The Jeanne Oliver Podcast

Podcast 052 | Loss and Grief with Lorraine Bell   “The journey of faith is messy.” 19:11   “Don’t put off anything, do it.” 41:08   “Take that pass, you’ve earned it, you have a right to it, and say no to the things that you are not capable of.” 43:05   “There’s no formula, there’s no fixing it, you just have to walk with it and feel it and experience it.” 44:56   A self-taught Mixed Media Artist,...

Podcast 051 | Art with Adele Sypesteyn “All of this that I’ve learned and taught myself is going to go away unless I share it.” 22:26   “What you are is beautiful, just be what you are.” 25:09   “Just be more of who you are.” 26:06   “Everything has been done before but nobody can do it like you can.” 26:39   “I think artists are such a special group of people, we bring so much beauty and uniquene...

Episode Notes Podcast 050 | A Celiac in Italy with Catalin Varela   “I’ve always seen the world as being the best classroom." 4:54   “I made this promise to myself that I was going to wholeheartedly go after everything that lights me up regardless of how difficult or how risky it might be because I got so face to face with the fragility of life at such a young age and that was wildly clarifying fo...

Podcast 049 | Home Love and Nesting Fitzpatrick “I think the best thing we can do for our homes is have our homes reflect really who we are, how we like to live, and that it represents the people that live there.” 1:47    “I feel like it just showed me from a young age to think outside the box, to have spaces with character and life in them, to have a space that represents what you love…” 7:42   “...

Podcast 048 | Keeping a Light with Deanne Fitzpatrick   “I do feel that we all have to keep a light for ourselves and that we have to keep a light for others.” 3:33   “Well to me it goes back to one of my key things, “How do I want my life to look and feel?” 4:45   “Do our actions line up with what we say we want?” 6:18   “I think you really have to ask yourself, “What do you want your life to mea...

Podcast 047 | Authenticity with Deanne Fitzpatrick “You can only sustain being you.” 2:31   “It’s not what you got, it’s how you keep it.” 6:32   “Who are we that we can walk out consistently and sustain it?… If there’s parts of ourselves that aren’t true, we’ll never make it.” 17:57   “We make art to understand ourselves.” 20:23   “When we bring people together we give them the opportunity to bel...

Podcast 046 | Seasons with Deanne Fitzpatrick   “I think you do go into seasons where there’s an ebb and flow, and I think there are times that we can think if we’re not doing that one thing that used to be so abundant, “Are we still creative?” I think it’s then saying, “How can I be creative now in a different way?” 2:40   “There’s definitely seasons in my creativity just like there is with life....

Podcast 045 | Beauty Chasers with Deanne Fitzpatrick “I just want to breathe beauty. I feel like if we’re not intentional about needing that, it’s really easy to get distracted and not see what we have.” 5:45   “I think that’s what we do once we define ourselves as artists, what we do is we refine.” 9:23   “Are we distracted or are we seeing?” 11:36   “Once people find their medium then they begin...

Podcast 044 |Midlife and Creativity with Deanne Fitzpatrick   “Have your heart right where you’re at, have your eyes on what’s in front of you, because even though it doesn’t feel like it right now, it’s going to go away. It’s going to go away and there’s going to be a lot of time to do a lot of those things and you’re never going to regret being present where you’re at.” 6:42   “Never think that...

Podcast 043 | Don't Compare Your Seasons with Danielle Donaldson   “I was looking at your season which was different than my season.” 5:03   “The art will always be there, your kids won’t. Enjoy that time.” 5:42   “I really discovered that my passion and my purpose were two different things.” 6:02   “There are things you know in your head that you don’t believe in your heart.” 6:59   “Don’t compar...

Podcast 042| Motherhood and Creativity with Miriam Schulman  “It took me a while to realize, “No, I can make a living from my art, and this is what I should be doing.’” 5:48 “It’s priority management and blocking your time into an ideal schedule.” 7:52 “I think you had a head start probably because you had already been honoring that creativity.” 10:28 “I always introduced myself as an artist. I ow...

Podcast 041| Pricing Your Work with Matt Tommey  “What you would buy it for has nothing to do with what the market price of your art is” 2:48 “I just found that artists really were trying to do pricing in a bubble as opposed to thinking about the whole macro things in regards to pricing, not only your expense every month, but also other things like how you’re perceived in the marketplace, and the...

Podcast 040 | Mastermind Groups with Renee Mueller 3:25     “Like many creatives, I was searching for something else to fill that void that dance had left for me, and I read The Artists Way…I started out learning as much as I can.”   4:22     “Because I had such a long career as a dance teacher, it seemed like a natural progression for me to start teaching art, and encouraging other creatives, and...

Podcast 039 | Goodbye Instagram and Facebook with Kelly Rae Roberts 2:32 “I think of my art as sort of a marriage between my social work life and my creative life…” 3:25 “Over time, especially as my business was growing, even with employees and help I just found that my brain and my psychic space was always filled with go go go go go…” 4:44 “What I learned was that dismantling parts of your busine...

Podcast 038 | Leading your Team with Kristina Pfeil 2:54 “My goal is to help the clients I work with so that their people-practices are engaging and not distracting. I don’t want them to distract them from their core business.” 3:38 “That’s really where I have passion; to help those that don’t know they need the help, or don’t have the skillset or the resources, to be able to help them run their b...

Podcast 037 | Beholding and Becoming with Ruth Chou Simons   1:49    “When I was a child, I was a perfectionist.  I would say now I am a recovering perfectionist.  I think I was such a perfectionist that I never thought I could be an artist.”   2:06     “I enjoyed being creative, but that creativity was always bumping against a feeling of ‘I’m never good enough to do what I want to do.’”   4:12   ...

Podcast 036 | Created to Thrive with Matt Tommey   1:56     “When I first started making baskets, it was really to me never about making baskets, it was always about the connection of being in the woods, going hiking, and making something that other people thought was beautiful.”   2:41     “I began to see early on in my work the whole recycled part or the redemptive part of what I do, of taking t...

Podcast 035 | The Creative Doer with Anna Lovind   2:23     “Somewhere during that fairly short career, I began to realize that the creative process of bringing a book from idea to completion, that process is actually pretty much the same regardless of what it is that you want to bring from idea to completion…”   4:18     “There was something about this work, something that sort of itched, a gap t...

Podcast 034 | Strengths Finder with Nathifa Sligh   1:18     “I use Strengths every single day…”   3:37    “When I learned my bottom strengths, that’s when I was like, Oh my goodness this is insane, like a moment of exhaling, because I understood why I was the way I was…”   4:59    “Strengths Finder is a tool to discover talent…”   9:19    “For me, I struggled over the course of my entire life, be...

Podcast 033 | Stepping Away with Melody Ross   1:37     “I think we think we know what we are going to do with the rest of our lives, and I’m to the point where I say ‘who knows?’ But here’s what I’m going to do in the next little while.”   2:55     “For people who are highly creative, I don’t know that people know how many ideas you have everyday.  I never worry about running out of ideas…”   7:0...

Podcast 032 | A House God is Building with Meshali Mitchell   1:52     “I’m a photographer, storyteller, and now, somehow, a home renovator.”   3:08     “I never set out to be a professional photographer, that’s something the Lord just sort of dropped in my lap…”   4:21     “I began to see possibilities, and see things differently, and I thought maybe there is a future for me here…”   5:25     “In...

Podcast 031 | A Colorful Life with Sabrina Ward Harrison   1:24     “I teach creative liberation through writing and color exploration…”   6:29    “Growing up, I always wanted to look different than I looked, I didn’t like my freckles and my short hair…”   7:27     “I was sort of thrown up to an art school in Northern California by an art teacher who was like ‘get your head out of your ass and get...

Podcast 030 | In the Studio with Ardith Goodwin 1:38     “It’s a full time job that is totally a creative-entrepreneur business and I absolutely love it because it is multi-faceted.”   2:30     “In year 9 in my teaching career I was at the top of my profession and my body just kinda gave out.  I had to go on full disability, I had to retire from teaching, and I didn’t know what I was going to do. ...

Podcast 029 | At Home with the Nester   2:08     “My goal is to help women create the home they’ve always wanted so that they can use it the way they’ve always dreamed.” 2:55     “Even now, as a 47 year old adult woman, I ask my mom for decorating advice.” 4:02     “I grew up with a mom who I think felt judged because of her home, and I didn’t like that.” 4:42    “I don’t want to wait.  I don’t wa...

  Podcast 028 | Your Brand with Sandy Shaw 2:04 “And then my pragmatic side got the best of me, and it said, ‘Sandy, when you graduate you better be able to get a job and support yourself.’ So I actually changed my major from art to business.” 2:33 “I really wanted to return to art and launch my own business.” 4:16 “Whether it is an art business or any business, there are just so many things you n...