BONUS: quitting my job, imposter syndrome, and having the same amount of hours as Beyonce

This week we've got a rebroadcast of an episode from the other podcast I make, Being Honest With My Ex, about quitting my job, imposter syndrome, and how you definitely don’t have the same amount of hours in the day as Beyonce.

Being Honest With My Ex is basically a weekly personal journal that I’ve been keeping with my ex-fiance for the past two years, and has ended up documenting each of our journeys of trying to make the art + money equation work for ourselves. If Starving Artist is the documentary series on making a living creatively, then Being Honest With My Ex is basically the live stream version. It’s the very up close, very intimate, the ugly-crying account of trying to make it work.

Buy tickets to the upcoming Being Honest With My Ex LIVE shows here. You can find the podcast at beinghonestwithmyex.com, and if you're looking for somewhere to start, check out the new listener guide. 

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

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This week in “Honor Eastly tries Etsy”: I SOLD MY FIRST THING! While I was in holiday in New Zealand! Also, this week’s ad features my boyfriend, last week’s featured my Dad, so who knows who will feature next time?!

Now I’ve never been hugely good at monetising my work. I’ve always been focussed on Making The Thing, like this podcast, instead of making merch or any of the like. And I think that’s partially because it’s kind of hard to put yourself out there, and say “hey I made a thing and you should buy it”, because well, it’s hard to believe in the financial value of your work sometimes. So it is genuinely really cool to see that people are buying things! Ahhh! And probably the best motivation to keep going.

Tune in next week when I ask myself, a podcaster and writer: “sooooo what the hell should I actually sell?”

Until then you can try valuing your own work by setting up your own store. You can get your first 20 listings *FREE* by heading to starvingartistpodcast.com/etsy and using the code STARVINGARTIST.

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All the linky goodness:

• For the other episodes of Being Honest With My Ex about quitting my job, check out Ep 28: Making Money With My Ex and Ep 51: Running A Patreon With My Ex
• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Amanda Palmer 2011 kickstarter where she raised $1.2 million
• You have the same amount of hours in the day as Beyonce
• Amanda Palmer - The Art of Asking
• Bo Burnham’s 2016 comedy special Make Happy (if you are short on time check out the last 20 minutes, and if you don’t have Netflix the last 8 minutes are free on YouTube)
• Bo Burnham’s Reddit AMA
• Cal Newport - So Good They Can’t Ignore You

Episode 11: Taking Control Of Your Finances with Sarah Firth

This week I’ve got the second part of an interview I did with Sarah Firth and this one is some straight up #realtalk about how money works. The first five minutes we talk about maneuvering in your creative career, the next five, Sarah gives me the low down on her best resources for getting in control of your money, and then the following 40 minutes is some down the line truths about financial literacy. Things like how to get interested in money, how to work out how much to charge for your work, how to make a budget, and why you should absolutely definitely look at your finances, even if it means breaking your own heart in the process.

If you want to find Sarah's work, she all over the internet, so choose your poison: Vimeo, Sarah's website, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

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For those of you who have been following along from the very beginning of Starving Artist, I have some exciting news for you, Starving Artist got SPONSORED!! That’s right, my dad is like, v proud of me (and you can hear it in the latest episode).

So, I am proud to say that this is the very first episode that was supported by, Etsy. Man I am even smiling as I type that. For those of you who don’t know, Etsy is a place to sell your art, and buy just about anything handmade, independently designed, or vintage direct from the people make and curate it all around the world. I reached out to them because they make tools for people like me, people like you, to make a living from their work. Their business is helping creatives make a business.

We’ve partnered up for the rest of the first season of Starving Artist, but instead of doing normal ads (boring), I’m going to be trying my hand at starting an Etsy store! I’ll be documenting the process, and sharing it in bits and pieces with you guys on the podcast.

In this week's instalment of "Honor Eastly tries Etsy", I try to see how quickly I can set up an Etsy store, and you can try to beat my time and win stuff. The first five people who beat my time will get a Feelings pack, with three different badges, and some postcards that you can cry on and send to your mates.

Get all the details - including how to get your first 20 listings FREE - at starvingartistpodcast.com/etsy.

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All the linky goodness (and there's a lot of goodness in here this week):

• Elizabeth Gilbert's Facebook post about the difference between a hobby, job, career, and vocation. It has over 6,500 shares on fb! Wow! Clearly has hit a nerve for a lot of people!
• Stefan Sagmeister, the designer who closes down his studio every seven years to have a year long sabbatical. Check out his TED talk for the how and the why. Some really interesting ideas in there about continued learning and phases of life.
• Making Your Life As An Artist - I've mentioned this one a lot, and Sarah's also a fan. Get the free pdf version here, and sign up to the Starving Artist mailing list to be first in line to win a copy (I'll be giving away a bunch in the next couple of weeks).
• Leonie Dawson's My Shining Year Planner. Turns out Leonie has sold 250,000 of these bad boys! Wow! That's a lot of goals! I would also recommend The Self Journal (more details below) that I've been using in the past month.
• Money Brilliant app - this app tracks all your spending and helps you set budgets and spending goals. When you sign up you can actually input all your spending from the past year, and then take a good gander at what you spent all your money on! It's a good way to get a clear idea of your spending habits quick sticks.
• David Rees' talk at XOXO Festival titled "Total Financial Transparency: Welcome To Hell". He goes through what he's earned, from where, over the last 15 years of his career as an independent creative. I suggest doing a little bit of googling of David Rees before you watch to this talk, because some of his projects are pretty interesting. Check out his artisanal pencil sharpening business in particular. I've watched this talk at least three times now and I it still gets me. Go watch it.
• MYOB accounting software - if you're interested in accounting software you should also check out Jeff Phillips' episode about tax where he talks a lot about the glories of Xero.
• Jessica Abel makes some amazing resources for creatives, including a spreadsheet where you can map out your products and services. You can get that spreadsheet at the bottom of this article she wrote about creating a business model for your work.

Aaaand, the resources that I mention at the very end of the episode (if you're not sure where to start, start here):

• If you're in Australia check out The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape (if you're not in Australia there's still definitely stuff you can get out of this book, just a bunch of the advice is very specific for the Australian context).
• If you're anywhere else check out Making Your Life As An Artist - get the free pdf version here, and sign up to the Starving Artist mailing list to be first in line to win a copy (I'll be giving away a bunch in the next couple of weeks).
• After the first episode with Sarah Firth, Episode 7: Designing Your Creative Life, Sarah put together a 58-page workbook: Untangle Your Brain - Think On The Page. You can get a totally free draft of it by signing up to her monthly mailing list, (you'll get the link to download the workbook in the snazzy confirmation email). It's packed with the visual models, tools and methods she uses for sense making, remembering, self-soothing, clearing mental clutter and strategic thinking.

Episode 10: Artistic Integrity Is More Important Than Money with Steaphan Paton

This week I talk with Melbourne-based contemporary artist, Steaphan Paton, about artistic integrity, resourcefulness, unpacking your money story, and living on $8,000 a year.

This episode is a really special one to me. What started out as a conversation about the nuts and bolts of what it looks like financially to be a contemporary artist with a scarily impressive cv, turned into a conversation about where our ideas about money come from, and how artistic integrity plays into that. The conversation really got me questioning my own views about money, community, and SHAME, and if I didn’t have so many fears about airing my own money laundry publicly, I’d be really keen to listen to it.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly. Usually I don't do a give spruik of the Patreon, but because it's my birthday on Friday (I'm turning 28), I'm just going to say, if you’ve found this podcast valuable. If it’s made you feel less alone, less afraid, more okay, if it’s meaningful to you, or if you hate the show, hate me, but really get off on making ppl you despise really happy as they enter the strange and unfamiliar land of No Longer Being Able To Feasibly Call Themselves Mid-Twenties, please consider supporting me on Patreon.

All the linky goodness for this episode:

• Check out Steaphan Paton's work at his website
• You can check out Steaphan's studios NA Studios on Creative Spaces

BONUS: Making Starving Artist - success, social media, and crying on Instagram

This week on Starving Artist we've got a bonus episode for you! It’s not a traditional episode where I convince an artist I admire to tell me all their secrets, instead it’s a behind the scenes look at Starving Artist told through a conversation with a good friend of mine, Audrey, who interviewed me for the NAVA: in conversation podcast. 

In this interview, we talk about where the idea for Starving Artist came from, my next project - The Big Feels Club, and why I regularly consider studying medicine instead of making art.

The NAVA: in conversation podcast is a podcast about the issues and challenges of working in the arts (very on theme), you can find it on iTunes or at their website.

And if you like the cut of Audrey's jib, find her on instagram. She makes amazing work, like this piece installed in the women's bathroom of an exhibition she was in, or my personal fav, her ongoing Psychiatrist Waiting Room Series.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

All the linky goodness for this episode:

• The short film I made (with a lot of help from my good mate Paddy) (love you Paddy) whilst in a psych hospital: The Smallest Life
• The podcast that I've been making with my ex-fiance for the past 18-months, Being Honest With My Ex
• In the month leading up to launching Starving Artist my instagram feed featured a lot of sunrises and talk of creative terror, like this.
• You can read all of Bo Burnham's Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) here (it's really damn good). If you don't know Bo Burnham you can check out his most recent comedy special Make Happy on Netflix, or you can watch the infamous last song (which touches on performative authenticity) on YouTube. I cried a lot at this part of the show. It was midnight and I was alone in my room. Many feelings were had.
• You can join in the conversation about Day Job Transparency on Instagram or Facebook

Episode 9: Selling Your First Manuscript with Bri Lee

Bri Lee is a freelance writer and creator of Hot Chicks with Big Brains, a small crew of rad babes who do heaps of stuff, including a print magazine, a podcast, a blog, events, all focussing on, you guessed it, Hot Chicks who have Big Brains.
 
I recorded this interview with Bri this time last year, when she had a lot going on. She'd just quit her stable law job to become a freelance writer, and just in the two months prior she'd won a fellowship, scored a literary agent, and was in the middle of shopping around her first manuscript to a small pile of publishing houses. I had no damn idea how one goes about selling their first book, but Bri was kind enough to sit down with me and school me on the ins and outs of book advances, asking naive questions, and leveraging interest in your work.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

Also go follow Bri on Insta, or twitter. She is a lot of fun.

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

All the linky goodness:

• Kat Muscat Fellowship
• Emerging Writers Festival - also if you're not in Australia, check out Digital Writers Festival, a writers festival that all happens online!
• Bri's official mentor Liam Piper of Writer's Bloc
• Bri's Brisbane-based mentor Krissy Kneen
• Bri's video blog series: "What Is She Doing?"
• Hot Chicks with Big Brains - keep up to date with all the hot chick happenings on their instagram, twitter and facebook
• Bri's literary agent Curtis Brown (you can also check out their submission guidelines, which I think have actually changed since we recorded this interview)
• Paul Graham - The Top Idea In Your Mind
• Writers Bloc

Episode 8: Two Careers and Kids with Becky Sui Zhen

In this episode I talk to musician and creative producer Becky Sui Zhen about straddling two careers, and how to make creative career plans around life decisions like Having Children (currently one of my most potent fears).

By night Becky is a musician, working under the moniker Sui Zhen, and touring with the 8-piece party extravaganza that is NO ZU. By day Becky is a digital creative director and all around god of the new media landscape.
 
What I found most surprising about Becky is that she treats her creative projects kind of clinically, like a small business. To quote her “if it’s not financially viable, I have more important things to do”. Now I don’t know about you, but that is not a sentiment I hear a lot, in fact it’s the opposite of a sentiment I hear a lot: that creatives should be putting it all on the line, and have one true passion and calling, and sacrifice all to get there. 
 
The other thing that Becky and I talk about in this interview, is family. When we recorded this interview Becky was going through some really tough times with her family, and she reflected on how that’s made her think differently about having a family, who we can count on to be there in the end, and how important her creative projects are in the Much Bigger Scheme Of Things.

Find Becky on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and see all her Sui Zhen related projects on her website. Check out her track Infinity Street if you want a gateway drug to all things Sui Zhen.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

All the linky goodness for this episode:

• Becky works as a producer at Art Processors most famous for making the first "mobile interpretive solution designed to replace traditional wall labels", 'The O' at MONA (for Australian art nerds, Art Processors was co-founded by David Walsh, the Australian art collector who made a lot of money from gambling, and then built MONA)
• More info about Lady Gaga's Haus of Gaga
• Check out Becky's other band NO ZU, (the vid for Ui Yia Yia gives a great insight into them as a live band - also it's a bloody funky song)
• South by Southwest is that largest music festival of its kind in the world (and it's a bit of a big deal to play at)
• A thing I wrote on Instagram about riding my bike a lot
• Grants: Australia Council, Creative Victoria - showcase funding, new work grants
• CMJ is another Big Deal music festival in New York City
• Becky's Two Seas EP from 2012
• The successful Kickstarter campaign I did featuring a very old video of me being publicly proposed to
• Check out a film Lena Dunham's made when she was 19 called Pressure
• Miranda July aka one of my favourite artists
• I also thought I'd ad in here an article I wrote about break-ups, biological clocks, and being told I work too much
• Web-based list program: Workflowy
• Or Becky uses Wunderlist

Episode 7: Designing Your Creative Life with Sarah Firth

This week we have an interview with Sarah Firth talking about building an approach for your work, which really means building an approach for your life!

Sarah is one of the most self-reflective and analytical people I know, and she’s turned her life into a well-oiled laboratory of one. Unlike me, who’s often tearing their hair out trying to squish all the bits of the life salad into the calendar container, Sarah is constantly planning, analysing and reevaluating what works for her. It's something I've always admired about her and wondered how to do, which is why I'm grateful she was willing to share all her golden strategising wisdom with us in this episode.

In this episode we talk about collecting data on yourself, redefining success, and why you shouldn’t pressure yourself to make money from your artwork.

After the response from listeners wanting to know how Sarah does what she does, Sarah actually put together a 58 page workbook (!!), Untangle Your Brain - Think On The Page. You can get a totally free draft of it by signing up to her monthly mailing list, (you'll get the link to download the workbook in the snazzy confirmation email). It's packed with the visual models, tools and methods she uses for sense making, remembering, self-soothing, clearing mental clutter and strategic thinking. 

If you want to find Sarah's work, she all over the internet, so choose your poison: Vimeo, Sarah's website, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

And all the linky goodness for this episode:

• How to define your values
• The Comic Art Workshop Residency
• What is Graphic recording?
• What is a multipotentialite? (You can also check out Emilie Wapnick's TED talk on the subject)
• I apologise for saying "absolutely" in response to Sarah asking whether she could swear. I meant to say "abso-fucking-lutely". My sincerest apologies.
• Money Brilliant App: tracks your spending automatically. When you sign up you can also ask it to analyse your spending for the past year, so you have some data to work with immediately!
• Artists who inspire Sarah: Stefan Sagmeister, Michel Gondry, Lisa Hanawalt, Bjork collaborations, Brother McLeod, and Maira Kaulman

Episode 6: How To Get Out Of Your Private Freelancer Tax Shame with Jeff Phillips

Last week we had an episode about IDEAS, so this week we’re going to do something more nuts and bolts: TAX.

This week features an interview Jeff Phillips. Jeff is an artist, illustrator and tax genius, but he wasn’t always this way. This week he tells us about his private freelancer tax shame, how he got out of it, and why he’s now a complete boss come tax time.

You can stalk Jeff on Instagram, or find more of his work on his website.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

And all the linky goodness for this episode:

• Check out Extraordinary Routines, great blog about the routines of amazing creatives by Madeleine Dore. You can read about Jeff's routine in his interview.
• Jeff's original invoicing program Hiveage - just FYI there's no longer a free option for this program, the basic option starts at $15
•  Jeff's current accounting program: Xero
• Other accounting software that Jeff checked out: MYOB, Freshbooks
• Melbourne-based tax accountants for creatives: Darkwave, Nagle (Jeff ended up going with Nagle)
• In case you've not heard of Maslow's heirarchy of needs
• For Australians, e-tax has now been replaced with MyTax
• MoneyBrilliant is a program that I use that links up with your bank accounts and tracks your money for you
• I spoke to the Australian Taxation Office about information specific to artists (they have a live chat feature which means they are really easy to get in touch with), and found that there actually isn't much information for artists in general (there is information specifically for performing artists), but here's some links that may be helpful:
  • General information about deductions you can claim (maybe you want to bookmark this page?)
  • A list of deductions for specific industries and occupations
• Information from the Australian Taxation Office about income averaging for special professionals - this is what Jeff was talking about when he was saying that he was taxed based on an average of his income over a five year period. Turns out artists are known to the tax office as "special professionals"! How fancy!

Episode 5: Using Your Face To Sell Your Work with Caitlin Stasey, Carly Findlay and Gorkie

This episode is the first of a new kind of episode, one where I take your questions, and try to get the smartest people I can think of to answer them. This time we answer a question from Paula about the pressure on women to use their image to sell their creative work. 

We were lucky enough to have three fabulous individuals grace the Starving Artist airwaves:

Caitlin Stasey is an Australian actress, known for her roles in Neighbours, Please Like Me, and Tomorrow When The War Began. When I thought of smart women who fuck with norms of beauty online I thought of Caitlin, who has over 300k followers / likers, and a feed of beautiful selfies, odes to Cher, and passionate calls to political action.

Find Caitlin on Instagram, Twitter, or visit her interview project Herself.com

Carly Findlay is a writer, speaker and appearance activist who talks publicly about what it's like to look different online. Here she discusses her face becoming her brand, and dealing with trolls on Reddit.

Find Carly on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or visit her blog carlyfindlay.com.au

Gorkie is an artist best known for her cartoons (that connect to something deep within my soul), and who almost never shows her face online. In this episode she tells us why posting a picture of her face is akin to posting a picture of a pie.

Find Gorkie on Instagram and Facebook, or buy a print from her at gorkie.com.au

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

To ask a question head over to Twitter and send me the conundrums currently causing you the most angst using the hashtag #AskAnArtist

To support this show on Patreon go to www.patreon.com/honoreastly

And all the linky goodness for this episode:

• For a quick (and possibly unreliable) run down on Caitlin Stasey check her out on Wikipedia
• Caitlin's interview project Herself.com
• Caitlin's interview with StyleLikeU
• Carly Findlay's blog post "What is Ichthyosis?"
• Carly's response to her photo being misused on Reddit
• If you also haven't read Susan Sontag's On Photography, here's a little excerpt
• Here's a little something I wrote on Instagram about how turning your life into art makes everything into a game
• Ryan Holiday's Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
• Austin Kleon's Show Your Work

Episode 4: Making A Full-Time Living Through Instagram with Frances Cannon

Frances Cannon is a full-time artist, body positivity activist, and Instagram queen. I've watched Frances' work explode online over the past few years, and sat at home thinking "what does your life look like when that happens?" Fortunately Frances was kind enough to answer that question for me when I interviewed her a few months ago. We talked about going #viral, selling your work online, and preparing yourself for the fact that Instagram might not be around forever.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

And all the linky goodness for this episode:

• Pressure, a short film Lena Dunham made when she was 19 years old
• Gemma Flack is a Melbourne artist and zine maker who inked Frances Cannon's first Self Love Club tattoo
• Self Love Club: as featured on Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, i-D (VICE) and everywhere else on the internet!
• David Shrigley (one of my favourite artists)
• NGV = National Gallery of Victoria
• Michael Leunig (one of Australia's most loved cartoonists)
• Celeste Mountjoy aka @filthyratbag
• Third Drawer Down make homewares and gift items with some of the world's most successful artists. If you've been to a major gallery anywhere you've probably seen their products, and they were born in Melbourne, Australia! Here's a write up about Frances collaboration with them
• In case you were wondering, Periscope is a video streaming app
• And of course you can buy a print from Frances Cannon's store, follow her on Instagram, and check out her website

Episode 3: How I Made $87,000 On My First Kickstarter with Peter C. Hayward

Peter C. Hayward is one of my best friends. He's also my ex-fiance, my co-podcaster (for the *other* podcast I do called Being Honest With My Ex) and he is The. King. Of. Kickstarter.

Last year Peter launched a Kickstarter for his first board game, Scuttle! Which raised 3000% over it’s initial goal, and made $87,000. He then followed that up by releasing another game through Kickstarter later that year that made $89,000.

In this episode we talk at length about the trials and tribulations of Kickstarter, what it’s like to run your own company, and how to survive outside of the approval loop.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

And all the linky goodness for this episode:

• Peter' board game company Jellybean Games (sign up to the newsletter here)
• Peter's first Kickstarter campaign, Scuttle! 
• Peter's second Kickstarter, Dracula's Feast
• Peter's third Kickstarter (that *just* ended), The Lady and the Tiger
• Kickstarter Lessons, which in the words of Peter, is "the best site about Kickstarter on the internet"
• The Animatronic Einstein Kickstarter - it's just as weird as you imagine
• Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter that made a cool $1.2million (also her book, The Art of Asking)
• The Pebble Watch
• Fidget Cube
• The most recent The Dice Tower fundraising campaign
• Reddit.com
• Tim Ferriss' The Four Hour Work Week
• Peter's board game friends at Great Than Games
• The Trying My Best Kickstarter from the creators of Slutmonster and Friends
• The Amateur Hour Pozible campaign featuring the cat cameo reward and an amazing film clip
• Kelly Jo - the artist behind Scuttle!
• Backerkit
• Tania Walker - the artist for Dracula's Feast and Lady and the Tiger
• Being Honest With My Ex - the other podcast that these two dickheads do together
• Honor Eastly's (my) Instagram, which features more feelings and selfies from ridiculous podcasting setups in Sri Lanka 

Episode 2: How To Negotiate A Raise with Wendy Syfret

Wendy is the editor at i-D, a subsidiary of VICE, and basically the most bad-ass boss I know. She’s a nuanced, emotionally intelligent hustler, but she wasn’t always this way. A few years back she went through the process of asking for a raise. A big one. Along the way, she learned a lot about the art of negotiation, how much this stuff matters at your 10 year high school reunion, and just how hard it is to work out how much you’re worth.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

And all the linky goodness for this episode:

• At the end of this interview we talk about this interview Wendy did in 2014 with Penny Modra. It's a really great interview for young writers that looks at how to respect writing as a trade
• If you want to check out Peter C. Hayward's current Kickstarter you can do so at theladyandthetiger.com

Episode 1: F#ck Plan B with Tom Dickins

Five years ago Tom Dickins did something that many people would find stupid: on the back of advice from his friend Amanda Palmer, he decided to quit his job and, without savings, live off his art. He had no plan, no idea, but a lot of enthusiasm and resourcefulness.

This week you'll hear him reflect on that decision, what worked, what didn't, and whether he'll ever be able to buy a house.

To discuss this episode, head over to the Starving Artist Facebook Page (or Instagram or Twitter, or your local dog park) (bork bork)

And all the linky goodness for this episode:

• Tom's band with Jen Kingwell, The Jane Austen Argument
• If you don't know who Amanda Palmer is, check her out here (you can also find her infamous Kickstarter)
• Check out Tom's business, Crowded
• The New Enterprise Incentive Scheme (NEIS)
• You can subscribe to my other podcast, Being Honest With My Ex, here. For the episodes about quitting my job, check out Ep 28: Making Money With My Ex, Ep 55: Managing Money With My Ex, and Ep 51: Running A Patreon With My Ex