Episode 72: Finding the courage to leave a job to pursue the dream of being a full time artist

Our journeys in life are like concentric rings on a tree. Any decision you have made before will most times be the basis of what you do today. You will always feel a sense of alignment and confidence when you follow your passions to achieve your dreams. The alignment will be manifested in your ability to manage and thrive in uncertainties. Though it’s hard to live with the certainties of living without a salaried job, that sense of being safe to you because of living in your truth is incomparable.

 

This week on the #MoneyMagic Podcast, I talk to one of my coaching clients, Catriona Towriss, an artist who is passionate about supporting people to reconnect with their creativity. As a child, Catriona dreamt about becoming an artist. However, she nearly lost sight of that dream in the twists and turns of life. She got a Ph.D. and spent over a decade working as a researcher and lecturer in public health. In her spare time, she drew, painted, and took photographs.

 

In 2019, she hired me as a coach and at the height of the pandemic she made the big leap into life as a full-time artist. In this podcast, she shares how she did that and some of the fears she had to work through about money and supporting herself as an artist.

 

Through her art, she seeks to uncover nature’s timeless visual language and explore the dynamics between human and non-human nature.

 

Join the conversation and learn more about how honoring your inner voice can build your self-trust. Your relationships, possibilities and money. You will also understand the power of creativity and how creative expressions in the artistic sense will struggle to thrive under financial pressures.

 

Tune in!

During this episode, you will learn about;

[00:01] Introduction to the show 

[02:34] Meet our guest, Catriona Towriss

[03:41] A bit about Catriona, who she is and what she does

[05:23] What is ‘Money’ according to Catriona

[07:06] Taking the paradigm shift about the view of money

[09:59] Shifting from a job security mindset to a freedom mentality

[12:25] A world of inevitable uncertainties

[14:48] How following her dream created a positive relationship with uncertainties of life

[19:19] Catriona's prior relationship with money & the things she wishes she’d known before

[24:30] How honoring her inner voice helped to build self-trust and her relationship with money

[30:11] Why Catriona's fears are not about the amount of money in her bank account

[34:27] Catriona’s work as a creative coach  

[39:12] Her ways of helping clients tap into their creativity

[48:14] Failures and the expectations we place on ourselves

[52:20] Valuable lessons she has learned about money in her interaction with Vangile

[56:35] How you can reach out and connect with Catriona

[59:58] Ending the show and call to actions

Notable Quotes 

• Money is the tool that enables you to live the life you want.
• To be an artist is, in many ways, to live in a very explicit relationship with uncertainties.
• That sense of being safe to you because of living in your truth is incomparable.
• There’s nothing harder than getting up every day and living a life that doesn’t feel true to who you are.
• When you are an embodiment of something, your energy literally calls to the clients. 
• We live in a world that does not embrace failures but actually shames us for failing.

Connect With Us

Catriona Towriss

Website:  https://www.catrionatowriss.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catriona.anne.t/

Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/catriona.towriss/

 

 Vangile Makwakwa

Website: https://www.wealthy-money.com/moneymagic

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/vangilemakwakwa/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vangilemakwakwa/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/wealthymoney1