MEET YOUR COACH

I GET IT

You want to get paid to do what you love. But you also want freedom to create the things YOU want to create. You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life, not ruled by the capricious demands of your clients, followers, manager, audience or readers, as well-intentioned as they might be.

Hi! I’m Caroline Shea, and I’ve been there. After attending New York University, I began my career as an event planner in NYC. I quickly found I hated planning events for other people.

After a few years of feeling stuck, I launched my own photography business. By age 24, I was making a six-figure salary doing something creative and working from home (before that was common): a dream I had never thought possible. Over the next seven years , I grew in renown as a photographer and was featured in many magazines. I started a photography community, and eventually was making upwards of 10K per wedding. But despite all the outward success, I was unhappy. I was burned out, stressed out, and despite achieving everything I wanted to in my career, I was still creatively unfulfilled.

Oh, and I now hated photography.

But then I learned the secret of how to keep myself creatively happy while still making a living. I found balance, rest, joy and a creative life that doesn’t burn me out. Everyone’s story is different, but I believe a fulfilling life is available to every creative and I want to help you on the journey of discovering what that looks like for you and mapping how to get there!

“Whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.”

— Julia Cameron

Individual Coaching

Available in person and on zoom. Useful for the experienced artist and those looking for an in depth look at what might be blocking them. This setting gives us more room for inner-healing of past pain, rejection and abuse of your gifts. We’ll also work on finding your most authentic expression of a creative life and building a concrete plan to get there.

Group

Coaching

Artist Well Coaching Groups give you a chance to gain business tools and self-confidence a long with a network and supportive community. Getting encouragement from your peers can sometimes be the most healing empowering thing of all. In this program, Caroline will focus on helping you finding or refining your true passions, owning your creative voice, creative business skills, and strategies for growth.

What to Expect

Individual sessions are tailored to the clients needs and preferences and will included guided exercises and unlocking questions. Group sessions are more structured and will involve doing more of the exercises on your own.

During a Creativity Coaching Session with Caroline you may…

  • Receive practical tools for unlocking creativity

  • Discuss how to price or value yourself and your work

  • Brainstorm creative ways to market yourself and your work that won’t drive you crazy ( hint: social media is not the only way)

  • Strategize how to manage business and personal relationships and boundaries

  • Identify areas of self-judgement and self-criticism

  • Create positive affirmations that will get you through seasons of rejection or self-doubt

  • Unpack triggers and pain points around your art form or day-to-day life

  • Zero in on belief systems that maybe holding you back

  • Identify roots of those belief systems rooted in childhood memories

  • Learn to practice self-compassion

  • Do spiritual exercises to help you find the guidance and wisdom of “Unconditional Love”

  • Uncover out-of-the-box ideas on how to live the life you desire

  • Get constructive feedback on projects and ideas (by request)