It’s easy to slip into creating art for external approval without realizing it. This can lead to burnout and a disconnection to why you’re creating in the first place. In this blog post, I speak about my own experience with how I’m reconnecting with my creativity after burnout.

Business, InspirationAmanda WeedmarkFebruary 17, 2025creative business, creative inspiration, personal growth, personal healing, entrepreneurship, art business, burnout, fixing burnout, creative burnout, burnout recoveryComment

How Entrepreneurship Can Ignite Personal Transformation

A personal & spiritual perspective on how entrepreneurship can ignite transformation & healing. If we allow it.

Business, InspirationAmanda WeedmarkSeptember 1, 2023creativity, small business, art business, entrepreneur, creative journey, creative business, inspiration, discomfort zone, spiritual practices, personal healing, entrepreneurshipComment

Work through Discomfort in Your Creative Business

When we’re faced with moments of discomfort in our creative business, it is a call to check-in with ourselves and our business health. Read about how I’m working through discomfort through difficult, but necessary, decision-making & adapting to changes.

Business, Inspiration, Art & DesignAmanda WeedmarkJuly 21, 2023creativity, small business, art business, entrepreneur, creative journey, creative business, inspiration, discomfort zoneComment

Embracing Adversity: Unleashing the Power of Challenges in Your Creative Journey

Read about a few major points of adversity I’ve experienced in my creative journey that might help you along in yours.

Business, Inspiration, Art & DesignAmanda WeedmarkJune 30, 2023creativity, small business, art business, entrepreneur, creative journey, creative business, inspirationComment

5 creative informational resources I can’t live without

As a commercial illustrator, graphic designer, and creative entrepreneur, here are 5 informational resources I can’t live without.

Business, Spotlight, Inspiration, Art & DesignAmanda WeedmarkJune 2, 2023creative resources, creativity, small business, art business, entrepreneur, art business resources, commercial illustrationComment

Running a product-based business in a recession

Recessions, downturns, and slow times in our product-based business can be scary. But they don’t have to be! Here are my tips to navigating a recession as a product-based business.

BusinessAmanda WeedmarkApril 7, 2023art business, product based business, recession, recession in businessComment

A Wholesale Prep Guide for product-based businesses

Want to start wholesaling your products? To help you avoid wasteful mistakes and present yourself and brand professionally, this wholesale preparation guide will outline what you need to know BEFORE jumping into wholesale.

BusinessAmanda WeedmarkMarch 31, 2023art business, wholesale, product based businessComment

Wholesale Catalogue Template

Want to create a wholesale catalogue without paying for design fees or having to start from scratch? Here’s a template that offers great design and is budget-friendly.

Art & Design, Business, ProductAmanda WeedmarkMarch 22, 2023art business, wholesale, product based business, wholesale catalogue, wholesale catalog templateComment

How to Brainstorm like a Boss

Blank pages got you scared? Don’t worry! I’ll get you to brainstorm your way to some stellar ideas through a series of steps that, I find, make brainstorming easy.

Inspiration, Art & DesignAmanda WeedmarkMarch 8, 2023inspiration, art business, brainstorm, idea generation, creativityComment

Healing through Nature : FirReal Nature Connections

Say hello to Melody of FirReal Nature Connections. She’s a Certified Nature Connected Life Coach that helps you slow down and reconnect to your true self.