Hello! I am Michelle Lloyd founder of United ArtSpace, and I'm bringing you the Your Art Matters Podcast. I believe there is a place for everyone in the art world, and it is possible at any stage and any age to bring your creative passions alive. Every week, I will bring you a dose of inspiration, with thought-provoking and motivational conversation, so you can make art you love and turn what you love into a living. So together, let's get motivated, inspired and make art!
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The official podcast of DeviantArt.com, featuring artist interviews, discussion with staff members, and more!
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E186 | How to earn money every month from your creativity
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29:01What if you could earn money every single month from your creativity—without burning out or compromising what you love? For years, I thought being an artist meant selling work in bursts, hoping each month would be enough. But everything changed when I discovered the power of a membership site. In this episode, I’m sharing how I built a membership t…
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Ever feel like money just comes in and goes straight back out—like no matter what you do, you’re stuck? I’ve been there. I used to think that hitting a certain financial goal would change everything. But when I finally reached it, I realised… nothing really changed. That’s when I started to rethink my whole mindset around money and abundance. In th…
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Last week, I found myself scrolling through social media—something I don’t do often—and within minutes, I was bombarded with conflicting opinions. One post told me I should be making art every day. Another said galleries were a waste of time. Someone else had a completely different take on pricing. It was a flood of “you should do this” and “you mu…
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E183 | Selling Your Art Q&A - Live Podcast
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1:05:20START SELLING YOUR ART Q&A - How can I price? - How do I keep momentum going when I feel burnout? - What do I do if I want consistent commissions? - Is there really a place for artists in the artworld? These are a few examples of the questions we tackle in this live podcast 🙌🏼 Join our free event that starts on 17th March here.. https://unitedartsp…
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Can I buy your artwork?? We often don’t hear this question in the early stages of someone deciding if they want to buy from us. This question remains in the buyer's mind. So, we need to answer this question before they ask it. Considering your customer journey and how easy it is to find information that helps the buyer decide if they want to buy. I…
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E181 - Panicked and Slipping—A Ski Fall That Showed Me the Power of One Simple Step
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15:12Last week, I fell on a steep mountain of snow and got stuck. I was skiing and took a tumble that then led me to realise that in life, when we are faced with a challenge we can often choose actions that feel right but we are doing them because we are in a state of desperation of panic. Especially true when it comes to making money and selling art. W…
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E180 | Lost In The Chaos? Here's How To Stay On Track
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15:38Ever feel completely overwhelmed, like you have no idea what day it is? Same. But over the years, I’ve built a safety net that helps me go from chaos to clarity—and today, I want to share it with you. In this episode, I’ll walk you through the exact system I use to stay on track when everything feels like it’s falling apart—and how you can create y…
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E179 | 3 Ways to Overcome Guilt When Making Art
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20:11Struggling with guilt when making art? You're not alone. This episode explores why creative guilt happens and how to overcome it. Learn to remind yourself why your art matters, set boundaries with unsupportive people, and recognise that guilt often comes from within. Your art is important—don’t let criticism or self-doubt hold you back. Listen to d…
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I share everything I did to overcome my many years of financial struggle and finally surpass my BEST financial goals. From: How to set financial goals How to approach money goals How to work out what you need to make to hit your goals The steps you need to take after you have created a money goal. This was a live podcast and part of our Design Your…
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E177 | Reflecting Back On 2024 - Design Your Life Prep
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1:02:18Today, we’re diving into the power of reflection as we review 2024 together. Using the reflection worksheet, we’ll explore how looking back helps us understand our journey and make intentional strides toward what’s next. As Steve Jobs said, “You cannot connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect the dots looking backwards.” Reflection is…
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E176 | Bring in 2025 With Our Next Free Event
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6:06Happy New Year! We are excited to kick off 2025 with our FREE event this month. Here are the details: WHAT: DESIGN YOUR LIFE IN 3 DAYS (Best Year Yet) WHEN: 20th - 222nd Jan (live reflection on 13th Jan) WHERE: Live on our FB and YT channels with replays available until 26th Jan. HOW MUCH: This event is free, but there is an option to upgrade and u…
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E175 | Design Your Life With 3 Important Questions
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7:39If you want help creating a vision for 2025, you are invited to join our annual Best Year Yet workshop where thousands of us come together to connect with what is most important to us and find out ways to design our lives with intention. It’s one of my favourite events as we all get clear on our top 3 for the year and remove overwhelm. We start on …
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I know for many, this time of year is hectic, so I am landing in your inbox with a gentle question to ask yourself as you prepare for the New Year. What do you want to leave behind in 2024? What do you want to take forward into 2025? OK, two questions - but two really lovely questions I ponder this time of year so I get clearer on what I truly want…
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E173 | Lacking Money & Time? This Is What I Do...
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15:46At this time of year, I head into a slight panic. I feel the pressure of all the tasks, gifts, school plays, all the school activities that require payment, the list goes on. I then start to feel anxious about the lack of funds and lack of time. It can send me into a panic, and when I feel this happening, I like to turn it around quickly. Otherwise…
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E172 | What Is Your Art Saying? How To Unlock The Answers
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11:43Have you ever paused to consider the messages hidden in your own art? Every piece we create has something to teach us—not just about the world, but about ourselves. In this episode, we’ll explore how the act of creating is both an expression and a mirror, showing us feelings, questions, and truths we might not even realise we carry. I call this sen…
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Do you have an Instagram account? Do your followers see your posts? Are you finding it hard to grow your following? If you want to learn our top Instagram tips, this week’s podcast is for you! Every month, we invite a guest expert into our members’ area. This month, we had the pleasure of featuring Instagram expert Emily Masterson. Emily, who works…
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E170 | Portrait Artist Of The Year Contestant - Lloyd Lewis
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59:21Have you ever been rejected? It can be tough hearing no after no after no. Imagine being rejected 9 years in a row! This is what happened to the amazing artist Lloyd Lewis. He was rejected year after year when applying to be on Portrait Artist of The Year! Then, in the 10th application, he was accepted. We are going live on Monday to talk with Lloy…
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E169 | Why Not Me? Feel Your Future, Don't Just Dream It
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11:39Have you ever imagined a life where paying your bills is easy? Where you walk into your solo show with confidence, sell 80% of your work, and have people knocking on your door to feature you? Or maybe you picture a life where you simply feel comfortable in your own skin, creating art that resonates with others… But then, you shoot down the dream be…
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E168 | Why Not Now? Taking Action On Big Dreams
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14:30I was doing an exercise with my 7 Keys students this week, where we challenged ourselves to ask, “What will life look like when I hit my big money goal, or 10x my dream?” I made a list of what I would be, do, and have, and it was amazing to see all the ways I would live my life. This got me thinking—why am I not doing this now? Yes, a lot of it com…
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E167 | Tolerance Trap - How To ReThink Risk
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11:11I was driving down the motorway/highway at 70 miles per hour on my way to the Lake District in the UK, along with hundreds of other drivers all driving at the same pace - wondering how on earth we all got to this point. If we stop to think about it, it's a speed that is pretty dangerous. You’re in a metal box, moving faster than our bodies were eve…
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E166 | Why Being Inconsistent Can Be A Good Thing
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16:52Have you ever felt guilty as you are not making art on a regular basis? or, you didn’t post on social media for a while? Or, that you were doing so well with reading a book every week, and now you have stopped?? I think this pressure to be consistent all the time can put enormous pressure on us. Actually, I have huge periods where I am inconsistent…
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E165 | Making A Full Time Living From Art With Summer Paradiso
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1:01:21Summer found us a few years ago at a time when she wasn’t sure why she just couldn’t seem to sell her art. She loved creating, that wasn’t an issue - but she was forever finding it difficult to make money doing what she loved. We are celebrating hard as just a few months Summer made the leap to full-time selling artist and makes more money now than…
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E164 | What Does Making Art A Living Mean?
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1:04:13What does it mean to make a living from art? Does it mean pay the bills? Does it mean it has to come only from art sales? This is what I talk about in today’s episode. What making art a living means Whether you can make art a living The different ways you can make money and impact from your art If you want my step-by-step framework so you can learn…
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E163 | How Did my Book get To Number 1 In Less Than 12 Hours?
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9:17My book Your Art Matters hit the number one best-seller list within 12 hours of releasing it! Firstly, thank you if you were one of the people who bought it - you helped make this happen!! I have been asked, how did you do it? If you are launching a book, selling art, or having an artwork in a public space that took a lot of work and you want peopl…
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This was a question that came in last week, and I receive this same question on a weekly basis. When you ask this question, it’s so broad - it’s like asking, how do I travel? There are so many answers depending on where you are and where you want to go. So, to answer this question, you must dig deeper under the surface. ‘You can’t be seen until you…
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E161 | From Sleepless Nights to Starry Heights: How Kristine Richer turned midnight hours into a thriving art career
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1:07:09From Sleepless Nights to Starry Heights: How Kristine Richer turned midnight hours into a thriving art career. Join us for a live podcast talk with Kristine Richer, a Milky Way photographer who transformed late-night parenting challenges into a flourishing career. In this episode of 'Your Art Matters,' Kristine shares he remarkable journey going fr…
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Should you stick to drawing one thing? Or creating art only using pencils? This is a topic that can make people really angry! I understand why because some people think that niching down artwork means focusing on one thing for the rest of your life and nothing else. But it doesn’t have to mean that. I saw someone share a post the other week saying,…
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E159 | Live Q&A - Why It's Important To Understand Why Your Art Matters
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1:05:34Today’s podcast is a little different. I hosted it live and made it an open Q&A. I had no idea what we would talk about, which is always a nice surprise. The conversation ended up going in the direction of: What happens when you don’t quite believe you are good enough to write, make art, or whatever you create - and you feel you have extensive area…
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Have you ever felt like one of your goals is just impossible? A money goal you just can’t seem to achieve, or a level of standard in your work you just can’t get close to? Last week, I had an experience with a mattress that really got me thinking about how to make impossible goals possible. When you feel you repeatedly hit a wall, and then BAM - th…
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Have you ever worried about falling victim to an online scam as an artist? We share a real story from our community about a member who fell victim to a scam but handled it with remarkable resilience. We discuss practical steps to identify and avoid scams, such as verifying email domains, checking for legitimate websites, requesting references, and …
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E156 | 10 X Your Goal And See If This Happens
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14:29In the book 10X Is Easier Than 2X by Dan Sullivan and another co-author, the idea of aiming for goals that are ten times larger than your current ones is explored. This concept challenges you to think and act on a much larger scale, whether it’s creating more artwork, earning more money, or collaborating with more people. Applying this to my own go…
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E155 | 3 Reasons You Are Not Hitting Your Goals And How To Change
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13:34I‘ve had the same big financial goal for the last 3 years, and for a long time, it has felt like I’m getting further away from it than closer to it. Have you ever experienced this? You set a financial, art-related or personal goal, and you just can’t seem to hit it. It might be that you want to make your first sale, be more visible, or make more mo…
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E154 | BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Book release date and in-person book launch details
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14:47The BIG day has arrived. The publication date of my book, Your Art Matters is 6th August. Our official book launch event is 16th August - we would love you to join us for this. In this episode, I share the importance of understanding why your art matters as it relates to the work you make, your purpose in life, who you connect with and how you sell…
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E153 | Is A Subscription Membership Right For Your Art?
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23:33Being paid to: Have a community of people around you. Make art all day. Use your studio space. Learn from you. Have a break. These are some of the ways you can create a membership platform where people pay you on a monthly, quarterly, 6 monthly, or annual basis. I know this sounds incredibly daunting and scary to many, as it did for me when I first…
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E152 | Becoming An Artist With Bonny Snowdon - LIVE
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1:25:47Wow - this was a bumper LIVE episode as we talked with artist, Bonny Snowdon. Bonny broke down her whole journey from not making art in 30 years to self-taught, fully booked artist with thousands of students. Bonny kindly shared how she managed to increase her pricing by building a waitlist and managed to exit her fulltime job to fulltime artist wi…
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E151 | How To Make Extra Income From Your Creativity
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56:57This was a live podcast where I brought in my mentor, Stu McLaren. We talked about my past and how Stu has impacted my life in the most profound way ever. We talk about how you can use your creativity to impact others and make money at the same time. Imagine being paid to make art? With money coming in month after month. I get paid to make art, and…
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E150 | The Free Training That Changed My Life And Income
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20:45In today’s podcast, I set out to talk in-depth about how a free training I took back in 2016 changed my life in the most profound way. Although I do talk about it - I don’t go into detail as I find it emotional to talk about. To think that back in 2016, when I signed up for a free workshop with Stu McLaren, and how my life is unrecognisable now mov…
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My son was getting quite angry and upset as he wanted to buy an Xbox but didn’t have the money. We can all relate, I am sure - there are many things I want but don’t have the money :) So, our motto is every problem has a solution - and so we created a project plan and worked out how he could earn the money. He decided to sell his art and we broke d…
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E148 | Your Mistakes are Adding More Value to Your Art
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16:08What if I told you the mistakes you make are increasing the value of your art? We often disregard our mistakes, which can impact our confidence negatively. Yet, our trials and errors are what make our art great. This is what I talk about in today’s episode. What if you are a beginner? With no trials and errors? Does this devalue your work?? Nope, I…
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Making art that sells - a term some people love and for some it brings feelings of guilt, shame and a sense of selling your soul. This week, I explore this topic as it relates to making art with the intention of selling. For me two primary considerations contribute towards sales: Making art (or anything) that is like you - by this I mean leaning in…
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I remember looking at my painting and wondering what was wrong with my creation. It didn't seem right, but I couldn't determine why. It was like when I had found an inspirational image and tried to replicate what I saw but failed miserably. I've taken courses in drawing, acrylic, life drawing, watercolour, textiles, collage, ceramics - the list goe…
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E145 | Artist Talk - Success since becoming a member of United ArtSpace
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1:04:24A wonderful talk with artists as we delve into the success they have experienced since working with us. We discuss hoe they use the Best Year Yet process and how their journeys have evolved over the years from taking action. Lisa shared how she was shaking like a leaf when it came to sharing her only drawing with us - this was 3 years ago. Today, L…
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E144 | How other artists design their lives using Best Year Yet
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1:06:57A wonderful live podcast episode where we bring in artists who share how they plan their year ahead. We talk about having goals, not having goal, having a calendar, not having a calendar and all the different ways you can adapt our best Year Yet training to design your life in your own way. A super session if you are keen to do more of what you lov…
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I know this title may make some people feel uncomfortable - those who give give give and never put themselves first, for example. However, when we break this down - it’s simply connecting with what truly matters in life and focusing on this. You can do more of what makes you happy. It’s not about greed or hurting people along the way so we can sati…
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E142 | Reflecting on 2023 together - Recorded Live
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1:06:36Let’s reflect on 2023 together. One of the best ways to move forward and achieve success is by reflecting and today’s podcast was recorded live. We took time to: Consider what you want and don’t want. Get clear on what you really want in 2024. Learn from mistakes and from what went well. Most of all, paying attention to how far you have come. When …
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Last year I bought a house, which was a big deal for me. As a single parent, who used to be in masses of debt and unemployed for years - to get to this point today in my life is mind blowing. For years I struggled and found life difficult. Art was my saviour. Art has taught me so much and that is why I am so passionate about helping others understa…
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E140 | I want you to always be happy, but that's not going to happen
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7:49In this final Vlogast of 2023, I want to wish you a very healthy and ‘happy’ end to the year. I know it’s not an easy time for some people. I was reflecting on how I want everyone to be happy. I want my members, followers, children, friends, family - all to be happy. I strive to make people happy and fulfilled, but this isn’t always possible. It’s …
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E139 | Making connections with no expectation
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5:28I always say you are one person away from an opportunity. Suvi is a UAS HUb member and last week, she shared her surprise as she was invited to exhibit next year, and it came from a simple act with no expectations. Suvi had created some lovely cards featuring her artwork and decided to give them to local shop owners as a seasonal greeting. One of t…
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E138 | The 3 most important questions to ask yourself
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9:00When you begin to take control of your life to feel more fulfilled and happy, you often realise it’s not about the house, the amount you earn or the studio you have. These goals are great, but true fulfilment comes from inside. I know this can sound a little wishy washy, but this has been the biggest lesson towards me finding tons of contentment an…
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Your art won’t sell You should paint flowers, you will make more money You are not good enough People aren’t buying art right now Have you ever taken a different direction because of the view of a few?? By this, I mean a couple of people out of the billions of people in the world gave their view, which diminished your dream—diminishing your confide…
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