We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Conner Christensen. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Conner below.

Conner, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

One day at a time, one failure at a time.
Of course there’s thousands of hours of learning and smoothing out the work you want to showcase.

Being a creative in a tough spot sometimes feels like you’ve got one foot in the door and the other out.
Everytime I feel like this, I go lock all the doors and get back to my roots. I either define, redefine, or remind myself of my WHY. It’s easier for me to navigate if the WHY is clear to me, the HOW is much easier to execute.

I think one of the hardest and most important things to learn is patience.
Trusting the process involves a lot of patience.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is Conner Christensen, I’m a musician and creative studio owner based in Salt Lake City Utah. I say creative studio because the services we offer extend far beyond just recording music.
If it’s media related, we do it or we know someone who does.
My goal is to help bring creative visions to life. There’s nothing quite like feeling the spark of creativity, then 8 hours fly by like minutes.

I got into music pretty heavily as a young teenager. We all look for a sense of purpose in our lives and making a bunch of noise feels and felt like mine.
I was a band geek in school, so now I’m just a geek in a studio.

Is there something you think non-creatives will struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can provide some insight – you never know who might benefit from the enlightenment.

A think a common misunderstanding is that creativity is skill based.
Beautiful paintings and beautiful music have many core craft fundamentals implemented.
But all of my favorite paintings, all of my favorite songs, ill call them ugly for the sake of this article.

Comparison is the thief of joy.
comparing the orchestral trap beat I made to Beethoven seems kind of silly.

But creating something that sounds beautiful to me feels like enough of a reason to keep making ugly paintings.

I love my craft and try to learn everything I can about it. Behind the drums, behind the recording desk, etc.

Can you talk to us about how you funded your business?

I picked this question not because I have any advice about funding, but actually the opposite.

My advice is, start small.

I didn’t wake up and buy all the things I need to create, or to professionally create with others. It’s all time accumulation and compound time interest ontop of that.
Find the necessary things to get started and take care of the rest as you go.
You’ll make the upgrades that work best for you, or you’ll have regrets and go back to the drawing board.

Some of my FAVORITE artists, creators, and individuals are so guerilla in their approach, and ive watched friends and peers rise to success not because they got funding, but they created, and improved, and created, and improved.

Rather than thinking of the drawing board as the place to start over (back to the drawing board) it’s really the place where you start at all.

Don’t let funding keep you away from the place where you start.

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