The Motivatarian Exchange with Dionne Woods

Deborah Watson Andress is a wife, a mother of three, a grandmother of eight...and a proud Southern woman who places a strong emphasis on faith, family, and creating memories through creative events and whimsical art. She is the creator of Nana's Camp in a Box—a box inspired by her own personal experience of hosting a Nana's Camp for her family for the past 11 years and designed as a tool to foster...

Katie Lila of Flowers For People is a fresh flower artist who is currently making a new TV series, Follow The Blooms on the BloomTV Network. In it, she travels to small flower farms throughout the country to find the best blooms at their peak and then creates big-impact, interactive designs for events such as parades, art and music festivals, a professional treehouse reveal, and even an underwater...

Dionne Woods is an artist, business owner, and creative business coach. In her work, she uses her signature layering and blending techniques to create one-of-a-kind statement pieces. Dionne also offers professional tools, paint workshops, and online communities designed to elevate and amplify artists from all backgrounds. She especially loves her work as a creative coach encouraging artists to emb...

Dionne Woods is an artist, business owner, and creative business coach. In her work, she uses her signature layering and blending techniques to create one-of-a-kind statement pieces. Dionne also offers professional tools, paint workshops, and online communities designed to elevate and amplify artists from all backgrounds. She especially loves her work as a creative coach encouraging artists to emb...

Today's Paint Talks Podcast guest is Ashley Rodriguez. She is the Lead Designer and Owner of Garden and Grace Florals, a bespoke floral design studio specializing in weddings, destination events, and corporate and editorial floral design. Garden and Grace Florals is based in Gainesville, Florida, and has been featured in photoshoots from Costa Rica to Iceland - and even underwater (yes, you read t...

Today on Paint Talks, Dionne Woods talks with Mayrose Marquez. Mayrose is Founder and Picnic Stylist of Picnic with Me. She has always had a passion and gift for making beautiful floral arrangements and hosting enchanting picnics for friends and family. In 2019, she decided to take a leap of faith and leave her teaching profession of 17 years. She traveled for the remainder of 2019 before she deci...

Dionne Woods talks with Patricia Brubaker, owner of The Connecticut River Valley Inn in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Patricia is a lifestyle artist, multi-passionate creative entrepreneur, and art biz educator who has combined her passions into a creative place where she hosts all-inclusive art retreats of all kinds. Patricia hosts her own retreats but also invites other creatives who love to teach t...

Dionne Woods chat with Chris Jeanguenat, a Virginia painter, whose fun, illustrative paintings reflect her love of nature and adventure. She works primarily in acrylic and chalk paint and will paint anything if it stands still long enough. Her inspiration is taken from raising two sons, with her playful pitbull and her husband and high school sweetheart. Her childhood adventures, from living in 30...

Dionne Woods chats with Debi Beard on today's Paint Talks Podcast. Debi is the Creative Director for DIY PAINT and host at Debi's Design Diary, YouTube channel. Upcoming Events: September 30 launch party at DIY headquarters with the IOD sisters for the unveiling of Debi's new inlay. Fun Facts: As an introvert, Debi likes to think of art as a language, to communicate thoughts and feelings that are...

Dionne talks with Jo Packham, a successful entrepreneur with her own publishing companies: WOMEN CREATE, WWC Press, Chapelle Ltd. and The Vanessa-Ann Collection. Jo has been a leading innovator in the handmade publishing market for more than 44 years. Beginning in 2023 and working with Monica Michelle of BloomTV, Jo left the world of publishing and began a new career in online video and live-strea...

Our Paint Talks Podcast guests today are Josie Celio and Sally Griswold, the IOD Sisters. With a mom who dragged them to roadside junk piles and hole-in-the-wall thrift stores, Josie and Sally grew to love all things vintage and DIY, long before it was trendy. Together with their husbands, they've turned their life-long passion into a business - Iron Orchid Designs, a brand through which they get...

John Batten is a successful full-time landscape, fine art, and nature photographer based in historic Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He has been studying and photographing nature and beautiful local places for almost four decades. John can usually be found on the water, rowing or sailing, biking or hiking, camera always in hand. John loves to feature his photography online and in local shops, events, and...

Today on the Paint Talks Podcast, Dionne Woods talks with Jamie Jamison. She is a still-life photographer and content creator with a passion for flowers, vintage finds, and handmade treasures. Jamie is a social media content manager as well as an influencer for several national companies, a communication Instructor at Youngstown State, a BloomTV Network Expert, an instructor at NYBG and formerly a...

Dionne Woods and Lyne Verfaillie chat on today's Paint Talks Podcast. Lyne is a multi-passionate artist who is not afraid of color when hand-painting furniture or creating fluid art on canvas. She enjoys making custom home decor using upcycled or found objects and marrying them in some way with reclaimed wood and barn wood. Lyne was born and raised in New Hampshire. About 2 years ago, she moved to...

Kelli May-Krenz joins Dionne Woods on the Paint Talks Podcast today. Ever since she was a little girl, she's loved to create, draw, paint and stitch, and knew she would be a graphic designer. Since graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in Fine Art and Graphic Design, Kelli has lived and worked in Dallas, Minneapolis, and Siesta Key, Florida, with clients from all over the world. She...

Dionne Woods chats with Lynne Brundage on the Paint Talks Podcast. Lynne owns ellen j goods, located at 435 Main Street in Historic Medina, New York. ellen j goods is a delightful adventure in living the repurposed and re-styled life. The shop offers unique pieces that range in style from Soft Industrial to French Country and Farmhouse Cottage to Retro Cool. You'll also meet Winston, the best shop...

is is the creator of the food & home entertaining blog, "Straight to the Hips, Baby". A native Bostonian, she started her career as a professional ballerina and ballet coach. After many years of performing, she gave up her fast-paced urban life for the farm-to-table landscape of Western Massachusetts. The mother of 3 young boys, Jessie's passion for from-scratch cooking bloomed along with their ap...

Join us for a special Paint Talks Podcast where Matt and Dionne Woods recap their very first dual teaching workshop. Dionne has shared live videos for years and Matt has been working with her to capture the beauty she creates from the camera. The pair recently hosted a two-day video content creation class at their home in Oklahoma. Drawing on their own experiences and from their interactions with...

Dionne Woods chats with Jennifer Gulizia on Paint Talks Podcast Episode 134. Jennifer is the creator and farmer at The Flowering Farmhouse which grows a wide variety of specialty cut flowers. She is located in the gorgeous area of Hood River, Oregon. Dahlias have always been Jennifer's favorite cut flower and the farm currently grows over 2000 dahlias a year. If you're interested in growing your o...

Dionne Woods from the Paint Talks Podcast chats with Amy OConnor from Ajs Vintage Designs. Amy has found her niche in giving new life to old things - from furniture to clothing. Her mission is to inspire others to take that first step, be creative and paint, paint, paint! Amy has been in business since 2016. She and her husband Mike have been married for 30 years and have 2 sons. They currently li...

Our Paint Talks Podcast guest today is Kristal Molina. Kristal Coral Marie Molina is a traveling artist inspired by the tropics of her birthplace, American Samoa. Now residing in San Diego, California with her husband, she is a proud mother of two young adults. She enjoys painting with watercolors, custom acrylic portraits and reimagining thrifted objects. In addition to her role as a K-12 art tea...

Dionne Woods chats with The Turquoise Iris Journal's Volume 11 Cover Artist, Esther Franchuk today on the Paint Talks Podcast. Esther is a mixed-media fine artist from Ukraine. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany, with paintings represented in private collections globally. Esther was professionally trained in classical drawing & oil painting at Grekov Odessa Art School - the oldest and one o...

Dionne Woods of the Paint Talks Podcast chats with Melanie Hamann of Art by Melanie. She is an Oklahoma artist with a lifelong love of creating, teaching, and possibilities. She currently resides in western Oklahoma with her 8-year-old rescue dog Ruby. For many years, while her children were young, designing stage backdrops and floats kept that creative fire alive. While her medium of choice is ge...

Llewellyn Krastev chats with Dionne Woods on today's Paint Talks Podcast. Llewellyn is the owner and artist at Worn to Whimsy and Daydream Apothecary paint. She started painting furniture about 9 years ago when she decided to upcycle an old dresser for her youngest daughter. That one piece sparked a passion in her, and she hasn't turned back since. Llewellyn has worked slowly towards painting art...

Dionne Woods chats with Kelly Wiler today on the Paint Talks Podcast. Kelly is an Ohio artist that has been creating and practicing art since she was a young girl inspired by her art teacher, she lives with her husband Jeff of 26 years, and their 20-year-old daughter Cassidy. While Kelly teaches many different styles of paint classes and workshops, she specializes in the Intuitive Art process as a...