : 48 | Original Air Date: 4/20/2021 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low...

Nothing ever goes according to plan. What happens when things happen? How do you handle the turmoil? Let's talk Chinese Finger Traps. Original Episode Number : 104 | Original Air Date: 6/21/2022 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn  or  record a voice message directly through his show's site !...

This is not school and your employer is not your parent, teacher or even your friend. Now is the time to invest in yourself and be willing to be wrong before you are right. Let's talk about Lego's. Original Episode Number : 86 | Original Air Date: 2/08/2022 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn...

I am just around the corner. Be there soon. An hour later you ask: Which corner? And what does soon mean? Time is all you have and leaving its definition to negotiation, or worse, to the decisions of others is self-inflicted pain you can no longer endure. Original Episode Number : 133 | Original Air Date: 9/12/2023 Links & Resources: Host:  Sean Low of  The Business of Being Creative Have your own...