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...
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What's Your Story
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...
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20 of 34 episodesJennifer 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...