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In this episode you’ll learn:

  • How city dwellers benefit from outdoor adventure trips
  • How Lauren quit her TV job for a life outdoors
  • What challenges Lauren faced changing careers and lifestyle
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Discover Outdoors is a New York-based organisation dedicated to offering city dwellers professionally run adventure trips.

And Lauren Skonieczny is their Operations Manager and one of their experienced guides.

Lauren is someone who courageously swapped the world of TV production for mountains and adventure – and the great outdoors.

Today, she is passionate about creating a community of outdoor adventure loving women.

In this episode, Lauren reveals her story and what it is about the outdoors that she loves.

Hear why getting out of your comfort zone, with the right people, can be a good thing.
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In this episode you’ll learn:

  • How Gary has created and sustained a living as a professional artist
  • How Gary has built his creativity and community inspire him
  • Where Gary receives his ongoing inspiration from
Gary Genetti quote the idea of coming together and collaborating and making things together is such a healing thing

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How do you create and sustain a career as an independent artist?

It’s a question that is on the mind of most freelancers and creative entrepreneurs of today.

In episode 193, glass artist and craftsman, Gary Genetti, shared how he has sustained a living for over 40 years as an independent artist.

In this short action episode, we explore why mastering our own deep creative work – the work that we are drawn to do – is so important for us, our community and the world we live in today.

And how that can lead to creating a sustainable living as an artist…

“I saw my work through their eyes – the excitement and enjoyment – that exchange is so important” – Gary Genetti

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In this episode you’ll learn:

  • How Gary has made a successful living as an artist
  • How to adapt to cultural changes as an artist
  • How community has inspired Gary’s art
  • What Gary is doing today to promote his work
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Gary Genetti has made a living from his art for over forty years.

In this in depth chat, we explore resilience and connecting with community as an independence artist today.

As someone who believes we all have something creative to give, Gary is a nationally respected artist, who’s work is featured in the permanent collection of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC.

Through his unique craft, creating contemporary classics in glass, hear how a feature on the front cover of the Smithsonian gave him the early confidence to embrace failure.

“I packed my Volkswagen Beetle and $500 and headed for the east coast…” – Gary Genetti

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