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Startist Society

Laura Lee Griffin and Nikki May

Are fear and procrastination keeping you from making progress in your art business? Artists Laura Lee Griffin and Nikki May believe strongly in the power of community, accountability, following your intuition, taking small actionable steps, and breaking down the barriers that keep you "stuck". The Startist Society will inspire you to stop getting in your own way and start building an art biz and life that you love. Follow along with us on our creative business journey as we encourage you on

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31: Do You Consider Yourself an Artist?

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2021/07/07

In this week's episode, Laura and Nikki discuss the loaded topic of whether or not you consider yourself an artist. When someone asks you what you do, how do you respond? Do you feel imposter syndrome if you tell them you're an artist? Or do you describe yourself as something else? Nikki and Laura share their own stories on how they answer this question. TOPICS DISCUSSED How Nikki responds to the question, "What do you do?" (0:55) Titles that give Nikki imposter syndrome (2:14) Whether or not

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30: Create Your Purpose with Quinn Tempest

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2021/06/30

Nikki and Laura speak with Nikki's business mentor, Quinn Tempest. Quinn is the founder of Create Your Purpose®, a community of global entrepreneurs dedicated to building impactful businesses (and lives) with intention. She helps female founders create more purpose + profit in their business withoutburning out. Her professional expertise is in branding and holistic digital marketing strategy and she is a frequent speaker at events and organizations around the country. During this interview, we'll

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29: Should I Use My Own Name or a Business Name?

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2021/06/23

Nikki and Laura tackle a question that comes up for many artists and other creative entrepreneurs when they start their business – whether you should use your own name or a business name for your brand. In this episode, they discuss pros and cons of each option and share their own answers to the question. TOPICS DISCUSSED What did Laura choose? (1:00) Which way did Nikki go? (1:12) Examples of people who use their own names (1:52) Examples of business brand names (2:23) Pros of using your personal

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28: 13 Lessons Learned from 6 Months of Podcasting

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2021/06/16

Nikki and Laura share with you 13 important lessons they have learned after their first 6 months of podcasting! From a casual brunch last fall to 28 episodes and counting, they have learned a lot about the mindset, the planning, producing, editing and launching of a weekly podcast and are excited to share it all with you. TOPICS DISCUSSED Having a cohost and accountability partner (1:11) The importance of humor (2:02) Getting started (2:37) Podcasts are a lot of work (3:20) Nikki loves bourbon

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27: Artists' Rituals & Routines

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2021/06/09

Why should we have rituals or routines? How can they benefit us? Are there rituals and routines that can be destructive or hold us back? In this episode, Nikki and Laura how positive rituals and routines can help reduce anxiety and stress, help you sleep better and be more productive. They go into their ideal morning and evening routines and share the less-than-ideal routines they currently do by default. They also talk about their rituals for getting into the creative mindset and share some rituals

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26: How Do You Make Time to Create?

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2021/06/02

Do you ever feel like you don’t have time to make your creative work? Between other jobs you might have, the business side of an art career, family obligations and just regular daily life… you probably feel like you never have enough time to do the most important thing in your creative business, which is actually making the art. So how do you find that time? In this episode, Laura and Nikki talk about distractions you can eliminate and how can you refocus your priorities to make more time for

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25: Teaching Live Art Workshops

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2021/05/26

Today, Laura and Nikki talk about teaching live art workshops either in person or online. Teaching is a great way to diversify your income as an artist and between the two of them, Nikki and Laura have experience teaching in a wide variety of situations. In this episode, they share a ton of great tips and considerations to keep in mind when planning your live workshops. TOPICS DISCUSSED: How Laura and Nikki got their start teaching live workshops (2:11) Choosing a venue for in-person workshops

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24: Are You Doing It for the Likes?

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2021/05/19

In this episode, Laura and Nikki talk about whether or not you create, write or make art for the likes. It’s virtually impossible to get away from thinking about how your work is going to appear on Instagram, so when you make your work, are you making it for the Instagram public, for your potential customers or for yourself? TOPICS DISCUSSED: Pressure to produce art that people like and that will get the most engagement on Instagram (1:04) What are you thinking about when you’re actually making

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23: 7 Books That Will Change Your Art Business

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2021/05/12

If you’re a regular listener to the podcast, you already know that Laura and Nikki buy books faster than they can read them. In trying to come up with 5-8 books to recommend on this episode, we realized we had way too many and decided to split them up into categories to share over time. In this week’s episode, we're sharing 7 books we’ve read that have helped us in our art businesses and why we love them. We think you'll love them too. TOPICS DISCUSSED: Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

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22: The Art of the Pivot with Kristin Williams of...

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2021/05/05

Have you ever wanted a peek inside what it's like to own an art retail store or workshop space? In this week's episode, Laura and Nikki speak to someone who has done just that. Kristin Williams has spent a lifetime playing with yarn, glitter, clay, rubber stamps, paper, paints and glue. Collage with ephemera and acrylic paints is Kristin's current fascination and the basis for her artwork. A Knoxville, Tennessee native she moved to Paducah, Kentucky in 1996, where she fell in love and put down

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21: The Process of Submitting Your Art

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2021/04/28

In this episode, Laura and Nikki pick up where they left off last week, and are discussing art submissions. If you haven't already, listen to last week's episode first where the focus was on why you should submit your work and where you can submit it. With all of the many different markets you can submit your artwork to – from art directors at companies that could possibly license your work, to publications, magazines, podcasts, competitions, galleries, shops, festivals, and even art agents…. the

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20: Getting Started Submitting Your Art

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2021/04/21

This is part one of a two-part series (for now!) about art submissions. If you want to make a living from your art, you're going to have to get it out there into the world and get as many of the right eyes on it as possible. You might be lucky enough to have someone find you on Instagram, but most likely, you're going to have to do the work yourself. In this episode, Laura and Nikki bring up five questions that need to be addressed to help you submit your art. Why should you submit your work

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19: Leverage Your Art with Stacie Bloomfield

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2021/04/14

Laura and Nikki interview Stacie Bloomfield, a perfect example of a Startist. Stacie has been creating artwork for brands and products around the world since 2009. Today we learn more about how her illustration business, Gingiber, went from an Etsy start to the thriving company that exists today. Gingiber has had products sold in over 800 stores, along with licensing deals with major product brands. Stacie’s a Moda fabric designer, a published author, and an amazing educator. At a time last year

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18: Commissions and Systems with Miranda van den Heuvel

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2021/04/07

Laura and Nikki interview Laura's talented friend Miranda van den Heuvel. Miranda is an intuitive painter and creative life coach living in Luxembourg. The founder of Create and Connect, she loves to inspire change through creativity. As a life coach, she inspires people to go from reacting to creating their lives. As an artist, she likes to draw parallels between art and life which makes the process so much more fun, personal and valuable. Over the last 10 years, Miranda has developed life coaching

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17: Taxes for Artists with Hannah Cole of Sunlight Tax

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2021/03/31

Laura and Nikki introduce you to Hannah Cole, an artist, educator, and founder of Sunlight Tax. Hannah educates fellow artists about taxes and money because she believes creative people are the empathy builders of our culture and when they're financially secure and empowered, they can make bigger, bolder work that will fix our broken world. Her flagship program is Money Bootcamp, a membership which builds financial skills and fosters a healthy relationship with money and power so that artists can

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