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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Oh, noooes! Getting *that thing*, that pesky thing done? Noooooo! I have far too many excuses to leave a comment here on your blog in order to win the free session!
*Loved* this podcast, Jamie and Cairene! I’ve participated in a Bite the Candy workshop (it is fun to say!) and loved it. Now I need to find my “Super Leah” cape of boundless energy and getting things done!
Hi Jamie and Cairene! Thanks for this conversation! I run into many of these issues in my work as a creative producer and loved some of the ideas here! And I am a total morning pages advocate!
Bite The Candy looks like such an amazing program. I really loved this podcast. Thank you so much for sharing.
Great post. Got me thinking about my stories and how they should likely be written down in a book and put on a shelf, like any good fiction.
Thanks to you and Cairene for this offer…and the podcasts! Love them!
Hey Jamie, I recently discovered your brilliant site
Thanks for sharing Cairene’s work - just took a quick peek at her site and I think it’s gonna be very helpful in facilitating more creative vavavoom! Just what I need. Keep up the good work…
Thanks Jamie for these fun podcasts–they offer such a sense of creative community. And thanks Cairene for validating the idea of allowing fun and creativity into the practical world!
Wow–great podcast! Thanks so much to both of you. Now, to get to work on those morning pages…
I love the idea of putting on a Finish it Friday Hat.
Wow, great post. Loved it.