Living from your Art w/ Elie Castonguay: Recent Episodes
Elie Castonguay
Welcome to the "Living from your Art" podcast!
This show is for artists and entrepreneurs who want to be able to make a living from their art by learning how to find your ideal clients and communicate to them… so that you can help them with your artistic services.
Learn from Elie Castonguay, a Marketing and Sales coach for artists and a co-founder of one of the largest community for puppeteers, the Puppet Podcast.
Inside each episode, Elie shares his tips and discoveries that he made along the way by helping many artists to make a living from their art with humour and vitality.
🎙️"Vivre de Son Art" le Podcast - Interview #5 - Nancy Bergeron, Muraliste et Créatrice de Marionnettes
Nancy Bergeron est une artiste talentueuse ayant exploré plusieurs formes d'art, notamment la peinture et la créations de marionnettes. Elle a travaillé plusieurs années avec des élèves pour embellir leur milieu scolaire, en réalisant des fresques sur les casiers et les murs d'école. Elle travailla également avec plusieurs centres de personnes âgées pour embellir leur milieu de vie à l'aide de murales peintes sur différentes surfaces (portes d'ascenseur, portes intérieures, murs, etc.) En 2018, elle s'est intéressée à la création de marionnettes et n'a jamais cessé d'innover depuis. Ses idées créatives l'ont aidé à développer son entreprise et à se lancer dans l'entrepreneuriat. Sa compagnie "Marionnette Manie" crée de plus en plus de collections et créent également de façon ponctuelle des marionnettes sur-mesure pour des projets de grande envergure.
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🎙️"Living From Your Art" Podcast - Interview #4 - Kasandra Vargas, Ventriloquist
Kasandra Vargas Bio:Like most kids in the 90's, I grew up watching educational puppet programs like Zabomafoo, LambChops PlayAlong, and of course Mister Rodgers Neighborhood. I never picked up a puppet until 2019. In 2019 I worked for Fish and Wildlife tried to find a way to connect with kids and the way I remember adults connecting with me through the media was with puppets. So, I taught myself the art of ventriloquism by practicing hours in front of a mirror and while driving in the car no I never looked in the mirror when I was driving just did my best not to move my lips. I was making videos on Youtube but knew I wanted to start my own business then in November 2021 I got my busies coach Elie, with his help he has made me into a professional ventriloquist. Now I perform for libraries, daycares and museums. AND I LOVE WHAT I DO !
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🎙️"Living From Your Art" Podcast - Interview #3 - Kevin Stone, Metal Artist
Kevin Stone is a World renowned Metal Artist located in a beautiful British Colombia, Canada. Kevin specializes in large-scale, one-of-a-kind, 3-dimensional, stainless steel sculptures. Kevin has developed a reputation for producing exquisite, highly detailed, stainless steel masterpieces for a growing international clientele. He enjoys the artistic challenge presented with each new piece, and is always interested in bringing someone’s vision to life.His sculptures are designed to attract attention, create emotion, invite contemplation and conversation, state boldly, add beauty and style to their environment, and become a fabulous focal point.
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🎙️"Living From Your Art" Podcast - Interview #2 - Jordan Perkins, Painter
"My name is Jordan Perkins and I am a full-time artist. It all started in 2015 in Castlegar, BC."I was 35 years old and trying to fill the afternoon with a fun activity for my daughter and I. We took a trip to the local dollar store and loaded up with every paint color and canvas. Let me tell you, it was a fun day but my painting was nothing to be proud of. That was until my daughter asked if she could hang it in her room."That was it!"I felt amazing and had a great time painting simple silhouette-style paintings with her. As time went on I discovered new techniques, and supplies and kept trying to create my best painting yet. Here we are today as I spill my paints in search of my best piece. Now 42 and working full-time as an artist I specialize in large colourful bold pieces that will make a center piece in the room."
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🎙️"Living From Your Art" Podcast - Interview #1 - Mike Harding, Puppeteer
Mike Harding of Applefun Puppetry has performed professionally for over 20 years. He has conducted thousands of puppet shows at libraries, schools, and birthday parties. Mike studied Improvisational Comedy at Second City, which adds a unique and spontaneous flavour to his shows. Applefun Puppetry Puppet Shows are characteristically interactive with a high degree of audience participation.
Before taking on puppetry full-time Mike obtained a degree in Business Administration from Brock University and a Television Production diploma from Humber College.
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Ep 96 3 Tips To Help You Engage a Conversation With Anyone As An Artist
In this episode of the "Living From Your Art" podcast, I talk to you about 3 tips to help you engage a conversation with anyone about anything so that you can grow your art business and meet more people easily.
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Ep 95 What Is The Correlation Between You (an Artist!) And A Baby?
In this episode of the "Living From Your Art" podcast, I give you a very good example to follow to become better to do the important things as an artist in order to grow your art business.
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Ep 94 Full-Time Artists Represent 0.5% Of The People
In this episode of the "Living From Your Art" podcast, I talk about how reaching the top 0.5% of the population is actually closer than you think as an artist!
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Ep 93 Why Do You Follow Trends As An Artist ?
In this episode of the "Living From Your Art" podcast, I talk about trends and how you DON'T have to follow them and what you should do instead.
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Ep 92 What Should Be THE Thing You Aim For To Get New Clients As An Artist ?
In this episode of the "Living From Your Art" podcast, I talk about THE single most important activity that you can aim for to make sure that you get a steady regular source of clients for your art business.
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Ep 91 The Importance of Creating Multiple Streams of Potential Opportunities as an Artist!
In this episode of the "Living From Your Art" episode, I talk about the importance of constantly be looking for new opportunities to sell your art and find new collaborators for your art business.
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In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast, I talk about the importance that YOU have as an artist in relation with the people who consume your art!
In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast I talk to you about the fact that we VERY often underestimate A LOT the energy, time and number of people we need to speak with to be able to succeed as an artist!
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast I wish you an amazing 2023 year and give you a simple advice to reach your targets as an artist!
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast I talk once again about the fact of asking more questions than less to be able to get your way as an artist.
Ep 86 How to Make Sure That You Can State Your Purpose Loud And Clear as an Artist?
In this episode of the "Living From Your Art" episode, I talk about how to have an optimal environment and surroundings as an artist to make sure that you can actually go towards your dreams and purposes.
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In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast, I talk about the positive effects that you create on society as an artist! Do you know what you are trying to create? Have you ever thought about it? Did you write it down?
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast, I talk to you about the importance of building a « fan club » filled with raving fans for your art!
In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast, I talk about some very specific things that you need to know to be able to have more self-confidence when you talk with a potential client!
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast, I give you the ULTIMATE way of gaining back your motivation to create as an artist
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art », I talk to you about how to find which clients you should be marketing to. How to use income statistics to actually know where to put your efforts and energy to find the right clients for your art.
In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast I give you the difference between doing a sprint VS a marathon regarding your communications to your potential clients!
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast I talk to you about how to reach for imperfection to be able to move forward with your art business!
In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast I talk to you about a weird feeling that can activate in your stomach while you send emails, direct messages or make phones calls to potential clients! I even tell you what to do when that happens!
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast I talk about a very useful tip with Gmail to remind yourself automatically to contact regularly potential clients to follow up with them.
In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” Podcast I talk to you about how to use massive actions to actually reach a certain level of success!
In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast I talk to you about the importance of working hard as an artist!
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast, I talk about a very good tip to help you get things done and to help you get out of your head when you are stressed out or anxious when you wake up!
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In this episode of the « Living From Your Art », I talk to you about how your story as an artist is often unknown by a lot of people! What I mean by this is that, your life story is old news for you but for many people it is actually new news because they did not know about your story before!
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In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » I talk about the fact that there is no shortage of potential clients in your specific city or state or country! It’s only a question of finding where they are and communicating to them.
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In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast, I talk to you about the fact of asking reviews/testimonials every time that a client hires you as an artist!
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In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast I tell you why I believe that the impostor syndrome as an artist is a lie!
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast, I talk to you about the ability of being to focus enough as an artist to get things done!
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In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast I tell you about the importance of creating a community as an artist! 🙂
In this episode of the « Living from Your Art » podcast, I give you a straightforward very simple tool to gain more confidence about your future as an artist.
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast I give you some examples of WHY you guys are saving lives with your art!
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast, I talk to you about one of the VERY important quality that every artist/entrepreneur should have to be able to succeed!
In this episode of the « Living from your art » podcast I give you a VERY important tip to move faster towards your dream career.
In this episode of the « Living From Your Art » podcast, I talk to myself for 7 minutes and give a great tip about WRITING!😃
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I interview Caroline Bernier-Dionne, a multi-disciplinary artist where she gives her personal successful actions regarding the fact of getting work from social media.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I ask Caroline what she would do if she was just starting out as an artist and if social media did not exist.
In this episode of the “Living From Your Art” podcast, I talk to you about a very precise calculation you can use to know on which artistic projects you should work to make more money as an artist.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast I give you some tips to help you find the right person if ever you want to collaborate with someone in your art business.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast I talk to you about the importance of NOT trying to be perfect in everything you create!
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I give you a very good tip so that negative stuff happening in your art business does not affect you.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the importance if asking more questions to more people!
In this episode of the « Living from Your Art » I talk about a very easy way of helping your potential clients to gain trust in your artistic services!🙂
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I give you some tips on how to use fear to get more results for your career as an artist!
In this episode of the “Living from Your Art” podcast, I talk to you about the benefits of really understanding how your market works for your specific category of art business.
In this episode of the “Living from Your Art” podcast, I give you a very practical trick to have MORE time in your day!🙂
In this episode of the « Living from Your Art » podcast, I talk about why it’s actually a very good thing to make more money as an artist.
In this episode of the « Living from Your Art » podcast, I talk about a very specific mindset that you can have to be able to sell your artistic services more easily.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk to you about the fact of estimating and calculating correctly the amount of time and energy required to get 1 new client!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about how sometimes it is not useful to try to be perfect!
In this episode of the « Living from Your Art » podcast, I give you some knowledge about how to overcome stops and barriers as an artist!
In this episode of the « Living from Your Art » podcast, I give a very good tip to help you put more structure in your life as an artist! (And in your business!)
On this episode of the « Living from Your Art » podcast, I talk about the fact of not being stressed about how much time you spend on creating your art!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the fact of negotiating your prices and what to avoid!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I give you one of the best tip to make sure to NOT become shy as an artist, whatever the situation!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the fact of being persistent in order to achieve your goals as an artist!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I do a little « freestyle » and I end up telling you a great tip about how to make sure that you become successful as an artist!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about how you can increase your artistic business income even in times like a recession or a global pandemic.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I give you a Very good trick you can do with your own mindset to make more sales as an artist.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the importance of getting in shape physically to be able to perform at your best and help more people.🏋️♀️
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the benefits of answering your communications received a lot faster and what it creates around you!🙂
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast I talk about how you can help other artists book gigs without having to stress about the fact of them “stealing” your clients!
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about a new experimental strategy for Facebook Groups in which you could reach potential local customers. To make a living off your art, you always have to stay creative in the ways to find new people to contact! 🙂
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the importance of understanding WHO you should follow-up with when you make phone calls to sell your artistic services.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about a very simple technique to gain more self-confidence about your talent as an artist.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the importance of having optimized social media profiles.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast I talk about the importance of having someone that will help you to stay accountable to what you said you would accomplish. On the road of being able to make a living off your art, there will be plenty of reasons to NOT do what will bring you success, so make sure to have someone that will help you to stay on track!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the importance of understanding how you can charge less money to some of your past clients without affecting the expansion of your business.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about pricing your art so that you can feel good about your prices without losing clients. In order to make a living off your art, you will have to increase your prices sometimes… but how do you do that and feel confident about that? Listen to this episode to learn more.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I give a great tip to have more of your friends and followers on social media to like and comment your posts so that the algorithm could show them more of your future posts!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about how to setup your days or weeks so that you feel that you are not running around with no results! Making a living off your art has to be an organized activity to be successful!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast I talk about the benefits of creating a LIVE video showing your skills as an artist every week! I suggest using the platform called StreamYard so that you can stream on multiple social media platforms at once!🙂
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I decided to freestyle and I finally talked about the WHY you are doing what you are doing as an artist! I get a little bit emotional when I talk about my own story… I am sure you will love this episode that will bring you closer to making a living off your art!🙂
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the possibility of helping other fellow artists and making money at the same time. Making a living off your art can also mean to help other artists as well!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I tell you what to say when you call potential clients over the phone. That way, it relieves you from the stress of calling strangers and being able to make a living off your art.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about a really good exercice to do by calculating how much income through the years did every category of clients bring you. Then, when you know which category of clients brings you the most income, you know where to invest time and energy!
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the importance of surrounding yourself by the right people. Achieve success and making a living off your art is already something hard that you want to also make sure to avoid to have people in your environment who brings you down.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the benefits of hiring a business coach as an artist and why this could help you get to the next level!
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the importance of understanding who were your past clients and to remember how the sales went with them and when it took place. The goal of doing this is to be in control of your network and clients and to be able to sell again to them!
In this episode of the « Living from your art » podcast, I talk about how you can teach others your specific artistic talent and charge them. But more specifically, I talk about the amazing feeling you get from helping others achieve a dream of theirs.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast I talk about how to become friends with successful artists to be able to learn from their story.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast I talk about this very useful strategy of tagging your client’s Instagram profile in your stories so that they could have the option of sharing your story on their own profiles. This is a great tool to have more eyes on your artistic business and thus being closer to making a living off your art!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the fact of understanding and agreeing with the simple that everything in your life happens because of you. So, stop complaining about what others did to you and you will see how making a living off your art will become easier.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about a very important tool that not a lot of artists actually use: SURVEYS! Conducting surveys to your past clients AND to potential clients from your particular niche, will help you serve them better and have a longer relationship with them.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about how to propose the right products or services to potential clients so you make sure that you make more money from every new client.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about how you can get more when you communicate more. Living off your art will require a lot of communications sent to multiple potential clients!
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the importance of asking more questions to your potential clients. Being curious and asking lots of questions can bring a lot closer to success than being shy and not asking enough questions.
In this episode of the “Living from your Art” podcast, I talk about the way of being able to find clients even if there was no internet or social media. Living off your art can sometimes require a lot of courage from your part and this is the subject of today’s episode.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the importance of not being caught up into playing the middle class game! If you want to make sure to make a living off your art, it is CRUCIAL to understand what is the middle class and to stay away from it by all means.
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast I talk about the importance of using statistics to gain more confidence and certainty that your future to make a living off your art is actually real!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the importance on concentrating your actions initially on income producing actions to be able to make a living off your art!
In this episode of the « Living from your Art » podcast, I talk about the importance of being on the same page as your loved one. Taking the decision of being a full time artist requires a lot of hard work and dedication and it is very important that the person sharing your life with you is in agreement about all of this.
In this episode of the "Living from your Art" podcast, I talk about the importance of NOT creating a website too soon when you start your artistic career. We often receive advices from people around who never had any kind of business and one of these advices is to create a website FIRST... let me tell you why this is wrong.
In this episode of the « Living from your art » podcast, I talk about the importance of doing the slow and steady boring stuff. Success does not always depends on a very high creativity because sometimes, the person willing to be persistent at doing the boring stuff that others are not willing to do will win the game. Making a living from your art takes hard work and dedication but I believe in you and am certain that you can make it! :)
In this episode I talk about follow up and the importance of not being shy to call back or email back the same potential client over and over. Making a living from your art takes a lot or work and following up on potential clients is a crucial step to success.
In this episode I talk about the magical effect of using video testimonials from your clients. The best way of being able to make a living from your art is by showing the world what kind of results did your art create for others!
In this first episode, I talk about how to organize a schedule to make sure that you promote consistently your art on social media. Being able to make a living from your art is a question of communicating enough to the world so that they find out about you!
Welcome at making a living from your art. This is Elie Castonguay, and I am your host for this new brand new podcast that I've been postponing for a while. I've been coaching artists for couple of years now and through the pandemic and helping so many people, I always wanted to start this podcast, but I was never organized enough to start it. So I'm really happy to actually start this first episode in my car. Just read Russell Brunson expert secrets book. And this is where he talks about how he started it, his sorry, his own podcast during his commute to work. So I'm doing the same thing this morning. I don't know if the sun is good or not, but it's gonna be the first episode. And as he mentioned in his book, it doesn't have to be perfect. Actually. We don't want it to be perfect because this is a podcast real life in the making content, you know? So anyway, so good morning to you. I don't know if you're listening this to your in your car this morning or later or whatever date you're listening to. I'm glad that you're here and that you're listening to this making and living from your art podcast. So actually this morning, I, I wanted to talk about getting organized because this, this was my main problem. And it still is. I mean, nobody's perfect still, and this is still a, a, a problem for me. As I have so many things that I want to do as an entrepreneur and my, my main goal in life is to help millions of artists. Like this is my main purpose, helping artists, making a living from their art. So that's why I named this podcast that name. So, and this is like my main, main problem to be able to do all the stuff that I wanna do without being overwhelmed by all the stuff that I want to do. So, one thing that always helped me in the past was when I was making really good schedules personally, what works best for me is like schedules that come back every week that are the same, of course depending if you're an artist, gigs come and go and, and the, the timing is not always the same, but you don't work like 80 hours a week being on stage or, or, or painting or, or like you practice, you do promotion, you make sales, you do admin work. You know, you do social media, all of that jazz. So if you're able to use all these tasks that could be put in a schedule, like in a regular constant, like same time, same day schedule, that's what helped me get more done or things done. sorry. Sometimes I curse or I use bad words. My main language is French. So I, I love to use curse words in English. That's one of my hobbies. So anyway. So, you know, let's say that you wanna do social media and you don't, you're like, oh, I'm not good at this. I never follow true. And I'm like, oh, I should do more. And, and I know my friends told me that everyone, every, every time I post, they love it. They like it, whatever. So the best way of being able to do this is to first, don't put any time on the schedule, just give you a challenge, give yourself a challenge for two months straight, give yourself a challenge of posting something every day or two. Like it doesn't have to be perfect. You can even skip a day or two if you want, but the challenge to be consistent or constant during two months. So 60 days do this and you will be amazed at how many people will actually tell you. And it can be anything about your art. It can be all, it can even be like personal stuff if you want, but mainly like let's say 80% on your art, 20% personal stuff, like family travel, adventure, movie, whatever, whatever you wanna talk about can be pictures, videos posts, questions that you ask your, your followers and do this for 60 days.