Sara Marie Miller and Leslie A. Grossman talk about the magic of seaweed, making books, marbling paper, screenprinting and monoprinting and so much more! Leslie is an artist, teacher, curator and owner of aLGae Book and Paper. She teaches workshops at Peters Valley and curates a gallery in Philadelphia while making her own handmade marbled paper and stitching them into her gorgeous artist books and sketchbooks. We dive into teaching and making art after grad school, honoring the flow of making work and building up a reservoir of ideas. We talk about how cats are endlessly inspiring, how to figure out a business name and the advantages of putting seaweed on your vagina. Also ,Sol Lewitt and Keith Smith are terrific.

A dive into experimenting with food and eliminating gluten and dairy and weaving some paleo and keto principles into diet plans to improve health and vitality. Eating more vegetables and gutting out gluten has helped me along my health journey.

Brigid Ko is an avant-garde fashion designer, jeweler, painter, collage artist and gardener based in Knoxville, TN. We discuss her journey as an entrepreneur and how she sets herself up for a productive day in the studio and an easy writing prompt to manifest the reality one wants to create.

Roxanne Malcolm, owner of Elegant Alchemy Herbals is a clinical herbalist, shakti somatic breath teacher, medicine-maker, gardener and helper specializing in womb health for girls and womyn. We discuss the ebb and flow of the breath and connecting with others and coming back to yourself, touching your passion every day and the magic of playing with the plants and learning to listen to their wisdom. She discusses her experiences with studying herbalism and yoga with varied teachers in varied locations, her ancestral connection to working as a healer and focusing her practice to be more effective. We also dive into the beauty of honoring all of our experiences, listening to the unique conversations to be had with the plants and how love and intention can transform our lives.

Matthew Namie is an artist who works in fashion, painting, typography, dance and hat design. We discuss the beauty of being a slow cooker and the value of listening to your intuition-it could be a matter of life and death. He also dives into the beauty of doing your work for yourself and stepping away from the limelight to allow for creative expression to run wild without the eyes of others, How Agnes Martin inspires his work and how privacy can allow for creative risks no one could plan or anticipate. We also discuss the beauty of the Napoleonic era and repurposing vintage furs to bring new power to things that have been temporarily forgotten.

Katie Ries is an artist, educator and cultivator who works in the realms of printmaking, drawing, social engagement, botanical arts, collaboration and fashion. We talk about radical hospitality and what it means to be an artist today, self care rituals, what inspires her and balancing making, teaching and mothering. So many good bits of info about how to stay focused and how to fuel your own creative fire.

How thyme can stretch time, pull us into the present moment to heighten our senses and strengthen our immunity, raise our vitality and help us to clarify our boundaries and be more brave. Some recipes and ideas about how to feel great, be more creative and take care of ourselves and others with this magical plant.