Tisha Pletcher is all about renewing all of you.  This creative lady coaches, writes, and leads retreats and workshops for women and their organizations.  I love the simplicity and warmth of her Renewall Coaching website and her message about self-care and following your passions.

Tisha shared a few photos of her Right-Brain Business Plan, which she calls, a work in progress… just like her business.  Each page of her accordion book represents a different part of her plan: values, marketing, services, management and even office space and environment.

Tisha says, “My plan reads ‘world {changing} chicks…connecting to change lives…growing in circles…women who dare, women who care, women who share…’  These words inspire me to create opportunities for women to grow themselves as they support other women in the world.  I birthed my business after working in the nonprofit field and watching amazing women burnout doing work they loved.  I fully believe we can lead our organizations in an even more brilliant way if we too do our own work:  connecting to our passions, renewing our spirits, and circling for support.”  I couldn’t agree more!

You can find out more about the fabulous Tisha at her beautiful website and Life Renewing blog.

The revamped Wishstudio is now even more juicy and vibrant than ever!  This is an amazing community of creative women, so stop on by.  My June Musepreneur column talks about how to do a mid-year check-in on your Right-Brain Business Plan.  Um, yes, can you believe we’re half-way through 2009?  Make sure you’re on your way to achieving your business goals.

Leave it to the brilliant and beautiful Bevla Reeves of Hair Conspiracy to craft such a cool Right-Brain Business Plan!  Bevla had fun turning her 2009 business goals into a crystal-studded leather cuff.  Every time she wears it she’s remind her of her sparkly seven-point plan to success!  How’s that for a Right-Brain Business Plan that shines!!

In fact the concept of Bevla’s business plan bracelet inspired artist Rena Tucker to sign-up for our Right-Brain Business Plan for Artists teleclass that starts tomorrow.  Here’s what Rena shared with my co-leader Ariane Goodwin after listening to our free call last week:

Unless there is some creativity involved, putting anything down in writing is either too hard or just too darned boring! I wanted to run, shrieking with JOY around my house (but didn’t, in case it got picked up on the call!) when I heard Jennifer talking about the business plan MOBILE and especially the business plan LEATHER BRACELET!!!!! It sparked the EXACT format that I want to do mine in so that it will actually be BE portraiture AND will also allow for constant updating!!!!! WOO-HOO!!!!!!!! How cool is that??? I’m so excited about it, that I want to start IMMEDIATELY (big change from dreading and avoiding!), but I’m going to wait for the kick-off next week and work on my house & studio this week. (I swear, I am DROOLING over my future “Portrait Business Plan / Art on the Wall / Living “Document”!!!!!!) And I am SOOOOOO looking forward to photographing it and sharing it with the group. Oh, yeah, Baby!

Wow, that is so exciting!!  You can read even more of Rena’s insightful a-ha’s on Ariane’s smARTist Career Blog.

I’m looking forward to kicking-off the teleclass tomorrow and supporting creatives in their entreprenerial endeavors.

If you want to join Ariane, me and other amazing artists there are still a few spots left.  Register for our six-week Right-Brain Business Plan for Artists telecourse at http://www.smartistclass.com.  The course starts tomorrow, Wednesday March 18th at 7:00pm ET.

I’m excited to let you know about a free call coming up that’s perfect for artists.  Are you an artist who loves the creative process, but avoids the business side of things?

Then please join me and Ariane Goodwin, founder of the smARTist Telesummit, this coming Wednesday March 11th at 4:00pm PT / 7:00pm ET for a free class, and find out Why Artists Need a Right-Brain Business Plan!

• Learn what 3 things stop artists from creating their own business plan
• Learn how a Right-Brain business plan can make your life easier
• Learn how logic & critical thinking can derail your plan so it never gets off the ground
• Learn how a business plan can help you sell more art

It’s all free, and you can sign up right here.  Look forward to having you on the call!

I simply love the creative spin fundraising and philanthropy consultant Lauren Brownstein of PITCH Consulting took with her Right-Brain Business Plan.

Lauren dished up her 2009 business goals in the form of a mobile made out of paper plates and string.  She collaged sections such as, “What do my clients experience?” and “Who are my business partners?” Then she wrote the details of her plan on the back of her collages, hole punched the plates, tied it all together and hung her masterpiece proudly on display.

With a mobile Right-Brain Business Plan, your goals will soar to new heights!

I’m thrilled to see the unique ways people have created their plans after reading my Right-Brain Business Plan e-book. If you’d like to have your Right-Brain Business Plan and business featured in my newsletter, blog and Facebook fan page please send me a photo with your contact info.

Can you believe it’s already December?!  Time sure flies when you’re having fun with your creative business (and your life!).  It’s been ages since I’ve posted on this blog.  I am working on a strategy for how to best share creative business resources here and through other means in the new year.

One of the things I’m excited about is starting a collaboration to create a telecourse for the Right-Brain Business Plan in the spring.  If you want to be alerted to when this is happening, please sign-up for my Artizen Coaching Newsletter and I’ll announce details there.

With the year coming to a close, it’s a great time to revisit your Right-Brain Business Plan and vision for 2009 and beyond.  I created a whole new plan for next year during the final day of the Art Every Day Month challenge (where the first Right-Brain Business Plan was born in 2007!).  I will be working on fleshing out the details around marketing, new products and services, financial goals, etc. over the next few weeks.  You can see more pictures of my 2009 Right-Brain Business Plan in progress on my Life Unfolds blog.

During this time of economic challenge, positive, creative visions for the future are needed even more so get started on your new Right-Brain Business Plan today.

Hip Tranquil Chick Kimberly Wilson recently interviewed me about the Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book on her podcast.  Find out why we start Right-Brain Business Planning with visioning and get some resources for your creative life.

That’s me and Kimberly in the photo above when she was in San Francisco this July leading her Yoga and Creativity workshop.  Kimberly is ultra inspiring with her amazing fempire of eco-yogo clothes, a yoga studio, her Hip Tranqui Chick book and Get Your Yoga on CD, her foundation and so much more!  I think of her as the Martha Stewart of the yoga world.  Namaste.

Check out my latest Musepreneur column on the wishstudio blogzine. July’s column covers the Right-Brain Business Plan.

On Saturday, I led a Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in San Francisco. During the workshop, I mentioned Daniel Pink’s book A Whole New Mind. Pink asserts that the left-brain analytical skills which made people successful in the past are no longer enough to succeed. In this day and age, we also need to cultivate more right-brain aptitudes - more creativity, more meaning-making and empathy.

The Right-Brain Business Planning approach follows similar thinking. If you start with your vision and values, the details can follow. If you start with the left-brain details that you know you “should have,” you may limit your thinking or, worse yet, you may get analysis paralysis. By taking a more right-brain approach, you free your mind to see creative options, to explore and find patterns and purpose.

What’s great about bringing people together for an afternoon of right-brain business planning, is it helps to get them out of their heads. They connect with other creative entrepreneurs, they find common threads, they support each other. It becomes a more collaborative process even if they’re still making their own individual plans.

If you’re working on your own Right-Brain Business Plan, why not gather a few of your friends and make an afternoon out of it. Your right-brain will thank you!

You’ve read about the Right-Brain Business Plan and now you’re ready to make one of your own!

This product is perfect for you if…

• You’re a creative entrepreneur
• You hate the idea of writing a business plan, but know you need one
• Numbers make your skin crawl

With this colorful, out-of-the-box e-Book, you’ll be guided through the creative process of envisioning your business and crafting your unique and personal business plan. It’s like having your own creative cohort alongside you for inspiration and motivation! Takes you all the way from the vision through the action plan.

Product includes:

• 9-page illustrated, colored and hand-written e-book
• 15-minute guided visualization to get you in touch with the big vision of your business
• a link to a simple, “right-brain” template for getting started on the “left-brain” numbers

Price: $19.95