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How to find an artist rep. Finding an agent for your art. Characteristics to look for in an agent for your illustration work. Illustrators with agents. Asking for help. Learning how to ask for help. Single parenting and working as a freelancer. Freelancing with a toddler. Freelance illustrator, knowing what to create for your portfolio. Finding an agent in Europe. European artists rep. What to include in your contracts, what to avoid in your contracts. Episode 276. Aired Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Have you always wondered the advantages to having an art agent? Well look no further as I interview illustrator, Angela Navarra this week. Want to find out how personal projects have affected Angela's work, tune in live on Wednesday. Do you struggle with being a parent and working from home? This week I am excited to finish the conversation with Angela Navarra. She has had experience working with multiple agents and getting work on her own, as well as understands how to navigate through contracts with agent

Lettering as an outlet, saying yes more, niching down, finding your niche industry, Lettering as a healer, Using instagram to humanize yourself, digitizing your artwork, growing your design and lettering business What do you do when something massive hits your family? Mye De Leon turned to her creative community and they rallied around her and supported her like you will not believe. How does she run a business with three kids from across the globe, when most of her clients are in America? You will find out how in this episode. THE DESIGN RECHARGE SHOW: Mye De Leon // Lettering, Creative Community, & Growing Your Business Episode 275. Aired on November 7, 2018. Talk about talented and driven, this week's guest is both. Mye De Leon doesn't do anything halfway, she is a mom of three and has clients all over the world, teaches lettering workshops, and is part of the lettering and scrapbooking communities. This episode will dig into how she manages her time and creativity, juggling between client project

Have you ever struggled with getting your client to go with the bold move, or try something different that is edgy or makes them uncomfortable? Have you ever wondered how other designers have been able to do this again and again? What role does personality play in your ability to obtain and keep clients? How much trust do you have to build with a client before they let feel comfortable with the visual direction you are taking their company? Episode 273. Aired Wednesday, October 31, 2018. This week I am pumped to interview the founder of Gardner Design and the Creator of Logo Lounge, Bill Gardner. Bill has been able to build trust with his clients and through his knowledge of the industry has been able to produce work that is fun and is sometimes outside of the client's comfort zone again and again. This week we will touch on some of the strengths that Bill possesses which have acted like superpowers throughout the years. Bill is an excellent speaker, he is funny, smart, creative, authentic, and warm. He

Working freelance into your 40 hour work week. Finding time to freelance with a full time job. Making connections with people in the industry. Being known for something. Being known for being dependable and delivering quality work, quickly. Easy to work with Do you have a full time job, want to freelance, but aren't sure how to do both? Do you wonder how you can possibly meet clients AND be at work at the same time? Right you can't. But find out how my guest this week is able to freelance and hold down an art director position full time. . Do you struggle with finding Time to unwind and destress? . This week I am so stoked to finally interview my friend, Kevin Greene. We have an unusual meeting story that we will share with you. Which really explains why I love Kevin so much. He is friendly, dependable, funny, a great conversationalist, great with people, AND SUPER TALENTED as a designer and illustrator. . This week we will touch on some of reasons why Kevin is able to juggle so much and how he recharges.

Episode 272. Aired Wednesday, October 3, 2018. This week we will be continuing the conversation with my friend, Scott Soeder. Scott has combined his passion for music and illustration into a passion project that lead him to doing work for his favorite band, 311. Last time we didn't even get to talk about this, or how SCBWI (Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) has played a part in his career. Scott won the SCBWI Grand Prize in 2016 and won it again in 2018. In the last interview with Scott which can be found here: https://rechargingyou.com/2018/04/02/scott-soeder-blending-interests-to-find-your-niche/ I wanted to dive into his process and his marketing strategy, which we will do for sure this time around. Follow Scott at: Follow Scott at: Web: scottsoeder.com Twitter: @scottsoederart FB: Facebook.com/scottmakesart Insta: Instagram.com/scottsoeder dribbble: dribbble.com/scottsoeder Recharging You helps freelancing creatives find and utilize their strengths and guides them how to grow th

Recent Graduates. Changing paths. Taking a path in your career, heading for design. Emerging Designers, AIGA, AIGA Mobile, Working in Design, Moving up in desigin, Finding your place in the design industry. Work Life early in your career as a designer. Moving to a new city and what you need to know. Standing up for what you think should be done, even if you are new or young in the field. Creative career opportunities. EMERGE + AIGA Mobile // Scaling Your Design Career // WITH A LIVE AUDIENCE Episode 271. Aired September 26, 2018 @ 6pm CT / 4pm PT. I am teaming up with AIGA Mobile during the Emerge Month, where AIGA focuses on Emerging Designers. That means designers who have been working for 0–5 years. (Out of school or someone who has recently entered the design industry.) AIGA Mobile + Design Recharge Live and IN-PERSON! AIGA Mobile presents a special episode of Design Recharge to celebrate EMERGE awareness week! During this episode host diane gibbs will interview Jeffy Thomas (CUTT INK STUDIO), Phim

Alternate Income Streams. Using your gifts on different platforms. Finding revenue streams through relationships and friendships. Get connected to many designers and illustrators. Passive Income for designers. Trying your hand with patreon. Launching courses through Patreon, a subscription based model. Getting connected within an industry. Episode 270. Aired September 26, 2018. This week I am excited to have my good friend Dustin Lee back on the show. Dustin and I have been friends for years and I have seen his business grow and change. I think it is due to his always trying to improve and his connectivity within the industry. He spends a lot of virtual time with other people and listening to what they need, then creates products to fill those needs. He also is on the popular weekly podcast, The Honest Designers Show, and talks to other entrepreneurs in the industry. I love this podcast! @honestdesigners One of those projects was a course he launched a few years ago called Passive Income for designers. He

Josh Lewis The power of personal projects. Side projects that lead to client work. Time and time again Josh has created personal projects and they have led to client work. Be patient, grow, create great work, and know that the clients will come. Marketing strategies for freelance illustrators. Episode 269. Aired September 19, 2018. This week I am excited to introduce you to my friend Josh Lewis. I got to meet him and hear his story at Creative South this past year. Again, I love going to conferences for the simple reason that you get to hear more and spend time with people you admire. You might be thinking, what you do you mean, "hear more." When face-to-face (virtually or physically) you are able to give people more of your time as opposed to commenting on a post or typing a private message. When I meet with people in-person or online I get to know them better, I hear their struggles and how they have made it through the tough patches. Josh will share some of these things with us this week. Josh was wo

When is it time to let something go? Time to try a new style, new approach, new area of concentration? When do you know it's time to move on? Growth means having to let somethings go and release your grasp on things that have made you money in the past but are not producing fruit now. New areas of income streams. More effort in focused areas or spreading out til you find a new focus area. Don't put all your efforts into one area, spread out and have at least seven income streams. Staying flexible, being fruitful, letting things go that used to be precious and produce fruit but are no longer producing. Episode 268. Aired September 7, 2018. We may or may not have a show tomorrow. Now we are dealing with a Tropical Storm / Hurricane. His name is Gordon. Right now it is really just windy. We have already lost a lot of limbs. So many of our trees are pecan trees and they are really brittle and they are really loaded with leaves and pecans. It got me thinking, how similar our creative process when we are trying

Episode 267 Have you ever been in a place of growth and it is so uncomfortable you just want OUT? As you know when you fight it, it gets worse, right? Why do we do that? Why do we avoid the uncomfortable so much, that we can make ourselves sick. We make others around us, tired of being around us because we just don't want to face something. AVOID AVOID AVOID I would like to think of myself as a Gritty Girl. But lately, my inner voice has been desiring Easy Street! I want the gold but don't want to pan for it. That doesn't make sense when you are looking at it from the outside. There are no get rich quick schemes. There is work and lots of it. But our work, the work we "get" to do is pretty fun. So why have I made parts of it so scary in my mind. I think of it like a ride at an amusement park. For so many years the only ride I was tall enough to ride was the swings. I was in 8th grade before I could ride a roller coaster. And I almost didn't ride it, thank GOD for peer pressure. Had it been up to me, I d

Episode 265. Aired August 22, 2018 This week I am excited to introduce Beth Stafford and Jeremy Slagle. Beth is a designer and author, who wrote the Chin-up Chinchilla children's book. And Jeremy is a designer and illustrator who had always wanted to illustrate a children's book. They way they met and the way this book was perfectly crafted together by God is pretty amazing. Their story will give you hope especially if you have had the dream of a either writing or illustrating a children's book on your bucket list. Then on top of it all, they launched a kickstarter (launched on Aug 15th, 2018) and in 24 hours they were 66% funded. In 48 hours they were 88% funded. In six days they were 100% funded. This is AMAZING. And I want to know how they did all of it. I hope you will join us for this insider look into creating, finding an illustrator, and launching a killer kickstarter campaign to publish an incredible children's book. SIGN UP and join us LIVE, delivered each week directly to your inbox: or go t

Episode 65 Aired Thursday, Oct 10, 2013. For any designers who want to know how to better market yourself or use these prompts to help a client. Robin Landa shares strategies, prompts, and exercises from her new book. Looking to design your brand and all the things that go with that? Look no further. How important is your personal brand? Are you job hunting? Are you starting a new business? If you answered YES, then your brand is extremely important. This week's guest is Robin Landa, author of the book, Build Your Own Brand. Robin will share with us what makes this book so different and in my eyes so helpful and fantastic. This week I am pumped to interview Robin Landa as she answers questions about her new book, Build Your Own Brand. For more tips on growing your design business, the design process, and creativity energizers, stay tuned each week. I am here for you and happy to help! Can't wait for the interview? The book is incredible, Build Your Own Brand. It is chocked full of exercises, strategies,

Josh Cleland // Life as a Children's Book Illustrator. Kid literary art, tips on getting work, finding clients, Tips on finding clients and getting the work you love to do, Personal projects lead to breakthroughs in your career. Drawing books for kids, texturizing your artwork. Creating masks and textures for illustrator and photoshop. Working faster with Cintiq. Freelancing as a children's book illustrator. Working in Children's book publishing, working smarter and faster. side projects lead to dream clients. Episode 264. This week I am excited to introduce my friend and amazing illustrator, Josh Cleland. Josh like many got his start as a designer and then transitioned into doing more illustration work. The goal was to work as a children's book illustrator and his dream has come true. Josh not only does children's book illustration but other illustration projects and even a design project here and there. He will share with us what the world of children's book illustration looks like and maybe bust a few my

Finding work as an illustrator, How to get clients as an illustrator and designer. Working as an illustrator. How to choose an agent. The positives and negatives of having an agent. What to look for in an illustration agent. Creating work that will get you noticed. Creating work to land you an agent. Collections are key to landing an agent. How to get hired as an illustrator. Working as a freelance designer and illustrator. How being a designer can be an advantage to your illustration career. Your skills as a designer are helping you get work as an illustrator Episode 263. This week I am excited to introduce you to Angela Navarra, she is a freelance designer, illustrator, and letterer and is going to be sharing her experiences about getting work on her own, through an agency (and how to vet the agent right for you). I am excited to be back after a few weeks off and now refreshed. Find more great episodes at www.rechargingyou.com Connect on Instagram & Twitter: @designrecharge Become a part of the Desig

Clearing $205,000.00 of debt within 36 months. Weighing Options Tackling Debt. Wrangling the debt beast. Debt as a creative. Financial Freedom. Live and Give to the fullest, Living financially transparent, Building a Strong marriage, Letting each other in, No secrets, Dream Better Together, Debt is a divider for any relationship. 20% Knowledge 80% Action 100% Debt Free Episode 262. Part 4 of Struggle to Soar series This week we conclude our month-long series about people who have gone through the valley and are now on the mountain top and are able to look back at their fight with clarity and share some advice with us. This series is called From Struggle to Soar. I hope these stories bring you encouragement and hope to get through your journey. This week (Special Saturday Show), I am interviewing my good friends Drew & Whitney Hill, you might know Drew from Inch x Inch, a non-profit that helps keep art in schools. (interview link here) Drew and Whitney have been together since high school, they have twins

Scott Biersack shares his personal story of finding balance. Its ok to take time for yourself. It is crucial to the creative process and fighting creative block to meditate and exercise to aid in stress reduction. Relieving Stress as an entrepreneur. Feast or Famine mentality of a freelancer. Meditation, Yoga, diet, and exercise have aided in finding balance. Eliminating Creative Block by controlling stress. Worried because of blood in your stool, celery juice is healing. Creating time for yourself allows you to be more productive. Episode 261. Part 3 of Struggle then Soar series Aired Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 2:30pm ET / 11:30am PT This week I am interviewing my good friend Scott Biersack. There are so many things in Scott's life that make him perfect for this Struggle then Soar series. Scott has a drive and grit like you would not believe. He is not only a designer, letterer, illustrator, typographer, he is an entrepreneur. And like you being an entrepreneur means you are juggling a lot, and sometime

The ups and downs of doing a daily challenge. Daily design challenges can be taxing but also invigorating. This skateboard deck challenge has allowed me to tap into a new style and share some real quirky parts of being a noticer. You will never look at envelopes (security envelopes) the same again. I am not giving up, even though it is hard and challenging to do something everyday. I am so thankful this is not a 100-day challenge. Starting with a small challenge has really helped me to love this daily challenge. Aired Thursday, June 14, 2018. This week I will be talking about what I am learning about recently, which includes doing a daily challenge, working with others, feeling like giving up and knowing when to and not to give up. I will hopefully be able to share some analytics insights with you as well. I hope you will join me for this quick update. I was supposed to have Tara Victoria and Brad Weaver on but we are rescheduling their episode and why that did NOT stress me out, rather it was a blessing.

Jason Shults beat stage 4 cancer with the help, support, and encouragement from his friends and family. Getting back to designing was a huge part of Jason's battle success. Now Jason gives back and donates his time by designing for cancer research. Jason will tell you that cancer changed his life for the better. Watch to find out why, this extreme battle of stage 4 cancer was the fight of his life, but gave him a richer, deeper life as a result. Episode 259. Part 2 of Struggle then Soar series Aired Tuesday, June 5, 2018. This week I am excited to share an inspiring story of a battle with cancer. Jason Shults is an in-house designer at The Ohio State University, he battled cancer and will share how design acted as therapy during his battle and recovery. Jason has now committed to giving much of his freelance time and funds to Cancer Research and has been changed by this battle for the better. He has a laid-back, warmth that you will not believe and HOPE. I am excited to introduce y’all to Jason and hear

Find Your Lens Into The World, Finding Your Style. What gets Measured gets Improved. Broken Pieces Build Interesting Stories. Good Design is Story Telling - Zoom In On The Details - Tell Your Story. Watch and Listen as Chris tells his story of going from being emotionally charged to being logical about decisions. He shares how he stopped blaming people and started taking responsibility for his situation. We talk about the Power of Role Play in difficult situations, and how important culture fit is for a company of creatives. Episode 258. Part 5 of the Scaling Your Business series and Part 1 Struggle then Soar series Airs Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 2:30pm ET / 11:30am PT This week I am excited to interview Chris Do. Chris not only is the founder of a successful design firm he also has a successful YouTube Channel, course site, membership community, and podcast. He is an educator and a prolific content creator, we will dig into his backstory this week. Chris is passionate about teaching students and bu

Scotty Russell brings his wisdom as we talk about the value of writing and polling your audience. The importance of growing an email list and how growing Your Audience is Like a Video Game, you’ve gotta jump the fear hurdles to get to the next level. Poll your audience, listen and You will hear what they need but you need to listen. Scotty gives actionable steps for anyone trying to build a social media presence and grow an audience online or grow an online business showcasing your creative talent and skills. Writing is where it all starts. From Art to podcasts to workshops even talks. Scotty also talks about using Patreon and how it isn’t begging, but rather, it’s a way for people to say, "I support you'" when they may not need or want to buy a product. Scotty went solo yolo at creative south in 2015 and was on stage in 2016, doing things that scare you and that make you uncomfortable are important to your growth. Talk, Write & Post, Even when no ones listening, Life is Short Find Your Tribe Even whe