Every creative person knows the fear of putting their work out into the world fear of judgment, rejection, or not being “good enough.” Confidence for Creatives is your guide to overcoming those doubts and embracing the courage to share your art, ideas, and projects with authenticity.
Charles C. Johnson offers practical advice and inspiring insights for artists, writers, designers, musicians, and anyone pursuing creative work. You’ll learn how to silence your inner critic, navigate feedback with resilience, and build the confidence to present your work boldly.
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to take your creative career to the next level, Confidence for Creatives will help you stop hiding, start sharing, and unlock new opportunities by showing the world what you can do.
Charles C. Johnson is an independent investigative journalist, author, and new media entrepreneur. He is founder of Gotnews.com, a website dedicated to independent research and news.
He is the author of Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President (Encounter Books) and The Truth About the IRS Scandals (Encounter Books).
He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Criterion, The American Spectator, The Claremont Review of Books, City Journal, Reason.com, National Review Online, Tablet Magazine, The Weekly Standard, Powerline, and The New York Sun.
His work has been featured on Real Clear Politics, the Drudge Report, Hotair.com, The Blaze, Breitbart.com, Rush Limbaugh's show, and The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web. He has been on Fox News with Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, and Lou Dobbs and numerous radio programs, including Rush Limbaugh, Larry Elder, John Batchelor, Rusty Humphries, Dennis Prager, Larry Elder, Mark Levin, and Larry Kudlow.
To date, he is the only person to have won both the Robert F. Bartley Fellowship and the Eric Breindel Collegiate Journalism Award, which came with a $10,000 prize and an internship at The Wall Street Journal after he exposed a pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas professor at his alma mater. He has also won the Robert F. Novak Special Alumni Fellowship from the Phillips Foundation and the Publius Fellowship at the Claremont Institute.
Charles has worked for Alan M. Dershowitz at Harvard Law School, Seth Lipsky at The New York Sun, Carl Schramm at the Kauffman Foundation, and Charles Kesler at The Claremont Review of Books.
Fluent in French and proficient in Spanish, Charles lives in California with his wife.