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Episode 14: Inner Work, Illustration, and Self-Acceptance ft. Allison Filice
For this episode I spoke with illustrator, designer, and podcaster Allison Filice about her experience as an illustrator and podcaster becoming a new mom, and the inner journey she experienced while transitioning to becoming an illustrator.
In this episode we talk about:
- Allison introduces herself
- Her expectations for motherhood and career before having a child
- Accepting the need to take a step back from work as a new mother
- Starting her podcast, The Friendly Unknown
- Her experience with depression at that time in her life
- Dealing with depression and recognizing it if you have experienced it before
- The importance with doing things for yourself and not for external validation
- Healing through following your inner voice
- The power of others’ stories
- Her experience working as an editorial freelance illustrator
- Lacking boundaries with work and time management
- Basing self-worth on career accomplishments
- Realizing her relationship with work needed to change
- Being on a hiatus from her podcast
- Letting herself just be and waiting until the right timing to start on her next project
- Her journey with self-development and inner-work
- Switching paths from being a designer to an illustrator
- The inner-work required on her path to becoming an illustrator
- The impact of the media your consume and how it shapes your perspective and reality
- Letting go of limiting beliefs
- Her process for creating podcast episodes
- Struggling with perfectionism
- Focusing on enjoying the process of creating and not just the end product
- Allison’s recent/current interests - depth psychology, reading, tarot, and pondering existence
- Allison’s podcast and book recommendations (links): The Creative Peptalk podcast, Don't Keep Your Day Job podcast ,This Jungian Life podcast, Contact (1985 novel) by Carl Sagan, The Heroine's Journey (1990 book) by Maureen Murdoch
- The timing of our encounters with ideas, media, and others’ stories and work
- The importance of being selective with books or media we consume
- Focusing on what you’re most passionate about and being truly yourself
Allison's Podcast, The Friendly Unknown
On Design podcast episode with Allison
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