When your creative passion becomes your business, it can lead to a wide range of challenges including; loss of artistic integrity, burnout, stress, identity crisis and the most important to avoid, the loss of the passion for what normally brings you joy!

Join Jack as he reflects on his personal experiences of the ongoing tension between artistic passion and business responsibility.

In this episode Jack also breaks down the 3 Pillars for Success and Longevity that must be understood and correctly balanced if you wish to run a successful creative business.

Further discussion points:

- Maintaining Artistic Integrity While Meeting Business Demands

- Quality Vs Time Vs Money

- Each pillar affects the others; imbalance can lead to burnout or subpar work.

- Importance of making changes to protect long-term artistic goals and identity.

- 7 Key Questions To Set Your Standards

- 4 Practical Techniques To Help Perfect Balance

- 4 Signs Your Balance May Be Off

Simone Rae is a fashion designer and business owner. Her company Salt and Ripple, has grown from strength to strength in recent years to be one of Australia's most popular new swim wear and active wear companies.

The growth of Simone's art and business has come almost entirely off her own insane work ethic and drive. She lives and breathes her business and her passion is well on display during this insightful and motivating conversation.

In this chat Jack and Simone discuss:

- Living and breathing your business

- Acquiring your own skills

- The importance of digital marketing

- Making your side hustle your main hustle

- Don't force creativity

- Biggest challenges working for yourself

- The importance of your social circle

- The love of your business

- Done is better than good

Loneliness is a modern 'epidemic'. Not only for people who work for themselves, but for a vast majority of people! How can we be feeling this way when we are more connected than ever?

In this podcast Jack breaks down 3 fundamentals we can all return to, to help overcome loneliness, along with 6 ways to build quality connections with others.

Key Highlights:

- Nothing is permanent, including your feelings of loneliness

- The vulnerability of working for yourself

- The right people will enter your life when you live in alignment to your values

- Building a better relationship with yourself

- Serving others

- Emotional bids, reverse charm and building quality relationships.

Andrew Scott is the lead singer AND drummer of Australian Indie/Surf band 'SURF TRASH'.

Not only is he the creative frontman of the band, he is also their manager, organising US and European tours as well as the release of their debut album 'The Only Place I Know'. This album debuted at No.1 for Australian albums in the ARIA charts at the end of 2024, being released completely independently!

Join Jack and Andrew as they discuss the sacrifices one needs to have success in this industry, being completely in control of your art, having tunnel vision, touring overseas and much more!

A new year lies ahead! For many this marks a time of excitement and promises. A clean slate for a fresh start as we make sweeping statements and goals for the year ahead. But for many, we quickly return to our old routines and habits that left us feeling lost and stuck in the first place.

Join Jack as he implements a framework of 2 key things to help you make this year count!

Key Points:
- Ignoring the small minds of others and our own negative self talk
- Creating the internal space and external environment to think clearly
- Setting our Main Goals
- Finding our north star and building our habits from it
- Motivation, reminders and checklists!

As creative professionals we often invest so heavily in what we do that we push ourselves to the point of burnout. This not only turns our love and passion into a chore, but it can heavily effect our personal lives as well.
We also often work for ourselves and run our own business, making time off without feelings of guilt incredibly difficult.

In this podcast Jack draws on his own personal struggles and experiences and shares his views on:
- Why do we feel guilty taking time off?
- Signs of burnout and how to avoid it.
- Burnout Vs Laziness
- The art of rest, how to do it well.
- Viewing rest as productive

Building and sustaining discipline is an essential skill for us all to develop, especially for creative professionals. We not only often work for ourselves, but our creative minds push the boundaries regularly, even to the detriment of other areas of our lives and business.

In this episode Jack breaks down:
- The importance of and how to build and sustain discipline
- How does discipline and motivation relate to one another?
- Finding sources and fuel for motivation
- Building positive habits
- Where we often get stuck
- The dangerous place of mediocricy
- Learning to just act and sheer will power
- The positive cycle of action, reaction, motivation and habit building.

Paul Campbell is a renowned promoter and festival organizer primarily in the US EDM space, having hosted events from college parties to international arena shows! He is also a nightclub owner, DJ and now a Music Artist Manager, with his company NU MGMT.

Join Jack and Paul in an empowering conversation as they sit down together at a retreat in the northern mountains of Bali. They dive into how Paul managers his artists both on a business and artistic level, the US EDM scene and how to break through, the power of social media and how a combination of consistency, hard work, sacrifices, talent and a business mind set can yield amazing results.