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Karen Walrond is a bestselling author and the creator of the award-winning blog, Chookooloonks. She’s a TEDx Speaker, a certified Daring Way facilitator, and part of One.org, a grassroots organizatio…

Andrea Pippins is a successful illustrator and author who didn't take any art classes until her senior year in high school. She applied three times to the Tyler School of Art at Temple University bef…

Fear researcher, author, and productivity expert, Roanne Van Voorst used to be an overworked academic scared of dogs, flying, public speaking, risk-taking, and heights. Then Roanne started putting he…

Catherine Rains is a collage artist and painter. She began making art at 33-years old to help relieve the stress of her full-time job. Over the last two decades, Catherine has built a strong followin…

Grace Chin makes art that is both political and pretty, useful and ornamental. She makes beautiful wreaths that surround strong personal and political statements like “smash the patriarchy, hope fier…

Alisha Sommer is a freelance writer and photographer who is, at heart, a storyteller. She is a mama of three, a lover of wine, words, and light. She began her own business at home, as a young mom, wa…

Michael Gebbens is a videographer, motivational speaker, and business coach. Here Michael shares about the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, the truth about money and business (and his own story o…

Alena Hennessy is an intuitive painter, teacher, writer, and workshop leader. She’s been doing the art thing for twelve years and making enough money to keep doing art for the last four years. Alena…

Mixed media artist, Nikki Cade, left her full-time job as a special education teacher in June of this year to pursue art full-time. Because she’d spent the last several years building an online follo…

Christa david left a six-figure earning career in public health for a full-time gig as an artist. She makes collages, paintings, and photographs that she sells online, through galleries, and in-perso…

Director, photographer and filmmaker, Jethro Waters, is best known for a more avant-garde, magical realist approach to filmmaking. His work has been published in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Pitchfor…

L'Erin is a healer. And by healer I mean warrior. She's been to rock bottom and, like a phoenix, risen from the ashes. Now L'Erin makes her living as a "soul guide, shadow diver, and spiritual teache…

L'Erin is a healer. And by healer I mean warrior. She's been to rock bottom and, like a phoenix, risen from the ashes. Now L'Erin makes her living as a "soul guide, shadow diver, and spiritual teache…

Artist and Illustrator, Lisa Congdon, spends her life making art and teaching others about art. She speaks openly and honestly about things most people never talk about like how to navigate the murky…

Ashley and I talk about how Ashley went from "broke as shit" to selling to hedge-fund managers and billionaires, the formula for figuring out who you are and what you want to say, money, and how to n…

From a Ku Klux Klan rally to Poet-in Residence in Greenville, SC, Glenis Redmond has been changing live through poetry her entire adult life. In this interview we talk about how to get on the right p…

we talk about creative problem solving, the challenges of collaboration, how to run a successful kickstarter campaign, why it matters where your things come from, and how to have more with less.