Wandering Creatives

Katrina McGhee joins Alli in this week's episode. Katrina is a Career Break coach and a digital nomad!

Katrina shares how career breaks helped her realign and refocus her life to build the business and life she wanted. They also discuss the ups and downs of starting your own business and reevaluating your passions.

About My Guest:
Katrina McGhee is a Career Break & Sabbatical Coach who helps 9-5ers create triumphant, mind-blowing career breaks.

She's a certified Master Coach with an MBA who left her corporate career for a 20-month career break to travel worldwide.

After a triumphant return to the corporate world, with five job offers in just five weeks, she later left to embark on career break #2.

As a professional career break coach with years of experience helping clients plan productive breaks of their own, she knows what it takes to ensure you make this life-changing experience a huge success, including a smoother transition once your break has ended. 

Connect with my Guest!

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kmcgheecoaching/
• Website: https://www.kmcgheecoaching.com/
• Best Break Ever FREE TRAINING!: https://www.bestbreakever.com/freetraining1/

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Anna Peck joins Allie in this week's episode. We talk about her journey as a business owner, where her creativity and inspirations for wreath designs come from, and the process for selling on Amazon Homemade.

 Anna is the founder of Home on Cottonwood, @home_on_cottonwood, a home decor and wreath shop based in Flordia.⁣

About Anna Peck:
Anna specializes in floral and greenery wreaths and floral decor! All of the pieces are handmade by Anna from her home! She has always been passionate about home decor and crafting, so it's no surprise that she's turned it into a business! She started her journey in January 2021 and has been building her business full force since.⁣
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Anna is happily married to the love of her life and has two beautiful girls. ⁣

Connect with My Guest!

• Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/home_on_cottonwood/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/homeoncottonwood
• Website: https://homeoncottonwood.com/
• Chalk Couture Site: https://www.chalkcouture.com/homeoncottonwood
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@homeoncottonwood

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Mike Allen, the Wake Forest Listening Room founder, joins Allie in this week's episode. Mike and Allie discuss Mike's experiences with organizing benefit concerts for causes he is passionate about and the founding of the Wake Forest Listening Room. They also discuss Mike's latest project, Be Good to Yourself, a non-profit that provides mental health assistance to musicians in North Carolina.
 
About Mike Allen:
Mike is a 1986 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and graduated with a BA in Journalism, concentration in advertising copywriting.

He worked in ad agencies as a copywriter, associate creative director, and creative director in Birmingham, Asheville, Cincinnati, Dallas, and Raleigh. Mike now works in-house at the AICPA (Association of International Certified Professional Accountants) in their Durham, NC office.

Mike has organized benefit concerts for the animal rights advocacy group The Coalition to Unchain Dogs. He also managed and ran Stand Against HB2, a series of six benefit concerts for EqualityNC in 2016 to raise money to overturn HB2. The HB2 concerts were held in Saxapahaw, Winston-Salem, Wilmington, Asheville, Charlotte, and Carrboro and included more than 120 different NC musicians.

In 2017, Mike started The Wake Forest Listening Room in Wake Forest, NC, bringing live, original music to downtown. Now the series attracts local, regional, national, and international talent (including Madison Violet of Canada, Steve Nieve of Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Robbie Fulks, Lou Barlow, and Jill Andrews, among others). 

In 2020, he co-founded Be Good to Yourself, a non-profit dedicated to providing free mental health care for North Carolina musicians. Their double CD, LP, and EP collection of 27 songs performed by 60 different NC musicians to raise funds and awareness is currently available for purchase on their website.

Connect with My Guest!

• Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/wakeforestlistening
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wflisteningroom/
• Website: https://begoodtoyourselfmusic.com/about
• H2B Resources:
  • https://nchb2history.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/5
  • https://journalnow.com/news/local/n-c-musicians-push-back-against-bathroom-bill-with-stand-against-hb2-concert-in-winston/article_c5e921d8-aee6-516b-a0fc-a07d354dcb88.html

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• Be a Guest or a Featured Maker: [email protected]

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Creative and Handmade Business Coach Lucy Kelly joins Allie in this week's episode. Lucy and Allie discuss what it takes to have a successful Handmade Business and how important it is to build relationships with your customers.
 
About Lucy Kelly:
Lucy started her handmade jewelry business, bel monili, in the summer of 2010. She quickly moved to participate in craft shows and, in 2011, opened her first Etsy shop. Over the years, she's grown her business by participating in higher quality shows, cultivating a social media following, and nurturing lasting relationships with her audience.

In 2017, bel monili hit the six-figures sales mark, and Lucy went from primarily selling on Etsy to Spotify, and in 2019 she decided it was time to teach other handmade sellers how to grow their businesses. This was the founding of her coaching business, Bloom.

Connect with My Guest!

• Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/bloombybelmonili
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/belmonili/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloombybelmonili
• Website: https://www.bloombybelmonili.com/
• FREEBIES!! https://www.bloombybelmonili.com/bloomlearning

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In this week's episode, Allie is joined by Karina Zimmerman of Honeypress.  Allie and Karina discuss the challenges of starting a business, the inspiration behind Honeypress,  and how Karina's stationery boutique represents who she is.
 
Honeypress is a Filipina-owned stationery boutique based in Clayton, North Carolina, curates specialty paper goods, party supplies, and novelty gifts. We also specialize in unique, high-quality Japanese stationery products.
 
 Connect with my Guest!

•  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeypress.nc/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/honeypress.nc
• Website: https://honeypress-nc.com/

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Career and Fulfillment Coach Annie Petsche joins Allie in this week's episode. Annie and Allie discuss what it means to be multi-passionate and the steps you can take to design a career that fuels and fulfills you.
 
About Annie Petsche:
Annie Petsche is a career and fulfillment coach whose mission is to help you design a career that fuels and fulfills you. She is an unconventional, reflective, and creative thinker with a deep well of consulting and coaching experience and takes a human-centered approach to your success.

Annie helps clients redefine what "work" means to them, how to show up as the best version of themselves, how to crystallize what they'd rather be doing in their career, and helps them clear the clutter that is preventing them from leveling up. 

Connect with my Guest:

• Website: https://www.anniepetsche.com/bio
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anniepetsche/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coach_anniepetsche?lang=en

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Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Creative Hailey Shafir joins Allie in this week's episode. Hailey and Allie discuss imposter syndrome, the five (5) scenarios for how it can present, and how to manage it.
 
About Hailey Shafir:
Hailey Shafir is a licensed mental health counselor, addiction specialist, and clinical supervisor (LCMHCS, LCAS, CCS) with over a decade of experience in the field. Currently, she spends most of her time as a mental health/addiction content writer, providing online training for therapists through her company Therapy Cred, and counseling and clinical supervision through Keep Counsel. She is also the developer of Plan-it Therapy cards (a resource for counselors) and recently launched IndyWind. Through her IndyWind Etsy store, she sells handmade resin art, orgonite, reversible wrap skirts, and fairy garden terrariums designed to act as 3d vision boards to help people manifest their goals and dreams for their life, career, and relationships.

Relevant Articles on Imposter Syndrome, Shame, and How to Overcome it:

• https://www.choosingtherapy.com/shame/
• https://www.choosingtherapy.com/impostor-syndrome/
• https://mindflowergroup.com/social-media/f/improving-self-esteem-confidence
• https://aspiregroupnc.com/getting-your-inner-critic-to-work-for-you-instead-of-against-you/

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Author Wendy Zuccarello joins Allie in this week's episode. Wendy and Allie discuss how to stay motivated as a writer, the pros and cons of self-publishing and traditional publishing, and how to make time for writing.
 
About Wendy Zuccarello:
Wendy lives in central New Jersey with her husband, two kids, three dogs, and multiple other pets.  Wendy spends most of her time with her nose buried in a book.  When she's not reading, she's either writing, spending time with her two teenagers and husband, wrangling her three dogs, or working.

Wendy is currently in graduate school, working on her MFA - working hard to become the best writer she can be.

She loves baseball (go Yankees!), photography, movies, and anything romance-related.

She enjoys all things Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, or Jurassic World related.

Writing is a passion that she discovered later in life, but she does it simply for the enjoyment of telling her stories.

Connect with my Guest!

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendyzuccauthor
• Website: https://www.wendyzuccauthor.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendy.zuccarello/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/wendyzuccauthor
• Amazon Author's Page

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Allie is joined by creativity and writing coach Nina Hart of Writing from the Top of Your Head in this week's episode. Nina and Allie discuss what creativity is, how to overcome your creative blocks, and move forward in our creativity.
 
About Nina Hart:
Nina Hart is a writer, performer, and creativity coach trained in the Kaizen-Muse method. She is also a certified Gateless Method writing teacher – "a method of teaching the art and craft of writing using creative brain science, ancient non-dual teachings, and highly-effective craft tools…allowing writers to access the creative genius inside." Her first collection of surreal short fiction called "Somewhere in a Town You Never Knew Existed Somewhere" was selected as a Short Stories (Adult Fiction) category finalist in Foreword Reviews' prestigious 2014 IndieFab Book of the Year Awards. She is the founder of a unique method of teaching writing called "Writing from the Top of your Head," which combines group Creativity Coaching with creative writing. Her workshops have also been inspired by the work of Paulo Freire and his philosophy of education for liberation and the work of Brene Brown. Nina was an original member of the experimental dance troupe Contraband, in San Francisco and, playing a purple electric bass has recorded and performed with numerous bands. (writingfromthetopofyourhead.com)

Connect with my Guest!

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/writingfromthetop/
• Website: https://www.writingfromthetopofyourhead.com/

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In this week's episode, Allie is joined by Nicole Tuxbury of Love Live Hustle. Nicole shares tips on starting your online business, including advice on being neurodivergent, defining what success means to you, and finding the right clients.
 
About Nicole Tuxbury and Love Live Hustle:
Nicole is an SEO specialist, author, and co-founder of a bootstrapped e-commerce business. When she's not researching and writing blog posts, she is helping entrepreneurs optimize their websites and create content that their ideal clients can find!

Connect with my Guest!

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/love_live_hustle/
• Website: https://lovelivehustle.com/
• Facebook Chill Entrepreneur SEO Spot: https://www.facebook.com/groups/887537621717108

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