071: Full Color Faith and Worship Beyond the Stage with Courtney Smallbone

Podcast  072 | Creativity, Cookbooks, and Copper Pots with Cat Bude0:30 Meet Cat Bude1:38 A Life Rooted in France5:50 The Beauty of Gathering7:36 Building a Lifestyle that Resonates17:57 Navigating Online Boundaries43:29 Staying Inspired to Cook48:57 Finding Community at the Market54:46 The Vintage Copper Business1:00:04 The Farm1:04:59 Resilience and Rhythm1:10:38 Hard Seasons and the Aftermath1:17:25 If Life Looked Different1:24:12 How to Connect with Cat

Episode Seventy-One | Full Color Faith and Worship Beyond the Stage with Courtney Smallbone0:00 Intro00:30 Meet Courtney Smallbone2:29 Being Aware, Not Just Awake4:36 Cultivating Creativity7:03 Fasting to Hear Clearly9:45 Living Worship Daily14:32 Letting Go of False Identities19:04 How God Speaks Personally22:59 Worship Without Expectation25:18 Urgency to Use Our Gifts29:23 Expressing and Honoring Creativity43:47 Creativity and Motherhood48:04 Staying Grounded in the Spotlight51:42 Seeing God’s Glory1:01:56 Rest as a Creative Rhythm1:09:33 Outro Follow Courtney HEREGet your own copy of Technicolor Woman HERE Connect with Jeanne on Facebook or InstagramJeanne Oliver YouTube: HEREBecome the artist you dream to be. Creativity is calling at jeanneoliver.com   

Podcast 070 | Living Abundantly Creative with a Diversified Business with Jana Roach3:52 “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 taking anything personally. And so it's always, “okay, how can we solve this? Okay, I totally see your side of that. Here's my side of it.” And I am learning to be more that way.” 21:22 “It was just one of those things coming out of 2008, we got to go do something that isn't construction, right? So he worked a lot of years in the oil field, and while we were there, towards the end of it, we were feeling so stuck and he was just a shell because he is so creative.” 22:43 “So he's carving 20-30 mushrooms at a time. And then we would take preorders on Instagram, and we would say, all right, we're going to be delivering to Salt Lake City on this date, so let us know how many mushrooms you want.” 27:54 “And I think that's where both Vanessa and I… We will do the craziest things, but we know that there's always something good that comes out of it. So say yes as much as you can. If it seems like there's going to be too much work involved, there probably is, but at the very least you have a great story.” 30:09 “We had to scale overnight. And he brought on another carver, And it's not easy to hire for that position because you have to have the artistic sense to create something that is going to work, but also looks like what you want it to look like.” 34:12 “I would say the work life balance is one of the things that we have honestly struggled with most because sometimes we're really good at prioritizing family time and time with the boys and sometimes because of finances or a deadline, it's like, sorry, we've got to work this weekend.” 35:22 “But it's so hard to make time for God in all of this business and family. You get so overwhelmed and you're putting a ton of time and energy into making this thing a success that you're trying to do for the glory of God, that you realize that you're neglecting your relationship with God.” 38:26 “I just think in time that we live in, it's so easy to just scroll. And the worst for me is when I'm not working on businesses and I'm like, I have been watching reels of dogs for an hour and a half. What am I doing?” 40:39 “[When opening a brick and mortar,] be prepared to spend and invest more than you think you will need to when you first start out.” 43:53 “[when creating a product,] You're not going to get it right the first time. There are so many iterations of products that we've designed that aren't quite right the first time, so you have to tweak it, and you just have to keep trying.” 48:14 “[College] was awful for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do. And I think, honestly, it was a hard mindset shift because I felt like I was failing because I wasn't doing the college thing.”Jana Roach is a creative business owner, vintage shop owner, and designer/decorator who lives in north-western Montana with her husband and two boys. Jana co-owns Honey Home and Design, a vintage shop that sells vintage and contemporary homeware. She also co-owns a seasonal vintage market called The Market Beautiful and co-owns a furniture company called Beck & Cap, which crafts organic modern wooden furniture ranging from coffee tables to custom-designed pieces. Jana and her husband also purchased a historic building, which they are renovating and turning into an event space and showroom for Beck and Cap furniture. Jana's priority has always been to use what she loves rather than what's in trend, creating a home filled with personal details that tell the story of who she is. She is all about beauty and aesthetic in every aspect of life! Personal Instagram @janaroachBlock Fifty event space: www.instagram.com/blockfiftymtBeck and Cap Furniture@beckandcap on Instagramwww.beckandcap.comHoney Home and Design@hellohoneyhome on InstagramThe Market [email protected]  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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.

Podcast 069 | The Kitchen Table Creative Club with Jennifer Rizzo3:31 “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 still struggle with it all the time; comparison is the thief of joy. And for me, it took me a long time to legitimately call myself an artist.” 7:50 JEANNE “And I think it does help when you say, “I’m a designer. I'm a landscaper. I'm an artist. I'm a (whatever your thing is)” and to actually own it and believe it.” 9:19 JEANNE “And the thing is, if you are the most incredible artist, but you don't share it, you're not going to grow and you're not going to be able to make anything of it.” 14:44 “When I was leaving my store, I read a great book called Necessary Endings and it really helped me navigate that sometimes we do need to end things for the betterment of our own peace, our own health, and our own life.” 19:46 “I wanted [being a paramedic] to be my lifelong career. And walking that out, it became the hardest, ugliest, most growth-filled, and beautiful experience ever. And I walked away from that with no regrets having done it at all, even though I cannot even get to talk about the things I experienced going through it. And some beautiful, wonderful things too.” 30:43 “We've probably eaten at our dining table less than I've painted at it at this point. Because it's always been like my go-to work surface even sometimes today I'll pull stuff out there. But yeah, that's where I started from it just kind of went from there.”  Since 2007, Jennifer Rizzo has grown her online brand jenniferrizzo.com as a licensed artist, lifestyle content creator, author and designer.  As a content creator, she has been featured in and has produced projects for over 20+ publications such as Country Living magazine, Romantic Homes, Oprah.com, This Old house, and WGN channel 9 midday news.  Jennifer teaches creative classes, on-line and in person art workshops and creative video e-courses, and speaks at public engagements. As a content creator, she's works with national brands in content creation and as an ambassador, including free-lance written and video content. As a licensed artist and product designer, she has over 15 years of retail and wholesale experience including a former co-owner in a brick and mortar boutique. With her long term experience in retail/wholesale and social media, she now also free-lance consults with small businesses on SEO, niche social media marketing, branded marketing, direct to consumer marketing, and how to leverage and grow their online presence to creatively reach their customer and build their brand.Jenniferrizzo.comThe Kitchen Table Creative ClubYour Creative Business and Getting Started E- Book HERE.HTTPS://Facebook.com/jenniferrizzodesigncompanyHTTPS://instagram.com/Jenniferrizzodesigncompany  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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.

Podcast 068 | Eat. Pie. Love. with Tara Royer Steele1:27 “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 let anybody in and feed them. And she taught me about spending lots of money on shoes. Don't do that one.” 16:34 JEANNE: “If you know someone that has lost their mom, be a person that checks in on them. Just to say, what are you doing? How are you doing? Because it is a huge void.” 28:37 “I'm pulling myself down, but God's like, listen, hey, I want you to jump out of that bucket and go bold and go scared.” 29:03 “Quit saying I'll pray about it. I'm not saying don't pray. Don't get me wrong. But if God's telling you go do something good, then go do it. Break those prayers down into, okay, could you explain for me what the next step is?” 31:38 JEANNE: “And I think when people are grieving, to say to them, “let me know if you need anything” is the worst thing that you could say, because they're not going to let you know.”Tara Royer Steele also known as The Pie Queen has been in the pie business for 36 years. When she was 12 years old her family moved to Round Top, TX & took over a little ole cafe in the heart of the square. That cafe is now known world wide as Royers Round Top Cafe.She’s married to her knight in shining armor Rick Steele & together they have 2 boys, Brayden & Bentley. It has always been a dream for Rick & Tara to work along side each other which they do very well & often you will find their boys jumping in to help as well. Tara & Rick opened Royers Pie Haven in 2011 which is located in Henkel Square in Round Top, they also have their wholesale HUB called Bake Shop at All Things Acres which is located  in Brenham, TX. Last year they started shipping their pies & baked goods. You can order them on their website www.allthingsacres.com or at www.royerspiehaven.comTara’s dream has always been to gather people through Jesus, Pie & Coffee, she often says PIE is just what gets the people in the door! It brings her such joy to be able to gather people & share the love of Jesus. Her passion to help people is what drove her to start their non profit Gather ’N Grace which aims to help everyone get to God’s best for their life. You can find out more information at www.gatherngrace.org Tara also wrote a book Eat. Pie. Love which is an illustrated devotional with recipes. Her book has hit #1 best sellers in Pie Baking, Thanksgiving cooking, & religious books on Amazon & continues to hit record sales. You also can find Eat. Pie. Love at your local Cracker Barrel and select Barnes & Noble.You might have seen her recently on The Today Show with Hoda & Jenna,  LIVE with Kelly & Ryan, or on The Food Network show: Food Paradise, along with a few others. Royers Pie Haven was also just named one of the top bakeries in the South by Southern Living. Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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.

Podcast 067 | The Best is Yet To Come with Jan McCarthy16:13 “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 understand my decision that I would let her leave school like I did. But sometimes you just got to do what is right for you and your family and only you know best, or you hope you do.” 22:06 “But I remember my mother sending me a letter and asking me if I was going to be a waitress for the rest of my life. And so, I think it really stung me. It was probably the first time that I really started thinking about who am I?” 22:26 “And I have always learned to say yes to opportunities and be able to see opportunities. So, my life kind of turned around. I ended up getting a job that took me all over the country, traveling, which was kind of amazing.” 27:47 JEANNE: “Anybody listening, don't put down some of those things that are really precious about you, because when your beautiful kids start going off and doing their own thing, you're going to be right in stride with them as they're doing their own thing.” 31:14 “Or I started art, making art for the first time in my 50s. That's what I mean by it just gets better and better that you never know what's around the corner there. It could be the one thing that you just never knew.” 33:35 “I told my husband this whenever I first met him—I think he thought I was a little bit arrogant—I said, “I want. I have.” That was kind of my quote. It didn't come from a place of being arrogant. It came from a place of, if I want something, I'm going to do whatever I need to do to try and accomplish it and have it.” 36:57 “And I feel like my conversations with people can transcend whatever age. It's like we all have something to contribute. I'm so impressed with younger people, and I'm also impressed with people who are in their 90s that I know.” 43:22 JEANNE: “As we get older, I feel like we can get really good at doing only the things we're really excellent at, instead of putting ourselves in the position to be beginners at something and to know that we might fall on our faces."I'm a creator. I make art to autograph moments, the fleeting emotions and undefinable feelings that can only be expressed in imperfect swipes, lines, or ripped pieces of paper. I use my art as a way to connect and share these flashpoints of time that slip away. Every mark I make with a handcrafted brush on one of my canvases, papers or towers, is a unique gesture. I find this process essential as a personal statement, a reclaiming of my point of view, of being a woman, of aging. I’ve never allowed how the world might aim to herd the masses as a reason to follow the pack. I hear the beat of a different drummer. This constant resistance feels vital to me.  I collaborated with fashion designers Eni and Nigma on their Venia Collection, using my art on fabric to highlight the importance of mental health awareness. The collection showed in Paris just before lockdown and was a huge success. To read the interview, click here.Out of a need to express myself and organize my thoughts, I developed a series of notebooks that speak to the dreamer, the planner, the journaler and the notetaker. It brings me joy to know others find inspiration from these as well.I love travel and lead creative retreats in various destinations like Joshua Tree or as far away as Marrakech, where I draw deep inspiration from the colored zellige tiles dotting the landscape in Morocco, the vibrant chaos in the medina and the painted majorelle blue buildings...I live life fully, sometimes on the edge, sometimes in many different places, sometimes quietly, always trying to practice carpe diem.IG:  https://www.instagram.com/janmccarthy/website:https://www.janmccarthy.com  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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.

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.” 14:13 “And I'd say that's number one. It's just thinking about it in a way...with gratitude, that changes everything. But also, I like to have a nice book with me that I can just read something beautiful and uplifting.” 16:38 “Well, if you think it's going to be really easy and cakewalk, that's not true either. But I think, like you were saying, too, there are two different kinds of people. There are people like me who this is a little bit challenging for, but I do love it, but it is out of my comfort zone, for sure.” 17:32 “The most important thing, I think, is where you set up. You may be selling the most wonderful, best-made product or art in the world, but if you're in the wrong show, (which for people who don't know, there are hundreds and they all have their own flavor and attract a certain customer), you're not in the right place.” 20:22 “Your booth just needs to look inviting and welcoming. I think it's nice to put something at your entry. Some big ferns, big plants, flowers.” 21:52 “We're not going to take a sofa and a bunch of big furniture, but art just shows better, I think if there's a little bit of something homey looking.” 26:40 “With the last two shows, originals have outsold prints, which really go, and I'm so thrilled about that. So we try to get there with 75 to 100 paintings.” 32:11 “I think sometimes shows are hard and days are bad, and I think sometimes vendors get together and start grumbling and gaining. You just don't want that going on in your booth. You just have to kind of shoo people out if they think they're going to come and do that.”Mary Gregory can’t remember a time that she wasn’t drawing, painting or making things. Her grandmother told her, at a very young age, that she was an artist. Mary believed her and has followed this path, though winding, all of her life.It wasn’t until Mary’s daughters were grown and gone that she seriously pursued her art-as-business dream. Nature, from a butterfly wing to a vast landscape, as well as structures from houses to silos, are among her favorite subjects to paint. Sharing what she’s learned and encouraging others in their creativity is one of her favorite things to do.Mary’s work has been featured in Country Living Magazine and The Cottage Journal as well as in Terrain and many other fine retail shops.https://marygregorystudio.com/https://www.instagram.com/marygregorystudio/   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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.

Podcast 065| Overcome What Overwhelms You with Trina McNeilly7:28 “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 depression.” 13:53 “And we often just think trauma is a car accident or a death or a severe type of abuse. But most of us have experienced some form of trauma, a smaller T trauma, which I kind of had to unpack.” 16:02 JEANNE: “But you mentioned that one of your friends said that the divorce was a death. And a friend of mine had said to me, divorce is a death without a funeral. And that was so helpful because if my dad would have truly passed away, people would have helped my mom.” 19:24 “And sometimes, too, when we go through these hard things, we can carry a little bit of anger or resentment towards God. And I think sometimes it can be kind of veiled if it's not coming out as, “how could you let this happen to me?”” 30:31 “when we're talking about strongholds, definitely look at your parents and your grandparents and what may be there generationally and observe what some of those patterns may be. Because that will tell you a lot and you'll know real quickly if it's a stronghold or not.” 36:19 “And my dad always kind of had this saying, “no decision is a decision.” And so by avoiding a lot of things I had to come to terms with, I’m still making a decision and I'm participating in my life in a non-participant way.”TRINA MCNEILLY is an author, speaker, and founder of the popular lifestyle blog, La La Lovely, where she has been sharing matters of the heart as well as design-related finds for over a decade. Hailing from a third generation newspaper family, Trina is right at home writing, editing, selling ads, and publishing.Trina’s work also includes The Lovely Podcast, speaking, art direction, styling, design projects, and freelance writing. She has been featured in the New York Times, Moody Radio, The Land of Nod Catalog, Design Mom: How to live with Kids: A Room-by-Room Guide, Apartment Therapy, and Style Me Pretty Living. While she has done a lot of writing on the topic of decorating homes, Trina’s true passion is helping to bring the message of finding our home in the person of Jesus. Her heart’s desire is to introduce others to the love of the Father. Through Him we find our identity and a full life that can start in even the emptiest of places.Trina lives near Nashville with her husband, Stephen, and their four children.Visit La La Lovely blog for more stories and to join the conversation.For Trina’s personal story, click here.Interested in having Trina speak at your event? Click here.  Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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.

Podcast 064| Rembrandt is in the Wind with Russ Ramsey2:38 “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 story. So that was kind of one of the reasons why I think the book is maybe a little different from other books on art and faith is storytelling.” 8:45 “But we can't empathize with people and their struggles if part of the way that we present ourselves to the world is as people who don't have any.” 10:40 “And I have to understand that as I'm doing that, part of what I'm conveying in displaying my own brokenness to other people is I'm displaying part of the inherent dignity and worth of what it means to be a person.” 14:57 “And when we put ourselves in the path of beauty and we engage with it and we let it kind of do its work on us in a way that's different than just data does its work on us that gives us a deeper sensitivity to who God is and to be able to see his work.” 17:09 “And there's another appendix in there called how to look at a Painting. Ah. And then there's a kind of an overview of art history, just kind of a very abridged sort of version of art history in the west, as well as independence, because I really wanted to have those practical things in there.” 19:04 “When you look at a painting like the artist is taking you on a ride and you don't even know it. But in learning to do that, you have this experience of being able to just absorb and take in something, and it's a good practice.” 21:11 “And turns out I ended up having to have open heart surgery to repair the mitral valve. And that experience there is (life ) before the open heart surgery and there's (life) after the open heart surgery.” 21:56 “ One of the differences is I had to prepare to die, so I had to do things like put my house in order. I had to write letters to my wife and children in case things didn't go well in surgery.” 25:15 “When I perceive him being less faithful than I want him to be, it's usually because I'm going through something that I'd just rather not be going through.” 30:52 “Like it may take you a couple of days to even get the germ of an idea. That's something that's part of the tension, part of the beauty of being engaged in some sort of creative thing is that it makes you kind of have to work methodically and slow and revise and think and put it in a drawer and come back to it a day later, and you just have to do that part of it.” 36”04 “Because that's what community does. Community shapes and forms. I think of Lewis and Tolkien and the Inklings in Oxford, where Lewis wrote Narnia and Tolkien wrote Middle Earth, but we wouldn't have Middle Earth as we have it without Lewis at the table asking him questions about it, and we wouldn't have Narnia.” 37:14 “That's part of the beauty and the necessity of community and the way it shapes us. We don't create in a vacuum.”Russ Ramsey is a pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and four children. He grew up in the fields of Indiana and studied at Taylor University and Covenant Theological Seminary (MDiv, ThM). Russ is the author of the Retelling the Story Series (IVP, 2018) and Struck: One Christian’s Reflections on Encountering Death (IVP, 2017).Rembrandt is in the Wind AMAZONRembrandt is in the Wind THE RABBIT ROOMTwitterFacebookInstagram Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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. 

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 who, like me, maybe want to make a career out of their creativity but don't believe it's possible.” 7:39 “The golden handcuffs. It's when you're tied to a job that pays you very well, and it may not even pay you very well, but you feel that you can't give up that paycheck. So, for some people, maybe they're not even—especially women—maybe they're not even making so much money, but they feel they can't give it up.” 8:14 “So what I'm doing in Break Free of the Golden Handcuffs is I'm saying, hey, yeah, I know that there's tigers and bears outside of your cave, but don't forget there's snakes inside your cave, too. And there is a risk of staying just the same.” 10:07 “They're afraid of turning people off who don't agree with them. But what ends up happening is that when you hide yourself that way and you aim for mediocrity, you don't attract the very people who would love you the most.” 15:21 “Here's how it works for us. And all the things I talk about in the book, entrepreneurs who are selling other things are guilty of as well. So, they think that price is a deciding factor when price isn't a deciding factor.” 19:39 “But the truth was I didn't have much to do. So, I wasn't in busyness, and you have a lot of time to think. And when you're showing up to work, it may sound like a great thing to get a paycheck just to show up and not do anything. It's hell. Because the beauty of life, the meaning of life is to be needed and to have meaning in our days.” 26:19 “So the belief triad is and you hear a lot in self-development work, you need to love yourself. And that's only part of it. You have to love yourself. You have to love your art, and you have to love your buyer.” 28:51 “Now, I use social media ads to get people to buy my stuff, so that's a beautiful thing. But that doesn't mean that we need to be creating content just to feed that Zuckerverse when we really should be spending that time creating our beautiful art.” 31:12 “And people are spending so much time creating Reels. You can have thousands of views on your reels with not a single person going to your profile to check out what it is that you are offering; whether that is a free sign-up or something for sale.”Miriam Schulman is an artist, author and founder of The Inspiration Place and The Artists Incubator Coaching Program where she helps artists (from amateurs to professionals) develop their skills, tap into their creativity, and grow thriving art businesses. Her podcast, The Inspiration Place, is on the top 1% of all podcasts globally and is listened to in over 40 countries.https://www.schulmanart.com/https://www.schulmanart.com/podcast/Artpreneur Book   Creatively Made Business with Jeanne OliverIs your business aligned with how you want your life to look and feel? Many creative business owners feel trapped and overwhelmed by the business that was supposed to add more freedom to their lives. You didn’t take the risk of starting a business just to end up in the same place, or worse – moving in the opposite direction of the life you want.An online workshop to build, launch, and nurture a business that aligns with how you want your life to look and feel. Instant access to six modules with over 7 hours of training. Your business should be a bridge to the life you dream of, not a barrier. To learn more click HERE.  Ten Tips To Take Back The PeaceA 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.