Journal

This week we're speaking to Kim Pepper, an art consultant and advisor from Philadelphia. Kim is warmth and passion incarnate, and her enthusiasm for what she does permeated our entire conversation. Kim shares her journey from working in the arts to founding her own art consulting business, Avec, a year ago.

This week we're speaking to Heather Crank, a motion designer and graphic designer, based in Linds' home state of Oregon, USA. This was a fantastic conversation with Heather discussing her work in generative AI and her ability to integrate language and visual art. 

This week we're speaking to Isabelle Poirier, a brand architect and designer from Ottawa, Canada, who shares her journey from working in the Canadian government, where she encountered a toxic work environment, to becoming a creative entrepreneur, launching her own brand design business. Community building is at the epicentre of what she does. She founded the Ottawa Design Club and its speaker series, which aims to highlight local creatives and foster collaboration between them.

This week we're speaking to Ihor Hulyahrodskyy, founder and creative director of ⁠Ochi Design⁠, based in Vancouver, Canada. Ochi Design is a presentation agency that helps startups and companies raise funds, sell products, explain complex ideas, and hire great people. Ihor is so open about the specific challenges of running his own creative business, but, because Ihor hails from Ukraine, what’s more amazing is that he’s faced these challenges under the shadow of war and migrating to a new country.

This week, Linds talks to Nataliya Volosovych, a portrait and event photographer based in Rotterdam. Nataliya’s personal story is not only incredibly interesting, it also highlights the power of the mid-life career pivot. Linds and Nataliya get into the tricky parts of balancing the creative parts with business, how to define success, why the creative industries are screaming for business training and much more.