In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue to move through Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, on the BSBC, we finish up the book and discuss chapter 7: Strategies for Developing Your Own Voice. This episode is excellent. We finish out the book so strong. Lisa's last chapter is a fantastic list of ways that you can work on developing your voice. They are legitimate ongoing things that you can do in a day to day setting to work on your artistic...

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue to move through Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, on the BSBC, we discuss chapter six: Begin Anyhow - Moving Through Fear. This was a short but very important chapter of the book. Fear is a constant barrier to artistic expression. Contrary to what we think about other people's art. There is no magic point at which artist's arrive and 'poof' they're done with being afraid that their work isn't good enough...

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue to dissect Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, on the BSBC, we discuss chapter four: THe Importance of Showing Up As we say at the beginning, the themes of this chapter are woven into so much of the Crafty Ass Female ethos. We talk about what else we can do to be present and active participants in the world around us, especially right now.

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue to dissect Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, on the BSBC, we discuss chapter four: Navigating Influence We talk about the important points that Lisa hits on, like influence being everywhere and our creativity being impossible to not be influence by others. She talks aboutour favorite male creative content creator, Austin Kleon, and riffs on his 'nothing is orginal' thoughts and we continue that conversation.

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue to dissect Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, on the BSBC, we discuss chapter three: The Path. Lisa comes up with a really great framework for talking about your creative journey called 'The Path' and she breaks it down into five different phases: The Spark, The Ongoing Desire To Create, Risk-Taking, and Experimentation; Questioning; and Creative Flow.

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue to dissect Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, on the BSBC, we discuss the chapter two: Why Does Having a Voice Matter?

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin continue discussing the new book for the third season of the Crafty Ass Female Bite Size Book Club: Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. Today, the girls discuss the first full chapter: What is an Artistic Voice?

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, Amanda and Kristin are discussing the new book for the third season of the Crafty Ass Female Bite Size Book Club: Find Your Artistic Voice by Lisa Congdon. The girls discuss the first introduction chapter and talk about Lisa's interview on the CAF show and how they're looking forward to a deep dive into this book! You can join us for an indepth discussion over at the Awesome Ladies Project and let us know what your thoughts on the book are as well!

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we finish reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are starting at page 156 and finishing through the end of the book. Show Notes: Being honest about who you are What about the really hard stuff? Putting yourself out there It doesn't have to be flawless to be complete Let's talk about failure How change feels Today is the day Now what

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are continuing Part Four, and reading pages 146-155. Show Notes: Don't Hoard Ideas The value of first drafts and idea dumps Finding motivation Clear space Create a ritual Tell yourself it's a trial run Set a timer The best tool is the one you'll use

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are starting Part Four, and reading pages 136-145. Show Notes: • You gotta do the work • Reject the inspiration cycle Your best work will be something that you do. Try This: Handling the highlight reel

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are finishing Part Three, and reading pages 118-135. Show Notes • Developing a timeline ○ Matching up with events ○ Choosing a timeframe • Documenting your progress is informative ○ Informative ○ Exciting ○ Gratitude • Flexibility, pivoting, and letting yourself adapt ○ Lower your standards ○ Bend don't break • Getting through transitional...

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are continuing Part Three, and reading pages 108-117 Show Notes You get to be scared Fitting goals into daily work and life Breaking it down ○ The recipe method ○ The group by task method ○ The one step at a time method The value of check-ins

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are starting Part Three, and reading pages 98-107. Show Notes • Turning Dreams into Concrete • Your Ideas and Your Voice are Valuable Take Them Seriously • Say Your Goals Out Loud Try This: Start an Accountability Group

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are starting Part Three, and reading pages 85-97. Show Notes • Where to start ○ Adding to your life ○ What do you want more of • What's a goal, anyway? ○ Something to work towards ○ Something outside the normal ○ Pluses: Easy to connect with and easy to document • What to do when you have too many ideas ○ Write them all down, give them each their own page. ○ Expand on...

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are finishing up Part Two: Let's Make Room for Joy, and reading pages 76-83. Show Notes • Respecting the ebb and flow • we all pay attention to the extremes more, • But life mostly happens in the middle. • Making decisions during highs blows has consequences. • Taking temporary situations K trying to make them permanent. • Cant avoid. can prepare. •...

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are continuing Part Two: Let's Make Room for Joy, and reading pages 60-75. Today's Topics Building in white space You are in charge; not the computer Being real about your social media use Saying yes to the right things How to find your absolutely yes tasks

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are continuing Part Two: Let's Make Room for Joy, and reading pages 52-59. Show Notes Today's Discussion • Finding Pockets • Stop reinventing the wheel • Getting started Finding Pockets HOW to find time for the things you want to do. (internal demands-or the little bits of sand). This is how I want people to find time for Daily pages Stop reinventing the wheel Find...

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are continuing Part Two: Let's Make Room for Joy, and reading pages 44-51. Show Notes Topics in this week's episode Big Picture scheduling Re-evaluating What's in your life Building Routine into your to-do list To try: opt-in Notecards Last Episode we talked about list keeping and prioritizing Today, we're first going to talk about Big Picture...

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are starting up Part Two: Let's Make Room for Joy, and reading pages 32-43. Show Notes Pages 32-43 Why Plan? • to stay on track • to get ahead • maintain focus • when things go wrong its not the end of the world • to build space into and around our lives and work planning looks different for everyone why are you NOT getting things done? Lack of time Lack of...

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we continue reading Big Dreams Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe. Today we are finishing up Part One: Let's Get Started. *Show Notes: * This episode's pages: 24-31. Next week we are taking the week off for Christmas, but we'll be back the week after with Part Two: pages 32-43. *Key Points: * Stop waiting until you're ready! You'll never be 100% ready. No one knows what they're doing. What's most important is what actually matters....

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we start Season 2 of the show with a new book: Elise Blaha Cripe's Big Dreams Daily Joys *Show Notes: * This episode's pages: 1-23 Next week/episode we'll be reading the rest of Part One (pages 24-31). *Key Points: * Why set goals? What is the difference between a goal & a to-do list item? Elise's concept of the layers of goals What makes a good goal? Join us in the CAF Podcast Community group at:...

On this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we are discussing the final chapter of Austin Kleon's Keep Going: Plant Your Garden. We both loved this chapter so much. We spent a couple of minutes rehashing the larger conversation we had with Austin during his episode on the podcast in April. Talking about how you can maintain a garden throughout the year, even when you can't tend to your outdoor garden. We want to know: what type of garden do you keep?

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, K&A are chatting about the penultimate Chapter 9: Demons Hate Fresh Air in Austin Kleon's Keep Going. We talk about the different ways to make 'Fresh Air' work for us, especially now that winter is coming and we can't all go for 5 mile walks every day. We try to figure out what is at the core of what those demons actually hate about the fresh air and see how we can combat it even when we can't get that dose of pure sunshine we're longing for....