This week’s guest on What's Your Story is artist and HR consultant, Jennifer Hewett. She’s a self taught artist and while she dabbles in many different mediums her main focus is printmaking. If you enjoy color, fabric, and watching an artist’s process I highly recommend you follow Jen on online (Instagram / Twitter / Facebook). She's wonderful about sharing her process. Last year she focused her efforts on a year long project of 52 weeks of printmaking - which was so inspiring to watch. This year she’s given herself a whole new challenge: creating a printed garment every month, which she calls Print, Pattern, Sew. As this podcast grows I’ve found that my focus lately is on artists and creatives who have not followed the traditional path to their creative career. They started out as one thing and eventually positioned their lives as working artists. What I love so much about Jen is her honesty around working as both an artist and an HR consultant. I think it’s so important to be transparent about having side jobs or day jobs, so we can stop upholding the starving artist trope. Jen and I talk about this, and we also talk about setting intentions for yourself down the road in your career, and always pushing oneself as an artist to grow, build skills, and make sure you're resilient in today’s ever changing work force and much, much more! A special note, Jen is offering an online class in block printing on fabric which starts this weekend. Registration for Design, Carve, Print: Block Printing on Fabric closes Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 12pm Pacific Time. I’ve signed up for it, and I'm thrilled to learn from her. Come join us! To learn more about Jen, her work, read her blog, and follow her on social check out her website jenhewett.com.