I first realized that I wasn’t choosing the easiest route through life on a visit to the school careers teacher. “I want to be an artist!” His response was to produce reams of statistics “proving” exactly how many ways this was a bad idea. Did you know that its statistically provable that anyone daring to […]
What Happened: How My Business Mistakes Led to Following My Bliss
This is the 4th and final post in a series on the evolution and re-evolution of an art business. To read the backstory, see parts 1, 2 and 3. —- Sometimes it seems that the only thing that gets me to make a change is a hearty wallop upside the head by the universe. As […]
My Stupid Business Mistakes: 8 Lessons to Prevent You from Losing Money & Looking Dumb
In parts 1 and 2 of this series I shared how I became an artist quite by accident, and slowly built up a sustainable business as a calligrapher and ketubah artist. It was cool to be able to call myself a professional artist, but the problem was, although I made my living from my art, […]
How to Teach Storytelling to a Business
The other day a friend came over to hang out and he pointed at a painting on my wall, asking me, “What is that painting?” It was my dream portrait by Eleatta Diver I told him. I went on to explain to him that Eleatta had interviewed me about my dreams and what I wanted […]
Teach An MBA How to Play
In my creative work with companies I have seen the benefits of play at work with sales forces. Sales is a stressful job. If you’ve ever seen Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross you’ll have an idea of how stressful. “Getting to the Yes” is really hard sometimes. You face a lot of rejection. It takes a […]