State of The Artist Podcast

Discussing the sneaky ways we avoid risk and stay in the "controlled middle" so we don't have to face our fears. Our lives and our art is better when we create with risk. Join the DISCORD and meet other Artists like you : https://discord.gg/wq4jqdS7a5FOLLOW ON TIKTOK : @botnikbotnik

Breaking down Charli D'Amelio's Tik Tok strategy and what Artists and Content Creators can learn from her. 

Discussing what it's like to be an Artist at the very top like Justin Bieber, cancel culture, technology, and how targeting the niche is the only option left to find success, and to keep your emotional/mental health safe in this post-pandemic music industry.

Overthinking is something that truly plagues Artists. In this episode, I'm giving you 3 ways to stop your racing mind. I learned these the hard way. 

It's mid-pandemic and Artists are starting to get sick of feeling horrible. It's time to start getting momentum back and this episode deals with the secret ways we subconsciously avoid taking responsibility for pushing our careers forward. 

Image is something Artists and Musicians tend to obsess over but do nothing about. This episode discusses how best to develop your image as an Artist. 

Has the Pandemic crushed your productivity leaving you miserable and hating yourself for not achieving your 2020 goals and now you're sitting up in your bed watching the remake of Willy Wonka, eating chips like a grizzly bear, head filled with thoughts of your inadequacies as a human being? This is the episode.

The pandemic continues and a lot of Artists have lost their momentum and motivation. SoTA season 2 deals with the pandemic and episode 1 is the shot of motivation you might need to start to turn things around, claw out of depression and overwhelm, and start to move forward again. Love you.

This is a brutal question most people obsess over, regardless of how "far" they've actually come. For Artists and Musicians, it is a creativity crushing, life-energy sucking, limiting force. This week, we're breaking it down and figuring out what to do about it. 

Writer's block is a problem with the flow of ideas. It's not like you become less creative. The creativity is simply blocked from flowing through you. It's dead simple to break out of this problem by understanding where it comes from and why it plagues Artists. In this episode, I'll show you exactly how to get your ideas flowing again. 

In this episode I'm discussing the single best tool for marketing an Artist has - catching up with culture. Time moves forward and the culture shifts. If you don't catch up with it you become out of date. You stop being cool. The punishment for Artists is we stop being relevant to what's happening now. Because we're locked in the past. Catching up gives you power.

Other people's opinions of your life and your Art limit your creativity and your willingness to take risks. In this week's episode, I'm talking about what it all means, and how to survive the worst disaster Artists face - the opinion of our audience.

Musicians and Artists are intimidated by them, but why? I'm digging into a touchy subject on this one. Which "industry people" are the good ones, and which are the bad ones? Do Artists need them at all? 

Discussing the main reasons Artists and Musicians have trouble focusing and generally keeping life on track day-to-day. How Artists can get control over distractions and start to make progress. 

For most Artists and Musicians, social media feels like a chore we want to avoid even though we know it's the greatest tool in history to share our Art. In this episode, I'm trying to change your perspective on social media by comparing the old model for reaching new fans VERSUS the new model Artists and Content Creators are using to scale their audiences. 

The root problem in all of our lives and Artistic pursuits is fear. Of course it is. Building a fanbase, recording music, posting on TikTok, all of it is made harder because of the fears we are all facing in pursuit of a career. This episode discusses 2 types of fear that keep Artists from progressing - fear failure and fear of success.

Luth breaks down the psychology of why 85% of Artists notoriously avoid practice, who gets to opt-out of practicing, and how practice is tied to fear of commitment.  

Luth discusses the impact of having, or not having, the mythical unicorn that is "talent". The psychological impact on talented Artists who rely too much on their gifts, and on less naturally talented Artists and Musicians who need to leverage "work" over "talent". 

Luth discusses the psychology of fan behavior and what Artists and Musicians should be paying attention to when beginning to build a fan base. 

Luth discusses the most common cause for depression in Artists and Musicians - lack of progress, and digs deep into overwhelm, losing belief in yourself, and how to bounce back from the depression cycle that Artists often fall into.