Welcome to the Crafting Audiobooks podcast, where narrators Jennifer Jill Araya and Sarah Beth Goer dive deep into the art and craft of audiobooks with audiobook narrators, producers, directors, and post-production professionals.
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Starving Artist No More is a source of hope, ideas, and possibility for creative entrepreneurs who want more from their businesses than constant hustle and a mindset of scarcity. You can build a creative business that meets your needs, and I'm excited to help you get there.
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Dion Graham (special SPOTLIGHT ON NON-FICTION bonus episode!!)
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Our interview with actor and narrator Dion Graham visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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What do you need to be your best creative self? Where and how do you do your most innovative, exciting, unique-to-you work? And how can you take intentional steps to give yourself that “maximum creativity environment” so that you are able to do that kind of work? The answers to these questions are going to be different for every artist and every cr…
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Our interview with producer, director, and owner of Prose Garden Productions Lisa Cahn visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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Do you understand how your creative industry works? Do you know who the key players are, and do you have an understanding of how artists in your specific creative discipline get projects and are able to do the work that you do? Do you have a firm grasp of the current style trends and changes that are impacting the creative work of your colleagues? …
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As an artist who is also a small business owner, it sometimes feels like you’re pulled in two opposite directions: toward creative freedom and artistic expression on one side, and toward business-focused administrative tasks on the other. For most of us, in our creative training, whether that was art school or conservatory training or just a libera…
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Our interview with casting associate Lucas Behrends visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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When you’re facing a problem or a difficult situation in your creative business, what is your first reaction? What do you do? Do you feel frozen? Do you feel frantic, like you have no options? Do you beat your head against the wall? Or do you take a step back and find a way to walk around the wall? I know that, personally, my initial reaction is al…
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As a creative entrepreneur, your time is literally your most valuable resource. From a business perspective, time is what you sell, because your artistic products require time to create. From a personal perspective, all work and no play makes you a miserable, starving artist (and it’s right there in the name of the podcast that we’re saying “NO MOR…
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When you look at the list of your clients, the list of people who purchase your creative work, what do they look like? Do all of those people or businesses look the same, or do they differ in some way? And when you look at the type of creative work you do, does it all fit into a tiny little box, or do you work in lots of different spaces and in lot…
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Our interview with Senior Casting Director Tamara Marston visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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Our interview with narrator, coach, producer and writer Ron Butler visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com https://www.ronniebutler.com/
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057: Casting Director's Perspective
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Regardless of what creative industry you work in, communication is key. Particularly when you think of marketing yourself and your work to the people in your industry who serve in the project assignment role, the importance of professional communication skills cannot be overstated. When the decision-makers in your industry are deliberating about wh…
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056: The Neurodivergent Creative
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While I’m not neurodivergent myself, I know a lot of artists who are. In fact, quite a few of the artists who work with me to build their entrepreneurship skills are neurodivergent in one way or another. You, the fabulous artist listening to this podcast, might even be neurodivergent yourself. And this prevalence of neurodivergence among artists is…
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055: Creative Branding Deep Dive
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Questions related to branding and marketing can often feel incredibly overwhelming for artists. The vast majority of creative entrepreneurs got into their line of work because they were passionate about the “creative” part of the “creative entrepreneur” label, not so much because they felt drawn to the “entrepreneur” part. But as I’ve said before o…
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054: The Six Components, Revisited
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When I’m working with artists, the most frequent question they ask is how they should structure their creative business. How do they know which tasks in their creative entrepreneurship life are worth their time? How should their business work if they want that business to support them and fulfill them in all the ways they need to be supported and f…
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One of my coaching clients reached out to me this week regarding a task that she and I had discussed at length during a session a couple months ago, and she confessed to me that she hadn’t done it yet. What’s more, she wasn’t really sure why she hadn’t done it. There wasn’t anything stopping her or getting in her way. She told me, “I’m just not doi…
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Every creative has moments in their career that are moments of celebration, moments of pure excitement. And usually, when I talk to artists about those moments, they think about the big career milestones: that huge award that they won or were nominated for, the incredible review they received, the prestigious fellowship they were awarded, the amazi…
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Last week’s podcast episode was all about the importance of acknowledging the hard things in your life as a creative entrepreneur, but if you stop there, you’re only seeing part of the picture. Yes, much in the life of an artist is really difficult, but so much is amazing as well. We get to create for a living! We get to share our artistic ideas wi…
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Our interview with writer, performer and producer Tavia Gilbert visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com https://taviagilbert.com/
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050: Acknowledge the Hard Stuff
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The life of a creative entrepreneur is a difficult one. From a culture that doesn’t value our artistic work, instead telling us we should starve, to the difficulty of dealing with business administration tasks that many of us were never formally educated to handle, the reality of being an artist business owner is not an easy one. You’ve picked a ha…
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I know you’ve been there. Your task list is overflowing, and you’re overwhelmed. You’ve got more to do than you can possibly complete in the time available. Perhaps you’re in a feast period in your creative career, meaning your project calendar is jampacked full of fabulous projects that you’re excited to work on. Which is great, except that it mea…
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SPOTLIGHT ON NON-FICTION: Kelly Gildea
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Our (second!) interview with Senior Executive Producer Kelly Gildea visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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SPOTLIGHT ON NON-FICTION: Erin Bennett
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Our interview with audiobook narrator Erin Bennett visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com https://www.erinbennettvo.com/
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SPOTLIGHT ON NON-FICTION: Scott Brick
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Our interview with narrator and coach Scott Brick visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com https://scottbrick.com/
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SPOTLIGHT ON NON-FICTION: Bob Souer
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Our interview with narrator Bob Souer visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com https://bobsouer.com/
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SPOTLIGHT ON NON-FICTION: Melanie Schmidt
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Our Spotlight on Non-Fiction interview with Hachette producer Melanie Schmidt visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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As this episode is originally being released, it’s the day after Christmas 2023. Last year, for the podcast episode between Christmas and New Year’s Day, I narrated a Christmas story for you, and truthfully, that episode is one of my favorite podcast episodes of the entire first season! I’d like to make that holiday storytelling habit a tradition h…
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It’s Tuesday of the last workweek of 2023, and it’s a time when lots of us are thinking about what we’ve done over the past twelve months and what we’re looking forward to in the coming twelve months. Those kinds of looks backward and dreams forward can be really exciting! But it can also be really difficult to think back on the year gone by. If I’…
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As this episode is being originally released, it’s less than two weeks before Christmas 2023. In another four days, my husband, Arturo, will be off from work in his corporate job for the rest of the year. Yay for holiday vacations! And all over the world right now, people are making plans for the holidays and thinking about their New Year’s resolut…
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Our interview with Editor and Founder of AudioFile Magazine Robin Whitten visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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045: Your Personal Definition of Success
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When you picture someone who is a successful artist or creative, what image does that bring to your mind? Perhaps someone who has won lots of competitions or awards in your creative industry. Perhaps someone who is very prolific in their artistry, so you see their work all over the place. Perhaps it’s someone who takes on really high profile projec…
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We’re getting toward the end of the year, when people employed in corporate jobs are completing their yearly self-assessments in preparation for performance reviews in early January. My husband, Arturo, who you heard from in last week’s episode, turned in his 2023 self-assessment last week, just before Thanksgiving. And yes, I am a self-employed cr…
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Last week’s podcast episode was all about how to think about change in our creative work. Change is inevitable in life, so we may as well find ways to think about it positively. After all, in many ways, when we think about it from a mindset of joy and abundance, change can be really beautiful! But what about change that has the potential to be incr…
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Our interview with narrator, producer, and owner of Mosaic Audio Amy Rubinate visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com https://www.mosaicaudio.com/
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I don’t know what the fall weather is like where you are, but here in Cincinnati, things have turned decidedly autumnal. Arturo and I spent a few hours about a week ago, on Saturday, raking the leaves from our driveway and the paths around our house. And when I flew back from the LoveNVegas book con about two weeks ago, seeing the fall colors from …
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You may have noticed that this episode is marked as the first episode in Season 2 in your podcast player. That’s right – this week marks a full year of the Starving Artist No More podcast! For an entire year, I’ve been coaching creative entrepreneurs and helping them create workable strategies for businesses that actually work and that meet their n…
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Mark Twain once said, “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Sometimes, taking those first few tiny little steps can be the hardest part of getting a new project off the ground. If you’re embarking on a new artistic venture, how do you decide where to begin? If you’re preparing to tackle something unfamiliar on the administrative side of…
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Our interview with narrator, performer, storyteller Vikas Adam visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com Link to quotation shared in the episode: https://qr.ae/pvORn0
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A few weeks ago, I woke up to an email from a creative entrepreneur that I’ve been coaching over the past few months. This wonderful artist had recently faced some pretty big obstacles in their creative business and was feeling really discouraged. They had wanted to start a new thing in their creative work, but they found themselves completely unab…
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038: The Price of Success is Failure
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Over and over again, in my work as a creative entrepreneurship coach, I hear some variation of the question, “but what if it doesn’t work?” Fear is a natural part of trying anything new, and for most artists and makers and creatives, focusing on the business side of their creative enterprise is indeed a new thing. Much of what we do as creative ent…
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Our interview with Scholastic Audio Producer and Weston Woods Production Manager Melissa Ellard visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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037: Creative Entrepreneurship & Kite Flying
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Figuring out your strategy to make your creative business work is much easier said than done. You might think you know how things work in your creative industry, and you might be doing all the things that should be the right things, and yet nothing is working for you. Perhaps you even see things working out for one of your creative colleagues, but …
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I’ve said before that your beliefs about what is possible for you and your business will be the limiting factor in how your business grows, which is absolutely true. But your beliefs about the possibilities available to you and your business do more than impact your big picture. Those beliefs touch every part of what you do, from that big 10,000 fo…
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The life of a creative entrepreneur is a busy one. There is a lot on your plate on any given day! You need to do the creative, artistic work that your business is built on. But you also need to reply to emails, manage your marketing, handle your business finances, and deal with project management tasks. Like I said, it’s a lot! In that mess of task…
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The life of a creative solopreneur is one of constantly being pulled in two different directions. Direction 1: the creative stuff! The reason you’re a creative entrepreneur in the first place! This is the creative, artistic, innovative, unique work that you do and that brings you joy and fulfillment and that fills your soul. Direction 2: the admini…
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Our interview with producer Sara Pagluica visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com Dual POV title Jennifer refers to in this episode: https://www.audible.com/pd/What-a-Wave-Must-Be-Audiobook/B0CLL8P15F
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Our interview with Linda Korn, Senior Executive Producer at Penguin Random House visit us at JenniferJillAraya.com & SarahBethGoer.com
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What habits do you have? What are the things that you do automatically, on a regular basis? When we talk about habits, often the first place we think of is at bad habits we have – smoking, doomscrolling social media, staying up too late. But today, I want to talk about good habits. Epictetus, a Roman Stoic philosopher, wrote that “if you want to do…
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In almost every artistic training program the world over, regardless of the specific creative discipline, the pursuit of perfection is a driving factor in the training. I spent hours in the practice room during my conservatory training practicing the same passages over and over to get closer to that ever-elusive “perfect” ideal. Lessons and masterc…
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I have a bit of a controversial thought to share: Hustling isn't a good thing. Allow me to explain why I say that. Hustling is all about working harder than everyone else and doing everything imaginable to get the job or gig or project or whatever. It's about sacrificing everything else on the altar of getting ahead. Hustling is what the "starving …
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