Emily McDowell: Irreverent Art With a Huge Heart.

艾米丽·麦克道尔:心胸宽广的不敬艺术。

Good Life Project

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2016-11-28

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Emily McDowell is a writer, illustrator, and entrepreneur who specializes in chronicling the human condition. In 2012, she left a successful career in advertising to launch her greeting card line, making cards for the relationships we actually have. Now a multimillion-dollar stationery and gift company, Emily McDowell Studio products are sold online and in nearly 2,000 stores worldwide. In 2015, Emily’s Empathy Cards, designed to help people connect around serious illness and loss, struck a nerve around the world and gave people a way into conversations that seemed brutally hard to begin and deepen into. Her first book, There Is No Good Card For This: What To Say and Do When Life Gets Scary, Awful, and Unfair To People You Love, will be released in January 2017. In today's conversation, we take a step back in time, explore the experiences in her younger life that were defining moments, revealing who she really was and how Emily began to connect with an irreverent blend of art and humor that touches so many. We explore what happened when she was diagnosed with cancer at a very young age and watched friends struggle to figure out how to be there for her. We dive into how she compartmentalized this experience, seeking to not let it define her, both as a person and, soon enough in art and business. We also track the launch and growth of her company and her recent move to rework the business in order to not just serve a "customer" need, but also give her what she needs, the ability to do the work that most lights her up. Mentioned in this Episode: Dance Neurosis Resume by EmilyEmily's famous quilt-making mom, Ruth McDowellEmily's talk at World Domination Summit 2016Emily's Awkward Dating CardHand Letterer Mary Kate McDevittStupid Cancer :: The Voice of Young Adult CancerBrené Brown - Researcher + Storyteller +++ The 108: Conscious Business Collective - Entrepreneurship is lonely. To build what you're here to build, not just in business but in life, you need people. Nobody does it alone. The 108 is a conscious business collective of entrepreneurs helping each other rise. Move into 2017 with a powerful new family of allies, mentors, champions and collaborators as you work to build a living and a life on a profoundly different level. Learn more now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Hey, it's Jonathan.

  • One of the things that I've learned over the years is that a pretty significant part of our community are what I call conscious entrepreneurs.

  • And what I mean by that is it's folks who are founders.

  • And that could be of a business, an organization, foundation, private practice, anything like that, that have three things in common.

  • One is that you serve a genuine need.

  • You really solve a problem, and you deliver that and get paid for it.

  • And so solving a problem and generating real profit is important to you.

  • The second is that what you create actually serves as a true vehicle for the expression of your strengths, your values and beliefs, and your voice.

  • So it lets you step into your fullest potential.

  • And the third is that there's something bigger happening here.

  • You're part of something bigger, and you're serving some bigger need.

  • And that's what I call a conscious business.

  • And we've created all sorts of experiences, programs, courses over the years designed to serve conscious business founders in a variety of ways.

  • And amazing things have happened.

  • We put pretty much everything on hiatus this year because we wanted to really deconstruct what we were doing and figure out how to bring more people together to serve them on a higher level.

  • Because what we found is that not only do people need information and great advice and strategy and support, but there's a tremendous amount of isolation and loneliness for so many people who are in the business of founding conscious businesses.

  • And we want to create a true community.

  • So we've been at work at this for the better part of the year, and I'm really excited to share that.

  • We are now live with this really powerful new experience.

  • It's called the 108, and it is a conscious business collective.