Not Starving Artists

It's the start of the month, which means it's time for your 🎉 Financial CEO party 🎉 These are monthly dates with your money that help you plan ahead and keep you from having to check a spreadsheet all the time.   Tune in to hear: ✨Tips on how to get excited about looking at your numbers ✨Journal prompts + task lists ✨Why 1 x a month is better than weekly or daily check-ins ✨How awareness rem...

In this special Instagram Live replay, Brooke riffs on: ✨What luxury actually means ✨How the artist conditioning affects your money ✨Why money doesn't automatically make you ~rich + evil~ ✨How to marry logistics + woowoo for the most abundance ✨Journal prompts to help you dream bigger   If you loved this episode, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a friend! Want to learn more about...

Ever wonder how those Instagram influencers travel to Paris in business class for free? In this episode, Brooke breaks down how travel hacking works and how you can start utilizing it to travel for free.   Tune in to hear: ✨A breakdown of how travel hacking works ✨The simplest and most effective way to accrue points ✨Examples of how I personally use credit cards + points ✨How money hoarding ca...

Are you ready for debt to feel like a non-issue? This episode is for you. You can pay off your debt with ease, enjoy your life in the process, and never feel tied to monthly minimum payments again. When you master debt neutrality, you can pay it off with ease and also use it as a tool to financially up-level.   Tune in to hear: ✨How to create a debt payoff plan that has a 100% success rate ✨The...

I've got beef with the phrase "lifestyle creep". Instead of being a helpful phrase for financial wellness, it's being used to shame high-earners out of enjoying their money.   Tune in to hear: ✨how to avoid lifestyle creep (it's not what you think) ✨Why you shouldn't look up to Warren Buffet ✨Ways to enjoy the fuck out of your money responsibly ✨The smart rich person checklist ✨ Eliminating t...

In this episode, Brooke talks with past 1:1 client Katelyn, an actor + personal trainer who recently moved to NYC.   Tune in to hear: ✨How she moved to NYC while unemployed ✨Having a luxury taste on tight income ✨Using credit card points to book international travel ✨How we adjusted her Money Flow during the moving process ✨How she still enjoyed spending her money during her job transition  ...

Join Brooke as she debriefs on her most recent impulse decision to take a solo-vacation to FL.   Tune in to hear: ✨a breadown of using credit card travel rewards to pay for it ✨the importance of solo-time ✨how to build up the muscle of gut intuition ✨money thoughts from strangers ✨ why you should plan lifestyle upgrades   If you loved this episode, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with...

In this episode, Brooke continues her conversation with 1:1 client Emily Wold, an entrepreneur, voiceover actor, & perhaps the nicest shark you'll ever meet.   Tune in to hear: ✨Why you need to set income goals as an artist ✨How to become a really good CEO who employs the artist in you ✨When success feels like a fluke ✨Why she fired her CPA + how she manages her taxes now ✨Staffing your board...

In this episode, Brooke talks with her 1:1 client Emily Wold, an entrepreneur, voiceover actor, & perhaps the nicest shark you'll ever meet.   Tune in to hear: ✨the school bus she renovated into a mobile voice over studio ✨what wealth looks like for someone who doesn't want designer bags + 5-star hotels ✨how less hustle made her more money in 2022 ✨the systems + strategy we implemented to mana...

Budgeting sucks. So does feeling broke. In this episode, Brooke dives into her personal journey with money and how it led to her developing the Money Flow Method , a budget-less money management strategy that lets you stack your bank accounts without deprivation.   Tune in to hear: ✨What she learned about money in her BFA acting program ✨Why budgeting doesn't work long-term ✨What she did with $...

In this episode, Brooke talks with 1:1 client Lauren Kelly, a full-time freelance singer based in the Philadelphia area.   Tune in to hear how Lauren: ✨Transitioned to full-time freelancing after being laid off ✨Bought herself luxury camping chairs + a new laptop guilt free ✨Opened her first credit card ✨Organized a money flow that worked for her fluctuating income + old school landlord ✨Cont...

Money is an energy exchange. What we put money towards shows us what we value. So you need to put money towards YOU and your joy (not just the parts of you that can be monetized). In this episode, Brooke explains why the habit of indulgence is imperative to your financial wellness and how to tangibly do this with monthly Joy Purchases .   Tune in to hear: 💰 "I deserve it" vs. "I want it" energy...

In this episode, Brooke talks with her 1:1 client Shelly Morse, a web & graphic designer based out of Baltimore. During her 6 months inside of 1:1 coaching, Shelly went from "I can't afford shit" to buying herself an Audi.   Tune in to hear how Shelly: ✨ Made paying herself a non-negotiable ✨ Bought her dream bag ✨ Drastically lowered her money anxiety ✨ Raised her freelance rates with confide...

Do you feel anxious pulling up your bank accounts? Do you avoid looking at your numbers? Or are you looking at your bank accounts every day, maybe multiple times a day? Are you constantly in your spreadsheets? Both of these are symptoms of the same root cause - not feeling good when looking at your numbers. In this week's episode, I'm going to teach you how to look at your numbers with ease. Here'...

Being your own sugar daddy means being financially self-sufficient. Never needing anyone again. Having unlimited access to money. Being in full power over your life and finances. "Hot bitch in charge" energy In today's episode, I'm going to walk you through WHY being your own sugar daddy gives you freedom, the tactical strategy AND identity work behind this, as well as the 3 C's to actually make i...

💰 Do you feel like saving is the most responsible thing to do with your money? 💰 Do you feel like if you aren't able to save money every single month, that you're doing a bad job at managing your finances? 💰 Does it stress you out to spend your savings? In today's episode, I am debunking the most pervasive myth about saving money... HINT: "spend less, save more" We'll dive into the end goal of...

Welcome to Not Starving Artists! I'm your host Brooke Benson, Money coach + equity actor. I am your financial cheerleader, here to help you build your financial confidence and have power over your money. The best part? No budgeting or bi-weekly paycheck required. I went from a broke BFA grad having weekly panic attacks about money to a financially confident, wealth-building actor + business owner....