The Jeanne Oliver Podcast

0:00 Intro

0:30 Meet Betty Soldi

4:14 Growing Up with Fireworks and Wonder

8:29 From Florence to London  

10:46 Words, Ink, and Finding Her Medium

12:49 Florence’s Easter Firework Tradition  

16:15 Florence as an Invitation to Presence  

19:51 Flourishes, Splotches, and Evolving Style

25:15 Handwriting, Feeling, and Creative Confidence

27:27 The Heart Behind Inkspired

30:27 A Lemon House Studio and Creative Sanctuary  

32:36 Collecting while Making Space  

34:42 Where She Goes for Inspiration

36:22 What to Put Down and Pick Up in the New Year  

39:31...

0:00 Intro

0:30 Meet Betty Soldi

4:14 Growing Up with Fireworks and Wonder

8:29 From Florence to London 

10:46 Words, Ink, and Finding Her Medium

12:49 Florence’s Easter Firework Tradition 

16:15 Florence as an Invitation to Presence 

19:51 Flourishes, Splotches, and Evolving Style

25:15 Handwriting, Feeling, and Creative Confidence

27:27 The Heart Behind Inkspired

30:27 A Lemon House Studio and Creative Sanctuary 

32:36 Collecting while Making Space 

34:42 Where She Goes for Inspiration

36:22 What to Put Down and Pick Up in the New Year 

39:31...

0:00 Intro

0:30 Meet Margaux Kent

1:13 Childhood Journals to Lifelong Habits

3:55 Writing as Processing

9:39 The Beginning of Peg and Awl

11:57 Living with Intention and Curiosity

13:25 Reevaluations in Life and Business

17:29 Homeschooling, Freedom, and Learning Through Living

19:31 Honoring your Creativity

25:23 Land, Nature, and Daily Rhythm

26:57 Personal Creative Play

28:50 How Peg and Awl Designs Products

31:30 Values and Touchstones in Business

37:44 Choosing Authenticity Over Trends

41:45 Music She’s Loving

43:29 Books, Films, and Bea...

0:00 Intro

0:30 Meet Brandi Hofer

0:56 Burning Out and Beginning Again

5:05 Art School, Early Discoveries, and Defining Success

8:26 Confidence, Courage, and “Be Brave Days”

12:25 Efficiency vs. “Cheating” in Art

23:21 Inspiration, Influence, and Art in Community

30:34 Murals: Starting Big and Learning Fast

36:56 Creative Dreaming and the Power of Stillness

41:07 Building a Multifaceted Business with Routine

55:21 Art, Entrepreneurship, and Motherhood

58:00 Creating with Intention and Advice for Artist Mothers

1:01:21 Community Projects and Creative Joy

1:07:22 How to Connect with Brandi<...

0:00 Intro

0:30 Welcome Back, Time Willard

0:55 Life, Family, and Creative Work

6:04 Rhizome vs. Rooted

11:55 Technology, Depletion, and Disconnection

29:46 Frequency and Distraction

47:52 The Hollowing Effect

59:30 Density and Depletion

1:22:23 Daily Resistance

1:31:07 Building Hope

1:37:51 The Moments that Matter

1:44:30 How to Connect with Tim

1:46:29 Outro

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Podcast  072 | Creativity, Cookbooks, and Copper Pots with Cat Bude

0:30 Meet Cat Bude

1:38 A Life Rooted in France

5:50 The Beauty of Gathering

7:36 Building a Lifestyle that Resonates

17:57 Navigating Online Boundaries

43:29 Staying Inspired to Cook

48:57 Finding Community at the Market

54:46 The Vintage Copper Business

1:00:04 The Farm

1:04:59 Resilience and Rhythm

1:10:38 Hard Seasons and the Aftermath

1:17:25 If Life Looked Different

1:24:12 How to Connect with Cat

Episode Seventy-One | Full Color Faith and Worship Beyond the Stage with Courtney Smallbone

0:00 Intro

00:30 Meet Courtney Smallbone

2:29 Being Aware, Not Just Awake

4:36 Cultivating Creativity

7:03 Fasting to Hear Clearly

9:45 Living Worship Daily

14:32 Letting Go of False Identities

19:04 How God Speaks Personally

22:59 Worship Without Expectation

25:18 Urgency to Use Our Gifts

29:23 Expressing and Honoring Creativity

43:47 Creativity and Motherhood

48:04 Staying Grounded in the Spotlight

51:42 Seeing God’s Glory

1:01:56 Rest as a Creative Rhythm

Podcast 070 | Living Abundantly Creative with a Diversified Business with Jana Roach

3:52 “The walls are 21 inches of bricks. So it's a very sturdy, old, amazing building. And when we walked into it to rent it, there was pigeon poop everywhere. And the tar that they used to use for the inside, they had hay and tar mixed together all on the walls. So it was not pretty. But to most people, you would walk in and be like just tear it down and sell the lot.”

12:47 “And [my business partner] is very good at never t...

Podcast 069 | The Kitchen Table Creative Club with Jennifer Rizzo

3:31 “I thought, well, a newsletter is a low-risk way for me to get ideas out there to share with people. And every newsletter is chocked full of information that normally focuses on one subject.”

5:31 “I think there are two really big things people really struggle with when they start. One is self-confidence, and the other is imposter syndrome.”

6:23 “There are probably some people that are out there living it. They believe in themselves 100%. But I think most of us never do. So, I do...

Podcast 068 | Eat. Pie. Love. with Tara Royer Steele

1:27 “God used pie in our life, and we knew nothing about pie. And through all of that, I have a pie shop and we have a bakery, which is our commissary kitchen. But it really has evolved into events and gatherings and retreats and feeding His people.”

7:39 “So “the gathering” is really (at the Pie Haven) just another tool to create a safe space for people to know Jesus well.”

13:48 “My mom taught me creativity. She taught me to just open up my door and l...

Podcast 067 | The Best is Yet To Come with Jan McCarthy

16:13 “So whatever it is, start a book club, start a dinner club...You'll find your community. Start an art club. Start talking to people about things that you like and finding out where those people are hanging out.”

19:49 “When my daughter, was 14 or 15, I let her move to California from Boulder to pursue a career, and that was her demanding to go, not me being the stage mom and saying, hey, let's get the heck out of here. And a lot of people didn't...

Podcast 066| Selling Art at Round Top with Mary Gregory

7:22 “We built wooden walls and painted them white. That made all the difference. It just looked more like a gallery situation and cleaner and nicer. And it makes painting the picture so much easier, too.”

11:21 “It takes a lot out of you. So, the main thing for me is just to try to keep my mind on things above, just not getting too caught up in whatever's hard that's happening, and just try to eat well and drink lots of water.”

...

Podcast 065| Overcome What Overwhelms You with Trina McNeilly

7:28 “Because what we're seeing on our screens every day is mostly the highs and curated things. And I get it. We don't want to just put all of the heart out there, but then—even unintentionally—your brain kind of gets programmed, “this is how it should be every day.””

12:46 “But it took someone saying to me “you're grieving” and then learning those stages of grief and then realizing, okay, yeah, I am having a hard time even accepting this, or I am angry. I'm dealing with depres...

Podcast 064| Rembrandt is in the Wind with Russ Ramsey

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

4:30 “I wanted to try to talk about art in a way that the farmer who lived down the road from me would hear the stories and say, that's a good st...

Podcast 063| Artpreneur with Miriam Schulman 

1:54 “It's like the same things, so you can never hear this often enough. I think the biggest thing I hear is the belief that cheaper is easier to sell.”

4:59 “So when I started writing this book in 2020, it felt like a very similar time to when I decided that I was not going to go back to corporate right after 911. The pandemic felt very similar. And the great resignation happened with millions of people walking away from their jobs. And I know that there's so many people wh...

Podcast 062 | Higher Pursuits with Sarah Martin

2:58 “I am going to focus on what I know to do best that I've been doing for the last many months in order to survive, which is seeking after that, which is higher, seeking after what I call higher pursuits.”

6:33 “It's as simple as everyday revival is, hey, I just really screwed up with my 14-year-old son in there. I'm going to go back in and repent, like out loud to him after I've repented before the Lord and say, I'm going to say, God, I'm sorry I was m...

Podcast 061 | Q+A with Stephanie Lee and Jeanne Oliver 

4:32 “A lot of that has come with the experience of realizing that sometimes the way you know how something works is just like diving into it and then experiencing how it works.”

9:40 “You're not just an artist. You're ministering to women's hearts and their creativity. So, these questions that I've come up with are coming from, like, I want to know you even more so in that capacity because I feel like that's a role that you play in my life.”

JEANNE: 1...

Podcast 060 | Not Letting Fear + Perfectionism Guide Your Life with Christa Forrest

6:20 “So I left, and I went to take an art class, and that was it. 

I took an art class, and it was like I hadn't been eating or drinking for the past how many years it was, and it was like, you're starving, and you got that first bite of food. And that's how I felt.”

8:40 “So I slowly started to plan, slowly started to kind of inch away from that comfortableness of a full-time job with a salary, benefits...

Podcast 059 | The God Artist with Roma Waterman

6:47 “I know there's going to be times where we're going to have to fight for what God's called us to. But I actually look back and I'm thankful for those seasons because they do truly refine you. They truly make you go, what is it that God really wants? What is the bullseye? Not just, yeah, I'm good at art, or I'm good at creating. What is it that you really want me to do? And so that's how I ended up here talking to you.”

9:22 “And all...

Podcast 058 | True Hospitality with Daune Pitman

9:05 “We really believe that time at the table is a sacred place. And when we spend time, it's just a natural place to connect; around the table, looking in people's eyes, sharing stories, laughing, talking, crying, just doing life together.”

12:26 “It is so simple gathering at the table, but it makes a huge impact on the people that are a part of it. And when we impact just one other person, then that person is going to impact other people. And I think you're right that it could ch...

Podcast 057 | There is Life and Hope in a Meal with Danielle Kartes

Hello!  I am Danielle Kartes. Welcome to Rustic Joyful Food!

Whether it’s through our books, television appearances, magazines spreads, or speaking engagements, we are on a mission to inspire people to love their lives and make delicious food. Great food isn’t great simply because its expensive or prepared with the finest tools, its great because of the love and care put into its creation. The most wonderful food we eat is wonderful because of who made it and how they loved us.<...

Podcast 056 | The Beauty Chasers with Timothy Willard

“Our country is kind of falling under this enchantment of sameness and not uniqueness.” 30:12

“People are thirsty for people and contact.” 34:50

"Before the Enlightenment period, you would ask an artist what their aim of their art was they would say beauty, but today they say transgression or self expression. It has shifted, the aim being something outside of ourselves… now has turned into ‘Me.’” 42:57

“It’s not too late. Beauty is there. Wonder is there. Intention is there. Pattern is the...

Podcast 055 | Ignite the World Around You with Jessi Green

“If you can actually have a relationship with God and really know the creator of the universe, and if the things we talk about in church are actually real, what else am I giving my attention to? This is obviously the most important pursuit of my entire existence.” 7:21

“It’s the experience of it all that drives us to want others to know what it can be for them too. When you have experience in something, there’s just this confidence to share it… Experience ch...

Podcast 054 | The Lies of Perfectionism with Sandi Hester

“I see that it (perfectionism) is a joy stealer, it’s an energy stealer, it steals the ability to think of others first or even at all, and because of that part of the self-focus, it isolates.” 6:05

“The bad speaks so much louder than the good. And when perfectionism and self-worship are present, it gives the bad a lot of power.” 8:14

“We can let perfect keep us from good.” 8:48

“Just say yes and figure it out later.” 21:09 Duration: 00:51:05

Episode Notes

Podcast 053 | Awake Awake with Sheila Atchley

“One of the saddest things to be is unaware.” 10:13

“You have a spirit of authority. Go love it. Find it and love it.” 16:07

“Your middle is as ordained a season as your beginning and as your end.” 16:18

“Your most valuable perspective in the middle is that of loving what is yours, and I would also say that your perspective is also your most valuable possession.” 16:34

“Jesus paid for my ultimate victory, but I...

Podcast 052 | Loss and Grief with Lorraine Bell

“The journey of faith is messy.” 19:11

“Don’t put off anything, do it.” 41:08

“Take that pass, you’ve earned it, you have a right to it, and say no to the things that you are not capable of.” 43:05

“There’s no formula, there’s no fixing it, you just have to walk with it and feel it and experience it.” 44:56

A self-taught Mixed Media Artist, Lorraine divides her time living between The Cayman Islands and Central Fl...

Podcast 051 | Art with Adele Sypesteyn

“All of this that I’ve learned and taught myself is going to go away unless I share it.” 22:26

“What you are is beautiful, just be what you are.” 25:09

“Just be more of who you are.” 26:06

“Everything has been done before but nobody can do it like you can.” 26:39

“I think artists are such a special group of people, we bring so much beauty and uniqueness in the world.” 30:11

Adele Sypesteyn

Raised by an artist who i...

Episode Notes

Podcast 050 | A Celiac in Italy with Catalin Varela

“I’ve always seen the world as being the best classroom." 4:54

“I made this promise to myself that I was going to wholeheartedly go after everything that lights me up regardless of how difficult or how risky it might be because I got so face to face with the fragility of life at such a young age and that was wildly clarifying for me.” 14:41

“Fearless is an interesting word to me because it’s not that I don’t ha...

Podcast 049 | Home Love and Nesting Fitzpatrick

“I think the best thing we can do for our homes is have our homes reflect really who we are, how we like to live, and that it represents the people that live there.” 1:47 

“I feel like it just showed me from a young age to think outside the box, to have spaces with character and life in them, to have a space that represents what you love…” 7:42

“What does it feel like to be in someone’s space and feel comfortable and b...

Podcast 048 | Keeping a Light with Deanne Fitzpatrick

“I do feel that we all have to keep a light for ourselves and that we have to keep a light for others.” 3:33

“Well to me it goes back to one of my key things, “How do I want my life to look and feel?” 4:45

“Do our actions line up with what we say we want?” 6:18

“I think you really have to ask yourself, “What do you want your life to mean?” And I think when you’re answering that qu...

Podcast 047 | Authenticity with Deanne Fitzpatrick

“You can only sustain being you.” 2:31

“It’s not what you got, it’s how you keep it.” 6:32

“Who are we that we can walk out consistently and sustain it?… If there’s parts of ourselves that aren’t true, we’ll never make it.” 17:57

“We make art to understand ourselves.” 20:23

“When we bring people together we give them the opportunity to belong to each other.” 22:56

“I love being with people who also know wh...

Podcast 046 | Seasons with Deanne Fitzpatrick

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

“There’s definitely seasons in my creativity just like there is with life.” 4:30

“I think sometimes we tell ourselves in transition times that we don’t have choices.” 7:56<...

Podcast 045 | Beauty Chasers with Deanne Fitzpatrick

“I just want to breathe beauty. I feel like if we’re not intentional about needing that, it’s really easy to get distracted and not see what we have.” 5:45

“I think that’s what we do once we define ourselves as artists, what we do is we refine.” 9:23

“Are we distracted or are we seeing?” 11:36

“Once people find their medium then they begin to chase beauty at a greater rate, and they begin to see with eyes that they never saw before.”...

Podcast 044 |Midlife and Creativity with Deanne Fitzpatrick

“Have your heart right where you’re at, have your eyes on what’s in front of you, because even though it doesn’t feel like it right now, it’s going to go away. It’s going to go away and there’s going to be a lot of time to do a lot of those things and you’re never going to regret being present where you’re at.” 6:42

“Never think that your creativity is only creativity if it’s in these big blocks of time.” 12:59<...

Podcast 043 | Don't Compare Your Seasons with Danielle Donaldson

“I was looking at your season which was different than my season.” 5:03

“The art will always be there, your kids won’t. Enjoy that time.” 5:42

“I really discovered that my passion and my purpose were two different things.” 6:02

“There are things you know in your head that you don’t believe in your heart.” 6:59

“Don’t compare the season you’re in with the season I’m in.” 7:24

“You don’t have excuses, there are...

Podcast 042| Motherhood and Creativity with Miriam Schulman 

“It took me a while to realize, “No, I can make a living from my art, and this is what I should be doing.’” 5:48

“It’s priority management and blocking your time into an ideal schedule.” 7:52

“I think you had a head start probably because you had already been honoring that creativity.” 10:28

“I always introduced myself as an artist. I owned that identity.” 17:27

“There’s always a story way before you have to tell a price” 19:10

“People don’t like that; they don’t like it when you...

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 profes...

Podcast 040 | Mastermind Groups with Renee Mueller

3:25     “Like many creatives, I was searching for something else to fill that void that dance had left for me, and I read The Artists Way…I started out learning as much as I can.”

4:22     “Because I had such a long career as a dance teacher, it seemed like a natural progression for me to start teaching 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...

Podcast 039 | Goodbye Instagram and Facebook with Kelly Rae Roberts

2:32 “I think of my art as sort of a marriage between my social work life and my creative
life…”

3:25 “Over time, especially as my business was growing, even with employees and help I just
found that my brain and my psychic space was always filled with go go go go go…”

4:44 “What I learned was that dismantling parts of your business is just as hard as building
parts of your business.”

11:52 “Between the drop ceiling and the fluorescen...

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 thems...

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 giftin...

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 cr...

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?’”

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...

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 impo...

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 pho...

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, fo...

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 re...

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...

Podcast 028 | Your Brand with Sandy Shaw

2:04 “And then my pragmatic side got the best of me, and it said, ‘Sandy, when you graduate

you better be able to get a job and support yourself.’ So I actually changed my major from art to

business.”

2:33 “I really wanted to return to art and launch my own business.”

4:16 “Whether it is an art business or any business, there are just so many things you need to

do, and it’s completely overwhelming. And that can just lead to wanting to shu...

Podcast 027 | Turning Over the Mic with Kelly and Jeanne Oliver

3:00 “I found some friends but not the friends I was supposed to be meeting, and then in

walks Kelly with a group of people, and I said, ‘Well, hello, welcome to my future husband.”

4:06 “We ended up talking the rest of the night, and we went on our first official date the next

week…”

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 online...

Podcast 026, | The Good Daughters Club with Kathi Graves

2:41 “My father was a functioning alcoholic, and my brother just…left.”

3:21 “A few years later, we decided to move to Charlotte to start a business and my husband

said we’re only going if Lucille [my mom] will go with us…”

5:21 “It was probably 3 or 4 years into that that we began to notice some things that indicated

her cognitive abilities could be diminishing.”

6:31 “One recurring theme was the oddity of mothering your mother, that journey was just

weird.”

11:04...

A design-loving, home-schooling, wellness entrepreneur who dove head first into creating her family's dream home and lived to tell about it. Her best days are a healthy balance of family, business and wellness. 

IG: @lovevanessawarren 

Jeanne Oliver

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Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com.

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Podcast 024 | The Vintage Round Top with Paige Hull

2:06     “I didn’t go to college, I was not formally trained in design, I have wrestled with ADD, and kind of am a border line control freak…”

4:44    “We took the scenic way home, down 237, through Round Top, and happened by this home that was for sale, and decided to go in…”

6:19    “We tried to buy that 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 st...

Podcast 023 | Creative Mojo with Tracy Verdugo

2:43 “I had the experience of having a younger brother who was what I thought at the time a

naturally gifted artist. It wasn’t until years later that I realized he spent every minute of his spare

time drawing.”

3:24 “When my husband and I were traveling in Mexico, I suddenly realized there were

cultures in the world where art was an integral part of their everyday life; it wasn’t this separate

thing that was put on a pedestal.”

...

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 Oliver

Ten Tips To Take Back The Peace

A free ebook if you...

Podcast 021  | Get Your Business Seen with Tyler Horsley

On this episode, Jeanne chats with Tyler Horsley, founder and CEO Nuclear Networking, a

digital marketing agency that helps drive leads or sales to businesses.

2:25 “There are three portions of search engine optimization (SEO), the process of earning

Google’s trust, and appearing as qualified 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 bac...

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Jeanne Oliver

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Become the artist you dream to be. Creativity is Calling at jeanneoliver.com.

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Podcast 019 | Follow Your Gut with Wendy McWilliams

On this episode, Jeanne chats with Wendy McWilliams, an abstract painter, teacher, and health

coach 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 about

me…”

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 looked Duration: 00:43:49

Podcast 018 | Don’t Doubt the Journey with Jennifer Little

On this episode, Jeanne talks with Jennifer Little a trendsetter and stylist, and owner of

HEYDAY, an online and brick-and-mortar store in Denver, Colorado and Fort Collins, Colorado

and sister store Knapsack.

2:27 “I have always been a big believer that design principles translate into all areas of

design.”

3:07 “I used to think ‘Gosh, this isn’t working and this isn’t working, and all these things I’m

trying just aren’t panning out.’ And I...

Podcast 017 | Memory Keeping with Ali Edwards

On this episode, Jeanne interviews Ali Edwards, teacher, designer, author, and pioneer in the

world 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 was

going 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 “...

Podcast 016 | Creating Passive Income with Digital Products with Jen Wagner

On this episode, Jeanne talks with Jen Wagner graphic artist and type designer who deeply

believes 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 of

that to the money I made.”

5:24 “If I’m off balance…you can see it in my work where usually if...

Podcast 015 | The Farm Chicks with Serena Thompson
On this episode, Jeanne interviews Serena Thompson, stay-at-home mom turned creator of
nationally 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 star
at that point was Emma Lee Turney who founded the Round Top Antiques Fair, she was such a
pioneer and just doing beautiful things.”

6:09 “She told me to call mys...

Podcast 014 | Creating a Visual and Verbal Identity with Goodvoice Group

On 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 like
we’ve really nailed it.”

7:06 “100% of our clients come to us with a pretty shallow understanding of who they are. It’s
not 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 re...

Podcast 013 | Stencil Girl with Mary Beth Shaw

On 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...

Podcast 012 | Brave and True Girl with Lara Blair

On 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...

Podcast 011 | Building a Creative Business with Kasia Avery

On 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 t...

Podcast 010 | Leverage What Makes You Unique with Kristin Varela-Schild

On 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 f...

Podcast 009 | Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail

On 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 ge...

Podcast 008,  Art As Affirmation with Stephanie Lee

On 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    “...

Episode 7 | Shabby Chic with Rachel Ashwell

On 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 cam...

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...

Episode 5: Restoration House with Kennesha Buycks

On 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…”

Episode 4 | Publishing vs. Self-Publishing with Tonia Jenny

On this episode, Jeanne interviews Tonia Jenny, editor and artist who helps creatives publish their own work. Jeanne and Tonia talk in depth about the pros and cons of different approaches to publishing.

1:25 “I feel like right now, if you are a writer, if you have creative ideas, if you want to put them out into the world, I think for the first time, you have more options than ever before.”

2:57 “What are the pros of going with a publishing company?”

3:24 “Credibility and expense are the tw...

Episode Notes

Episode 3 | When you get creatively stuck, with Kate Thompson

On this episode, Jeanne talks with her friend and peer, Kate Thompson. Kate is a prolific artist, working in mixed media including fiber and fabric, and loves to think deeply about the creative process.

1:02 A little bit about Kate Thompson’s journey into art.

4:41 “I started painting on a regular basis, every single day I was painting, and at first I was not good at it.”

7:12 “Teaching art, the world opened up to me, the thing is, I had to s...

Episode 2 | The Power of Consistency with Weldon Long

On this episode, Jeanne interviews her friend and mentor Weldon Long. Weldon Long is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling author of The Power of Consistency.

1:24 Weldon’s story of overcoming cycles in his life to become who he is now.

2:55 “I just made a simple decision, about four hours after my father died, that I’m going to change my life.”

3:41 “It all came down to changing my mindset. It’s the single most important thing.”

5:34 “The number one c...

Episode 1 | Let's Hear it For The Underdogs

Jeanne tells the story of how she came back to herself as a creative, how she learned to honor and value her own gifts, and how those gifts have shaped her world for good.

1:20 The story begins

2:56 “I often felt like my currency wasn’t the most valued and then in turn, I didn’t see my worth.”

4:03 “I shared my portfolio of sketches with my guidance counselor, and a few adults in my life... and was discouraged about going to art school.”

4:45 “In t...