Creative Living with Jamie: Cairene MacDonald

This week’s podcast is 20:24

This week’s guest: Cairene MacDonald of Third Hand Works, business readiness coach and administrative guide

Website: Third Hand Works
Blog: How Third Hand Works Gets in Gear
Twitter: @thirdhandworks

Cairene MacDonald is a business readiness coach and administrative guide. Through classes and one-on-one coaching, she helps independent creative professionals learn how to improve the administration of their businesses, emphasizing right-brain strategies so clients can succeed and still be themselves. Which is just a fancy-pants way of saying she helps people stop hatin’ on their admin grunt work.

Cairene has been helping arty-types get organized one way or another for more than twenty years, supporting designers and architects, art coaches and gallery owners, writers and teachers, among others. The insights gained from these relationships, along with her own experiences as an artist, are the basis of her current work. She knows first-hand the challenges of trying to streamline one’s muse.

Cairene lives in Portland, Oregon. When she’s not preaching her message of administrative reconciliation to the creative masses, she’s probably hanging out with her husband and her dog. Or making something.

Giveaway!

Cairene has generously agreed to give away a Bite the Candy session to one a lucky listener. Bite the Candy is all about getting something done that’s been on your to-do list for way too long – and it works! All you have to do is a leave a comment to be entered in the draw. I will announce the winner next Tuesday on the next podcast.

Show Notes…

• In the intro, I refer to the age rebellion I share in last week’s podcast with Christine Claire Reed.
• Cairene mentioned my Playing Dress-Up post at The Wish Studio
• Cairene mentioned morning pages, which is a daily practice of writing 3 pages of long-hand stream-of-consciousness writing recommended by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way

If you liked this, you’ll probably like…

• Your Creative Spark, 3-hours of inspirational interviews with highly creative artists.
• The Right-Brain Business Plan by my friend, coach and creative entrepreneur Jennifer Lee

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