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I love this video. I have always wondered why I am petrified and cringe whenever I am forced into conversations about money and I guess I can probably thank my Scottish mother. You demystified that for me. It is seriously almost impossible to do so but it is really important to understand the financial aspects of life.

That's actually such a good idea, Never heard it before. How do you set this up? I guess you livestream your iPad screen in the zoom call?

It seems I've been doing things backwards then 😅 Website still has old school work but I've started working on social media stuff. Currently looking for the best ways to start looking like a professional online your videos are super helfpul!

I'm at the very beginning and it's really scary 🥹

I’m doing my first event in a month! I’m reaching a local niche market since I’m bilingual and this event is in French! I’m nervous but looking forward to trying it

Thank you for a lovely inspiring video

Great to see you on a video and a reminder of all the things to do! I've got my first illustrating and writing commissions - paintings and copy. Still keen to land an agent and will keep going! x

I just want to say, you have a very pleasant way of speaking! This is the first video from you that I stumbled upon and you seem very warm and kind 😊

Loved watching this. I appreciate the down-to-earth advice you give! :)

Thanks Katie So helpful and inspiring to hear your advice on sharing work. I am feeling very inspired to make art work but less confident in looking for potential clients. I would love to over come this reticence. I had a previous career as a knitwear designer and also in education. Illustration is a new thing for me.

Hi! Thanks for this video, I hadn't really thought about people actually finding me through my website, feels quite silly of me 😅 I guess also though there's a lot of competition that way, like an art director/publisher looking for children's book illustration, would find a lot of children's book illustrators via a Google search? I've sent out quite a few emails in the past, and it's not something I enjoy, but would do again, maybe in combination with trying to strengthen my search terms etc. on my website. :) I've been feeling quite lost lately with how to get more clients and what to focus on, maybe strengthening my portfolio or reaching out to more potential clients? And so I feel like I've not been doing anything 😓 Anyway thanks again for the video, it's food for thought!

Hi so I’ve got a bit of a dilemma here, I’m almost a year postpartum and haven’t created anything since I gradated summer 2023, I’m desperate to get back out there and start illustrating again but every time I pick up a pen to start my mind is soooo blank. Where do I start? I really want a career in design but finding this step impossible. Any advice or tips etc please let me know 💕

I'm a graphic designer but this popped up in my feed. I've been trying to get a freelance thing going before I have to get another in-house or agency job. I've been reaching out to local agencies and things but not hearing too much. Can I ask what kind of hit rate you get for emails to bookings? It's quite draining making high effort emails but not hearing back. Anyway, the video was definitely a great motivation and the tip about considering my potential client's thought process is really insightful.

This is so helpful - I'd started gaining some work as an illustrator and managed a couple of picture books, before having two kids put the breaks on it all a bit. I'm trying to get my stuff together to get going again but I feel like my brain is orbiting space! Thank you for the advice, so many golden little nuggets of info here!

Hi! Thanks for the excellent video! I've been building my illustration portfolio full of new work I'm proud of and interested in but I had been wondering the best way to approach people for work, if i should do art liscensing, etc. I dont have a website or social media yet so great to hear its not all about social media content. Good luck with your window illustrating!

Thank you for sharing this, a nice little dose of motivation this morning 🌱

Have you heard of @morehannah ? Hannah Witton. She does lots of videos about running her business while having a toddler.

love hearing your story and following your journey! Toddlers are NO JOKE!

So similar to my experience. I've found consistent part time care is super tricky to find. No family nearby here so we went through a slew of caregivers over the years and that juggle of finding a new, trusted person, melding schedules, ensuring care is engaging and not just a person sitting on their phone, etc. So tough and THE GUILT is real. Nursery/preschool programs are obscenely hard to get into in my city with long waitlists and then the cost is exorbitant. I was paying the same as my mortgage for part-time(!) care for 2 kids last year, this justified my husband cutting his work down to part-time so we could juggle and I could work more this year. Less sickness, more time with Pa, more time in nature - everyone is happier.

I have a 3 month old and today is my first day back at work. daycare is impossible to find for where i am (infant care). My mom is looking after him for a bit but it is not a long term solution. Hoping something positive happens

This is really similar to what I’ve done. 0 - 1, my husband and I juggled childcare between us. 1-2 we had a nanny for six hours a week, she was a friend, very similar set up to you guys, 2-3 nursery two days a week, this also coincided with my husband getting a 9 to 5 job, not freelancing anymore, and 3 until now - nursery three days a week. Three days a week is definitely the sweet spot and is working well for us. Don’t feel guilty! It sounds like she’s having a brilliant time at nursery. And you doing something you love for a living makes you a wonderful role model for her.

Will watch this later! Thanks for sharing. I'm also so curious about parents running businesses alongside children. I currently have employment 4 days a week so I don't have time for my side business at the moment, but I'm curious to know how people do manage their businesses when they don't have childcare. And also would love to see more instances of parents being able to include their children in their work somehow... without it seeming unprofessional. If I can I would really like to do some more freelance work in the future.

Hugs. I’m always stressed too.

Are you juggling a toddler and work too? SOLIDARITY 😅

Especially not baby snails with large bows. ^ ^

Currently in the middle weighing the merits of switching from comics I draw traditionally, to a fashion illustration career. Ive had to find other ways to get outfit designs for characters / building designs though as Pinterest still has a problem with Big Fashion and Pop Music leeching off illustrators and musicians. I am curious why Im often recommended childrens book illustration. I wrote two middle grade novels, though mainly do adult fiction. ( I found maintaining the atmosphere expected for kidlit hard to maintain, as my genre passion is Dystopian and Paranormal Romance. )

why is it important that he is a man? I go on the internet and all is see is destroy the patriarchy and mansplaining. I am a man and this is offensive...

I'm currently slowly transitioning from graphic designer to being an graphic illustrator. Just love your vibes and inspires me to continue even though I can't yet see some clear result.

I love your enthusiasm. I am a semiretired senior gal who has only recently decided to take up drawing. Something in which I can take with me when I go strolling through the mountains near my home. Since I am about as new to drawing as you can possibly be taking up a challenge of drawing seems perfect. Thank you, dear, for sharing your experiences and knowledge.❤

Any tips for dyslexic people? I feel like this is really beneficial for a dyslexic audience, but writing is my downfall and the embarrassment that comes with bad spelling publicly agh! Feel like this would be perfect to peruse other that that do you have any advice at all? Many thanks ❤

You're such a delightful storyteller😀😊🩷🩷🩷

such a great video Katie :) I think I read about this first in Rejection Proof by Jai Jiang, but I'd kind of forgotten about it. Ok, I'm going to try 100 No Thank yous!! :) Now, if I was counting voice over auditions I'd get there really fast Lol.

Thank you i like your voice

How did you get into this as a career? It feels so niche, Ive been a designer for 20 years and would love to lean more into this natural live style.

I would like to try this I started drawing in 2022 lol my drawing still not good lol 😂

Love the ''Ted Talk' 🤣 Also love how humble and down to earth you are, feel very relatable, which is also inspiring and encouraging. Thank you ❣

Your story is very humbling and i love your perspective in your journey. Thank you so much for sharing. 🥹 i know you and your pals already built a community but i am kinda hoping you could share esp. in the beginning where you hang around and met "your people"?

You're a jolly person, fun to watch. Thanks for sharing your journey! I'm at the same place as well, except for the part-time job..

Read an article you wrote where you used the word "mansplaining" in the middle, you look exactly how I imagined you'd look

✨Really interesting to hear about your journey as an artist! ✨🎨🌷 I love your calm/friendly persona as well!✨

I wanna be your friend

At present I’m at zero… business level of doing that, but I can def draw and illustrate so I’m going to call my self an illustrator 😅 as I just lost my job as a graphic designer, where I had NOTHING to do with marketing so it was really free but now that’s gone, so branching out, or rather thinking of it, that’s as far as it’s got. But been putting work on LinkedIn and saying I’m available, I had one connection yesterday so I’ll take that 😅 Thank you for your tips and advice and I really enjoyed the video ❤️

it's my third time trying to get an agent. Maybe 3rd time's a charm? It's been exhausting honestly, it's harder when there isn't any side job... but I finally feel like my work is good, I have fun with it and it's cohesive. It happened once I relaxed with the expectations for my art...maybe I should do that in regards with finding a nice agent, too...Thank you for the lovely video! I've been following you around the socials! Cheers!

I am interested in taking an online illustration course. Is there one you’d recommend?

I have a dumb question (mostly because I can't figure out how to phrase it to find it in google)... When you want people to sign up for your newsletter and you're putting a giveaway basically behind the paywall of "sign up to get it", how do you do that? Is that manual? Do places like Substack do that or do you have to do some fancy work to do that on your own site?

I am writing a non fiction book