Have you ever felt like being an artist meant being broke?
Like your creativity was celebrated—but never paid?
What if the stories we’ve inherited about money and art aren’t just limiting…
but actively keeping us disempowered?
In this no-holds-barred episode of Your Art is a Spell, we’re breaking down what I call “money lies”—the toxic myths artists are taught about money, business, and success.
It’s time to unlearn the stories that keep artists struggling… and reclaim our right to thrive.
🎧 Tune in to discover:
💥 The myth of “starving artist” and why it’s designed to keep artists exploitable
💸 Why being “good at art” isn’t enough to get paid (and what to do instead)
🖼️ How the art vs. business binary is a false choice—and why embracing both creates freedom
🤝 Why community abundance is more powerful than individual hustle
🗣️ The difference between “asking” and “advocating for your value”
Did you know 60% of artists in the U.S. make less than $30,000 a year… even while the global art market generates billions?
This isn’t a coincidence.
It’s a system designed to profit from our gifts while keeping us underpaid.
And when we internalize the belief that making money equals selling out?
We end up doing capitalism’s job for it.
This episode reveals how those “money lies”—from the myth of scarcity, to fear of asking, to seeing business as “dirty”—are holding artists back from building sustainable, liberatory creative lives.
We unpack the 5 key mindset shifts that transformed my relationship to money as an artist, including:
✨ Moving from “fixed resources” to “malleable possibilities”
✨ Replacing “art vs. business” with “art AND business”
✨ Shifting from “passive waiting” to “strategic positioning”
✨ Letting go of “independent struggle” for “community abundance”
✨ Choosing “confidence in value” over “fear of asking”
Whether you’re showing in galleries, zines, TikToks, or underground collectives—this is your invitation to stop starving and start resourcing.
Because thriving artists create freer art.
And freer art makes new worlds possible.
🎧 Ready to break these money rules?
Listen to the full episode now.
Your art—and your life—deserve abundance.