The Type A Creative

In this episode we talk about: What comes to mind when Kathlyn hears the label "Type A" Her experience launching her first course Kathlyn's transition from The Bip Leap Show to Be Brave Get Paid The importance of negotiating your paycheck & the freedom that it can give you and your creative business The evolution of Kathlyn's relationship with money The "gamechanger" that completely altered her view on finances Why you need to untangle your negative thoughts towards money How Kathlyn was able to double her salary The two big takeaways that we need to know about negotiation Where and how to research salary statistics The importance of uncovering your "badassity" and being confident in your strengths and skills The common mistakes that women make when negotiating Why women need to stand in their power in their negotiation conversations   Mentioned In This Episode: The Type A Creative Episode 10: How to Evolve as a Type A Creative with Kathlyn Hart Be Brave Get Paid Course Text "slaytheday" 44222 for

In this episode we talk about: What comes to mind when Melissa hears "Type A" The desire to have several "balls in the air" at one time The stovetop model of life design for passion pluralites How our identity as an artist is impacted by the internal struggle of reconciling what we do with who we are Placing yourself in "artist boxes" Perfectionist paralysis impacting your work What it looks like to be Playing in the Creative Sandbox Creating with the purpose of following curiosity and having fun rather than strictly making a piece of art that will make money The ways that creatives get in their own way by making excuses The importance of tiny, daily acts in your art that are ridiculously achievable How practicing self-compassion allows you to better accomplish goals Creativity as self-care versus creativity being seen as indulgent How engaging in things that interest you refreshes and replenishes your willpower The ways in which the left brain can tend to the right brain and the right brain can tend to the

This episode our first book club episode! In this episode, we're discussing Song of a Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik. BFFs Jackie Dodson and Emily Holmes discuss with host Jenni Heffernan Brown the things we'd loved about the book, things we learned, we discuss great prose and beautiful sentences. Join us on the Type A Creative facebook group to discuss what you like about the book! 

In this episode we talk about: Leaving a corporate job for a fine art education   Who to take your new creations to, and how to trust people with your art  Getting critiques and how to handle new feedback on your work   The things outside of "the work" that are involved in being a fine artist  Marketing and sales tactics Commission work, how to get it, and how fine artist think about it  The seesaw between the right and left brain, intuition and critical thinking when it comes to fine art and painting  Similarities between writing and painting when it comes to fine art.

In this episode we talk about:   Alongside Elle Luna, as an official leader of the "100 Day Project" Collective, Lindsay tells us ways to set up your project so you're likely to succeed. Alongside Elle Luna, as an official leader of the "100 Day Project" Collective, Lindsay tells us ways to set up your project so you're likely to succeed  The importance of making things that you don't turn around and sell to a client  Ideas for your 100 Day Project and what makes a good idea and what makes it difficult for you to get to day 100  What is "generative work" and why is it so important for your 100 Day Project  Using the tools you have, and why it's important not to NOT go out and buy new things  Getting people to meet you at the table and how accountability plays a role in getting to day 100 

In this episode we talk about:  Being a very complex personality, and what it can look like to honor and make space for both stability and living life to it's fullest  Calling in what you want, and being really specific about what you want to make it a reality  Kathleen gives visualization exercises you can try to gain focus and concentration  Worthiness and receiving — ways you can relax into receiving the goals you want vs. muscling yourself to success.   The process of taking your authentic voice and translating that to a written word  Some juicy behind the scenes for the anticipated book, Being Boss 

In this episode we talk about:    Creative State of the Union: we check in with BFFs Emily Holmes and Jackie Dodson to talk about what we are working on creatively, where we are stuck, and the projects we wish we were working on.     Creative Diet: we share things creative things that we are consuming that are inspiring us in our creative practice.     Goal Setting + Accountability: we each choose 1 thing we can creatively work on for the next few weeks, and you can choose to be accountable right along with us.  

On this show we talk about:  What are the four phases of the moon and how exactly do they affect Type As?  When in the moon phases should Type As relax, step back, and tap into other sides of yourself  When Type As tend to meet their inner demons in the creative process, and how to check-in, be present and keep going  How to drop-in to really engage with the limbic centers of the brain and connect more deeply  Being a Type A and asking for help 

In this episode we talk about:  Using WRITING as your money maker to fund your dreams  Launching an enormous vision and the tactical on-the-ground facts from someone in the trenches  Taking financial risks to support your vision  Pitching big companies to land retainers  The power of words and how they can physically bri

In this episode we talk about:  Tapping into the creative flow, and knowing how to be consistent when it comes showing up and doing the work  Burning Type A, and finding your own edge as a creative person and as a freelancer  How much do we crack the whip for ourselves?  What is the benefit of creating space for yourself?  Creative partnership and the structure that partners can bring to a creative business  How to distill a framework for telling strategic storytelling with heart centeredness and the essence of a character-driven narrative  Growing beyond a project and what it means to hold a project for years and years and years  Shiping it, letting it be ok that it has constraint and just get it other there 

In the show we talked about:     Writing a memoir vs. writing a novel, and how those can be different. What challenges you might come across when trying to find place to imagine vs. holding constraint dear  How poetry and art can change the world  How you as an artist can breathe life into those who inspire you, and inform your own work  How to create art that has something to stay about the political environment, and our role as artists when it feels like everything is horrible  The "and" not "or" mentality, and how we can expand our thoughts around our art  Research, and how it is an author like Jasmin built a world of 50s and 60 Iran  Who owns a story? What constitutes having the right to write about something? 

Catherine Madden is a the founder of Relay — which is a design studio based in San Francisco that specializes in helping clients visualize and communicate data. Her approach is super exploratory and involves a LOT of doodling, but it is based on a foundation of experience in design thinking, data visualization consulting, and visual facilitation.  She does strategic storytelling, graphic recording for private clients, as well as classes and teaches for students wanting to develop their visual skills. 

Can you believe it — we've created an entire season! In this final episode of Season One, Jenni Heffernan Brown sits down her BFF Emily Holmes to talk about this first season of the podcast. We get clips from the top 5 episodes, what we've learned, themes that come up across the show, and of course, lots of laughs.

Sitting down to make work can be seriously one of the hardest parts about being an artist. It's can be even more challenging when faced with a project that feels like a creative risk. In this episode, Ella Sophie is talking to us about how to take creative risks, and what really goes into making work consistently.  

Kristen Estes is the CEO of Moonwalker Digital, a web design agency that specializes in building online platforms for authors, speakers and online influencers. When she isn't helping leaders kill it online, she can be found singing for Krystal Optiks, an aggressive synthpop band from Austin, TX with fans worldwide. The embodiment of, "multi-passionate entrepreneur," Kristen seeks to be an anomaly by fully rocking out two businesses, and encourages other creatives to do the same.

Juliet is also someone that I have collaborated with over the years at my brand strategy studio,  Prim'd Marketing. It's been great to watch her business move from a branding-centric focus, over to pattern design, with Juliet becoming primarily known for her own original artwork. I thought she would be great to have come by the show so we can talk a bit about how to bring more of your art into your business, so you're creating the kinds of work you enjoy vs. just fulfilling client briefs

Caroline Donahue is a Book + Writing Coach who helps authors stop waiting and start writing. She's also the host of The Secret Library podcast, where she has interviewed over 70 writers about writing and publishing their books. She's also working on her first novel herself, so she's no stranger to what it can feel like to be overwhelmed by the scope and ambition of a project. Between her coaching, her podcast, and her own book, she's the perfect person to geek out with about the creative process, what gets people stuck when it comes to making work, and how to stop putting it off and just get your work out there already.    

When it comes to being an entrepreneur and an artist, being wildly responsible doesn't seem to be the FIRST thing that comes to mind. Yet, so many of the successful art businesses out there depend on some very sound structures to keep the business moving forward. This week artist Cathy Zhang, is on the show talking about taking responsible risks, opportunity costs, and how being a starving artist can be a myth and not something that actually happens to you: 

We all have inner critics who show up and try to convince us that our ideas aren't any good, or that we shouldn't waste our time working stuff that "someone's probably already done." Danielle Krysa, author of Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk is on the show talking about the real stuff that no one talks about when making work: the hard days when nothing good gets made, how to own your success without bragging, and giving yourself permission to just be an artist already.