it's hard sometimes to hone in on of alljus. This is, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me, Louise Fletcher and today I am joined by a special guest, Mariana Durst.

Hi Mariana.

Hi, Louis, so good to see you again.

Mariana is a web designer, copywriter, brand strategist. Have I missed anything? Square space expert, mentor,

mentor, coach, teacher, she is the whole package when it comes to artist branding.

And so when Alice and I were talking about discussing this subject and thinking about who to talk to, there was really only one person to invite on.

I met Mariana last year when she did my branding and redesigned my website and she did

did fantastic job but I was also very interested to look at the

examples of other websites she's made for other artists and to see

the vast difference between them because that really tells you that this person is developing unique brands rather than just putting a template together that works for everybody.

So I thought she'd be the perfect person to discuss this topic with. But before we get on to our main topic of artist branding, we always generally, if it's Alice and I, we chat about what we've been up to in our week.

But I wanted to ask you, what does an average week look like for you?

Because you wear so many different hats hats what kind of things do you do in a normal week?

Oh, what an interesting question. Well, right now I'm taking the entire month of December off, which is really exciting.

I made that decision a couple of years ago and I've been planning intentionally to take this month off.

So luckily, it's just been very relaxing and beautiful.

But usually when I am working on a big project,

I don't like overlapping clients.

And so I can structure my month week by week really well and I know exactly what I'm going to be doing when because I value my time so much and I want to protect the other areas of my life where I need to be present like as a mother, as a wife and just in my life in general.

And so, um, and just in my life in general.

And so three out of the four weeks of the month,

you'll find me working at the computer,

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