Creative Success = Financial Balance with Flexible Budget Plans As a creative individual, dealing with irregular income can be daunting. In this episode of From "Creative Passion To Profit", titled "How Creatives Can Budget for Regular Income," I, Mahmood, tackle one of the biggest challenges faced by those in the arts and creative world—budgeting. Have you ever felt the high of being fully booked and having commissions flying off the shelves, only to be met with silence and income droughts the following month? You're not alone. But here's the good news: with a little planning, you can smooth out those financial ups and downs. In this episode, I'll share three simple steps to help you build a budgeting system that fits your lifestyle and supports your creative ambitions. You'll learn how to determine your essential baseline expenses, create a financial buffer for quiet months, and implement a flexible yet simple budgeting method that allows you to thrive creatively and financially. You'll also have some homework tasks... Timestamped Summary: [00:00:00] Introduction to challenges of budgeting with erratic income. [00:00:58] Step 1: Determine your baseline expenses. [00:02:12] Step 2: Build a financial buffer for quieter months. [00:03:46] Step 3: Apply a simple, discipline-based budget system. [00:04:58] Homework: Calculate baseline expenses and track income. Mentioned in this episode: Training Training Training Find out more about Budgetwhizz Find out more about Budgetwhizz Budgetwhizz…
We're feeling okay about the pitching, okay about the hitting, and okay with just about everything except the total inability for this team to sweep a series. Just go on a run, dammit! How hard can it be? (very hard)
Incredible: The 2023 season has 170 games in it! It's just still going! Changing nothing has changed nothing! Can the Jays find a way to turn it around in the next .... 155 games?
Surprise! One extra episode is on the way for you. Dan Vogelbach grabbed an Opening Day 40 man slot at the expense of Yosver Zulueta (who we all learned about for no reason!), so I brought in the notorious Spencer to break down an admittedly fairly basic caricature of a Type Of Guy that has always existed in baseball. The Big Sluggin DH. If you're wondering where the Brian Serven episode is: He's a 3rd catcher. They rebuilt his swing a little bit? If he's decent I'll record one next week, ok?…
Bo Bichette has continued to get better over his tenure as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, adding more and more to his strengths while putting in the work to minimize his weaknesses. MLB dot com's Keegan Matheson joins the final episode of 40 in 30 to talk about the face of the Jays franchise.
After two stellar seasons as the ace of the Blue Jays staff, Kevin Gausman is primed to continue to rise to the level of the game's elite pitchers. Old Reliable Andrew Stoeten stops by to look deeper at the best pitcher in the Jays rotation, and potentially one of the best in franchise history.
We're finally made it out of the wilderness everyone, spring training is over and we've got a season preview on the way. Check out a full episode full of best and worst feelings around individual players, the machinations of the bottom of the roster, and some bold predictions for the season overall.
We've got an extra couple guest episodes around so why not share them! In honour of Jose Berrios being named Opening Day starter The much maligned WhyJays / Mr. Baby / aka White Silk joins the show to take a closer look at La Makina, a model of pitching consistency that had an odd hiccup in 2022 but managed to bounce back to his old self with a stellar 2023. And Yusei Kikuchi pulled his Blue Jays career out of the gutter with an incredible bounce-back 2023 campaign that saw him post career bests in every worthwhile category. Chris Boulding jumps onto the show to analyze the changes that helped Kikuchi climb back out of the bullpen and into the waiting arms of the Blue Jays faithful.…
Anyone who remembers where they were when George Springer joined the Toronto Blue Jays also probably remembers that is was our friend BK live from the barber's chair as the one to break the news. Coming off a slightly disappointing season for Springer, BK takes up the mantle as a Springer Guy to look into the numbers and discover if there is any data lurking that we can pin our hopes to in search of a bounce back in 2024. Find all the profiles at patreon.com/lessthanjays Follow bk at twitter.com/_bkuh_ Follow Zubes at twitter.com/thezubes…
Alejandro Kirk experienced how quick a narrative can change in 2023, where a previous season's favourite ball of barrels and joy was replaced with a lack of power and some serious trouble adding value on the basepaths. A bat first prospect, he has developed into an excellent defensive catcher, but is the fall off in 2023 too much to bear or is there a sign of life that 2024 can get him back to the line drive producing piece of the puzzle he once was. The infamous GROF, Drew Fairservice joins the show to examine his own accounts of Kirk's progress and maps an outlook for an uncertain future.…
I love Chris Bassitt. This is a guy who represents what pitching is really all about to me. Endless tinkering, a curious mind, big-picture thinking, it's all part of the joy that comes with watching and analyzing Chris Bassitt. Fellow curious mind Jonah Birenbaum joins the show to talk about the Hound on the Mound.…
Here's the thing: Daulton Varsho doesn't have to be that good to be really good. If you're in the mood to get talked into a rejuvenation year for Daulton Varsho in 2024, this is a good podcast to listen to. Chris Black (@DownToBlack) joins the show to look at what happened to cause so much trouble in 2023 and where a small improvement can go a long way to make 2024 the beginning of a great relationship between Toronto and Varsho.…
Finally, a new player! Well, an old player, actually. But a new Blue Jay! Justin Turner brings some veteran grit and Done It All savvy to a Jays lineup that seeks to replace the Adult In The Room vacated by Brandon Belt. Does he have another good year left in his bat, and are there things beyond quantifiable stats that can help this 2024 team win it all? Rob Wong stops by to break it all down…
We know him, we love him, we want to see more of him. Danny Jansen has been around the Blue Jays longer than Mark Shapiro. What could happen if he played a full season's worth of games? And what unmeasurables does he fill our hearts with? Scott Belford of the Walkoff Pod joins to get sentimental about the Jays de facto captain, and wonder what has to happen for an extension to get signed.…
It's not all 45 FV when it comes to Toronto Blue Jays prospects. Orelvis Martinez is the closest thing the team has to a potential breakout bat in the minor leagues, a power swinger that has crushed the ball at every level and has shown recently that he is capable of making adjustments at every level to become better and better as he matures as a hitter. Josh Goldberg of theScore joins the show to break down the future and the present for Martinez, with some speculation if he'll be a contributor to the 2024 team or not before long. Hear the profiles for all 40 players at patreon.com/lessthanjays Follow Josh at twitter.com/jgoldberg12 Follow Zubes at twitter.com/thezubes…
Davis Schneider exploded into the hearts and minds of Blue Jays fans in 2023 with an all-time great start to his career and some season-saving heroics when a desperate team needed them most. Unfortunately his season concluded with an equally ice-cold stretch, so how do we determine where the real Davis Schneider expectations should lie? Johnny Giunta of Gate 14 stops by to examine the highs and lows of Schneider's 2023 and project what might become for a possible every day player on the 2024 Jays roster. Hear the profiles for all 40 players at patreon.com/lessthanjays Follow Johnny at twitter.com/johnnygiunta_ & twitter.com/Gate14Pod Follow Zubes at twitter.com/thezubes…
The Blue Jays liked Yariel Rodriguez enough to give him a five-year contract this offseason, but few players on the roster have as many questions that can be asked about their role and reasonable expectation. What do the Jays see that results in them signing a deal with a player that skipped all of a prime year in 2023 to bet on themselves, and is somewhere in between questionable starter numbers and lights-out bullpen work? For the answers we turn to the best in the business, Blake Murphy from Sportsnet Radio the Fan 590. Hear the profiles for all 40 players at https://patreon.com/lessthanjays Follow Blake at twitter.com/blakemurphyodc Follow Zubes at twitter.com/thezubes…
We're passing the time between now and Opening Day with some player profiles of the Blue Jays 40-man roster! Joining Zubes to talk about left handed starter Adam Macko is certified Ball Knower Avery Chenier of Gate 14. For more 40 in 30 profiles and extra long regular episodes of Less Than Jays you can find them on the Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/lessthanjays…
We gotta get this out quick because there's rumours the Jays are finalists for Shohei Ohtani?????????? WHAT IF WE GET SHOHEI OHTANI??? (what if we don't lol)
Paul DeJong and Jordan Hicks are your 2023 Blue Jays Trade Deadline acquisitions. It's definitely an improvement, but is it enough to satiate our ravenous need for The Perfect Roster? As long as Bo is healthy. And he is, right? Right?
مرحبًا بك في مشغل أف ام!
يقوم برنامج مشغل أف أم بمسح الويب للحصول على بودكاست عالية الجودة لتستمتع بها الآن. إنه أفضل تطبيق بودكاست ويعمل على أجهزة اندرويد والأيفون والويب. قم بالتسجيل لمزامنة الاشتراكات عبر الأجهزة.