Updated 5/23/18: New Blog Interview Series Coming! Conversations About Creating with Michael LaPenna

(We are slightly delayed due to the tornado-like weather that hit the New York area last week. Thanks for being awesome and patient).

Do you like art at 45 degree angles? Do you like people who paint spaceships and sing jazz? Do you like yoga AND psychology? So often, creativity is thought of as a static thing like painting, theatre, music, writing, and the like—but what about what's between those nooks and crannies, between the cracks, the twilight between all these?

I'm interested in the inspiration behind creative work and the lives inspired by that spark.

New things are coming your way and evolving starting with a new blog interview series called Conversations About Creating. Conversations About Creating will explore everything from creative yoga for for healing mental trauma, to neo jazz funk music artists to make you love life just that much more! Join me, Michael LaPenna, for free-wheeling, art-loving, music-jamming, sculpture-making, groundbreaking conversations With creative people from a wide range of fields and feels In the world of art, science, craft, writing, music—and a whole lot of good feelings! It’ll be good times with some good minds, and I can’t wait!

Don't miss Conversations About Creating coming in the coming weeks to FreelanceMikey.com!

Delayed But Not Denied: Plans for 2018

Delayed But Not Denied:  Plans for 2018

As some of you may know, the fate of this website—due to some technical difficulties with the website—plans for 2018 got delayed a bit where the podcast and the blog. However, fear not, because 2018 is upon us like newly fallen snow. I’ll be back on here to tell you about all the goings-on with the FreelanceMikey brand. We are currently looking for new and fresh blood for upcoming Interviews, podcasts, etc.

A New 'Plogcast' to Fuel Your Creative Fire!

This audio  is totally unedited, The ambient sound you hear the mic picking up is my mischievous ceiling fan whooshing....

Mikey here!

Do you have a compelling story about your business or creative passion that's uniquely interesting that you want to share?

Do you have a job or a hobby or side hustle that's uniquely suited to who  you are that you've mastered and want to share with the world?

Are you fueled by your passions and your desire to create something great?

Do you believe limits are only things to be overcome or to be used as tools to make us better at what we do?

Well, my fire-fueled friend, I'm exceedingly excited to announce something I've been thinking about for a long time now: FreelanceMikey Creative Consulting is happy to announce the Fueling Your Creative Fire Plogcast here on the FreelanceMikey blog! Each episode will delve into the deep of what it means to be creative and what it means to be a creative in a world filled with inspirations from any and all walks of life and influences. I'll be getting extremely real with you and my guests to find what makes them light up with that create fire that fuels their every passion and proclivity in business, art, design, performance, tech—and all points in between!

If you would like to be on the show, contact me by any of the methods listed here on the site and bring your best creative story along with your most profound, personal insights to share on the show!

After all, you only get one life to be awesome, so you might as well share your passion with the world!

Mikey out!

FreelanceMikey.com Now Accepting Guest Bloggers!

Let's vibe and blog about the business, about the art, about the creative business!

Here at FreelanceMikey, my colleagues and I all believe that much can be learned from others. Whether you're a traditional business owner with extensive knowledge, or an interesting conceptual artist, writer, actor, musician, scientist,  or chief cook and bottle washer in a unique job that few people have heard of even existing, we want to hear from you on how you make the world a little brighter with what you do!

Contact us here in the comments and by any of the means listed in the contact information.


Onward and upward,
Mikey

A Manifesto of Sorts on Achieving Your Dreams, Failing, Being Adaptable, and Going for It

Dear Dreamer and Innovator, 

I haven't really known what to write about specifically due to all the "busyness" of business going on in my own life, but I wanted to touch base with you regardless as a means of reaching out to anybody patiently waiting for a reason to comment or contribute to the blog. FreelanceMikey is the culmination of a decade plus of tinkering, cultivating and conversing with all that has been inside my life: from the grand visions to various intermittent ideas and all points in between. Yet, most of all, everything I do for you and all of our clients is out of the belief in the dreamer, the doer. It is a realization that we have but one life to do everything we want to do in that life and that I want to help you do that thing, the special, superlative, awesome thing inside you and help you to reach for those things which bring you the greatest joy for your creativity and your business. From the screenplay in your heart that you may need some guidance on, or that multilevel website that seems too big to even know where to start—or that small woodworking shop that you want to open on the side because your heart calls you to it—FreelanceMikey was created for and to these ends. It is these things that make us human: they make a strive to be self-actualized and self-made (in so much as we can be in is that no person is living on a vacuum-sealed island away from the oxygen of other humans).

In creating FreelanceMikey, all involved strive to take your ideas and make them less scary and more exciting to you, to inject the verve, passion, creativity, and ingenuity that you feel you have been shouting into a void and to make them real and help you to realize that dream or something even better than your original dream: to boldly go where you haven't gone before in order to know that you can go there and grow even more confident in that dream and in that vision and clarify it.

We created this platform of FreelanceMikey because my colleagues and I wanted to bring more joy to the projects, to the purpose, and to the passions that you feel and give them a boost if they should need it. You've had people tell you all your life that your dream is going to be hard, that it's unrealistic and unmanageable; people have told you that the safe route is the best route, but that route has left you dead inside. Your best dreams keep you up at night with excitement and zest for life! I want to cultivate that zest, that power, and that flame inside of you that refuses to be extinguished. I want to do everything to make you feel that your idea is doable from concept to execution, or if it isn't doable, I want you know that you can fail, try again and try something else. FreelanceMikey aims to show you that, as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says, your creativity is a renewable resource. What you do and what you want can have an audience and can be viable to a very willing group of people. I believe you were very likely born to be your best you and the only thing that can keep you from it is your willingness to go for it with a sound mind and a courageous heart.

So without further ado, please allow me and all of us at FreelanceMikey to welcome you to your sanctuary, your laboratory,  your motivational center. Welcome to a safe place that encourages experimentation and the willingness to fail and try something new and adapt to whatever comes to you in life—because you only get one life to be awesome, and it helps to have somebody along the way to have your back. Welcome to FreelanceMikey.com!

Keep tinkering,

Michael LaPenna, Founder and CEO

Welcome to the FreelanceMikey Creativity Blog!

WELCOME!

Hey  guys, this is a forum for free flow of ideas, verbal collaborations, discussions and more. I want to hear from you. 

What would you like to see out of your art or your business? What are your ultimate creative dreams?

FreelanceMikey's Michael LaPenna blogs about creativity and how to be more creative and where creative ideas come from. This includes creative marketing, creative writing, making art, how to inspire more creativity in yourself, and how to inspire more creativity in your business.