Embracing Yourself as a Creator with Lisa Congdon
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Every artist faces rejection and setbacks on the road to finding an appreciative and paying audience. Today, I wanted to share a couple lessons from a class I took from Lisa Congdon on becoming an artist... and while she specifically mentions art, her insights and tactics really apply to any creative endeavor.
If you’re not familiar with Lisa’s work, she is a fine artist, illustrator and author. She is best known for her colorful paintings and hand lettering. She works for clients around the world including MoMA, REI, Harvard University, Martha Stewart Living, Chronicle Books, and Random House Publishing, among many others.
- The first step to embracing yourself as an artist or creator is believing you have something to offer the world.
- We all have fear. It’s what you do with that fear that matters. Lisa talks about how to use fear to empower us to share and create
- And because our world is full of creative constraint, she sets us on a solid foundation by helping us identify our core values. For example, I love how she simplifies it to this statement: “making and selling my work will feel good as long as I ________” (work with environmentally conscious clients)
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| 0:00.0 | Every artist, every creator, every entrepreneur, we all have faced rejection. |
| 0:10.7 | We've all faced setbacks on the road to finding out who we are, to find out what our work is supposed to be like. |
| 0:16.9 | And certainly, if our goal is to find an appreciative and grateful audience that is willing |
| 0:23.8 | to pay for your work. |
| 0:26.7 | And today on the show, we have an absolute brilliant expert on this topic. |
| 0:33.4 | I wanted to share a few lessons from a class that I took from a woman who you will get to know shortly. |
| 0:38.9 | Her name is Lisa Congdon. |
| 0:41.8 | If you're not familiar with Lisa's work, she is an amazing fine artist. |
| 0:46.8 | She's an illustrator and an author. |
| 0:49.2 | Probably, I would say, best known for super beautifully colorful paintings. |
| 0:56.8 | Also, she's a guru in the hand lettering space where she works for huge clients like the Museum of Modern Art, R.A.I, Harvard, Martha Stewart, |
| 1:04.8 | Chronicle Books, lots of others. And in this particular podcast, you're going to get a lot of value around a handful of very specific topics that I want to just give you a little insight in right now, specifically embracing yourself as an artist as a creator and believing that you have something to offer the world. |
| 1:29.1 | This is a huge thing for me personally and having talked with thousands of people around the world, just identifying as a |
| 1:34.6 | creator in a world where you probably at some point were told you weren't creative or maybe your |
| 1:40.0 | parents or someone in your life that you respect latched on to the concept of a starving artist, |
| 1:44.4 | or you should get a real job. Lisa, perhaps better than any other, does a great job of tackling |
| 1:49.6 | that as frankly a BS excuse. We also in this episode, Lisa talks about fear. It's what you do |
| 2:00.1 | with that fear that matters. It's not it's not trying to |
| 2:03.4 | create an absence of fear. That's the wrong objective. It's about how to channel that fear |
| 2:09.1 | in a way that is beneficial for you, your art, and your goals and objectives. We also talk about |
| 2:16.4 | or Lisa rather goes into great detail about setting goals, |
| 2:21.2 | setting creative goals for you. She goes a mind mapping exercise. She reviews, which is |
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