What's Keeping You Back? What's Keeping You Stuck? And a Simple Exercise to Find Your Next Career Goal!
This post, will be a bit different. If you're not interested in the intersection of spirituality and science at all, skip to the pink colored title below. There's an exercise for your career goal waiting for you.
If you are interested in the woo of life, because you feel the energetic shift, you feel the world is a different place but you can't quite pinpoint what's different (everything, everywhere, all at once anyone?) I invite you to keep reading. I promise this will circle back to your artistic career. It always does.
Largely because your artistic career is a reflection of the beliefs you hold. About yourself and the world.
Yes, read that again. As painful of a realization that it might be, our career success is deeply intertwined with our belief system - which is nothing but a constructed system of emotionally charged meanings we have learned or inherited and rarely questioned throughout our life on planet earth. (This is precisely why my acting career never really took off, and also why my screenwriting career did - and yes it included flipping the script on a lot of the beliefs I held).
As we know - thanks to neuroscience - our brain is always creating our reality. That is why everyone sees, understands and remembers things differently. A clear indication that the brain can only create a reality as far as its own limiting beliefs. Every belief is limiting to some extent. I think the way to pave new paths for success going forward is precisely to expand what has been limited within you.
Coming up with the idea of The Sustainable Creative Society™ was a direct response to new limitations I had put on myself that I needed to break and expand, but more importantly - the limitations I kept seeing dear friends who are brilliant actors, writers, painters and designers putting on themselves and never quite reaching their desired path or career.
Part of the issue is, of course, capitalism and the business element in the "success" equation. Another part of the issue is your brain, or the reality you create with it.
Business is a skill you can learn. Anyone can learn it. I'm here to teach you that.
But being you? Your talent? You don't learn that. You just are. You just have it. You can choose not to do anything with it, sure. But nobody can take it away from you no matter how deep you burry it within you.
So why is it so hard for artists to let go of low self-worth when they are literally a walking, living, breathing unique wealth of talent that nobody can replicate? When I flipped the script on my own unspoken, unchecked self-worth issues, that's when everything changed. For the better.
As the year begins, what's the little voice inside of you telling you? Are we going to just cling on to our familiar patterns and repeat 2025? Stay in the reality that does not serve our highest potential? Or are we willing to get a little uncomfortable for a lot of rewarding change, especially in our artistic careers?
Change starts with setting higher goals. Here's my go-to exercise when it comes to intersection of art and business.
Here's an exercise to figure out your new career goal in a way that you've never done before.
Take a sheet of paper and list the following: 3 actions you took in 2025 that led to big wins for you. At the end of each thread of actions- list the catalyst for the initial action. The only catch is that you have to be brutally honest with yourself.
1) I started posting advice on social media, that led me to getting asked to speak on panels at a festival, that led me to meet a producer of a production company I respect but had never worked with before, they loved my pilot, we're now packaging my international show across the Atlantic together and sending it out to market. (Wanting to find more purpose, make positive impact was the catalyst for posting)
2) I moved back to the US. I've been wanting to move back for awhile, to be able to work on projects that resonate with me culturally and linguistically more in this new season of my career. As soon as I arrived, I was put in contact with a US streamer TV exec and an independent US producer while also reviving contacts from when I left, helping me start growing my network on this side of the pond with ease. (Wanting to level up and go after bigger dreams was the catalyst to saying yes when the opportunity to move popped up)
3) I decided to found an LLC for The Sustainable Creative Society™, while led me to invest in an incubator for conscious entrepreneurs, met a group of amazing women, formed a mastermind, and now they are all helping me in one way or another get the company off the ground. (Wanting more ownership of what I put out in the world led me to start a business)
So what does this mean for my career this year or the next few years?
The catalysts that led to big wins are a stark indicator of my next career goal and the business plan that will support it.
If I was unsure of my next milestone I now know that my new goal needs to lead me to more purpose driven projects (impact), to more leadership type of positions (ownership), and that forces me to get uncomfortable doing things I've never done before (leveling up). So once I have narrowed down a goal that aligns with my desires I can write a business plan. Because truth is, sometimes it's hard to be specific about your goal and, in my experience, results come from specificity.
Now the reason I do this list that may not feel very "business-like" is because if I know what drove my actions, if I know the DESIRE behind my actions, it will always help me stay consistent in pursuing my new career goal. Desires ALWAYS help us understand the feeling we're after and IMO if we can connect emotionally to our business goal (in a healthy way of course), it'll be much easier to see through plans and strategies and stay consistent. I'm not sure why capitalism has us all hiding our feelings or shunning our emotions but for me - it's the feeling that I want to embody and experience, that keeps me going when the going gets tough.
Additionally : sometimes we keep our goals small, because our minds don't yet know how to get to the big things and the reality around us doesn't reflect any indication that bigger goals are possible. Except based on neuroscience, we're creating that reality.
So this exercise is a really good reminder of the bigger desires (the one you're already taking action on without even realizing it) without overwhelming the mind.
FYI: for those joining the membership, bring the result of this exercise with you to our January 26th workshop and I'll show you how to use it to write your goal - the one that will inform your career (business) plan for 2026. I'll also reveal my own new career goal!
For those who haven't joined the membership yet, but want guidance and mentorship from someone who has done the work and someone who continues to grow her artistic career in ways I couldn't imagine 5 years ago - You can join here (and cancel anytime after the initial 1st month).
The beauty of being part of the founding group is that you'll get my full attention for your individual career before the community gets visibility as I tour podcasts and stages.
We've got this!
com amor,
Juliana
Enjoying my coffee, currently reading "Tuning the Human Biofield" by Eileen Mckusick, excited for the first workshop on January 26th in the membership, The Sustainable Creative Society™🎬 @julianalimadehne
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