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Does the thought of achieving balance feel like a joke? Are you tired of hustling and falling short of balance in your life? I believe there’s another way. In this episode host Josephine Kimberling shares her thoughts about balance and how to achieve it. How to flip how we think about balance on its head, and give you practical tools and questions to ask yourself so you can take back the reins of your life. In addition - Josephine shares with you what’s next for the Highlight REAL podcast.
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Are you dreaming of one day starting your own business? Are you considering going into business with a friend but aren’t quite sure? Today’s guests Carrie Kiefer and Morgan Georgie of Ampersand Design Studio share their creative journey and how they are truly - better together. To call these girls close would be a serious understatement. For years it’s been Carrie & Morgan, Morgan & Carrie. The name of their design venture says it all — Ampersand.
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Do you have a lot on your mind and on your heart? Are you having a hard time figuring out how to process it all? In this episode Jordan Sondler shares how visual journaling can help you work through your feelings.
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Do you feel yourself shifting and evolving yet are afraid to move into something new? Are there things in your life that are no longer serving you? Flora Bowley is an artist, author, and gentle guide whose soulful approach to the creative process has touched thousands of lives. Blending her 20 years of professional painting experience with her background as a yoga instructor, healer, and lifelong truth seeker, Flora’s workshops and popular online courses have empowered a global network of brave painters.
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Have you let someone’s negative opinion of your work hold you back? Do you have dreams of what you would like to put into the world but feel discouraged? Today's guest Andrea Pippins, an illustrator and author, whose vision is to empower women and girls of color as well as people in under-served communities, shares her story of how she broke through these two questions and went after what she wanted for her life in order to make her dreams happen.
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Do you feel like you are living small? Do you have ideas of what it is you want to do, but are afraid to take that step? Today, Meagan Morrison shares how she boldly defined what she wanted her life to look like and made it happen. You will leave feeling inspired and hopeful for your own path.
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Do you feel like you are on a roller coaster in your creative business? Are you struggling to figure out your business's purpose and the north star? Today's sister duo Eunice and Sabrina of Hello!Lucky, an award-winning letterpress greeting card and design studio, pull back the curtains and share how they started and grew their business and let their passion and purpose guide them throughout the journey.
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This episode focuses on host Josephine Kimberling's Top 5 Tools for Greater Self-Discovery and also shares with you the future of the Highlight REAL podcast.
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Meera Lee Patel is self-taught artist and writer who believes that anything is possible. She is the author of My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown a beautiful meditation on fear and how it can help us become who we really are--if we let it. She is also the author of two journals: “Made Out of Stars, a journal for self-realization” and “Start Where You Are”.
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Lisa Congdon is an Illustrator and author who is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering.
info_outlineAre there things in your life that just feel hard, and you are having trouble moving past them? Are you holding onto expectations and things in your life that aren’t serving you anymore? Artist, Jessica Swift’s world completely changed when her husband Ryan died in August 2018 – leaving Jessica pregnant and with a toddler. As Jessica was grieving, art projects began to emerge. Today Jessica is going to share her story with us, including her grieving process, and how art has been helping her through this difficult time – helping her re-frame her expectations and realize that she CAN do unimaginably hard things.
Jessica Swift is a 100% self-taught, full-time artist, surface pattern designer, painter and business owner, who has never had a “real grown-up job”. She hails from sunny Boulder, Colorado and currently lives in the Pacific Northwest in Portland, Oregon. In 2008, she discovered how to create patterns, and fell in love with the process. Soon after, she began licensing her artwork and created the popular online class & community called “Pattern Camp”. She also created “Campfire” which is an online community that talks openly about the real struggles members have in their creative process. Jessica’s transparent and authentic style resonates with her many followers, and I’m honored she’s sharing her story with us today.
TODAY WE WILL LEARN HOW TO
- Follow our intuition
- Do hard things
- Let go of things that are not serving us anymore
- Be open and vulnerable in order to work through things
- Be gentler on ourselves
- Let art guide us through our pain
FIND JESSICA SWIFT HERE:
- Jessica Swift’s Website
- Jessica Swift on Instagram
- Jessica Swift on Facebook
- Pattern Camp
- Pattern Camp Level 1 on Skillshare
- Pattern Camp Level 2 on Skillshare
- Campfire
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