Where can you save money and put it instead towards your next creative project?Last week in the UK we all had to file our taxes and it made me think about all that money we can earn and sometimes wonder where it has all gone. So this week's podcast is about  one way I support my own life as a creative is to save money every month in a sinking fund/special bank account so that when I need to pay for research, exhibitions venues, fringe brochures or workshops  I already have money saved to pay for it. Yes COVID has certainly decimated most peoples earnings as creatives, I lost my 5 nights a week gigs and sometimes we dont have much spare cash.  However, even in normal times it is very easy to overspend in some areas of our lives such as entertainment, going out and then say we have no time or money to make our art.It can be worse if you have a non creative job to pay your bills and it is easy to get into the mindset that you deserve a takeaway after a long day at non- dream work, non fulfilling work or have way too many drinks on a Friday eve.So I decide before the month begins with my variable freelance income, once my basic bills are paid that I will save and invest into my own creativity before overspending on other ultimately less important to me areas. Even if it is £25 or £100 a month that gets tucked away for your art then you start taking yourself as a working creative more seriously. So maybe look at your spending last month and see where you could have instead  used that and saved it for a workshop, materials, going to a relevant networking event or pre production costs on your next show, album or a graphic artist for your next book.My programme ‘Get Your Art In Gear’ will be available in February 2022.  Get Your Art in Gear is a specialist program that blends the practical, financial and creative lessons you need to take your work to the next level.Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make MoneyThis podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.About me, Marysia TrembeckaI am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.

How to use the Nadal, Djokovic & Federer rivalry to become better at your art formI was reading about  the Nadal, Djokovic & Federer rivalry  and how they have all pushed each other to become better players as each of them are just such incredible tennis players.Until Nadal won the Australian Open yesterday the three players had been stuck on all winning 20 Grand Slam titles each, Federer who is 40 has been there since 2018, Nadal (36) in 2021, Djokovic (35) in 2021.What is fascinating is how they have all had to step up and improve their game to be able to ccmpete with each other.  I am sure knowing this is partly why Nadal managed to come back from 2 sets and 3 games down to then beating Medvedev yesterday,  knowing h was truly beating his historic rivals.Of course in tennis one has to beat someone to win, in art winning is luckily not so focused about taking someone else down. So this week's podcast is all about how we can be inspired to improve by others in our field and in other fields, how it can help us focus on the small details that make us a winner and motivate us.My programme ‘Get Your Art In Gear’ will be available by Feb 14 2022, I am currently recording all the audio for it. So each morning I am getting up 2 hours early and doing a focused stint of audio recording before my day commences.  Get Your Art in Gear is a specialist program that blends the practical, financial and creative lessons you need to take your work to the next level.Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make MoneyThis podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.About me, Marysia TrembeckaI am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.

By the 3rd week of January most people have failed on their New Year's resolutions.We all set impossible tasks at a time when many of us are in cold dark January  and no Xmas sparkle to entertain ourselves with. Plus we are all in various savages of lockdown so if this is you definitely dont feel guilty.When it comes to being a creative and working on your new show or book , it is equally hard to keep putting off doing the writing or editing work you need to do. Without external deadlines or people asking for your work January is an easy  month to feel despondent.However my fix to that as a creative is taking daily action towards my goal. If you want to lose weight, whatever happened the day before, today and every day  you still need to get exercise in and eat well, ideally tracking your progress weekly. Becoming a great musician or writer requires consisten daily action. So my suggestion for my podcast this week is to forget  big goals and insane NY resolutions and decide every day to take a small step towards your dreams. Make a call to a venue or an editor, get up early and write for 30 mins, learn a new song a week. My programme ‘Get Your Art In Gear’ will be available by Feb 14 2022, I am currently recording all the audio for it. So each morning I am getting up 2 hours early and doing a focused stint of audio recording before my day commences.  Get Your Art in Gear is a specialist program that blends the practical, financial and creative lessons you need to take your work to the next level.Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make MoneyThis podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.About me, Marysia TrembeckaI am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.

I read Sidney Poitier'a autobiography perhaps 15 years ago and there are stories of his youth he tells that I have never forgotten. They illustrate his self respect, his focus and also his humility. His unwillingness to play stereotypical of the time characters and how luck met his focus is fascinating.Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make MoneyThis podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.About me, Marysia TrembeckaI am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.My film acting credits can be found on IMDB and indeed my projects are on  my media galleryhttp://marysiatrembecka.com/media-gallery/

Podcast episode to kick off 2022.The issue with new years resolutions are they are often too big, too many, impossible in the time frame.Instead ask what you really want to achieve in this new year and what you choose to not do from drinking to your netflix addiction to free up time to focus on getting your big Yes

As I record this live it is on the last Monday in November and I am very aware that 2021 was not quite the creative full on comeback I had wanted.So. This week's podcast episode is about seeing what 2021 goals you had dreamed up and seeing where you can get one of them at least moved on to the next stage or indeed marketed and ready for sale pre Xmas.Use this last energy push of how great you will feel if you get one important creative goal out before year end.

This week's podcast is on the rule of thirds, something I heard an Olympiad talking about in training. This is the idea that when you are training you will :A third of the time you will feel amazing. A third you will feel just okA third you will feel the pain, really can't be bothered and find it hard to push through Of course world class athletes train daily to or beyond the point of pain and probably boredom as well. However this mental expectation works just as well for us creatives who do need to practice our crady every day, or get back to selling our art after the 20 21 hiatus. Check out the new podcast.

This week's podcast is from a quote from Dr John Deloney who has a YouTube channel and often works wuth the American finance advice Dave Ramsey.He talks about 'don't forget to remember' Meaning thinking about how great we feel when we take positive action like work on our creative projects, take positive steps towards our goals, go to the gym, pick up your guitar, write that finance proposal for your next show. When we take positive action we feel much better after even if we did not want to initially go to the gym in the rain or practise when we could have just stayed in and watched Netflix. Also the flip side is don't forget to remember how bad we feel when we do things that don't align with our goals ad dreams, whether it is a lack of action such as no gym or no working on your novel or script or whether it is choosing to slump in front of the TV or getting lost in hours of YouTube instead of taking time out to honour your dreams. Thinking both before we take action and after we have or have not done something that 'don't forget to remember' means we can slowly align ourselves and our wishes against actions. Change for all of us is a hard process so thoughts that break our behaviours and make us think before we do what we are about to do. Don't make yourself feel guilty or worse, but it is worth playing with that phrase and seeing if it helps you move forward towards your goal.

The National Novel Writing Month, that worldwide online phenomenon where 100s of people declare they will write a 50k novel. In 30 days by writing 1667 words each day in November starts today.Even if you don't want to write a novel the success of it has some brilliant lessons about creating and things started and to a draft one level at least.You can join in NaNoWriMo.org at any time, the guest time I started was on Nov 12th 2009 and I did indeed create draft one of my first novelPlus there are loads of successful authors giving tips and they doing a fund raising campaign as well.

This week's podcast is about starting again, when life or Procrastination has got in the way of you taking action.Whether you have not picked up your guitar to work on that new song, or failed to do the edit on your script or novel tIt is always hard to start again so this week's podcast has some tried and tested tips and tricks to getting started again