Communication — Blog — Amy J Schultz

Building a lasting legacy

The least important thing on my To Do list.

Art, Business, Communication, Entrepreneurship, StorytellingAmy SchultzJanuary 3, 2018legacy, Profiles of Leadership, Ft. Worth

From Point A to B

Little moments of grandeur build over time. Hear me roar.

Art, Business, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Humor, Start Up, StorytellingAmy SchultzNovember 11, 2017writing, art, risk, Fort Worth Portrait Project, artist, business, start up, communications, career, believe, Seth's Blog, Seth Godin Comments

Dark night of the soul

“Sounds like you’ve just had a Dark Night of the Soul,” she said.
Sounds to me like a Tell Me More moment. So, she did.

Art, Business, Communication, Storytelling, Entrepreneurship, HumorAmy SchultzJune 24, 2017art festival, start up, writing, learn, dark night of the soul, journey, comfort zone, hero, plot, new normal, author, hope

How to (not) create buy-in for your vision

Unlike the “me” in this photo, life has taught me that rallying people to your point of view requires you to remove your own tinted view of the world and take your arrogant elbows off the table (yes, mom).

Communication, Art, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Humor, Business, StorytellingAmy SchultzJune 23, 2017communication, business, start up

Tricks of the trade, rules of the road

In this moment — before the relentless clock of your life resumes — you stand in victory, for no matter what happened along the way, you started and finished this thing. Yes, you did.

Art, Business, Communication, Start Up, Travel, Entrepreneurship, HumorAmy SchultzJune 23, 2017road trip, art festival, Chicago, one of a kind, milestone, juried, build to last, artist, marketing, sell, shop, competition, mentor, reach

Peering into the future by way of the past

What is my vision for the future? I wish someone had asked me this at the beginning of each decade of my life. I’d love to know how 20-year old me would have answered it. And 30- and 40-year old me.
Not to mention when I was ten.

Business, Communication, Education, Leadership, StorytellingAmy SchultzJune 23, 2017vision, future, artist, past, career, possibility, optimism, creative, Fort Worth Portrait Project

Beef jerky and ambiguity

When you do one thing really, really well your entire life
and then you stop doing it, what do you do next?

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Storytelling, Travel, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 23, 2017artist, Florida, retire, Christmas, community, Iowa, beef jerky, meme, possibility, comfort zone, road trip, new normal, future, hope, milestone, journey, learn, optimism, transition, drive, small business, shop, auto, mechanic, ambiguity, plan, idea, time, dream, think

Forward motion

A road trip in faithfully unfaithful Big Bertha reinforced the truism that two people faced with the same problem will, almost without exception, find different ways of solving it.

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Travel, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 22, 2017auto, art festival, artist, van, drive, business, big bertha, small business, company car, Ford, road trip, journey, start up, Texas, problem, problem solving, surprise, wimberley, austin, solution, moral, transmission, mechanic

Where there's smoke

Big Bertha had always produced olfactory bedlam, but one day we smelled something new.
Sniff, sniff. Something’s burning.

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Start Up, Storytelling, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 22, 2017artist, auto, art festival, business, big bertha, problem solving, company car, dream, drive, road trip, Ford, door, window, Texas, journey, mechanic, van, problem, start up, surprise, fire, smoke, Siri, You Tube, moral, humor

The greatest show on four wheels

Each art festival I've participated in shares an uncanny resemblance to a circus coming to town. Ringmaster, tents, (artistic) wonders to behold, the audience ... and lest we forget, the clown car.

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Start Up, Storytelling, Travel, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 22, 2017auto, artist, art festival, big bertha, career, company car, Ford, humor, journey, van, road trip, start up, drive, circus, Robert Frost, experience, smoke, forward motion, credit, beef jerky, ambiguity, Ft. Worth, Houston, Corpus Christi, El Paso, big top, ringmaster, show must go on, tent, juried

In opposition to the mic drop

If our leaders can’t converse about bigotry, the economy, the environment, healthcare, terrorism and education, then we have to show them how. Because stop, drop and walk away isn’t an option.

Out of character

If you ever decide to do something that’s “out of character” for you, think about your soft opening.
In other words, how will you launch before you launch?

Art, Business, Communication, Humor, Start Up, Storytelling, Travel, EntrepreneurshipAmy SchultzJune 22, 2017St. Louis, Missouri, big bertha, van, road trip, business, small business, start up, photography, art, art festival, artist, Queeny Park, SLCC, friend, Texas, soft opening, out of character, dream, experience, Ford, humor, journey, learn, plan, booth

And there we were...

It was as though we traveled those 1300 miles riding inside a giant Easy Bake Oven. On the outside it looks harmless enough, but on the inside, that 60-watt bulb can maliciously bake a cake.