Tad Carpenter on Creating Time to Create Your Own Big Breaks

<h3>Creating Time to Create</h3><p>--- </p><p><strong>To view the full episode show notes, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.perspective-collective.com/side-hustlers-perspective/240">https://www.perspective-collective.com/side-hustlers-perspective/240</a></p><p>---  </p><p>If your creative work isn’t fun, it just becomes another mundane, soul-sucking day job.</p><p>There’s gotta be a source of enthusiasm, energy, and borderline obsession for your craft to build a creative career around doing what you love long-term.</p><p>Today’s guest is a great example of how curiosity, experimentation, and play are compounding catalysts for big opportunities.</p><p>Tad Carpenter co-runs Carpenter Collective—a powerhouse design and branding studio—with his wickedly talented wife, Jessica.</p><p>They slay brand strategy, identities, illustrations, etc. for behemoths like MTV, Ray-Ban, Target, Macy’s, and more.</p><p>Tad’s also illustrated a gaggle of children’s books that have become staple reading material for my kiddos each night.</p><p>Not only do we nerd out over the power of personal projects, like his latest Sunday Suns book release... (Listen to the outro as I’m giving away 2 copies of his book!)</p><p><strong>But we also talk shop on:</strong></p><ul><li>The importance of play and creating for yourself.</li><li>Leveraging your day job and learning your industry.</li><li>Diversifying your creative outlets and skillsets.</li><li>The power of planting seeds with your work and relationships.</li><li>Non-gross cold outreach, constraints, parenting, and more.</li></ul><p><i>The Goal: To convince you to carve out time to create for yourself—you never know what big breaks it could lead to.</i></p><p>---</p><p><strong>RESOURCES & REFERENCES</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://carpentercollective.com/item/sunday-suns-book/" target="_blank">Tad’s Book: Sunday Suns</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/carpentercollective/" target="_blank">Carpenter Collective</a></li><li><a href="http://sidehustlefreedomtoolkit.c