The Thriving Christian Artist

If you're like basically everybody in the world today, you spend a good deal of each day interacting with people through social media.  And if you're an artist trying to build a brand and a business, you are surely putting a huge portion of your time and energy towards building up your social media presence.   So if all that work and all those connections just got snatched away from you in an instant by criminal scammers, that would be pretty devastating, right?   Well, that's just what happened to Pat Butynski and her 76,000 subscribers on Instagram.  Pat is a mentor, teacher, and mother to creatives all over the world.  She's a long-time friend of the Thriving Christian Artist podcast and was featured way back in episode 22, telling her incredible story, including how she built her Instagram following and how it was a boon for her art business. And now we are super privileged to have her on again, this time telling a story that's much more of a cautionary tale.  You're going to