Price connotes value and the number itself tells a story. Your price has to align with your story or you have nowhere to go. Let’s talk about your favorite fancy restaurant.

Original Episode Number: 100 | Original Air Date: 05/24/2022

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Just because you cannot see the air you breathe does not make it any less necessary for you to live. Same goes for risk. If you do not know what risk you are taking, when and how in your creative business, you are just gambling. More like playing Russian Roulette. Let’s talk arbitrage.

Original Episode Number: 53 | Original Air Date: 5/25/2021

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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Your ideal project — the one that gives you the best chance of success has to be known. What this timeframe, thought process, looks like has to be known to everyone. It is from there that you leap. Let’s talk Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Original Episode Number: 65 | Original Air Date: 08/31/2021

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Doing work you hate never leads to the work you love. And skill is a commodity, passion is everything. What do these things mean? Do they matter? Let’s discuss…

Original Episode Number: 41 | Original Air Date: 3/2/2021

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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If you are making a change in your business, you have to have everyone be ready. If you are fortunate enough to need to hire a team or have a team, you have to understand The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt. Let’s talk about Herbie one more time.

Original Episode Number: 102 | Original Air Date: 6/7/2022

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Perfectionism lives within so many artists. Cliches abound: “Perfect is the enemy of good”, “Be the best”, “Profit and perfect are mutually incompatible.” Really it is a conversation about Creation versus Craft. Enter Jiro Loves Sushi. 

Original Episode Number: 50 | Original Air Date: 5/4/2021

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Creative business is built on the microscopic. For so many creative businesses, the very idea of serving more than 500 customers in a year is silly. Most are built on less than 50. And yet we speak in platitudes and generalities not radical authenticity. We do it because we have framed the conversation in terms of fear and rejection. How about we consider being grateful as we shun the non-believers. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 26 | Original Air Date: 11/3/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Maria Maxit of Maxit Flower Design

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Emotional resonance is what separates you, the artist, from the rest of us.  While you have a gift at your craft, that is not why you are paid.  You are paid to be professional, to make us feel and to feel while not getting lost in the emotion of the moment.  Simultaneously, engaged and removed from the situation. Enter stillness, a flashlight and generosity. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 8 | Original Air Date: 6/30/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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As we come to Fall, so many creative businesses are confronted with the challenge of whether it is worth it to keep going. There are no easy answers but there is a framework to think it all through. No story today, just straight talk. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 18 | Original Air Date: 9/8/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Margarita Oudalova of Oudalova Events & Design

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Transparency is not Saran Wrap. It is being secure in what you charge and then knowing how you are going to earn it. As clients get smarter, value is not about being relative to competition, it is about knowing what you earn and when. Let’s talk bananas. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 34 | Original Air Date: 1/12/2021

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Carl Clemetson from Hometown Elegance Event Catering And Production

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I am going to talk about a story that is near and dear to me. I have told this story and its importance to creative business many times. I have even told it at a college commencement speech I was so honored to give a few years ago. It is the story of Dick Fosbury and his path to winning the gold medal for the high jump in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. You might say, huh? What does this have to do with my business? Well, close your eyes, jump over the bar backwards and lets find out if you will land safely. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 1 | Original Air Date: 5/26/2020

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Most creative businesses are caught in the new client trap. They take on a project and then use the success of that project to get another (and another). Very little is ever offered to the great client to treat them better. It does not have to be this way. Let’s talk about Soul Cycle and Peloton. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 25 | Original Air Date: 10/27/2020

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Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Brooke Palmer Kuhl of RSBP Events

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Great clients are made not born. The better you define your process and what is expected of them and your creative business, the better the experience will be for everyone. That said, there are three overarching characteristics that help define clients and allow for true alignment: Motion In Fear, Resolute Decision Making and Patronage. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 28 | Original Air Date: 11/17/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Amy Serridge of WoodsEdge Farm 

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Every business takes a risk, that is the very nature of business. The question is whether you are properly paid for that risk. If risk is being vulnerable then the choice to be vulnerable has to be yours. Otherwise, you turn singular risk into exploding risk. Defining risk requires purpose and purpose requires intentional idiosyncracy. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 32 | Original Air Date: 12/15/2020

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When we contemplate what is next, too often we want to be derivative of what has come before. Sure, we need to acknowledge the benefit of history, ultimately though we have to stretch beyond the realm of possible. Let’s talk about the movie War Games. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 19 | Original Air Date: 9/15/2020

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In the midst of the existential crisis we find ourselves in, all creative business is being upended.  Sure, some are busy, but most are suffering from a prolonged winter — actors, musicians, event professionals, chefs, just to name a few.  So the house is coming down.

To rebuild it, design first. For design to come first, you must be judged, you must take concentrated risk.  Enter a discussion about placebos and Ralph Lifshitz from the Bronx. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 9 | Original Air Date: 7/7/2020

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We all might say that we want to make real change, but the inertia to change is real. We hope that yesterday will carry us forward and doubling down on the old will prevail against the new. Let’s talk about solar lamps in rural India, the Phoenix and the outliers of success. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 27 | Original Air Date: 11/10/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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COVID has shifted our culture and forced us to rethink what and how we do what we do. The question is what will you take with you. Let's talk Zoom, Project Management, Cash Flow and Marketing.

Original Episode Number: 43 | Original Air Date: 3/16/2021

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Art is shaped and shapes culture. If you are in the business of creating art, what does that exactly mean for you? How are you to incorporate this responsibility into touchstones of your work? Defining a market is nothing new, but defining culture with the market? Getting paid to honor culture and shift it? That is new. Enter Loving v. Virginia, The Ivory Trade, and End of Life Services. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 15 | Original Air Date: 8/18/2020

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Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Sarah Wiley of Huger Memories, Inc. | Have your own opinion on Sean's tips and advice? Talk Back!! Email Shawn or record a voice message directly through his show's site!

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What does the long tail, scarcity and niche have to do with your creative business? Umm, everything. Oh, and if you are not sure what the long tail, scarcity and niche even mean in this context, that is ok, I will just tell you the story of Blue Bottle Coffee and it will all make sense. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 2 | Original Air Date: 5/26/2020

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The story of your art and your business are not the same but they rely on each other. The key components of story is trust, tension and resolution. How you hold each component is what sets the path for your success as both an artist and a business. The real question is that if I scratched your name off of your contract would I know it is you?

Original Episode Number: 35 | Original Air Date: 1/19/2021

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Matthew Wengerd of A Fine Press

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Managing the client experience is a singular challenge for every creative business. For the most part, projects are for an extended period of time with many ups and downs both for activity and emotion. The key to success is vision and grit. It is also a deep understanding of sunk costs. Enter the story of Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 20 | Original Air Date: 9/22/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

Talk Back Voicemail Guest: Matthew Wengerd of A Fine Press

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Constraints are nothing new. Creative businesses have always operated in a window. I have never met a designer who is perpetually free to create as she sees fit without regard to budget, style or even geography. The new reality we all find ourselves in is that a new constraint has been foisted on all of us. The price of every physical human interaction is now perpetually present. It means the intrinsic nature of art has become ever more indelible. Enter the underneath, an apple tree and horses for courses. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 4 | Original Air Date: 6/2/2020

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Artificial Intelligence is not the stuff of science fiction any more. It is here and will become part of our lexicon forever more. What it means for you and your creative business is fascinating. Being human has never been more important.

Original Episode Number: 119 | Original Air Date: 01/24/2023

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Who controls your fate as a creative business? How you do attract business without standing on the street corner and screaming? Who chooses you, helps you get chosen and what do you owe them when you do? What value gatekeepers? Let's talk Duncan Hines. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 17 | Original Air Date: 9/1/2020

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Creative business is literally about creating a world that has never existed. To imagine. Too often though we get trapped into the curse of knowledge, and lose the humility to know that you do not know. History has shown that failure to imagine the future is the curse of intelligence and the demise of the well intended. For creative business, it is the road to commodification and irrelevance. So let's talk about how to avoid tunnel vision. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 39 | Original Air Date: 2/16/2021

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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By all accounts 2021 will be a rebirth for creative business. We will hopefully put the pandemic behind us and art will reemerge. The question will be how to handle it. My advice, race to the top. To do so you will have to be radically, unapologetically, idiosyncratic. You will need to convince yourself that best is indeed a verb, not a noun because when you do you will invest in the best of you, you art and your creative business. And from there you will justly reap the rewards of being on the top. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 33 | Original Air Date: 1/5/2021

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Pricing is a fraught subject no matter the time. Through in a global pandemic and cultural upheaval in the United States and the rubber band stretches ever thinner. As with all things foundation is everything. What "it" costs is not the same thing as what you cost. Oh and cost is for toothpaste, investment is for art. Let's talk Mercedes and leather seats and speaking of leather seats, let's talk Bentley.

Original Episode Number: 12 | Original Air Date: 7/28/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Faith is the courage of conviction.  Faith is the prerequisite to courage and integrity. Faith is facile and simultaneously hopeful and hopeless.  Faith is what you need to see your creative business through.  Enter the story of the swimming dog, Craigslist and letting kids have cake for breakfast. Listen in...

Original Episode Number: 7 | Original Air Date: 6/23/2020

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So the time has come for me to say goodbye to the podcast.  I feel like the thoughts are complete and I am compelled to focus on writing.  A few thoughts on what it means for me to have shared as I have for the past 140 episodes.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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The essence of humanity is to be seen and heard.  It is pervasive in all things and for all endeavors, none more so than for creative business. The reason is that creative business is the ultimate expression of self. Live there and make it your culture.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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So you want to start something new or continue going on a new endeavor.  How do you go about thinking about whether it makes sense to start and/or keep going? Remember The Perfect Egg.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Holiday season is upon us. Maybe rest is in sight and a moment to reflect on what is necessary for you and your business. Start with abundance.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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The key to sustained value, important clients and great work? Proaction. If you do not go first, there will be no story, no spark only reflection. Fluency not brilliance. If it really matters to you and your creative business, you have to go first.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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COVID has caused major disruptions and required alternate ways of doing business. It means that your business model needs to account for risk and perhaps change altogether. Let’s talk 3 point baskets.

Original Episode Number: 66 | Original Air Date: 09/07/2021

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When you see what it all costs to create, it is very easy to say, why? When the world demands crisis, how can you talk about things that are not in crisis?  How do you navigate the responsibility of living as opposed to surviving?  It is called being an artist and appreciating the timing of it all will always lead back to you.

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The axiom that the client is always right is not true for creative business.  If you let someone's wallet dictate the limits of your power to do what you do, it will be lesson in self-inflicted pain.  Let's talk about how to make sure you do not do that. The show is yours to run.

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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Building your name is not the same thing as making promises and keeping them.  Confusing them costs you.  The trick is to understand intentionality.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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I am just around the corner. Be there soon. An hour later you ask: Which corner? And what does soon mean? Time is all you have and leaving its definition to negotiation, or worse, to the decisions of others is self-inflicted pain you can no longer endure.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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It is fifty degrees one day, ninety the next. On average it is seventy degrees so no need to buy a coat or a swimsuit.  You can use information to justify your complacency or you can determine what matters to you and act accordingly.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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If you build your business on the next project, then the pressure to take what comes next is overwhelming.  Digging deeper holes does not mean only one thing.  It is all about skimming the cream off the top...

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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A slinky stretched out down the stairs is the same toy as the one sitting on the shelf unless you bend or break a rib. So too your creative business. Structure is everything.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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We all grew up and are taught the value of a factory.  Efficiency. Low cost. Scale. And you have tried to force your creative business into the paradigm. You measure volume of work, hours, effort, not ideas, emotional intelligence or really anything reflecting the value of relationship.  Your creative business is not a factory so stop acting like it is.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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Knowing where you are, where you are going and, most important, where you would like to go is all about the life of an apple tree.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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If you start a line of reasoning with a presumption, you can only go one way. For most creative businesses, the presumption makes no sense so you can only go the wrong way. The old saying is true: when you assume, you make an ... oh, you know the rest.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

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You tell two stories. The first is why we should believe in your work as an artist and the second is why we should believe the story of your business. The story of your art is ephemeral, your business grounded. Two voices that must each speak for you to be successful. Enter Frederick The Mouse. Listen in…

Original Episode Number: 16 | Original Air Date: 08/25/2020

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

Copyright of The Wedding Biz, LLC. 2021.

At a certain point change in circumstance demands change in behavior and we need to appreciate what leverage means to all of us.  Especially those who have never been here before.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

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Sometimes nature can teach us all we need to know.  Let's talk butterflies and bulls.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

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To move forward, you need a strong foundation. Something you can return to again and again. Enter the four transitions: Potential to actual client, idea to design, design to production, production to execution.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

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We spend all of our time making sure we are checking all the boxes, doing things as expected, and then trying to finish well. We measure efficiency, profitability, and sales. What if instead we measured engagement, satisfaction, happiness? It's all about placebos.

Host: Sean Low of The Business of Being Creative

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Podcast Network: The Wedding Biz Network

Production House: Flint Stone Media

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