Amira Rahim
Amira Rahim moved to the United Arab Emirates when her husband got a job there.
It was a beautiful place to visit, a terrible place to live. The desert was hot, dry, and colorless. Soon after arriving, Amira’s husband got sick. Really sick. So Amira started painting because it was the one thing that made her happy.
It took her one year before she didn’t hate what she painted. By the second year Amira was selling her art and by the third year she’d built up a following, an art practice, and a career as a full-time artist.
Then she moved back to New Jersey, got divorced, and started over.
Amira still struggles at times, because that’s how life works, but she’s doing what she loves, she has a thriving art practice, and every day she gets to live out her mission: using her art to make this world a more colorful place.
Listen here for Amira’s story from a young girl drawing possibilities to a young woman living them out.
Some things we talk about…
- her first three years of business – how she built them piece by piece
- realizing she’d wasted her life and her first steps in a new direction
- dealing with depression while building a huge art business
- the need to lead – how to take your followers where they want to go
“I was really, really sad for most of those years, which is ironic because I created some of the brightest, most cheerful work during that time. I had to.”
“The artists that are successful are successful because they planned to be successful. I don’t think it happened accidentally. I think at some point they set a very clear intention.”
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