Ashes to Architects

Ashes to Architects is a new podcast that explores creativity, mental health and building a life you’re proud of, despite extreme setbacks. Subscribe for weekly episodes featuring honest, in-depth conversations with artists, entrepreneurs, and mental health experts, packed with real stories and practical takeaways you can use.Hosted by Brian Cartier, a New England-based artist and entrepreneur of Korean, Congolese, and German descent, the show is rooted in lived experience: childhood trauma, homelessness, and mental health battles as a divorced single father. Although his artwork landed him some notoriety, he failed to make ends meet and had to move out of his studio—where he had secretly been living—then rebuilt from an old dilapidated horse stable that became a home for him and his daughter. That unlikely turn sparked a new career, going on to lead sales teams and building a new family, before stepping away from corporate leadership to return to creativity and be a more pr