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Podcast Birthday Celebration: Giving Something Back to You

Today marks a special personal milestone that I wanted to share with all of you. Design Yourself released it’s 50th episode this Monday and I’m pretty pumped about it. I wanted to celebrate by giving something back to you. See below for details! Despite my vision for and my interest in podcasting, I wasn’t quite sure what …

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Inside the Studio: Jon Flannery

I’m super excited today to take you inside the studio of my design collaborator and good friend Jon Flannery, founder of Cryptogram. I announced earlier this week that we are doing a special giveaway right now for a limited edition THERE IS NOTHING STOPPING YOU (#tinsy) poster that Jon created. (Simply subscribe to our community by February …

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Psst – Something Beautiful For You

It’s giveaway time! To celebrate the new pointroadstudios.com, I wanted to do something special for the awesome community that makes our mission and work come to life. (That’s you!) I collaborated with the fabulous Jon Flannery, designer and printer behind Cryptogram, to create a limited edition THERE IS NOTHING STOPPING YOU poster. Curious about why …

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Design Your Own Retreat

Retreats, like people, come in all shapes and sizes – from corporate board retreats with colleagues to vacation getaways with good friends to silent meditations in the woods. While there are usually some common elements to what we want out of a retreat (e.g. feeling rested, clear-headed, transformed, refueled), there are an infinite number of …

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Gardens and Getting Unstuck

I’ve been reading voraciously recently about lasagna gardens. (Someone is already having fun imagining what lies at the end of winter.) And no – these aren’t gardens intended to produce Italian feasts, though I had that same thought myself. Lasagna gardening is actually a system of building great gardening soil through layering things like cardboard, compost, …

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Go Beyond: A Process for Crafting and Unleashing Your Vision

Make things more beautiful. This is what life is about. It’s what I strive for myself and it’s what I wish for each of you. To me, “making things more beautiful” is shorthand for lighting yourself up and shining that light out – for letting your best, your truest self out into the world After …

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Starting A Podcast With A Song

Today I want to give a shout out today to one of my favorite bands, The Dismemberment Plan – RIP until the next reunion tour – and to share how their song Following Through inspired me to move from thinking about creating a podcast to doing it. The Plan has been with me through some …

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