In today’s episode, Derrick Kinney interviews artist Kent Youngstrom as he discuses why he’s been known to hang 100s of pieces of art in cities across the nation, free for the taking to those who are fortunate enough to find them. Ken shares why being everything to everyone leads to failure, how you can profit from the power of surprise and never have to say “I should have.”
What you will learn:
- Why deciding who you are grows confidence and purpose
- How routine helps you focus
- Recognize how to date who you can date
- Being in the middle means there’s always something bigger
- Why you should go paint the rock
- Giving back and giving forward
Quotes:
- “Honestly, from the time I started to call myself an artist, things started to pick up with my business and just how I was doing in general.” – Kent Youngstrom
- “I try to be artistic, or I try to be surprising in everything I do. And, to be honest, sometimes it can get a little exhausting, but it’s really how I’ve sort of built what I do.” – Kent Youngstrom
- “The better I feel in shape or about that part of my routine or what I’m doing, the freer my mind is for other things.” – Kent Youngstrom
- “The more I put myself and what I liked and put my energy and really kind of scarily jumped into like, ‘this is who I am,’ and this is what I want to say- although that’s the scary route, the better I did.” – Kent Youngstrom
- “Date who you can date.” – Kent Youngstrom
- “But eventually, by presenting a quality product in a repeatable way, eventually that door does get opened.” – Derrick Kinney
- “So I have accepted that I will always be in the middle. And, I’ll be honest with you, that’s exciting to me because that means there’s always something bigger.” – Kent Youngstrom
- “If we all give what we can give, think of all that is going to come back to us!” – Kent Youngstrom
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