S1 E8: Human-Centered Creative Business with Laura Holway
In this episode, you’ll hear from writer, small business advisor, and artist Laura Holway, who provides Small Art Advising: business coaching for ambitious creative humans that value ease and sustainability as much as impact and growth. She helps creative people make plans and create work that aligns with what they need. We covered so many topics relating to creative work and personal evolution, through Laura’s lens of movement, which makes sense, since she’s also a dance artist! Her approach to human-centered business is refreshing, inspiring, and genuine.
TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Laura’s career path and how it’s evolved since she came to Minneapolis as a dance artist in 2005
How she discovered that artists need support in order to create sustainably
Trusting the process via movement / taking action - it isn’t linear
The uncomfortability of creating your own path
How her new Map Your Movement offering came about
The benefits and challenges of being focused and unfocused
What is creative energy?
Laura’s self-care practices and how they expand beyond things that usually get that label
Boundaries as self-care
Movement and its various purposes in creative work and life
Laura’s spiritual practices and beliefs (God is not a white man!)
Human-centered business as opposed to profit-centered business
Experimentation as a philosophy
And so much more!
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