Today we are all about the practice of discipline in art. My guest Jolene Poydar spent her formative years in New York City’s downtown club scene as a DJ, where her love of dance music and spinning vinyl set the tone for her creative life. Alongside her nights behind the turntables, she began exploring textile art—yarn bombing city streets and experimenting with improvisational quilting. Over time, her artistic practice expanded into ceramics, where wheel throwing has replaced vinyl DJing as her primary medium for tactile exploration and expression. I'm deeply inspired by Jolene's self-motivation and commitment to art.

Together we talk about the drive and discipline to create, the benefits of having a regular artistic practice, and how treating art like it's a job has helped her continually prioritize her art even when life got busy. Her creative process is rooted in play and improvisation, and she tells me how that has helped her learn about control and perfectionism - and how to let those go even just a little. She leaves us with this:

"Life is for living. Dive in instead of looking at it from the sidelines."

Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did,
xx
Jo

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