Listen to our Autonomous Creative Incubator alumni tell their stories:
Celebrating 6 new creative businesses!🎉🙌

I’m so incredibly proud to introduce you second cohort of the Autonomous Creative Incubator! We’ve all been working so hard for this day, and it...
From riding the rollercoaster to piloting the plane—how one artist brought joy and financial stability back to her business

Listen to Rauni’s story in her own words: Rauni Higson is a silversmith based in Snowdonia: a picturesque, mountainous region in North Wales. She began...
Sewist overcomes burnout to stitch together a stronger business model

Listen to Martha's story in her own words: Production sewing coach, Marty Remsen felt like no matter how much effort she put into her business,...
Frustrated filmmaker overcomes a crisis of confidence to find rapid success

Listen to Avantika’s story in her own words: As an accomplished filmmaker, Avantika Hari Agrawal has always been full of ideas. She enjoyed the creativity,...
Finding the Venn diagram of the work that pays well and the work you want to do

Listen to Stephanie's story in her own words: After studying illustration in school, Stephanie Shafer stumbled into working as an art director. Although the job...
From Burnt Out Artist to Joyful Creative Coach: The Power of the “Perfect Fit” Business Model

Listen to Eleanor's story in her own words: Eleanor Chaney is an artist and educator who has worked as an illustrator, exhibited her prints in...
Announcing 12 new sustainable creative businesses: Time to celebrate! 🎉

I’m so incredibly proud to introduce you to the inaugural cohort of the Autonomous Creative Incubator! We’ve all been working so hard for this day...
Are you on the hamster wheel of being overworked and underpaid? How one neurodivergent artist created a path to success

Listen to Deirdre's story in her own words: When people talk about being “stuck” professionally because of constant overwhelm in their life, Deirdre Colgan Jones...
Read about what they've accomplished with The Creative Focus Workshop:
How being brave just ONCE brought forth a world of opportunities, and kickstarted a dream creative career

If you have big dreams of starting a creative career… If you can imagine making something awesome and ambitious… ...then you can also imagine screwing...
Say goodbye to creative burnout: “If it doesn’t fit, it won’t happen.”

When you're on the brink of burnout, and you see other people publishing, launching, getting distribution deals, it's understandable if you think, "Those people clearly...
“It’s kind of poised to leap now, and that’s really scary and exciting…”

Liz Schiller is a writer, and not only that, she's writing a musical, one of the more complex and demanding dramatic forms to master. But...
“It’s like a fortune cookie” — When you surprise yourself with what you’re capable of

On March 14, Mx. Tiffany Leigh performs an excerpt from her unpublished memoir Camp Football at the live storytelling event Take Two, in Brooklyn. (In...
How to build a sustainable work process that produces results WITHOUT burnout

Jennifer Shiman had the dream career for so many creatives. She created a popular series of animations (30-Second Bunnies Theatre: where animated bunnies reenact famous...
Focused action: The time to act is now

Focus unlocks confidence which leads to action. Focused action. The other day I wrote an email to one of the alumni of the Creative Focus...
There is no gatekeeper. There is no gate.

A few weeks ago, I assigned my art students a fun project, a “forgery” of an artist they admire and want to learn from. One...
Focus + accountability = massively improved creative productivity…now that’s math anyone can love

Coni Rojas-Molina grew up drawing and identifying as an artist, but then discovered a love of mathematics. Which is great, but committing her focus to...