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Margo is joined by art agency owner and founder, Julie Ager. Julie started her career with twelve years of consulting on consumer product buying behavior with major mass merchandisers, department stores and other manufacturers and retailers throughout the United States, as well as Mexico and South Africa. From there she started the ADG agency in […]

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May 3, 2023

141 | From Creator to Successful Artist; How to Navigate the Path to Your Ideal Customer with Julie Ager

Margo is joined by tastemaker, blogger, and author Ted Kennedy Watson. After a childhood spent in Kansas City Ted moved to the Pacific Northwest, first to college in Portland, Oregon, and later to Seattle where he was instantly enchanted by the dramatic scenery. Once a long time tennis teacher and connoisseur of the game, Ted […]

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April 26, 2023

140 | Stylish Attention to Detail: How Ted Kennedy Watson Curates a Well-Lived Life

Margo is joined by the multi-passionate maker and designer, Leah Quinn. Self employed for 20+ years, Leah started as a web designer and event photographer and prior to that worked as a landscape & interior designer for both commercial and residential properties. Now, after moving from New York to slow rural village life in Southern […]

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April 19, 2023

139 | Living a Life Inspired and Designed with Heart and Soul with Leah Quinn

Margo is joined by artist, designer, illustrator, maker, and teacher Kelli May Krenz. For Kelli, creating is like breathing, she simply must do it. She believes in creating every day and has many interests when it comes to doing so. She has a deep love for painting, stitching, graphic design, illustration and everything she can […]

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April 12, 2023

138 | Showing Up for Yourself and Finding Hope in the Journey. How Kelli May Krenz Lives a Creative and Positive Filled Life.

Margo is joined by graphic designer and business extraordinaire Erin Cantwell. After working at a branding firm in NYC, Erin quickly discovered she had a knack and passion for the business side of the creative industry and has since then specialized in business operations and client experience, helping to grow and run successful creative agencies. […]

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April 5, 2023

137 | On the Business of Being Creative. Erin Cantwell Dishes on How to Stand Out and Advance Your Creative Business Ideas.

Margo is joined by art advisor, curator, and gallery owner Liz Lidgett. Liz’s passion for art allowed her to see that competent art consulting for private companies and corporations was a need that wasn’t being filled. With that in mind, she began her art consultation business, Adore Your Walls, in 2013. Since then, her business […]

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March 29, 2023

136 | Art for Everyone: How Liz Lidgett Combines Her Curiosity, Desire for Accessibility, and Storytelling to Promote Great Art.

Margo is joined by stay at home mom (of nine children) turned licensed artist, creative author, and educator, Shannon Christensen. After being home with her children most of her early life, Shannon turned to creativity when grief struck which turned into a reinvention of herself and a creative career came along with it.  Although her […]

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March 22, 2023

135 | Jumpstart Your Creative Journey. Shannon Christiansen on Reinventing Herself as a Creative, Channeling Her Grief, and Finding the Strength to Live Up to Her Potential.

Margo is joined by cultural leader, oral historian and documentarian Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, Ed.D. who shares narratives of personal transformation and community change.To say this historian’s own history is distinguished is an understatement: Mi’Jan curated and hosted Unfinished Network’s first 2022 public salon on the theme of multiracial democracy, with CNN’s Van Jones and MSNBC’s […]

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March 15, 2023

134 | Amplifying the Creative Conversation: Mi’Jan Celie Shares Her Life as a Cultural Leader, Oral Historian, Visionary, Documentarian and Artist Residency Aficionado.

Margo is joined by Kim Smith – a Lancaster County native born with the love of art in her soul. Kim earned her BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University and has owned TCG Design, a marketing and design firm for more than 30 years. Even though she is in a creative business, something was […]

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March 8, 2023

133 | Art in Bloom: Kim Smith on the Power of Committing to a Creative Practice and Learning About Life Through Art

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