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350 - 5-Minute Mentoring:The #1 Reason to Start an Art Business

• Matt Tommey: Artist, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Artist Mentor • Episode 350

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I remember how I felt when I first started thinking about turning my art into a business.  Excited, nervous, scared, hopeful…  All the emotions were fighting for space in my mind and it was hard to concentrate on anything else.  

And maybe that’s what you’re feeling right now.  When you start any kind of business, there’s so much to consider and weigh out, and that goes double when your business is going to live or die by your creative output.  

So is it worth that kind of headache?  Especially in the uncertain economy we’re in right now, you may be thinking that now’s not the right time to “turn pro” in the art game...  

I’m here to tell you, there is never a perfect time to make a big change.  No matter when you start your business, you’re always going to have to overcome uncertainty and doubt.  

But I believe you should absolutely start up an art business, and in this episode of 5-Minute Mentoring, I’m excited to tell you all about why that is.   

Check it out!  


And when you’re ready to build a business that helps you thrive spiritually, artistically, and financially?  Here are 4 ways I can help: 

1️⃣  Get my FREE Guide, “5 Biggest Mistakes Artists Make When Pricing Their Art” Struggling to price your art in a way that feels authentic to you and your faith - but still makes you money?  Make sure you’re not making any of these mistakes!  Download here
➡️  https://thrive.matttommeymentoring.com/5-biggest-mistakes-when-pricing-art

2️⃣  Read the Book: Check out my book “How to Price Your Art: Pricing with Confidence for Sales & Profit” on Amazon ➡️  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XBP733

3️⃣  Create Art and Profit: Discover how to create the art you love while still providing for yourself financially in my “How to Price Your Art” workshop. Get more details here
➡️  https://thrive.matttommeymentoring.com/how-to-price-your-art-evergreen

4️⃣  Ready to truly thrive?  Join the Created to Thrive Artist Mentoring Program to discover how to build your art business and live the abundant life Jesus promised you as an artist in His Kingdom! Click here for details and to enroll! 
➡️  https://www.matttommeymentoring.com/artmentor.html


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If you've been kicking around the idea of starting an art business and taking your hobby to the next level, I'm going to give you today the number one reason why you should absolutely do it. Today, here on 5-Minute Mentoring.

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God created you to be. Hey, my friend. So glad that you're with me. I want to give you the number one reason I feel like you should start an art business today. Do not wait. You know, in talking to artists over the years and hearing people, you know, comment on the podcast and seeing YouTube comments and all that sort of thing, I hear this thing all the time in the hearts of artists. Artists are always like, you know what? I want to glorify God with my art. I want to see him move in my life. And I also want to be able to do that in a way that I have the time, energy, resources, and money to do the thing that God has called me to do. And there's always this disconnect between this vision that God's given them and their ability to actually walk it out. And I want to propose to you today that the key to that disconnect and bringing that disconnect together, all right, actually making a bridge across those two things is starting an art business. When you start an art business, what you do is you start to cooperate with the Holy Spirit to develop the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that you need to create a faithful income stream so that you can do the things that God has called you to do. You can have the impact. the influence that God has called you to have. You can spend the time and the energy and the focus that you need to be spending on creating art and meeting customers and getting your work out there and doing the thing that God's called you to do, as opposed to working that job that you hate, feeling stretched all the time, feeling overwhelmed, always pushing your art to the last place in your life, like all of us have done. Listen, I can tell you definitively, having worked with thousands of artists over the years in our mentoring program, when you begin to set your calling and your design as an artist in first place, and you begin to actually create the structure that you need in developing an art business so that you can begin to receive income through your unique design for your unique assignment that God's given you in his kingdom. Listen, everything happens. That's where the acceleration and momentum begin to happen in your life. That's where fulfillment begins to happen. That's where divine appointments and these divine intersections begin to happen in the marketplace. Why? Because you're doing the thing that God has designed you to do. you don't have to be scared of the business side of things. You can absolutely begin to start an art business, whatever that looks like for you in this season of life that you're in, part-time, full-time, maybe begin thinking about a transition from a job that you're working now into doing your art in a part-time or full-time way. I just want to let you know when you begin to do that and you begin to step out in faith, you begin to invest in that process. I've promise you, God will begin to meet you on the other side. He'll begin to intersect you with divine appointments, with divine and supernatural interruptions. He'll begin to bring people into your life with the knowledge and the wisdom and the understanding that you need to do the thing that he's called you to do. Listen, I don't believe that you're here just by coincidence. I don't believe that you're listening to this podcast or watching this YouTube video just because you didn't have anything better to do. I believe that the Bible says that the Lord orders your steps. And I believe you're here for a purpose. You're right on time. And I just want you to take this to prayer. Begin to ask the Lord, hey, is starting an art business, is that the next thing that you have for me? And if so, what do I need to do in order to do that? I promise you, as you begin to go down that road with the Lord, you're going to begin to see opportunity arise on the horizon of your life like never before. Listen, in 2009, God called me to raise up an army of artists. That's why we do what we do. That's why I do this podcast. That's why I have the mentoring program. That's why I've written the books that I have and the conferences that we host. Listen, nothing would give me greater joy than to be able to help you along the road to transform what may be a hobby for you into that faithful income stream that God has for you. If that's you, if you're wanting to do that, you can check out the resources that are right here in the description. And I would love to help you take the next step in starting your own art business and really stepping into more fully the thing that God has for you as an artist in his kingdom. I love you, friend. Remember, until next time, you were created to thrive. All right, bye.