This has been a strange week for me, professionally- my apologies for not writing more. I was fired from my next project, for reasons that are still largely unknown. On the flip side, I had a few wonderfully productive swing dance sessions, worked on a new piece of choreography, and launched The Choreography Lab in… Continue reading Setbacks and Advancements
Month: January 2014
The Insane Pile of Work
How do you deal with The Insane Pile of Work? As a Freelance Artist/Small Business Owner/Project Coordinator/Grant Writer, I actually have three or four jobs that could each easily be full time jobs. Every time I meet with the Artistic Director of the theater company that I write grants for, I’m struck by the fact… Continue reading The Insane Pile of Work
Artists and Weddings
So, you’re trying to be more strategic with your money. You’ve stopped eating out as much, you managed not to splurge at Lululemon when that sports bra you’ve been eying went on sale, even though you really could use a new sports bra, you’ve made lots of little positive changes, and you’ve managed to save… Continue reading Artists and Weddings
It’s not how big it is, it’s how you use it!
People-I’m talking about salaries and wages today. Get your minds out of the gutter! In all seriousness though, I want to introduce two scenarios to you: Person A makes $50,000 a year. They have several thousand dollars of credit card debt, and live alone because they really wanted a bachelor/bachelorette pad. They spend almost all… Continue reading It’s not how big it is, it’s how you use it!
The delicate balance: working hard vs. hardly working
As a director, I think a lot about spectrums. For instance, in rehearsal the other day, a director I assist spoke about finding an emotion on a scale of 1 to 10. He gave a note to an actor that his performance in a certain scene needs even more energy- that while the moment might… Continue reading The delicate balance: working hard vs. hardly working
Leveraging your money, and passive income
When you work a gig for $20/hr, or perform in a show for $400/wk, you’re directly exchanging your time for money. That can be all well and good, but what if that $20/hr gig was only one of multiple pieces of income you were earning that day? What if you had multiple businesses bringing in… Continue reading Leveraging your money, and passive income