Nina Carter began selling vintage home decor and started a business called Strawberry Road. Now her passion is pivoting into becoming a content creator on Instagram where she lives an authentic and unapologetic average life and shares her love for DIY projects inside her 1200 square foot home.  Join us as we discuss how to go from a hobby to a job and keep your life balanced. 

You can find out more about Nina here:

Website: https://strawberryroadonline.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strawberry.road/

Matt Scheffer is a producer and photographer from Chicago. He was previously at LOW RES and OX Creative. He enjoys nostalgia, a well timed joke and doting over his orange cat. He is also pretty B+ at parallel parking. Join us as we talk about what exploration means to him and why it's an important part of the creative process.

Here are a few things currently inspiring Matt:

Book:

Exhalation - https://www.audible.com/pd/Exhalation-Audiobook/1984844458?qid=1582257104&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=FEW3945F6XR68TS6VSYM&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1

Show:

Mad Men - https://www.amc.com/shows/mad-men

Podcast:

This American Life - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/

App:

Headspace - https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app

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Find out more about Matt at:

 website: matt.bingo

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matt.scheffer/

Hailing from the south suburbs of Chicago, Norman got his musical start playing and composing gospel music in the church. He went on to study at Wheaton Conservatory of Music, where he began composing and arranging pieces for orchestra, chorus, and jazz ensemble. He was also commissioned by Arena Theater, Northern Illinois University, and Workout Theater for scores to their theatrical productions. He also has won multiple awards at the Elmhurst Jazz Festival, was a tenor in the Northwest Indiana Symphony, played Chicago’s largest independent music festival at the late Congress Theater, directed music at the largest RCA church in the world, and holds the all-time Wheaton College high score in the original Nintendo game Duck Hunt.

S. Joel Norman has also played alongside jazz greats Ira Sullivan and Marquis Hill, as well as rock and roll heroes Billy Ozzello (Survivor) and Chip Znuff (Enuff Znuff), and went on the road playing keyboards with Eddie Money.

He also enjoys cooking, learning how to speak pointless languages, and accepting any challengers in NES Tetris.

Here are a few things that are currently inspiring S. Joel Norman:

Books:

Ego is the enemy:http://egoistheenemy.com/

The Power of Now: https://www.eckharttolle.com/power-of-now-excerpt/

Podcast:

Pete Holmes - You made it weird: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-it-weird-with-pete-holmes/id475878118

Master Class - Herbie Hancock

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/herbie-hancock-teaches-jazz

Music:

https://www.jonbatiste.com/

https://www.macmillerswebsite.com/

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Find S. Joel Norman at: http://www.sjoelnorman.com/

In this episode Kevin Bruinsma sits down with Julia Huisman to talk about the importance of rest and how it is a key component to being a creative professional. 

Having worked in magazine media for the past 15 years, Julia Perla Huisman has developed a strong sense of quality editorial content and design that led her to launch her own magazine in 2017. As editor and publisher of HERE magazine, which features the creative people and places of Northwest Indiana, Julia tells the stories of her community in a way that is relevant and engaging. She also leads a sales staff that provides advertising solutions for local small businesses. Julia lives in Crown Point with her husband Justin and their three daughters.

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Here are a few things that inspire Julia:

Shows:

Durrells In Corfu: https://www.amazon.com/Durrells-Corfu-Season-1/dp/B01M4FCC11

Schitt's Creek: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3526078/

Podcasts:

How I Built This: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this

Land of the Giants: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/land-of-the-giants/id1465767420

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Learn more about Julia:

Here Magazine: http://readheremag.com/

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

Rest & Reset Workshop: https://www.fetchingmarket.com/about-fs

In this episode Kevin Bruinsma interviews Chris Hershman on the importance of "home" and why having roots in a particular place can be life-giving to a creative professional.

Chris Hershman is a photographer, filmmaker and producer whose life as a musician launched him into a career of capturing the raw energy of the live performances of fellow musicians. Chris’s photography has appeared in Rolling Stone, Paste and Consequence of Sound and has been featured on National Public Radio and the Grammy Awards. He has created music videos for, among others, Alabama Shakes, Switchfoot, Company of Thieves, Brian Blade and Maps & Atlases.

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Here are a few things that inspires Chris:

Books:

http://www.thesuccessprinciples.com/

Music:

https://birthdayclub.bandcamp.com/

https://tallwalker.bandcamp.com/

TV Shows:

https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/cake

https://www.hbo.com/euphoria

https://www.sho.com/shangri-la

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Learn more about Chris:

http://chrishershman.com/

https://www.instagram.com/chrishershman/

Gabrielle is the owner of a boutique called Aster + Gray. Mandy is the owner of The spOiled Housewife, were she creates organic skin and body care products. Together they have joined forces to create The Collective. A community of entrepreneurs that supports and learns from each other. They gave the fifth and final talk at the insight conference this year.

In this episode we’ll hear from Andy Gregg, our fourth speaker at this years insight conference. He’s going to share his experience walking away from his 9 to 5 and diving head first into full time freelance work. Learn more about Andy and his work at http://www.supsuper.com/

Carolyn is the co-founder of Oak Street Social and LiveNWI.com. This episode is her talk at the INsight Conference. Here are her speaker notes full of great examples of powerful and creative work. 

Allyson Baughman was our second speaker at this years INsight Conference. Allyson is a strategist, ghost writer, and writing coach for thought leaders. She's the woman-behind-the-curtain for brand positioning spotlighted by managing editors at TIME, FastCompany, Entrepreneur, and Inc.com. For more information on Allyson, our other speakers and our annual conference please go to insightnwi.com.

Joe Gonzalez is the co-founder of the INsight Conference and the creative director at VAST Creative Company. This episode is the talk Joe gave at this years conference. He speaks about client meeting and lets us know what questions we should be asking. To learn more about Joe go to http://www.miracletwentyone.org/ or https://www.vast-creative.co/

To learn more about the annual INsight Conference go to https://www.insightnwi.com/