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**The Jeanne Oliver Podcast**

Welcome to The Jeanne Oliver Podcast where we talk all things business, art and lifestyle. Your podcast for building a more creative life.

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038: Leading your Team with Kristina Pfeil Apr 06, 2021

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Podcast 038 | Leading your Team with Kristina Pfeil

2:54 “My goal is to help the clients I work with so that their people-practices are engaging and

not distracting. I don’t want them to distract them from their core business.”

3:38 “That’s really where I have passion; to help those that don’t know they need the help, or

don’t have the skillset or 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, to

ask 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 enduring

passions and motivations around work?”

12:10 “The resume’ is just to get them in the door, just to get you interested, both as a person

looking for work and a person screening for work…then it is about getting on the phone and

starting to get a feel.”

14:42 “Nowadays people are not just looking for cool products, they are looking for companies

that 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 the

wrong 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 what

is expected of me at work?’”

24:20 “There are people who will disagree with me [when it comes to rewards at work] but I

always 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 to

comply with what was expected. And if I’ve done it right, it should never be a surprise, it should

be based on a series of conversations that supported that individual to know that they weren’t

on track.”

32:22 “Have you given this individual the respect to let them know that the way they are

showing 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. it

can 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’t

seem 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 can

co-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.

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037: Beholding and Becoming with Ruth Chou Simons Mar 23, 2021

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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.

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036: Created to Thrive with Matt Tommey Mar 09, 2021

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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

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035: The Creative Doer with Anna Lovind Feb 23, 2021

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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 community

where 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 are

deep, winter is dark and summer nights last forever.

Connect with Anna on Instagram and her website

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034: Strengths Finder with Nathifa Sligh Feb 09, 2021

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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/

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033: Stepping Away with Melody Ross Jan 26, 2021

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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/

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032: A House God is Building with Meshali Mitchell Jan 05, 2021

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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: @meshali

https://meshali.co/

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031: A Colorful Life with Sabrina Ward Harrison Dec 21, 2020

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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.

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Podcast: Room in the Trees~living a creative life:

http://www.roominthetrees.com/

Jeanne Oliver

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030: In the Studio with Ardith Goodwin Dec 08, 2020

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Podcast 030 | In the Studio with Ardith Goodwin

1:38 “It’s a full time job that is totally a creative-entrepreneur business and I absolutely love it because it is multi-faceted.”

2:30 “In year 9 in my teaching career I was at the top of my profession and my body just kinda gave out. I had to go on full disability, I had to retire from teaching, and 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 Oliver

Creatively Made Business

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029: At Home with the Nester Nov 24, 2020

Show notes

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: website

https://www.academyofhome.com/welcomehome : welcome home book

Jeanne Oliver

Creatively Made Business

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Ten Tips To Take Back The Peace

A 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.