How to Quit Your Day Job and Become A Full-Time Artist

Ever wished you could quit your day job and pursue your dream career full-time? Vocalist, Briget Boyle is doing just that! Listen to her story and hear how she overcame years of fatigue and burn-out in order to strike out in 2018 as a full-time songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Get ideas, tips, and career hacks for how she is taking care of financial considerations, and creating accountability for herself so she can "go to work" every day with her music. Discover how she "spoke her success" into a reality and begin imagining and creating that bridge for yourself. Watch bonus video here.

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About Your Host, Holly Shaw

Holly Shaw, CHT  is a performance coach, creativity researcher and stand up comedian.  Growing up in Indianapolis, IN she convinced her parents she needed to go to Chicago to get her own agent when she was 14 years old and has spent a lifetime in film, T.V. and on professional stages all over the world as an actor, dancer, and director.

Now she shares her passion for the problems that artists face as a Creativity Coach and a Certified Hypnotherapist and has helped hundreds of artists, from Emmy award winning and Grammy nominated artists to world class choreographers overcome their anxiety, stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create original work and totally kill it onstage again and again without feeling like they're selling out or losing their sanity.

In 2016, Shaw wrote and released her book, The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece  which has become an Amazon bestseller.  In 2018 she launched the Performers & Creators Lab podcast which was named one of 2019's most outstanding podcasts by Databird Research. She teaches regularly at the SAG/AFTRA offices in L.A. and SF and runs creative laboratory workshops like the Comedy Lab Open Mic once a month at Monaghan's on the Hill in Oakland. Follow her on Instagram @hollyshawspritely