Creative Genius 18 - Jeanne Oliver: Creativity is Calling: Building a Creatively Made Business & life
Jeanne Oliver is an artist, author, teacher and art business consultant. She paints, teaches how to paint art journals and is deeply committed to the creativity in her. She created an online art school platform that hosts over 180 art and business workshops serving over 60,000 art students around the world. She has written a beautiful book called “The Painted Art Journal” aimed at helping people find a deeper understanding of themselves and their art and she offers a transformational business course for those ready to take the next step in building their own Creatively Made Business.
That feeling we have from that place deep within ourselves, that need to create.
Creativity is calling us - what is it and why is it calling us? Why is it trying to get out attention
Who creativity and its products are for: spoiler it’s not just you.
How Women are more likely to justify why we dont pursue our creative yearnings and dreams and how it is so important BE WHO YOU ARE no matter what.
Why she thinks we keep ourselves too busy to truly allow our creativity to move us
Where intuition comes from- how to cultivate it
What happens at 8-10 for SO Many people that causes us to put down art and believe for the rest of our lives that we “don’t have it in us” and what we can do to go back and undo that
The small habit she has that changed everything about how she related to her creativity (10-15 mins a day)
How to make yourself a portable art studio and use it - a practice that can revolutionize your art practice
Creating art, sketching something every day is scientifically probem to make you a happier person, and the art doesn’t even have to be “good”
**The power of art to help us forgive people who have hurt us (seeing things through different eyes) (the collage of her father. Moment to mention in intro as my fave…
How creativity took over her life and led her to create all the incredible things she has… courses that serve over 65,000 students around the world
How the adult (males) in her life told her at a young age how hard a career in creativity would and how she should try business instead. And what impact that had on her. How she took their words and actions to mean something about her and how she didnt know for a reall y long time that their words were not about her.
How she went on to do a history and psychology degree and would call her mother bawling and sad - because she felt so lost. She had disconnected herself from the thing she was here to do. Making.
How there were so many years she dodnt know she was allowed to create just for her. She would use the excuse “I am amking this for someone else” scrapbooks for her kids tae the time and spednind the money wasok because it was not for her.
Quote: once we know what we do when we’re afraid, we can acknowledge that we do that, and stop.
Quote: creativity is an incredible gift that has been given to each of us, but we have to say i”ll take it
Imposter symdrome
What is that one next thing you are being pulled towards: as a way of running your business
How to be a mom and an artist and a business all at the same time
How to build an business that aligns with the life you want to live
Quote: to pick up good things, there is going to be something we have to put down
When you know what your gifts are, what your passion is and what your calling is and then you’re walking it out. You get to be the best version of yourself.
How important is it to have a NICHE for your artwork?
Do we need to focus on one thing and build a business around one particular look or is it okay to keep playing and experimenting. How important is keeping to one genre or look for building an art business. Martha Srewart doesnt just do one thing!
What happens when you get sick of your own art work? (and what it means!) get ready for what is next when you get that bleh feeling about your own work it is the purest sweetest part of you telling you you learned what you neede to learn and something new and amazing is coming
Quote: what would you do if you didn't have to do what you are doing
What mindset you have to cultivate to be able to listen and be led by your own inner evolution in your business.
Abundance mindset
Quote: instead of saying how, just say wow
How important the words we speak to people are. Especially as parents. These ideas are like seeds.
How our own perceptions of salespeople effects our ability to sell our own work - light bulb moment!
Quote: their words of discoruragement were never about uoi
Quote: Life is full of second chances, go get yours
As long as we have a breath, we get to decide, that’s it: today’s the day
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About Jeannie Oliver:
Jeanne Oliver grew up in rural Illinois and now resides in Castle Rock, CO. She is inspired by our personal stories, travel, and nature. Jeanne uses art to tell her current stories and also those of growing up among gravel roads, cornfields and early life surrounded by open spaces. Through mark making, layers and mixed media, she hopes to convey that we all have a story to tell. She speaks and teaches all around the country and abroad. Connecting with women and sharing that each of us has been creatively made is one of her passions.
Jeanne is author of a book entitled “The Painted Art Journal” aimed at helping people find a deeper understanding of themselves and their art
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Resources discussed in this episode:
- Portable Art Studio Free Art Video https://jeanneoliver.com/courses/portable-art-studio/
- creativelymadebusiness.com
- The Painted Art Journal by Jeanne Oliver https://amzn.to/3JsYOij
- The Power of Consistency by Weldon Long https://amzn.to/3Jmt12J
- The War of Art https://amzn.to/3E0kwJr
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