Fork in the Road between starving and thriving artist

Seeking a patron for your artistic work certainly sounds a lot better than going to get a day job. But it’s this mindset shift from Jeff Goins that has moved the needle in making me feel ok with getting a job to allow me to follow my creative passions. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Leave me a voicemail and I’ll respond and play it on the podcast https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall/me...

So I’m trying to build a side hustle that utilises my creative passions, and I’m starting with creating kids books that’s my initial goal. Having kids has given me the drive and purpose to show to them and myself that you can follow your dreams. You don’t have to trade your most valuable asset your time in a job you hate. The only problem is now with kids where do you find the time to get your cre...

I look at three eye catching ways that you can share your podcast episodes to Instagram stories by using Anchor, Spotify and Overcast. Do you have any creative ways of sharing your podcast to Instagram? If so I’d love to hear from you. You can leave a 1min voicemail here https://anchor.fm/andycmarshall/message and I’ll play it on the podcast

I’ve decided to fine tune my content strategy to focus more on my creative work in the hope I’ll get more done while documenting my creative journey at the same time. And I have incorporated Simon Sineks ‘Start With Why’ method to help me do it. Do you have a content strategy for your creative work? If so I’d love to hear from you. You can leave a 1min voicemail here https://anchor.fm/andycmarshal...

I discuss what it has been like to document my journey using daily vlogging. I chat about the pros and the cons and why after 188 daily vlogs I’ve decided to call it quits… for the time being. If you are a vlogger or thinking about becoming one I’d love to hear your thoughts on the pros and cons of daily vlogging. You can leave me a voice message on the following link https://anchor.fm/andycmarsha...

Talking about a bunch of things on Instagram Live today (Which is the reason why I keep randomly talking with people in the chat) I talk about what’s going on, where I’ve been 🤷‍♂️ My new baby 👶 As well as recommending a couple of new podcasts from Alan Spicer - Start Creating https://open.spotify.com/show/4p8OqNDnYh4KdXVlvErfYj?si=GeQzC0RkSvenbZiOJTln7A & The Call With Cody & Willie https://ope...

I’m gonna tell you why as a creator you need to be using Instagram live to build your community. And How to actually go live for the greatest reach. Build your knowledge, build your relationships and we’re gonna figure all this out with some help from a couple of my creator friends.
Youtuber, video editor, photographer and content creator Jay Lippman, Jay - ‘basically if its got something to do wi...

Welcome to Fork In The Road my midlife career pivot experiment. Where I attempt to earn a living doing work that I love, creative work. And throw the concept of the starving artist out the window and focus on becoming a thriving artist. I’m Andy Marshall and I’ve decided that this season of my life, being a daddy, is perfectly aligned with my passion to make a series of kids books. And I’m documen...

You may have wondered where I’ve been recently. Because In the last two weeks I’ve only created a weeks worth of content. I suppose that’s what happens sometimes when you lay your values out as health, family and career. I’ve had to see a doctor and set up a mental health program. Because my anxiety has been coming back with a vengeance. And for those who don’t know, stress and anxiety can present...

This week I’m attempting to get clear on what it is that I’m actually trying to do and get started. I had a few days off the vlogging hamster wheel to ponder, and dangerously that’s when the voice of that lazy couch potato located somewhere in the dark recess of my brain is at its strongest. Offering continual excuses as to why I should give up. The kids book I’m actually starting today, progress...

The great thing about brand is that it’s a story, where as niche is a thing. You can niche down on a thing, and pinpoint your market and you can attract people who are gonna be interested in that thing. But with brand you don’t have to niche down, because as an individual your already pretty niched down. In fact older you get the more niched down you become, I recon. The only problem is the only p...

I want to talk about personal brand, I think it's important for solopreneurs, creators, entrepreneurs, people working by themselves basically, artist, because that way people get to know your personality, your personality is your brand. They know what they’re getting, and people recognise your work by your personal brand because your fingerprints are all over it. I think you need to decided early...

After 150 vlogs and 20 podcasts I’ve uncovered a lot of tips, strategies, mindset tricks and hacks. And I’ve actually found some of them quiet useful, but how many am I using right now tho? One, maybe two a day when I think of them, but certainly not enough to help me as I try and create a successful career for myself. So how do I create good habits that stick? It’s pretty easy to create bad habit...

It’s time to pivot again, a pivot within a career pivot. Because now I finally think I know what I’m doing. That’s the thing with just starting without knowing the full picture. I would have never seen the full picture without starting. The key is starting, doing the things that you are passionate about and actually excite you, and just start doing them. And trust that the answer will come to you....

Happy 2019, I hope you had a good one and that your head doesn't hurt too much, or should I really call it international goalsetting day? I think a surefire way of having all your goals fail is by setting them too big, making them too grand, I'm not saying that you shouldn't make them grand but maybe it’d be a good idea to start at small achievable bits and once you can consistently - cause I thin...

If aliens are monitoring our Instagram feed from outer space somewhere, they would definitely be planning their invasion, apart from the fact that we are all doing weird duck bum smiles. From outsiders point of view our lives are fantastic - we are on the beaches, we are climbing mountains, we are sipping Pina coladas while racing down the freeway in our Maseratis and working on our laptops at the...

The daily vlog ends today... no it doesn't really, but I did think about it. Because when something is not working for me I have a tendency to just reinvent it massively, like make massive changes and I don't think that's what's really needed but in terms of not working I'm talking about the actual implementing of my career pivot stuff, actually being able to get some of these kids book stuff unde...

The biggest thing preventing me from executing, implementing, succeeding at my goals is all of the great content, videos, podcasts and all these kinds of things that I consume, that are there to help me and give me ideas. The only problem is that, you know, I get this high from all these great ideas coming into my noggin and I just think well if I just keep consuming more, and more, and more, I’ll...

Changing things up massively with this podcast, my first interview! I chat with fellow #NoSmallCreator and daily vlogger Brian Vlasich. We chat about all things Youtube, daily vlogging and his creative process. Check out Brian’s channel here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BrianVlasich

When I first started YouTube and doing all these things, the podcast and all that. I told my dad, feeling really proud ‘look I’m doing all this stuff’ and he just said ‘can you monetize it?’ and, well, I said 'I don’t know, probably not'. It’s not about that tho, It's about getting the word out there about what you doing, about your work, so people know what you’re doing. so by the time you actual...

YouTube, I thought it was just basically a platform for cats doing cute things and funny accidents between people and heavy machinery. I got started on YouTube about three months ago and it wasn't initially what I was setting out to do. I was gonna have my video content on Instagram and then I’d be doing my podcasting and my blogging as well. I thought I had the video for Instagram for one minute...

Power of the mind. Mind body connection. Making my brain work. Can I overcome my self sabotaging, kind of, things? I'm just starting to think with the ‘Career Pivot Experiment’ and trying to better myself… I got another cold and I’m wondering if the two are connected? I know there is an element of stress involved in stretching yourself and stepping outside of your comfort zone but I'm wondering if...

Now I’ve set these daily goals I've gotta work out how exactly I'm gonna go about achieving them. I’ve already done a week on time management and I’m gonna go back and look at time management with more detail to see how I can actually achieve these goals in a day without getting too stressed, without compromising my values which I've set up as well. I'll be getting down into the nitty-gritty findi...

This week I'm looking at fixing all of my goals, actually setting in stone what I'm gonna be actually doing. But first things first, I just wanted to talk about how amazing it is, what a great time it is to be a creator. I'm really excited about how creators can collaborate these days just with their phone. You have got podcasting platforms, you've got video platforms, you’ve got all kinds of ways...

This week I'll be focusing on my goals and my long-term goals like five year goals, year goal, month goal and how it comes down to even like a day goal, what I need to be getting done each day to head towards where I wanna go now.