Podcast 070 | Living Abundantly Creative with a Diversified Business with Jana Roach 3:52 “The walls are 21 inches of bricks. So it's a very sturdy, old, amazing building. And when we walked into it to rent it, there was pigeon poop everywhere. And the tar that they used to use for the inside, they had hay and tar mixed together all on the walls. S…

Podcast 069 | The Kitchen Table Creative Club with Jennifer Rizzo 3:31 “I thought, well, a newsletter is a low-risk way for me to get ideas out there to share with people. And every newsletter is chocked full of information that normally focuses on one subject.” 5:31 “I think there are two really big things people really struggle with when they sta…

Podcast 068 | Eat. Pie. Love. with Tara Royer Steele 1:27 “God used pie in our life, and we knew nothing about pie. And through all of that, I have a pie shop and we have a bakery, which is our commissary kitchen. But it really has evolved into events and gatherings and retreats and feeding His people.” 7:39 “So “the gathering” is really (at the Pi…

Podcast 067 | The Best is Yet To Come with Jan McCarthy 16:13 “So whatever it is, start a book club, start a dinner club...You'll find your community. Start an art club. Start talking to people about things that you like and finding out where those people are hanging out.” 19:49 “When my daughter, was 14 or 15, I let her move to California from Bou…

Podcast 066| Selling Art at Round Top with Mary Gregory 7:22 “We built wooden walls and painted them white. That made all the difference. It just looked more like a gallery situation and cleaner and nicer. And it makes painting the picture so much easier, too.” 11:21 “It takes a lot out of you. So, the main thing for me is just to try to keep my mi…

Podcast 065| Overcome What Overwhelms You with Trina McNeilly 7:28 “Because what we're seeing on our screens every day is mostly the highs and curated things. And I get it. We don't want to just put all of the heart out there, but then—even unintentionally—your brain kind of gets programmed, “this is how it should be every day.”” 12:46 “But it took…

Podcast 064| Rembrandt is in the Wind with Russ Ramsey 2:38 “I think that for a lot of people, there's this kind of barrier to entry when it comes to engaging with art. This feeling that you need to somehow be an art historian or you need to understand complexities about art in order to just not be an imposter standing in front of a painting.” 4:30…

Podcast 063| Artpreneur with Miriam Schulman 1:54 “It's like the same things, so you can never hear this often enough. I think the biggest thing I hear is the belief that cheaper is easier to sell.” 4:59 “So when I started writing this book in 2020, it felt like a very similar time to when I decided that I was not going to go back to corporate righ…

Podcast 062 | Higher Pursuits with Sarah Martin 2:58 “I am going to focus on what I know to do best that I've been doing for the last many months in order to survive, which is seeking after that, which is higher, seeking after what I call higher pursuits.” 6:33 “It's as simple as everyday revival is, hey, I just really screwed up with my 14-year-ol…

Podcast 061 | Q+A with Stephanie Lee and Jeanne Oliver 4:32 “A lot of that has come with the experience of realizing that sometimes the way you know how something works is just like diving into it and then experiencing how it works.” 9:40 “You're not just an artist. You're ministering to women's hearts and their creativity. So, these questions that…

Podcast 060 | Not Letting Fear + Perfectionism Guide Your Life with Christa Forrest 6:20 “So I left, and I went to take an art class, and that was it. I took an art class, and it was like I hadn't been eating or drinking for the past how many years it was, and it was like, you're starving, and you got that first bite of food. And that's how I felt.…

Podcast 059 | The God Artist with Roma Waterman 6:47 “I know there's going to be times where we're going to have to fight for what God's called us to. But I actually look back and I'm thankful for those seasons because they do truly refine you. They truly make you go, what is it that God really wants? What is the bullseye? Not just, yeah, I'm good …

Podcast 058 | True Hospitality with Daune Pitman 9:05 “We really believe that time at the table is a sacred place. And when we spend time, it's just a natural place to connect; around the table, looking in people's eyes, sharing stories, laughing, talking, crying, just doing life together.” 12:26 “It is so simple gathering at the table, but it make…

Podcast 057 | There is Life and Hope in a Meal with Danielle Kartes Hello! I am Danielle Kartes. Welcome to Rustic Joyful Food! Whether it’s through our books, television appearances, magazines spreads, or speaking engagements, we are on a mission to inspire people to love their lives and make delicious food. Great food isn’t great simply because i…

Podcast 056 | The Beauty Chasers with Timothy Willard “Our country is kind of falling under this enchantment of sameness and not uniqueness.” 30:12 “People are thirsty for people and contact.” 34:50 "Before the Enlightenment period, you would ask an artist what their aim of their art was they would say beauty, but today they say transgression or se…

Podcast 055 | Ignite the World Around You with Jessi Green “If you can actually have a relationship with God and really know the creator of the universe, and if the things we talk about in church are actually real, what else am I giving my attention to? This is obviously the most important pursuit of my entire existence.” 7:21 “It’s the experience …

Podcast 054 | The Lies of Perfectionism with Sandi Hester “I see that it (perfectionism) is a joy stealer, it’s an energy stealer, it steals the ability to think of others first or even at all, and because of that part of the self-focus, it isolates.” 6:05 “The bad speaks so much louder than the good. And when perfectionism and self-worship are pre…

Episode Notes Podcast 053 | Awake Awake with Sheila Atchley “One of the saddest things to be is unaware.” 10:13 “You have a spirit of authority. Go love it. Find it and love it.” 16:07 “Your middle is as ordained a season as your beginning and as your end.” 16:18 “Your most valuable perspective in the middle is that of loving what is yours, and I w…

Podcast 052 | Loss and Grief with Lorraine Bell “The journey of faith is messy.” 19:11 “Don’t put off anything, do it.” 41:08 “Take that pass, you’ve earned it, you have a right to it, and say no to the things that you are not capable of.” 43:05 “There’s no formula, there’s no fixing it, you just have to walk with it and feel it and experience it.”…

Podcast 051 | Art with Adele Sypesteyn “All of this that I’ve learned and taught myself is going to go away unless I share it.” 22:26 “What you are is beautiful, just be what you are.” 25:09 “Just be more of who you are.” 26:06 “Everything has been done before but nobody can do it like you can.” 26:39 “I think artists are such a special group of pe…

Episode Notes Podcast 050 | A Celiac in Italy with Catalin Varela “I’ve always seen the world as being the best classroom." 4:54 “I made this promise to myself that I was going to wholeheartedly go after everything that lights me up regardless of how difficult or how risky it might be because I got so face to face with the fragility of life at such…

Podcast 049 | Home Love and Nesting Fitzpatrick “I think the best thing we can do for our homes is have our homes reflect really who we are, how we like to live, and that it represents the people that live there.” 1:47 “I feel like it just showed me from a young age to think outside the box, to have spaces with character and life in them, to have a…

Podcast 048 | Keeping a Light with Deanne Fitzpatrick “I do feel that we all have to keep a light for ourselves and that we have to keep a light for others.” 3:33 “Well to me it goes back to one of my key things, “How do I want my life to look and feel?” 4:45 “Do our actions line up with what we say we want?” 6:18 “I think you really have to ask yo…

Podcast 047 | Authenticity with Deanne Fitzpatrick “You can only sustain being you.” 2:31 “It’s not what you got, it’s how you keep it.” 6:32 “Who are we that we can walk out consistently and sustain it?… If there’s parts of ourselves that aren’t true, we’ll never make it.” 17:57 “We make art to understand ourselves.” 20:23 “When we bring people to…

Podcast 046 | Seasons with Deanne Fitzpatrick “I think you do go into seasons where there’s an ebb and flow, and I think there are times that we can think if we’re not doing that one thing that used to be so abundant, “Are we still creative?” I think it’s then saying, “How can I be creative now in a different way?” 2:40 “There’s definitely seasons …

Podcast 045 | Beauty Chasers with Deanne Fitzpatrick “I just want to breathe beauty. I feel like if we’re not intentional about needing that, it’s really easy to get distracted and not see what we have.” 5:45 “I think that’s what we do once we define ourselves as artists, what we do is we refine.” 9:23 “Are we distracted or are we seeing?” 11:36 “O…

Podcast 044 |Midlife and Creativity with Deanne Fitzpatrick “Have your heart right where you’re at, have your eyes on what’s in front of you, because even though it doesn’t feel like it right now, it’s going to go away. It’s going to go away and there’s going to be a lot of time to do a lot of those things and you’re never going to regret being pre…

Podcast 043 | Don't Compare Your Seasons with Danielle Donaldson “I was looking at your season which was different than my season.” 5:03 “The art will always be there, your kids won’t. Enjoy that time.” 5:42 “I really discovered that my passion and my purpose were two different things.” 6:02 “There are things you know in your head that you don’t be…

Podcast 042| Motherhood and Creativity with Miriam Schulman “It took me a while to realize, “No, I can make a living from my art, and this is what I should be doing.’” 5:48 “It’s priority management and blocking your time into an ideal schedule.” 7:52 “I think you had a head start probably because you had already been honoring that creativity.” 10:…

Podcast 041| Pricing Your Work with Matt Tommey “What you would buy it for has nothing to do with what the market price of your art is” 2:48 “I just found that artists really were trying to do pricing in a bubble as opposed to thinking about the whole macro things in regards to pricing, not only your expense every month, but also other things like …

Podcast 040 | Mastermind Groups with Renee Mueller 3:25 “Like many creatives, I was searching for something else to fill that void that dance had left for me, and I read The Artists Way…I started out learning as much as I can.” 4:22 “Because I had such a long career as a dance teacher, it seemed like a natural progression for me to start teaching a…

Podcast 039 | Goodbye Instagram and Facebook with Kelly Rae Roberts 2:32 “I think of my art as sort of a marriage between my social work life and my creative life…” 3:25 “Over time, especially as my business was growing, even with employees and help I just found that my brain and my psychic space was always filled with go go go go go…” 4:44 “What I…

Podcast 038 | Leading your Team with Kristina Pfeil 2:54 “My goal is to help the clients I work with so that their people-practices are engaging and not distracting. I don’t want them to distract them from their core business.” 3:38 “That’s really where I have passion; to help those that don’t know they need the help, or don’t have the skillset or …

Podcast 037 | Beholding and Becoming with Ruth Chou Simons 1:49 “When I was a child, I was a perfectionist. I would say now I am a recovering perfectionist. I think I was such a perfectionist that I never thought I could be an artist.” 2:06 “I enjoyed being creative, but that creativity was always bumping against a feeling of ‘I’m never good enough…

Podcast 036 | Created to Thrive with Matt Tommey 1:56 “When I first started making baskets, it was really to me never about making baskets, it was always about the connection of being in the woods, going hiking, and making something that other people thought was beautiful.” 2:41 “I began to see early on in my work the whole recycled part or the red…

Podcast 035 | The Creative Doer with Anna Lovind 2:23 “Somewhere during that fairly short career, I began to realize that the creative process of bringing a book from idea to completion, that process is actually pretty much the same regardless of what it is that you want to bring from idea to completion…” 4:18 “There was something about this work, …

Podcast 034 | Strengths Finder with Nathifa Sligh 1:18 “I use Strengths every single day…” 3:37 “When I learned my bottom strengths, that’s when I was like, Oh my goodness this is insane, like a moment of exhaling, because I understood why I was the way I was…” 4:59 “Strengths Finder is a tool to discover talent…” 9:19 “For me, I struggled over the…

Podcast 033 | Stepping Away with Melody Ross 1:37 “I think we think we know what we are going to do with the rest of our lives, and I’m to the point where I say ‘who knows?’ But here’s what I’m going to do in the next little while.” 2:55 “For people who are highly creative, I don’t know that people know how many ideas you have everyday. I never wor…

Podcast 032 | A House God is Building with Meshali Mitchell 1:52 “I’m a photographer, storyteller, and now, somehow, a home renovator.” 3:08 “I never set out to be a professional photographer, that’s something the Lord just sort of dropped in my lap…” 4:21 “I began to see possibilities, and see things differently, and I thought maybe there is a fut…

Podcast 031 | A Colorful Life with Sabrina Ward Harrison 1:24 “I teach creative liberation through writing and color exploration…” 6:29 “Growing up, I always wanted to look different than I looked, I didn’t like my freckles and my short hair…” 7:27 “I was sort of thrown up to an art school in Northern California by an art teacher who was like ‘get …

Podcast 030 | In the Studio with Ardith Goodwin 1:38 “It’s a full time job that is totally a creative-entrepreneur business and I absolutely love it because it is multi-faceted.” 2:30 “In year 9 in my teaching career I was at the top of my profession and my body just kinda gave out. I had to go on full disability, I had to retire from teaching, and…

Podcast 029 | At Home with the Nester 2:08 “My goal is to help women create the home they’ve always wanted so that they can use it the way they’ve always dreamed.” 2:55 “Even now, as a 47 year old adult woman, I ask my mom for decorating advice.” 4:02 “I grew up with a mom who I think felt judged because of her home, and I didn’t like that.” 4:42 “…

Podcast 028 | Your Brand with Sandy Shaw 2:04 “And then my pragmatic side got the best of me, and it said, ‘Sandy, when you graduate you better be able to get a job and support yourself.’ So I actually changed my major from art to business.” 2:33 “I really wanted to return to art and launch my own business.” 4:16 “Whether it is an art business or a…

Podcast 027 | Turning Over the Mic with Kelly and Jeanne Oliver 3:00 “I found some friends but not the friends I was supposed to be meeting, and then in walks Kelly with a group of people, and I said, ‘Well, hello, welcome to my future husband.” 4:06 “We ended up talking the rest of the night, and we went on our first official date the next week…” …

Podcast 026, | The Good Daughters Club with Kathi Graves 2:41 “My father was a functioning alcoholic, and my brother just…left.” 3:21 “A few years later, we decided to move to Charlotte to start a business and my husband said we’re only going if Lucille [my mom] will go with us…” 5:21 “It was probably 3 or 4 years into that that we began to notice …

A design-loving, home-schooling, wellness entrepreneur who dove head first into creating her family's dream home and lived to tell about it. Her best days are a healthy balance of family, business and wellness. IG: @lovevanessawarren Jeanne Oliver Ten Tips To Take Back The Peace A free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like …

Podcast 024 | The Vintage Round Top with Paige Hull 2:06 “I didn’t go to college, I was not formally trained in design, I have wrestled with ADD, and kind of am a border line control freak…” 4:44 “We took the scenic way home, down 237, through Round Top, and happened by this home that was for sale, and decided to go in…” 6:19 “We tried to buy that …

Podcast 023 | Creative Mojo with Tracy Verdugo 2:43 “I had the experience of having a younger brother who was what I thought at the time a naturally gifted artist. It wasn’t until years later that I realized he spent every minute of his spare time drawing.” 3:24 “When my husband and I were traveling in Mexico, I suddenly realized there were culture…

Alexis Garrett specializes in lifestyle design, be it residential new builds or teaching clients to entertain in their backyard. There is a fascination with function and livability over adornment and extravagance. Alexis creates spaces that are interspersed with found treasures, layered fabrics and unexpected whimsy (repurposed roller rink floors, …

Podcast 021 | Get Your Business Seen with Tyler Horsley On this episode, Jeanne chats with Tyler Horsley, founder and CEO Nuclear Networking, a digital marketing agency that helps drive leads or sales to businesses. 2:25 “There are three portions of search engine optimization (SEO), the process of earning Google’s trust, and appearing as qualified …