Beyond + Back Podcast

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Ep. 14: Kathleen Shannon + Krissy Teegerstrom Jul 27, 2019

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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Kathleen Shannon is a designer, creative director and podcaster. For this episode, we flip the format and Kathleen Shannon interviews me, Krissy Teegerstrom, your host of the Beyond + Back podcast. Kathleen co-hosts a podcast for creative entrepreneurs called Being Boss, with her business bestie Emily Thompson. Since 2015 they've recorded over 200 episodes, racked up nearly 8 million downloads and published a book together. In this episode Kathleen and I talk about art, spirituality, authenticity, meditation, why I started this podcast and my business Featherweight Studio, the challenges we both face as creative entrepreneurs and lots more. We recorded it remotely from our laptops, several states apart from each other.

Ep. 13: Evelyn From The Internets, Storyteller Jul 13, 2019

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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Storyteller Evelyn Ngugi, aka Evelyn From The Internets, and I spoke at her co-working space in Austin, Texas. Evelyn is a writer, speaker, performer and humorist with 10 years of videos she's shared on her YouTube channel, garnering more than 13 million views and 200K subscribers (Beyoncé is a fan!). We talked about the pros and cons of sharing your work online, how to separate yourself from your work, how learning new skills is a good way to combat inevitable self-doubt, and how we're comforted to know that all creatives grapple with similar questions.

Ep. 12: Paul Frank, Artist & Designer Part 2 Jun 29, 2019

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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Part two of my conversation with artist and designer Paul Frank. In episode one, we talked about the beginning of Paul's creative journey and the initial inspiration behind some of the characters you know and love, including the beloved Julius the monkey.

In this second episode, we talk about how those original characters grew into Paul Frank Industries, the hugely successful company that he co-founded with two partners. Paul eventually left that company and then returned, then parted again ... and we'll talk about how his relationship continues to evolve as the company changes hands. We also discuss his creative process around building the brand, from designing award-winning trade show booths to thinking of every element of design and experience within a retail store. And we talk about how making art can save you.

Ep. 11: Paul Frank, Artist & Designer Part 1 Jun 29, 2019

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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Paul Frank is best known as the co-founder of Paul Frank Industries, a multi-million dollar company that found success in the mid-1990s with his iconic characters like Julius the Monkey.

In this first of two episodes with Paul Frank, we talk about the beginnings of his creativity, what influenced his early work, where Julius the monkey came from and the fun and the function that comes from just figuring things out yourself.

Ep. 10: Smash Everything with Billie Joe Armstrong Dec 08, 2018

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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I speak with multiplatinum selling musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Billie Joe Armstrong of the band Green Day. We talk about the solitude needed to nurture a creative seed versus the fortitude needed to share it with the world, the benefits of encouraging others, and what we can accomplish when we keep pushing past our comfort zones. I spoke with Billie Joe in his studio in Oakland, California.

Ep. 9: Practice Pays Off with Aimee Mann Nov 24, 2018

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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Singer, songwriter & musician Aimee Mann began her career in the 1980s. Early on, she had a breakout hit with her band Til Tuesday, but that has not defined her career. Since then she has created a body of work as a solo artist, winning Grammy Awards and nominations for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for her work on the soundtrack to the movie Magnolia. She maintains her own signature voice and songwriting style, yet she's adept at collaborations and transitions, including a successful move from a major record label to releasing work on her own independent label for over a decade. In this episode we talk about talent versus hard work, her approach to songwriting, and why Aimee thinks it's important to say yes. We spoke in Aimee's home in Los Angeles, California.

Ep. 7: At Ease with Tunde Adebimpe Oct 27, 2018

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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Talking with Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio in his art studio outside his home in Los Angeles, CA. We talk about giving ourselves permission to do more than one thing, how art can save lives, and how we can use our creative outlets to help process the difficulties and trauma we experience. In addition to being a musician, he's also a working actor, often collaborates with other artists, and when we spoke, he was preparing for his first solo art show at a gallery in LA.

Ep. 6: The Noise Floor with Jerry Harrison Oct 13, 2018

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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Jerry Harrison may be best known for his work in The Modern Lovers and Talking Heads. He's had great success as a music producer with bands including Live, No Doubt, and most recently Le Butcherettes. He's been involved in film, start-ups, he's in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, he's maintained a creative career for over 40 years and he has a knack for knowing where to invest his energy. In this conversation we talk about self-doubt, family bonds, ghosts, and collaborating with large personalities. I talked with Jerry Harrison in the recording studio at his home in Mill Valley, California.

Ep. 5: Come Rain or Come Shine with Robert Lopez Sep 29, 2018

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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From Seattle, WA, we go beyond and back with musician and entertainer Robert Lopez. Perhaps best known as El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, Lopez is a lifelong creator, starting in his teenage years in the Los Angeles punk scene and continuing to make art today with his latest creation, Mr. Bob and The Unhappy Hour. He is a singer, songwriter, actor, a sincere trickster. He'll make you laugh and cry. He's calculated and spontaneous, regal, radical, and subversive, his personal is always political. He is many things at the same time. This conversation rattled me and I spent a lot of time reflecting on it. I invite you to listen for yourself, please forgive if I am more clumsy than usual, and at the end I'd like to share with you what I've learned. I talked with Robert Lopez in the kitchen of his beautiful Seattle home.

Ep. 4: Getting Unblocked with Kime Buzzelli Sep 15, 2018

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Thanks for listening. I'm your host, Krissy Teegerstrom, and I'm an artist and a designer. Please find me and support my art at www.FeatherweightStudio.com.

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From Joshua Tree, CA, we go beyond & back with fine artist Kime Buzzelli. What would cause an accomplished artist to experience a creative block? Kime is an accomplished painter and owns The End Yucca Valley, a vintage oasis in the Mojave Desert featuring clothing, jewelry, textiles and art. I came to know her as a tastemaker, stylist, costume designer and a supporter of artists, but for a long time, I had no idea of Kime's career as a painter, though she's shown in galleries and had partnerships with major brands. I was curious why she didn't mention that sooner, and I wanted to see her new work. That's when I found out she hadn't been painting. In this episode we talk about that creative block, putting in the hours toward your creative practice, what we've learned from our work and much more. I spoke with Kime in her secret new art studio in the high desert near Joshua Tree, California.

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