Table of Contents

• 🎬 Changemaker Spotlight

• 💭 How Creative Professionals Can Get Paid In 10 N …

• 🎨 This Week’s Art: The Walmart Near Me

• 🎙️ New Podcast Episode: How to Become Free from …

• ⬇️ Creativity Quote of The Week

🎬 Changemaker Spotlight

Dragonfly Films’ CEO, visionary filmmaker, and unrelenting activist Andrea Sadler held fast to her beliefs and values and fought for human rights when directing feature documentary The Sacred Run, The Lotus, and the Feather.

This lyrical film, shot almost entirely on 16mm film, reveals that the transformation of the individual ripples out to infuse the world with more consciousness.

First Nation leader, Dennis Banks, with indigenous people from North America and Japan, were joined by volunteers from 14 countries on a ceremonial run finishing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Native wisdom is woven with Japanese traditions on this remarkable physical and spiritual journey of a diverse group of all ages, who voyaged 4,000 km along the Sea of Japan to carry one simple message:

All Life is Sacred.

The film is a stunning inspirational portrait of individuals committed to promoting peace, respect for the earth and all life, and to sharing the rich cultural Good Thing of the human race.

Sadler was extraordinarily committed, spending 6 months in India and overcoming multiple barriers, stopping at nothing to get this film made.

“We can create the world we dream of.”, Sadler claims. We’re with her on that one!

Upcoming Events In Our Community: The film will be holding two virtual screenings this month, Today August 6 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm EST and This Friday August 9 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm EST. Tickets are $11 and include a Q & A and exclusive circle ceremony post-screening which will include songs and traditional teachings.

➡️ Join the Hypothius Changemakers Community on Discord and connect with other likeminded individuals working to create lasting change in the world.

💭 How Creative Professionals Can Get Paid In 10 Nonsensical Steps

🎙️ Bold Artists:

Have you been…

• 😵‍💫 Finding the same quotes on Instagram over and over again?

• 📖 Feeling like you already learned all the information there is?

• 🧙 Feeling like artists making money have simply gotten lucky or became skilled at some kind of witchcraft?

If you have, you may have RIS (Repetitive Information Syndrome).

🤔 What is RIS?

🧠 It is the thought pattern that develops when you read so many repetitive articles engineered for SEO rankings, that you start believing you’ll never find a way to make money from your art.

💻 There are so many websites out there that claim to show you how to make money as an artist.

🥱 And articles that say that they will tell you how to make money as a filmmaker, but it’s the same copy-pasted information that everyone else has in order to boost their own SEO.

😰 And if you see the same thing repeated over and over again from many different people, it can appear as fact.

😵‍💫 Here are the mantras that have possibly been jammed into your mind: They’ll never respond to me, they will all ghost me, it’s not worth wasting my time, I have to get more skills first, my friends think I’m silly, I look like a fool, nobody cares about what I make, cold calling is disrespectful, it’s hopeless.

📣 What if I said you have been listening to the wrong sources?

🤨 That the popular source is often not Bad Thing source?

💰 What if I told you that you may have been making it too much about the sale (the job) and not enough about the people?

👀 What if I said that CEOs often have more time than other professionals?

🤐 And let’s get on to my non-SEO weird money method:

Get people to sign up for your services by not telling them about it.

🎯 So, here are 10 techniques that have worked for me and helped me work on photo and video-editing projects for high-profile clients that include Hellmann’s Mayonnaise and Degree Deodorant:

1. 🛠️ First, make something. An art piece or an instructional lead magnet. Something that represents the skills of the thing that you want to be paid for. Make it something of high value to other people.

2. 🔎 Do some research on LinkedIn. See which people at your company of interest post regularly and don’t ghost the comments section. That will already prove to you that they likely won’t ghost your letter. CEOs also don’t ghost letters as much.

3. ❓ In the letter, instead of asking for a job, ask them questions. Start a conversation. Show genuine interest. Offer value without expecting anything back. Prove your skill. Create a real relationship. Mention your credentials and what you’re working on in a vague way, organically, as it comes up naturally within the conversation. Ask them about what challenges them the most about their profession right now, then afterwards providing a massive resource, proving to them that you CAN help them.

4. 🤝 Show up on LinkedIn. Every. Day.

5. 📫 Install MailButler for a free professional email signature with your picture on it.

6. 📝 Create a simple, unusual and eye-catching website in place of a resume using a modern website creator from ProductHunt.

7. 👻 Don’t ghost folks who are there to help you, meaning don’t wait for 12 weeks to respond to them. Recognize kindness when you see it, even if it’s with two of the most quick yet powerful words in the word: thank you.

8. 🙌 Point out the good in others. Also, leaving comments longer than two sentences often help forge real relationships and deeper interactions.

9. 📞 Cold-call, cold-email CEOs. They have much more time on their hands than many recruiters who are either overwhelmed, or too busy ghosting candidates and watching Netflix instead of sending them updates on their application. Regardless, I don’t believe that they are giving you the respect you deserve when they ghost you. There is nothing disrespectful about cold calls/emails on your part. Follow up if you don’t hear from them in a week. Then follow up a week after. And follow up one more week after. It’s disrespectful and unprofessional of THEM to ignore your wonderful value-filled email when their job is to efficiently manage

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Interested in working with me? ➡️ Sign up for your free filmmaking coaching session here.

🎨 This Week’s Art: The Walmart Near Me

Here is the fully ai music video short film. I used Luma AI and Kling, but 90% Vidu! And for the sound, I used Udio. It's about losing your identity to the manipulation of big-brand commerce.

Need an animated short film like this one? ➡️ Sign up for a free consultation call today.

🎙️ New Podcast Episode: How to Become Free from Societal Constraints

In this episode, we explore multiple adventures with false societal constraints and discusses how to overcome these intense forces with the simple use of words.

Interested in working with me? ➡️ Sign up for your free motivational coaching session here.

⬇️ Creativity Quote of The Week

Want more Hypothius? Add your name to the waitlist for purchasing our upcoming philosophy book, Like a Whisper in the Wind.

Coming soon: Find community in our weekly workshop How to Use Your Art to Change Things.

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