The Real Life Artist

How to Pursue Your Passion Without Ditching Your Day Job

Lauren Spangler

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Lauren Spangler
14 August 2025

Memory improvement & thinking techniques

Feeling torn between your creative dreams and your steady paycheck? In The Real Life Artist, creativity coach and artist Lauren Spangler shatters the myth that you have to choose one or the other. This transformative guide shows you how to become a creative powerhouse-write the book, paint the collection, record the album-without burning out or going broke. As a writer, painter, musician, and executive strategist, Lauren has walked this path herself. After overcoming seven years of creative burnout as a working mom of two, she's helped countless artists build rich, fulfilling creative lives. Now she's here to help you play big with your creativity...from the trenches of your busy, messy, real life.

By: Lauren Spangler
Imprint: Lauren Spangler
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 222g
ISBN: 9798218768348
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 14 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lauren Spangler is a writer, painter, musician, wife, and mom of two. As a strategist and creativity coach, Lauren has helped over one hundred professionals define, pursue, and reach their goals. She has also led workshops in corporate and university settings around mindset, creativity, and aligned goal setting. No matter the art form, Lauren is passionate about helping people turn their dreams into reality...and find lasting balance and fulfillment along the way. When she's not coaching, playing music, or covered in paint, Lauren is usually brewing a cup of tea or adventuring with her husband and kids, either at the park or the nearest bookstore. Lauren believes in the magic of everyday moments, and she's convinced the best art comes from real people living real lives-like yours.

Reviews for The Real Life Artist: How to Pursue Your Passion Without Ditching Your Day Job

""Whether you've felt creatively stuck, sidelined your passions for other priorities, or simply forgotten why creativity matters, this book gives you permission to return to it... and reminds you why it's worth it."" ""The Real Life Artist illuminated the path between the hazy, romantic concept of living an artistic life and the reality of being a consistent, fulfilled creator."" ""As a self-forgotten creative, this book is the breath of fresh air I didn't know I needed."" ""Words I'd use to describe the book: actionable, clarifying, encouraging, empowering, well organized, gentle kick in the creative butt in the best way possible."" ""A warm blanket that gives you permission to have an artistic, creative, personal meaning in a working day-to-day life."" ""I greatly enjoyed reading The Real Life Artist and think it has a message for those of us whose right and left brains are firing at the same time."" ""This book is a beacon of light... It lays out exactly how to have stability with your creative life."" ""This encouraging book is thoughtful, practical, simple, and straight to the point."" ""Pragmatic meets creative.""