Celebrating Milestones:

This month, I’m celebrating 10 years of coaching artists and creatives professionally.

It feels like an important milestone. One worth pausing to acknowledge and celebrate. Reaching this point represents not only a decade of coaching, but also the culmination of many years spent building a creative life and career. Alongside my coaching practice, I’ve navigated multiple creative career chapters over four decades: product designer and brand strategist, multidisciplinary arts project creator, creative collaborator and leader. Which has me reflecting on the milestones that shape creative careers, the markers of progress, pivotal moments, and shifts in our sense of our professional selves that often go unnoticed while we’re focused on our day-to-day work.

One of the things coaching other artists and creatives has taught me is the importance of recognizing progress as it happens. Taking the time to acknowledge moments of growth and development in my own career is something I’ve come to appreciate more deeply through supporting others in theirs. Looking back on this ten-year milestone, I’m also acutely aware that it would not have been possible without …continue reading for free on my blog!

Heading into a new decade of practice, I am excited by the momentum I’ve generated and look forward to continuing to support artists and creatives in building careers and lives that feel sustainable, meaningful and aligned.

What have been the milestones - be they moments of achievement, breakthroughs, turning points or significant events in your creative career journey to date?

How have they shaped you as a creative professional?

I’ll be elaborating on 10 takeaways from 10 years of coaching artists and creatives and sharing ten practices that have helped me navigate my creative career over four decades.

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