Every week I invite listeners to leave a review on iTunes, or the Apple Podcast player. If the podcast has made a difference for you, and you send me a note letting me know how, then leaving me a review is how you apply to be featured on the podcast in a listener spotlight!
Listener Joni Lynn Nelson left this review on iTunes: [Read more…]
Last week I shared a story from my sad week at Jazz Camp West.
Part of that story involved my intense feelings of shame and embarrassment when I screwed up a performance.
We’ve all had an experience like that. Even if you’ve never performed onstage, if you’re a creator, you’ve certainly created something that didn’t come out the way you wanted. That’s a guarantee.
And that feeling is the worst, right?
And the bigger the project, the more expectations you load on the outcome, the worse the feeling.
So back when my main gig was as a ketubah artist, when I was a full-time freelance artist and designer working on commission, my entire self-worth was wrapped up in [Read more…]
I was being interviewed for a podcast the other day, telling a story I’ve told countless times, about how I quit making art at age thirteen.
Why did I quit? Because other kids were better at drawing than I was. Or so went my thinking.
They were the real artists, not me. So I quit.
What’s left unspoken in there is that I clearly felt like I had no business making art, no right to make art, if I couldn’t do it up to some impossibly high standard I set for myself.
Hello, perfectionist paralysis.
If I couldn’t measure up to [Read more…]
Way back in August of 2015 I received an email in my inbox that made me perk up my ears.
Now, I have to tell you, probably 90 percent of requests from strangers that I receive via email go straight into the trash. But this email, even though it was a request from a stranger, and it was a little on the long side, got my attention.
And this woman, Denise Logan of Chase What Matters, got an invitation to be on my podcast.
That said, it has taken a year and a half for the recording to go live, which is really embarrassing.
Even more embarrassing, there are actually five more conversations from that same time period that are still waiting to be published.
Why has it taken so long?
(And by the way, I published another conversation with Alessandra Wall a couple of weeks ago, which I said in that recording was from Fall of 2016. Correction: that conversation was actually recorded in 2015.)
Well, if you’ve been following me for any time at all, you can guess why these recordings have been languishing on my hard drive: [Read more…]
Back in early January I got an email from someone named Brett over at ProFlowers.com.
“Now that the holidays have passed,” he wrote,
we’re calling upon some of our favorite creators, crafters, and calligraphists to help prepare for the next major milestone in 2017: Valentine’s Day.
As a part of this fun initiative we’d like for you to dust off your dip pen, grab your ink and favorite paper, and get ready to create a handcrafted card for your own special valentine. To help jumpstart your creativity, ProFlowers would like to send you a bouquet of your choice from our Valentine’s Day collection that you can include within the photoshoot for your DIY Valentine’s Day card, or even incorporate within the card itself!
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