The Jeanne Oliver Podcast

Episode Seventy-Seven | Seeds and Samples: The Work Beneath the Work with Jayne Emerson 0:00 Intro 0:30 Meet Jayne Emerson 2:39 Life in the Countryside 4:04 Seeds of Ideas and “Thought Piles” 14:45 Prompts and Play 23:46 From Secrecy to Sharing 28:06 Generosity and Creative Impact 31:14 Curiosity as a Compass 34:09 Trusting Your Process 39:30 Style and Freedom 45:33 Gathering What You Love 49:59 L...

0:00 Intro 0:30 Meet Betty Soldi 4:14 Growing Up with Fireworks and Wonder 8:29 From Florence to London   10:46 Words, Ink, and Finding Her Medium 12:49 Florence’s Easter Firework Tradition   16:15 Florence as an Invitation to Presence   19:51 Flourishes, Splotches, and Evolving Style 25:15 Handwriting, Feeling, and Creative Confidence 27:27 The Heart Behind Inkspired 30:27 A Lemon House Studio an...

  0:00 Intro 0:30 Meet Margaux Kent 1:13 Childhood Journals to Lifelong Habits 3:55 Writing as Processing 9:39 The Beginning of Peg and Awl 11:57 Living with Intention and Curiosity 13:25 Reevaluations in Life and Business 17:29 Homeschooling, Freedom, and Learning Through Living 19:31 Honoring your Creativity 25:23 Land, Nature, and Daily Rhythm 26:57 Personal Creative Play 28:50 How Peg and Awl...

0:00 Intro 0:30 Meet Brandi Hofer 0:56 Burning Out and Beginning Again 5:05 Art School, Early Discoveries, and Defining Success 8:26 Confidence, Courage, and “Be Brave Days” 12:25 Efficiency vs. “Cheating” in Art 23:21 Inspiration, Influence, and Art in Community 30:34 Murals: Starting Big and Learning Fast 36:56 Creative Dreaming and the Power of Stillness 41:07 Building a Multifaceted Business w...

0:00 Intro 0:30 Welcome Back, Time Willard 0:55 Life, Family, and Creative Work 6:04 Rhizome vs. Rooted 11:55 Technology, Depletion, and Disconnection 29:46 Frequency and Distraction 47:52 The Hollowing Effect 59:30 Density and Depletion 1:22:23 Daily Resistance 1:31:07 Building Hope 1:37:51 The Moments that Matter 1:44:30 How to Connect with Tim 1:46:29 Outro   Find Tim’s website HERE Follow Tim...

Podcast  072 | Creativity, Cookbooks, and Copper Pots with Cat Bude 0:30 Meet Cat Bude 1:38 A Life Rooted in France 5:50 The Beauty of Gathering 7:36 Building a Lifestyle that Resonates 17:57 Navigating Online Boundaries 43:29 Staying Inspired to Cook 48:57 Finding Community at the Market 54:46 The Vintage Copper Business 1:00:04 The Farm 1:04:59 Resilience and Rhythm 1:10:38 Hard Seasons and the...

Episode Seventy-One | Full Color Faith and Worship Beyond the Stage with Courtney Smallbone 0:00 Intro 00:30 Meet Courtney Smallbone 2:29 Being Aware, Not Just Awake 4:36 Cultivating Creativity 7:03 Fasting to Hear Clearly 9:45 Living Worship Daily 14:32 Letting Go of False Identities 19:04 How God Speaks Personally 22:59 Worship Without Expectation 25:18 Urgency to Use Our Gifts 29:23 Expressing...

Podcast 070 | Living Abundantly Creative with a Diversified Business with Jana Roach 3:52 “The walls are 21 inches of bricks. So it's a very sturdy, old, amazing building. And when we walked into it to rent it, there was pigeon poop everywhere. And the tar that they used to use for the inside, they had hay and tar mixed together all on the walls. So it was not pretty. But to most people, you would...

Podcast 069 | The Kitchen Table Creative Club with Jennifer Rizzo 3:31 “I thought, well, a newsletter is a low-risk way for me to get ideas out there to share with people. And every newsletter is chocked full of information that normally focuses on one subject.”   5:31 “I think there are two really big things people really struggle with when they start. One is self-confidence, and the other is imp...

Podcast 068 | Eat. Pie. Love. with Tara Royer Steele 1:27 “God used pie in our life, and we knew nothing about pie. And through all of that, I have a pie shop and we have a bakery, which is our commissary kitchen. But it really has evolved into events and gatherings and retreats and feeding His people.”   7:39 “So “the gathering” is really (at the Pie Haven) just another tool to create a safe spac...

Podcast 067 | The Best is Yet To Come with Jan McCarthy 16:13 “So whatever it is, start a book club, start a dinner club...You'll find your community. Start an art club. Start talking to people about things that you like and finding out where those people are hanging out.”   19:49 “When my daughter, was 14 or 15, I let her move to California from Boulder to pursue a career, and that was her demand...

Podcast 066| Selling Art at Round Top with Mary Gregory   7:22 “We built wooden walls and painted them white. That made all the difference. It just looked more like a gallery situation and cleaner and nicer. And it makes painting the picture so much easier, too.”   11:21 “It takes a lot out of you. So, the main thing for me is just to try to keep my mind on things above, just not getting too caugh...

Podcast 065| Overcome What Overwhelms You with Trina McNeilly 7:28 “Because what we're seeing on our screens every day is mostly the highs and curated things. And I get it. We don't want to just put all of the heart out there, but then—even unintentionally—your brain kind of gets programmed, “this is how it should be every day.””   12:46 “But it took someone saying to me “you're grieving” and then...

Podcast 064| Rembrandt is in the Wind with Russ Ramsey 2:38 “I think that for a lot of people, there's this kind of barrier to entry when it comes to engaging with art. This feeling that you need to somehow be an art historian or you need to understand complexities about art in order to just not be an imposter standing in front of a painting.”   4:30 “I wanted to try to talk about art in a way tha...

Podcast 063| Artpreneur with Miriam Schulman    1:54 “It's like the same things, so you can never hear this often enough. I think the biggest thing I hear is the belief that cheaper is easier to sell.”   4:59 “So when I started writing this book in 2020, it felt like a very similar time to when I decided that I was not going to go back to corporate right after 911. The pandemic felt very similar....

Podcast 062 | Higher Pursuits with Sarah Martin 2:58 “I am going to focus on what I know to do best that I've been doing for the last many months in order to survive, which is seeking after that, which is higher, seeking after what I call higher pursuits.”   6:33 “It's as simple as everyday revival is, hey, I just really screwed up with my 14-year-old son in there. I'm going to go back in and repe...

Podcast 061 | Q+A with Stephanie Lee and Jeanne Oliver  4:32 “A lot of that has come with the experience of realizing that sometimes the way you know how something works is just like diving into it and then experiencing how it works.”   9:40 “You're not just an artist. You're ministering to women's hearts and their creativity. So, these questions that I've come up with are coming from, like, I wan...

Podcast 060 | Not Letting Fear + Perfectionism Guide Your Life with Christa Forrest 6:20 “So I left, and I went to take an art class, and that was it.  I took an art class, and it was like I hadn't been eating or drinking for the past how many years it was, and it was like, you're starving, and you got that first bite of food. And that's how I felt.”   8:40 “So I slowly started to plan, slowly sta...

Podcast 059 | The God Artist with Roma Waterman 6:47 “I know there's going to be times where we're going to have to fight for what God's called us to. But I actually look back and I'm thankful for those seasons because they do truly refine you. They truly make you go, what is it that God really wants? What is the bullseye? Not just, yeah, I'm good at art, or I'm good at creating. What is it that y...

Podcast 058 | True Hospitality with Daune Pitman 9:05 “We really believe that time at the table is a sacred place. And when we spend time, it's just a natural place to connect; around the table, looking in people's eyes, sharing stories, laughing, talking, crying, just doing life together.”   12:26 “It is so simple gathering at the table, but it makes a huge impact on the people that are a part of...

Podcast 057 | There is Life and Hope in a Meal with Danielle Kartes Hello!  I am Danielle Kartes. Welcome to Rustic Joyful Food! Whether it’s through our books, television appearances, magazines spreads, or speaking engagements, we are on a mission to inspire people to love their lives and make delicious food. Great food isn’t great simply because its expensive or prepared with the finest tools, i...

  Podcast 056 | The Beauty Chasers with Timothy Willard “Our country is kind of falling under this enchantment of sameness and not uniqueness.” 30:12   “People are thirsty for people and contact.” 34:50   "Before the Enlightenment period, you would ask an artist what their aim of their art was they would say beauty, but today they say transgression or self expression. It has shifted, the aim being...

Podcast 055 | Ignite the World Around You with Jessi Green “If you can actually have a relationship with God and really know the creator of the universe, and if the things we talk about in church are actually real, what else am I giving my attention to? This is obviously the most important pursuit of my entire existence.” 7:21   “It’s the experience of it all that drives us to want others to know...

Podcast 054 | The Lies of Perfectionism with Sandi Hester   “I see that it (perfectionism) is a joy stealer, it’s an energy stealer, it steals the ability to think of others first or even at all, and because of that part of the self-focus, it isolates.” 6:05   “The bad speaks so much louder than the good. And when perfectionism and self-worship are present, it gives the bad a lot of power.” 8:14  ...

Episode Notes Podcast 053 | Awake Awake with Sheila Atchley   “One of the saddest things to be is unaware.” 10:13   “You have a spirit of authority. Go love it. Find it and love it.” 16:07   “Your middle is as ordained a season as your beginning and as your end.” 16:18   “Your most valuable perspective in the middle is that of loving what is yours, and I would also say that your perspective is als...