How Creativity and Wellness Overlap: Interview With Rebecca Hass
Rebecca is a fellow multi-passionate podcaster and creative wellness coach. She helps people have a balance of wellness and creativity to fight burnout. Because there is too much culture out there where we brag about how busy we are and how little sleep we get. And we need to change that.
For most people, creativity is not the first thing they think of when they think about self-care. But it can be one of your creative hobbies that give you the time and space to rest, and allow the space to work things out. And some of your wellness can be taking away the things that do not bring you joy and can be taken away to give space for other things that are important.
Putting your creativity and wellness together
Wellness is more than physical, it’s mental as well as spiritual. We need wellness in order to have creativity, but our creativity is how we express our soul. They both connect and feed off each other.
And there are times to figure out if what you love to do creativity can be used to make money. Sometimes having other people dictate it in any way (what’s popular, commissions, etc) can kill it for you. But also if others can kill the joy in it for you. If you get someone who rips into what you make and you lose all joy from it then maybe it needs to stay a hobby. But if you can take it as a critique (even if they are rude about it) and can look to see what you can learn from it then you can try it for a business or side hustle.
Do corporate jobs make you feel bored and frustrated? Are you keen on having a side hustle?
In Living Off The Hustle, Anung Vilay, successful multi-hustler and creative entrepreneur, takes you down the road to having it all – building the business of your dreams, strengthening its presence and having fun.
From breaking down the gig economy, exploring the mindsets behind wanting more money, and working around what suits you best, she delves into details in simple, lucid terms that are easy to understand.
Particularly interesting are the concepts of The Starving Artist, Scarcity Mindset, Employee Mindset and Doing Something That's "Beneath" You.
Anung also discusses to what extent you should do it yourself and where you would need help. She explores how to find great ideas for the hustle, the Do and Do Not List, the necessity of research, figuring out costs, and in-person versus online.
The arenas of active versus passive income, physical products versus digital products, and various ways of marketing are also explained with insight and commendable openness.
The various social media platforms are touched on, with their capabilities highlighted in a way that will help you choose which one(s) are right for promoting your hustle.
Talks of the prickly topic of pricing of products/services and making a profit. She decodes the calculation of components and how to determine the right price for your work. It is especially useful for newbie hustlers as well as those beginning a hustle in a new space.
With her feet firmly in the ground, the author does not forget the legal aspects such as taxes, liabilities and insurance in various areas.
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