For the past year and a half, illustrator Marijke van Veldhoven has been drawing comics about her life as a creative, capturing the feelings and the fears that we all experience.

This week Marijke launches a kickstarter campaign to share a collection of 100 of those comics in a book called Zoo You Mind?

We talk about how she got started as an artist, how receiving feedback from her audience gave her confidence to return to drawing comics, and what she learnt from asking for help.
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Find and follow Marijke online:

website | instagram | LinkedIn

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Links and show notes from the episode:

• Back Marijke's Zoo You Mind? Kickstarter campaign
• Artists mentioned: Egon Schiele and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My guest on this episode, Gina Morgano, is a radical romantic who believes in using her voice as an instrument of peace.

Gina teaches how to find your voice - both the external voice that has something it wants to sing and the internal voice which has something that it's longing to say. In this episode you'll hear some of Gina's story - how she came to be a performer and singing teacher with a love of learning and sharing other people's stories. [You can read a full transcript of this episode at https://www.studiotimepodcast.com/blog/ginamorgano]

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Find and follow Gina online:

website | Instagram | podcast

Self Care for Singers Facebook Group | The Practice Society
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Links and show notes from the episode:

• The Practice Society is a new collective of curious, dedicated and service-oriented artists ready to dive deep into cultivating purposeful practices in art and life. Through community and conversation, this introductory summer membership explores the pillars of Identity, Wellness and Growth. Artist citizens will receive the tools and accountability to build and support the lifestyle and creative practices that will sustain them for the long-haul, helping them to claim agency over their creativity and make meaningful contributions through their humanity and artistry.
• Be a Curator: Gina's blog post about creation and curation
• Your $5K Hour: Why some people pay £385+ to see Beyonce

Learn about the Audience by Design workshop here.

Dana Ray works with unboxable leaders to name their work, and tell the true story of what it is about. She is a writer, speaker and facilitator who works with leaders, artists and change-making organisations.

Dana and I talk about one of her earliest memories of using words to document and process her lived experience, the lesson she learned from a Bulgarian hairdresser, and how the process of uncovering your primary verb can help you do more of the work that you were born to do.
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Find and follow Dana online:
website | Instagram
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Links and show notes from this episode:
Sara Dittrich — From passive seeing to active looking, from passive hearing to active listening
Why Fish Don't Exist — A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Dana speaking at Creative Mornings — Your Shade of Blue
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Art (and artists) need an audience. Your art won't put itself in front people who want to engage with it by accident. For your work to have more significant impact in the world, part of your creative practice — part of being ready — should include building an Audience by Design.

Learn about the Audience by Design workshop here.

Jenna Pastuszek, co-founder of Innovative Voice Studios and the star of "Get Happy", is a connector of humans and ideas. As an actor, singer, voiceover artist, teacher, coach and mentor, she always shows up as a human first and is someone I always enjoy spending time with.

We talk about her work with Tim Russell at Innovative Voice Studios and how they collaborate to create programs that empower their clients to take ownership of all aspects of their creativity. Jenna explains how she filmed a covid-safe version of her show "Get Happy" and also shares what she has learned from studying Judy Garland.
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Find and follow Jenna online:
website | instagram | studio
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Links and show notes from this episode:

• Young People's Theater Workshop
• Jenna describes that she didn't realise how important singing and performing were to her life until she stopped doing them temporarily.
• NYU Steinhardt
• Operating out of fear instead of intuition
• Innovative Voice Studio with Tim Russell
• How the Covid 19 pandemic encouraged Jenna and Tim to extend and expand their offerings to serve performers beyond the NYC area.
• Building programs that people can participate in online and in person.
• Learning to sing as a vehicle for learning to be a human. Preparing for a Broadway audition can teach you things that are applicable across a variety of industries and markets around the world.
• Learning about auditioning for Broadway can teach us to treat ourselves and each other with humanity and respect.
• "I use my voice to help others find theirs."
• IVS is showing leadership in the Broadway community by engaging Equity & Diversity Strategist Shavanna Calder, and creating the Artist Expansion Fund to support BIPOC artists
• Get Happy - The Songs of Judy Garland, performance for East Lynne Theater Co.
• Filming the Covid Safe performance in a theatre with no audience to be watched by people online
• The costs of Judy Garland's legacy
• The lessons Jenna has taken from Garland's humanity
• The difference of getting to know an artist as a Human First
• Future planning
• Why Jenna would tell the younger version of herself not to fear failure

Art (and artists) need an audience. Your art won't put itself in front people who want to engage with it by accident. For your work to have more significant impact in the world, part of your creative practice — part of being ready — should include building an Audience by Design.

Learn about the Audience by Design workshop here.

Anna has taken the skills she developed studying industrial design and expanded her public portfolio to demonstrate how you and I might find our voices through sharing our process work as well as our polished work. You can find Anna at @puhpenguins and thehabitfactory.space

Stephen Voss is a photographer and photojournalist who lives in Washington, DC and makes a living taking portraits of people for magazines and newspapers.

We recorded this episode shortly after the Nov 2020 Presidential Election and since then Stephen has continued to document the people and events in Washington, including the January attack on the US Capitol.
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Find and follow Stephen online:
website | instagram | newsletter

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Links and show notes from this episode:
Senator Cory Booker
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Former First Lady Michelle Obama
Toddler at the Lincoln Memorial

Irving Penn - was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. [source: Wikipedia]

Credits: Thanks to Kayle Clements for the editing assistance.

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Growing up, neither Gail or Manu would have identified as an artist or creative, but over time, both of them began to listen to the quiet voice inside them that realised they had ideas and gifts worth sharing.

After getting to know each other during an online creative workshop earlier this year, they began looking for projects they could collaborate on.

One such project is The Gift of Shared Kindness, a product inspired by a creative Christmas gift Gail made for her father a few years ago. It’s a gift you can give to someone who doesn’t need more stuff in their life. Instead this is a gift that is designed to be re-gifted in a way that Gail and Manu will explain - the beauty here being that the more you give it away, the more valuable it becomes.

As a special bonus, this is the first episode of Studio Time that comes with a free recipe! You’ll find instructions on how to make Gail’s exceedingly satisfying snack mix in the show notes below.

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Find and follow Gail & Manu online:
Gail: Born Free Newsletter | Manu: Instagram

The Gift of Shared Kindness:
Etsy Store | Shared Kindness stories on Medium

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Show Notes from this episode:

Sweet & Fruity Snack Mix

10 oz Sunflower Seeds

10 oz Pumpkin Seeds

8 oz Almonds, sliced

10 oz C Dried Montmorency Cherries

10 oz C Dried Wild Blueberries

1/3 C Maple Syrup

1 tsp Vanilla

1 tsp Cinnamon

Mix seeds, nuts, syrup, vanilla and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Place on shallow rimmed baking sheet. Bake at 250 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes. Stir at 10 minute intervals.

Cool. Stir in dried fruit. Package.

Sweet and Savory

8 oz Pecan Halves

8 oz Whole Cashews

8 oz Whole Natural Almonds

2 tsp Dried Thyme

2 tsp Dried Rosemary

1 tsp Sea Salt

1/2 tsp Black Pepper

¼ C Maple Syrup

Mix all ingredients by hand in a mixing bowl. Place on shallow rimmed baking sheet. Bake at 250 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes. Stir at 10 minute intervals.

Cool and package.

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Bec has been working as a professional communicator for 20 years. She established her PR credentials at Universal Music Australia, before founding the PR, corporate communications and crisis management agency The Comms Department, where she and her team work with some of Australia’s biggest and best-known media, entertainment, travel and lifestyle brands. Before training to become a PR professional, Bec had a successful career as a vocalist and vocal coach, and even before that, she was a great friend to my family and me.

Our careers took us off in different directions and we haven’t been in touch for a few years, this conversation is the first we’d shared in ages. I’m thrilled to see how Bec's career has flourished and I’m grateful for the knowledge and insight she shares from her own experience working with artists and brands known across Australia and throughout the world.

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Find and follow Bec online:
The Comms Department | Instagram | Twitter
You've Got This: The essential career handbook for creative women

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Links and Show Notes from this episode:

• Delivering on what you’re promising
• How to be more PR-able
• The power of consistency
• Ways to build trust with your audience
• Tips for dealing with a crisis from someone who does it for a living
• “If you’re feeling nervous, be of service.”

Part author proceeds from "You’ve Got This" are donated to these two charities that support women:

Life Changing Experiences

Fitted For Work

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