The Jeanne Oliver Podcast

Podcast 055 | Ignite the World Around You with Jessi Green Jessi was born and raised on Long Island, NY. In 2007 she moved to Manhattan and worked in the nightclub industry as a doorman and nightclub promoter. In 2009, she was radically saved in her apartment after a traumatic break-up and drug-filled lifestyle. After encountering the love and power of the real living Jesus, she sold her belongings and traveled to 15 countries over 11 months, working with orphanages, preaching the Gospel, praying for the sick, and sharing the love of Jesus. She then moved back to Manhattan and started a successful social media agency working with luxury brands around the world. In 2012, she met her husband Parker Green and stepped into full time ministry. In 2016, she gave birth to her first child David Leonidas and two months later they moved to Southern California to plant churches called Salt Churches and lead grassroots revival through Saturate Global. Everything in the Greens lives changed after thousands were saved, healed and baptized on the beaches of California in 2020 and Jessi now burns to ignite Nations with revival!Jessi is a revivalist, preacher, wife, mom, visionary and creative type. Along with raising her three children David Leonidas, Ethan Everest and Summer Kingsley she is the director of Saturate Global which is a grassroots revival movement that is uniting the church in reaching those that don't know Jesus, baptizing them and making disciples that multiply.She believes that everyone is qualified to preach The Gospel and teach others to follow Jesus. While enjoying the sun in North Carolina, she passionately speaks about what it means to follow a Jesus that is ALIVE and wants to transform cities and your personal life. The Gospel is her passion, as she has personally been set free from many things including shame, fear and depression. She loves meeting people on the street and displaying a Kingdom of redemption to those that feel the furthest from Christ.Jessi believes that Jesus came to give us life and life more abundantly.You can follow her on Instagram https://instagram.com/jessi.greenOr online at JessiGreen.com Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

Podcast 054 | The Lies of Perfectionism with Sandi HesterSandi Hester had her first painting lessons around her grandmother's kitchen table during long summer visits in the countryside of Franklin, Tennessee. Her grandmother was a pottery artist and first exposed Sandi to the feel of a loaded paintbrush sliding across a surface. For Sandi, the subject, color, texture and enjoyment of the creative process are very important.“I'm always aiming for a looseness - a suggestion of what's really there. I try to capture the beauty of the scene and the feeling of color and warmth instead of recording the details of the scene. I'm not interested in the exactness - I'm interested in how it makes me feel. Painting this way tells you more about the image or scene than when grasping for the details.” - Sandi Hester​https://www.sandihester.com/https://www.instagram.com/sandihesterarthttps://www.youtube.com/c/sandihester  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. 

Episode NotesPodcast 053 | Awake Awake with Sheila Atchley I'm Sheila Atchley. Artist-author, wisdom-chaser, preacher's wife, life and creativity coach, and silver-haired ordinary mystic.I'm a die-hard congregant, and a flagrant creative.I have a semi-empty nest, a handsome preacher-husband, and seven adorable grand-wildlings.And I over-use the hyphen.  Proudly.While I am equally drawn to words and art, words are my defining first love, and a big part of my art form.  I'm here to encourage you with paint, prose, and poetry. Hence, the paint brush and the ink pen in my sketchy little home-made logo.I have no shame. No really, I have no shame.I'm here to unleash an army of women who celebrate for no reason – an army of women whose metric is grace.My main mission is the middle age woman.  This beautiful season of life is under-celebrated, and under-valued.  Middle aged women do not get enough support.  I aim to change that, when and where I can.  I believe that (like Abraham and Joshua of scripture) “everywhere the soles of your feet tread shall be yours…the Lord will extend your boundaries…”.Middle age is a vast and gracious land. It is a Promised Land…disguised as a battle. It is a land where many of us now find ourselves walking, a place where the potential fruit is enormous – if we are willing to slay some giants.I'm busy doing just that in my personal life, in my art, and in my writing and speaking ministry.  I want to help you extend your boundaries. I want to help you inherit what's legally yours, in every season.  After all, if I encourage the women, I encourage the world.I invite you to sit down, relax, and please overlook my hair (it is its own light source, my apologies).Let's talk about the things that really matter – and laugh about the things that really don't. https://sheilaatchley.art/https://www.instagram.com/sheilaatchleydesigns/ Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. 

Podcast 052 | Loss and Grief with Lorraine Bell A self-taught Mixed Media Artist, Lorraine divides her time living between The Cayman Islands and Central Florida. A recent empty nester, she is passionate about sketching, traveling, and writing. She combines all three of these loves to create illustrated art journals bursting with her adventures on the road.Lorraine is one of the 5 founding members that made up the collaborative team of ART TO THE 5TH, a revolutionary group of women that brought together over 13,000 people to create art, inspire and uplift one another. She designed the visual calendar/journal that was the inspiration for The Documented Life Project, a year-long undertaking that encouraged the concept of visual and written chronicles of your daily life. This project was the catalyst for the creative planner and journal movement that is so prevalent today.Lorraine has been involved in the Art Industry for over 30 years. From creating and selling at craft fairs and exhibitions in her early 20's, to a noted sketchbook artist and author, she is continually studying art and looking for new ways to expand and improve her creative abilities. Though she often teaches through an online platform, Lorraine prefers to be among fellow creatives. “I am most inspired when I am surrounded by artists,” Lorraine says. “There is no more vulnerable feeling than to be in the presence of like-minded people who know the same need to reach deeply inside, grab hold of your soul, and expose it on canvas and paper for all the world to see.”Lorraine's Catholic faith keeps her grounded and often inspires her art. She is a lover of all things random, serendipitous and spontaneous. Her studio is anywhere from under an olive tree in Tuscany to a crowded market in Istanbul to a pristine fjord in Norway. She is constantly in motion and an accidental tourist, embracing culture and spreading art everywhere she goes.https://lorrainebell.com/https://www.instagram.com/lorraine_bell/https://www.facebook.com/LorraineBellArtist/ Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. 

Podcast 051 | Art with Adele SypesteynAdele SypesteynRaised by an artist who incorporated a ceramic kiln and photography studio into our home, I grew up  knowing the arts as the only way to live life. In fact, my brother and two sisters also ventured into the  arts in different ways. My architecturally influenced abstract work incorporates multiple layers of texture, color and pattern. I earned a B.A. in art history with a studio minor from Newcomb College in New Orleans while working  full-time as an artist. I also achieved a master's degree in social work from Tulane University in New  Orleans. Co-founding the Wellness Center in New Orleans in 1996, I designed a program of art therapy  for cancer patients. In 1999, I earned my license as a Gestalt therapist. My work has been displayed in galleries across the country, featured in world-class magazines (including  Veranda and House Beautiful), and has adorned the walls of prestigious enterprises such as Neiman  Marcus and Saks 5th Avenue.https://adelesypesteynstudio.com/https://www.youtube.com/c/AdeleSypesteynStudiohttps://www.instagram.com/adelesypesteyn/  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

Episode NotesPodcast 050 | A Celiac in Italy with Catalin VarelaCatalin VarelaCatalin Varela is a 20-something American living in Florence. She was diagnosed with celiac disease in 2016 and has since become a Certified IIN Health Coach with a degree in Health Arts & Sciences. As the founder of The Celiac in Italy, Catalin teaches online Italian cooking classes (all gluten free, of course), consults clients on traveling safely in Italy as a celiac, and is an English+Italian speaking resource for all things gluten free Italy. Learn more and follow her adventures on Instagram. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/celiacinitaly/Website: https://www.catalinvarela.com/Airbnb gluten free pasta class: https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/3128006Airbnb celiac travel consulting: https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/3253930 Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

Podcast 049 | Home Love and Nesting Fitzpatrick Deanne Fitzpatrick"Each time I make a rug, I create a new design. In many of my pieces I tell stories or express ideas about the world. In my work the thing that matters most is making great rugs. I hook nearly every day. I cannot stop myself, I like the feel of wool slipping through my fingers.I have learned that craft and handmade can totally change the way you view the world. I believe that I have helped as many people by teaching them how to hook rugs and embrace their own creativity as I would have as a therapist, a career I began in my twenties.  My style of rug hooking, with its meditative qualities, and its freedom from rules adds beauty to our world and is therapeutic on its own. It is joyful, powerful and transformative. It is not about being perfect, it is about creating beauty everyday.In addition to hooking rugs, I love to write. I have written seven books about rug hooking and creativity and I recently released, Meditations for Makers, featuring daily meditations for rug hookers.   I love land, especially fields. I find that a bunch of scrub and brush are beautiful things. It changes all day long with the light and I love to depict this in my work. My goal to live simply, and make hooked rugs that are unmistakably art." DeanneSocials: Website: hookingrugs.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/deannefitzpatrickhookingrugs   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

Podcast 048 | Keeping a Light with Deanne FitzpatrickDeanne Fitzpatrick"Each time I make a rug, I create a new design. In many of my pieces I tell stories or express ideas about the world. In my work the thing that matters most is making great rugs. I hook nearly every day. I cannot stop myself, I like the feel of wool slipping through my fingers.I have learned that craft and handmade can totally change the way you view the world. I believe that I have helped as many people by teaching them how to hook rugs and embrace their own creativity as I would have as a therapist, a career I began in my twenties.  My style of rug hooking, with its meditative qualities, and its freedom from rules adds beauty to our world and is therapeutic on its own. It is joyful, powerful and transformative. It is not about being perfect, it is about creating beauty everyday.In addition to hooking rugs, I love to write. I have written seven books about rug hooking and creativity and I recently released, Meditations for Makers, featuring daily meditations for rug hookers.   I love land, especially fields. I find that a bunch of scrub and brush are beautiful things. It changes all day long with the light and I love to depict this in my work. My goal to live simply, and make hooked rugs that are unmistakably art." DeanneSocials: Website: hookingrugs.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/deannefitzpatrickhookingrugs   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

Podcast 047 | Authenticity with Deanne Fitzpatrick Deanne Fitzpatrick"Each time I make a rug, I create a new design. In many of my pieces I tell stories or express ideas about the world. In my work the thing that matters most is making great rugs. I hook nearly every day. I cannot stop myself, I like the feel of wool slipping through my fingers.I have learned that craft and handmade can totally change the way you view the world. I believe that I have helped as many people by teaching them how to hook rugs and embrace their own creativity as I would have as a therapist, a career I began in my twenties.  My style of rug hooking, with its meditative qualities, and its freedom from rules adds beauty to our world and is therapeutic on its own. It is joyful, powerful and transformative. It is not about being perfect, it is about creating beauty everyday.In addition to hooking rugs, I love to write. I have written seven books about rug hooking and creativity and I recently released, Meditations for Makers, featuring daily meditations for rug hookers.   I love land, especially fields. I find that a bunch of scrub and brush are beautiful things. It changes all day long with the light and I love to depict this in my work. My goal to live simply, and make hooked rugs that are unmistakably art." DeanneSocials: Website: hookingrugs.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/deannefitzpatrickhookingrugs   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

Podcast 046 | Seasons with Deanne Fitzpatrick Deanne Fitzpatrick"Each time I make a rug, I create a new design. In many of my pieces I tell stories or express ideas about the world. In my work the thing that matters most is making great rugs. I hook nearly every day. I cannot stop myself, I like the feel of wool slipping through my fingers.I have learned that craft and handmade can totally change the way you view the world. I believe that I have helped as many people by teaching them how to hook rugs and embrace their own creativity as I would have as a therapist, a career I began in my twenties.  My style of rug hooking, with its meditative qualities, and its freedom from rules adds beauty to our world and is therapeutic on its own. It is joyful, powerful and transformative. It is not about being perfect, it is about creating beauty everyday.In addition to hooking rugs, I love to write. I have written seven books about rug hooking and creativity and I recently released, Meditations for Makers, featuring daily meditations for rug hookers.   I love land, especially fields. I find that a bunch of scrub and brush are beautiful things. It changes all day long with the light and I love to depict this in my work. My goal to live simply, and make hooked rugs that are unmistakably art." DeanneSocials: Website: hookingrugs.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/deannefitzpatrickhookingrugs   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

"Each time I make a rug, I create a new design. In many of my pieces I tell stories or express ideas about the world. In my work the thing that matters most is making great rugs. I hook nearly every day. I cannot stop myself, I like the feel of wool slipping through my fingers.I have learned that craft and handmade can totally change the way you view the world. I believe that I have helped as many people by teaching them how to hook rugs and embrace their own creativity as I would have as a therapist, a career I began in my twenties.  My style of rug hooking, with its meditative qualities, and its freedom from rules adds beauty to our world and is therapeutic on its own. It is joyful, powerful and transformative. It is not about being perfect, it is about creating beauty everyday.In addition to hooking rugs, I love to write. I have written seven books about rug hooking and creativity and I recently released, Meditations for Makers, featuring daily meditations for rug hookers.   I love land, especially fields. I find that a bunch of scrub and brush are beautiful things. It changes all day long with the light and I love to depict this in my work. My goal to live simply, and make hooked rugs that are unmistakably art." DeanneSocials: Website: hookingrugs.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/deannefitzpatrickhookingrugs   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

"Each time I make a rug, I create a new design. In many of my pieces I tell stories or express ideas about the world. In my work the thing that matters most is making great rugs. I hook nearly every day. I cannot stop myself, I like the feel of wool slipping through my fingers.I have learned that craft and handmade can totally change the way you view the world. I believe that I have helped as many people by teaching them how to hook rugs and embrace their own creativity as I would have as a therapist, a career I began in my twenties.  My style of rug hooking, with its meditative qualities, and its freedom from rules adds beauty to our world and is therapeutic on its own. It is joyful, powerful and transformative. It is not about being perfect, it is about creating beauty everyday.In addition to hooking rugs, I love to write. I have written seven books about rug hooking and creativity and I recently released, Meditations for Makers, featuring daily meditations for rug hookers.   I love land, especially fields. I find that a bunch of scrub and brush are beautiful things. It changes all day long with the light and I love to depict this in my work. My goal to live simply, and make hooked rugs that are unmistakably art." DeanneSocials: Website: hookingrugs.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/deannefitzpatrickhookingrugs   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE.

Danielle Donaldson is an artist, author and educator renowned for her use of complex color palettes and delicately drawn details. Her work incorporates an imaginative array of subjects, from playfully rendered forest creatures, nautical landscapes encapsulated in glass jars, and pillow-forts filled with kittens.Her background in fine art paired with her skills as a graphic designer have provided her with an exceptional pairing of intuition and practicality, which shines through in her art, books and workshops. In addition to her best-selling instructional books, creativeGIRL: Mixed Media Techniques for an Artful Life and The Art of Creative Watercolor: Inspiration and Techniques for Imaginative Drawing and Painting, she teaches both online classes and in-person workshops including beginner to advanced artists from around the world. Using her trusty mechanical pencil and vast palette of watercolors, she weaves the values of creative practice, color experimentation, and fine art fundamentals with her signature small-scale illustration.Nestled in her comfy studio in Southern California, Danielle continues to grow as an artist by fully embracing the creative process in all she does and with each story she tells.You can connect with Danielle on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, and on her WEBSITE. Want some creative tidbits in your inbox? Sign up for her NEWSLETTER and get a free digital print of one her favorite illustrations! Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

Miriam Schulman is an artist, author and founder of The Inspiration Place and The Artists Incubator Coaching Program where she helps artists (from amateurs to professionals) develop their skills, tap into their creativity, and grow thriving art businesses. Her podcast, The Inspiration Place, is on the top 1% of all podcasts globally and is listened to in over 40 countries.https://www.schulmanart.com/https://www.schulmanart.com/podcast/  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

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 how you're perceived in the marketplace, and the client niche you develop.” 3:05“I think confidence, as you're learning to price your art, it lets you say, ‘Yeah I'm a professional. This is what I do, and I'm worth it and when I charge market prices people take me seriously. They treat me like a real artist and I have the time and space and creativity to be able to do the things I want to do as an artist.'” 4:57“Just be prepared. Have a price ready for something." 5:26 “Sometimes that's all it is when you're starting is not being prepared to give people an answer.” 6:10“With my wall hangings, I came up with a linear foot price.” 6:33“Consider all of your expenses as you're running your studio.” 7:14“I've never found that I had to discount my work to sell it.” 9:29“Don't discount your work because it starts to train the people that are following you to wait for discounts as opposed to paying market prices and really valuing your work more than just 10% or 20% off.” 9:43“The market will always give you clues.” 12:51“A big part of that is just valuing what you do. I think that's a big part for us as artists is learning that, although you may take what you do for granted, this is a special gift that people don't see the world like we see it.” 15:10“I think people don't realize when they're starting out that your friends and family are not usually your customers." 16:17“I think that's why it's so important to have something like your mentorship program or be in a mastermind or do one-on-one consulting because you need a voice of someone with experience outside of your bubble.” 16:57“You have to listen to the people that are actually purchasing your work” 17:25“I think part of being a business owner is realizing, ‘You know what? I need to have stable pricing, not only for myself but for my clients so that whether somebody sees my work at a gallery or they come to me at a show or they're coming to me for a commission, we're going to be in the same range of pricing.'” 18:44“Having a stable pricing methodology allows you to make sure, across the board, in every venue, that you're in the same price range no matter where people are seeing and buying your work.” 19:24“You've got to have pricing integrity across the board.” 21:12“Why am I going to put all this other time and energy into what everybody says I should do when this is what's working for me?” 24:27  Matt is a woven sculpture artist from Asheville, North Carolina, successful entrepreneur and internationally known Christian speaker, author of 5 books. He is also a mentor to artists around the world through his “Created to Thrive” mentoring program and The Thriving Christian Artist podcast.In 2009, God called Matt to “raise up an army of artists to reveal His glory all over the earth.” Since then, Matt has given his life to helping artists thrive spiritually, creatively and financially through creating live events, resources and online opportunities that equip artists to live the life they were divinely designed to live in the Kingdom.As an artist, Matt's work has been featured in many magazines, shows and exhibitions and is mostly commissioned by private clients for luxury mountain and coastal homes around the country. In 2011, Matt was recognized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery as an American Artist Under 40 and in 2018 was recognized as one of the Best Artist Mentors in the country by Professional Artist Magazine.Find out more about Matt's work with artists at www.MattTommeyMentoring.com  https://www.matttommeymentoring.com/how-to-price-your-art.html  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B097XBP733Free Download:  https://thrive.matttommeymentoring.com/5-biggest-mistakes-when-pricing-art  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

Podcast 040 | Mastermind Groups with Renee Mueller3:25     “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 art, and encouraging other creatives, and that's really what means the most to me…” 6:33    “The busier and the bigger our business was getting, and the busier our lives with teenagers was getting, that stuff [creative touchpoints like workshops and markets] just wasn't happening.” 7:17     “I think when you start using the word ‘mastermind', it implies that it's intentional.  We are coming together with lots of intentions, with boundaries, with some framework here.” 8:40     “I can say with 100% certainty that part of the reason we were able to do the best we've ever done in 2020 was because I had the support and encouragement of that mastermind group.” 12:36  “The only rules for forming a mastermind group I would say would be find people a little ahead of you and a little behind you.” 15:27   “The first thing that I would say in terms of structure is have some kind of contract.” 17:16   “The next thing is there has to be something that says there's confidentiality.  If you are going to come together with other men and women, what you share there has to be private…” 23:23  “I have found so often that just by asking somebody, that there is so much there, there is so much more they want to share…” 28:43  “The reason any group works is that there is a structure and a format that they can depend on, so that's why it's important to start that structure in the beginning.” 33:16  “I don't know why we need reminders to rest, but to me the mastermind group has felt like a safe place to land and to rest.” 37:06  “Part of our success was that people that were ahead of us looked over their shoulder and they reached back their hand and they grabbed my hand and they said ‘Hey, I see something really great in you, and I'm going to help you get there faster…” 43:49  “I've appreciated other sets of eyes on what I'm doing, because sometimes I'm so close to it.  I know exactly what I mean, but if that's not coming across I'm losing people and we're not having success.” 45:12   “There's a reality check within a mastermind group.  There's definitely been a pivot in my business and I could not have done it without having these other people, other creatives, in my life, because we can't do it alone.” 46:59  “Instead of speaking these concerns to people that don't know what it's like, go to people that are going to give you advice that have been where you're at.” 50:55   “If you have people in your life that also know what resistance feels like, they are able to come back and say, ‘You've got this.'” Renee MuellerI hold a BFA from the University of Michigan in Dance and Choreography. I danced professionally and had the honor of teaching dance at the University of Michigan's Musical Theater and Theater Departments. Growing up in the magical world of theater and dance I was exposed to so many gifted and talented artists. Collaborating with dancers, actors, choreographers, musicians, set, costume and lighting designers was an incredibly rich experience. It was fascinating to watch how a small idea would unfold into beautiful productions.My love for theater and dance is a constant source of inspiration for my art. I hope that by sharing my techniques and creative practices, you will find something to spark your imagination.I currently live in Ann Arbor, Michigan with my husband Marc, who continues support all my creative dreams, and our beautiful daughter Olivia. https://www.reneemuellerart.com/ Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Want to attend a live workshop of Creatively Made Business? Read more HERE. Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

Podcast 039 | Goodbye Instagram and Facebook with Kelly Rae Roberts2:32 “I think of my art as sort of a marriage between my social work life and my creativelife…”3:25 “Over time, especially as my business was growing, even with employees and help I justfound that my brain and my psychic space was always filled with go go go go go…”4:44 “What I learned was that dismantling parts of your business is just as hard as buildingparts of your business.”11:52 “Between the drop ceiling and the fluorescent lighting and the paint, we had…somethings. But it did have wood floors…”16:24 “The question on my mind these days as I continue to do this work of letting go is ‘whatdo I feel beholden to that doesn't consistently nourish my soul?' The answers that keep comingup over and over: instagram and facebook.'”20:01 “The sense of community is stronger than the fear of staying somewhere that you haveoutgrown.”22:18 “I just had limiting beliefs around ‘this is where I have to be in order to stay relevant.' Iwish that I had done my breaking up [with instagram and facebook] years and years ago, I reallydo.”26:06 “Listen to how it makes you feel. How are you after you've been on, are you doing thethings you really say you want to do, do you feel beholden to something?”28:00 “That's how social media is designed, it's designed to get that little hit of feedback, andwhat I noticed was I was completely in that trap, looking for external validation for what I wascreating.”29:10 “I have felt lonely, I have felt alone, I have felt bored even, in the first couple of months. Ifound that to be so fascinating, because I can't remember the last time I felt truly bored, or didn'tknow what to do with myself, and I sort of loved it.”32:14 “What's my true north? At the end of the day can I go to sleep and feel like I've donesomething, that I'm not beholden to anything except for my spirit, my soul, what matters most tome…”33:02 “I just find that when we take an actual stand that we deepen our relationships with ourcommunities, we start to narrow in on our ideal audience, that we are not trying to appease themasses, but we are speaking with people who really, really, really get us…”37:16 “I've also noticed there's been more forwarding of my newsletters than ever before. Theperson who is consuming social media content is moving quickly…but in your inbox you've gotsomeone's attention a lot longer.”39:15 “One of the things that was definitely birthed is that I've always had a wish to paint reallybig, and to pivot my creative style a little bit…” 41:59 “Wait a second, I have been forward facing for 16 years. What does it look like to beinward facing, to not be creating content, to not be creating a consumable for anybody?”Self-taught artist and entrepreneur, Kelly Rae Roberts, believes in the power of possibility. A former social worker, Kelly Rae picked up her first paintbrush at age 30 and everything changed. Painting brought her what she was craving: healing, unburdened joy, awakening. Her tender style of truth-telling and possibility-driven approach to life, work, & art spread like wildfire and has been featured in countless books, magazines, and licensed products. She is the creator of several beloved e-courses, books, and retreats that focus on the idea that when we let art out, we let love in.She lives in small town Sisters, OR with her son True, husband John, and two English Bulldogs, Lulu and Amelia. You can learn more about Kelly Rae at KellyRaeRoberts.com  Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 038 | Leading your Team with Kristina Pfeil2:54 “My goal is to help the clients I work with so that their people-practices are engaging andnot 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, ordon't have the skillset or the resources, to be able to help them run their businesses effectively.”5:08 “I would encourage any organization, as they start to embark on building their team, toask themselves three questions: 1. What are the outcomes I want this position to create? 2.What are the skills this person needs to have to achieve that? 3. What are their enduringpassions and motivations around work?”12:10 “The resume' is just to get them in the door, just to get you interested, both as a personlooking for work and a person screening for work…then it is about getting on the phone andstarting to get a feel.”14:42 “Nowadays people are not just looking for cool products, they are looking for companiesthat line up with their needs as an employee and as a human.”15:32 “Sometimes I think we get so invested in ‘I have to fill this position' that we hire thewrong person because we didn't take the time to make sure our process vetted people out.”20:21 “Trust is the result of aligned expectations.”22:44 “The number one thing [to create higher engagement on work teams] is ‘Do I know whatis expected of me at work?'”24:20 “There are people who will disagree with me [when it comes to rewards at work] but Ialways say money does not drive motivation.”27:15 “I think people value time off. Can you create more opportunities to get time off?”30:09 “I don't fire people. I make them aware of a decision they made by their failure tocomply with what was expected. And if I've done it right, it should never be a surprise, it shouldbe based on a series of conversations that supported that individual to know that they weren'ton track.”32:22 “Have you given this individual the respect to let them know that the way they areshowing up, that they way they are performing is off track?”36:44 “I'm all about the graceful exit. This does not have to be demoralizing or disrespectful. itcan be graceful.”36:58 “I've avoided a lot of sticky situations by just being respectful, and being a good listener,and creating a space for dialogue, and at the end of the day saying ‘You know, it just doesn'tseem like this is going to work.'”39:19 “I don't have ‘or' conversations or ‘but' conversations in my life; I have ‘and'conversations. At the end of the day, I believe it is about this and that, and I believe both canco-exist.” Kristina M. Pfeil, MBA is a 30-year HR professional based in Seattle, Washington. While she makes a living in the business world, she feeds her soul in the creative world and her passion is to find ways to blend the two. While traveling the globe, making art and connecting with phenomenal humans she finds many feeling ill-equipped to handle the requirements of running a creative business. Partnering with Jeanne Oliver to provide advice and direction for small businesses on important decisions fuels her joy. Feel free to reach out to Kristina atpfeilworks@outlook.com. Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

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 to do what I want to do.'” 4:12     “At one stage in our marriage, I had to say I am not even mentally able to wrap my mind around how to use my giftings in a way that both satisfies my desires and helps me belong in the world.” 5:38     “There are seasons when you certainly wonder, ‘Was I created just to lose myself, to be completely confused about who I am?”  Ultimately, finding myself was not to have a dream discovered, it was actually to learn how to be content in that very season of life.” 10:18   “When you are captivated by the beauty of God's creation, it puts you in this place of humility that causes you to realize that everything that comes out of your mouth and out of your hands, any gifting that turns into something beautiful that somebody else can experience, that really is just out of an overflow of what you are receiving day by day.” 14:10   “My number one way to rest on a daily basis is I turn my phone off, I turn off my computer, I go downstairs and workout, and talk to my boys at the end of the day.  But my favorite, favorite way to rest is on the weekends when we get out of cell service.” 17:33  “I wish that I could say it was graceful, it's not been that graceful…” 18:47   “Motherhood in so many ways is that continued journey, over and over again, of saying ‘this child isn't actually mine, I just get to steward the days that I have with him.'” 22:25   “On an artistic level, I hope that those who see my art will always say ‘Wow, she was always trying to reflect what God has made beautiful already.” 23:16  “I love the meandering between beautiful words and beautiful visuals.  I love the idea that it doesn't really matter if the medium is in clothing or food or music or words you read or the colors on a page, God is always speaking to us through beauty.” Ruth Chou Simons is a bestselling and award-winning author of several books —including GraceLaced, Beholding and Becoming, and Foundations. She is an artist, entrepreneur, and speaker, using each of these platforms to spiritually sow the Word of God into people's hearts. Through her online shoppe at GraceLaced.com and her social media community, Simons shares her journey of God's grace intersecting daily life with word and art. Ruth and her husband, Troy, are grateful parents to six boys–their greatest adventure. GraceLaced.comruthchousimons.com Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

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 redemptive part of what I do, of taking things that everyone says are no good or ‘throw-away' and bringing that into my art process really resonated with people.” 4:38    “If we allow what we do to create, develop, and define our identity, then that is always a dangerous place, because creativity is not who I am, it is an expression of who I am.” 9:15     “Most of the folks that are identifying with us in our mentoring program, the podcast, or whatever it is, they are loving the fact that somebody is talking about the God factor in the middle of their art and their business.” 12:01   “For me I'm happy as long as I'm creating.” 12:44  “When you go to the studio, it's not just spontaneity in a vacuum, your are drawing on all the things you put in your heart and mind.” 15:31   “You are never going to be successful with something that you have not been fruitful with in your life first.” 18:20   “The biggest lie that I see people believing about their gifts and passions, when you boil it all down, it's ‘I'm not enough.'” 19:44  “If your general belief is that ‘I'm not enough and I can't do this,' it's like pouring water through a sieve, it just won't stay.” 24:26  “The challenge of working in a family business is when do you turn it off, how do you turn it off, you have to be so intentional about that.” 27:42   “The more I grow in who I am and what God has called me to do, I've coined this phrase: we are called to see and agree—we see something in our imagination, and we grab hold of it with our ‘yes'…” 29:42  “You can live and intentionally craft your life in the way that is a blessing to your family and fulfills your dreams.” 32:22   “The people I work with are just crazy enough to believe there's still a spark inside of them that says ‘I know, from the time I was a kid that I'm supposed to be an artist.'” 33:09  “That thing that you have is divine, the thing you have is unique and important, and the more you say yes to that, the more that everything else in your life and art are going to come into alignment.” Matt is woven sculpture artist from Asheville, North Carolina, successful entrepreneur and internationally known Christian speaker, author of 5 books. He is also a mentor to artists around the world through his “Created to Thrive” mentoring program and The Thriving Christian Artist podcast.In 2009, God called Matt to “raise up an army of artists to reveal His glory all over the earth.” Since then, Matt has given his life to helping artists thrive spiritually, creatively and financially through creating live events, resources and online opportunities that equip artists to live the life they were divinely designed to live in the Kingdom.As an artist, Matt's work has been featured in many magazines, shows and exhibitions and is mostly commissioned by private clients for luxury mountain and coastal homes around the country. In 2011, Matt was recognized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery as an American Artist Under 40 and in 2018 was recognized as one of the Best Artist Mentors in the country by Professional Artist Magazine.Find out more about Matt's work with artists at www.MattTommeyMentoring.com Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

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, something that sort of itched, a gap that I began to become aware of.  It was something about ‘who are we modeling this work on?  Why is it that I constantly feel I am falling short?'” 5:20     “I realized that the creative genius that we recognize in our culture, that we celebrate in our culture: that's a man who doesn't have any of these responsibilities that I have that take up most of my days…this lack of representation is mirrored everywhere.” 7:25     “That's what I'm doing now: I'm looking at these outdated ideals and paths, and exploring what a more updated path looks like for us…” 10:09   “I never trust a person who only speaks of the light.  The human journey is always both light and dark, it always contains both.”  15:40   “So much of the work that we've carried out [as women] has been unrecognized and undervalued and made invisible.  But we can shift that narrative, we can shift that view…” 17:52   “We've been shown and taught that life as a woman and particularly as a mother or caretaker in any capacity, that it's not compatible with creative ambition, with any far reaching ambition, and that's bullshit…” 19:47  “I want to show that different way, that the depth and the brilliance of our work depends on the level of care that we can show ourselves, not the amount of will power and grit that we can muster…”  27:12   “As a rule, women consistently underestimate their abilities whereas men overestimate theirs, even when in reality their actual performance does not differ in quality or quantity.” 32:30  “I think the most important thing, and this needs to start really early, is to encourage exploration rather than being right.” 37:32  “The worst judge is in our head because we've internalized it, but it is certainly helpful to have people around you who support you and cheer you on without judging what you are actually doing.” 43:57  “‘No' is such an important word, isn't it?  It's like a secret password or something. When you learn to say no to things in your life, that's when you can really begin to create space for the things that matter the most…” 47:07   “I prioritize fiercely in order to make space for these few things that really, really matter.” 48:39  “I'd say that nature is my church, and maybe that is the closest thing.  I have this relationship to the earth as something divine, as where I come from and where I return to.” 49:57  “[If I were not an artist and author] I think I'd be a forester.I'd be in the forest, I'd work with the forest.  I could be happy tending to, being a steward of the land.”Anna Lovind helps feminist creatives and change-makers go from dreaming to doing –without the striving and overwhelm.She is the author of The Creative Doer, and hosts a beautiful online course and communitywhere women from all over the world gather to make good stuff happen.Anna lives with her two daughters, two cats and a dog in rural Sweden, where forests aredeep, winter is dark and summer nights last forever.  Connect with Anna on Instagram and her website Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

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 course of my entire life, because I always felt like I was just a day-dreamer…” 10:30   “So many of us are trying to live the way we see other people live because their gifts and talents may have been invested in by school systems or their parents…” 15:45   “The strength is not a strength until you invest in it, until you practice it, until you are using it in a way that it is helping you and not hindering you.” 19:18   “People who use their strengths everyday are three times more likely to report having an excellent quality of life, six times more likely to be engaged at work, 8% more productive, and 15% less likely to quit their jobs.” 19:46  “This is ultimately about your happiness…” 24:42  “If you start to understand yourself, if you start to understand ‘this is what I am bringing to the table and this is where I am lacking in strengths or talents' then you'll see what sort of people you need on your team.” 27:45   “This is not to say that if you are missing strengths in certain categories you can't do things.  You can do it, but you have to do it in a way that compliments your strength…” 31:09  “Differences are advantages, and we need each other…” 34:42  “People with Restorative are really great at problem solving because they want to get something done…” 36:54  “The Influencing strengths I have found to be very rare, I don't see these a lot.  These folks are amazing at making sure their team is heard.” 37:41  “Woo is actually an acronym, it stands for ‘Winning Others Over.'These are the people who, when they go anywhere, they will make a friend.” 40:12   “The relationship building strengths, these people will make you feel like you are a part of the team, like you belong there…”  42:02   “When chaos happens around me, I become laser focused, which creates a calm for people around me.” 42:49  “Strategic thinking folks are able to take information and analyze it in a way that is so unique and perceptive…” 46:37  “I would encourage everyone to do the assessment and get coaching…”Nathifa Sligh, MSW is the owner of Juicy Christians Studio; a handmade mixed-media art company created to inspire the hearts and stories of women. A strong believer in the power of encouraging others and understanding yourself, she also coaches people in discovering and understanding their true genius as a Gallup-trained Strengths Coach. In her spare time, Nathifa loves to spend time with her family, travel and read a great love story.https://www.juicychristians.com/Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

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 worry about running out of ideas…” 7:00     “I started realizing how different everybody's stories are, and that all of them are good, all of them are important.  There's not one right way to do life.” 10:10   “I think that I have always been a really good noticer, and I'm grateful for that.  I'm grateful that I was born really curious.” 10:53   “I learned that if I really want to have this experience, I have to do this scared…” 12:15   “Most of us know a bunch of stuff we don't want to do, but we don't know what we do want to do…” 13:58   “It's being curious, and then deciding whether it is worth it to me to jump through all of this fear, and anxiety, and unsureness of myself to have this experience that I really, really want to have.” 16:13  “It is the contrast of taking everything that you have, which wasn't a lot, we didn't have a lot when we started, and taking what you have and doing everything you can to put it together in a way that spells beauty…” 19:55   “It doesn't matter if you think you don't have limitations, when you realize you do, you just do.  You can't will yourself out of it.  There's just sometimes in life where you have to step away.” 24:45  “I got to the point where my possessions were possessing me, I think.  But it has been really shocking to me how much I don't miss all my stuff, and then there's some stuff I do miss.” 28:02   “I'm like, ‘Did I sign up for this experience with God or something?'  Because it feels like everything just keeps getting burned away or taken away, I'm constantly starting over with a clean slate…” 28:48   “I'm okay no matter what, no matter if I fail, or if I am invisible.  That's what I am seeing in myself; I'm actually seeing myself.” 31:33  “We've had at least five different marriages.  I think anybody who has been married for a long time has.  Because you are so many different people…” 33:30  “Grandkids are the best thing in life, in the universe…I love watching my kids raise kids, that's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.” 35:45  “I decided to let myself create without thinking ‘Am I going to be able to teach this to somebody?' So I've been doing the best paintings of my life.” 38:58   “I'm asking people right now, ‘What do you want to plant?'Just ask yourself that question, even if you don't have the energy or confidence to plant it.”Melody Ross is a lifelong writer and artist with a prolific career spanning nearly 3 decades in the art and design industry. Author of more than 20 books, she has also developed countless product lines under her own label as well as licensing her art across the world. In 2009, as the founder of Brave Girls Club, Melody started creating courses and materials to utilize art and creativity for soul work. Since that time, she has created more than 50 courses and a large variety of beautiful life tools to help humans figure things out for themselves, believing that no one can truly know what we each want out of life better than ourselves – and that once a person knows what they truly want, they can go out and create it.Melody is a mother of 5 adult children, 3 bonus kids and 5 grandchildren. She is currently on multi-year epic journey, traveling the country with her husband of 30 years in their RV, seeing beautiful places and helping as many people as they can along the way.https://melodyrossmedia.com/https://jeanneoliver.com/courses/soul-mosaic/ Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessRegistration is open! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

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 future for me here…” 5:25     “In total faith, at 23, I left my full time job at the university, and left my whole future in counseling and social work and decided to jump out into this photography business.” 7:30     “When I travel, if I'm here in the states or overseas, I never take a photograph of someone without knowing their name, without knowing who they are.” 13:06  “I was in Nashville TN, and my realtor called me and said ‘I found this home, I know it's gonna sound crazy but I just see you all over it, can you FaceTime?' I actually made an offer on the home site-unseen.” 15:40   “There's never been a time where I've seen, in my lifetime, where we need more restoration than right now.” 16:04  “I always say ‘this home is us', and we all have that hunger, that need for areas we can't fix ourselves…” 17:56   “Usually to fill back up, I love people, and so community is massive in my restoration journey, in my healing journey…” 21:31   “Pine trees are special to me.  So when I first pulled up to the new home, there were two huge pine trees that just stand guard there in front of the home.” 23:21   “There's so much story to the home, that I feel and I've shared, so much depth to it, there's a lot of richness that the Lord has just shown me over time.” 26:12   “How are we tending what we have?  Is it a place that we are intentional about for ourselves and anybody who crosses over that threshold?” Arkansas native, Texas resident, and frequent world traveler—Meshali Mitchell is a portrait artist, lover of people, and a story teller. The quality of her work stands alone, known by its immersion in heart and soul. Over time, her childhood hobby for photography developed and eclipsed all other career interests. She now owns and operates Meshali Mitchell Photo, which is run out of her home but takes her all over the world. She is a creative image builder, confident in her style, and recognized for her ability to capture the true heart of a moment. This site houses her photographs and travels, displaying the very heartbeat of her art. Every human being has a story worth hearing and a story worth telling. Meshali's mission is to be a conduit for people to do just that.Her true vision is for the one. It has been said that she honors people with her lens. In an unforeseen step of faith, the combination of a deep love for Christ, a heart for restoration, and an eye for creativity led her to purchase an 1886 Farmhouse in May of 2018. During this time, she began to document the restorative process, noticing how closely it paralleled her personal story of restoration–room by room, piece by piece. Soon after, she began to realize the house was all of our stories. Broken to beautiful. Beauty from ashes. Nothing too far beyond God's reach. This current project and movement “A House God is Building” is now being carried across the nation into hearts of people who desperately need to be reminded of the restorative, transforming power of Christ's love.Even though she's residing in a big metroplex, Meshali clings tightly to her southern roots and her love for the simplicities of life. Arkansan turned Texan, she loves her dog Belle, good Tex Mex, Diet Coke, big front porches, and quality time with friends and family. Outdoor life energizes and refreshes during her busy schedule, so you'll find her traveling or out on the lakes during any free time. Hope you come and sit, find rest and stay a while + enjoy all that is going on at my website.Instagram: @meshalihttps://meshali.co/ Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessGet on the waitlist for the next online session! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

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 your head out of your ass and get up there to art school.'” 8:37     “I just was passionate from that early stage for just really holding the space for people's emotions, for unfolding, for self-acceptance.” 10:31   “There were so many things in the world that I couldn't do and wasn't good at, but I knew I could help hold the space for someone to open…” 17:35   “I always felt I had no idea what I was doing, I always felt like ‘who the heck can I ask how to do it, who can I turn to for business guidance?'” 20:16   “Who hasn't said ‘What happened to me, I want to get that back, and why am I not doing those things that were wild and free and unexpected?'” 21:22   “It's an honor to be a guide, and I think there's a sense of vast permission I hope to give people…” 25:52   “There is so much emotion that people are feeling and so any way that people can help make a vessel for that, and to use our creative minds and our inventive minds to navigate through how we can help and how we can be of service.  Some of the greatest art comes out of times like this.” 27:58   “When creatives share in all times, but especially these times, it is just a gift, not just for ourselves but for other people, too.” 29:10   “I like something that excites me and scares me at the same time, I like to work with people that do stuff that I can't do, there's so much ignition in that coming together.” 31:59  “It is so random that I'm here, it's got to be a God thing. How random that I'm in Wisconsin?” 35:27   “There's a lot of things I do that I'm just not really paying attention. I'm just up here in my creative mind.” 38:04  “I have this wonderful friend who said ‘If you've got a boat, just let people get on it, make the space and just show up anyway.” 40:01   “I think about just being bold, seize the day, this is the time where who knows what's going to happen, so do it anyway.” 40:56  “Trust your creative-thinking, and ask for help.”Sabrina Ward Harrison is the creator of 5 groundbreaking published books; the first one, Spilling Open, was published when she was 23. She has gone on to publish, Brave on the Rocks, Messy Thrilling Life, The True and The Questions and The Story is Happening. Her singular aesthetic energy turned Harrison into the voice of a generation.She has taught creativity worldwide for 2 decades with a belief she holds strong to, that, “We must create what we most need to find” Her acclaimed signature online courses Liberate~ create the book that's been in you and Full Color Life~ trust your unfolding open their doors twice a year. INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/sabrinawardharrison Liberate course experience Jan 15th 2021 waitlisthttps://www.truelivingexperience.info/liberatejoinin Free 30 minute Free-writing workshop with Sabrina:https://www.truelivingexperience.info/guided-freewriting-workshop Podcast: Room in the Trees~living a creative life: http://www.roominthetrees.com/Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessGet on the waitlist for the next online session! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 030 | In the Studio with Ardith Goodwin1:38     “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 I didn't know what I was going to do.  So for my sanity, I went to the library to check out a lot of books on water color…” 3:12     “It really was one of those things where you're on a path in your life in one direction, and I believe God opened a door and I walked through it…” 4:54    “I totally grasped the idea and understanding that the creative part of the business was the foundation of the entire business…” 8:12     “I'm one of those teachers that can teach you the steps and the process, meaning how to paint a certain way.  But I'd rather teach you how to use our creative mindsets and our creative spirt to move through the world whatever we are facing with creative lenses to help us and equip us to be able to do that a little bit more effectively and in a positive way.” 11:22   “I've always been the type of human that was very Pollyannaish, I was super optimistic and that was one of my super powers.  And then this year kinda waylaid me…but I knew I would need to paint my way through this.” 15:11   “In my classes, we really embrace a sense of community…choosing to uplift one another.” 19:57   “Artists have to adapt, we have to change and troubleshoot things because life is not always gonna move at the speed or pace we think it should.” 21:42   “I didn't have a class or a mentor to teach me how to find a style, so I started studying artists online that had a distinct style to find what gave them their style.” 25:01   “So now, regardless of subject matter, no matter what I paint, I can tap in with my technical framework married to my personal framework and that gives me the ability to understand how to construct a painting distinctly.” 26:08   “As creative and wild as my brain works, I've got to have a list and a plan for the day, so that the business side of me can do well, otherwise I'm all over the place.” 29:36  “Creatively, once you really find a set of creative thinking strategies that really work well for you, and they change how you move through the world, they give you and equip you with the ability to process the five senses in a way that if one isn't working well right now, you can tap into one of the other senses.” 33:14  “An average day would be about 60% creativity and 40% business, and that flips depending on the needs I am facing.” 35:24  “I really am passionate about helping other artists tap into their own creative DNA, so that they can learn how to move through their own world creatively and do it well…” 36:41  “We absolutely need in this world small creative circles of like minds that we can collaborate with…” My paintings and writings are my way of taking that courageous spirit, mixing it in with an insane love of color, experience, and story, and creating works of art that inspire others to see the world as intrinsically beautiful no matter their place or station in life. My hope is that through my marks and my practice, my work will resonate with the viewer so that they sense a connection with the way of life in the south, its geographical influence, and the myriad of colors and marks that make being a southern artist magical.https://www.ardithgoodwin.com/ Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessGet on the waitlist for the next online session! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

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    “I don't want to wait.  I don't want to wait until we have a different house or until things are perfect or better or any of that.  I just know there's such beauty to be found wherever we are.”6:37    “Moving from town to town (we lived in 14 different homes in the course of our marriage) taught me everything.  It taught me how to make decisions, it taught me what was important in setting up a home, it taught me if I keep waiting on the next house my life and my boys' childhoods could be frittered away.”8:40     “I remember being really nervous when I posted on my blog about how I hot glued window treatments…but I shared it, and what happened was lots of women raised their hand and said ‘My gosh I do that too!'”11:06   “The biggest thing that's helped my in my business is being willing to transition, evaluate and make changes, and do what gives me life and not just what maybe everyone else is doing.”12:08   “I hear a lot of questions [from homeowners and renters], but the heart behind the question is always the fear of taking a risk.”13:30  “The goal isn't to have a pretty home, the goal is to have a home that's fully used, and having a pretty home is a step to that.”16:37  “It's always a great time to talk about home, but in 2020 we need to use our homes in different ways, and I think finally we are all paying attention and we are seeing pain points, we are seeing how we need to use our home differently.”18:29   “In general in homes across America, we are buying our rugs too small. When you have a big rug, it brings the whole room together.”21:10   “Once you make one decision, it kind of narrates and informs the rest of the decisions you make for a room, so just knowing the right order can give you such confidence…”21:56   “For the women I know, the top five things they need in their home are drapes, a rug that's the right size, natural light, filtered shaded lamp light, and something risky.”25:24   “In many ways I'm really thankful that we live in a never-ending fixer upper because it keeps me in the process…” Myquillyn Smith (the Nester) has never met a home she didn't love. She and her husband and their three boys have been fixing up their North Carolina fixer-upper for the past seven years, and her favorite place on earth is floating in the pool in her own backyard. She's the New York Times bestselling author of The Nesting Place, Cozy Minimalist Home, and Welcome Home.https://www.instagram.com/thenester/ (my favorite place to hang out) https://thenester.com: websitehttps://www.academyofhome.com/welcomehome : welcome home book Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessGet on the waitlist for the next online session! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

 Podcast 028 | Your Brand with Sandy Shaw2:04 “And then my pragmatic side got the best of me, and it said, ‘Sandy, when you graduateyou better be able to get a job and support yourself.' So I actually changed my major from art tobusiness.”2:33 “I really wanted to return to art and launch my own business.”4:16 “Whether it is an art business or any business, there are just so many things you need todo, and it's completely overwhelming. And that can just lead to wanting to shut down.”6:38 “Beginning with a brand strategy in my opinion is the very first thing that any businessshould do, because you go through a clarifying process that allows you to really focus in on theessentials of your business.”11:38 “The number one mistake that businesses make is they think ‘branding' and theyinstantly think “logo, color palette, fonts” when really the heart of branding is all about clarifyingthe essence of your brand.”13:18 “The second one is: it is really tempting to try to reach everybody. The big consequenceof when you are trying to talk to everyone you end up speaking to no one.”17:00 “Your brand guide is almost like the Bible of your business.”19:50 “If you've had your website for say like 10 years, it's a good idea to refresh the look andfeel of your website so it looks current.”21:11 “Color is one of the most powerful elements of your brand because color evokesemotion.”23:14 “If you use too much yellow and just go overboard, studies show that is just causesfeelings of stress and anxiety.”26:54 “Just answering those core brand questions will put you so far ahead of the game. Youwant to look for the brand sweet spot, which is where you brand identity overlaps with whatresonates with your ideal client.”30:02 “One this one client got clear on her niche, she knows them inside and out, she knowseverything about them, so she was able to write messaging specifically speaking to herneighborhood.”32:00 “If you want to succeed, there has to be something before you invest in fancy furniture ora million other things, your money needs to go to finding clarity with your brand.” SandyShaw is a brand strategist, website designer, and founder of BrandifyHQ.com.She is on a mission to help heart-centered entrepreneurs confidently play a bigger game with strategic branding and website design. By offering affordable, on-line brand strategy and website design courses, Brandify saves business owners time and money crafting compelling brands and designing pro-websites that convert viewers into buyers so their businesses grow to new heights.www.BrandifyHQ.comFree Brandify Color Psychology Guide Enroll in one of Brandify's on-line courses:Brandify For Success:  Craft Your Brand Identity Accelerator https://www.brandifyhq.com/brandify-for-successBrandify Your Website: Learn How to Write Captivating Copy and Easy Step-by-Step Website Designhttps://www.brandifyhq.com/brandifyyourwebsitedesignFind Brandify on Social MediaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/brandifyhq/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BrandifyHQcom/Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/sandy53580161/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/brandifyhq   Jeanne OliverCreatively Made BusinessGet on the waitlist for the next online session! Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 027 | Turning Over the Mic with Kelly and Jeanne Oliver3:00 “I found some friends but not the friends I was supposed to be meeting, and then inwalks 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 nextweek…”9:45 “What we've accomplished together all comes from Jeanne's ideas and experience…”12:19 “The conversations would come after there was a response. After we did that first onlinecourse and we had such a huge response to it, it was something we couldn't not pay attentionto.”13:19 “It was honestly always Kelly's heart to be supportive and when we found thingsworking, to move together in that way.”14:15 “It's not just about you and what you need to do a good job, it's what does that otherperson also need so they can feel like they're being successful, and that takes a lot of work.”18:54 “The only reason it works is you have to have a bigger picture.”20:41 “The joy of creating itself has brought deep creativity throughout almost anything.”22:28 “Solving things and making things work became my passion…That merged into whatJeanne and I do: I get to do my passion everyday.”37:12 “There's a couple of things I am pretty adamant about: I'm adamant about a quittingtime…and we get out and walk everyday.”41:22 “You pick the time of day when your brain is functioning the best and knock out thethings that are going to take the most energy for thinking or problem solving.”46:37 “When I say ‘walk out' I just mean show up and for most of us that can mean maybe pullyourself out of a hole, it could mean crawl your next step. For most of us the ‘walking out' is notrunning, it is literally ‘I don't know what is next beyond this next step.'”49:55 “For me, it is from 9 to 11, I show up in my studio, and even if I sit and sweep the floors,maybe by the end of the time of me being in the studio, maybe I'll know one mark I want to donext.”50:43 “This business literally has grown not from inspiration striking and everything being inline…but that we got to work, and really beautiful things were borne from it.”53:51 “When you have something that is pulling you that's not just about yourself, that's thebiggest thing to get you to show up and do the work and do hard things and dig for yourcreativity.”56:20 “I want for Kelly, for my kids, for anybody else that's on our team to know, I don't carehow crazy it might sound, you might have the next big something that could really change howwe are able to serve our customers better. If we fail, it means we tried.”1:01:02 “If people are not walking out their own giftings, I know that not just are they missingout, but people around them are missing out of the gift of what they have to bless other people with." Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 026, | The Good Daughters Club with Kathi Graves2:41 “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 husbandsaid 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 some things that indicatedher cognitive abilities could be diminishing.”6:31 “One recurring theme was the oddity of mothering your mother, that journey was justweird.”11:04 “I really lived into the dutiful daughter role, and now I see that led to some resentments.”11:58 “As I was thinking through it, I realized that my areas of greatest struggle could becomemy areas of my greatest strength.”16:32 “The Good Daughters Club; I founded it in the middle of it with a few other friends whowere going through similar situations.”20:50 “All of these women [who made up The Good Daughters Club], I was havingconversations with all three of them, and it saved me, it really did.”24:05 “Some of us won't admit we need help because we're the ‘helpers of the world', or someof us don't want to be seen as vulnerable, or we don't trust others to help.”27:13 “For us, when my mom died, there was so much relief, and it was healthy; it had been along goodbye.”32:07 “My mom was a very simple person in that certain things she loved in life and gave herlife to: she loved her church, she loved to sing…”34:01 “At the beginning, I think she was less worried than we were…”38:09 “Try to find something in the present moment that is worth valuing.”40:31 “Find at least one safe person with whom you can vent without dishonoring the dignity ofyour parent.”47:36 “When it comes to caring for care-givers, the simplicity of it is: do something. And youdon't have to have the right words, you don't have to give the perfect gift, the thing is: show up.”51:03 “I'm an enneagram 6 Jeanne, we don't dream a lot, and there's a lot of qualifiers and pre-qualifiers in my life.”    Born and raised in the great Midwest, my husband and love-of-my-life, Kurt, and I have called Charlotte, NC home for so many years now that we can safely say “y'all” and expect no sideways glances. When I'm not painting, I use my love for interior decorating to create a beautiful and inviting home that reflects who we are. One that functions well and truly sparks joy. My (slightly suspect) administrative skills keep the husband on task and in the right place at the right time and gardening helps feeds my passion for nourishing our bodies well. And some of my houseplants have names, so there's that. I have a beautiful network of friends who lift me up and I find great purpose encouraging and mentoring others inside and outside of our faith community. And boy, am I funny. I marvel how CrossFit workouts can simultaneously energize AND suck the life out of me. And any attempts to herd our cats Richie and Royal are daily reminders that, hard as I may try, I'm never really in control of anything. My mother, Lucille, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease 3 years into her 13 years of life with us in our home. Along the way, I founded the Good Daughters Club with 3 friends who were also caring for parents and, after my mom's passing, I started the Good Daughters Club blog as a virtual landing place for some women to encourage others (and themselves) by writing their own stories. I laid the GDC aside for awhile but it would not leave me alone so here I am again, with new content on the way and a new presence on social media. I hope it will be an inviting place for many other good daughters to come and be blessed. My artwork is currently available locally at Slate Interiors and I invite you to peruse my Etsy shop, KathiGravesArt. I often work directly with designers and I also welcome commission work.  Website: www.kathigraves.comInstagram: @kathigravesartFacebook: Kathi Graves ArtPinterest: Kathi Graves ArtEtsy: KathiGravesArt Website: https://gooddaughtersclub.wordpress.comInstagram: @gooddaughtersclubFacebook: Good Daughters Club 

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 OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 024 | The Vintage Round Top with Paige Hull2:06     “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 house.  We also learned, through the fact that it wasn't meant to be, how to let go…” 12:06   “The wonderful things that kept it going were literally the stories of how the property touched people's lives.” 18:05   “I have to pinch myself when I'm sitting here listening myself saying these things because it just organically one thing led to another.” 19:27   “Every beautiful thing that brings about growth is from collaborations.” 21:47   “We really wanted our kids to live in this world that we got to live in which we consider vintage to the world we're living in now.” 27:32   “That's the whole gist of The Vintage Round Top, it's the details, it's the immersive experience we want somebody to have.” 29:01   “You want to be the one person out of the 200 that are showing that is talked about.  To us it's the details.” 36:42  “You're having farm to table dinners of 100 people in the middle of a field, there's just so much goodness, and there's enough space for everybody to be there.” 39:01  “Personally, this year, there has been silver linings in the amount of time that we've been able to spend with our family.  We were busy, were were all busy, we were too busy.” 45:09  “Regarding our workshop, some of it is inspirational, but our biggest thing is we want people to walk out there with information, how they can go to the next step.” 47:28   “There are things that I'm extremely proud of, there are moments that I'm very connected to myself, and there are moments that I'm not.” 48:15   “I am proud that the products that we make as makers could be so much easier and ordering things.  The maker part of it is in our blood.” 50:28   “When you work with your spouse, you've got to be able to separate time for your personal life…” 53:52   “I would say that the fabrics that we're working with and the collection of vintage pieces that we're using, that is what rocks my world.”  Paige, along with her husband Smoot, own The Vintage Round Top, a boutique lodging property and lifestyle brand based in Round Top, Texas – home to the largest antique show in the US. The full property encompasses four cottages and numerous outdoor spaces designed by the couple in their “Modern Vintage” style - a trendsetting, artful mix of clean lines with vintage and reclaimed touches that marries style, sustainability, and soul. The Vintage Round Top lifestyle brand includes artisan-made home goods and handpicked antiques curated for their online shop and a custom hotel amenity line. Paige + Smoot also produce events, retreats, and workshops on varied topics like social media, branding, marketing, and can be hired to speak on those topics as well as design and business. The full property can be rented for events, corporate or creative retreats, workshops, photo or video shoots, brand launches, luncheons, dinners and more. It sits on an acre and a half and is only one mile from town with art galleries, antique shops, wine bars, and cafes. The interiors of these highly publicized homes are intimate, peaceful, serene, and inspiring. They've been featured and named the Best Place To Stay in Round Top in countless magazines and news articles including Country Living, Modern Luxury Interiors, Texas Monthly, Southern Living, as well as in numerous design and coffee table books and blogs like Apartment Therapy and Emily Henderson, just to name a few. Paige + Smoot offer collaboration packages to businesses a few times a year to co-create events, workshops or retreats. They also work with talented artisans, brands and suppliers to create and promote content. Inquire how to work with them by emailing info@thevinageroundtop.com. https://www.thevintageroundtop.com/https://www.instagram.com/thevintageroundtop Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 023 | Creative Mojo with Tracy Verdugo2:43 “I had the experience of having a younger brother who was what I thought at the time anaturally gifted artist. It wasn't until years later that I realized he spent every minute of his sparetime drawing.” 3:24 “When my husband and I were traveling in Mexico, I suddenly realized there werecultures in the world where art was an integral part of their everyday life; it wasn't this separatething that was put on a pedestal.” 6:32 “I think it does each one of us a beautiful service to get into situations where we aregoing to be uncomfortable, we are going to be stretched.” 8:29 “[In Australia] I'm one block from the beach, so we get to walk across the street and justgo and walk on the beach…it's a very soul restoring place.” 11:07 “Especially these little towns along the coast tend to attract perhaps people who arewanting to get out of the city, people who are thinking maybe a little bit out of the box, they arecreative at their core…” 12:08 “This is something I still struggle with, finding the balance, especially between the socialmedia/online side of the business and then the time to myself to paint…” 14:05 “I do know for me there's four important things: enough sleep, enough water, exercise,and being in nature.” 16:35 “I was actually at an art retreat, Marco [my husband] called me and said ‘Honey, theywant you to have an ultrasound, but don't worry about it…'” 19:22 “Unbeknownst to me as we were painting, they were all painting little hearts, under theirdesks, and they strung them all together and they wrapped me in those hearts at the end of theweek.” 22:34 “Stress can come in a lot of different ways. I didn't even realize that my default statewas this elevated state of excitement…” 28:54 “‘Just go,' she said, ‘there's a black curtain, just walk backstage, what's the worst thatcan happen?” 29:44 “She said to me, you know ‘One day we should do a thing together.' And you knowwhen you just get the little spark, and that little seed is planted.” 32:55 “It's like you are these grown ups, now, that have found yourselves doing the thing thatall those other years were preparing you for.” 33:39 “As I'm creating the lessons I've got this buzz within myself, where I'm just like ‘This is areally good class.'” 36:50 “I was trying to figure out how to take the landscapes that are in my head, place thatwe've actually been, and to put them onto canvas and paper in a way that is not literal but notcompletely abstract.” 38:22 “I just feel like I've been on this journey trying to figure out how to take my experience and put it on the canvas in a way that feels right.”If Tracy Verdugo was given the opportunity to coin a term for a new art movement based around what she teaches she might call it “Curiosity and Wonderism” or maybe “Loosen-upism” or “Endless possibilitism”.When she is not hanging out with her family in their eclectic adobe home in a small village on the shores of Jervis Bay, Australia, or throwing paint around in her little purple studio in their backyard, you may find her painting beside thermal pools on an Italian island with an eager group of students, Aperol Spritz in one hand, paintbrush in the other, or sitting in a circle on St Pete Beach, Florida, listening intently as women share their stories of creative yearning.Tracy is an inspiration instigator, prolific painter, bestselling author and lover of the written word, smitten traveller and soaker up of all that is beauty-full. She teaches her Paint Mojo and other creative workshops all over this amazing planet and reminds her students of the wonder that already resides within them.Her works are vibrant and filled with joy, inspired both by global travels and the simple beauty of the focused moment. Since 2000 Tracy has held 18 successful solo exhibitions and her works are held in collections both in Australia and internationally.Mostly though, she is mama bear to two gorgeous, zest-filled daughters, Santana and Cece, and co-adventurer in life with her amor of 34 years, the talented and brilliant Marco.tracyverdugo.comhttps://facebook.com/TracyVerdugoArt/Instagram.com/tracyverdugo  Current $27 Jump Into Abstract Painting offerhttps://tracyverdugo.com/jump-into-abstract-painting/ Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

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, vintage surfboards) all of her projects are created for families to thrive.Instagram: @alexisgarrettdesign  https://www.instagram.com/alexisgarrettdesign/Website: https://www.alexisgarrett.com/ Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 021  | Get Your Business Seen with Tyler HorsleyOn this episode, Jeanne chats with Tyler Horsley, founder and CEO Nuclear Networking, adigital marketing agency that helps drive leads or sales to businesses. 2:25 “There are three portions of search engine optimization (SEO), the process of earningGoogle's trust, and appearing as qualified in your space. One part is content…one part is on-sight SEO… the third part is called off-sight SEO.” 4:31 “If we can go to Google with a better story, and through backlink building show them 80other people who are pointing a link back to your site, that's one of the best ways to build trustwith Google.” 6:09 “Content on your website is pretty important: wherever there is content on your site, ithas an opportunity to rank, or show up first on Google.” 7:12 “Not all platforms are created equal…” 13:13 “What I don't want to do, because I don't really appreciate people who do this in ourindustry, is use fear marketing…” 15:02 “If somebody is doing this on their own, definitely stay as close as you possibly can toGoogle's algorithm updates that they publish and do your best in that space.” 17:19 “We are the greasy technicians under the hood, most of what we do is not seen byhumans.” 21:21 “One misconception is that if I post a lot on facebook it is going to help my SEO. That isjust not the case…” 31:17 “SEO and paid advertising is not something you can quickly pick up, and most businessowners are already wearing a lot of hats…” 33:57 “We lead with education, because education cures anxiety…” 34:17 “If you are a brand new business owner, start with education…” 35:43 “You've made it this far doing nothing [SEO related], imagine if we tried…” Tyler Horsley, Founder, and CEO of Nuclear Networking has worked in technology and marketing for over 12 years. He attended the University of Nebraska, was accepted into an accelerated program which led to an expedited BS in Criminal Justice Administration with an emphasis on Spanish foreign languages.Prior to Nuclear Networking Tyler worked in sales, then shortly after graduating, worked as a federal agent for The Department of Homeland Security and a Technical Specialist at the IRS. Tyler finished his time in government as CTO for a USA military contracting firm. He holds over 32 certifications with the Federal Emergency Management Administration.Tyler has an unstoppable appetite for growth, is an avid angel investor, and has grown and/or sold multiple multi-million dollar companies including a federal court reporting firm, chocolate ingredients company, a staffing company, wine subscription company, and more. Tyler has built and implemented nationally-recognized programs and efficiencies that have allowed his companies to thrive, cut costs, become scalable, and ramp up profits.Tyler serves on the board for a worldwide entrepreneur organization (EO,) here in Colorado and regularly consults and speaks to successful business owners, portfolio management companies, and marketers. He is an industry thought leader in the space that is regularly invited to speak on panels and loves serving his community, as well as purpose-driven businesses, Christian organizations, and non-profits.His number one goal is to meet and form an alliance with like-minded individuals who also believe that by working together, they can achieve more and make a greater impact in this world. Free audit: https://www.nuclearnetworking.com/Free local SEO tool (bottom of page): https://www.nuclearnetworking.com/local-seo/News Spotlight: Nuclear Networking Featured In Inc. 2020 Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Heather Bullard is a California based editorial prop stylist and creative director helping brands create breathtaking visuals for print and digital media. heatherbullard.cominstagram.com/heatherbullard Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 019 | Follow Your Gut with Wendy McWilliamsOn this episode, Jeanne chats with Wendy McWilliams, an abstract painter, teacher, and healthcoach whose work stops you in your tracks. 3:30 “I really was not artsy in any way I didn't think, but I always had a creative energy aboutme…” 4:52 “I just picked up this little ‘Learn to Paint an Orchid' book, and some cheap little brushes,and acrylic paint tubes, and a pad of white paper, and I started painting this orchid and it lookedso horrible.” 5:41 “I had a voice that came to me, and the voice said to me ‘Paint it again but relax.'” 6:45 “I basically became born again, I was reborn as a different creature, a different personthan I was before painting.” 8:22 “I didn't grow up in a family that appreciated art…art was not something that washighlighted in my home at all. It was like a foreign country I was going to for the first time in mylife.” 9:35 “I'm one who listens to myself and my intuition very heavily, it's gotten me everywhere Iam in life…” 15:56 “I've had 22 jobs. A lot of my jobs were crazy stuff that nobody should apply for withoutknowing anything about it. Like welding sheet metal at a factory.” 16:19 “I would just go for it, you know?” 19:59 “I heard somewhere that all entertainers and people that are artists in any way have adeep-seated need to be accepted, to be loved.” 21:00 “I realized that what matters is to keep going.” 26:55 “To be honest with you, I thought my whole art career was going to go down the tubesbecause of this quarantine. I thought, ‘who's going to buy art?” 29:03 “I come from the place that creation is always wanting more. Whenever you create, Ifeel like it's a channel from God, a channel through me.” 35:38 “Isn't that an interesting thing when it comes to the creative endeavors that there wouldbe anyone that thinks there's not the right to actually make a living from that.” 36:43 “Visual artists we have this starving artist stereotype that will not die. And it takes peoplelike me and you talking about this to let people know that Justin Timberlake doesn't go doconcerts for free.” 37:49 “Don't worry about what people think about you. You have to let go of trying to pleaseeverybody, you're not going to please everybody.” 38:40 “You have to listen to yourself and trust yourself, and don't be afraid of people'sjudgments.” Wendy McWilliams is a self taught artist. She is an abstract color lover ,mostly acrylic, some mixed media artist. Wendy alternates between floral, landscapes and raw abstracts.https://www.instagram.com/wendylmcwilliamsarthttps://wendymcwilliams.com/ Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 018 | Don't Doubt the Journey with Jennifer LittleOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Jennifer Little a trendsetter and stylist, and owner ofHEYDAY, an online and brick-and-mortar store in Denver, Colorado and Fort Collins, Coloradoand sister store Knapsack. 2:27 “I have always been a big believer that design principles translate into all areas ofdesign.” 3:07 “I used to think ‘Gosh, this isn't working and this isn't working, and all these things I'mtrying just aren't panning out.' And I finally realized they were all setting me up for thisopportunity with HEYDAY.” 6:38 “As a creative, you know when you don't have a creative outlet, you go crazy.” 8:50 “If I see something that's not working, I do not force it, I just let it go and move on andfind the right avenue.” 16:34 “I started pilates and yoga; Changed. My. Life.” 23:15 “I think that element of surprise is what gives me life in a store. When I'm like ‘Oh mygosh'. When I walk in I just know, this place is special.” 27:04 “The story element [of Instagram and Facebook] came along and I think allowed us tocapture a little bit more of a raw, genuine feeling…” 28:03 “What are you going to give yourself permission to wear?” 28:41 “If we like a top, we can wear it. There is no more ‘dressing for your body type', we'reletting go of all of that and hopefully really giving everyone permission to wear things that bringthem joy.” 31:10 “We have to stop worrying about what we think other people think.” 36:07 “When we do get really caught up in fear or in a situation that is completely out of ourcontrol, it is important just to take that pause and let go, just let go completely, take a break.” 50:02 “I do rely on my gut a lot, that is how I feel like I've made 90% of the decisions in this 51:06 “I've heard that you get one notification to your intuition, you get one alert, and if youdon't listen to it it's gonna pass on. But what I'm finding is that with time it still surfaces.” 53:36 “Every single creative industry is relatable and transferable and translatable.” HEYDAY is a fun, fresh, playful retail shop featuring a highly curated collection of quality women's clothing, shoes, apothecary, home and stationery that are timeless, beautiful and modern. Always warm and welcoming, HEYDAY is committed to bringing fresh brands and notable designers to you.Our philosophy is to effortlessly incorporate classic elements into your wardrobe — blending simplicity, luxury, style, comfort, flirtation and sophistication. HEYDAY provides options that exemplify quality over quantity for a beautiful, attainable look and lifestyle.Jennifer Little—HEYDAY'S owner—has a strong eye for design, which plays an impactful role in her style. She is always looking at the full design scope when putting together a perfectly curated lifestyle. She has the uncanny ability to recognize everyone's beauty and style. Jennifer's fun-loving, playful approach makes clients welcome and instantly at home. Regardless of medium, she implements color, texture and pattern in a fresh, soft, clean way. Raised in Georgia, Jennifer has an appreciation for country life and city living. Born on the Georgia coast, she played outside on the rope swing and hunted for snails in the Darien marshes.A few years later she moved to Athens, and in 1987 she moved to Peachtree City to begin various entrepreneurial endeavors in the neighborhood. Months later, Ryan Little moved into the same cul-de-sac and elementary school love was alive. Choosing Furnishings and Interiors at the University of Georgia was a natural fit for Jennifer's love of photography and design. Jennifer and her husband Ryan, made stops in Starkville, Mississippi and Tallahassee, Florida where their children Luke and Emory were born. Now calling Fort Collins home, Jennifer spent four years locally growing her photography business, which began in Florida. Bringing together interior design, fashion, and photography was the perfect culmination of talents and dreams for Jennifer and HEYDAY. https://theheydaystore.com/ Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.  

Podcast 017 | Memory Keeping with Ali EdwardsOn this episode, Jeanne interviews Ali Edwards, teacher, designer, author, and pioneer in theworld of scrapbooking and memory keeping.” 2:11 “I started scrapbooking in 2002…and had no intention of this being a business.” 4:09 “When I went to college originally I actually went to study marine biology, because I wasgoing to work with Killer Whales. But I had one semester of chemistry and I realized I hate this,there's nothing about this that I like.” 6:06 “Sitting in a specific graphic design class, that was a complete ‘aha' moment in my life. Iknew I was in the right place.” 10:42 “I feel that it's always been a continual learning process. I don't remember ever sitting inmy office or at my desk and saying ‘this is the voice I'm going to use.'” 11:51 “I made a decision at some point in time that I didn't want to throw anyone under the busin telling my personal story. As I tell the stories, I tell them from the lens of ‘What did I learn?'” 16:36 “I've always looked at scrapbooking, probably from within the first year of starting to doit, that it was something for me, that it wasn't for my kids. This is your story, you can't tell yourkids story; you can tell their story from your perspective…” 17:44 “What I really, really love are everyday kinds of stories.” 22:04 “I love the New Year, I like turning the page, I like a fresh start, that is part of mypersonality…” 23:59 “So many times people do set an intention for the beginning of the year, and then theyforget about it. But by having a monthly check in you are keeping yourself on track.” 26:07 “There is one piece of me that trusts my internal compass…I am someone who is morelikely to take action than to not take action. Anxiety has been a part of my story, but my anxietymotivates me.” 27:24 “I didn't set out to say ‘I am going to build a business.' It's been one little decision afteranother. Saying yes to something and saying no to something…” 34:42 “I'm definitely constantly taking the temperature, how is this going, how is our communitydoing, how can we help them…” 39:05 “We're totally down with the slower pace, not having as many kid activities…” Ali Edwards's passion resides in that very special place where the stories and images of life intersect. Her work includes blogging, teaching, writing, photography, and memory keeping product design. Learn more at http://www.aliedwards.com.  Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 016 | Creating Passive Income with Digital Products with Jen WagnerOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Jen Wagner graphic artist and type designer who deeplybelieves that “sometimes the best solution for your stuck-ness…is to just make something.” 1:52 “I started creating fonts during a pretty severe freelance lull…” 2:46 “I had a very, very, very unhealthy perspective on my self worth, and the connection ofthat to the money I made.” 5:24 “If I'm off balance…you can see it in my work where usually if I am in that headspace,the stuff I'm creating isn't as good.” 10:57 “Something that has really helped us throughout our marriage is that since we starteddating we were having difficult conversations and we were not afraid of entering that space witheach other.” 14:34 “Go do something other than work to get your creativity back…” 15:56 “I don't have my degree in design, I have my degree in marketing. I never took a designcourse in college. I am extremely self-taught.” 19:47 “The thing that I've had to remember time and time again is that this is not easy. If it waseveryone would do it. I think the process looks like just doing it scared.” 22:26 “As someone who is both a designer and a business owner outside of design, I think youneed to figure out how much your time is worth.” 28:19 “Don't we learn so much from people bringing questions to us, and realizing we canmake things we're offering better?” 29:02 “I trust companies that have great design, and I don't trust companies with bad design.” 29:31 “Great design is actually a tool for communication.” 30:54 “Simplify, stick to a theme and a palette, use the same fonts and same colors but not toomany. Consistency is what most people want when they visit a brand.” 35:52 “With the pandemic, I ended up going through some pretty severe anxiety and swingingbetween that and depression depending on the day. So I've had to adapt my schedule andadopt new mental health practices to make sure I'm okay.” 37:26 “The pandemic has definitely helped me connect with my audience on a more personallevel. I think the combined experience here has made everyone a bit more human.” 41:59 “I think it's important for people to know that everyone listening to this has somethingthat they can share, something that they can teach.” 44:22 “Finding ways to express creativity outside of work and in a way that isn't just for salehas been very valuable for me.” 47:28 “If you are feeling creative during this time, that's amazing, pursue that. If you're notfeeling creative, don't feel guilty.” Jen Wagner is a type designer and educator based in Nashville, TN. When she's not creating fonts or teaching designers how to make passive income, you'll find her with her husband, Aaron, making candles for their company Onyx Studios, touring with their band Veaux, or spending time with close friends and good whiskey.www.jenwagner.co Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 015 | The Farm Chicks with Serena ThompsonOn this episode, Jeanne interviews Serena Thompson, stay-at-home mom turned creator ofnationally loved bucket-list event The Farm Chicks Vintage and Handmade Fair.2:45 “We started in my neighbor's barn…and it just exploded.”4:53 “I did have vision of what it could be, what I dreamed of it being, and my only north starat that point was Emma Lee Turney who founded the Round Top Antiques Fair, she was such apioneer and just doing beautiful things.”6:09 “She told me to call myself a producer or a promoter. And I thought. ‘I like that.” Shewas saying ‘You're a businesswoman, so you should call yourself one.”8:10 “I think that so many of us who are creative are yearning for more than just creatingsomething in our garages. There's a special feeling about being able to connect with otherswho have a creative vision and embracing each other and being appreciated…”10:34 “My biggest joy is seeing these artists be embraced.”14:44 “What I'm looking for is always a new spark, I don't want it to be like anything else. Thisis once a year, and I want it to be special.”19:47 “First and foremost, it is important to have a vision of what it is you want to create…youstart from that, and it's really important to stay authentic to that.”26:06 “I think people trying to create something now, since there's so many markets that exist,I think it's just really important to be yourself, not to try to be anybody else…find your niche, findwhat's special to you, and say yes to that.”I bounced through the first years of my life in a hippie gypsy wagon, hand-built by my father, wandering the back roads of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.  My family eventually settled into a tiny cabin in the woods on property that was once inhabited by American Indians.  I was named Serena Melegra Ume De La Luz – Serena, after the name of the daughter of my mom's mentor, a member of the Klamath River Indians Tribe.  Melegra was chosen for its meaning which is miracle.  And Ume was a name spontaneously chosen by my dad, moments after he delivered me in an abandoned dirt-floored cabin in the woods where they had temporarily parked our gypsy wagon home.  She's part you, part me, he told my mom.I spent my childhood days searching for arrowheads, teaching myself to sew on a treadle sewing machine and to bake in a wood-burning stove, with no running water, refrigeration, or electricity in our home.  My family lived frugally and early on, inspired by my parent's thriftiness and style, I gained a knack for thrifty creativity and turning ordinary objects into something useful.  And I dreamed of the home I would create for my own family someday.Now I'm married to my husband, Colin, we've raised four children, and my dreams have come true.  Along the way, I founded The Farm Chicks Fair and have written two books: The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen and The Farm Chicks Christmas.  I document my life as an entrepreneur, wife, mom, author, and Contributing Editor for Country Living Magazine on social media (Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefarmchicks/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefarmchicks/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/serenathompson/ ) and share more about my life and my story from time to time, on my blog, www.thefarmchicks.com You can find information on The Farm Chicks Fair on the website here: https://thefarmchicks.com/fc-vintage-fair/ Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 014 | Creating a Visual and Verbal Identity with Goodvoice GroupOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Martin Drexler and Jeremy Reeves of Goodvoice Group.6:26 “Our sort of core business metric is if we cry with our clients, we feel like we've likewe've really nailed it.”7:06 “100% of our clients come to us with a pretty shallow understanding of who they are. It'snot because they don't know, it's that they've never been invited to think deeply about it.”9:15 “This new era is going to require a ton of resolve…let it press you into a resolveconnected to your deepest aspirations.”14:19 “It didn't take a ton of money, they didn't have to change a lot, but they had to have theimagination to see that they can still move forward and be something within the core of who theyare.”15:31 “The two most important values as you are engaging with your customers as humanbeings are empathy and curiosity, especially in this time.”16:47 “Am I feeling also this strange sort of defiant hope? I think I am, on my best days I am.Then my customers are probably feeling that, too.18:59 “Right now we're in the age of tribal association; every human being is part of a tribe,subconsciously. This is where the empathy comes in. How do we make somebody associatewith a tribe?”22:02 “Curiosity in a moment like this allows a business owner to say to her staff “What otherthings are you good at? How can we, as a tribe, committed to each others' well-being, andcommitted to the well-being of our customers, how can we pivot to use underutilized gifts.”23:05 “We have to educate people to be brave. People are afraid to stand out, but always tellthem be afraid to not stand out.”35:52 “We tend to have these two categories: what are the things we are good at, and whatare the barriers for us. And what this time is allowing for us is to ask how the barriers can begifts also.”42:30 “Clarity is ‘Here's how you can become who you want to be with the assistance of what Ido as a business. Here's how I help you be the person you want to be.'”48:54 “To test for clarity, I would suggest getting in touch with a receiver of your message. Gofind someone, send them the copy you wrote for your website, and ask them what they heard.”52:39 “We understand Brand Humanity as your company being perceived as a person. Soyour company, to the exterior, how it's perceived in the world, is actually very close to being aperson.”53:35 “The longer a company is in operation the farther away from their initial motivation andpurpose they get. And what we want to do is bring them back to that initial seed of motivation.” Goodvoice Group is a creative agency that exists to multiply self-understanding, discover clarity, and design simplicity, so that companies can shape a bright and flourishing future.Goodvoice Group Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 013 | Stencil Girl with Mary Beth ShawOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Mary Beth Shaw, artist, instructor, and entrepreneur who went from a career in the insurance industry to launching Stencil Girl Mixed Media Stencil Company. 1:41     “I did come from a career in the insurance business for about 18 years.  It was a big transition moving from insurance to art…different sides of my brain.” 2:52     “I was turning 40, and I said to my husband ‘I think I would like to quit my job for my 40th birthday'.  I just had this strong urge to explore my creativity.  So I just quit my job with no plan.” 7:13     “I was really arty up until the 8th grade and then I had this teacher who said ‘You are never going to make it as an artist.'  She said that right to me, and well of course I believed her.” 9:30    “Then as I looked back through my history, it was kind of interesting.  My grandparents on both sides were entrepreneurs.” 10:29   “I really love to help people uncover their voice with what they are doing.” 11:56   “When I started the company I don't think I really knew I was starting a company.  I thought I was just selling stencils…” 12:47   “The hardest part of working full time with my husband is finding some sort of a separation, because when you have a business…it's easy to get into that working 24/7 thing.” 20:36  “I'm standing there at a table with six stacks of stencils.I don't have anything else: they're not in containers, they're not in folders, and I said ‘$14 each, six for $75.And they opened the doors, and 30 minutes later I was standing behind an empty table.” 23:09  “I think probably the biggest problem from the get go in this pandemic was me: it just felt so wrong to be promoting my company during this time.But then I realized we need to be making art to heal our own souls during this time.” 28:48   “I like somebody that has a voice, for sure, and a passion, and they're going to share with others…” 34:18  “A long time ago, it hit me that I have a mission that's twofold.It is to educate and create community, and then once I've done those things, the stencils virtually sell themselves.” 39:45  “My husband and I got to talking about how lucky we are, really, and how blessed, and how even though this horrible, horrible thing is going on I have this opportunity to connect with people worldwide, and to talk to them, and to maybe inspire them…” 42:28   “Meditation helps me so much with my own ability to make decisions.My husband helps me an awful lot; he's a wonderful listener…and then I trust my gut.” 46:15  “If I wasn't running Stencil Girl…this is so strange because I don't even have the skillset for this job, but I'd love to be a dancer, a flamenco dancer.”Mary Beth Shaw worked in the insurance industry for 18 years before she quit her job in 2000 to re-ignite a childhood love of art. Since then she has spent all her waking hours exploring life as a painter working in mixed media, primarily acrylic, encaustic and collage. She initially put in lots of hours as a road gypsy, exhibiting at outdoor art fairs and selling as many as 300 paintings in one very blurry year. She transitioned into being a workshop instructor in 2008 and finds pleasure helping students find their own voice as a painter. Her personal creative process is a dance between spontaneity and intent; she finds great joy in the physical act of painting and looks at her best work as a gift from a higher power. She welcomes mistakes because they so often provide a delightful detour into new territory. She is author of Flavor for Mixed Media and Stencil Girl, is a columnist for Somerset Studios Magazine and a Golden Artist Educator. She is the founder of StencilGirl® Products, LLC and StencilGirl Studio.mbshaw.comStencilGirl® ProductsStencilGirl® STUDIOStencilClubMy Books: Flavor for Mixed MediaStencil Girl: Mixed Media Techniques for Making and Using Stencils Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.  

Podcast 012 | Brave and True Girl with Lara BlairOn this episode, Jeanne interviews Lara Blair, photographer and creator and leader of Brave and True girl empowerment workshops. 1:47     “I realized I just absolutely adore working with girls, it's so much fun.  And I think it comes from my middle school experience.” 2:17     “I created a curriculum for these girls because I was recognizing a lot of the same issues in a lot of them, mostly anxiety and comparison trap and the goods that go with that…” 4:39    “Every area of my life has led me to here.  We always have to remember that all the stops along the way aren't for naught. They are things that lead you to where you're supposed to be.”  8:39    “Middle school girls know the value of not being connected all the time, but they don't know how to do it because there is fear of missing out.” 11:02   “The best way to support young girls in the day-to-day is listening, really, really listening, putting your own phone down, connecting with eyes and touching, hugging, holding them close…” 14:12   “For mom, I really firmly believe you've got to support and not tear down.  And the same goes for you: not talking negatively about yourself, about your abilities and what you're lacking…” 18:49  “During this time of shelter-in-place, I'm going to go back to what I said before: listening, asking how are your kids doing, what's going on.And then just let it sit…” 20:41   “I always want to know people before I put my camera up between us because I just photograph better when I know somebody…” 27:02   “My ‘whys' are: I love middle school kids, I love making stuff, I'm a connector, and I know the things I'm not good at, the things I need to delegate.” 28:50   “You do have to not be afraid to tap into the stuff you don't think fits…” 34:11  “When you can teach somebody something, knowledge is power, and they make something they are proud of, that to me is the gold right there.” 36:10  “There is something that I always leave my Brave and True Girls with in a workshop and I think it's kind of pertinent to what we are dealing with right now: ‘This, too, shall pass.'"Lara Blair is a veteran middle school teacher and currently leads Brave & True girl empowerment workshops at her portrait studio in the Pacific Northwest and online. As a mother of grown daughters, it is clear there were many things she wish she'd known to be able to support them in their preteen years. While working as a 6th grade teacher and leading girls in her workshops, Lara began to learn straight from the source what preteen girls need. This led her to research with experts to gain answers to the “How do I help my girl navigate this time?” question and create curriculum, experiences, and products around this information. She equips parents to know how to help their daughters and arm girls with strategies to be happy, healthy and whole. All of the resources can be found online at BraveandTrueGirl.com. Portrait sessions are available in Lara's Camas, WA studio right outside Portland, Oregon.https://www.braveandtruegirl.com/ https://www.braveandtruegirl.com/photographytutorials https://www.larablairphotography.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUuMDSLY3ozGOo9llhaCgjQhttps://www.facebook.com/larablairphotography/@Larablairphotography@braveandtrue.girl Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

Podcast 011 | Building a Creative Business with Kasia AveryOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Kasia Avery, online art teacher and founder of Everything Art with her husband, with whom she operates her creative business. 2:36    “We work together in different ways…we know it's a good way to live, because we are compatible.  We understand each other very well…” 3:39    “Before we had our daughter, the hardest bit was to actually get yourself motivated, sit down and start working.” 4:55     “Good advice that I can give everyone who works together and lives together is to give each other some time off.  This is a rule at our house, and there are no exceptions to that, that everyday each one of us gets an hour off during the day.” 11:41   “We are very lucky that we are online, that our business is teaching people and helping them to create free and very laid back art…” 12:17   “What this time means for us is that we realize that people are at home and want to find ways in which they can care for their well-being, practice some self-care, and we can help.” 13:18   “One night I was going through the news and I overdosed really, really massively on the news and I got so anxious and stressed out and I asked “What can I do to distract myself, and what are other people doing?” 16:35  “I find working with people who are artists, who have a very similar approach to mine, just a pure pleasure, to be honest…it's just a lot of fun.” 18:38   “It's a lot of work, you know, I can't say it's not and there aren't ways to make it less work, but that's what it is and it's fun and if you love your job, which I really do, it's great.” 19:56  “Another thing that really helps us is having a project management app for projects and to-do lists, and you can tick boxes that can be shared with everyone who works with us.” 23:09  “Jamie went through a lot in his life, and he's much wiser than me, now I understand that.  He's got good experience in life and business…” 24:43  “Creativity on a day-to-day basis for me, I do daily art journaling in the evening, when our daughter is asleep, when Jamie is doing his things…” 27:16   “If I wasn't doing Everything Art, I think I would still have something to do with painting, because I was always at it, always doing it. And teaching; I know that I was born to do what I'm doing right now.” "Art that's not realistic is not art" - ever thought that? Because I certainly have. I was literally sweating and stressing my days away when striving to become that "proper" artist, painting landscapes in oil - something that was not me in the slightest. And then one day I discovered art journaling and I was hooked. The glitter fell from the sky and I knew I was saved. I learnt that real art is self-expression, a story, and an honest experience. I discovered that the process can (and should be!) pleasant and joyful rather than a struggle. Since then I am constantly art journaling, (daily!) and I want you to dive in with me.  I teach mixed-media and art journaling in person and online since 2011. In 2016 together with with my husband Jamie we established Everything Art Limited. We create, produce and commission online classes. I teach in a laid-back and supportive manner. My goal is to help you discover your inner artist through joyful and inner-critic-free art process.LINKS:www.everything-art.comKA IG: https://www.instagram.com/kasiaavery/EA IG: https://www.instagram.com/everythingartuk/FB: https://www.facebook.com/EverythingArtLtd/ Jeanne OliverTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 010 | Leverage What Makes You Unique with Kristin Varela-SchildOn this episode, Jeanne interviews Kristin Varela-Schild, entrepreneur and founder of Kristin's Farm Stand, an online farmers' market delivering food straight from farms to your home. 3:30    “I had this very vivid dream, that I was going to start a company writing car reviews specifically for women and moms.  And I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, ‘Well that's bizarre…'” 4:33    “I finally thought, I'm going to tiptoe into this just to get it out of my system.  I'm sure I'll fail, but I'll take the first couple steps.  And every step I took, the doors blew open.” 6:28     “I think most of the time, you have no idea how the pieces are going to fit.  For me, the biggest lesson with that first business was listening to my intuition.” 10:02   “I was my own target market with that first business, and with my current business I am my own target market, so I really understand what the need is.” 14:14  “It can be very difficult to decipher all of these different marketing messages in the grocery store to find which produce is actually local, which is actually organic…so I started Kristin's Farm Stand…” 16:47  “The main thing that I wanted to convey was trust.  I felt so disenfranchised with health food stores I used to go to and love and trust.  The more that I learned, the more that I understood how I was being misled.” 17:41   “Ultimately that's what led me to using my name, because I wanted to develop a close relationship with my customers whether I see them in person or not.” 20:53   “Regenerative farming is all about improving the soil quality of the land so that we're able to capture carbon from the air and pull it back into the soil, essentially reversing all of this damage from years and years of big ag.” 25:19   “We were not afraid to try to do things differently.Sometimes I think no having experience is actually incredibly beneficial because you are not privy to the same boundaries that other people are.” 30:28   “With each of my businesses, I didn't go out and seek them, they came to me.”  32:01   “To be able to have that trust in your intuitive voice is just incredibly powerful in all areas of life.” 32:50   “What I realized with my businesses is that if you're brave enough to just take the roller coaster ride that is set out in front of you, it will always turn out better and more enriching than the path that I would have planned for myself.” Kristin Varela-Schild is the founder of Kristin's Farm Stand (Denver, Boise and Salt Lake City). She has a successful entrepreneurial background with an emphasis on branding, marketing and building a passionate following using traditional mass media and social media. Her last online company was acquired by a large multi-media conglomerate just 36 months after its launch date.  Through personal experiences, Kristin has become educated in her food choices and disenfranchised with misleading marketing from health food stores she used to trust to source her food. With a daughter who became extremely ill with an autoimmune disease that is solely manageable utilizing food as medicine, finding the cleanest possible produce and protein became a mission in healing her teen daughter. Kristin's family has been raising organic vegetables, pasture-raised chicken eggs and grass-fed/finished beef since 2011. Kristin started Kristin's Farm Stand so other consumers could have a single transparent place to trust and buy fresh from the farm products without being bombarded by confusing terminology and messaging.  Kristin has a personal connection and direct line of communication with both local growers and world-renowned agricultural experts including Gabe Brown of Nourished by Nature, Blaine Hitzfield of Seven Sons Farm, Dr. David Johnson (soil science expert) of New Mexico State University, Dr. Alan Williams of Joyce Farms and more. Kristin's Farm Stand is the recipient of the 2019 Implementer Award at the Sustainable Denver Summit. With her past business, Kristin has appeared on Good Morning America, The View, CBS The Early Show, The Rachel Ray Show, along with spotlights in The Wall Street Journal, Money Magazine, Parenting Magazine, Shape Magazine, Parents Magazine, USA Weekend, USA Today along with hundred's of local television news, radio, online and print articles. Kristin is amazed daily at the healing power of clean food, and the remarkable business and life path that following your intuition can take you on. KristinsFarmStand.com (Colorado)@kristinsfarmstandKristins-Boise.com@kristinsboiseKristins-SaltLake.com@kristinssaltlakeTen Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

Podcast 009 | Thru-hiking the Appalachian TrailOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Calvin and Patti Yarbough about their experience of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, and the way that adventure has shaped their lives. 2:20     “We were novices when it came to hiking, and so we found ourselves tripping and slipping quite often, and so Tripper and Slipper seemed like appropriate trail names.” 5:09     “Really, just saying we're gonna do it, and the more we talked about it, the more emboldened we became…” 12:15   “I love reading, so the more information I could get about the AT, the more excited I got.  It wasn't so much trying to plan so I could avoid things, it's just because the AT is such a passion for me.” 13:52   “When we started, what we didn't know is that we would actually begin our attempt to thru-hike with an ice storm…” 17:44  “We hiked on top of mountains when there was lightning, you never know that's going to come up, that's not what you want to do.  We ran the mountain trying to get down…” 18:31   “One of the things we discovered on the trail is, you know what, a hiker is a hiker, we hike our own hike, but we are there for the same purpose, to be out and to hike.” 25:04   “My favorite time of everyday was getting up and having coffee and a honeybun.” 33:06  “We all live in our own bubbles, but when you get out and you're walking through a town you see it in a whole different light.” 36:27  “If there was any one thing that would keep you motivated to move, it would be the mosquitoes and the black flies.” 38:25   “My mindset was: for a time such as this, this is what I'm doing, and everything that might be uncomfortable or might be different, it's all worth it.” 41:27   “Coming up to that sign, that epic, iconic sign of Mt Katahdin (man I'm starting to get emotional even now), everything just wells up within you, all that you had accomplished together…” 46:07  “Coming Back, we asked ourselves ‘how can we adjust our lives now that we're back into the everyday world.  How now can we adjust our lives to this storm, to continue to live out our purpose to meet people right where they are?” 48:07   “Today, we are living more with less, living from our Airstream…” “Slipper” has read untold amounts of books and blogs about the Appalachian Trail and the Full Time RV Lifestyle, and we have discussed our reasons and purpose for thru-hiking the A.T in 2016 (and other trails thereafter) and for living the Full Time RV Lifestyle asap upon our return from our thru-hike.“Tripper's” life purpose is “To meet people where they are and help them to become all that they can be.”Tripper's thru-hike purpose is to learn as many “life lessons” as possible from nature and creation and return to write 4 books about the epic experience: a Relational book, an Inspirational/Motivational book, a How-We-Did-It book and a Children's book. Why? To help people “trip” less and hike more on their journey of life and to hike their own hike (whatever path they are on) to becoming all that they can be.” Living the RV Lifestyle will help us to maintain the simplicity of life while striving to live the rest of our lives as an ongoing adventure!“Slipper's” purpose is to be the helpmate to “Tripper” (with photo, media and partnership) and to help create and capture the “life lessons” that will be shared with others for generations to come. It is “Slipper's” desire to join “Tripper” in this epic venture to help people “slip” less and hike more on their life journey and to encourage others (via her thru-hike) to “put their best foot forward” in an attempt to climb and conquer any mountain that may stand before them. While some may want to move their mountain… Slipper's encouragement is: “Why not climb it?” The RV Lifestyle and the minimalist living that it provides enables us to “keep the main thing the main thing” (living a full and meaningful life of adventure, purpose, abundance and enjoyment).People are always asking us:How did you feel about your attempt to thru-hike The Appalachian Trail in 2016 and other trails around the world thereafter? How do you you feel about selling your house (and everything in it) to live Full-Time from an Airstream RV (less than 240 sq.ft)? You can read more about Tripper and Slipper on their blog and Instagram. Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

Podcast 008,  Art As Affirmation with Stephanie LeeOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Stephanie Lee, an artist, teacher, deep thinker, warm-welcomer, and friend based in southern Oregon. 4:16    “I've spent a lot of years believing that my presence as an artist was a lot more separate from who I am as a person than it is…” 5:08     “The reality is every aspect of life involves a certain perspective, a certain creative ingenuity, and that shows up in how we parent, how we garden, and the colors we put on canvas.” 9:32    “I did metal smithing for a long, long time, and because of the way I was relating to it, I did it longer than I should have.  I was doing it to please the people who enjoyed it…” 10:15   “One thing I know is that the medium is going to let me know it's time to be a part of my creative practice again.” 11:06   “Am I doing the thing that feels really enjoyable for me to do, even if it is the same thing I did yesterday and last month and a week ago and a year ago…” 14:15   “Leaving lots of room for those conversations about yourself and your world and your life and your creativity to evolve over time in your head is the biggest benefit of doing work that to others may seem like it's the same work.” 15:02   “Our creativity is not ‘just' for making beautiful things, as important and necessary as beauty is in our lives; our creativity is also to be a tool with which we can start transferring our curiosity in mediums that we given into difficult limited circumstances.” 17:59   “It really is about helping people think differently and move at the pace that feels true to them.  Because sometimes it's not what you do, it's the timing of when you do it.” 23:17   “It was an uncomfortable way of growing when I started realizing I need to be my own best advocate here.” 24:13  “Collaboration has helped me get more rooted in my own skills and talents and gifts that I have to offer the world, and it's also made me more open to recognizing where somebody else is bringing something to the table that I don't have.” 26:21   “Every hard thing that I've been through now is serving as information that I can share with people who are on that path, too.”  Stephanie Lee grew up among the mountains and red rocks of Utah but now calls Southern Oregon home. She lives with her (adorably sexy) husband, Vince (who can build/fix/do anything he puts his mind to), teenage daughter Annabelle, dogs Elsie and Rumi, and three cats who really need to up their game in their mole hunting duties. Vince and Stephanie share four more grown children (one of whom she brought into the world) and she's decided that being a grandma before the age of 40 is pretty much the best thing ever.Her therapist is her garden and the backpacking trails where nature and Stephanie have pretty good conversations about all the things. She has pretty good homesteading skills and she admittedly fantasizes about living off the grid in a cozy cabin where there is snow in the winter and the summer finds her growing and canning her own food by the bushel (with a cute little coffee shop within walking distance, of course) and reading real paper books in the evening by firelight.How Stephanie would describe herself:I cry easily, even (and especially) when laughing and have amassed a plethora of other potentially useful skills that I have so far totally underutilized. These include, but are not limited to:Playing the piano and guitarCooking over a fireCanning and preserving foodMaking new friendsSaving ab workouts on PinterestUsing the very last drop of toothpaste out of the tube before throwing it away. (Waste not, want not!)Things I would like to add to this list but have heretofore managed to under-excel in:Running three miles without a lung collapsingBeing an overachiever (while simultaneously cultivating an Instagram feed of enviable “simple life” images, of course).Earning “cool mom” statusDancing in a way that does not look like a long armed troll trying to act casual when he just tripped over his shoelace.Yodeling.One thing is for sure: If you are excited about something, I will be SO excited with you and I will do everything I can to make sure you know how awesome you are. Because, if nothing else, I want you to feel really, really good about being all in with your unique and exquisite creative expression.Stephanie Lee ArtYou can find Stephanie on InstagramStephanie's new online course Art as Affirmation. Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.  

Episode 7 | Shabby Chic with Rachel AshwellOn this episode, Jeanne is excited to talk to the creator of the iconic Shabby Chic brand, Rachel Ashwell. 1:30     “I was born out of a flea market family…my mother would repair and sell antique dolls.I learned her unique eye of wanting to restore these funny little creatures with real authenticity.”  3:38    “I don't want to have a home where nobody can touch anything, but I still want it to be beautiful." 6:07     “I feel like I was a vessel, that this just came through me…as I grew up I just observed, and this kind of went into my wiring.” 7:03     “There was never a question in my mind of “oh no's”, it was always “Why not?” 9:30    “I didn't really know where I wanted to be a story teller.My story telling actually ended up being in my Shabby Chic world…there's always a story behind it.” 11:11   “I do better when I have seasons.  I feel that the seasons give me rhythm, it gives me the permission to go out and be exuberant, but it also gives me permission to go inward…” 15:30   “Faded glamour is a word that I use often to describe the vibe of the things that I buy [in England]…time-worn elegance is another…” 19:36  “Where I'm satisfied, where I feel my world reflects my authenticity…I'm such a deep philosophical person, that whatever those things are, if they go through my funnel of beauty-comfort-function, then it works.” 20:52   “Whatever that thing is, as little as a little ring dish with beautiful roses on it, or as big as a sofa, or a rug, or a chandelier, as long as it feels like it has soul…” 22:47   “There's that bit in the middle, where I think I got too weighed down by the business of business.  And I think that's something that any entrepreneur and creative person has to be very wary of.” 23:16  “It really is a lifestyle of how you set up your life so that creativity has a place all the time.” 24:17   “As a designer, at least in me, what works is when it just feels authentic, it just flows, and that's about having the right people around you.” 27:26   “I needed to feel that I had an anchor, and anchor of pilgrimage of Shabby Chic so no matter what the outcome of this kind of wobbly business time was, that there was this anchor of where Shabby Chic was solid, so I bought a Bed and Breakfast.” 29:29  “When I realized that the business side of it was overtaking the soulful joy of it, that's when it became not something that satisfied me quite as much…” 31:51   “My benchmark with everything…is if there's more, considerably more enjoyment than stress, and if there is, then its worth holding onto this and seeing how it can be nurtured.30 years ago Rachel Ashwell had a very simple mission; to inspire, guide and educate households across the world to live beautifully and comfortably without care. To invest in practical solutions rather than meaningless décor and to surround oneself with treasures that bring joy and breathe life into a home. These have become the hallmarks of Rachel's “Shabby Chic” philosophy; a way of living that has inspired households across the world.Today we move onto the next chapter of our story. Inspired by our past and elevated to meet the needs of our ever more discerning customer, we bring you “Rachel Ashwell.” A designer collection of furniture, bedding and bath essentials that are an evolution of Rachel's timeless design philosophy. Incorporating luxurious textiles, exquisite details and uncompromising quality that stands the tests of daily life.Currently Rachel Ashwell operates a retail location in Los Angeles as well as an online store, shabbychic.com. Both offering high quality furniture, bedding, décor and hand-picked flea market finds. Her “Simply Shabby Chic” collection is celebrating its 12th year at Target. With several new branded partnerships coming soon.In addition to her businesses, Rachel Ashwell has published 10 books, most recently in 2018 with Cico Books called “My Floral Affair.”You can find more of Rachel's storytelling at Shabby Chic.Also new clothing is available at https://www.shabbychic.com/ and https://www.dillards.com/search-term/shabby+chic?orderBy=6 Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.

On this episode, Jeanne interviews Bob Taylor, cofounder of Taylor Guitars, pioneer of groundbreaking changes to the process of crafting guitars, and passionate advocate of forest conservation.2:06  “I took industrial arts classes from the seventh grade on, and in 11th grade I wanted a guitar and thought ‘Well, I'll just make a guitar.' 7:08 “My business partners and I were 19 and 21, which is a way better time to take on something like buying a business.” 7:41 “It was a dream, and we were able to starve, barely pay bills, work all day and all night and all weekends, and make it happen.” 8:56 “I'm going to say that in the beginning I had neither confidence nor success, but I loved making guitars…” 9:50 “I think I probably live in the future maybe even more than the present.” 11:03 “I wanted to build guitars, and in order to build guitars we had to sell them…everything is a business.” 11:17 “I went down to register for college, got close to the office and turned around and just said ‘I can't do this'.  I got back on my motorcycle and left.” 12:51 “Every time I made a guitar, I just tried to make it better.” 13:37 “I just made tools to make my work faster, so every single day there was less stupidity I had to face.” 18:31 “He looked at me and said the sentence that changed my life, he said “Bob, what would you rather have—one done guitar, or ten half-done guitars?” 24:20 “It better be keeping you awake at night.  If you can go home and forget about it, you probably haven't found your passion.” 25:02 “There's three things you can do to improve your business, and I don't think there's four, I think there's three: 1. Training, 2. Organization, and 3. Technology…” 27:40 “You just get a little bit better, every day, every year.  Sometimes you can't see the daily improvements; you have to turn around and say “Where was I last year?  Oh yeah I guess I'm doing okay.” 34:51 “Your wealth is in your waste.  Look around and ask what you are wasting—  materials, time, talent, overproduction.” 37:10 “We're just going to use what the forest is giving us.  I got to make that decision with Taylor.”37:54 “We make a lot of changes by just doing them to our guitars…”39:03 “We miss the Rock 'n' Roll God stage; there weren't famous artists that played our guitars…so we decided to make our guitar the star of the story.”45:37 “I think sometimes people lose their confidence along the way, and blame things on customers that customers have nothing to do with.” 46:07 “To this day we do not build guitars based on what focus groups ask for.  We build the guitars that we want to build, we put them out there, and we take huge responsibility for that.”46:57 “I think you've got to look all the way back to the first time you did something with confidence, and just kind of reach into that feeling and pull it out again, over and over.” Bob TaylorCo-founder and President, Taylor GuitarsTaylor Guitars co-founder Bob Taylor is a pioneering acoustic guitar maker whose modern innovations have transformed the company from a small shop into a world-class manufacturer.Bob was 19 years old when he and co-founder Kurt Listug started the company that bears his name in 1974. Bob's slim-profile guitar necks and easy playability helped put Taylor on the map, and in the decades that followed, Bob introduced many groundbreaking refinements to the guitar-making process, establishing new standards of quality and consistency, and making the acoustic guitar more inspiring to players at every level. Today, Taylor is an industry leader and the top-selling acoustic guitar brand in North America. In recent years, Bob has turned his attention to forest conservation and sustainability initiatives, including several pioneering reforestation programs that are planting thousands of trees for the benefit of future generations of guitar makers and musicians.Taylor GuitarsStella FaloneEbony Project Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook. 

Episode 5: Restoration House with Kennesha BuycksOn this episode, Jeanne talks with Kennesha Buycks, a friend and collaborator who Jeanne admires for her honest and raw journey.2:35  “I was in a really dark season of my life, I'd experienced a lot of loss, and was dealing with a lot of grief.”2:52 “When you feel like you are not going to come out of that season— #1. You will, and #2. Find something that is just yours.  Which is what I did.”6:39 “I always think that God gets our attention with our love language…”8:58 “I was never meant to be this one dimensional type of person, none of us are.”13:22 “I think anytime you share what's authentically in your heart it is so raw and so vulnerable, you have to just let it be what it is.”14:29 “There is this collective idea out there somewhere that because I wrote this book that I somehow arrived at some place…”15:43 “There is such value in recognizing that with every season of life, every home, that you're probably going to have to go through it again…”17:51 “I've discovered through this business more of who I am, and how much more impactful this has been because of that.”21:28 “I never felt like I needed permission to be who I am from anyone but God…”25:01 “There were a lot of black women who [in response to my blog post about race] said ‘Thank you for raising this point, thank you for opening this conversation…”26:18 “The most engaged people are is when I talk about the connection between race and home.”28:17 “We can really make changes right now, if we choose to, in who we are sharing and what we are looking at, and that's doable…Who are we cheering on, who are we promoting?”31:10 “When I say ask the hard questions, I don't just mean talking to someone who's not like you, I'm saying introspectively turning the mirror on yourself and asking ‘Why do I feel this way?'”32:32 “What comes out of our brokenness and the recognition of that brokenness is that you heal, which is beautiful and whole…”37:21 “When I feel the calling for something and I have have no idea where it's going to lead me, but if I follow my gifts and my passions, it will lead to my purpose…” Kennesha Buycks is the creator of Restoration House--a home and lifestyle brand + blog focusing on creating spaces that fulfill beyond the aesthetic and that speak to the restorative aspects of home.A Southern transplant to the Pacific Northwest, she has a passion for connecting others, gathering, and inspirational styling and design. When Kennesha is not busy being a wife to her amazing husband or a mama to her four kids, she spends her time writing, blogging, and encouraging others to live life uniquely and with passion. Find her online HEREConnect on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn't take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE. Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA free ebook if you are looking for some rest in your day-to-day like I was.Get your free resource Ten Tips HERE. Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com. You can connect with Jeanne on Instagram and Facebook.