The Thriving Artist Podcast

Is it realistic for artists to think "One day, I'll retire"? Christina Empedocles knows about the financial concerns of artists. A working artist represented by several San Francisco-based galleries, Christina also runs Insight Personal Finance, a company that aims to improve the financial health of creative entrepreneurs. In this episode, Christina acknowledges the financial hurdles that artists face--fluctuating income, being responsible for your own raise, lack of benefits---and provides specific strategies that artists have successfully employed to overcome them.Overcome Mental Hurdles About Money"There’s a lot of baggage around art and money, so a lot of people have a hard time looking at what they make, and think 'I should be making more.'""What first established your relationship with money? It can be really be powerful to think about, and help eliminate engrained money behavior that isn’t working for us.""When you’re doing this yourself, you have to pull all the levers and it can feel like a burden. B