Yo, yo, yo, it's Andy J Miller and you're listening to the Creative Kept Talk podcast. How's everybody doing today? I've had a pretty good week. I've had actually the new springtime

has brought all kinds of interesting projects and I don't know new motivation new thoughts new ideas I'm feeling pretty good.

You know I've been loving doing this podcast it's been great to see it grow it's great to see it grow

it's great to see it grow. It's great to see people supporting it all throughout

the internet and the interwebs. Thank you guys for doing that. If you want to listen to this,

you can listen to it on iTunes,

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or you can listen to it at illustrationage.com

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That's a website where they're fighting for the

industry, the illustration industry and they're doing an awesome job. You can go

check that out. Okay today you know I I want to talk about strategy one of my

favorite topics and actually it's kind of the theme of the show you know I feel like I feel like in order to make a real successful career in the arts, you've got to have really good strategy.

You've got to be good at strategy.

And actually I've realized that this show for me is like, you know, I get worried that this show for me is like you know I get worried that there's

these talented amazing artists out there meant to spend their life giving the world their art, but they don't have the right

strategy.

And I think that if you have the most talented artist in the world with terrible

strategy you're going to be hard-pressed to have a career in the arts and on the

other side of the coin if you're maybe not the most talented artist, but your strategy is insane, you might have an amazing career.

And so I feel like, and I might even be better at art career strategy than I am making art. I don't know. But it's something that's on my mind. And you know, I think a lot about what it takes to make it as an artist and what it takes to navigate the world of art mixed with money.

I think about it all the time and I've spent so much time in energy in

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