Nikki & Laura
Don't let fear & procrastination keep you from starting your art business
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Don't let fear & procrastination keep you from starting your art business
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Nikki & Laura

Hi, we are Nikki and Laura with Startist Society, a podcast and community inspiring you to stop getting in your own way and start building an art biz and life that you love.

We are artists who believe strongly in the power of community, accountability, following your intuition, taking small actionable steps, and breaking down the barriers of fear and procrastination that keep you stuck.

Follow along with us on our creative business journey as we encourage you on yours.

latest episodes

100 – Celebrating 100 Episodes!

100 – Celebrating 100 Episodes!

Join Nikki and Laura and help us celebrate the huge milestone of our 100th episode! Listen in as we have a very chatty episode about our lives in the last few months, our art practices, our jobs, and the future of the podcast. You'll hear lots of talk about bourbon...

99 – Jennifer Long’s 5 Tips for Becoming a Fabric Designer

99 – Jennifer Long’s 5 Tips for Becoming a Fabric Designer

Can't get enough of startist society? Join Startist Society in our Facebook group Nikki's art and design website Laura's art and class website In episode 98, we introduced you to Jennifer Long, who started with the dream of becoming a fabric designer for her favorite...

98 – Landing your dream Fabric Design Gig with Jennifer Long

98 – Landing your dream Fabric Design Gig with Jennifer Long

Can't get enough of startist society? Join Startist Society in our Facebook group Nikki's art and design website Laura's art and class website As we mentioned in the first of our accountability group series of episodes, most of our interviews have been with people who...

97 – Creating Collections

97 – Creating Collections

Whether you're a fine artist or a surface pattern designer, you may have heard about the importance of creating in collections. If you're at the start of your art journey, you may be creating a lot of one off pieces of art. So how do you go about starting to work in...

95 – Selling on Digital Marketplaces with Isabelle Wood

95 – Selling on Digital Marketplaces with Isabelle Wood

Can't get enough of startist society? Join Startist Society in our Facebook group Nikki's art and design website Laura's art and class website We've spoken many times about how we met in an accountability group for Bonnie Christine's Surface Design Immersion course....

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Procrasti-learning!

Loved this new podcast! Great rapport, very relatable, good practicable suggestions on working through procrastination and overwhelm. Looking forward to future topics. Thanks!

 Xenophyle

Great podcast!

This is a great subject for a podcast cause I think most people, especially artists, suffer from the procrastination syndrome – I know I do! I really think Nikki & Laura will help me head in the right direction or at least help to stop putting things off until later.

 Isabelle Gagnon

A great addition to my podcast listening

“I love the easy relationship between Laura and Nikki! It’s like listening to two good friends talk about their lives as artists….WAIT It IS two good friends talking about their lives as artists. And that is what makes the podcast so approachable and fun to listen to.

I love that Laura and Nikki are bringing their own experiences to the process of being an artist. We are all in this process together and learning from each other is a time honored form of wisdom sharing.

I look forward to future episodes!”

 Susan J Mecca

Fantastic!

As an artist I’m always looking to find something to motivate me, inspire me and hopefully learn lots along the way. This podcast does it all. It’s the perfect guide to just get out there and create the art business you’ve been dreaming of.

 CreativeSkies

Inspiring!

I look forward to each new episode of Startist Society! There are always valuable take aways and ideas I can immediately apply to my art and creative business. Laura and Nikki make a great team!

 BPMartist

Practical and down-to-earth

Approachable and friendly, with lots of valuable insights and tips. You don’t need to have a business to benefit from listening. Anyone who has a creative practice they want to develop will find support here.

 MrsSeabie

Entertaining & Insightful

Whether you’re well established or just getting started…this is a must listen! Nikki and Laura do an incredible job leading the conversations about fear, procrastination and a whole lot more. It’s gives you a nice push in the right direction to just get started. I highly recommend listening and subscribing!

 Kate with Create More Design

If you’d like to hear your name on the Startist Society podcast, visit our PODCAST REVIEW PAGE and fill out our review form after you’ve left your review and we might just shout you out! Please be sure to take a screenshot of your review so we can read it! Thank you for taking the time to review the Startist Society podcast!

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what our listeners are saying

Procrasti-learning!

Loved this new podcast! Great rapport, very relatable, good practicable suggestions on working through procrastination and overwhelm. Looking forward to future topics. Thanks!

 Xenophyle

Great podcast!

This is a great subject for a podcast cause I think most people, especially artists, suffer from the procrastination syndrome – I know I do! I really think Nikki & Laura will help me head in the right direction or at least help to stop putting things off until later.

 Isabelle Gagnon

A great addition to my podcast listening

“I love the easy relationship between Laura and Nikki! It’s like listening to two good friends talk about their lives as artists….WAIT It IS two good friends talking about their lives as artists. And that is what makes the podcast so approachable and fun to listen to.

I love that Laura and Nikki are bringing their own experiences to the process of being an artist. We are all in this process together and learning from each other is a time honored form of wisdom sharing.

I look forward to future episodes!”

 Susan J Mecca

Fantastic!

As an artist I’m always looking to find something to motivate me, inspire me and hopefully learn lots along the way. This podcast does it all. It’s the perfect guide to just get out there and create the art business you’ve been dreaming of.

 CreativeSkies

Inspiring!

I look forward to each new episode of Startist Society! There are always valuable take aways and ideas I can immediately apply to my art and creative business. Laura and Nikki make a great team!

 BPMartist

Practical and down-to-earth

Approachable and friendly, with lots of valuable insights and tips. You don’t need to have a business to benefit from listening. Anyone who has a creative practice they want to develop will find support here.

 MrsSeabie

Entertaining & Insightful

Whether you’re well established or just getting started…this is a must listen! Nikki and Laura do an incredible job leading the conversations about fear, procrastination and a whole lot more. It’s gives you a nice push in the right direction to just get started. I highly recommend listening and subscribing!

 Kate with Create More Design

If you’d like to hear your name on the Startist Society podcast, visit our PODCAST REVIEW PAGE and fill out our review form after you’ve left your review! Please be sure to take a screenshot of your review so we can read it! Thank you for taking the time to review the Startist Society podcast!

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