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Second Chances, and Fixing Your Old Work
Every once in a while, you do something sneaky. Not illegal-sneaky, not “hide the body” sneaky — more like the creative version of quietly rearranging the living room and hoping nobody notices until they sit down and go, “Huh… this actually works better.” That’s basically what I just did with one of my old book.
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Debt: Friend, Foe, or Just a Tool in Disguise?
We love to slap labels on things. Debt? Oh, that’s “bad.” Or wait, maybe it’s “good” if you’re building credit. Or “ugly” when it spirals out of control. But here’s the truth: debt isn’t a moral character in your latest novel. It doesn’t wake up in the morning plotting against you. In fact, and this
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Fabric and Fun: What Kira Klinger Taught Me About Creativity, Grit, and Making Your Own Luck
Every once in a while, I sit down with someone who reminds me why I started this whole “hammer to Hollywood” journey in the first place. Someone who embodies the messy, beautiful, stubborn heart of creativity. Someone who proves that the path from struggling artist to working creative is rarely straight, never predictable, and always
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Money Is A Battery
Here is a pretty simple analogy. If money is a battery, how does that change the way you look at it? Before we get too deep into this, lets consider for a moment that you want money, and a lot of it. I think that’s a reasonable assumption. Who doesn’t want more money. The question
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From Afterburners to Apollo: What a Fighter Pilot Taught Me About Creative Grit
Every once in a while, I sit down with someone whose life feels like a movie script waiting to happen. And then, halfway through the conversation, I realize the script is already written — in the way they talk, the way they think, the way they’ve lived. That was my experience interviewing Christopher “Coyote” Choate,
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From Diagnosis to Debut Novel: Ray Hartjen on Storytelling, Steel Towns, and Second Chances
What do you get when you cross a marketer, musician, cancer patient advocate, and espionage novelist? You get Ray Hartjen. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ray on the Light-Minded Arts podcast, and let me tell you—this guy has lived a few lifetimes. From investment banking to SaaS software, from writing about hockey
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For The Love Of Money!
Our culture has weird ways of kicking us in the pants. Everything from toxic expectations to unhealthy relationships with people and everything around us. One of those big challenges is when it comes to money. Yes, money! Let me ask you this, do you want to be rich? If I polled a thousand people, I’m
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Publishing Without Getting Played: Michele DeFilippo on Self-Publishing Smarts
At LightMinded Arts, we believe in creative freedom, not creative delusion. So when I sat down with Michele DeFilippo—publishing veteran and founder of 1106 Design—I knew we were about to bust some myths and drop some truth bombs about the wild world of self-publishing. Michele’s been in the book biz for over 50 years. She
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Are You The Slave or The Master Of Thy Self?
Often, you’ve heard about self-mastery. Its one of those things that we all think we have, but we never sit down to actually self-evaluate. It’s easy to see when other people have it, though depending on the focus of their mastery, it might look different and be completely subjective. For instance, someone might have great
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From CNN to Suspense Fiction: John DeDakis on Writing, Journalism, and Healing Through Story
At Light-Minded Arts, I’m sharing my creative journey, going from hammer to Hollywood—and I want you too to find your way into following your dreams. To help with that, I interviewed John DeDakis, a veteran journalist, novelist, writing coach, and motivational speaker whose career spans over four decades, including time as a White House correspondent
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