Can you believe it — we've created an entire season! In this final episode of Season One, Jenni Heffernan Brown sits down her BFF Emily Holmes to talk about this first season of the podcast. We get clips from the top 5 episodes, what we've learned, themes that come up across the show, and of course, lots of laughs.

Sitting down to make work can be seriously one of the hardest parts about being an artist. It's can be even more challenging when faced with a project that feels like a creative risk. In this episode, Ella Sophie is talking to us about how to take creative risks, and what really goes into making work consistently.  

Kristen Estes is the CEO of Moonwalker Digital, a web design agency that specializes in building online platforms for authors, speakers and online influencers. When she isn't helping leaders kill it online, she can be found singing for Krystal Optiks, an aggressive synthpop band from Austin, TX with fans worldwide. The embodiment of, "multi-passionate entrepreneur," Kristen seeks to be an anomaly by fully rocking out two businesses, and encourages other creatives to do the same.

Juliet is also someone that I have collaborated with over the years at my brand strategy studio,  Prim'd Marketing. It's been great to watch her business move from a branding-centric focus, over to pattern design, with Juliet becoming primarily known for her own original artwork. I thought she would be great to have come by the show so we can talk a bit about how to bring more of your art into your business, so you're creating the kinds of work you enjoy vs. just fulfilling client briefs

Caroline Donahue is a Book + Writing Coach who helps authors stop waiting and start writing. She's also the host of The Secret Library podcast, where she has interviewed over 70 writers about writing and publishing their books. She's also working on her first novel herself, so she's no stranger to what it can feel like to be overwhelmed by the scope and ambition of a project. Between her coaching, her podcast, and her own book, she's the perfect person to geek out with about the creative process, what gets people stuck when it comes to making work, and how to stop putting it off and just get your work out there already.  

When it comes to being an entrepreneur and an artist, being wildly responsible doesn't seem to be the FIRST thing that comes to mind. Yet, so many of the successful art businesses out there depend on some very sound structures to keep the business moving forward. This week artist Cathy Zhang, is on the show talking about taking responsible risks, opportunity costs, and how being a starving artist can be a myth and not something that actually happens to you: 

We all have inner critics who show up and try to convince us that our ideas aren't any good, or that we shouldn't waste our time working stuff that "someone's probably already done." Danielle Krysa, author of Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk is on the show talking about the real stuff that no one talks about when making work: the hard days when nothing good gets made, how to own your success without bragging, and giving yourself permission to just be an artist already.  

Building a creative practice or an artistic business is something that we know might take a long time. But when we get into the dailyness of writing the book, building the business or creating the audience — it takes SO much longer than we expect! Most of us just want to know that we're on the right path, even if we're going super slow. So if you're crawling through your creative project, this one goes out to you! 

This week is all about my favorite things — SYSTEMS. Especially as Type A people, we can all feel like we have too many pots boiling, and we're behind and letting life happen to us. Today on the show I have one of my favorite business friends Paige Buck, and we're talking about the systems and hacks we have in place to create a highly efficient life.  

Burn out and adrenal fatigue are super real, for both Type As and non-Type As. We've talked about Type A Creative Burn Out in earlier episodes, but today we are taking on the clinical side of being super driven with acupuncturist and energy worker, Amy Kurtesky. Amy is sharing some of the perspectives she has to offer from Chinese Medicine to look at systems and patterns that happen in your body when you're hustling on all cylinders.