Catherine Orer is an award-winning Business & PR Strategist and founder of The Artist Entrepreneur, where she counsels professional visual artists and creative entrepreneurs who want to build sustainable businesses and careers. After working as a PR professional for multinational corporations, and then for art galleries in Paris and North America, she decided to create The Artist Entrepreneur, a business which seeks to bridge the gap between creativity and being business savvy. Catherine and her team do this by offering strategic consulting services to help artists, art galleries, and other artistically-related businesses and organizations reach their professional goals.
In this episode, we cover:
4:17 – The Artist Entrepreneur
6:02 – How to sell art
8:24 – Selling an idea
10:24 – Finding the story
13:12 – Finding the ‘why’ behind your work
14:01 – Daily journaling
14:53 – The role of community for an artist
16:11 – Making an impact with your art
17:16 – Developing creative courage
18:14 – Inspiration doesn’t happen at the computer
18:55 – Cooking and creativity
19:42 – Finding your passion
Resources mentioned in this episode:
theartistentrepreneur.com/
instagram.com/catherineorer
Tools: Insights Mindfulness Timer
Book: Essentialism by Greg Keown
If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show.
The post CL216: The Artist Entrepreneur - Interview with Catherine Orer appeared first on James Taylor.
Safi Bahcall is the author of Loonshots. After studying physics at Harvard and Stanford, he founded a biotech company specializing in cancer drugs, led its IPO, and served as its CEO for 13 years. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 and in 2011, he worked with President Obama’s council of science advisors.
In this episode, we cover:
5:18 – The problem with ‘Disruptive Innovation’
9:45 – How to win the Nobel Prize
10:43 – What to ignore
12:03 – How to write a non-fiction book
13:48 – How phrase transitions work
14:43 – An emergent behaviour
18:15 – The power of competing forces
19:23 – Stake in the outcome vs Perks of rank
22:32 – What we can learn from Richard Branson about innovation and creativity
27:25 – How McKinsey promotes executives
28:44 – How ideas get crushed in companies
30:26 – Structure vs Culture
31:59 – Organisation as a weapon
37:20 – REAS
Resources mentioned in this episode:
loonshots.com
Tool: Copernic
Album: Nina Simone Greatest Hits
Book: Short Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show.
The post CL215: Loonshots And The Problem With Disruptive Innovation - Interview with Safi Bahcall appeared first on James Taylor .
Matt Ward is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur, speaker, futurist, growth hacker, and author focused on helping startups change the world. He now runs The Syndicate podcast where he interviews top angel investors and VCs like Jeff Clavier, Esther Dyson and Tim O’Reilly about early stage tech investing. If hosting one podcast wasn’t enough he also hosts The Disruptors podcast where he covers exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, genetics, blockchain and quantum computing. He is also the author of ‘Gods of the Valley: How Today’s Tech Giants Monopolize the Future’.
In this episode, we cover:
1:52 – The Disruptors
3:32 – Longevity and living to 150
6:11 – Genetic editing
10:44 – The rise of clean meat
14:41 – Inequalities of artificial intelligence
17:08 – Ready Player One and a VR world
21:34 – Autonomous vehicles
Resources mentioned in this episode:
disruptors.fm
mattward.co
Tools: Slack, Zapier, Google Docs
Book: How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show.
The post CL214: The Rise Of The Clean Meat Industry - Interview with Matt Ward appeared first on James Taylor .
Liston Witherill is an author, speaker, and advisor to agencies and consulting firms ready to move beyond the referral. Liston’s work is based on cutting edge psychology, behavioral economics, and his own sales experience. His mantra is “Serve, Don’t Sell,” and he believes selling should be an ethical, win-win arrangement 100% of the time. Prior to creating his training business, Liston was the owner of a boutique marketing firm, and ran business development and marketing for a $12M consulting firm. He podcasts 3x a week, and runs 3 times a week, and lives with his beautiful wife, cat, and dog in Portland, OR.
In this episode, we cover:
3:16 – The power of podcasting
9:41 – Serve, don’t sell
12:51 – Fyre Festival
18:00 – Creating a repeatable sales plan
19:44 – Designing a better discovery call
20:39 – Pain, Goal, Value
21:00 – 70/30 Rule for sales calls
21:14 – “Why are we on the phone today?”
23:52 – The five why’s
24:23 – The magic wand question
28:13 – How to finish a sales call
Resources mentioned in this episode:
liston.io
Tools: Ulysees App
Typeform
Sales Navigator
Album: Donuts by J Dilla
Book: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on YouTube, iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the Creative Life show.
The post CL213: How To Sell Your Work Using 'Serve, Don't Sell' - Interview with Liston Witherill appeared first on James Taylor .