Welcome to Art Juice, this is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and

me Louise Fletcher.

Now my phone is pinging with notifications.

Right, we're full on professional today. Not Not at all professional on a scale of one to ten. I'm feeling half I would say as a professional

So we apologize in advance everybody if this

Podcast isn't up to its usual stellar standard.

It is funny because we actually had some ideas for today and we both kind of

of rocked up and went to it.

What? Maybe? No, I don't know, let's just go.

So we're just going to go with it today and share what we've been working on

and see where the conversation leads,

because actually those are often the fun ones aren't they?

So let's launch into that. What have you been working on this week? Are you feeling non-professional because you've been doing other things and you've got the balance wrong?

I think I've got the balance a little bit wrong but in a way that makes me happy because I've been painting and then painting a lot and then I came back in last night from my

meeting I had with about marketing for my upcoming course, very boring, but anyway, I went into Slack,

which is the message in software that I use with my team.

And I saw there were all these messages and there were quite a few from Jamie, my assistant and the last one started with, I'm just going to add to this long list of messages by saying and then I went oh no for the last few days I forgot to check so

poor Jamie had been none of them were that urgent but they people have been sending me messages which I hadn't even seen because I've been so engrossed in what I'm doing.

So I don't I feel bad but not bad because I feel quite proud of myself that this this focus has been where I think it should be at a moment

but also a little bit bad because I don't like to let people down by not responding to them when they're trying to reach me so I'm trying to be a bit more

disciplined in the next few days about making sure at least once a day I check my messages to see what else is going on in the world

other than my studio. I think it's good to check things. is there an ideal time?

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