Bite Size Book Club Kristin Tweedale

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 voice.


We go through the list (and chapter) and discuss each of these topics and how they relate to each of us, and the Awesome Ladies and Crafty Ass Female communities. This chapter alone is worth reading the entire book. I'm absolutely obsessed with this list.

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 anymore.


That fear is almost always present in some form or another. In this chapter, Lisa gives us some vocabulary to talk about what it means to have fear as an artist, move through that fear, what are the pros of this fear and so much more. Honestly, so much packed into this little chapter (and a great interview to boot).

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 Five: 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. Showing up is one of the most important ways that you're going to find your artistic voice. Even when showing up is hard as hell. Lisa (and the girls) talk about the importance of routines (Daily Pages much) and we get into a discussion about our favorite Ira Glass quote about taste and talent.


Such a great episode.

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?