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Welcome to my blog!
Here I share articles on building your creative practice, business, or career.
Offering insight, inspiration, and thoughtful inquiry to help artists and creatives unlock their personal and professional potential.


The Time We Think We Have or Need or Don’t
On time pressures, notions and noticing the gap between how we use time and how we want to. April, the first full month of a new season. The clocks have moved forward, the days are stretching out, and there’s a quiet sense that we’re at a new beginning. But spring rarely arrives all at once. Where I live, it comes in fits and starts. A few warm days, then a return to freezing temperatures, snow, and ice. Often, it’s well into May before we see the warmth and new life we expec
Chris Mitchell - Coach for Creatives
Mar 234 min read


Untangling Our Invisible Money Scripts
How our money mindset quietly determines what we charge, what we earn and how far we grow as artists and creatives. I’m writing this in the thick of tax season. That time of year when many of us are forced to look directly at the numbers and what we’ve earned and spent as creative professionals. The receipts. The spreadsheets. The totals. The gaps. Alongside the administrative scramble that often accompanies this season, I’ve been working with several clients who have reached
Chris Mitchell - Coach for Creatives
Mar 25 min read


Working Like We Love Ourselves as Artists & Creatives
Part 1: A reflection on care, sustainability, and redefining how we show up for our creative work. As artists and creatives, most of us genuinely love what we do. We pour our hearts, tremendous care, and deep attention into our work: the ideas we shape, the pieces we refine, the things we bring into the world. And yet, so often, we don’t extend that same tenderness to ourselves. We show up for our work, our clients, our collaborators, our audiences, but not always for ourselv
Chris Mitchell - Coach for Creatives
Feb 34 min read


Rethinking Structure as Artists and Creatives
An invitation to imagine structure as personal, holistic and intentional. Hello artists and creatives — happy New Year! Are you feeling compelled, like many of us at the start of a new year, to create more structure: stricter routines, better systems, stronger habits? If so, how are you going about that? In my own work and in nearly ten years I’ve been coaching artists and creatives, I’ve come to appreciate that structure isn’t a neutral concept for many of us. It can be a l
Chris Mitchell - Coach for Creatives
Jan 83 min read
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