Website Headline Karma for Creatives

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Personal administrative and financial support for artists, writers, musicians, and performers.

Make friends with the Future, while living Now.

Your debt is climbing. You swear you’ve paid thousands on that credit card balance, but somehow the balance goes up instead of down. Your finances are careening. You cover your eyes and look the other way... Thinking of money makes you sick and fills you with dread. You want a creative career that aligns with your life holistically, but everyone around you says: give up, get a real job. The future? Hypothetical. You need to survive now. But the years are flying by…

Here are some questions to ask yourself. 
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When did money become your enemy instead of ally? Money, which is a representation of energy? When did you become disconnected from the surrounding flow?
Maybe it’s time for a new central image. One that’s holistic and connected. 

Financial wellbeing

comes from navigating our surrounding economic ecosystem with intention: a living web where energy and resources circulate and are exchanged. In nature, nothing thrives alone. Navigating intentionally means creating maps while remaining flexible, reading patterns, staying attuned, moving where momentum exists, and adjusting course where needed though an interconnected world.

My name is Dawn. I worked as a CPA for the first decade of my career. I spent the next decade as a creative writer volunteering for grassroots creative organizations. This, combined with my contemplative explorations and search to discover a meaningful relationship with money, has given me a rare combination of financial technical knowledge and pragmatic creative-life experience. I know what it’s like. These experiences make me uniquely positioned to help creatives navigate the edge.

My approach to financial wellbeing is holistic. This includes the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and practical sides of money. Let’s create a harmonious relationship with money together, aligning financial and creative/wellbeing goals to make money an ally in the pursuit of your explorations.

Dawn Bratton, founder of Karma Financial Counseling for creatives and alternative wellbeing practitioners, at Yosemite Falls

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Looking for creative admin support? From submissions management and website updates to rights organization or setting up a nonprofit or business, I can help writers, artists, and performers navigate the business side of creativity so you can focus on the work that matters. Get in touch.

What Karma Offers

Financial and administrative support specifically tailored to the needs of creative artists and wellbeing practitioners. This includes the emotional, psychological, spiritual, and practical sides of creating personal financial systems.

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Karma’s Pricing

Packaged discounts and a sliding-scale allows Karma to work with people at every income level. There are no minimum income level requirements. This is a judgment-free space.

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How Karma Delivers

As needed basis or by a series of 1:1 sessions delivered either weekly, biweekly, or on a monthly basis.

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I Hold Space For:

  • Creating a financially sustainable creative life

  • Integrating finances into a holistic framework

  • Aligning financial goals with career goals and personal values

  • Cultivating a positive relationship with money

  • Changing behavioral patterns surrounding money and financial avoidance

  • Tracking income and expenses

  • Tracking and reducing debt

  • Avoiding credit card interest and reducing interest paid on debt

  • Setting up automatic savings practices

  • Opening investment and retirement accounts

  • Creating systems for reporting self-employment income

  • Creating legal business entities

  • Setting up charitable giving practices (money karma!)

  • Taking advantage of state services for low-income individuals

  • Establishing a foundation of financial literacy

Is Karma right for me?

If you feel aligned, Karma is right for you. All are welcome. Reach out for a complimentary discovery session to find out more.

So you can make friends with the Future, while living Now.

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