In today's episode, I welcome Jeffrey Holst! Jeff is a life coach for all creative types, and thrives on helping artists monetize their art to create a sustainable living. In this episode, he shares about a journey to find himself through art that took him around the world and back again. (Fun fact: the cover image of this episode is the logo of the Last Life Ever podcast!)
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Episode 46 - Jeffrey Holst
Lindsey Dinneen: Hello, and welcome to Artfully Told, where we share true stories about meaningful encounters with art.
[00:00:06] Krista: I think artists help people have different perspectives on every aspect of life.
[00:00:12]Roman: All I can do is put my part in to the world.
[00:00:15] Elizabeth: It doesn't have to be perfect the first time. It doesn't have to be perfect ever really. I mean, as long as you, and you're enjoying doing it and you're trying your best, that can be good enough.
[00:00:23] Elna: Art is something that you can experience with your senses and that you just experiences as so beautiful.
[00:00:31] Lindsey Dinneen: Hello. And welcome back to another episode of Artfully Told. I'm your host Lindsey, and I am very excited to have as my guest today, Jeffrey Holst. He's a real estate investor, a recovering attorney, and a podcaster. And I just can't wait to hear all about your background, Jeffrey, and all the different stories that you have to share. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it.
[00:00:58] Jeffrey Holst: No, no problem, Lindsey. I appreciate you having me on. It's, it's exciting to be here. So I, I appreciate that.
[00:01:03] Lindsey Dinneen: Of course. Well, I do definitely have to ask about your background, especially because recovering attorney is part of it. So I would love to hear a little bit about, you know, just your own journey and maybe how you became a podcaster because that's, that is an art form in and of itself too.
[00:01:23] Jeffrey Holst: Yeah, no, you know, I don't always think of it as art, but I do two different shows and it is, it's a lot of work. And then there requires us to think very carefully about how we're presenting everything. So it does seem like art in a lot of ways. I don't think it's significantly different than than any kind of performance- based art. But yeah, so I practice law. I, I mean, I, I started started practicing law in 2007 and I did it because I wanted to make money. I didn't do it because I loved it. And that's why I'm a recovering attorney. Now I recognized that, you know, you need to do things that you love and enjoy with your life. And so that's how I got out of law, but there's a, sort of a long story about how I ended up where I'm at that I'm happy to share with you, if you have the time for that. So.
[00:02:08] Lindsey Dinneen: Of course. Yeah.
[00:02:09] Jeffrey Holst: So the short version of the long story --how's that --is that I, I was going to community college. I was in my third year of a two-year program because I really had no idea what I wanted to do. And, yeah, I was sitting in this, a history class and they were talking about the Renaissance and they were talking about Michelangelo in particular and I remember this so clearly too. It's amazing how impactful this one event was the professor was talking about this Michelangelo sculpture, the Moses, that was supposed to be the centerpiece to Pope Julian the Second's tomb and Michelangelo was commissioned by the Vatican to produce this marble sculpture. And, and they, when he finished it, they were having this unveiling and the Pope was there and, you know, all sorts of dignitaries are there and they pull the sheet off of it or whatever, and he's kind of down on his haunches and he just stares at it and he doesn't say anything. Just awkward silence. And everyone's looking at him and looking at the sculpture.
[00:03:08] And finally one of his students is like, "You know, you have to say something," and he takes a chisel and he throws it ful
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