w Moroccan artist from Netherlands Sana 🍊🥺🌻 on lessons from 2021 + asking: who can you share your struggles with? (013)

Co-Host:  Sana @artsy.sl | Host: Xinyi Xan @xinyixan Believe in the cause of the show? Help close the gap 🧵🪡 between strangers + grow our community 🪴💦 by sharing this show with a friend (or two)! 🙏 QUICK LINKS: Join Our Pen Pals Club - Sign Up for Feb 2022!! 📮 Come Say Hi! 👋🏼  @dontbestrangers Welcome to episode 13 of Don’t Be Strangers, a series of long wholesome phone calls (with your could-be friends) digging into all the posibilites of life. If we haven’t met before, my name’s Xinyi and I started this podcast mid 2021 as a social experiment. I’ve always had such deep, rich, and soulful conversations with my friends that I wished I could record and share with the world and... that’s exactly what I’m doing now! The reason why I changed the tagline to include “could-be friends” is because I really want to focus on the community building aspect of running this podcast in 2022. We just kicked off round 1 of our Pen Pals Club which, as you can guess, some of the past co-hosts are actually participating, which means you can personally connect with these very introspective, kind, and open-hearted people. If you enjoy the questions that are asked on the podcast, you’d be a perfect fit for our Pen Pals Club! Find the link in the show notes or on the instagram page @dontbestrangers! We’d love to have you! And last but not least, while I’m setting my intentions on building this community — I’d be so honored if you could share your favorite episode of this podcast with a friend or two whom you think would appreciate the topics discussed. I’m also dreaming of a way where I can easily accept submissions for featuring works and instagram posts from the community so that it becomes more of a platform that even you, the listener, can use to find inspiration and share your own light. So with all that said, I’m so stoked to introduce you to my friend Sana from the Netherlands. We met primarily through my IG lives when I was hosting these “office hours” for creating art early on during the pandemic. While I didn’t know too much about her besides our warm small conversations over my sketchbook, I loved her vibrant energy. And as you’ll hear during our conversation, I was really pleasantly surprised when I received her application to co-host because it meant that I’d have exactly this conversation to see her “face-to-face” for the very first time, to learn more about her and from her, and to really make this new friend whom I’d already been very loosely chatting with through text for over a year. My first impression of Sana is that she’s so vibrant and zesty and a little sassy but in a very playful and refreshing manner. We laughed SO much during this conversation and I’m so excited for you to dig into these topics with us which includes: What we learned from 2021 and our word for 2022 New mediums we want to try as Creative Chimeras Sana’s daily habits How she found her best friend This idea of “Life Goes On” (as loosely inspired by BTS) And with that, please meet Sana... [ SHOW NOTES 🎉]