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Episode #21 - Better Together: When Friends Go Into Business with Morgan & Carrie of Ampersand Design Studio

Release Date: 07/20/2020

EP22 - OFF THE CUFF: HOW TO ACHIEVE BALANCE AND WHAT IS NEXT FOR HIGHLIGHT REAL WITH HOST JOSEPHINE KIMBERLING

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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.

Episode #21 - Better Together: When Friends Go Into Business with Morgan & Carrie of Ampersand Design Studio

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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.

EP20 - Draw Your Feelings Out with Jordan Sondler

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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.

EP19 - How the Philosophies of Painting Can Change Your Life with Flora Bowley

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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.

EP18 – How to Go After What You Want and Not Let Anything Stop You with Andrea Pippins

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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.

EP17 – How To Boldly Design Your Life with Meagan Morrison of Travel Write Draw

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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.

EP16 – The Behind the Scenes Truth of Starting and Growing a Creative Business with Hello!Lucky

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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.

EP15 - Top 5 Tools for Greater Self-Discovery and The Future of Highlight REAL

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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.

EP14 - How to Make Fear Your Friend with Meera Lee Patel

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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”.

EP13 - How to See Pain Points As Growth Opportunities with Lisa Congdon

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Lisa Congdon is an Illustrator and author who is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering.

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Ampersand quickly became known for combining graphic and handmade marks to create bold patterns in refreshing color palettes. Together they create and collaborate on every design with paint, pen and ink, cut paper and anything else they can get their hands on! Their artwork appears on products ranging from textiles to stationery to home décor to fashion for companies such as The Land of Nod, Windham Fabrics, Giggle, and Tiny Prints in addition to their own line of products sold in shops across the world.

These days, Carrie & Morgan not only work together, they live five minutes apart with their sweet, (and very supportive), husbands and adorable kids. Whether they are playing with their children or painting in the studio, their mission is always to create looks and lives that are creative, harmonious and happy. Ampersand is where color and pattern come to play!

TODAY WE WILL LEARN HOW TO

Take the leap from a stable job to starting a business
See negative surprises as opportunities for something new
Work with a business partner when you both overlap on a lot of skills
Put friendship first over a business partnership
Respect each others opinions when working together
Leverage what each person brings to the table, to make something stronger, together

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