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15. Taylor Swift: From Blank Space to Mastermind (Part 2)
Episode 15 • 22nd November 2023 • Making Artists • Nancy Sun
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In this episode we continue our deep dive into Taylor Swift and what we can learn from her success as an artist and the impact she has made. 

There are only three steps that you need to take in order to become a creative success. I reference these in another episode 3 Steps To Creative Succe$$, but I’ll summarize the 3 steps here: 

  • Make Your Art
  • Share Your Art 
  • Ask Others For What Your Art Needs

In part 1 of our deep dive into Taylor Swift we talked about the first step to become a creative success- Making your art. (link to that episode below to go and listen)

In this episode we will dive into the last two parts, sharing your art and asking others for what your art needs and I will show you how Taylor Swift does both of those things and what actions you can start taking to model how she does this.


Things referenced in episode:

Pepe Silva Meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pepe-silvia

Previous Taylor Swift Episode: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/9490396c-fbd9-42b4-b036-fc847008c790

3 Steps to Creative Succe$$ Episode: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/3e8e1ab0-dc80-4fdc-966e-e72f70ade1ee



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Nancy:

Hey artists, welcome to the second episode of the second

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season, and it's also the second

episode about Taylor Swift.

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So yes, for those of you who

haven't listened yet to the previous

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episode, I have already talked for

a full hour about Taylor Swift.

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You can scroll back in the archives

of wherever you were listening to

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this episode, or see the link in

the show notes for Taylor Swift.

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From blank space to mastermind part

one and when you listen to that episode

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you'll hear I had a hunch That what

ended up being an hour long episode would

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still end up not being enough to cover

all of Taylor Swift's art and business

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of art lessons So, for those of you

who were not already Swifties before

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that podcast, I have just one question.

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Have I converted you yet?

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And for those of you who have

already been converted to Swiftiedom

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for this second episode, I'm

gonna ask, are you ready for it?

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Okay, that was me attempting an Easter

egg, hashtag if you know, you know.

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After I made the first episode,

I actually joked that I felt like

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I was a living version of that

smoking Charlie Day Pepe Sylvia meme

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from Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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I'll link the visual to you.

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And to continue on that meme,

you're currently listening to a

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sequel and continuation of what

Taylor Swift offers us as fellow

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humans, creatives, and artists.

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Here on the making artists podcast

before we continue I just want to

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acknowledge that if you notice That I

have a different vocal quality, which

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some might call raspy, or nasally.

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I am recovering from a cold.

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So, I just wanna thank you in advance

for your grace around What's gracing your

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ears and just hope that you understand

that this felt so urgent, important

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and exciting that I just wanted to

get it to you as quickly as possible.

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And also because as the mom of a

toddler who goes to daycare, I cannot

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guarantee that I will not have another

cold next week and that I will not

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still have a raspy, nasally voice

the next time I record a podcast.

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So, with that in mind, I am just taking

one of the lessons from my previous

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episode and from Taylor Swift to use

the resources I have, including my...

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Still functioning voice today to give

you this sequel of Lessons and Gems.

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So this episode, part two of From Blank

Space to Mastermind, is an especially

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important listen for artists, creatives,

influencers, digital creators, who are

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ready to retire from their current side

hustles, and who want to create full

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time as their profession or their career.

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You know, as I was continuing to

research for this episode, I heard

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the phrase possibility model, instead

of, for instance, a role model, and

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I realized That's how I want you to

consider applying Taylor Swift here.

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Because a possibility model

is a model that inspires you.

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gives you space to find your own

path, your own possibilities, and

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models a new possible way of living

and of being a human, rather than

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just asking you to copy paste their

ambitions, achievements, and results.

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Because so many creatives listening

might not exactly aspire to be a

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billionaire, singer songwriter,

director, multi hyphenate.

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And that's okay.

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In fact, it's great.

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We need as many possibility

models as possible, including you.

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I want you to be one of them so

that I can make a podcast episode

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or episodes about You one day.

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So as I mentioned in the previous

episode and in the steps to creative

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success episode Both available in the

show notes I have observed there are

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three simple steps to making a living

as an artist you need to Step one make

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art Step two, share your art, and then

step three, ask for what your art needs.

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In part one, I focused the majority

of the lessons on what Taylor Swift

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has taught us about making art.

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Step one, including how to manage the

human feelings that arise as being an

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artist, the actual creative process

of making art, and what you should

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think about your current resources.

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So in this episode, I'm going to be

focusing the lessons on step two,

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sharing your art, and step three,

asking others for what your art needs.

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Mainly, this episode will

be championing a case.

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that you have to do both of

these steps in order to succeed.

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And using Taylor Swift as a person who

has done both of these steps, rinse

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and repeat, rinse and repeat, until

at this point she's printing money.

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So many of the artists who come to

me for coaching only do step one.

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They only listen to and integrate

the first podcast, and then

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they wonder how come they aren't

getting discovered, represented.

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They aren't getting auditions,

options, overall deals, book

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auctions, like the artists they

envy or like my paying clients.

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And they want to hire me for

this tough love observation.

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You.

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Are a tree falling in a forest with no

one there to hear it right now, honey.

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And that is the opposite of Taylor

Swift, who some might argue that between

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the dating gossip, her pap walks,

and the heiress tour, is becoming

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a little overexposed right now.

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But as a coach and a fellow

artist, I think that's okay.

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Because she is overexposed

while doing step three.

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Asking for what her art needs, and that

means she is able to monetize this current

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season of exposure or overexposure.

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Make an incredible, abundant living

from it, which also will enable her to

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keep making more of the art Swifties

love, and possibly on a bigger, better,

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different, and more accessible scale than

she could have before, and which we might

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currently not even be able to imagine.

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So that's just a little preview on

where this episode is heading, but

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let's not get ahead of ourselves.

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Let's just jump into step two.

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Share your art.

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Share your art ideally with as many

people as possible, as often as

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possible, and that might even mean

sharing your art indiscriminately.

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Now, sharing your art can include sharing

your skill and craft as an artist.

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There are so many clients I support who

have businesses where they are selling

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their service as a creative, for instance.

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It can also include sharing

your identity as an artist.

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That means when you are gathering around

the dinner table for this holiday season,

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not being afraid to tell people, family

members included, that you are an artist.

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Even when you go out on a date to a

party where you know no one and they

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ask you what you do to identify as an

artist and this can also include sharing

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your dreams and artistic ambitions.

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Now, ultimately I want you to share

your art because you don't know

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who the audience for your art is.

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You don't know who your art will help,

and you don't know how sharing it can

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help your art or you as the artist.

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Now, a lot of artists have resistance

to doing this step, so If you

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are feeling that same tension,

know that you are not alone.

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A lot of artists who have human

brains resist this because it opens

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you up, your art up, your dreams

up, to other people's thoughts,

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feelings, judgments, and opinions.

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And brains usually have a negativity bias

and can only think of the bad things, the

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bad consequences, the catastrophes that

can occur from talking to other people.

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And when you see someone as successful

as Taylor is right now, you might

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forget it did not come naturally,

and it took a lot of and still

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takes a lot of sharing her art.

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In fact, lesson one

simply is share your art.

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No one gets to pass go

and just collect 200.

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No one gets to share their art without

other people's thoughts, feelings,

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judgments, and unsolicited feedback.

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No one only gets compliments, yeses,

and Add to cart when they share.

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You are not alone with this

resistance, and you should

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still share your art anyway.

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Starting out, sharing her dream

of becoming a country singer.

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made her weird and

unpopular with her peers.

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This is what her former middle school and

high school classmates and friends of a

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friend have disclosed if you see their

shares on public forums like Reddit.

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When she shared this stream

with record label executives and

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gatekeepers, she got the feedback

that country radios has an audience

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of middle aged men and their wives.

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And so they told her that there was no

market for a teenage singer and no teenage

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girls were interested in country radio.

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This is a myth that

ultimately she would debunk.

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And country radio would benefit from

her expanding their market to include a

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newer, younger, and female demographic.

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Then, even when she got signed,

and even when her first album was

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released, She still put in the

sweat equity to share her art.

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She recalls sitting on the floor

of her record label office with her

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mom and literally being the person

putting her album into envelopes

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and mailing them to country radio

stations to promote her work.

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Then on top of doing the

normal press, radio, publicity

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tours that she has always done

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for

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Nancy: each album, She also shared her art

in unique, interesting, and true to her

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ways like the 1989 Secret Sessions, where

she invited fans into her home to listen

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to the album with her for the first time.

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Taylor Swift has not been

above sharing her art.

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And she has not been immune to

receiving negative judgments,

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opinions, feedback, and backlash.

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In interviews, she has shared her

thoughts on this aspect of being

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an artist, which, at her level,

we can just simply call fame.

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She has said, especially while

mentoring other artists, up and

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coming and perhaps experiencing

their first time media backlash, she

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has said, This is part of the job.

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This is part of it, and this is normal.

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Artists, sharing your

art is part of the job.

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If you want your art to be your job,

Sharing your art is part of the job.

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Now, I know the resistance you

must be experiencing firsthand,

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because a lot of clients work

with me on this exact problem.

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They have mind drama around sharing their

art, finding the people to share their

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art with, finding the opportunities to

share their art, and then doing it enough,

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in enough places, with enough people,

sufficient to create fans and advocates.

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Right now, this is happening in

my six month container with one on

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one clients, but we work on this

even in my group coaching programs.

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Because often, artists don't just

need a plan of action handed out

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to them on how to share their art.

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They need support to actually do the plan.

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They've already outlined and I hold them

accountable as a coach so that when they

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get their first ghost, their first no, or

their first piece of negative unsolicited

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advice, usually from a family member.

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They do not stop.

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So as a palette cleanser, because I

know we've been focusing so much on the

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negative outcomes and the resilience

you need to deal with those from

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sharing your art, I want to share

a positive story, a client success

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that I have been able to witness.

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So in the first round of my

group program, the Making Artists

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Mastermind, I had a client who Uh,

a voiceover artist who wanted to

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go all in full time on voiceover.

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She was currently working in a toxic

corporate environment and it was

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affecting her emotional wellbeing.

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We've all been there.

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She shared this dream with us

and she shared her art with

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us as her fellow artists.

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And one of my other artist clients

suggested a Facebook group she could join.

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So she did and there she practiced

step two again She shared her dream

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and her voiceover demo reel and caught

the eye of an agent Who started working

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with her and sending her auditions.

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She got another opportunity to share her

art She shared her art with people in

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decision making power to hire her when

she auditioned and she did this often

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enough That she booked her first four

figure voiceover gig, which also had

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opportunities for more work in the future.

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This enabled her to quit her

corporate gig and do voiceover full

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time in just four short months.

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Thinking about her ahead of this

episode, I looked at her website and

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have been blown away by the clients

she has been able to be the voice for.

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So if that particular voiceover client

is listening to me recount and celebrate

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their success in this podcast right now,

I just want to say this is about you.

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You know who you are.

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And I love you.

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And if you aren't her and want support

from a fellow artist and professional

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certified coach like me, reach out.

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There are so many ways available

to get in touch in the show notes,

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including right now, you can book

your own consult with me to see if

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Coaching Together is a fit for you.

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This is actually such a great

segue into my second lesson of step

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two, sharing your art, which is

Let other people share your art.

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Let other people share your art

the way this client has allowed

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me to share their success story.

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A lot of people are uncomfortable with

this step because it means letting

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go of control of the narrative.

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It means surrendering.

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It means not being able to choose

who the art is shared with, how

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it is shared, and what everyone

else is saying about your art.

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without you.

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Now, there are so many examples

of this over the long history of

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Taylor's very public career, but I'm

going to focus on examples happening

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right now on the Heiress Tour.

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A lot of Swifties have had the

privilege of attending her concerts

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in person, and have been posting

clips of her performances online.

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And, even though they are fans, one

could say that some of their clips

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don't always show her in her best light.

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There are clips of her forgetting lines

to her own songs, which, we forgive you

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Taylor, you have so many freaking songs.

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We see clips of her wearing her costume

wrong, getting tripped up by her

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dancers, and my personal favorite is

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And if she didn't let the media or her

fans share her art for her right now,

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I would argue that her current income

streams, her tour, her tour film, and the

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Taylor's version re recordings of each of

her albums wouldn't be as successful or

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making as much coin as they are right now.

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For this argument, I'm going to

get a little inside baseball.

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But, I think you're up for it.

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As artists, we are all quote

unquote Baseball players here.

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So, after the start of her Heiress tour,

the WGA Writer's Strike began, and then

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the SAG AFTRA Actor's Strike began.

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These two strikes, in total, have

lasted six months, which is the

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vast majority of her current tour.

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These strikes...

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have essentially kept Hollywood at a

standstill, so much so that California,

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the state where Hollywood is the

predominant industry, has lost at

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least six billion dollars economically.

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This is important because Hollywood,

the industry that is affected by

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these two strikes, they know the

importance of step two, share your art.

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For the past six months, Hollywood

has not been sharing their art.

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Screenwriters and showrunners

have not been promoting the

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films and TV shows they wrote.

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Actors, A listers, have not been able

to promote what they've been acting in.

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In fact, there haven't even been

afternoon or late night talk shows to

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do any promotion on here in the States.

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Hollywood knows how important step

two sharing your art is that they

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pushed back a lot of the release

dates for their blockbuster ambitious

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projects because of the strike.

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Hollywood would rather wait for the

strike to be over so that actors and

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writers can share their art because

they know letting them do so means

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more ticket sales and more money.

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So how does this relate to

Taylor Swift making Bank?

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Well, for six months in the US,

there was no entertainment content

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for media and people to talk about.

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. And in that void, the Taylor

Swift fans at the grassroots level

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swooped in to fill the social media

void by talking among themselves

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about Taylor Swift and her tour.

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When she lets her fans talk about

the songs and the performances, with

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each other, and with non Swifties,

she has been able to sell concert

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tickets, sell movie tickets, sell her

two re released albums, and gotten

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more people to stream her songs.

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In fact, letting her arts share her

art for her is what allowed Cruel

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Summer, a song from her 2019 Lover

album that was not even released

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as a single, to move up the charts.

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It's randomly three years later

to number one in pop this fall.

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So lesson two is let other

people share your art.

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And what is lesson three?

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It's actually a natural

extension of lesson two.

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It's let your art be misunderstood.

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The funniest example I have

of this is from Taylor Swift.

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is the single blank space.

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It's that song where she sings Got a

long list of ex lovers and people kept

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confusing it for All the lonely Starbucks

lovers Does anyone remember that?

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And thank you for humoring me and my off

key singing voice while I have a cold.

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Well, anyway, this could be happening

actually all over again because that

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particular song was just re recorded and

re released, so people might be making

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the same mistake with their hearing.

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I want to offer that this lyric in

blank space, being misunderstood,

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didn't affect or maybe even

positively affected its popularity.

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After all, a lot of

people drink Starbucks.

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And in spite of, or because of

this confusion, Blank Space still

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spent seven weeks on the Hot 100,

went eight times platinum, and

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got three Grammy nominations.

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So, your art being misunderstood might

not actually hurt your art's success.

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In fact, it might help it.

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And it could benefit

your growth as an artist.

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Your art being misunderstood gives you

the opportunity to think, Well, if I

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don't want my art to be misunderstood

in that same way again, How and what

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can I create differently next time?

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And you wouldn't have gotten

that perspective without the

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initial misunderstanding.

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In my own life, I can see that my

child, or perhaps the development

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of any child, as an example of this.

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Toddlers are compelled to learn to

speak because they are tired and

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frustrated by being misunderstood.

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They discover that their body

language and their nonverbal

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cues are not enough to always

consistently get them what they want.

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So, they change it up.

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They switch strategies and tactics and

start making the noises that all the

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other adults make around them that has

allowed adults to get what adults want.

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This is why a lot of artists, while they

make their art alone, have studio visits,

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let other writers read their drafts, they

take scene study class, or invite other

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creatives into the room, because sharing

it It gives you more different data for

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your art the next time you do step one.

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Make your art.

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And I guess my last lesson for

step two, share your art, is

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share the art you like less.

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Because, just because it's not

your favorite as the artist.

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doesn't mean it won't be

someone else's favorite.

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That it won't still find fans outside

of you, the person who created it.

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Taylor has so many examples of this,

with her recent re recorded albums, i.

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e.

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all of her Taylor's versions.

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To create interest in each new re

released album, she has released

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bonus From the Vault songs.

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So songs that, for

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one

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Nancy: reason or another, never

made it onto the original album.

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And as a Swiftie, I admit, I

sometimes think that these From the

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Vault songs are better bops than

what she put on the original album.

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I'm thinking specifically of her

song, All Too Well, on the album Red.

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The original publicly released version

was about five minutes long and presumably

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kept the gems, her most favorite

verses, from her songwriting process.

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That would have made a

continuous, cohesive song.

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However, in an interview during the

promotion of that album, Red, and

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that song, All Too Well, she disclosed

that an earlier draft of this song

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actually included 7 or 8 more verses

and was as long as 10 minutes.

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And as soon as her fans discovered

there was a 10 minute version with

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even more verses, They decided

they wanted to hear that version.

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Maybe they would like

that version even more.

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And Taylor gave the fans what they wanted.

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When she re released Red in

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produced 10 minute version.

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And it became the longest song

to ever reach number one on the

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Hot 100, and it got a Grammy

nomination for Song of the Year.

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The short film that she made to

accompany that song ended up winning

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an MTV Video Music Award and the

Best Music Video Award Grammy.

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On tour, we frequently see

her play surprise songs.

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Songs that are less well known,

less streamed in her oeuvre, and she

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still gets a stadium of thousands of

people to sing along with her these

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less known, less well liked songs.

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So even when you as an artist

aren't maybe the audience or the

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person for your art, don't stop

your art from finding its people.

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I'm reminded of the time where

I shot a callback audition.

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in a Gap dressing room.

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Yes, you heard that correctly.

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I was in back to back auditions that

day and I realized that my previous

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audition would not have given me

enough time to go home and take

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the Skype video call in my home.

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So, the next best solution I had

was to take the Skype video call

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in a gap dressing room, because

dressing rooms are well lit.

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And for the entire audition, I had

to hold my phone out in front of me,

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like a selfie, as opposed to have

it set up and my body fully free.

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I did the entire callback audition this

way, and to be frank, I didn't like it.

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I didn't think it was my best work.

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I would not have been surprised

if they decided not to hire me.

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But, spoiler alert, They did.

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This became my first out of town shoot

for a SAG AFTRA short film by a director

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that I really wanted to work with because

I had seen and heard of their independent

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films on the film festival circuit.

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And even though this was not my

favorite audition and my favorite

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way of showing my acting skills, it

still was their favorite audition.

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I still was their favorite actor of

all the initial auditions they saw,

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and of all the people they called back.

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And in fact, when I was on set, the

director asked me what the deal was

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with my callback, and we had a laugh

when I explained my scheduling conflict

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and how I had to be entrepreneurial

and take the call in a dressing room.

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So, share your art, let other people share

your art, let your art be misunderstood,

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and even share your less liked art so

it can find the people that love it.

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And now let's discuss the lessons in step

three to becoming a creative success.

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Step three, ask for what your art needs.

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Yes, step three, the last step, is

ask others for what your art needs.

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And much like the first lesson in

step two, maybe the lesson here is

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you actually have to do this step.

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Again, this is a step you cannot

bypass on your way to making money

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and making an impact as an artist.

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And I want to normalize.

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That this step can seem very hard,

maybe because of the people you are

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asking to fulfill your art's needs.

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Taylor Swift has often talked

about her inferiority complex when

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reaching out to other artists in

her industry as collaborators.

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When she was making the transition

between musical genres and playing with

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pop, or from pop playing with genres

and moving to indie rock and folk, she

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had to reach out to, or chose to reach

out to, people who are masters of that

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genre she did not have experience in,

and invited them to be her collaborators.

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Now, we as her fans with 2020 Hindsight

might think, Hello, Obvi, they wanted to

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collaborate with you because you're an

amazing songwriter and who wouldn't want

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the opportunity to make a boatload of

money by creating a hit single with you?

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But that is not the way that

Taylor sees herself, necessarily.

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She tells a story in Folklore, the

Long Pond Sessions, of Asking Bon

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Iver to collaborate with her on Exile.

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And what I mean by asking Bon Iver to

collaborate with her on Exile I actually

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mean allowing her collaborators, Aaron

Destner and Jack Antonoff, to be the

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people who did the asking for her.

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But, she didn't stop them from asking,

because it was ideally the person

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she wanted to be on that song with.

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But the entire time that they were

collaborating on that song, co singing, co

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writing it, she shared that she thought,

This isn't really going to happen.

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He's going to change his mind about this.

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This is not part of my reality.

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There's no way.

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This is not going to happen.

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He's going to record the vocals

and then change his mind.

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And he didn't.

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I offer these examples to you

because maybe you, like Taylor,

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are very hard on yourself and don't

give yourself permission to ask

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others for what your art needs.

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And.

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Maybe you, like Taylor, are fucking

awesome at your art and others

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would absolutely leap at the

chance to collaborate with you.

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I have a writing client who had the

dream of getting published by what she

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regarded as a premier print publication.

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Writing in the genre that she

wanted to write in, which included

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travel and personal essay.

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But she hadn't previously been

drafting stories in that vein or

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pitching stories in that vein to

editors at those publications.

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So we worked on calming the mind

drama, believing in herself enough

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sufficient to actually pitching these

super yummy, delicious, compelling,

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and interesting stories that have

been floating around in her brain.

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And the result was in the time that we

worked together, she not only published

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one, but two of the pieces in two

different premier print publications.

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And one of the stories was so compelling

that Hollywood came calling with not

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one, but two options on the story rights.

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And this was a natural outcome out of her.

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Asking for what her art needed,

which was a platform, an audience.

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And now it might be on the way to

finding an even bigger platform,

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an even bigger audience, because

it might still want to be told.

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So the lesson here is to do this step.

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Ask others for what your art needs.

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And I want to acknowledge that

you might not just need...

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A collaborator, an editor,

you might want money.

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What might benefit your art is if other

people gave you money for it so that you

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could focus on cultivating it full time.

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And the biggest lesson, especially

around money, is Allow others

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to give your art what it needs.

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Allow others to give you, as an

artist, what you need to make your art.

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This is something that I brought up in

the previous episode, because Taylor

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does a really good job of receiving,

allowing others to give to her,

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allowing her family to invest in her.

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She has plenty of ways for fans

to put their money where their

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mouth is, so to speak, and invest

and purchase paraphernalia, songs.

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albums, tickets, et cetera, so they

can directly support her as an artist.

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She does not back away from the money

conversation when it comes to her fans.

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She has very publicly explained why

she has re recorded her albums, and

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that is because the previous recordings

Are not financially advantageous to

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her, especially now that they've been

sold to private equity companies.

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So she has shared with fans, hey, if

you want to support me as an artist and

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support me making more art directly,

I am going to re record all my earlier

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albums and I want you to listen,

stream, and buy those albums instead.

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She made the request of her fans, and her

fans are responding in kind by taking the

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actions that she has laid out for them.

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And she's created a lot of ways for you

to support her art with your dollars.

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So, Swifty fan, The predominant way that

I have been supporting her art beyond

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talking about her as I am on this podcast

Has been through streaming her albums

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on Spotify But that's not the only way I

could financially support her art Since

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joining her Taylor Nation listserv,

I've noticed that she has released

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four different color vinyls for her

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I also think I could've bought

them all four as a package.

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She has an online merchandise shop that

I keep on getting notifications for

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whenever there's a new Tor merch drop.

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Also on her tour, she has exclusive

merch that you can only buy

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at certain dates because those

particular pieces are limited edition.

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I think there are also Target editions

of her album, which means if you

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specifically buy it at Target, it comes

with a special bonus song, special

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voice memos, maybe even a tour poster.

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She has deals like this everywhere

with different vendors to encourage

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people to buy through that vendor,

or maybe if you're a collector, you

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can just Pokemon catch them all.

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And of course, you can

watch her tour film.

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Right now, it's exclusively in movie

theaters, but I have a hunch that at some

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point in 2024, you'll probably be able

to stream it, rent it, and also buy it.

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Taylor Swift makes sure that her fans

can support her at whatever price

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point they want to support her in.

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And I want to acknowledge that she does.

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Have a team, a system in place in

order to offer this many things at

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this many price points across this

many platforms and forms of media.

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The question for you, artist, is do you

allow your fans to give you any money?

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Do you actually allow

yourself to receive support?

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So, even in the case of finding Bon Iver

as a collaborator for her song, Exile,

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while she did not do the asking directly

to make that collaboration happen, she

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allowed Aaron to ask on her behalf.

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Would you do the same?

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And then, would you follow up to

actually get the resource your art needs?

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To make the sale when someone says they

want to commission you for something Do

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you actually talk about the Commission?

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Including the dollars and cents to

buy the materials and pay the artists

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that would make that Commission

happen Do you let people buy your art?

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Are there add to cart buttons

wherever you share your art?

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Do you give yourself permission to close

the deal, make the sale, close the sale?

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I support a lot of my clients with

the mind drama that can come up around

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talking about the taboo topic of money.

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I've helped my clients negotiate

raises, even at their survival job,

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but also in their freelance business.

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So much so, for instance,

that I have one client.

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who tripled their income as a copywriter

in the time that we worked together.

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I've supported clients make

their first, second, third sale.

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Supported them also raising their

prices so that it was actually

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sustainable for them to be an artist.

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These are all things that you might want

to do or wish to do because you know it

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would benefit your creative practice.

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But the challenge is, will

you allow yourself to do it?

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And then will you allow other

people to meet that need that

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you've articulated to them?

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Because your art is worth it.

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It is worth supporting, nourishing,

cultivating, and giving a full life

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beyond the confines of your studio,

your laptop, your scene study class.

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So I hoped you enjoyed walking

through these particular steps and

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some specific lessons that Taylor

Swift Possibility models for us

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so that we can start applying and

taking these actions for ourselves.

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I admit, I look at these lessons

myself, I listen to these podcasts

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myself, and I think, ooh, I could be

doing more of that too as an artist.

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I fully intend to apply

these lessons myself.

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You will probably see me in the next

year show up differently in spaces,

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sharing my art practice, sharing

my acting, sharing my writing, in

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addition to sharing my coaching.

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So if you want to come along for the ride.

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You can follow me on social media or

if you want direct one on one support

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yourself So that we can inspire each

other and hold each other accountable

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to becoming Taylor Swift level

Possibility models, please get in touch

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and until then Keep sharing your art.

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Keep letting other people share your art.

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Keep sharing the art

you might not even like.

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And allow your art to be misunderstood.

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Ask others for what your art needs.

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And that also means allowing

others to contribute.

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Allowing yourself to receive

the support that they can offer.

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And until then...

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Keep making your art.

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Bye!

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