• Leaving a corporate job for a fine art education  
• Who to take your new creations to, and how to trust people with your art 
• Getting critiques and how to handle new feedback on your work  
• The things outside of "the work" that are involved in being a fine artist 
• Marketing and sales tactics
• Commission work, how to get it, and how fine artist think about it 
• The seesaw between the right and left brain, intuition and critical thinking when it comes to fine art and painting 
• Similarities between writing and painting when it comes to fine art.

• Alongside Elle Luna, as an official leader of the "100 Day Project" Collective, Lindsay tells us ways to set up your project so you're likely to succeed.
• Alongside Elle Luna, as an official leader of the "100 Day Project" Collective, Lindsay tells us ways to set up your project so you're likely to succeed 
• The importance of making things that you don't turn around and sell to a client 
• Ideas for your 100 Day Project and what makes a good idea and what makes it difficult for you to get to day 100 
• What is "generative work" and why is it so important for your 100 Day Project 
• Using the tools you have, and why it's important not to NOT go out and buy new things 
• Getting people to meet you at the table and how accountability plays a role in getting to day 100 

In this episode we talk about: 

• Being a very complex personality, and what it can look like to honor and make space for both stability and living life to it's fullest 

• Calling in what you want, and being really specific about what you want to make it a reality 
• Kathleen gives visualization exercises you can try to gain focus and concentration 
• Worthiness and receiving — ways you can relax into receiving the goals you want vs. muscling yourself to success.  
• The process of taking your authentic voice and translating that to a written word 
• Some juicy behind the scenes for the anticipated book, Being Boss 

In this episode we talk about:   

• Creative State of the Union: we check in with BFFs Emily Holmes and Jackie Dodson to talk about what we are working on creatively, where we are stuck, and the projects we wish we were working on.    
• Creative Diet: we share things creative things that we are consuming that are inspiring us in our creative practice.    
• Goal Setting + Accountability: we each choose 1 thing we can creatively work on for the next few weeks, and you can choose to be accountable right along with us.  

On this show we talk about: 

• What are the four phases of the moon and how exactly do they affect Type As? 

• When in the moon phases should Type As relax, step back, and tap into other sides of yourself 
• When Type As tend to meet their inner demons in the creative process, and how to check-in, be present and keep going 
• How to drop-in to really engage with the limbic centers of the brain and connect more deeply 
• Being a Type A and asking for help 

• Using WRITING as your money maker to fund your dreams 
• Launching an enormous vision and the tactical on-the-ground facts from someone in the trenches 
• Taking financial risks to support your vision 

• Pitching big companies to land retainers 
• The power of words and how they can physically bri

• Tapping into the creative flow, and knowing how to be consistent when it comes showing up and doing the work 
• Burning Type A, and finding your own edge as a creative person and as a freelancer 
• How much do we crack the whip for ourselves? 
• What is the benefit of creating space for yourself? 
• Creative partnership and the structure that partners can bring to a creative business 
• How to distill a framework for telling strategic storytelling with heart centeredness and the essence of a character-driven narrative 
• Growing beyond a project and what it means to hold a project for years and years and years 
• Shiping it, letting it be ok that it has constraint and just get it other there 

In the show we talked about:  

• Writing a memoir vs. writing a novel, and how those can be different. What challenges you might come across when trying to find place to imagine vs. holding constraint dear 
• How poetry and art can change the world 
• How you as an artist can breathe life into those who inspire you, and inform your own work 
• How to create art that has something to stay about the political environment, and our role as artists when it feels like everything is horrible 
• The "and" not "or" mentality, and how we can expand our thoughts around our art 

• Research, and how it is an author like Jasmin built a world of 50s and 60 Iran 
• Who owns a story? What constitutes having the right to write about something? 

Catherine Madden is a the founder of Relay — which is a design studio based in San Francisco that specializes in helping clients visualize and communicate data. Her approach is super exploratory and involves a LOT of doodling, but it is based on a foundation of experience in design thinking, data visualization consulting, and visual facilitation.  She does strategic storytelling, graphic recording for private clients, as well as classes and teaches for students wanting to develop their visual skills.