Brooke Shaden
Brooke Shaden has clarity. You can hear it in her voice and see it in her work. She knows why she’s making and that why pervades everything. The why is her legacy, her message, her brand. Brooke’s why is to inspire creativity in others. It’s bigger than her art. It’s bigger than her audience. It’s her north star.
When you have that kind of clarity you don’t worry about changing creative direction or trying out a new medium. You don’t concern yourself with those who rail against your making or criticize your style. When you have that kind of clarity, which only comes from within, you always know how to come back to what matters and how to move forward with what’s most important.
Brooke is a photographer whose work has been shown in galleries around the world, featured in, and on the cover of, dozens of magazines and books, winner of the international photographer of the year in 2016, named best of photography in 2015, one of Shutter Magazine’s 10 most influential photographers, and is the founder of Light Space: a photography school for survivors of human trafficking in India and Thailand.
part 1: uncovering the most important piece of all you do
part 2: how I built my entire career, and life, around one thought
Some things we talk about…
part 1
- 3 steps to finding your why, your legacy, and your message
- the #1 thing that stops people from moving forward in their personal and professional life
- becoming a trailblazer and finding true liberation
- how to never run out of ideas or inspiration
part 2
- making every decision, every one, around what most matters and what’s most true
- how to trust your voice above anyone else’s
- saying and making what’s important (and how it can change your ENTIRE career)
- how to practice bravery
- the importance of aligning with your money mindset and sharing your art as a business
“Too often we’re not confused enough with the art we’re creating. If you’re not exploring curiosity and unsure about where you’re going next, why create at all?”
“What’s the point of being an artist? is the point to make everybody happy or is the point to make people feel something? In the end, I had to answer it’s to make people feel something.”
let’s connect.
letters from my heart about what’s on my mind. the business and the personal.