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Your next 20 years could look like the last 20. I think that’s boring.
Weekly conversations for mid-career creatives who are building their “What’s next.”
The Art of Transformation talks to people who have made the leap how they did it, what needed to shift, and what they wish they'd known sooner.
BUSINESS INSIDER
Certified Coach
ArtResin Featured Artist
Executive Director, Arts Non-Profit
About the Show
Everyone thinks reinvention is a leap. We know better.
It's more like an improving walk. We take one weekly.
Every week, Marc Scheff brings you a conversation with someone who has already crossed the threshold you're standing at. They made the leap, and walked over it. They broke the model that stopped working. They built something new from what remained.
Make a Mess. Create. Destroy. Emerge.
Hoping is just doing with the brakes on. You're a better driver than that.
— Marc Scheff
The Host
Marc Scheff
Certified coach. Fine artist. Gallery owner. Featured in Business Insider.
Marc spent two decades as an illustrator and fine artist. His layered resin portraits have won awards and been featured in Business Insider and recognized by ArtResin as a standout voice in contemporary art. Then he asked “What’s next?” and built a new chapter.
He left his role as Executive Director of a non-profit arts organization in upstate New York and created a new methodology from that reinvention. Today he coaches mid-career creatives and entrepreneurs who feel their current way of working running out of road.
He trains jiu-jitsu six days a week. Works remotely since 2011. Based in London.
The Framework
The Make a Mess Framework
Three phases. Every reinvention runs through all of them
Phase 01
CREATE
Successful creatives and entrepreneurs know: make a lot now, and make it good later. You generate without judgment, even if it contradicts what you thought you knew. This is where reinvention begins.
Phase 02
DESTROY
You focus your energy on a few, and let go of what doesn’t serve you. You’re destroying, refining options now. Not everything you built should come with you. This phase is uncomfortable. It is also
unavoidable.
Phase 03
EMERGE
Fact is, you explored and refined and now you’re different. Your sense of leadership, your sense of self, it’s a whole new form Now you do what it takes to embrace what has emerged.
Your reinvention has a story.
We have microphones.
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