E165:   On this episode we speak with musician, entrepreneur, and inventor Andrew Oliver. We speak through balancing your passions and distributing your creative / marketing with all your worlds. Leaving school early and going for it and what pursuing a healthy financial life in the creative arts looks like. Today’s episode is great for any creative looking to make a living doing things they love, start up life, and inventing new things.   Let us know what you think @davewakeup on social or wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com.     In This Episode We Cover   Leaving college early Going into gigging full time with your original music Developing your first physical product Itching your own scratch Pillars of your business / content Distributing all your creative Working with what you have Working with others that can do things you can’t Getting back that child like wonder and exploration Approaching finance sustainability as a creative starting out Piecing together your income and diversifying risk on the streams   Quote’s   “When I’m most rigid and most busy I’m the least creative. When I’m on vacation I always write new songs. My mind get’s in that creative zone where it wants to stimulate itself.” - Andrew Oliver   “Working with what you have and not being afraid to work with what you have is the first step.” - Andrew Oliver   “That lack of things they have to create with pushes them way outside the box to form the disruption.” - Host Dave Swillum     Andrew’s Links   IG @flippinoliver   Andrew’s First Physical Product https://www.getdummiez.com/   Andrew’s Custom In Ear’s https://www.wavscustom.com/?fbclid=IwAR1C62P2LPhKFdJQa7Vm0I3DdIEw2-XQnx4irkspkMD-ZJ1bOoS2yRDyEi0   Andrew’s Music https://www.brotheroliver.com/home   Andrew’s Media / Record Label https://www.facebook.com/forthrightrecords     Waking Up From Work Podcast Links   IG / Tik Tok / Clubhouse / Twitter / HiHo Follow & DM Me! @davewakeup   Merch To Support Us! https://wakeup.itemorder.com/sale?fbclid=IwAR30nyVXdpFaax0mN0CRcC_mVjNzafbMo0spds82eoG-GMo01HG6Uq0dvzw   Patreon (If you want to support the show check out our sweet offers for you) https://www.patreon.com/wakingupfromwork   Facebook Community to connect to creatives https://www.facebook.com/groups/wakingupfromwork/about/   Email wakeupfromworkpodcast@gmail.com   Youtube Channel & Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJeddF25VuWn8Eg3Fhy13fQ?view_as=subscriber   For audio advice and more in depth music content from Dave www.crawlspaceaudio.com   Dave’s Indie Band Broadwing https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/broadwing/tennessee