Establishing good client relations

Today on Willful, artist Heather Kocsis describes: 

• How her work invites viewers to be present with their emotions.
• How everything goes away, but art has a permanence.
• Tips on developing good client relations.

Learn more about Heather’s study of architecture and the effects of time at HeatherKocsis.com. Her multidimensional pieces are in public, private and corporate collections across North America, including the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto and The City Reliquary in Brooklyn, New York.

Willful is the web series that tracks how artists and creative entrepreneurs work, thrive and survive. We interview one artist a week, then post five three-minute snack films from that interview on YouTube every day. 

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Thank you to Greg Garson and The Merchant Taps & Tavern for your tremendous hospitality!

Writing YA fiction with Angela Misri

This week on Willful, I sat down with Angela Misri (‪@karmicangel‪), a Toronto-based journalist and former CBC’er, now a co-host of the podcast, Ada’s Sisters (with Eden Spodek), and the author of the A Portia Adams Adventure Series. In Ep. 3, Angela shares her thoughts on:‬‬

• Writing Young Adult fiction.

• Searching for female protagonists in books.

• Why Nancy Drew isn’t her cup of tea.

• Running in heels.

Willful is the web series that tracks how artists and creative entrepreneurs work, thrive and survive. We interview one artist a week, then post five three-minute snack films from that interview on YouTube every day.

Follow on our YouTube Channel (WillfulProject) and Facebook Page, or on our website WillfulProject.com for our entire archive of inspiring interviews.

Thank you to Greg Garson and the staff of  The Merchant Taps & Tavern for the location and the hospitality.

Shot and edited by the talented Yann Yap.

Creativity and compensation

This week on Willful, I sat down with Andrew Dobson (dobbernationLOVES), the editor in chief of DobberNationLoves.com, a food, luxury travel, arts and entertainment blog now in its 9th year. In episode #3, Andrew talks even more about:

• His efforts to change the culture of free on the internet.
• His favourite example of creativity and compensation coming together. 
• When he has said YES to non-paid work, and why.

Willful is the web series that tracks how artists and creative entrepreneurs work, thrive and survive. We interview one artist a week, then post five three-minute snack films from that interview on YouTube every day. 

Follow us here on our website, or on our Facebook Page and YouTube channel for our entire archive of inspiring interviews.

Monetizing your blog posts the DobberNation way

This week on Willful, I sat down with Andrew Dobson (@DobberNation), the editor in chief of DobberNationLoves.com, a food, luxury travel, arts and entertainment blog now in its 9th year. In Ep. 2, Andrew talks about:

• The social media landscape after he graduated in 2007. Twitter was a year old!
• Monetizing your writing and videos.
• The mistakes he's made/lessons learned in the push to get paid for his creativity.
• Setting expectations with clients.

Willful is the web series that tracks how artists and creative entrepreneurs work, thrive and survive. We interview one artist a week, then post five three-minute snack films from that interview on YouTube every day. 

Follow us here and on our YouTube Channel for more inspiring interviews.