Crafty Ass Female

Heather Kell starts off talking to Amanda + Kristin about how she got into planning in 2015 and why she decided to start her @kellofplan account. She discusses how she was able to quit her day job and make planning and creating her full time gig!
Heather explains how not getting asked to return to The Happy Planner® Squad was a blow to her identity in a way - but absolutely kicked her business as Kell of a Plan into a new gear!
Heather gives us an idea of what a week in her life is like, talks to A + K about how YouTube works to bring in revenue, shares her view on what her role is in the planner community, and discusses how she handles negative feedback.

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In this episode, Kristin talks about her Awesome Ladies Live creative retreat, how she makes it happen, why you should come, what to expect, and the logistics that goes into hosting a live event like this in case you want to too!
Creativity through Connection is this year’s theme of the retreat, and Amanda can’t gush enough about the emotional accessibility of Awesome Ladies Live.

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Color is infused in most of the creative choices we make, whether for our crafty projects, our homes, or our clothes. Color effects our mood, is a form of self-expression, and can help convey the story we want to tell.

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A +K discuss their plans and exactly how excited they are for Ali Edwards' Pieces of Us challenge (spoiler alert: it is very excited).

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Sara McNally gives us her creative backstory from going to school for graphic design, designing greeting cards from home, working “terrible ad-agency jobs”, doing a letterpress printing internship, to ‘falling ass-backwards’ into owning her business. She talks about trying to figure out how to blend her love of making things, working with her hands, and writing.
Sara feels like her superpower is brevity + efficiency, and talks about the complexity of her designs is in their simplicity. Brilliant! She also talks about the abundance mindset vs. the scarcity mindset, ‘pruning back’ different aspects of her business, needing to learn how to delegate tasks to her team, + standing behind her business decisions.

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In this episode, A + K talk about establishing and creating routines, both in their crafty and personal lives. Kristin talks about some of her challenges and how she adapts her days to them, and Amanda finds ways to make creative time work inside of an increasingly busy life.

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Lisa Congdon starts off by telling A + K about her “early mid-life crisis” and what her really intense desire to be creative manifested into. Lisa then goes into the greatest lesson writing her first book Art, Inc. taught her.
Teaching is also a big part of Lisa Congdon’s creative life. She goes into what she loves about teaching and letting go of the preciousness of her work when teaching students how to “art” using her techniques. Lisa and the girls discuss copying vs. ‘being influenced by’, and how to embrace your own voice, ideas, and “wonkiness”.
Amanda + Kristin pick Lisa’s brain about being personal & political, and using her voice/platform to talk about topics she cares about. The girls discuss putting out messages of self-love, worthiness, self-care and being an influencer vs. being an impacter.

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Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of three illustrated books: Steal Like An Artist, Newspaper Blackout, and Show Your Work! His next book is Keep Going, a guide to staying creative in good times and bad. His books have over a million copies in print and have been translated into over two dozen languages.
He speaks about creativity in the digital age for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter. He grew up in the cornfields of Ohio, but now he lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons.

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Elise Joy starts off by jumping right into her first book Big Dreams, Daily Joys and tells A + K how the idea for it came about. She also talks about a bit about her blog, and why Instagram is her main jam now.
Elise goes into how she prioritizes her multiple business and creative ventures, and how she defines HAVING SUCCESS WITH HOBBIES. We also hear Elise talk about goal-setting in such a pragmatic way!

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In this episode, A + K talk about scrapbooking as an amazing tool for personal growth since it causes you to be reflective, and how the craft of memory keeping blends the past, present, and future all at once.
The girls discuss supplies and not treating them so preciously. Also, A + K make a point that choosing supplies is not the only choice you need to make for a project. Crafters don’t realize that choosing the approach is equally if not more important.
How to extrapolate EASE and JOY in scrapbooking is what the girls are goaling to get across in the episode, and also suggest focusing on using all FIVE SENSES to pay attention to the little details of your life.

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