Creative Success = Financial Balance with Flexible Budget Plans As a creative individual, dealing with irregular income can be daunting. In this episode of From "Creative Passion To Profit", titled "How Creatives Can Budget for Regular Income," I, Mahmood, tackle one of the biggest challenges faced by those in the arts and creative world—budgeting. Have you ever felt the high of being fully booked and having commissions flying off the shelves, only to be met with silence and income droughts the following month? You're not alone. But here's the good news: with a little planning, you can smooth out those financial ups and downs. In this episode, I'll share three simple steps to help you build a budgeting system that fits your lifestyle and supports your creative ambitions. You'll learn how to determine your essential baseline expenses, create a financial buffer for quiet months, and implement a flexible yet simple budgeting method that allows you to thrive creatively and financially. You'll also have some homework tasks... Timestamped Summary: [00:00:00] Introduction to challenges of budgeting with erratic income. [00:00:58] Step 1: Determine your baseline expenses. [00:02:12] Step 2: Build a financial buffer for quieter months. [00:03:46] Step 3: Apply a simple, discipline-based budget system. [00:04:58] Homework: Calculate baseline expenses and track income. Mentioned in this episode: Training Training Training Find out more about Budgetwhizz Find out more about Budgetwhizz Budgetwhizz…
This is a unique way to learn astrology. We start you off with the very basics of what energy is and how to use it to get what YOU WANT in life. As we progress you will learn WHY astrological signs are in the order they are, what they mean, and why they are associated with various planets and constellations. Nothing is hard here. We don't do hard--but you will know astrology better than people who have studied it for decades, because you will know astrology like a fish knows the ocean. You w ...
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Hey everybody :-) Carol and I sat down for almost an hour and went over the classification of "earth" energy and why it is important and what it is good for and how it differs from "fire" energy and some rants on idiots. The series continues with a detailed overview of the four classical elements so that we can learn the more complex aspects of ast…
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Today Carol and I sat down and discussed the element of Fire and a few new concepts which we will be discussing in *much* more detail over the coming episodes. We sprinkled in some compare and contrast examples of the various elements and talked about the real-life examples of where you find the element of fire, how to understand what the esoteric …
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It's been a while since the last episode so Carol and I recapped what we have learned in the first four episodes and tied them to the four elements. This is just a basic primer for elements, as we will cover each element in depth over the next four episodes. This is not just basic knowledge. These are the building blocks of everything you will be d…
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I sat down with Carol and Diana and we spent half an hour discussing mutable energy. In all fairness I did most of the talking as I am the teacher. I do like having my students sitting in as it makes the conversation flow more naturally, and they bring salient points to the discussion. I hope you enjoy this episode. It has a LOT of valuable informa…
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Carol and I sat down and talked all about fixed energy, what it is, where you can find it, and how to use it to get stuff! We compared fixed energy to cardinal energy in simple terms and real-life scenarios. We are keeping things basic for a few more episodes so that we do not lose anyone when we jump into the signs. Thanks for being here. Here is …
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Karen and I sat down to talk about Cardinal energy. It was a pretty relaxed session. In this session and the next two sessions we are going over the "qualities" of energy (cardinal, fixed, and mutable), one per episode. There is no sense trying to cram it all in at once. It is better to focus on these building blocks now and when we start incorpora…
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This is the first installment of the Easy Astrology Lessons podcast. I sat down with Becka, one of my new students, and I just yapped about astrology and how we will learn it without having to memorize charts and graphs and squiggles and those horrible terms that no one should ever be subjected to. This podcast is a casual flowing instructional ser…
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