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    Explore " romanian" with insightful episodes like "#136 Weddings, Chin-ups & Languages (ft. Anca Novac)", "Florian Tacorian and Social Media Representation", "Ep.19: From volunteering to the art of the Romanian verse", "Around the Air Force — Nov. 2 (long)" and "Around the Air Force - May 19 (long)" from podcasts like ""The Leo Alves Podcast", "Romanistan", "Wo/anderers", "Around the Air Force" and "Around the Air Force"" and more!

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    #136 Weddings, Chin-ups & Languages (ft. Anca Novac)

    #136 Weddings, Chin-ups & Languages (ft. Anca Novac)

    In this episode, I catch up with a 1-2-1 online fitness member and good friend, Anca.

    We discuss her upcoming wedding this summer, nutrition at school, her initial feelings about her calorie increases, her chin-up goal for 2024, and languages that we know and want to learn.

    I hope you enjoy the listen!

     

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    Florian Tacorian and Social Media Representation

    Florian Tacorian and Social Media Representation

    We're back to our beloved interviews! Florian Tacorian is a Romani educator, actor and student at the University of Florida. He has built a large platform on TikTok and YouTube under the name @florida.florian where he teaches millions of people about Romani people, history, and culture, as well as, the importance of proper and accurate Romani representation in media. Florian is from a mixed Romani family of the Kalderash (coppersmith) clan of Roma in Romania. His videos aim to dismantle common anti-Roma stereotypes, empower Roma youth, and represent our Romani people in a new light that focuses on our strength, resistance, and cultural beauty.

    Some recommended resources are TV Siklana, Magda Matache and the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard, The European Roma Institute of Arts and Culture (ERIAC) and Re-Thinking Roma Resistance, @romani.ed on TikTok, and @roma.culture on Instagram.

    Romani crushes for this episode are Loly by Zita Moldovan @loly_by_zita_moldovan, The Feminist Collective of Roma Gender Experts (DIKKO) @dikko.magasin, and Dikh He Na Bister @dikh_he_na_bister who are  raising funds soon for young Romani Holocaust Educators. 

    You can find us on Instagram @romanistanpodcast, and on Facebook under the same name, and on Twitter @romanistanpod. Join our Patreon for extra content. 

    We started a Ko-fi fundraiser to help us grow. Our goal is to release more episodes more often, and we would eventually like to expand so we can produce content by other Romani & Sinti creators. We are hoping to cover production costs, like paying for our hosting site, website, editing and producing, and all the rest. We would love it if you could contribute and spread the word. The link, Ko-fi.com/romanistan, is in our bio on Instagram, and will be in the show notes

    Please rate, review, and subscribe. It helps us so much. 

    If you would like to advertise with us, email us at romanistanpodcast@gmail.com. We offer sliding-scale for Romani, Sinti & related businesses, so reach out!

    You can find Jez on Instagram @jezmina.vonthiele, and on Twitter, TikTok, and Patreon, and you can find Jez’s vintage and curiosities shop Evil Eye Edit on Instagram @evileyeedit & Etsy.

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    Ep.19: From volunteering to the art of the Romanian verse

    Ep.19: From volunteering to the art of the Romanian verse
    Ever wondered what a syllable square is? What about a fib poem? And what do these poetry-meets-math verses have to do with Romania? Our latest Wo/anderers guest, JoAnne Growney from the United States, untangles all these mysteries by inviting us on her rich, artistic, and science-inspired journey. A professor of mathematics at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, JoAnne brought her unique passion for math-infused poetry unknowingly to Romania when she first visited the country during a teaching exchange experience in Deva, Hunedoara. There, she started out by teaching English to middle school students at the local “Andrei Mureșanu” high school. But her experience in this new land expanded exponentially (alliteration intended) with the help of a group of Romanian mathematicians, who introduced JoAnne to a new world of unconventional math poetry from this side of the world. Together with her new friends and her dedicated students, she published the results of an elaborate translation project of Romanian authors such as Ion Barbu, Ileana Mălăncioiu and Nichita Stănescu, among others. JoAnne’s sensibility and love for her Romanian adventure also inspired her to write original poems about those unique encounters with locals and with the land itself from her visits, poems that she brought home, to the United States. Enjoy this creativity-first discussion with JoAnne Growney as she takes us on her inspired journey to Romania in this episode of the Wo/anderers podcast.

    Around the Air Force — Nov. 2 (long)

    Around the Air Force — Nov. 2 (long)
    This edition features stories on the winner of the Spirit of Hope 2009 award, Afghan National Army (ANA) finance officers receiving computer training from their U.S. counterparts, U.S. and Romanian Airmen demonstrating some of their air and ground skills that are crucial to the fight during exercise Dacian Thunder, a Romanian Air Force non-commissioned officer (NCO) student at Kapaun Air Station, and a professional development trip that afforded some American service members an opportunity to visit the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

    Around the Air Force - May 19 (long)

    Around the Air Force - May 19 (long)
    This edition features stories on the first two F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighters arriving at Edwards Air Force Base, Romanian aero medical evacuation personnel receiving training from the U.S. counterparts during Carpathian Summer 2010, Misawa residents participating in the Ident-A-Kid childhood identification program during National Police Week, the 31st annual Contel Special Olympics at Misawa Air Base, Airmen paying tribute to those who have lost their lives in honor of National Police Week, a change in DANTES testing regulations. Hosted by Airman 1st Class Alina Richard.

    Strigoi

    Strigoi

    Welcome back! This week we're heading over to Romanian for a vampire-like demon, the Strigoi! How does a Romanian village still deal with this monster in the current day? How can you confirm a bald spot is caused by a Strigoi rather than normal baldness? Find out this week!

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    The Return of the Christmas Bells

    The Return of the Christmas Bells

    While the coming of December once evoked warm sentiments for the upcoming celebration of the birth of Christ, it had been overshadowed by the harsh weather that was only going to get colder. “One of the season's jokes was that Dante had been wrong, and that hell was not hot at all, it was, in fact, as cold as a Romanian apartment in winter.” (1) But, even if the apartments were warm, Christmas was not celebrated, and even though ninety percent of Romanians belonged to the Christian Orthodox faith, church bells did not ring. By the 1980’s, the most celebrated day in Romania was no longer the birth of Jesus the Christ, but under compulsion, the birth of its  dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu - who was aptly nicknamed, the antichrist. (2) But as 1989 was coming to a close in mid December, as we all know now, the people of Romania were unknowingly on the brink of not only openly celebrating the birth of their Christ, but the death of their antichrist. But what many don’t know, was that this Romanian Revolution all started by the humble but powerful convictions of a Hungarian pastor named Laszlo Tokes.

    Only Romanians forty-five years and older could remember the sweet sounds of church bells ringing! For under Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romanian Communist Party, they were no more. Romania had been in the grips of Communism for some time, but by the 1980’s it had become intolerable. Despite the country being very fertile, like most Communist countries food was scarce and people were starving. Most of the nation’s raw materials were being exported to foreign creditors to pay off debts that Nicolae had accumulated. Because of this debt, Nicolae’s aim was to strengthen the work force, causing Romania to reach a population of 100 million. To do so, he outlawed abortion and contraceptives.

    And in massive block apartments that housed the growing nation, hot water was only available one day of the week and the electricity only worked when the government wanted it to. Every winter, hundreds of people froze to death in their apartment or died from “asphyxiation as gas stoves were shut off, only to be then turned back on without warning, filling sleeping apartments with gas.” (3) Meanwhile, the secret police, the Securitate, had made Romania into a police state.  It is believed that one in four citizens would alert the Securitate of anyone suspected of being un loyal to the Government. Actions, speech, and even opinions that did not approve Nicolae were strictly forbidden. Because of the overwhelming numbers of the police state, organizing dissent was nearly impossible, and “Even by Soviet Bloc standards, the Securitate was exceptionally brutal.” (4)

    But on December 16th, in the western city of Timisoara a public protest was being held in response to the government’s crackdown against the Reformed church pastor, Laszlo Tokes. He had been critical of Nicolae’s government - mainly that the people of Romania not only, could not exercise their God-given rights, but did not even know what they were. The Romanian Communist Party charged the pastor with enticing ethnic hatred and sought to have him forcibly removed. But his parishioners, (who just two years before only numbered a few dozen had now grown to nearly five thousand), protected their pastor and his pregnant wife Edith by surrounding their church with a human shield. Tokes knew of the plan for his capture so he encouraged his church a few days beforehand stating, “I have been issued a summons of eviction. I will not accept it, so I will be taken from you by force…They want to do this in secret because they have no right to do it. Please, come… and be witnesses of what will happen. Come, be peaceful, but be witnesses.” (5)

    And the church came in numbers. So much that their collective resistance rendered the Securitate unable to remove the pastor. And as the hours past into nightfall, more and more people from other churches joined the protest into the next day. By now, many other supportive spectators had joined the cause and began to take the message further. Within a day the demonstration for the pastor sparked a protest in the city. And within a few more days the protest in the city would in turn spark a wild fire of dissent among a brutalized nation.

    Pro Romanian chants and songs that had long been outlawed, broke out among the people. The crowd grew so large and cantankerous around the church that a large portion decided to take their protest to the central square of Timisoara. This was when the Securitate made their move. In the pre-dawn hours of December 17th, the secret police burst through the crowd, broke the church door, and captured Tokes and his wife. Just as fast as they came, the secret police then disappeared into the darkness from where they emerged.

    But as the sun began to rise the public outcry was only beginning.

    By early morning the central square of Timisoara was filled with protestors confronting the Securitate with candles of unity and songs proclaiming freedom - but others objectors were not as peaceful. Having heard the uprising was becoming too much for the local police, the military was called in with armored carriers and tanks. At the command of Nicolae’s wife, Elena, the military then opened fire into the protestors killing men, women, and children.

    By the next few days, the uprising in Timisoara was nearly squashed by military force. But the cries for freedom and justice from those who perished had been heard throughout the whole nation. Having been in Iran, Nicolae quickly returned to his palace in Bucharest on the evening of December 20th to publicly condemn the unrest in Timisoara the following morning. Nicolae addressed a gathering of approximately 100,000 people packed upon the door steps of his nearly 4 million square foot palace on December 21st. (6) But it was too late.

    In the middle of his speech which praised his communist country and condemned the protestors at Timisoara as being “Fascists”, panic broke out among the crowd.  It was the first time that Nicolae had ever been booed by a crowd - and it would be his last. There was 3.5 minutes of confusion that interrupted the speech as the cameras stopped visually recording. Whatever the mysterious disturbance was, it clearly signaled the end of Nicolae’s reign. Confusion and violent protests continued throughout the night in Bucharest. The House of the Republic was being overrun.

    Around noon on December 22nd Nicolae, his wife, and four others were rushed into a helicopter and extracted from their stately home. As a revolution was evident and now unstoppable, the military soon defected. The Ceausescu’s were forced to land and arrested only three and a half hours later. While all this was taking place a new Government Council was being formed and a military tribunal placed the couple in court martial. They were charged with the genocide of 60 thousand Romanians and other fiscal crimes.

    The trial, which was largely a spectacle was held on December 25th. It lasted for about two hours and delivered death sentences to the Dictator and his wife. Because the Ceausescu’s didn’t recognize the court’s authority they declined to have any legal aid. Throughout the trial Nicolae kept looking at his wrist watch as if waiting to be rescued. It never came. From the make-shift courtroom, the couple was then handcuffed and shuffled outside. Nicolae was complacent, while Elena was quite bitter and kept commanding the guards to be gentle with her lest they break her wrists. While many military personal offered to execute them, only three paratroopers were selected. With their service rifles in hand, the three opened fire on the elderly couple just outside the courtroom. Nineteen bullets were fired in total. Although the trial and executed bodies were televised, the actually execution was not caught on camera since the paratroopers didn’t wait for the command to shoot, causing the cameraman to miss the moment.

    By midday on December 25th, the antichrist and his wife were dead. And for the first time in 40 years, the streets of Romania were filled with people crying in sincere celebration! Make shift Christmas trees were being erected and throughout the country a familiar carol played, as the church bells were once again ringing. But now they pealed more loud and deep: as if to say, “God is not dead, nor doth He sleep; The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men.”

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    Pastor Tokes and his wife were soon released from where they were taken. Laszlo would go on to serve in the Reformed Church and extend his influence within Romania’s European Parliament. He received numerous awards and was even honored in Washington D.C. in 2009 being awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom for his role in helping to overthrow Romanian communism. He is 69 year old and continues to live in Romania today.

    In the immediate wake of the Revolution, a large bronze statue of a Soviet soldier that domineered a public square, was taken down, melted, and recast into church bells. (7) And their continued sound has inspired more to be cast even today. In just 2017 Romania's Redemption Cathedral dedicated one of the biggest church bells in the world weighing in at 25 tons. Half of Bucharest’s nearly 2 million free citizens can hear it when rung. (8)

    And hearing bells when they ring is much more than just something we sense with our ears but something we can sense and comprehend with our hearts. In was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1863, that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow heard the church bells ring on Christmas. Hearing them stirred his depressed heart and revived a belief in a promise that he had stopped believing. He put pen to paper and wrote the now famous poem, “Christmas Bells”. He authored it in an extremely painful time of his life and the nation’s as it was in the very middle of a bloody Civil War. The war mixed with personal loss made the grace and love of God hard to see. Although it was written 126 years before the Romanian Revolution, it was and remains an appropriate message that even in the darkest hours, God is not dead nor is He asleep. For at the very heart of Longfellow’s poem (and the reason I believe it endures) is the angelic promise - that with the arrival of Jesus, God in the flesh, true peace on earth and goodwill toward men can be had. (Luke 2:13-14) And this message was made for all mankind for all times!

    If we want peace on earth and goodwill extended to all people, Christ must no longer lay in a manger within our minds but sit upon the throne of our hearts. That’s my prayer and hope for you and for myself! Merry Christmas!

    Verse:

     When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. Psalm 29:2

    Cited Work:

    1. https://www.rferl.org/a/Finally_We_Called_It_Christmas_Again_My_Role_In_Romanias_Revolution__/1908965.html

    2. https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-revolution-then-and-now/29660285.html

    3.https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-revolution-then-and-now/29660285.html

    4. Smith, Craig S (12 December 2006), "Eastern Europe Struggles to purge Security Services", The New York Times

    5. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/how-a-reformed-church-overthrew-communism-in-romania/

    6. As of 2020, the Palace of the Parliament is valued at €4 billion, making it the most expensive administrative building in the world. The cost of heating, electricity, and lighting alone exceeds $6 million per year, comparable to the total cost of powering a medium-sized city. (Wikipedia)

    7. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/capitalism-take-its-toll-1.109402

    8. https://www.romania-insider.com/romanias-redemption-cathedral-will-have-25-ton-bell-with-the-patriarchs-portrait-on-it/

    Audio Clip:

    Death of a Dictator - ABC News - 1990, Feb 28, 2017 (YouTube)

    Nixon welcomes Romanian president, Ceausescu, to White House, Nov 16, 2016 (YouTube)

    Nicolae Ceausescu LAST SPEECH, Aug 28, 2011 (YouTube)

    Music:

    Cold Wind Bells by July Morning in Cinematic (Audiojungle) 

    Documentary by Music_Beats in Cinematic (Audiojungle) 

    Cold Cinematic Landscape by Aleksey Chistilin in Atmospheres Soundscapes (Audiojungle) 

     Cameron Hood and Carlie Alderink from the Tiny Winter Hymnal EP . Link Below: 

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    Behind the Scenes: Andrei Popoviciu on Queer Roma activism in Romania

    Behind the Scenes: Andrei Popoviciu on Queer Roma activism in Romania
    Anneleen Ophoff, the editor in chief of our queer issue, interviews Andrei Popoviciu about his piece on queer activism in Romania. Andrei goes behind the scenes of writing the flagship piece, detailing the challenges and the different approaches he had to take whilst covering this story. Produced and edited by Andrei Popoviciu and Priyanka Shankar Music credits: Palms Down and Tolls Folly from Blue dot Sessions, Sublime from Artlist.io and sound effects from Artlist.io.

    Stefi - Scrum Master - NOW TV App at Sky

    Stefi - Scrum Master - NOW TV App at Sky

    Stefi Popescu is a Scrum Master for the NOW TV app at Sky. What’s a Scrum Master? Well - it’s the term to describe a person leading a team of software developers, to ask act as a facilitator and coach, a person who enables the team to work in a productive environment and removes any blockers. Stefi leads a team of front-end developers who look after the NOW TV app on TVs and gaming consoles. In addition to that, she is responsible for other management related tasks such as creating personal development plans for her team.

    Interesting fun fact - Stefi’s hometown in Romania has less people in its population than the number of employees working for Sky - so Sky has around 25,000 employees and Stefi’s home town has a population of just 16,000 in comparison!

    Her three x3 KIRs are 👇🏼


    1️⃣ Learn from everyone - take in the good things and the bad      

    2️⃣ Realising change doesn’t happen overnight

    3️⃣ Embrace your mistakes

    Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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    Community In Action: Covid-19 Vaccine information in Romanian

    Community In Action: Covid-19 Vaccine information in Romanian

    This Podcast discusses COVID-19 in different languages to inform our diverse communities of the most frequently asked questions relating to Covid-19 Vaccination and the importance of having the vaccine when offered to us. The aim is to empower our communities to make informed choices and tackle misinformation and cater to these needs in their native languages from trusted voices within their communities.

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    #6 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (D: Corneliu Porumboiu, 89 min, RO, 2006)

    #6 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (D: Corneliu Porumboiu, 89 min, RO, 2006)

     It is our great pleasure to invite you to an evening with award-winning Romanian director CORNELIU PORUMBOIU and Variety film critic JAY WEISSBERG! 

     We will have a conversation with Porumboiu about his Cannes-winning feature film debut, “12:08 East of Bucharest”, and as a special treat, we are very happy to welcome Jay Weissberg for a short introduction to the Romanian New Wave and Porumboiu’s contribution to it. 

    SYNOPSIS:
    Six years after the 1989 Revolution, a local television station in Bucharest invites several guests to share their moments of glory, as they stormed the city hall chanting “Down with Ceausescu!” during the revolutionary events. An alcoholic history teacher and a lonely retiree are forced to answer questions from dubious viewers.    

    ABOUT THE FILM:
    “Porumboiu found here an extremely deft way to make an impossibly grand statement without getting the least bit heavy about it. Not heavy until the end. This thing is dry-ass funny wisdom until the culminating karate chop to the throats of its three stooges. And us. We are made to choke on our laughter. All laughter, since forever: to laugh from inside the nightmare of history because no nightmare is all nightmare.” - Jason, Mubi-user 

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    Episode 76: Ft. Adina Nelu (Film Composer)

    Episode 76: Ft. Adina Nelu (Film Composer)

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    Welcome to Episode 76 of The Hip Hop Orchestra Presents

    In this Episode, we are introduced to Film and Media Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist and Singer-Songwriter Adina Nelu

    Adina shares with us her journey of how she got into Music, how she approaches each project and some of the deepest projects that she has worked on, her journey from Romania to the U.K and so much more :)

    We hope you enjoy :)

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    #5 THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (D: Radu Jude, PROD: Ada Solomon, 99 min, R, 2009)

    #5 THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (D: Radu Jude, PROD: Ada Solomon, 99 min, R, 2009)

    We’re thrilled to share our talk with Radu Jude and Ada Solomon, both winners of the Golden Bear 2021. The director/producer duo from Romania will give us insights in the making of THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, Radu Jude’s feature film debut

       The interview was conducted online on the 15.04.2021.    

       Synopsis: 
    “Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a commercial. All goes well until it becomes clear that Delia and her parents have very different ideas about what to do with the new car. Meanwhile, the contest's sponsor needs a radiant prize-winner with a gleaming smile. A wicked satire and a psychological portrait of a society perverted by its slavery to capitalism and consumerism.” 

      About the filmmakers:
    Radu Jude was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1977. He has a degree in film from the city’s Media University. He began his career as an assistant director before making his first short, The Tube with the Hat, in 2006. His feature debut, THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, screened in the 2009 Forum and garnered worldwide attention. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2015 Berlinale with AFERIM!. In 2017, Locarno screened his first documentary: THE DEAD NATION. His next documentary, THE EXIT OF THE TRAINS, premiered in the 2020 Forum. His film UPPERCASE PRINT mixes fiction with documentary and theatre methods and premiered in the 2020 Forum as well. His latest film, BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2021. Here is a cinematic self portrait he shot. 

      Ada Solomon was born on June 3, 1968 in Bucharest, Romania. She is the founder of Hi Film Productions and Micro Film. Her credits include BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude, 2021, Golden Bear Berlin), I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS (Radu Jude, 2018, Grand Prix Crystal Globe in Karlovy Vary IFF), AFERIM! (Radu Jude, 2015, Silver Bear Berlin) and CHILD’S POSE (Calin Peter Netzer, 2013, Golden Bear Berlin). She has worked with most promising filmmakers from Romania, from Cristian Nemescu to Ivana Mladenovic, from Alexandru Solomon and Răzvan Rădulescu to Adrian Sitaru and Paul Negoescu - to name just a few. Ada has co-produced with over 15 European countries and has released her films in over 50 territories. She has been in charge of production services for projects such as Franco Zeffirelli’s CALLAS FOREVER and Maren Ade’s Oscar-nominated TONI ERDMANN. She is the Executive President of the European Women’s Audiovisual Network, the Deputy Chairwoman of the European Film Academy Board. 


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    Learning Authentic Global Communication Skills w/ Nick Landers | Discovering Culture & Community | Stories | Travel | Paradigm Shift

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    Seeing the Big Picture as a Freelance Creative Business

    Seeing the Big Picture as a Freelance Creative Business

    As small business owners, we’ve taken the time to plan our strategic overarching Vision statements, build good solid goals, objectives and activities to make it all happen.  We should be really proud of ourselves.  Pat yourself on the back for that.  

    We can get so involved, so busy doing the day-to-day activities, and putting out fires, that we can easily forget to see our Vision in the minutia of the moment.  That’s one of the realities of running a small operation.  It’s not like we have a team of experts helping us run things every day.  It would be great to just sit in a corner office and think about big strategic visions, with trusted employees giving me great data and sound advice.  It’s just the two of us in our business, and it may just be you in yours.  The point is not to become perfect at all this, but rather to find ways to incorporate the strategic stuff, with the everyday grunt work we all have to do.  We have to believe that they’re both important.  

    And seeing the big picture is vital to any business or organization.  It’s probably core to any marriage as well.  Every time you can pull your thinking or planning out of the weeds and to a higher level, you start to make better decisions that carry your mission much further.

    I should also have some strategy for keeping our planning sessions strategic.  One option would be to make a poster of our vision statement, and hang it on the wall where we see it every day.  You could create a dream board that creates triggers to help you remember what is important, why you’re doing the work you do, or provides visual symbols of what success looks like.  Perhaps it’s a quote that is meaningful, or a quarter jar that you drop a coin in every time you cross something off your strategic list.  Maybe it’s an egg timer.  Find something that works for you,

    When you are able to see the big picture, you pull yourself up from operational functions to strategic work, and the strategic work is what is truly transformational in any business or organization.  Get the operational stuff done, but spend your best time at 30,000 feet.  The view from there is phenomenal.

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    How to Be an Entrepreneur in Your Art Business

    How to Be an Entrepreneur in Your Art Business

    The more I read about entrepreneurship, the more people seem to conflate it with small business in general. While it makes sense to me that many small businesses can be entrepreneurial, I don't think they all are. There seems to be something more specific, or maybe more uncertain, about what makes an entrepreneur tick.

    The research seems to attempt to identify the characteristics of an entrepreneur, and those tend to center around a person's creativity, intuition, decision making abilities, and tolerance to risk. I guess what bugs me about most of these models, is that they're studying the Steve Jobs types, and not really the average Joe like me. The problem is that this type of research tends to center around the rarified personality, the stellar successful businessmen and women who become the stuff of legend.

    Did you know for example that entrepreneurs earn an average of twice what an employee earns in a lifetime? We tend to consider the fears and limitations of our creative careers, but we're also sitting on a lot of potential here. Imagine the possibility of doubling your income, and actually doing what you love to do. Not that you're dying to to the marketing and record keeping, but to be able to take your ideas and desires in any direction you choose. To develop your skills and direct the trajectory of your business to follow your bliss. No one said it would be easy, but no one seems to say either that it could be wonderful, life-affirming, and fun.

    Mistakes and failures are a part of the process, and are learning experiences. This may be a lot harder for creatives. We're certainly willing and able to take chances, explore new boundaries, and risk more than others, but we also seem to have egos made of glass. We tend to doubt ourselves, break under pressure, and crumble before criticism. So that's somewhere I need to grow. I need to be able to take risks confident that even failure teaches me something... possibly more than success does. I need to be open to, responsive to, but not destroyed by criticism. I need to be able to push past fear of rejection, ridicule and self-doubt. There's a lesson I need to learn. But at its core, entrepreneurship is a way of looking at life, and career. It's not a matter of luck, it's just work.