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Today's guest is the amazing Benji Rogers. Benji is the Founder of Pledge Music, a direct to fan music platform that is best understood as the "kickstarter for music". Benji is on the show today to teach us how to build a fan base, well actually even Super Fans, before you even release your album. It makes the release so much more successful when you follow his formula for building your fan base.  

Today's guest is a busy lady who loves the changes she is making in the world! She's been able to leave her full time job and focus solely on creative projects that matter to her! You'll get to know her a little better in the episode, but here's a little bit about her background. Nneka Onuorah has never been one to shy away from a challenge. Born to hardworking parents; her father left Nigeria with a mere $20 in his pocket in the hopes of having a better life in America and a strong-willed mother from Harlem New York,Nneka was born with an innate sense of strength and determination.  You can read the full show notes here.

 For the past decade, Lynnée has worked as an artist who incorporates self-directed project based research into interactive workshops, music events and public lectures that offer participants the opportunity to develop an intimate relationship with under-explored topics related to the cultural history of marginalized communities.  She creates multi-dimensional and multi-sensory experiences that require audiences to apply critical thinking to how the arts can hold viable solutions to social inequality. Today Jo-Ná Williams interviews Lynnée and you won't want to miss a minute of this interview!

On today's episode Jo-Ná Williams helps you get in the right frame of mind to live an extraordinary life in 2016. No matter what your goals are, you can achieve them, if you take the right steps now to make it happen. Jo-Ná exhorts you to pull out all the stops and take charge of your career and your life in 2016!

In today's episode, Jo-Ná Williams interviews celebrity stylist Elsa Isaac. Elsa is an immigrant entrepreneur, and she has build her business on fashion. Else shares her meandering path to living her true passion. Else believes that when we look our best, we can live our best lives.

In this episode Jo-Nâ Williams talks all things Twitter with Madalyn Sklar. Madalyn is a Twitter expert and she also specializes in helping musicians build their Twitter following. You will love the tips that she gives that you can implement right now!

Today's guest is a beautiful person inside and out!  She found her passion for fashion and used it to not just create work for herself, but also to create work for others who may find it hard to find work.  Pêche Di is a former Thai beauty queen and model, and the founder of Trans Models.  Pêche Di has created the worlds first trans modeling agency!  In this interview she tells the story of her journey and how she has been able to make an impact in the trans community with her modeling agency.  She has truly had a fascinating journey!   You can find the full show notes here.

In this episode of Artists Without DayJobs, Jo-Ná interviews Grammy award winning musician, author and economist Kabir Sehgal.  Kabir shares his insight for building relationships that can propel your business!  You don't want to miss it!

Clint Salter had his first dance studio at the age of 16 and everything just fell into place after that.  Clint is one of the best as selling online course and programs for creatives.  Clint has taken all the content that he was teaching to his one on one coaching clients and put it into a very robust program to help any dance studio get to the next level.      

Today’s episode is Community Q episode!  In today’s episode, Danielle has a question about how to build a following.  Danielle has been struggling as a musician and has been playing open mic nights and submitting videos of her music to places, and hasn’t gotten any response.  Now she feels like she has no following, has no support from her family, and she doesn’t know what else to do. Jo-Ná gives Danielle some real advice after looking at her online presence.  Unfortunately, it takes more than talent to be a successful musician.  You also have to market yourself.  You have to put yourself out there.  You must begin building a following in social media.  Hear all of Jo-Ná’s advice, her critique and her encouragement!  There are also tons of other tips that Jo-Ná provides, so listen to the entire episode to get them all!  

Sophia grew up in Seattle, in a family that was involved in activism, so it was something she was exposed to early on.  Her roots are in social justice.  She had an epiphany early on that she wanted to make things.  She didn’t just want to witness things as a bystander, she wanted to experience them. Sophia desperately wanted to get into the film industry after college.  Her parents insisted that she get a job to pay her bills, so she ended up working at a media start up that was on the periphery of the film industry.  She quickly found out that she had chosen a parallel track and realized that if she continued on it, she was getting no closer to where she really wanted to be. She was able to take some continuing education classes and quickly gravitated towards still photography.  From there she worked her way into freelance photography and began taking gigs.  

In this Community Q episode, Jo-Ná takes a question from community member Carol Mae Whittick.  Carol is struggling with the same thing that so many of you are - how to price your services?  Jo-Ná gets the details and then coaches Carol through the question and gives her the steps she needs to take to set her pricing.  Carol already has a customer, but she just doesn't have a clue what to charge her.

In this episode, special guest Shantell Martin comes on the show to talk about being yourself and how important that is in branding your business.  Shantell is a renown artist, and she has built an immediately recognizable brand.  You can immediately spot one of her art pieces because it is do distinctive.  Shantell never really set out to have great branding, she just did what made sense to her.  She was consistent.  That is the basis for every great brand - authenticity and consistency.  Shantell tells us how she did it, and how you can do it too!  Don't miss a moment of this episode.   #areyouyou #artistempowerment #artistswithdayjobs #shantellmartin #artists #art   

Is getting people to pay for your creativity difficult for you?  Do you have people that expect you to provide your craft for free because it is your passion? Jo-Ná answers this question from the community and gives actionable steps for getting paid what you are worth, so that you can create even more!  Don't settle for giving your work away - it's time to get paid.

In this episode, Jo-Ná interviews internationally acclaimed artist, educator, writer, feminist, activist Kim Katrin Milan!  Kim has her values in human rights, justice and equality and she uses her platform to support her art.  Don't miss a minute of this episode!

In this introductory episode, Jo-Ná Williams explains the need for the show.  Creating the path for artists and creatives to live completely on the income from their craft is her mission.  She will show you how to quit your day job and make your craft work for you full time!  Don't miss it!