Working With What You Have To Create The Life You Want W/ Andrew Oliver

E165:   On this episode we speak with musician, entrepreneur, and inventor Andrew Oliver. We speak through balancing your passions and distributing your creative / marketing with all your worlds. Leaving school early and going for it and what pursuing a healthy financial life in the creative arts looks like. Today’s episode is great for any creative looking to make a living doing things they love, start up life, and inventing new things.   Let us know what you think @davewakeup on social or [e-mail].     In This Episode We Cover  

• Leaving college early
• Going into gigging full time with your original music
• Developing your first physical product
• Itching your own scratch
• Pillars of your business / content
• Distributing all your creative
• Working with what you have
• Working with others that can do things you can’t
• Getting back that child like wonder and exploration
• Approaching finance sustainability as a creative starting out
• Piecing together your income and diversifying risk on the streams

  Quote’s   “When I’m most rigid and most busy I’m the least creative. When I’m on vacation I always write new songs. My mind get’s in that creative zone where it wants to stimulate itself.” - Andrew Oliver   “Working with what you have and not being afraid to work with what you have is the first step.” - Andrew Oliver   “That lack of things they have to create with pushes them way outside the box to form the disruption.” - Host Dave Swillum     Andrew’s Links   IG @flippinoliver   Andrew’s First Physical Product https://www.getdummiez.com/   Andrew’s Custom In Ear’s