How can making help you tap into your own need to be in charge of your survival?

Why does making increase our empathy for others and how is it essential for our collective wellbeing?

What do you need to be able to ditch your life so you can follow your creative dreams?

In this episode, learn how to make the paper box that was a lightbulb moment for Melanie on her creative path.

About Melanie:

Melanie Falick is an independent writer, editor, and creative director—and a lifelong maker. She is the author, mostly recently, of Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live and she is currently working on a new book tentatively titled The Makers Way. She is the former publishing director of STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books, an imprint of Abrams, and the current creative director and editor of Modern Daily Knitting Field Guides. Her goal is to inspire as many people as she can to recognize and participate in making by hand as a pathway to individual, community, and environmental wellness.

Melanie's website: melaniefalick.com. Melanie's mailing list:

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/melaniefalick/

Music credit: "Song We Came To Sing" by Living Roots livingrootsmusic.com