CIP068: Alex Mathers on Keeping Your Focus - a podcast by Cat Rose: The Creative Introvert

In this week’s episode of the Creative Introvert podcast I talk to Alex Mathers, of the Red Lemon Club.

I'm SO excited to share this week's guest for you, because he's probably someone who I have to thank most out of virtually all my guests, even though they're all kick ass.

At the height of my artistic discontent: I had just graduated, and whilst I did have a lucky job at a web design agency, I was feeling creatively unfulfilled I found Alex's work and spent hours trawling through his portfolio magazine site, Ape on The Moon.

Soon after, I got my first hints of what the possibilities of freelancing could be from the Red Lemon Club, so a BIG thanks goes to our guest today, Alex Mathers.

 

"Do what brings you to life, not just what you love." 

~ Alex Mathers

What we talked about:

• How Alex unexpectedly found illustration and a career as a freelancer
• How lack of focus actually helped Alex
• Some of the biggest challenges Alex faced as a freelancer
• The problem with 'doing what you love'
• Alex's biggest mentors and loved books
• Alex's solution for the question: should I focus or diversify?

 

Links mentioned

• Ape on the Moon
• The Red Lemon Club
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield
• The ONE Thing (my top tips on finding it)

 

 

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