The Art of Lost and Found with Brooke Estin

“Moving into product sales with my templates have given me so much more time. There's been a weight that's been lifted off of my shoulders. I'm not chained to like client responses and deadlines. I'm free." - Melissa Lunt, Brand + Website Designer, Template Designer Today on The Art of Lost & Found Podcast, Melissa Lunt discusses her journey as a creative entrepreneur. She...

“When you become just a number, not a person, but just a number there to execute the work, It's not sustainable. But I had invested so much in this and the pivot felt like a failure. I needed a change, but I didn't know what to change to since this was all I knew.” - Phil Lashley, Motion Graphics Designer Phil grew up in Barbados with three brothers in a middle-income family where their pr...

Today we welcome Ana Juma (@anajuma), Founder of @prophsee.  She is a creative entrepreneur who believes the art of journaling can be a powerful therapy for anxiety and depression. Through her own process of learning to dance with the darker parts of herself, Juma developed a consistent and deeply supportive journaling practice that she is sharing with the world through her publishing house, Proph...

“It can feel like we aren’t worthy of putting ourselves out there or carving out a little corner of the internet because we haven’t achieved something yet.” - Amanda Bucci, Author of Followed: The Content Creators Guide to Being Seen, Facing Judgment, and Building an Authentic Personal Brand . Before garnering nearly half a million followers on Instagram, Amanda Bucci struggled with some of the sa...

“Money’s not the end-all and be-all because you can’t spend it from a casket.” - Landen Conner Have you ever found yourself thinking, “Is this who I am? Is this what my life is now?” You’ve put so much effort into getting where you are, only to look around and feel like something is off. This isn’t where you’re supposed to be. If you’ve ever felt out of alignment like this, then today’s episode is...

Today we welcome Lucy Alexandra Harper, a designer and creative workshop facilitator and multidisciplinary designer. She shares her story of how she lost her job in the pandemic and how she was able to not only rebound, but to redesign, reimagine and rebuild a new independent creative career. She shares insights on healthy creativity, releasing the need for approval, and taking charge of her own d...

Today we welcome to the podcast Ian Koniak, a Sales Coach and Digital Course Creator, who is known by many as "The Master of Sales".  Ian has worked at some of the largest companies in the world and holds the sales record at Salesforce to this day. This is somebody who has experienced selling over $100 million.  We met through Brand Builder's Group and I helped him create his first online program,...

Today we welcome to the podcast Laurie Shiers, a Creativity Coach who believes that creativity has the power to heal our lives and change the world. She helps her clients uncover fresh insights and possibilities, develop powerful habits and create meaningful and lasting change. Reconnecting with her innate sense of joy and wonder is what busted opened the door to Laurie’s own happiness and fulfill...

Today I’m talking to guest Carrie Alyson, an incredible professional visual artist and graphic designer. Carrie is an extra special guest for me personally.  We met back in 2021 when we were both part of a program called Creative Alchemy, which was run by artist and author, Amber Rae. Carrie’s energy was so warm, friendly, supportive, generous and engaging that she stuck out among the 70+ per...

Our guest today is Zamir Dhanji. He is a Yoga Teacher - Storyteller - Holistic Counsellor and Founder of @the.mystic.yogi and the Inner Path Deck . A true creative at heart, he is is strongly influenced by developments in modern biology, physics and chemistry as he believes they provide a holistic and paradigm-shifting understanding of the body-mind system -  one that complements the scientif...

The guest on today’s show is Hanna Ruddies, an incredible healer, guide, coach and facilitator. Hanna spends her days guiding women through Feminine Embodiment, Ancestral Clearing, Female Sexuality & Womb Wisdom. When Hanna was younger, she had endless bladder infections, was diagnosed with Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), experienced sever pain with sex and masterbation, and had all but given up...

Our guest today is Molly Elizabeth, a professional artist, imagination doula and founder of The Darling Revolution. She helps creatives come home to themselves so they can imagine & birth a better world. ​ As a Creative Professional, Molly has daily studio practice where she makes mesmerizing abstract expressionist art. She primarily works with acrylic paints, blacklight reflective pigments, c...

Our guest today is Nuno Queimado, a professional actor and acting teacher.  But his journey to get there was far from linear. Nuno made the difficult decision to pursue a degree in psychotherapy, rather than the more traditional and personally appealing path of becoming an engineer. As part of his training to become a psychotherapist, he of course had to undergo psychotherapy himself.  Through the...

Today on The Art of Lost and Found, our guest speaker is Cassey Shapiro. She is an Filipino-Australian living the dream in Amsterdam. We met many years ago when I was working with Impact Hub and came to the city often. Several years later when I moved to Amsterdam, Cassey quickly became one of my besties. Her smile, sense of humor and dedication to having a good time endeared me to her forever. Af...

Nicolette Ghariadeh is a Feminine Embodiment & Intimacy Coach and serves as a powerful guide for women on their healing journeys.  What started out as an exploration of her own healing journey quickly evolved into full on creative transformation. After spending 7 years working in the adult entertainment industry as a stripper, she became increasingly aware of the parts of herself she was...

Today on The Art of Lost and Found, our guest speaker is Sophie Lloyd.  Sophie Lloyd is a professionally trained Dancer, Yoga Teacher, Poet, and Creative Writer who I had the good fortune of meeting at a deeply intimate and nourishing women's retreat in Portugal. ​ In our conversation, Sophie shares her engaging backstory as a creative professional, narrating how creativity has always been a...

Today's episode features Corey Johnson . Corey is an internationally recognized brand strategist and brand identity designer and the co-founder of Viral Impact Studios , which he created with Prince EA (the spoken word artist and global phenomenon of an influencer with millions of followers). In addition to his brand and consulting work, he also is a recording artist under the stage name Corey Iri...

Today’s episode is my first solo mini-episode! On today's episode, I go over the pattern that I am starting to see after having done 20+ interviews with all types of creatives. What is starting to emerge is a pattern similar to Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey  or Maureen Murdock's The Heroine's Journey, but with some key differences.  I refer to it as The Creative's Journey. During...

Today’s episode features Johnny Reyes, a globally renowned Music Producer, Recording Artist, DJ and Film Composer.  He began to DJ warehouse parties in the San Francisco rave scene at age 14 yet his story took a dark turn as he found himself deep in the hedonistic party scene where he was battling debilitating addictions, depression and even a suicide attempt. He eventually went to rehab, where he...

Today's episode features Ashley Wilson, a creative entrepreneur, singer and musician based out of San Francisco, CA. Ashley is a marketer who has spent the last decade working in the San Francisco tech start world. In 2016, she founded Olivine Marketing , a boutique product marketing agency. Olivine has since evolved into a collective of product marketers and creatives, as well as a full-scale pro...

Today’s episode features Michael Kass, the founder of Story and Spirit. As a facilitator, coach, speaker, and award-winning storyteller, he's passionate about helping people, organizations and communities discover and harness the power of their stories to create change. Our conversation explores how Michael’s acting career led him to Hollywood and how he eventually found his way to the work of tra...

Today’s episode features Diem Truong-Nguyen, a US-based artist and consultant. Our conversation covers her story of overcoming the “model minority” pressure of being a first generation Asian-American, how she found her way back to her creativity after a 10 year hiatus and how she learned to cultivate self-love through the timeless art of tattoo. For more information, head over to www.brookeestin.c...

The Art of Lost and Found is a podcast that explores creative recovery and transformation. The core idea is simple: Every one of us is creative, even if we don’t know how to access it. It's in our nature. The key is re-learning how to access and use it as your own superpower. Being creative is NOT about making art, but rather it’s about rising above traditional ideas, patterns or relationships...