71 episodes
Creatives Get Real Roben-Marie Smith and Sandi Keene
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5.0 • 8 Ratings
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Real conversations about the creative life. Join us for mostly weekly episodes about what it’s like to live a creative, handmade, and online art life. We’ll talk frankly about the highs and lows of designing art pieces, product lines, and popular online classes while sharing it with the world. Roben-Marie Smith is a mixed media artist, instructor and creator of Maker’s Tech U membership site teaching tech to artists and hobbyists. Sandi Keene is a watercolor artist, online instructor and collaborative coach to artists and aspiring artists. Together they are friends sharing stories in the art studio.
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071: Mental Health & Art - Update Episode
Join Roben-Marie and Sandi as we catch up on the past 6 months in our creative lives. Then we discuss the relationship between art and mental health.
TOPICS:
- Social Sabbaticals
- Creating Content vs. Creating Art
- #TrashyTuesday
- creating without expectation vs. productivity mindset
- walking away from the table vs. a finishing mindset
- connecting with other creatives
MENTIONS:
- Colorlogue with Sandi Keene & Rae Missigman
- Maker's Tech U with Roben-Marie Smith
- Perfectly Imperfect with Lorna Crane (the class with the handmade brushes)
LINKS
Roben-Marie:
Website
Courses
Maker's Tech U
Sandi Keene:
Website
Popup Art Classes
Coaching -
070: How to Make a Difference in Your Community
In this episode of the Creatives Get Real podcast, Sandi & Roben-Marie take a look at the ways to impact your community.
- First, find your community and be present!
- Post! It does not matter where you are in your journey - you are inspiring someone just be posting
- Join in conversations
- Support and encourage everyone not matter if they have 3 followers or 100K - they need your support
- Do scary things - join a challenge, comment, ask for a collaboration, post WIPs
- Show up for each other - buy from small businesses, share posts, talk about the class, product, tutorial you saw or purchased that was important to you. Help build audiences.
- Handle problems with grace
- Do not COPY!! Be inspired by and give credit.
- Start a group, mastermind, challenge etc. Work together
Thank you for listening! We appreciate every comment and our wonderful community!
LINKS
Roben-Marie:
Website
Courses
Maker's Tech U
Sandi Keene:
Website
Popup Art Classes
Coaching -
069: The Basics of Selling Your Products for Success
In this episode of the Creatives Get Real podcast, Roben-Marie and Sandi are talking about selling products for beginners.
You made journals, greeting cards, or art pouch and someone wants to buy it. Hey, I could sell these! Ummm, how?
Will you be selling on Instagram? How does that work?Sell on your website - how does that work?Listen to episode 34 - Tips for Pricing Your ProductsKeep great recordsShipping woesStore up all the time or open/close approach?Is that how you want to spend your time?MENTIONED:
034: Tips for Pricing Your Products
LINKS
Roben-Marie:
Website
Courses
Maker's Tech U
Sandi Keene:
Website
Popup Art Classes
Coaching -
068: Mailing Lists and Why They Are VITAL
Do you have an email list? In this episode of the Creatives Get Real podcast, Roben-Marie and Sandi share chatting about mailing lists: what are they and why they are vital.
- Why are they vital?
- How do you get one?
- Sign up bonuses that work
- How to treat your email list like VIPs
- How often should you send out emails?
- Should I start today? Nope, yesterday!
Roben-Marie recommends and uses Flodesk for email marketing!
LINKS
Roben-Marie:
Website
Courses
Maker's Tech U
Sandi Keene:
Website
Popup Art Classes
Coaching -
067: Podcasting - All the Cool Kids are Doing it So Should You?
Thinking about hosting your own podcast? In this episode of the Creatives Get Real podcast, Roben-Marie and Sandi share things to consider to see if it is right for you.
Points
-what is your theme/subject?
- are you going it alone?
- will you be booking guests each week?
- do you have the technical skills to create one?
- What equipment do you need?
- how often will you do it?
Sandi & Roben-Marie talk about their own experiences podcasting.
- What did they love?
- What did they not like?
- What surprised them?
We mentioned Garage Band, Audacity, Trello, & Canva.
Podcasts Mentioned:
009: 24 Hour Rule
010: Box of Transparency
LINKS
Roben-Marie:
Website
Courses
Maker's Tech U
Sandi Keene:
Website
Popup Art Classes
Coaching -
066: Goal Setting: Its importance and the Process
Roben-Marie and Sandi talk about the importance of evaluating your current business and schedule to see if it meets your current needs.
•List all the things you are doing now
•Evaluate how you are feeling about your schedule - are you over-committed? under committed? just right?
•Are you happy with the progress you are making? Are your efforts resulting in the progress you desire?
•Does anything need to change?
•Are you HAPPY with the way you are spending your time?
•Have you scheduled in time for yourself and playful exploration? Not doing so is the road to burn-out.
•Is there something you would love to do if you had the courage?
End with our leaving date.
LINKS
Roben-Marie:
Website
Courses
Maker's Tech U
Sandi Keene:
Website
Popup Art Classes
Coaching
Customer Reviews
Great advice for emerging artists!
I’ve just discovered your wonderful podcasts and I have hours of great content to get through. I listened to the artist interview on the laura horn podcast with Robin-Marie and I just loved it! I got on board and made a reel straight after listening to the episode. I’ve been growing my following since February 2020 and I just listened to episode 4 on social media, so many great tips on there! Thank you ladies for keeping me company in my studio in the highlands of Scotland you are fabulous! (SusanMcCreevyArtist)
So inspiring!
Am binge listening - so much inspiration and positivity. Thank you!
Please keep doing these!
I love hearing the reality of what you do - and the truth behind the amazing art you create - totally relatable! Thank you