2022-02-03
1 小时 0 分钟I don't know, I just didn't think it was possible.
I kind of dismissed it as like, oh, wouldn't it be great if I could just make art for a living?
A lot of my friends bought my cards, but I remember the first time someone I didn't know bought a card and I was like, huh, maybe someone who doesn't love me already would want to buy my art.
So, ever look at someone who's made an astonishing, changing career, leaving behind what seemed like a dream career from the outside, looking in, at least to start something new that makes them so alive and think, wow, I would love to do that, too.
Well, you're not alone.
And this week's guest, Janine Kuo, shares how and why she left behind the world of private equity and venture philanthropy to follow her heart into the world of art and creativity, tapping a very old, very physical printing technology to share images and words that give feeling and emotion to the experiences that we all have but are often so hard to share and often doing it with a sense of humor.
So Janine is now the owner, artist and entrepreneur behind quotations, a creative studio that offers cards and prints and an array of gifts that reflect and celebrate a diversity of identities and life experiences as a way to really reflect on and honor the lives we actually lead versus the ones we think we should.
Topics range from navigating love and laws, redefining family and success, and figuring out what it means to show up honestly and openly in life.
In fact, it was the loss of her partner in life at the age of 28 that both dropped her into the experience of grief and also awakened her to this sense of impermanence and imperative to do what made her truly come alive and what began as a side passion.
It led to sharing her work and eventually grew into her full time devotion.
And Janine's lens on grief in particular, and the way that she shares it through her art.
It led to a deeply meaningful body of work that has seeded her new book, welcome to the Grief Club, which she offers not as a how to manual, but more of an offering to let you know you're not alone.
We dive into this entire journey in today's conversation.
So excited to share it with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
So good to be having this conversation with you as we have this conversation.
I'm in Boulder, you're in Brooklyn.
You are not, though.
Brooklyn born, it sounds like from what I know, you were actually born on the other side of the country, in the Bay Area.
But it also sounds like you bounced around a lot internationally as a kid.