Becoming a Full-time Creative Professional - With Artist Carmen Mardonez

Carmen Mardonez took the brave leap into pursuing her passion across the world. Changing direction and shifting from one career to a full time Artist. Not only did she take that brave leap but she did so in the throws of becoming a new mother, moving to a new country, and laying down new roots in L.A. Her work is powerful, and bold and unlike anything I've seen. Carmen shares with us her creative process, her day to day life and adversity during trying times. Learn more about Carmen and see her amazing reels of her process, and you may even catch her playing checkers with her son while creating on instagram @desbordado or https://www.carmenmardonez.com/

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Passages from my book: Colour Me Happy! See your everyday ordinary as extraordinary

"The greatest gift you can give yourself is to find something that you are naturally adept at. And find out a way to make a living at it. Because if you do that, every day will be a play day. You’re never battling upstream. You love what you do. And if you love what you do, why do you want to stop doing it?"

–Judith Susan Blum (most of you know her as Judge Judy)

Not only do I see you and support you for who you are, I also believe that at this time we are too focused on what we “think” the world wants us to be and where we feel pressured to fit. We don’t fit, and we don’t need to fit. You and I are as unique as a snowflake; there is not one other person in this world that will ever be like you. You need to be the best version of yourself as a GIFT to this world. Why can’t you do what you love? Why can’t your ordinary day be simply extraordinary?

To start a shift and to make a change, you need to view all your life’s moments as building blocks adding up to the massive tower that you have built and are adding to, to see your world for what it really is: a beautiful life that is your great adventure. You need to soak in every single moment of each and every day. Be the most authentic version of you: wear-what-you-want, listen-to-what-you-want, create-what-you-want kind of person! You are in charge of your own destiny

There is also something missing here that you aren’t telling the reader- the second sentence is a non-sequitur to the first. What is wrong with the world that needs to be made better? I think this is a one sentence fix, something like: But I believe that we are too focused on X..or the world we live in is X….

I see you and support you for who you are. I also believe that we collectively need to make this a better world that our children can walk into. To do that is to view the building blocks of all your life’s moments adding up to the massive tower that you will build to see your world for what it really is: a beautiful life that is gifted to you every single moment of each and every day.

All the love,

Brandi