Melissa Dinwiddie, Multi-Passionate Creative Artrepreneur

I am an artist.

I am a jazz singer.

I am a writer.

I am a teacher.

I am a Renaissance Woman.

I am a Multi-Passionate Creative Artrepreneur!

I’ve always had a zillion passions, and for years I split my various identities across multiple ventures and websites. After all, the world seems to want to pigeon-hole us, and the business gurus all tell you to niche yourself, right?

The problem is, for some of us this just doesn’t work.

For me it led to a sense of disconnectedness and discombobulation, and was just plain exhausting. Where to focus my energies? I felt like I was always giving some part of me short shrift, and the jewel of my true being never got to really shine.

Plus introducing myself at parties was a bit of a nightmare.

Thankfully, I figured out a solution. It took awhile, but I finally came to the realization that not only could I bring all of my facets together, but if I did it would create a more brilliantly glittering whole, and probably propel me forward.

Hence this website, the central hub and online setting for my many-faceted self and offerings.

And the title? I thank Marie Forleo for the “Multi-Passionate” part. “Creative” is self-explanatory. Although I spent much of my life trying to fit myself into a different-shaped hole, I’m a Creative through and through. And “Artrepreneur,” because although of course I’m a business person, my business is less about the business of business, and more about art and creativity in its various forms. Where an entrepreneur may be interested in business for its own sake, my interests lie in making my creativity itself a sustainable business.

Hence Multi-Passionate Creative Artrepreneur.

Or Artrepreneur for short, if you like. It is a bit of a mouthful…

And no, it doesn’t make introducing myself at parties any less complicated, but at least I have a single title to start the conversation from!

To discover more about who I am, what I have to share, take a peek around. To read more about this site, and my story, click here.