315 What to do when You're not Feeling Your Art (or Your Art Business)?

What do you do when your creative spirit is missing?   We don't often talk about this as Artists ~ but the thing about turning your passion into your business, is that lines can get blurred and you need to find ways of staying connected to your passion to have long lasting success in your career.   And when seasons of life can feel like too much all at once, making Art might feel like the last thing you want to do ~ yet without your Art there is no business...   As Professional Creatives we need tools at the ready to give ourselves grace, while also helping us to find our way back to center and inspiration again.   In today's episode I'm offering a possible solution: I talk about how I navigate social media for my creative businesswhen I don't feel like sharing The boundaries I set for myself when it comes to engaging with social media A variety of tools I use to help find my way back to my center + peace + creative inspiration   - and inviting you to join me for #30daysofsketchwithmarisa if you feel inspired to! Join the list to follow along here   and use this hashtag #30daysofsketchwithmarisa on Instagram to participate with your own sketches.   You can find all things Marisa and Creative Thursday creativethursday.com and on instagram and facebook @creativethursday

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Marisa Anne Cummings, a Los Angeles based artist + author + entrepreneur, actually started the Creative Thursday podcast in 2006. What? what! how is that even possible? And yes! she wishes she had kept it going after all these years. Yet as a small business owner, maybe you can relate? choices needed to be made, and a passion for painting and continuing to build her art business became her focus. Cut to over a decade later, armed with SO many more lessons learned, and a - can no longer be suppressed - desire to share them with you! Marisa is ready to make a return to one of the first creative mediums she loved, podcasting! Even more fired up than before, Marisa is looking forward to picking up where she left off on her creative journey through both - one her favorite things to do - having thoughtful, inspiring, keeping it real, conversations with fellow Creatives + Business Owners along with offering her own perspective as an artist and entrepreneur, traversing this online world. We’re talking everything from life + business + creativity + entrepreneurship.