The Inspiring Conversations Podcast

In this episode, Jeff sits down to visit with artist Sarah Day-Short about her life journey and how she started doing works of art and how her work has evolved over the years.

Sarah reflects on how she began to work with epoxy resin to create abstract colorful acrylic painting, gold leaf, and functional art. She also visits with Jeff about how she is really passionate and excited about creating custom, affordable works of art for her clients and then shares some deeper thoughts about her experiences with engaging in that process and how she feels about it.

She can be contacted at her website at www.sarahdayshortart.com or on Instagram at @sarahdayshort

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Laura Warriner to hear the story of how she started [Artspace] at Untitled, about their various programs and events, and how it has evolved over the years.

In this segment, Laura shares information regarding recent and current exhibits as well as an overview of the artwork that is part of their permanent collection. As the interview comes to a close, she also speaks about their Mentorship program that is a partnership with several local high schools, and then closes with some information about their upcoming Steamroller Print Fest, which happens on Saturday, April 28 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

The festival activities include artist demonstrations, live printing, food trucks, live music, kids and family activities, pop up shops, and more.

In this episode, Jeff sits down with visual artist, poet, and bookmaker Kerri Shadid to talk about her artwork and poetry. She shares information about her Poetry Stands, where she writes customized, spontaneous poems for strangers, using intuition and stream-of-consciousness to craft small morsels of insight at various venues and events in the OKC metro area.

She also speaks about how her visual art highlights text and marbling and how it incorporates the unknown and loss of control into her process, allowing the beautiful unexpected to emerge. We also hear from her about how she sees the world and her own life and how that has changed some over the years.

As we continue the interview, Kerri shares how various experiences along her life's journey have influenced her poetry and her art, and she also speaks about how her work has evolved over the long term.

We then hear from her regarding some deeper insights about her process of creating spontaneous poems for strangers and some reflections about how it has influenced her evolution as an artist and as a human being and how it also affects the people that she creates thes works for in different ways.

As we continue the conversation, Kerri speaks more in-depth about her life journey since childhood and how she has grown and evolved. She also shares some thoughts about the path that she has taken since leaving college and how she sees her place in the world and reflects about the impact of her artistic work.

The interview winds up as Kerri and Jeff talk more in-depth about the value of being a little more lighthearted and how being able to laugh at ourselves more, to take ourselves and everything a little less seriously sometimes, and to appreciate the absurdity of life a little more can actually help us find more joy and meaning in each moment.

To learn more about Kerri, please visit her website at http://kerrishadid.com

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Katelynn Knick and Virginia Sitzes about their new artist

collective called The Art Group and how it got started. We hear from both of them about their personal and professional reasons for being a part of it and how this experience has changed their lives.

Art Group is a collective of emerging artists in the OKC metro area who have gathered to create a community centered around discussing and creating contemporary art. Their goal is to help artists develop their artwork, build the needed skills for continuing their practice, and share resources to establish sustainable careers as artists. So far, they have 32 members and have organized 4 studio visits, 4 monthly meetings, and 3 individual shows.

Their Group Show is the first multi-artist exhibition organized by the collective. The event will be hosted by Skyline Ink in their newly renovated location. The event will feature an exhibition, art market, food, and bands. The event is free and open to the public.

Show Venue:

Skyline Ink

220 SE 4th Street, Suite 200 in Oklahoma City.

Event Times-

Saturday, April 14th

Sponsor Preview 4:30-5:30 pm

General Admission 5:30-11:00 pm

To learn more about Art Group and about the upcoming Group Show, see their following links below:

Instagram: artgrpokc

Facebook: Art Group

Website: artgrp.fun

In this episode, Jeff sits down to talk with Steve Herburger, the owner of 2 Fellas Moving Company at their headquarters in Oklahoma City to talk about the services that they provide to their residential and business customers and also to the OKC Thunder as their preferred movers.

As the interview continues, he shares the story of how he and his business partner started 2 Fellas and then explains about how they are different than van lines and why they can provide more timely and flexible service based on when their customers actually need the move completed.

As they wrap up the interview, Steve speaks about the benefits of having a local owner in each of their future franchise locations nationwide in terms of providing excellent customer service as they want to ensure that all of their customers call them in the future whenever they decide to move again.

In this episode, Jeff sits down with Evan Anderson, the CEO of Oseberg, at their headquarters in the heart of Oklahoma City’s Automobile Alley to hear about the services they provide and why he decided to start the company.

Anderson explains that the oil and gas industry, while being a large percentage of the U.S. in terms of GDP, has seen little to no technological innovation, especially in terms of data and information. In fact, many people in the oil and gas industry still operate with microfiche and paper. Anderson firmly believes that more and more companies in that business will begin to leverage technology as they begin to embrace the benefits of doing so.

Anderson’s goal is to change the way that the oil and gas industry thinks about computer technology. With Oseberg, he aims to make it easier for O&G professionals to use data to make more effective decisions, and, ultimately, to solve their day-to-day business problems.

Anderson says his team’s goal is to take the datasets that they have built for their customers and continue to build and "productize" them as prescriptive analytics tools that their customers can use right away.

As the interview winds down, Anderson talks some about some of the most important lessons that he has learned in his life. His advice: "following your passion" is not always the best course to follow when choosing what to do in order to make a living.

Lastly, Evan reflects upon why he started Oseberg, instead of actually making a career in operating his own oil and gas company.

For more information about Evan and about Oseberg, please go to https://oseberg.io