Starving artists is a term I heard many times in my life. There are several books, including the ones I read which are; “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, “Think and Grow Rich” and “Woke Don’t Mean Broke” that defy that logic and it truly is how one perceives it that one becomes it. It is all in the mind.

Ever since I was a child in middle school I would always be in trouble for writing raps and poems or drawing on books or paper. I was told by teachers that artist don’t amount to anything, that artists don’t make a lot of money and stereotypes like that. I heard people call themselves ‘starving artists’ many times. I was determined to prove that artist don’t need to be starving artists until I almost lost everything a few times.

There are so many stereotypes on Entrepreneurs aren’t successful, artists are starving, writers aren’t paid, and so on. And I am all three! So imagine how many times times three I hear those things. And the saddest part is that the ridicule mostly comes from the family. Parents in most ways for trying supportive can say things that sound the opposite. One might say “I will not be like my father or mother” and when it is their turn to be parents end up doing the same without noticing it. Like saying “I don’t want to be late again” and it just happens again.

I had to realize I was also doing something similar in trying to prove them wrong. Once I truly showed myself I do not need to convince no one else just be myself, that I was able to change the paradigm. I had to get that “I’ll show them” attitude and send them love from far away instead while I do me. Because while you are on a quest to prove them, let’s say mom or dad; and they are on a quest to prove you wrong, the main ingredient here is “wrong” and that is what each one sees. The same people who say I wouldn’t pay that much for art are the same ones that think artists can’t make money creating art. As mentioned before, it was usually the ones closest to me so I had to constantly move away from them because I get entangled in that negative frequency along with them trying to prove who is right and who is wrong. What success is. What are you really trying to say.

Instead I started listening to Mr. Billy Carson and read his amazing book Woke Don’t Mean Broke

There are so many questions that puzzled me in life, being that I seemed to be one of the only few that felt the way I did. Mr. Billy Carson replied many of my questions and theories with peer reviewed science that made me listen more and more to what a successful entrepreneur had to say.

I started looking back at the things I have done and realized that I have many memories to smile about. I feel successful. Everything I sought out to do since fourteen I have as I continue to learn and earn as I rise to the next level, going from Airbrushes to Airplanes.

It is just an experience. I was an Uber driver when they first started being heard about and I would drive in a Toyota with an Airbrush Mural on the hood. They would say at that time “so you are a taxi driver” and I was like not taxi, Uber. When I first started making videos of airbrushing, I was flagged a few times for having music playing in the background from artists that I like to listen to when I airbrush. Now it’s a trend and I am like “nah, they flagged me down before. We can make our own music, beats, art, clothing, materials, printing and anything else we desire and use our own music in the background, not someone else’s.”

Now being an Uber driver is pretty cool, even taking family with you is accepted by these platforms. Working from home has become a more widely accepted idea and topics and issues once seen as taboo like tattoos, is looked at differently. As for myself, I am on a new journey of Airbrushes & Airplanes while blogging a journal of my journey. I think writing is one of the coolest thing a person can do, so to all you writers keep being you.

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#AlexAirbrushLuna