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“A lot of people don’t understand that you can’t just pull out an old Casio keyboard and start making a beat and think that’s gonna compete,” says sync music producer Nick Phelps. “I wanna give people a fighting chance in the sync world. I wanna give people permission to stand out in their own way.”

I’m a musician trying to decide how much I can afford to spend on instruments, renting a practice space, going on tour, and the rest. Sometimes it gives me anxiety and causes stress between me and my partner. How much is too much to spend on my art?

I’m stuck in a cycle of jobs I don’t care about and feeling I never have the time to really develop my creative work to the point that I think I could actually make money from it.

That Clooney lovin’ asshat is gonna keep underpaying people with talent, people who spend hours and hours thinking and inventing and creating and perfecting, and it’s just not right.

I’ve always envied improvisational musicians and performers for their ability to engage in a spontaneous collaboration.

Angie Wrangler, Associate Producer of “The Nightrunner,” speaks to making movies in a town that all the other movie makers have moved away from.

With his film, “Neither Shadow of Turning,” Adrian Centoni follows the path of a creative idea. How much trouble can you get in just by asking, “Wouldn’t that be interesting?”

Little by little we are sharing more advice about pursuing creative careers and developing a stronger voice for creatives. You can listen below, or at iTunes.

To close out the year we figured why not throw a party—hell, why not our very own Awkward Holiday Office Party for us creatively self-employed?

Beth joins us at the Pyragraph studio to talk about her work, her evolution as an artist, and what it was like to be the subject of a documentary.

Sex shop talk! Self-Serve Toys/Sexuality Resource Center founders Molly Adler and Matie Fricker chat about their sex-positive adult business in Albuquerque.

Len Romano of branding firm Ripe Inc. takes us into the mind of marketing, how Ripe created Marble Brewery’s new look, his love for Albuquerque, and more!

OAC Gallery founder Sarah Biondi talks about starting an online contemporary art gallery, and her background in the film industry and in marketing.

Seed&Spark founder Emily Best shares how she started a crowdfunding and streaming distribution platform for independent filmmakers, and much more!

Artists Kathie Olivas and Brandt Peters, founders of Stranger Factory, join us to talk about the art business, their career backgrounds and lots more.

Our crew of hosts/editors chat about art-career author Jackie Battenfield, writer Mike Smith, and other people and happenings in our writers’ worlds.