Crafty Ass Female

SUMMARY //
Cathy Zielske (pronounced simply as Zil-ski) gives us the backstory of how she got to where she is today, from her job as an assistant editor for a magazine to having a baby and freelancing to her foray into scrapbooking and how she ‘got hooked’.
Amanda + Kristin also talk with Cathy about finding your ‘thing’ and staying afloat in the creative industry by pivoting when needed and always evaluating when you need to make a tweak.
Cathy also gives the girls the low-down about FIT: her online class all about documenting self-care. The class aims for its participants to to answer: Can you connect to what you need?

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How is it that time of year again, crafty ass females?! It’s time to choose a guiding word for the upcoming new year based on some aspect of your existence you want to explore. We’ve had this awesome conversation last year & the year before, and it’s fun to see how A & K have grown! // Listen to Ali’s one little word® interview with us here.

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We have gotten some listener requests for another PLANNER-THEMED episode, so here it is! A + K have done this before almost 100 episodes ago (!!!), but so much has changed since then…and PEOPLE, WE ARE ENTERING YEAR 2020! OMG! Let’s go!

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Vanessa Oliver-Lloyd shares with Amanda & Kristin how she ended up in Shanghai, got back into art journaling with '“nothing books”, and finally embraced the word ‘artist’ while creating a second career as one out of necessity.
The girls also discuss how women’s art has been seen as pastimes and perceived with some degree of condescension - as “just hobbies” and therefore without much value.
Vanessa reveals how the medium & technique she chooses for her art is very intuitive. Her advice for when her inner critic is triggered or imposter syndrome flares up is LISTEN, ACKNOWLEDGE, and KEEP GOING.

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In this episode, A + K talk about people pleasing. Why do we do it? How can we become more aware of it? How can we set up appropriate boundaries? The girls share their versions on this phenomenon, and discuss the answers to these questions.

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Katy-Rose shares with Amanda & Kristin about how she spent a good portion of her life trying to invent or reinvent herself, trying figure out her purpose. She feels you don’t have to take an eat pray love approach to reinvent yourself, and makes a great point that a LAPSE is not a RELAPSE. The girls also discuss negative bias and how we’re almost hard-wired to put more emphasis on negativity. Katy-Rose talks about prioritizing the positive in her life and redefining negativity like in the example of saying “resting” instead of “slacking”. Katy-Rose reveals that the brain works in habits, and the more we do something the more our brain will habitualize to it. She talks about stacking habits and adding a new activity you want to make a habit to a habit you already regularly complete.

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Today on the podcast we are excited to bring you Anna Lovind - a writer and editor who believes in women’s creative freedom and the power of our voices and stories.
Through her writing, courses and workshops she has guided thousands of creative women to go from dreaming to doing. She is the author of The Creative Doer – A Brave Woman’s Guide from Dreaming to Doing, and co-founder of Write Your Self, a teacher training for people who want to use writing as a tool for healing.
Anna lives in the deep forests of Dalarna, Sweden, with her man, their two kids and a dog.

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THE CRAFTY ASS FEMALE PODCAST IS NOW MADE UP OF 100 EPISODES! Amanda & Kristin are thrilled to bring you the 100th episode of the podcast, and whether you’ve been around for all 100 or just stumbled upon the show, we’re thrilled you’re here and we couldn’t thank you enough!

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Alicia Michelle talks to Amanda & Kristin about how she got into planning with an Erin Condren Life Planner, what her first impression was of The Happy Planner®, and how she ended up embracing the discs!
Alicia also discusses the inspiration & evolution of her sticker business on etsy and the process she goes through to ‘make stickers’.

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Jennifer Perkins talks to Amanda & Kristin about how she went from making zines that she distributed locally to working for HGTV and being the brand ambassador for Treetopia!
Jen also discusses how her taste-level is questionable most of the time, and even though her style skews very kitschy, she reveals that she in fact does carefully curate and choose what is displayed at any given time.
The girls chat about why she started her podcast Creative Queso, the importance of connecting to like-minded people, and her fabulous in-person meet-and-greet mixed called Caftans & Queso!

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