Our world abounds in opportunity. More than ever before we have the chance to adopt multiple identities, move in multiple circles and find multiple platforms from which to pursue the numerous interests and passions we develop both in our work, and personal lives. Of course the most obvious downside to all this is that it means we can make ourselves extremely busy, extremely quickly and find that we quite literally don’t have enough time to do everything we’d like to!

A somewhat traditional approach to succeeding in your work life and in business is that you should just focus on doing one thing at a time and be sure to do it well. There is definitely a lot of truth in this (think Jiro loves Sushi), but what if the practice you’ve been building is starting to do well, so well that it’s creating opportunities for you to do other things. And what if, quite frankly, you don’t actually want to do just one thing, because there are lots of other ideas on your list that you’d like to try as well?

Our guests Leah Dent and Angela Mitchell have been doing just that under the umbrella of their well known creative practice, Studio Bomba.

This discussion is for the creative who not only has a lot of ideas for making a living, but would like to see more than one of them through, perhaps to start multiple side projects or additional revenue streams that could later blossom into independent operations that either feed each other or can be sold off down the track. It may even be a wise strategic decision to protect yourself from downturns, and make sure you’re not relying on just a single source of income.  What does that look like? How do things change, and above all, how can you cope with all the excitement and stress?!