My Podcast Interview with Matt Tommey

Just before Christmas I had the privilege of being invited to do an interview with Matt Tommey for his podcast 'The Thriving Christian Artist' and it was published this week!

Click on the picture for a link to listen to my interview.

I've received a fair number of new subscribers to my mailing list (welcome, if you are one of them!), new social media followers and some really lovely responses from individuals reaching out to me after hearing my story.

In preparation for the interview I was asked to consider a handful of questions:

• How did you first get started on your artistic journey?
• What’s been your biggest challenge in pursuing art and how are you working overcome it
• What has been the most fruitful habit you have employed in your life to help you thrive as an artist?
• What does thriving as an artist mean to you and what advice would you give artists out there who are wanting to go from surviving to really thriving as a creative?
• How do your relationship with God impact your creative process?

I didn't get to answer all these questions, you never know what tangent this sort of conversation will go off along! I found it a really helpful exercise at this stage in my journey just to stop and consider these things.

I must emphasise that Matt selects people to do his podcast that are at different stages of their artistic journey and business development. His heart is to bring encouragement and inspiration to those getting started.
How would you answer if you were asked these questions? Don't discount yourself and where you are at on your journey. Everyone has a story to tell, we all have people that we are a few steps ahead of, we all have something to share.

For those of you who don't know him, Matt Tommey is a sculptor, weaver, musician, author and speaker, he also runs a mentoring programme called 'Created to Thrive' which I joined January 2018, with over 1000 members now in our closed Facebook group. He has a public Facebook page 'Thriving Christian Artists' with around 10,000 members and he's written some fantastic books: Crafting your brand, Creativity according to the Kingdom, Unlocking the heart of the artist & Created to Thrive.