Career & Spirituality Conversations

Ep 19 - Coming Back to Art, with Tina Frey


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For this episode I interviewed artist Tina Frey.

Tina is the Founder and Creative Director of TF Design, the homewares, furniture, lighting, and accessories company that she founded 16 years ago in San Francisco, California.

She has started her career in Finance, following an "expected path". Then, even though appreciating the financial stability her work offered, and to put it in her own words: "There was something tugging at my soul and calling me to make a change."

After 13 years, she got the chance to listen to that call and has been a successful artist since, sculpting beautiful objects and her new career path in the process.

Tina is married to Jochen Frey, who was my guest in Episode 15. I met them both at PAUA Paris, cutting edge conference on spirituality in Business and Tech, that we were all volunteering at. Both are experienced meditators and consciousness explorers.


Some of the highlights of our conversation are:

  • “It never occurred to me that this could be a career”
  • Pros and cons of following an "expected” career path
  • The switch to "doing her own thing"
  • Sculpting art is sculpting life
  • How to interpret difficulties: signs to quit, or persevere?
  • Burnout and breaking the vicious cycle of perfectionism
  • The benefits of psychedelics and meditation
  • What's the next step after fulfilment?

  • To connect with Tina:

    Website: www.tf.design

    Instragram: @tinafreydesigns


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    Career & Spirituality ConversationsBy Julie Pône