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…

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 …

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 p…

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 ta…

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 O…

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?Av Kristin Tweedale

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?Av Kristin Tweedale

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 t…

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 …

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 th…

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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…

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 …

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 thos…

In this episode of the BSBC, we're chatting about Austin Kleon's Keep Going Chapter 8 -- When in Doubt, Tidy Up. We had a fabulous conversation about 'working studios', making things happen, and so much more. Join us in the new CAF community at The Awesome Ladies Project https://theawesomeladiesproject,com/craftyassfemale…

In this chapter of the BSBC we're chatting about Austin Kleon's Keep Going -- Chapter 7: You Can Change Your Mind. We had a blast with this episode. We chatted about internet trolls, changing your mind on BIG things, little things, and everything in between. We got into a great discussion about like-minded vs like-hearted people, and how spending t…

In this episode of the Bite Size Book Club, we're chatting about chapter 6 of Austin Kleon's Keep Going: Slay the Art Monsters. This was a super short chapter, and we discussed pretty much all the points that Austin touched on. We really tried to dive into how our own personal art monsters can stand in the way of getting our lives on track. This we…

In this episode of the CAF Bite Size Book Club, A+K dive into chapter five of Austin Kleon's Keep Going. This chapter, The Ordinary + Extra Attention = The Extraordinary was so much fun to discuss. We talk about how if you spend a little bit more time on the ordinary, things become amazing. You don't need to 'be the most' to stand out or make aweso…

In this episode of the Crafty Ass Female Bite Size Book Club, we dive into Chapter 4 of Austin Kleon's Keep Going. This is one of A+K's favorite chapters in the book and one that we really dove into with Austin when he was on the show. The idea that your creativity is a gift, and it doesn't always need to be turned into a good that can be traded fo…

This is one of our favorite chapters in the book. Even though it's so short in length, it is so meaty in substance. We get into so many epic little discussions in our short conversation and we can't wait for you to dive in as well.Av Kristin Tweedale

In this week's episode of the CAF Bite Size Book Club we dive into Chapter 2 of Keep Going: Build a Bliss Station. We talk about the importance of connection and disconnection when it comes to creativity, art, and making. We talk about FOMO and how to replace it with JOMO (the JOY of missing out). And, we also chat a bit about learning how to say n…

In this week's episode of the CAF Bite Size Book Club, we are starting the third book in the Austin Kleon trilogy: Keep Going and diving right into Chapter 1. The first thing we talk about is taking everything One Day At A Time and the pull quote from the movie Groundhog Day, 'What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exac…

In this week's episode of the Bite-Size Book Club, we're discussing book #2 of the Austin Kleon trilogy: Show Your Work. We spend about a minute on each chapter, making this episode a little bit longer (12 minutes) than we're aiming for most episode -- but we discussed a whole book! Now we want to know what YOU think. Feel free to keep it as basic …

In this episode of the BSBC, we chat about the newly named Bite Size Book Club, the Austin Kleon Trilogy, and some of the Austin Kleon resources that we've already created: Original Austin Kleon Steal Like an Artist Book Club EP CAF Austin Kleon Interview EP And then we wrap up with how you can participate and leave you with a few questions to help…

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Artists that I’ve had the good fortune to move among are teaching me a language I never thought I would learn. They have taught it to my children, enabling them to express themselves in the most amazing way, and I thank them for that!

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