E165: On this episode we speak with musician, entrepreneur, and inventor Andrew Oliver. We speak through balancing your passions and distributing your creative / marketing with all your worlds. Leaving school early and going for it and what pursuing a healthy financial life in the creative arts looks like. Today’s episode is great for any creative looking to make a living doing things they love, start up life, and inventing new things.  Let us know what you think @davewakeup on social or [email protected].   In This Episode We Cover Leaving college earlyGoing into gigging full time with your original music Developing your first physical productItching your own scratch Pillars of your business / content Distributing all your creativeWorking with what you haveWorking with others that can do things you can’t Getting back that child like wonder and explorationApproaching finance sustainability as a creative starting outPiecing together your income and diversifying risk on the streams  Quote’s “When I’m most rigid and most busy I’m the least creative. When I’m on vacation I always write new songs. My mind get’s in that creative zone where it wants to stimulate itself.” - Andrew Oliver  “Working with what you have and not being afraid to work with what you have is the first step.” - Andrew Oliver “That lack of things they have to create with pushes them way outside the box to form the disruption.” - Host Dave Swillum   Andrew’s Links IG@flippinoliver Andrew’s First Physical Producthttps://www.getdummiez.com/ Andrew’s Custom In Ear’shttps://www.wavscustom.com/?fbclid=IwAR1C62P2LPhKFdJQa7Vm0I3DdIEw2-XQnx4irkspkMD-ZJ1bOoS2yRDyEi0 Andrew’s Musichttps://www.brotheroliver.com/home Andrew’s Media / Record Labelhttps://www.facebook.com/forthrightrecords  Waking Up From Work Podcast Links  IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me!@davewakeup Merch To Support Us!https://wakeup.itemorder.com/sale?fbclid=IwAR30nyVXdpFaax0mN0CRcC_mVjNzafbMo0spds82eoG-GMo01HG6Uq0dvzw Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you)https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork Facebook Community to connect to creativeshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/ Email[email protected] Youtube Channel & Serieshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber For audio advice and more in depth music content from Davewww.crawlspaceaudio.com Dave’s Indie Band Broadwinghttps://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee