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What's Your Story
by What's Your Story
Welcome to What’s Your Story, an interview style podcast with Meighan O'Toole. She sits down with artists and creative individuals for casual conversation surrounding their professional lives, the path that led them there, and anything else that comes up in between. Expect laughs, unique insight, a sense of community, and relatable anecdotes! New episodes drop every other week.
Episodes
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Emily McDowell: Learning What Works
Today I'm sitting down with writer, illustrator and designer Emily McDowell. Emily has been transforming the stationery industry since 2013 with her "greeting cards for the relationships we really have." You most likely know her empathy card line that went viral in 2015 and launched her into the...
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Jennifer Orkin Lewis: Daily Painting, Showing Up, & Holding Yourself Accountable
In January of this year I decided to end What's Your Story, or at least take some time off and rethink the show. Now that I've let about 10 months pass, I've gotten some perspective about the show, and I realized most importantly how much I missed it! So here I am! Going forward it'll still be…
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Craft Industry Alliance: Community & the Power of Success
Abby Glassenberg and Kristin Link are the founders of Craft Industry Alliance, a membership trade industry organization dedicated to supporting professional crafters, makers, designers, retailers and much more in their business endeavors. Craft Industry Alliance -- or CIA as it’s now refereed to…
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Windy Chien: Exit Strategies, Creative Practice, & the Big Picture
Windy Chien is a product designer and artist living in San Francisco. After long careers at Apple and in the music industry, she launched her business in 2015. Windy offers beautiful, signature items such as hand carved spoons and macrame light fixtures. Launching her latest endeavor has allowed...
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Rosalie Gale: Shower Art, Listening to Your Gut, & Getting Things Done
Today’s guest is my friend and very funny lady Rosalie Gale. Rosalie lives and works in Seattle Washington where she co-owns the shop Ugly Baby and La Ru. Today on the show we discuss how her product Shower Art, a colorful rubber sculpture filled with glitter, came to be. We also dive into…
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Kiva Zip: Micro-loans, Crowdfunding, & Asking for Help
Welcome to a new feature on the podcast! Starting with this episode once a month I’ll be putting together a short episode where I chat with someone about a resource, an organization, or some other entity that I feel may help you explore choices within your life to make your dream a business, or...
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Betsy Cordes: Impostor Syndrome, Accepting Your Path, & Breathing Life into an Old Book
This week on the show I sit down with Betsy Cordes. Betsy is an artist, an art director, and much more. She lives and works in San Francisco with her husband Chuck, an attorney - together they run February 13, a consulting firm to help artists build and run their business. I met Betsy when I…
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Chawne Kimber: Race, Identity, & Social Justice Through Quilting
This week my guest is Chawne Kimber of Cauchy Complete, a modern quilter and a math professor. Chawne is well known within the quilting community for not only her beautiful quilts but for the subject of her quilts. Through quilting and needlework she explores a wide range of political and…
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Dear HandMade Life: Working Together & Making It Work
On todays show I talk with Delilah Snell and Nicole Stevenson of Dear Handmade Life, artists, makers, and entrepreneurs. They’re the women behind Patchwork Show - a bi-annual festival showcasing emerging artists and makers taking place in various spots around California, and Craftcation, a 4 day...
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Will Lyman: Frontline, F.O.M.O, & Selling Out
This week on the show my guest is actor and narrator Will Lyman. You will know him best as the narrator of the PBS documentary news series, Frontline, and the voice behind Dos Equis The Most Interesting Man in the World campaign. I grew up next door to Will and his family here in Boston Ma., and...
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Megan Auman: Building a Creative Career & Brand Consistency
Megan Auman's main focus is her eponymous jewelry line, but as she’s built her business over the years she has learned first hand what it takes to grow a creative business — and she shares that information as an educator through her site Designing an MBA and her classes at CreativeLive. I wanted…
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Katrina Rodabaugh: Mending, Making with Paper, & Micro-Residencies
My guest today is Katrina Rodabaugh - an artist, writer, and crafter who lives in Oakland CA with her two boys and husband. Katrina explores and examines environmental and social issues through her work: from large-scale mixed media installations, to social practice projects, to small handmade...
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Courtney Cerruti: Multiple Muse Syndrome & Creating Community Around Art
This week on the show I’m excited to have Courtney Cerruti, maker extraordinare. Courtney is an artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. During the day she works for Creative bug , an online education platform for arts and crafts workshops, as a set designer and during her spare time she...
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Michelle Tea: Growing Up, Getting Sober, and Reframing Failure
OK, so this week I am so delighted to introduce my guest, author, poet and activist Michelle Tea. Michelle often chronicles her own life while at the same time exploring topics such as queer culture, feminism, race, class, and prostitution. She’s incredibly prolific in so many ways and on today’s...
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Vaughn Fender: Illustration, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, & Idioms
On the show today I sit down with Illustrator Vaughn Fender. Vaughn and I have been friends online for roughly 6 or 7 years, and it was great fun to sit down with him and learn more about what brought him from his homeland of Jamaica and his illustration style. Today we talk about his work, what…
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Umar Rashid/Frohawk Two Feathers: Identity, Art, & Retelling of History
Since 2006 Umar Rashid, also known as Frowhawk Two Feathers, has been recreating and reinterpreting a specific period in world history within his work. Through his paintings and sculptures, over the past 8 - 9 years he has slowly developed and built an epic history that begins in 1658 on a...
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Christina Loff: Marketing, Authenticity, & Consuming Less
This week I sit down with my good friend Christina Loff. Christina works as Channel Marketing Lead for the Photography, Craft, and Design Channels at CreativeLive. We discuss her own career, being authentic online, marketing your own work, consuming fewer clothes, as well as some of her favorite...
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Victoria Smith: On Blogging, Seeing San Francisco, & Dealing with Real Life
In 2006 blogger Victoria Smith uploaded photographs of her home on blogger, which was then known as Blogspot and submitted them to Apartment Therapy for a home tour. Not knowing anything about blogs, or the growing trend Victoria realized that this sort of digital journaling spoke to her as the...
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Outtake: Ehren Tool
After editing my first interview with former Marine and ceramicist Ehren Tool, I realized I had a few more questions for him. This is a short clip of some of our 2nd onterview - we talk about community, throwing clay in Vietnam, and a couple other things.
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Ehren Tool: A Former Marine on War and Making Cups
On today's show we talk about how Tool's experience as a marine has influenced and driven his work, and that no matter how many years go by, his cups that depict and symbolize war continue to be relevant in the world around us. We also discuss why he gives away his cups, the connections and…
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Jen Hewett: Setting Intentions, Day Jobs, & Always Pushing to Learn More
This week’s guest on What's Your Story is artist and HR consultant, Jennifer Hewett. She’s a self taught artist and while she dabbles in many different mediums her main focus is printmaking. If you enjoy color, fabric, and watching an artist’s process I highly recommend you follow Jen on online...
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Chris Piascik: Daily Drawings, Kickstarter, & Counterfeit Theft
This week's guest is my friend, illustrator Chris Piascik, we sat down on New Year's day and talked about how he got started as a freelance illustrator. It's a story I think many creatives can relate to if you substitute your passion for drawing: Chris originally went to work as a designer and...
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Erin M Riley: Weaving, Tapestries, & Found Photos
This week I sit down with Erin M. Riley, an artist and weaver based in NYC. Riley's subject matter is often of young, faceless women in the nude or various states of undress, depicted in her detailed tapestries. Until recently many of the subjects Riley's portrayed are images of anonymous young...
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Ben Venom: Quilts & Following Ideas
This week my guest is artist Ben Venom. Ben is best known for his quilts that incorporate heavy metal, punk rock, and other fringe elements. Although unaware of it at the time, Ben's creative trajectory would change due to a singular event - a visit to the DeYoung Museum back in 2006. Ben had…
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Lisa Solomon: Creative Careers, Community, & the Number 1000
This week, I sit down with Oakland based artist Lisa Solomon. I asked Lisa to come on the show, not just because she’s a friend, but really because Lisa’s a great example of living a creative, artistic life while working in many different disciplines. One of the original reasons for me starting...
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Kate MccGwire: Birds, Boats, and Work that Takes on a Life of Its Own
This week on What's Your Story I sit down for a long overdue chat with artist Kate MccGwire. I met Kate back when I was running my old blog, and have done written Q&A's with her, but have never interviewed her formally. We spoke this summer while she was working on her studio barge, a boat that...
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Sonya Philip: 100 Acts of Sewing, Making Your Own Clothes, & Conscious Consuming
On this week's episode, I had the pleasure of talking with San Francisco based artist Sonya Philip. Sonya is not only an artist and maker but she’s also a clothing and pattern designer. After creating 4 items of clothing in 2012 she challenged herself to create 100 new items of clothing in a…
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Abby Glassenberg: Sharing Knowledge, Staying Connected, and Setting Goals
This week I sit down with author, stuffed animal pattern maker, blogger, and podcaster Abby Glassenberg of While She Naps. Abby has been an online friend of mine for quite some time, but only when I moved back to Boston in 2013 did we start to get closer (Abby lives in Wellesley, which is right...
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Roberto Baldwin: Passwords, Security, and Protecting Yourself Online
This week the podcast is a little different. When I first started this podcast, I I wanted to talk to creatives and share their story. But as I've talked further with people, I realized I also want to offer information that actively helps your experience both personally and professionally online....
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Lisa Hanawalt: BoJack Horseman, When Art Becomes Your Day Job, & Continuing to Create Everyday
Hey friends, welcome to What's Your Story podcast. This week I sit down with illustrator Lisa Hanawalt. When I sat down with Lisa in August, she had just wrapped animating the new Netflix original series BoJack Horseman. A sitcom about a washed up horse living in LA off his run as a 90's sitcom...
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Kim Piper Werker: Make It Mighty Ugly, Conquering Fear of Failure, Self Doubt, and Perfectionism
This week, on What's Your Story, I sit down with author, crafter, and all around dynamic woman Kim Piper Werker. Kim’s new book Make It Mighty Ugly: Exercises and Advice for Getting Creative Even When It Ain’t Pretty, a handbook for vanquishing creative demons was released last week, and it has...
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Lisa Congdon: Art Inc, Marketing Yourself as an Artist, Social Media, and Ignoring Scarcity Mindset
This week I catch up with my friend, artist, illustrator and now book author Lisa Congdon. I'm delighted to have her on the show today to discuss her new book Art, Inc., The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist. Although written by Lisa, Art Inc., is part of a larger series...
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Josh Lafayette: Social Media, Being Happy, & Making Friends Online
I sat down with independent designer and illustrator, Josh Lafayette a few weeks ago to talk about his experience online as a creative business owner. We cover everything from following your gut and working to stay positive, how best to use social media, and maintaining and creating professional...
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Jenny Hart
Welcome to my new podcast, What's Your Story. I'll be sitting down with artists, makers, and creatives to talk with them openly about starting and running their own small business, using social media, and anything else that comes up in between. My first episode is with Jenny Hart, artist and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to What’s Your Story, an interview style podcast with Meighan O'Toole. She sits down with artists and creative individuals for casual conversation surrounding their professional lives, the path that led them there, and anything else that comes up in between. Expect laughs, unique insight, a sense of community, and relatable anecdotes! New episodes drop every other week.
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