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What's Your Story

Meighan L. O'Toole

Welcome to What’s Your Story, an interview style podcast with Meighan O'Toole. Every week she sits down with artists and creative individuals for casual conversation surrounding their profes...

Episodes

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Emily McDowell: Learning What Works

Today I'm sitting down with writer, illustrator and designer Emily McDowell. Emily has been transforming the stationery industry since 2013...

54:00Jan 13, 2017

Jennifer Orkin Lewis: Daily Painting, Showing Up, & Holding Yourself Accountable

In January of this year I decided to end What's Your Story, or at least take some time off and rethink the show. Now that I've let about 10...

33:07Oct 31, 2016

Craft Industry Alliance: Community & the Power of Success

Abby Glassenberg and Kristin Link are the founders of Craft Industry Alliance , a membership trade industry organization dedicated to suppor...

34:50Dec 16, 2015

Windy Chien: Exit Strategies, Creative Practice, & the Big Picture

Windy Chien is a product designer and artist living in San Francisco. After long careers at Apple and in the music industry, she launched he...

28:30Dec 2, 2015

Rosalie Gale: Shower Art, Listening to Your Gut, & Getting Things Done

Today's guest is my friend and very funny lady Rosalie Gale . Rosalie lives and works in Seattle Washington where she co-owns the shop Ugly...

30:41Nov 17, 2015

Kiva Zip: Micro-loans, Crowdfunding, & Asking for Help

Welcome to a new feature on the podcast! Starting with this episode once a month I'll be putting together a short episode where I chat with...

20:00Nov 7, 2015

Betsy Cordes: Impostor Syndrome, Accepting Your Path, & Breathing Life into an Old Book

This week on the show I sit down with Betsy Cordes . Betsy is an artist, an art director, and much more. She lives and works in San Francisc...

36:13Oct 31, 2015

Chawne Kimber: Race, Identity, & Social Justice Through Quilting

This week my guest is Chawne Kimber of Cauchy Complete , a modern quilter and a math professor. Chawne is well known within the quilting com...

42:20Oct 17, 2015

Dear HandMade Life: Working Together & Making It Work

On todays show I talk with Delilah Snell and Nicole Stevenson of Dear Handmade Life , artists, makers, and entrepreneurs. They're the women...

42:43Aug 19, 2015

Will Lyman: Frontline, F.O.M.O, & Selling Out

This week on the show my guest is actor and narrator Will Lyman . You will know him best as the narrator of the PBS documentary news series,...

35:39Jul 16, 2015

Megan Auman: Building a Creative Career & Brand Consistency

Megan Auman's main focus is her eponymous jewelry line, but as she's built her business over the years she has learned first hand what it ta...

58:48Jul 7, 2015

Katrina Rodabaugh: Mending, Making with Paper, & Micro-Residencies

My guest today is Katrina Rodabaugh - an artist, writer, and crafter who lives in Oakland CA with her two boys and husband. Katrina explores...

57:24Jun 30, 2015

Courtney Cerruti: Multiple Muse Syndrome & Creating Community Around Art

This week on the show I'm excited to have Courtney Cerruti, maker extraordinare. Courtney is an artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area....

55:59May 23, 2015

Michelle Tea: Growing Up, Getting Sober, and Reframing Failure

OK, so this week I am so delighted to introduce my guest, author, poet and activist Michelle Tea. Michelle often chronicles her own life whi...

37:06May 9, 2015

Vaughn Fender: Illustration, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, & Idioms

On the show today I sit down with Illustrator Vaughn Fender. Vaughn and I have been friends online for roughly 6 or 7 years, and it was grea...

31:19Mar 21, 2015

Umar Rashid/Frohawk Two Feathers: Identity, Art, & Retelling of History

Since 2006 Umar Rashid, also known as Frowhawk Two Feathers, has been recreating and reinterpreting a specific period in world history withi...

30:27Mar 14, 2015

Christina Loff: Marketing, Authenticity, & Consuming Less

This week I sit down with my good friend Christina Loff. Christina works as Channel Marketing Lead for the Photography, Craft, and Design Ch...

36:15Mar 6, 2015

Victoria Smith: On Blogging, Seeing San Francisco, & Dealing with Real Life

In 2006 blogger Victoria Smith uploaded photographs of her home on blogger, which was then known as Blogspot and submitted them to Apartment...

35:21Feb 24, 2015

Outtake: Ehren Tool

After editing my first interview with former Marine and ceramicist Ehren Tool, I realized I had a few more questions for him. This is a shor...

12:53Feb 19, 2015

Ehren Tool: A Former Marine on War and Making Cups

On today's show we talk about how Tool's experience as a marine has influenced and driven his work, and that no matter how many years go by,...

39:38Feb 11, 2015