Connecting Freelance Educators with Tania Marien
- Author
- Tania Marien, Maria Xenidou
- Published
- Thu 01 Aug 2019
- Episode Link
- https://impactlearning.simplecast.com/episodes/marien-educators-ddBoJwTj
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
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Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Mentioned in this episode
Tania's blog post about The Podcast Fellowship by Seth Godin
What Tania used to do: https://artplantaetoday.com/about-2/
Her Podcast Talaterra
The Society of Botanical Artist
The Guild of National Science Illustrators
Seth’s Udemy Course: The Freelancer Course
Nina Simon - The Art of Relevance
Seth Godin - The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Listen to this episode and explore:
Tania’s childhood in the backyard and playing teacher at school (2:57)
Learning at school: homework as a refuge and free-style writing (7:00)
Studying biology in college (8:36)
Creating a support course for the introductory biology course (10:40)
After the Masters Degree: working in education and quickly taping out (13:54)
Discovering botanical illustration and becoming a freelance educator (14:46)
Educating people about botanics through her website, bookstore and plant illustrations (16:59)
Getting the word out about her freelance business (19:43)
The lessons she learned in her first 16 years (22:32)
The Dip in her business (25:01)
The importance of courses and workshops in her learning and work journey (28:48)
A Sabbatical year that started with the AltBMA (31:36)
How to choose workshops and seminars in the plethora of offerings (33:24)
The Freelance Condition Project: putting the freelance environmental educators on the map (35:47)
The Talaterra Podcast: creating a community of freelance environmental educators (40:05)
The most critical decision in her learning journey: letting go of her business endeavor (45:26)
A new way to live, learn and work: peer-learning and the power of the community (46:37)
The hardest lesson she learned: letting go faster (50:52)
The mark she wants to leave during her lifetime (55:46)
