Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant
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Shepard Fairey is celebrating 30 years of being a groundbreaking and influential artist, designer and activist. He started his company Obey Giant with a sticker and he’s turned it into an empire. Shepard shares some of the wisdom he’s gained over 30 years as an artist, including how he kept going when things got tough, how he infuses his ideals and values into his art and why he thinks that it’s important to pursue a creative practice. I spoke with Shepard at Obey Giant HQ in Los Angeles, CA.
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Ep. 19: Matthew Bede Murphy & the artists of LAND Gallery
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LAND Studio & Gallery is a nonprofit day habilitation program that teaches life skills through the modality of art. Located in Brooklyn, LAND serves 16 adult artists with developmental disabilities. I spoke with six of the artists at LAND & visited the co-founder Matthew Bede Murphy at his home. Matthew shares his struggles coming out as a young gay man & how art therapy helped him to know his whole self. We explore the healing potential of having a creative practice & a safe space to express yourself.
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Krissy Teegerstrom on the This Song Podcast
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I'm sharing the full episode of my appearance on the This Song podcast hosted by Elizabeth McQueen. This was my second interview ever and the first one I did before a live audience. I was nervous! In my intro, I talk through how I managed my nervousness so I could show up for the live interview. Then I share the full episode where I talk about my love for Jeff Buckley, my journey to see myself as an artist & why I started the Beyond + Back podcast. The This Song podcast episode is shared with permission.
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Luke Storey
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Luke Storey is a former fashion stylist, motivational speaker and world-class biohacker. He hosts The Life Stylist Podcast, for people who are dedicated to living life at the highest level of human potential. Prior to this, Luke was a musician for 15 years and co-founded School of Style. In this episode, we talk about what it’s like to create your own life, to re-create it when the time comes, and the challenges that presents when people want you to explain just exactly what it is that you do.
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Ep 18: Skating Polly
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Kelli Mayo is 19 years old and Peyton Bighorse is 23, but their band Skating Polly has already existed for 10 years. During that time they’ve played hundreds of live shows, toured with many of their heroes and released five studio recordings. They are a family band, Peyton’s mom and Kelli’s dad are a couple, and a few years ago they added their brother Kurtis Mayo on drums. This is a story of two women who were encouraged to be creative and express themselves from a very young age.
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Ep 17: Davíd Garza
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Davíd Garza hails from Texas & has been making music & writing songs since the late '80s. These days he collaborates with all sorts of artists; you might find him making music with Fiona Apple or scoring the recent Beto O'Rourke documentary. He just released a book called Lost Rhyme which pairs 100 of his paintings alongside 100 poems, or song lyrics. In this episode we talk about his approach to creativity & what it’s like to choose to be an artist in 2019. Recorded in person in Austin, Texas.
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Ep. 16: Danielle MacKinnon
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Danielle MacKinnon, is an intuitive, animal communicator, and coach. In this episode we talk about what it’s like when you take a left turn that the people around you don’t necessarily support, what it feels like to tune into your own intuition, and how staying present in our creative process allows it to flow and change in ways that benefit us. I hope this episode expands and inspires you to tap into your own inner knowing and venture bravely toward whatever it is that makes your heart sing.
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Ep. 15: Jakob Dylan
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Jakob Dylan has been playing music for more than 30 years, releasing two solo albums and winning two Grammys with his band The Wallflowers. He collaborated with his longtime manager Andrew Slater on the film Echo in the Canyon, celebrating the music that came out of Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s. In this conversation we talk about his songwriting process, where inspiration comes from & why we both think it’s important to share encouragement with others.
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Ep. 14: Kathleen Shannon + Krissy Teegerstrom
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Kathleen Shannon is a designer, creative director and podcaster. She co-hosts a podcast for creative entrepreneurs called Being Boss, with her business bestie Emily Thompson. Since 2015 they’ve recorded over 200 episodes, racked up nearly 8 million downloads and published a book together. In this episode Kathleen & I talk about art, spirituality, authenticity, why I started this podcast & my business Featherweight Studio, the challenges we both face as creative entrepreneurs and lots more.
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Ep. 13: Evelyn From The Internets, Storyteller
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Storyteller Evelyn From The Internets and I spoke at her co-working space in Austin, Texas. Evelyn is a writer, speaker, performer & humorist with 10 years of videos she's shared on her YouTube channel, garnering more than 13 million views & 200K subscribers (Beyoncé is a fan!). We talked about the pros & cons of sharing your work online, how learning new skills is a good way to combat inevitable self-doubt, and how we're comforted to know that all creatives grapple with similar questions.
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Episode notes:
Danielle MacKinnon, is an intuitive, animal communicator, and coach. She has two published books, Soul Contracts and Animal Lessons, and she teaches animal communication classes at the Omega Institute, the Kripalu Center, and also through her own online school.
Today we’re hearing from someone whose creative work might go beyond your comfort zone of what’s real or acceptable. Many of us are open to the idea of psychics or intuitives, but the notion that humans can communicate intuitively with animals is still pretty controversial. We’re not here to talk extensively about what it means to be an animal communicator, or even to change your mind if it’s closed to the idea of it. I’m here to talk about creativity in its many forms, and what it feels like when you follow a path that the mainstream doesn’t really believe in. Danielle grew up in an environment that didn’t support her intuitive gifts, but she has come to embrace them fully and she now teaches others how to awaken their own.
In this episode we talk about what it’s like when you take a left turn that the people around you don’t necessarily support, what it feels like to tune into your own intuition, and how staying present in our creative process allows it to flow and change in ways that benefit us. I personally have benefitted from exploring ideas that are beyond own my beliefs and comprehension, I find it stimulating to my inspiration, so please open your ears and your mind and I hope you enjoy listening.
Danielle and I spoke over our laptops from Austin to Boston, so please forgive any strange audio quality.
I hope this episode expands and inspires you to tap into your own inner knowing and venture bravely toward whatever it is that makes your heart sing.