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Business of Being Creative with Sean Low

I"m Sean Low, and I"ve been lending practical business advice to those in the business of being creative since the early 2000s, including accomplished notables such as Preston Bailey, Vicente Wolf, Nate Berkus, Sawyer Berson, Style Me Pretty, Marcy Blum, Michelle Rago, and Sylvia Weinstock--to name a few. The key to my own success has been my ability to help artists build their businesses in a way that most honors the art that is behind them. I"ll give you straight up, no holds barred advice on

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Episode 222: Create Joy

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/08/05

Remind yourself why you do what you do. You create joy and you do it with intention. When things go awry it is all too often because the singular purpose has been misformed by ego, by manipulation and by a loss of connection. Finding your way back means two things: tantrums and foundation. Listen in… Original Episode Number: 30 | Original Air Date: 12/01/2020 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Have your own opinion on Sean’s tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email

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14:55

Episode 221: Tomorrow Is Another Day

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/07/29

Unless you are committed to making it look like yesterday. Evolution requires letting go to embrace what could be. It means knowing when you speak of something new, it has to be with a different mindset. Let’s talk about the Phoenix once more. Original Episode Number: 115 | Original Air Date: 11/22/2022 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

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17:44

Episode 220: Make Change A Choice

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/07/22

Change sucks. It is hard, really hard and the inertia to change is a powerful mistress. The decision to change has to be with intention and an ultimate endeavor to reset your foundation without regard to result. Let's talk The Dip. Original Episode Number: 52 | Original Air Date: 5/18/2021 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

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19:19

Episode 219: Value Delivery, The Journey Is The...

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/07/15

Every creative business takes a journey with and for its clients. The points along the way are its value. No doubt, the goal is inevitable if the journey is profound. In this episode, will will talk about the importance of value delivery, subjective and objective and getting paid what you need. The implications will result in the 3W’s — where were you, where are you and where are you going. Of course, there is a story to help. Let us talk about Sandals Resorts and Wonder Woman. Listen in… Original

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12:30

Episode 218: What Is Your One Thing?

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/07/08

At the end of the day, you need permission to do what you do as you would do it. The one thing you have to have to create. Let’s talk about Sunday dinner. Original Episode Number: 103 | Original Air Date: 6/14/2022 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 Sean’s Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media:

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15:24

Episode 217: Choosing What To Measure

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/07/01

Since the dawn of the industrial age, if we can measure it, we will. For creative business, those standards are and will always be amorphous. How do you value an idea? Let’s talk trains and clocks. Original Episode Number: 61 | Original Air Date: 7/20/2021 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 Sean’s Collective of Business

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20:13

Episode 216: The Intention Reception Paradox

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/06/24

Just like governments do not run like businesses, so too does creative businesses not look like other businesses. All too often what would be expected in business, is not true for creative business — say the customer is always right, being hungry and scrappy always works and, of course, price matters above all else. Enter the intention/reception paradox. Listen in… Original Episode Number: 24 | Original Air Date: 10/20/2020 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Talk

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12:49

Episode 215: Integrity

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/06/17

Integrity means getting paid to ask better questions and being willing to live with the answers. Sound cryptic? It is not. Listen in for my explanation. Original Episode Number: 114 | Original Air Date: 11/8/2022 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 Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media:

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16:15

Episode 214: Proaction

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/06/10

What does it mean to be proactive? How often do you practice being, well, you? Let’s talk brain surgery. Original Episode Number: 49 | Original Air Date: 4/27/2021 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook: Facebook.com/Sean.Low.35 | LinkedIn | Twitter: @SeanLow Have an opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean. -- Podcast Network: The Wedding

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24:21

Episode 213: Gender and Race

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/06/03

Art does not see color or sex; clients do though. As with all things creative, how can the business story compel your art to move beyond bias? To do that though you will need to allow conversations to happen as you see them and remove the “get to yes” mentality. Maybe not a solution, but it is a start and definitely worth a conversation. Listen in… 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

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11:53

Episode 212: When You Assume…

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/05/27

If you start a line of reasoning with a presumption, you can only go one way. For most creative businesses, the presumption makes no sense so you can only go the wrong way. The old saying is true, when you assume, you make an…oh you know the rest. Original Episode Number: 127 | Original Air Date: 6/20/2023 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook:

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15:19

Episode 211: Entrepreneurship

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/05/20

I define entrepreneurship as being convicted enough to be relentless in having others believe as you do. This permeates everything a creative business is all about. Let’s talk about Chobani Greek Yogurt. Original Episode Number: 73 | Original Air Date: 10/26/2021 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook: Facebook.com/Sean.Low.35 | LinkedIn | Twitter: @SeanLow

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18:19

Episode 210: The Four Transitions That Define...

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/05/13

Every creative business has four transitions: Potential Client To Actual Client, Idea To Design, Design To Production, Production To Reveal. As with all one-way valves, if they are leaky, things are going to go afoot, often drastically so. Enter Diana Prince. Listen in… Original Episode Number: 14 | Original Air Date: 8/11/2020 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1

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14:33

Episode 209: Contracts

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/05/06

A contract is when your business talks. Do you want to shout? Whisper? Or pretend you are not talking? How about you just tell a story? Original Episode Number: 101 | Original Air Date: 5/31/2022 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook: Facebook.com/Sean.Low.35 | LinkedIn | Twitter: @SeanLow Have an opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Sean. --

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13:08

Episode 208: The Importance Of Your Core

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/04/29

The impact your work as a creative business will have and the places you might take it depend on your core and consistency between your business and your artistry. The frog and the scorpion comes to mind. Original Episode Number: 91 | Original Air Date: 3/15/2022 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook: Facebook.com/Sean.Low.35 | LinkedIn | Twitter: @SeanLow

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26:09

Episode 207: Understanding Herbie And The Importance...

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/04/22

You would not think an operations management book would be so critical to the success of a creative business. After all creative businesses do not produce widgets. Process is process though and if you are not appreciating bottlenecks and motion, you will likely invest in the wrong solution. Enter Herbie and the cub scout hike. Listen in… Original Episode Number: 29 | Original Air Date: 11/24/2020 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of

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17:04

Episode 206: Macro and Micro

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/04/15

The world is upside down so I better react by screaming louder and compromising more. Except you only want ten clients. How about you become more specific, not less? Original Episode Number: 120 | Original Air Date: 2/7/2023 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook: Facebook.com/Sean.Low.35 | LinkedIn | Twitter: @SeanLow Have an opinion on Sean's tips and

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14:09

Episode 205: Dignity

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/04/08

As a creative professional, you see what others do not. It is why you get paid. You try to lead those you seek to serve with a guiding hand. And yet. When those around you refuse your direction what are you to do. Let’s talk about Leona Helmsley. Original Episode Number: 88 | Original Air Date: 2/22/2022 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook:

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20:54

Episode 204: How Do We Come Together?

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/04/01

We live in a world of validators, franchises and even networks. Duncan Hines, McDonald’s and The St. Regis. What if we created a different kind of consortium for creative business? Would we all be able to play nice in the sandbox and change the way clients make their choices? What would the world look like if we did? Original Episode Number: 47 | Original Air Date: 4/13/2021 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Talk Back Guest: Carl Clemetson of Hometown Elegance

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13:10

203: Perfect Egg Reprise

Business of Being Creative with Sean Low ·

2025/03/25

So you want to start something new or continue going on a new endeavor. How do you go about thinking about whether it makes sense to start and/or keep going? Remember The Perfect Egg. Original Episode Number: 139 | Original Air Date: 12/5/2023 Links & Resources: Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative Link: Join Sean's Collective of Business Creatives Follow Sean on social media: Instagram: @SeanLow1 | Facebook: Facebook.com/Sean.Low.35 | LinkedIn | Twitter: @SeanLow Have an opinion on

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