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This week Margo is joined by Elizabeth Silver, a professional surface pattern designer and a licensed artist for the stationery, gift, and textile markets. With 18 years in the industry and hundreds of designs in her portfolio, she also teaches beginner surface pattern designers how to move past overwhelm and obstacles to create a profitable […]

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June 22, 2021

44 | Creative Business. Making it, and making it work with Elizabeth Silver

This week, Margo is joined by not one but two guests, mother daughter creative duo, Lori Siebert and Kenzi Elston. Lori has a very whimsical design sense and loves to play with color to give each collection that and she designs its own unique personality. She started taking private art lessons at the age of […]

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June 15, 2021

43 | Growing and growing up creative. How a very successful business was created by saying YES.

Margo sits down with pattern designer, block-print artist, and the owner of BEENANZA, Bethany Andrews-Nichols. After graduating with her BFA in 2006, Bethany worked several graphic design jobs rounding out her corporate career as the Associate Creative Director for an in-house agency that supported several breweries in the U.S. In 2017, she took a trip […]

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June 8, 2021

42 | What does your creative career path look like? Bethany Andrews-Nichols dishes on the importance of following your artful intuition, being brave & putting yourself out there!

Margo is once again joined by the wonderfully creative Lisa Congdon to discuss what it means to have a visual vocabulary, accepting and giving yourself permission to be you, and ways to hone in on your own creative voice and style. Lisa Congdon is a Portland, Oregon-based fine artist, illustrator and author known internationally for […]

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June 2, 2021

41 | What is your Visual Vocabulary? Lisa Congdon gives you tips on how to discover your creative style & voice, and permission to be YOU.

All of Beth Snyder’s life she’s been driven by her creative impulse to be a maker. As a teen in the mid-nineties, her first business “Beth’s Bauble & Beads” was successful enough to put her through college, while her sisters both worked at the local truck stop. Between then and now, the great creative project […]

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May 27, 2021

40 | Are you moving through your creative practice without pausing to take a breath? Give yourself time to think. Good things come of it with Beth Snyder.

Margo chats with artist, designer, and ceramicist, Molly Hatch. Molly began her career as a studio potter, infusing her tableware and home decor items with contemporary sensibilities and classical charm. With a formal education in ceramics and drawing, Molly launched her first tableware collection from her home studio in 2010. Her signature blend of 18th […]

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May 24, 2021

39 | Licensing? Making? Creating? What’s the Future? What’s YOUR future? Molly Hatch shares how she made her way in the world of designing product.

Margo chats with previous guest Nataley Shepherd. Nataley is a handmade brand consultant and owner of Studio Shepherd where she helps makers elevate their businesses into sought after brands through simple, intentional, and scalable practices. Margo and Nataley are discussing action taking, creative business, creative community, and the things it takes to push forward and […]

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May 13, 2021

38 | Creative Clarity. How do we find it? How do we navigate that constant & often illusive journey? AND news about a new Creative Community! With Nataley Shepherd

This week Margo is joined by Ana Bianchi, an artist, designer, illustrator and children’s book author. Ana started creating when she was 5 and first learned printmaking from a master printer. From branding and illustrated graphic design projects to personal art projects and everything in between, color is the common thread. Ana has exhibited her […]

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May 13, 2021

37 | Creating with color, passion and purpose as your muses. Ana Bianchi has literally designed for the skies, and now gets to focus on things more down to earth.

Joining Margo in her windowsill is published illustrator, product designer, and artist, Jamie Kalvestran. Jamie brings her inspiring artwork to life making “creativity” a daily practice. A graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Jamie is known for her skillful use of color and pattern, authentic design, and integrity of materials. Her expansive […]

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May 13, 2021

36 | What if you based your creative choices on how they FELT, rather than what everyone else was doing? A super interesting journey and gratitude for what really matters, with Jamie Kalvestran

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