September 22, 2025 • 62 mins
In this episode of Stacked Keys Podcast, host Amy Stackhouse interviews Rebekah Harrison, a fine artist from Woodstock, Georgia. Rebecca shares her journey into the art world, the struggles of balancing different creative avenues, and her passion for connecting personally with her collectors. They discuss the challenges and rewards of being a creative business owner, the importance of pursuing personal passions even as a mom, and the value of mentorship and self-kindness. Rebekah also touches on how pivotal moments, like during COVID, allowed her to embrace her dreams and pursue art full-time. They explore the dynamics of family life, societal pressures, and the therapeutic benefits of counseling. This episode is a heartfelt and inspiring conversation about creativity, resilience, and finding joy in both professional and personal worlds.
00:00 Introduction to Stacked Keys Podcast
01:21 Meet Rebecca Harrison: Fine Artist
01:54 The Journey of an Artist
02:37 Connecting with the Community
05:17 Teaching and Encouraging Creativity
07:28 Artistic Preferences and Challenges
10:07 Balancing Art and Life
13:55 Dreams, Failures, and Personal Growth
21:54 Navigating Motherhood and Creativity
29:25 Family Adventures and Inspirations
33:01 Balancing Art and Business
33:21 Learning to Delegate and Manage
34:03 Finding Joy in Art Despite Business Challenges
37:07 Self-Talk and Personal Growth
38:29 Parenting Pressures and Forgiveness
42:46 The Importance of Counseling
47:34 Navigating Technology with Kids
54:48 Mentorship and Friendship
57:03 Final Thoughts and Superpowers
58:50 Connecting with Rebecca
Music "STOMP" used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm walking all alone down my yellow brick road and I
stomp to the beat of my owndrum.
I got my pockets full of dreamsand they're busting at the
seams going boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome to Stacked Keys Podcast.
I'm your host, amy Stackhouse.
This is a podcast to featurewomen who are impressive in the
work world or in raising afamily, or who have hobbies that
make us all feel encouraged.
Want to hear what makes thesewomen passionate to get up in
the morning, or what maybe theywish they'd known a little bit
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earlier in their lives.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Grab your keys and stomp to your own drum.
Whatever you do, it ain'tnothing on me, because I'm doing
my thing and I hold the key toall my wants and all my dreams
Like an old song everything willbe all right when I let myself
(01:20):
go.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, I am so excited today we have Rebecca Harrison
with us.
Cannot wait to get to know youa bit, rebecca, and to share you
with the audience, so welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm really honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm excited.
I know a little bit about youand I know your heart a little
bit just from our conversationbefore we started, so let's come
right out of the gate, rebecca,how do people know you
professionally and personally?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, so I'm an artist, a fine artist.
I've always been creative, I'vebeen on a creative journey, but
in the last four years I'vereally dove into pursuing fine
arts and putting myself into theart community.
So, yeah, I'm known there.
(02:15):
I live in Atlanta or just northof Atlanta, georgia, so that's
kind of my stomping ground.
So that's kind of my stompingground and I love working with
local businesses to share mywork, my art and my story in the
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community.
That way has, yeah, that's justkind of my footprint in the
world.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So I love it Now when you say pursuing fine arts.
That can take you in so manydifferent directions.
You could work in commercialvenues, you could do all kinds
of things.
Do you struggle with where youwant to put your art, where you
want to put your efforts?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Gosh yes, I do, and I can go down several rabbit
holes and think about all theopportunities, because there is
so many amazing opportunities tobe an artist Like you can be a
surface design artist and haveyour work on items.
(03:38):
You know, everything that youreally see in stores and
everywhere has art on it andsomebody's created that art.
So, yeah, so that's a, that's avenue and there's so many
different avenues.
But for me personally, where Iam in my stage of life, I feel
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like I've landed on just.
I love being able to connectwith my collectors and buyers
and admirers and just on apersonal level, so I love being
able to meet people in person.
So I'll do, you know, in-personart shows and events like that
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that I can shows and events likethat that I can, you know, just
meet with people in real life.
That's not always the case, butI love getting to connect with
people and hear how my art cancollide with their life, their
journey and their stories.
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It really is just a ministry tome and to them.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So kind of I almost said, paint me a picture, but
kind of take me down a littlebit of a pathway of like you
might be in a store and you'reactually live painting or you
might do some teaching, andthere's that's a big jump
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between those two of doing kindof what you want to and then
taking somebody down a pathway.
What's your goal when you'restarting to try and take someone
down a pathway of art?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Gosh, that's a great question I was actually thinking
about that this morning ofteaching classes.
I don't feel like it's mystrength to actually teach the
class, but I love theopportunity to encourage someone
creatively.
(05:44):
Encourage someone creativelyand I do feel like we're all
creative and we have thiscreativeness in us some more
than others.
But I think there's somethingspecial that can happen when you
do something with your handsand you try something new.
So that's always my goal andand teaching and guiding people
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through the creative process isjust allowing them to experiment
and explore and just see whatcomes of it.
It's it's fun, and it's fun tosee just how unique each, each
person is and each class is, youknow, yeah, so that's always
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just been my goal in that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Have you ever met somebody that you didn't expect
to meet, or that they turned outdifferently than you thought
when they walked in the door?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, I mean, probably all the time, you know,
I feel like as, as humans, wealways have a first thought or,
you know, just a preconceivednotion, I guess.
(07:05):
If you know, seeing someone forthe first time but being able
to chit, chat with somebody andget to hear them, and yeah, it's
always, it's always just reallyfun meeting somebody.
And I'm I'm very introverted,so it's funny when I do classes
and in-person stuff, it itdrains me and fuels me all at
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the same time.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
What's your favorite thing to paint?
Do you have an item or asubject or something that just
draws you?
I mean, I've got to stop these.
I must talk that way all thetime because I'm not doing it
intentionally, but what pullsyou in?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, so I'm inspired mainly by just outside, so
nature.
I love painting landscapes andI love painting florals.
I love painting landscapes andI love painting florals.
Yeah, it's florals is somethingthat I feel like comes more
naturally to me, like it's justfun and loose.
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I can have a lot of fun with it.
Landscapes is more of achallenge for me but it switches
up my creative brain so I'm notdoing the same thing over and
over and it kind of challengesme and pushes me and grows me
deeper as an artist to do twodifferent subjects.
(08:38):
Yeah, because I'll get boredwith doing the same thing.
I've got to switch it up.
Yeah, because I'll get boredwith doing the same thing.
I've got to switch it up.
But landscapes, definitely,yeah, they just challenge me
more because your florals can bevery whimsy and it doesn't have
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to be exact, and sometimeslandscapes, you have to have a
little bit of perspective toportray what you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You know paint, so yeah, is there a color that you
like better, that kind of pullsyou in more?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
um, I love greens.
I've always been a green girl.
Um, love greens, love blues.
Um, I'm I like more mutedcolors, like just softer.
My palette always tends to becolorful but soft at the same
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time, so I feel like that's kindof a unique thing for me, just
personally.
So I don't have these vibrantcolors.
I can paint vibrant colors, butI tend to just stay this soft,
calm color palette is a commonthread through my paintings.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I think I saw something that you did that was
hydrangeous.
Yes, yeah, it had kind of thepurpley blue hue and then had
that dark green.
Yeah, you kind of get all ofyour likes in there.
That's right.
Are you a perfectionist?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
um, yes and no, I mean I can't be.
I feel like I can't be as anartist because it's not ever
going to be perfect, and when Iput that pressure on is when it
really sucks the joy out ofpainting for me.
(10:31):
Yeah, I love playing with colorand shadow and lights and darks
to, yeah, to paint a picturethere's another one of yours To
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capture the subject withouthaving it to be realistic, if
that makes sense, so it's veryit to be realistic if that makes
sense, so it's veryimpressionistic a style instead
of realism.
When I start getting picky andgetting real fine details is
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when I, yeah, it's no longer fun, I get frustrated and it
doesn't do what I want it to do,and so I usually just have to
take a break and then come back.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, that's a pretty good life skill of like, okay,
take a break and then come back.
Yeah, so have you?
Have you had?
You know I'm probably in thelast several months I struggle
with the word failure and peopleare talking about failure and
going oh, you know, failure isgood.
You embrace failure, you wantfailure and I'm like, no, I
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don't, I'm there to fail and Imean there might be a lesson
coming out of it, but that's notmy goal.
So, as a business owner andartist, do you struggle with
failure in the sense of, well,that didn't work, I can go here.
Or do you have to just put itdown sometimes and let it fall
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where it does?
How do you?
Is that something you strugglewith?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like my biggest learning
experiences have been infailures, which is usually the
case.
You know they they stick andsting the hardest.
But but it's after I getthrough the initial like oh,
that sucked really bad and thatwas not what I wanted or
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expected.
You know, I always have achoice of okay, like let's
reevaluate, let's rethink andwas this worth my time, was this
not worth my time?
And how do I, how do I beststeward my time well and my
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learning experiences well aftersomething?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
doesn't go right.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
There's been lots of opportunities for that for me
and it's led me where I am today, like if I would have just kept
doing the same thing over andover, I would be stuck so being
able to say, okay, I'm going tojust get back up and try again,
and also just talking with otherpeople who are pursuing their
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passions and dreams.
And my husband's a greatresource for me.
Just, I can lean on him andtalk to him about all my
questions and, um, he can kindof guide me in that.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So yeah it's definitely failure, yeah well,
do you think there's adifference between dreams and
and wishes and wishes?
So, wishing something versusdreaming, versus doing.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, I don't know, that's a great question.
The word wish, I feel like, isvery surfacy, um, whereas dream
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is kind of, is deeper, it kindof comes within you.
So, um, we can wish things, butI feel like wishes are, uh, not
very lasting, they don't have alasting effect, but dreams are,
I don't know, they, they'redeeper, it's a deeper word for
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me.
So, yeah, I think there's adifference there.
I think dreams, I think dreamscan align with desires if we
allow them to like.
You know, just the desires ofour hearts can become our dreams
and they can align there.
So, yeah, on a deeper level forsure.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Have your dreams changed from the time you were
12 years old.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, you know what?
I never allowed myself thespace to dream.
I think I was a dreamer as akid, but I kind of stuffed it
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per se and I feel like, for me,I gave myself permission to
dream about five years ago it'slike to just recognize that, oh,
wait a minute, that's a dream,that's a desire, that's a.
You know, I just gave it avoice and gave it permission to,
to exist, and then, as I, as Ipressed into, that dream is
where my business came from.
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Because, you know, here I am, Iwould have never, ever, in a
million years, thought that Iwould be an artist and selling
art around the world.
So, um, so, yeah, it's, it's,it's crazy, um, and I and I do
still struggle to dream or justname a dream.
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You know, it feels scary for meto name a dream just like, ooh,
that's too big or that feels soout there, but it's really.
I think giving it a name andgiving it permission to just be
and exist and be recognized isreally powerful.
(17:11):
So five years ago was theresomething that was a moment,
something that happened orsomething that you, that that
opened up that door to dream.
Yeah, so five years ago wasCOVID.
So you know, a lot of stuffchanged during that time, um,
but there was a for mepersonally.
Well, I had two little kids atthe time, um, or still have two
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little kids, but they werelittle at the time and, um it, I
just I needed something to do.
That was just me, you know,that was apart from being a mom,
and so that's where I kind ofstepped into painting and
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creating and painting things forother people.
I love giving gifts, I'm a giftgiver, um, so so that's kind of
how I started.
And then, um, along the dreaming, uh question, so in the summer
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of 2020, I had a really hardfamily moment.
Um, just uh, um, yeah, it wasjust a hard family time and, um,
a big, big blow up, a big um,just a big marking point for me.
Just step back and then realizewhat God has given me and has
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given me to steward, and me andmy husband and my two kids.
We're a family and a unit and Idon't know I was able to truly
just.
You know, the Bible says toleave and to cleave to your
husband, and I felt like in thatmoment I was able to
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indescribable freedom, to justbe able to do what God's created
me to do, you know.
So, and that was sharing my, myartwork and, um, being a mom and
a wife.
So, um, yeah, it was just, itwas.
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It was a really supernaturalmoment.
It was really hard moment, buta supernatural moment of just
launching me out and allowing meto to rediscover what that
little girl, you know, dreamedwhen she was little but didn't
really have, didn't give it avoice.
So I was able to just say youknow what, I'm going to give it
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a voice and try it.
And so, yeah, and little bylittle, it just kind of grew.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So it's an intentional moment.
I mean you had to make someintentional, pretty scary steps,
yeah yeah, and I know thecleaving to your husband and
kind of getting theencouragement there.
But I mean there's some momentsthat could stop you in your
tracks when somebody is walkingtowards you.
How do you handle that?
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You just power up.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I feel like it was just spirit led Like, um, uh,
I'm, I'm, I'm a big believer andum, I, just I felt like that.
It was just his, his lovingness, his kindness to set me on this
path, that that he had for meand to give me the, the strength
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and the, the vision and thedesire to to learn and grow.
And, um, you know, I, I wascreative, but I wasn't a great
painter, so I had to learn andgrow and but I, I was interested
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in it and it it gave me I don'tknow, it just breathed life
into me.
I was happy when I did it and,um, you know, I was, I was very
thankful that I my husband was,you know, in a good job, so I
didn't have to like, have a jobor have to make money or
anything.
So it gave me this permissionin this space to just learn and
explore and press into whatmight be next.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, you know, it sounds like I mean you're a mom
of young kids and giving mompermission to to be not just mom
but be Rebecca.
Yeah, do you find sometimesthat your peers and then just
society as a whole, um, doesn'talways encourage that and so you
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kind of what you tell somebodywho's in that same position of
of that there can be mom guilt.
That can be so debilitating.
What would you say?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Um, I would say, I totally understand.
Um yeah, the mom, the mom guilt,um, is definitely there for
sure.
But in the same breath, I feellike it has allowed me to be a
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better mom to them, because I'mnot totally overstimulated with
just mommy.
Everything, and it's been socool for them to come alongside
me and be creative and paintbeside me and create beside me
and to see mom going out andpursuing something that she
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loves and enjoys, is notsacrificing them, but just, you
know, it's, it's kind of a partof everything.
So, um, yeah, I think it's veryimportant to just for them to,
to know that they're, they'reloved, but they're not the sole
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purpose.
Like they're not you know whatI mean Like there's, there's
priorities and there's, you know, there's the world does not
revolve around them, so theydon't expect everything to just
be given to them on a silverplatter.
A different perspective of all,right, mommy, mommy works and
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mommy does what she loves andand still gets to play in love
with.
You know, be mom to us.
So.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah Well, I mean, you're almost at their earlier
stages giving them permission.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Maybe you didn't have that and and and, so they get
to see that in the reality andit's.
For me, it's been a lot ofteamwork of like, hey, this is
how we all get to do, and thenI'm on for something that one of
my kids is involved in, or I'mon for the other one, or I need
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them on for me, or I'm on forthe other one, or I need them on
for me.
And as my kids grew up, I meanI'd have a presentation or
something and they got reallygood at these different
presentations and PowerPoints toput together.
And so there became thisteamwork and it's kind of neat.
As they grow up, they've grownup with you doing something.
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Do you think that maybe ourdaily actions become who we
really are?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, absolutely.
You know what you, what you putin is what you get out, like
you know.
So, yeah, it's, it's a rhythm.
So, every, every day, we, everyday, we're training our bodies
and our minds and our hearts andwhatever we're doing.
So, yeah, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Can you tell when you need a break or you need to go
have an adventure?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yes, yeah, I do and yeah, that's been a challenge
for me is because it's having acreative job doesn't look like
it's not feeling these creativejuices flowing.
So it's it's, and it's not likea nine to five, you know.
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So it's it's hard to figure outa balance there of of capturing
when I'm feeling creative andknowing when I'm not, and giving
myself permission to just gooutside and walk around or go to
the park or go shopping or justdo something.
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That's different, that kind ofrests my mind, whereas when I
wasn't doing this as a job, youknow I would.
That would be.
My free time is being creative.
So now it's like all right,what do I find?
What do I, what can I do in myfree time?
That's almost not creative in away.
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So I've found that I lovegardening.
I love just being in the gardenplanting, playing in the dirt.
Um, and yeah, that's kind of my, my outside, just something,
something different, stillcreative.
But I have no control over it,it's just, I'm just digging in
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the dirt.
Well, that's kid friendly.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
But that is funny, I mean.
A lot of times if you dosomething that is your passion,
then it can become such adrudgery and you lose the love
for it.
Do you kind of put somesafeguards in there to make sure
you don't?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean I, I try and protect, protect my time as
much as I can.
Just, you know I have, I haveto be more disciplined.
I'm not a very disciplinedperson, so I have to just say,
okay, from you know, nine to two, 30, I'm just going to come to
my studio and you know, if I'mnot feeling creative then I can
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do some computer work, or if I'm, you know, if I'm feeling super
creative, then I can just gocrazy.
Um, but yeah, holding thoseparameters of, okay, I can't
just work.
You know I work from home, so Ican't just be in my studio all
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day, every day.
Um, cause that's not fair to myfamily.
But um, yeah, and then justbalancing a lot of times I work
on the weekends because you know, I'm at stores or in downtown's
painting or whatever.
So giving myself space on, youknow, monday and Tuesday instead
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of Saturday and Sunday, to justhave some rest and some
downtime.
So, yeah, it just looks a littledifferent than your nine to
five, monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So so do you guys go off as a family?
Do you travel?
Are you a adventuresome family?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, we love.
We love to travel together.
So that's kind of the moneythat I make in art is our travel
fund.
We love taking the kids andjust exploring and going places
and, you know, hopping on planesand going to different
countries and I think it's it'sjust really fun and it's
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something that we value as afamily.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So, and the kids, you know, love it but yeah, that's
one way to get them to want youto go to work.
Come work, mommy I know.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I tell them I'm like, look, I've got to do this if we
want to go here.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's, that's hilarious.
So where's your favorite placethat you've been?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
So we go as a family, we go to a resort in Mexico and
Cancun and it's got, you know,it's an all inclusive and it's
very catered towards the kids.
So there's water slides and,you know, ice cream stands and
all kinds of things just allover and it's.
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It's just a lot of fun to gowith them and and just not have
to think about anything.
You just go and enjoy life andhave fun and just get to see
them laugh and giggle and nothave to worry about anything.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's just kind of in this dream world for a week my
um, my son is living in Cancunand so yeah, so when he sends us
, it was so funny, he was doinga podcast with somebody and, um,
and they're like, oh, I loveyour virtual background.
And it's like, oh, I love yourvirtual background.
(31:26):
And it's like no that's reallythe leaves are like glowing but.
But yeah, I mean just that kindof escape and and um, you know
some, if it's that, I don't knowjust being able to create that
time where you have mental spaceand physical space.
So what do you think peoplemight mean when they say less is
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more?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Gosh, that could mean a lot of different things,
probably to a lot of differentpeople, man, but I think for me,
less is more.
Um, yeah, just, it means moresimplicity, like, just when you
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have all these different things,or whether you're trying to
manage different things or cleandifferent things or, you know,
take care of different things,whatever the subject is.
But yeah, it's just, it'salways easier to manage less and
you get more, more space toenjoy.
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Enjoy the less that you have,like the less being.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Less can become more, because you've yeah, it just
yeah, it allows space to receivethem.
Yeah, I like that.
Well, being an artist is onething, but you also are running
a business.
So you have to have businesssystems in place and I don't
know about you, but I mean, Iwill throw my hands up in a
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heartbeat and say I'm an Englishmajor, I'm sorry, accounting.
So you have all these thingsthat you have to take care of.
Have you figured out businesssystems and how to delegate, or
do you?
Or does that overwhelm you?
How do you, how do you functionas a business owner?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, I've learned a lot.
I've grown a lot.
For sure, my husband is abusiness major, so he has been a
great resource for me to justnow, he doesn't do things for me
.
That's one thing.
He's like I'll just give youlike you can do this, like I
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believe you can do it.
So I've had to learn a lot, butI've had a great teacher, great
teachers, a lot of differentpeople who pour into me.
Um, but yeah, the business partI do not like.
I just want to paint and sharemy stuff.
Um, but yeah, it does come withaccounting and taxes and
website and listings and socialmedia and all the different
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avenues to to manage and itreally it can get overwhelming
very quickly.
Um, but I also have.
I feel like I've just learned toto not give it so much power
and just to, I don't know, treatit.
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Treat it like what it is.
I mean it's, it is a business,it's important, but it's not the
end.
All be all like it.
If I don't make an Instagrampost, it's going to be okay.
If I don't do everything withthe pretty little bow, it's
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going to be okay.
Um and um, yeah, just notgiving it the power to steal my
joy of what I really do love todo, and that's to paint and
create and to share my work.
Um so, and sometimes it stilldoes.
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It still does steal my joy, butI'm I'm learning that it's a
lot less pressure in realitythan it I put the pressure on
and it's really, it's going tobe okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well, I love that.
Give it the power.
I mean that kind of takes thecontrol back into your own hands
.
Control back into your ownhands is that something that
maybe you have been working andand that's how you started into
your business was taking yourpower and your control and not
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giving things the power theydon't deserve?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
yeah, for sure, it's been a big part of my story and
my healing process of just yeah,like you know, the world, the
enemy, is out to kill, steal anddestroy and wants to distort
things, and you know, and we sooften give it power that it
(36:39):
doesn't deserve, give it powerthat it doesn't deserve, Like,
um, so yeah, just saying okay,no, this is, this is who I am,
this is who God created me to be, and like this is, I'm just
being obedient and to what he'scalled me to do, so and that's
all I can do.
You know, like that's, that'sall he's asked me to do is just
(37:01):
to say yes and to show up andhe'll do the rest, and he does.
He's faithful every time.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
So, um, yeah, you're a self-talker.
Have you always been aself-talker?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, probably.
Well, I mean in my, in my lateryears, I guess, just yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Are you kind to yourself.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
For the most part, I've learned to be kind to
myself.
I've, you know, I've been incounseling for however long and
14 years and yeah, that's thefirst thing we kind of started
on is just being kind to myselfand um it, it truly is um
(37:51):
life-changing to just be kind toyourself and speak kindly,
forgive and um allow grace, ohyeah, and definitely allow grace
.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Oh yeah, and definitely allow grace.
When was the last time you hadto forgive yourself?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Oh, probably yesterday.
Good morning's fresh right,yeah.
Yeah, I mean that's a, that's a, yeah, that's an ongoing thing,
especially being a mom and awife and you know I'm not I'm
going to mess up a lot.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Really so, as a mom, do you feel that pressure?
Do you feel it from youryourself, your kids, school, I
mean, where do you feel that themost?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Probably with myself.
Yeah for sure.
Yeah, just you know, there'salways this little underlying
voice of you need to do more.
You need to.
You know, I don't know not morenot more, but I don't know.
(39:09):
Just do things differently, orlove, love differently, or
connect differently, you knowjust.
However, whatever it is, um,but yeah, so I can kind of spin
in those, in those circles.
But, but yeah, I mean when I domess up, I I try and own it with
(39:31):
my kids, just because we allmess up and they they're not
going to learn if I don't ownanything myself.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So I think it's good for them to see their mom say
oops, I messed up, I'm so sorry,please forgive me Well you know
, there's sometimes that whenyou mess up and they get a
little bit older and they bandtogether and they I mean I had
mine throw a coup on me one time.
No, I had this bright idea thatthey needed to be taking barley
(40:04):
green, I don't know.
It was some kind of thing goingon around and so I was like
we're going to do this, and soit was nasty, it was so awful.
And one day they all threelooked at each other and said
we're not doing it.
And I said, well, you're goingto sit here at the bar counter
(40:25):
until you do.
And they were like all right,they literally sat there for
hours and finally they looked atme.
I looked at them, I said you'renot going to do it, are you?
And they were like not going todo it.
And then it was that moment ofhow ridiculous is this?
This is so ridiculous.
(40:46):
And it was.
And so I just I said okay,y'all win, y'all win, talk about
it now.
And I mean they're in theirthirties, they talk about that.
And my son ended up with a heartissue and we were in cardiac
rehab and, um, he was 13 and inwalks the lady who sold us that
(41:10):
and he turned to me.
He said I told you he'd killyou.
She had had a massive heartattack.
Oh no, you know.
So sometimes your kids can dothat and it just puts this
reality on you of like, yeah, Iwas out there.
I'm sorry, they get a greatjoke out of it for years.
(41:31):
But you know as a mom, a lot ofthat stuff just happens and
you're doing the best you can doand yet sometimes we expect so
much more from ourselves.
I mean, I've had to grace mymom of like she was doing the
best she knew how, and so I kindof just hope that my kids end
(41:54):
up with that.
Of like, hey, she was doing thebest she could and sometimes
she missed the mark, like withthe barley green could and
sometimes she missed the mark,like with the barley green.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, that is, that is.
That is true, and that's all wecan do.
You know, like same with my momand same with me, like I'm just
doing the best I can and I'mgoing to mess up.
There's going to be wounds andhurts that we're going to have
to walk through, but I hope thatI cultivate, uh, just a
relationship that we can talk,talk about it, and that they can
.
They always feel, they can comeand say, hey, this was uncool,
(42:35):
or I felt this way, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Um, so, you talked about.
You've been in counseling forever and and I can relate to
that I'm really glad that wehave now kind of moved into a
part of our society of like,having a counselor, having
therapy, is not as weird orfrowned upon, but I mean it also
(43:05):
, um, puts you in a vulnerablestate.
So how do you communicate that,maybe, to your friends or to
others of like, hey, there'snothing means that this is wrong
or that a marriage is over, orthat you're, you know, at the
end of your complete rope.
Do you communicate that to yourpeers?
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Yeah to your peers.
Yeah, counseling has.
Well, when I first got married,it was, you know, I didn't grow
up in a family where it waslike, oh yeah, counseling it was
, it had this stigma with it andit was this weird icky thing.
(43:58):
But when I got married andstarted going to counseling, it
just it was a big part of ourmarriage, like just as a couple,
like that's what, that's whatwe did.
We went and it was importantand it was important to us.
And it took a while for me toget on board, like it was very
uncomfortable and but it, yeah,like it's just part of our life.
(44:19):
So our family and friends knowthat and my husband is actually
a counselor now.
So we, yeah, it's just part ofour everyday and I have
(44:58):
personally experienced just thepower of being able to talk and
to get things out and just tohave somebody listen and to have
somebody speak back into thosespaces that needed spoken to.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
You know, like it needed God's word to just shine
right on that spot and for me togrow and, yeah, to become more
like Christ.
So, to become more like Christ,so yeah, well, that's
interesting.
(45:29):
I mean, it's so often one of thereasons I like counseling is
because I don't want to dump onmy friends all the time, or my
kids, you know.
I mean have to consciously likedon't, don't overload this kid
with this.
Yeah, you know that.
And it's like because they will, they're, they're my, they're
some of my best friends and soto hear they, they want to hear
my heart, they want to hear myday.
But if I can pay somebody toget that part and maybe help me
(45:55):
practice the better outpourings,it's just been helpful and
useful and I think I reallybelieve I mean, I'm an older mom
, but I really believe thatyoung moms truly need it because
it can be such an alienatingworld.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Oh yeah, for sure, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know we're talking about our daily habits
and things that we're pouringinto our kids and what we're
trying to be.
If you had a habit that youwanted to change, do you know
right off what it would be?
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Oh, probably scrolling Instagram or just you
know, just scrolling around.
I mean I'm watching likegardening videos or whatever,
but I can just you know themindlessness of just watching
pretty flowers grow and so manyplant this planter and but yeah,
(47:00):
I mean it's, that's probablythe habit that I would need to
just kind of pull back on.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, cause it can suck the time, can't it?
Speaker 3 (47:12):
really can.
Yeah, all of a sudden it's like, oh shoot, I've just wasted so
much time on this stupid cellphone.
Yeah, but yeah, that woulddefinitely be it.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah Well, you know, at the same time, being a mom of
of youngsters, you have to kindof figure out that whole world.
I didn't have to figure outthat world really.
What's that like for you?
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah, you mean the technology world.
Yeah, that is an ever evolvingthing.
I still haven't figured thatout completely and yeah, it's
really hard because so much, somuch is out there and I
understand, like you know howit's fun playing a game or or
(48:02):
you know doing a video game orwhatever.
But learning how to putboundaries on that and
safeguards around differentthings is, yeah, it can be a
full-time job just managing that.
So we try and limit the screentime as much as we can.
(48:25):
But you know it's hard, it'sreally hard, it's a, it's a hard
battle every day.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah, I can't imagine , because you've got the peer
pressure.
I was with somebody let's seehow old is she she's a tween,
yeah and and they had given hera type of phone or I guess they
had given her an iPod and it hadthe same capabilities as an
(48:56):
iPhone, but it didn't look thesame.
And so the peers made fun ofyou know.
Yeah, look at what you've got.
And so not only are you havingto deal with what your
principles are and I know wealways had peer pressure, but
wait, this is in your face.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
It's very in your face.
Yeah, we're definitelyexperiencing that.
My daughter's nine, so we'regetting up into you know, well,
so-and-so did this and she hasthis and this and that, and it's
like, well, you know, we'rethat's.
She doesn't, she's not part ofour family, like, we just have
(49:35):
different family rules andvalues.
And, yeah, it's really trickywith without undermining the
friend or her family, you know.
So not that they're doinganything wrong, it's just we're
not, we're just doing a littledifferent.
It's really well, it's a yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Yeah, we could kind of pull off from some things and
you know, you didn't reallynotice or because it just wasn't
so prevalent.
But I can surely remember mymom saying, well, I'm not her
mother now, am I.
You know, I wanted to go toride my bike after you know dark
or whatever.
But yeah, I guess it's an ageold problem.
(50:21):
Yeah, and it just changessubject.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
Yeah, it does.
And I keep telling myself, likeyou can get, you can really get
overwhelmed with just how muchis out there and just just
everything.
Um, and I keep telling myself,like you know, the Lord knew
(50:44):
that my kids were going to growup in this time, like this is no
surprise, like these all thesedifferent distractions and
things that are coming at ourkids is is he's prepared them
for it and he, you know, given,given us the tools to navigate
it.
So I'm just, I just continue totrust him with my kids and and
(51:10):
with me and my family.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
So, yeah, well, the opportunities you have, rebecca,
are.
You know, you've got all thiscreativity and you know a lot of
kids don't have any of that inin their face and and yeah,
having those options, not manymoms and because we are an audio
show, I'm going to have to saynot many moms have pink paint on
(51:33):
their arm, you know and so allof a sudden they get a treasure
that somebody else doesn't evenhave, because, oh, my goodness,
you're going to make a mess.
So, yeah, and that's, that's a,that's a treasure.
Tell me what?
(51:54):
your perfect day looks like.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
Oh, I think my perfect day would be waking up.
Um, like sleeping in and thenwaking up and the coffee's
already made.
So drink a cup of coffee on myporch.
Um, yeah, maybe paint in thegarden outside on a pretty day,
(52:25):
just walk around, wander around.
I love to just walk around, bein my own head, yeah, and then
in the evening, curling up onthe couch with my kids and my
husband and watching a movie,eating popcorn.
I love that.
It does something to me.
I just love it so much.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's awesome.
If you could shout aboutsomething really loud.
This is your platform.
What would?
What would you communicatewhether it be to the artist or
to moms or to couples what?
What would you shout reallyloudly about?
Speaker 3 (53:10):
hmm, what would you shout really loudly about?
Hmm, yeah, I would probablyshout the loudest about just
being yourself, like being you,not who the internet tells you
(53:34):
to be.
Um, especially in my world,like as as an artist, um,
getting to to know the artcommunity and seeing artists
express themselves in so manydifferent ways and, um, it
(53:57):
doesn't look like the aPinterest board, you know, like
it just it's unique and just tofill your world with things that
make you happy and that arefunky and fun and that that are.
(54:19):
That's you.
That's just completely uniquelyyou.
And it's okay if not everybodylikes the same thing.
Yeah, not everybody likes thesame thing.
Yeah, just to Just permissionto be yourself and to like the
things that you like and to dothe things that you do, and yeah
(54:40):
, that's probably Pretty goodplatform.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, very good platform.
So, do you have you had amentor?
Did you look for mentors andhave you, in turn, been a mentor
.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
Yeah, I've prayed for mentors and God's given me
mentors along my journey.
I remember one of my firstprayers after I got saved was I
just want girl friends, I justwant friends that are girls, and
I've always been, you know,I've always been friends with
boys cause they're drama, youknow, they don't have the drama
or whatever.
Um, but when, um, when I gotsaved, that was one of my first
(55:30):
prayers is I just want friendsthat are girls.
And literally the next day, hebrought three amazing women who
just poured into me.
And then, yeah, it's just beenthat way throughout my life and
my journey of just, ok, god, youknow, you know that desire is
(55:53):
there, so I just trust thatyou'll bring somebody and he
does so, and I've I've had very,some very deep friendships that
have come from that Um, so,yeah, and then, yeah, and then
I've um, had the opportunity to,you know, in turn, pour into
(56:14):
some younger girls and, justalong the way, and some kids,
some of my friends' kids, I meanmy kids' friends.
And, yeah, just, I try and beobedient to the opportunities
that arise, but yeah, I'm notlike pursuing it, I'm just I'm
(56:39):
just asking so and beingattentive to what might come my
way.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Well, you said earlier asking and available
being available.
So when that opportunity comes,yeah there yeah, for sure
that's awesome.
We've talked about a lot ofdifferent things.
Is there anything that wehaven't touched on that you want
to make sure you say?
Speaker 3 (57:10):
haven't touched on that you want to make sure you
say yeah, I think if you'remarried, if you have kids or
whatever, just remember thatthat's a gift from God and yeah,
he's brought it together for areason.
So there's sometimes it's goingto be really hard and it
(57:33):
doesn't feel like it, but Ibelieve he has and yeah, don't
give up.
Speaker 2 (57:44):
That's.
That's a good one.
That's encouraging.
So if you had a superpower, useit any way you wanted to to,
and you had it 24 hours.
You can use it personally orprofessionally.
What superpower would youchoose?
How would you use it and whywould you choose it?
Speaker 3 (58:05):
I don't know there would be a lot of different
things, but like that it wouldjust suck all the clutter out of
my house, like go through allthe little overwhelming spaces
in my home would clear, clearout, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
I want that an overwhelming sucker yeah, that's
funny.
That's funny.
I never thought about that as asuperpower, but yeah, and yeah,
you could market that yeah,that would sell it would um
(58:51):
rebecca.
How do people get in touch withyou?
Follow you see your work yeah,um.
Speaker 3 (58:58):
So I have a website.
It's rebeccaharrisonfineartcom.
Um, I'm on instagram it's, Ithink, at rebeccaharrisonfineart
, as well, um, and as well asfacebook, and, and, if you're in
the Atlanta area, I'm atSouthernite Interiors in Canton,
at Gather and Bloom in downtownWoodstock, at Urban Fresh in
(59:23):
Alpharetta and then at Featherand Stone in Big Canoe.
So those are all my littletouches around.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
Yeah, that is awesome .
Okay, now is Rebecca spelledwith a K it is, it's
R-E-B-E-K-A-H, so All right.
That's great.
Thank you, it has beenabsolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (59:47):
Oh, yay, thank you so much has been really really fun
.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
So to my own song song.
Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
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Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
I got a stomp to my own drum, stomp to my own song
stomp, hey, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
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the beat of my big drum.
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Whatever you do, it ain'tnothing on me, cause I'm doing
my thing and I got the key toall my wants and all my dreams.
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Yeah, Cause I stomp to my own drum, stomp to my own
(01:02:09):
song.
We'll be you next time.
I'm walking all alone down my yellow brick road and I
stomp to the beat of my owndrum.
I got my pockets full of dreamsand they're busting at the
seams going boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome to Stacked Keys Podcast.
I'm your host, amy Stackhouse.
This is a podcast to featurewomen who are impressive in the
work world or in raising afamily, or who have hobbies that
make us all feel encouraged.
Want to hear what makes thesewomen passionate to get up in
the morning, or what maybe theywish they'd known a little bit
(00:42):
earlier in their lives.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Grab your keys and stomp to your own drum.
Whatever you do, it ain'tnothing on me, because I'm doing
my thing and I hold the key toall my wants and all my dreams
Like an old song everything willbe all right when I let myself
(01:20):
go.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Well, I am so excited today we have Rebecca Harrison
with us.
Cannot wait to get to know youa bit, rebecca, and to share you
with the audience, so welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Thank you so much for having me.
I'm really honored to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm excited.
I know a little bit about youand I know your heart a little
bit just from our conversationbefore we started, so let's come
right out of the gate, rebecca,how do people know you
professionally and personally?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, so I'm an artist, a fine artist.
I've always been creative, I'vebeen on a creative journey, but
in the last four years I'vereally dove into pursuing fine
arts and putting myself into theart community.
So, yeah, I'm known there.
(02:15):
I live in Atlanta or just northof Atlanta, georgia, so that's
kind of my stomping ground.
So that's kind of my stompingground and I love working with
local businesses to share mywork, my art and my story in the
(02:51):
community.
That way has, yeah, that's justkind of my footprint in the
world.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So I love it Now when you say pursuing fine arts.
That can take you in so manydifferent directions.
You could work in commercialvenues, you could do all kinds
of things.
Do you struggle with where youwant to put your art, where you
want to put your efforts?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Gosh yes, I do, and I can go down several rabbit
holes and think about all theopportunities, because there is
so many amazing opportunities tobe an artist Like you can be a
surface design artist and haveyour work on items.
(03:38):
You know, everything that youreally see in stores and
everywhere has art on it andsomebody's created that art.
So, yeah, so that's a, that's avenue and there's so many
different avenues.
But for me personally, where Iam in my stage of life, I feel
(04:00):
like I've landed on just.
I love being able to connectwith my collectors and buyers
and admirers and just on apersonal level, so I love being
able to meet people in person.
So I'll do, you know, in-personart shows and events like that
(04:22):
that I can shows and events likethat that I can, you know, just
meet with people in real life.
That's not always the case, butI love getting to connect with
people and hear how my art cancollide with their life, their
journey and their stories.
(04:42):
It really is just a ministry tome and to them.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
So kind of I almost said, paint me a picture, but
kind of take me down a littlebit of a pathway of like you
might be in a store and you'reactually live painting or you
might do some teaching, andthere's that's a big jump
(05:11):
between those two of doing kindof what you want to and then
taking somebody down a pathway.
What's your goal when you'restarting to try and take someone
down a pathway of art?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Gosh, that's a great question I was actually thinking
about that this morning ofteaching classes.
I don't feel like it's mystrength to actually teach the
class, but I love theopportunity to encourage someone
creatively.
(05:44):
Encourage someone creativelyand I do feel like we're all
creative and we have thiscreativeness in us some more
than others.
But I think there's somethingspecial that can happen when you
do something with your handsand you try something new.
So that's always my goal andand teaching and guiding people
(06:06):
through the creative process isjust allowing them to experiment
and explore and just see whatcomes of it.
It's it's fun, and it's fun tosee just how unique each, each
person is and each class is, youknow, yeah, so that's always
(06:29):
just been my goal in that.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Have you ever met somebody that you didn't expect
to meet, or that they turned outdifferently than you thought
when they walked in the door?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, I mean, probably all the time, you know,
I feel like as, as humans, wealways have a first thought or,
you know, just a preconceivednotion, I guess.
(07:05):
If you know, seeing someone forthe first time but being able
to chit, chat with somebody andget to hear them, and yeah, it's
always, it's always just reallyfun meeting somebody.
And I'm I'm very introverted,so it's funny when I do classes
and in-person stuff, it itdrains me and fuels me all at
(07:27):
the same time.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
What's your favorite thing to paint?
Do you have an item or asubject or something that just
draws you?
I mean, I've got to stop these.
I must talk that way all thetime because I'm not doing it
intentionally, but what pullsyou in?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, so I'm inspired mainly by just outside, so
nature.
I love painting landscapes andI love painting florals.
I love painting landscapes andI love painting florals.
Yeah, it's florals is somethingthat I feel like comes more
naturally to me, like it's justfun and loose.
(08:16):
I can have a lot of fun with it.
Landscapes is more of achallenge for me but it switches
up my creative brain so I'm notdoing the same thing over and
over and it kind of challengesme and pushes me and grows me
deeper as an artist to do twodifferent subjects.
(08:38):
Yeah, because I'll get boredwith doing the same thing.
I've got to switch it up.
Yeah, because I'll get boredwith doing the same thing.
I've got to switch it up.
But landscapes, definitely,yeah, they just challenge me
more because your florals can bevery whimsy and it doesn't have
(09:00):
to be exact, and sometimeslandscapes, you have to have a
little bit of perspective toportray what you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
You know paint, so yeah, is there a color that you
like better, that kind of pullsyou in more?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
um, I love greens.
I've always been a green girl.
Um, love greens, love blues.
Um, I'm I like more mutedcolors, like just softer.
My palette always tends to becolorful but soft at the same
(09:33):
time, so I feel like that's kindof a unique thing for me, just
personally.
So I don't have these vibrantcolors.
I can paint vibrant colors, butI tend to just stay this soft,
calm color palette is a commonthread through my paintings.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I think I saw something that you did that was
hydrangeous.
Yes, yeah, it had kind of thepurpley blue hue and then had
that dark green.
Yeah, you kind of get all ofyour likes in there.
That's right.
Are you a perfectionist?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
um, yes and no, I mean I can't be.
I feel like I can't be as anartist because it's not ever
going to be perfect, and when Iput that pressure on is when it
really sucks the joy out ofpainting for me.
(10:31):
Yeah, I love playing with colorand shadow and lights and darks
to, yeah, to paint a picturethere's another one of yours To
(10:54):
capture the subject withouthaving it to be realistic, if
that makes sense, so it's veryit to be realistic if that makes
sense, so it's veryimpressionistic a style instead
of realism.
When I start getting picky andgetting real fine details is
(11:18):
when I, yeah, it's no longer fun, I get frustrated and it
doesn't do what I want it to do,and so I usually just have to
take a break and then come back.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, that's a pretty good life skill of like, okay,
take a break and then come back.
Yeah, so have you?
Have you had?
You know I'm probably in thelast several months I struggle
with the word failure and peopleare talking about failure and
going oh, you know, failure isgood.
You embrace failure, you wantfailure and I'm like, no, I
(11:47):
don't, I'm there to fail and Imean there might be a lesson
coming out of it, but that's notmy goal.
So, as a business owner andartist, do you struggle with
failure in the sense of, well,that didn't work, I can go here.
Or do you have to just put itdown sometimes and let it fall
(12:13):
where it does?
How do you?
Is that something you strugglewith?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, yeah, I feel like my biggest learning
experiences have been infailures, which is usually the
case.
You know they they stick andsting the hardest.
But but it's after I getthrough the initial like oh,
that sucked really bad and thatwas not what I wanted or
(12:41):
expected.
You know, I always have achoice of okay, like let's
reevaluate, let's rethink andwas this worth my time, was this
not worth my time?
And how do I, how do I beststeward my time well and my
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learning experiences well aftersomething?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
doesn't go right.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
There's been lots of opportunities for that for me
and it's led me where I am today, like if I would have just kept
doing the same thing over andover, I would be stuck so being
able to say, okay, I'm going tojust get back up and try again,
and also just talking with otherpeople who are pursuing their
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passions and dreams.
And my husband's a greatresource for me.
Just, I can lean on him andtalk to him about all my
questions and, um, he can kindof guide me in that.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So yeah it's definitely failure, yeah well,
do you think there's adifference between dreams and
and wishes and wishes?
So, wishing something versusdreaming, versus doing.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah, I don't know, that's a great question.
The word wish, I feel like, isvery surfacy, um, whereas dream
(14:28):
is kind of, is deeper, it kindof comes within you.
So, um, we can wish things, butI feel like wishes are, uh, not
very lasting, they don't have alasting effect, but dreams are,
I don't know, they, they'redeeper, it's a deeper word for
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me.
So, yeah, I think there's adifference there.
I think dreams, I think dreamscan align with desires if we
allow them to like.
You know, just the desires ofour hearts can become our dreams
and they can align there.
So, yeah, on a deeper level forsure.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Have your dreams changed from the time you were
12 years old.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, you know what?
I never allowed myself thespace to dream.
I think I was a dreamer as akid, but I kind of stuffed it
(15:54):
per se and I feel like, for me,I gave myself permission to
dream about five years ago it'slike to just recognize that, oh,
wait a minute, that's a dream,that's a desire, that's a.
You know, I just gave it avoice and gave it permission to,
to exist, and then, as I, as Ipressed into, that dream is
where my business came from.
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Because, you know, here I am, Iwould have never, ever, in a
million years, thought that Iwould be an artist and selling
art around the world.
So, um, so, yeah, it's, it's,it's crazy, um, and I and I do
still struggle to dream or justname a dream.
(16:37):
You know, it feels scary for meto name a dream just like, ooh,
that's too big or that feels soout there, but it's really.
I think giving it a name andgiving it permission to just be
and exist and be recognized isreally powerful.
(17:11):
So five years ago was theresomething that was a moment,
something that happened orsomething that you, that that
opened up that door to dream.
Yeah, so five years ago wasCOVID.
So you know, a lot of stuffchanged during that time, um,
but there was a for mepersonally.
Well, I had two little kids atthe time, um, or still have two
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little kids, but they werelittle at the time and, um it, I
just I needed something to do.
That was just me, you know,that was apart from being a mom,
and so that's where I kind ofstepped into painting and
(17:54):
creating and painting things forother people.
I love giving gifts, I'm a giftgiver, um, so so that's kind of
how I started.
And then, um, along the dreaming, uh question, so in the summer
(18:14):
of 2020, I had a really hardfamily moment.
Um, just uh, um, yeah, it wasjust a hard family time and, um,
a big, big blow up, a big um,just a big marking point for me.
Just step back and then realizewhat God has given me and has
(18:54):
given me to steward, and me andmy husband and my two kids.
We're a family and a unit and Idon't know I was able to truly
just.
You know, the Bible says toleave and to cleave to your
husband, and I felt like in thatmoment I was able to
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indescribable freedom, to justbe able to do what God's created
me to do, you know.
So, and that was sharing my, myartwork and, um, being a mom and
a wife.
So, um, yeah, it was just, itwas.
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It was a really supernaturalmoment.
It was really hard moment, buta supernatural moment of just
launching me out and allowing meto to rediscover what that
little girl, you know, dreamedwhen she was little but didn't
really have, didn't give it avoice.
So I was able to just say youknow what, I'm going to give it
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a voice and try it.
And so, yeah, and little bylittle, it just kind of grew.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So it's an intentional moment.
I mean you had to make someintentional, pretty scary steps,
yeah yeah, and I know thecleaving to your husband and
kind of getting theencouragement there.
But I mean there's some momentsthat could stop you in your
tracks when somebody is walkingtowards you.
How do you handle that?
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You just power up.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I feel like it was just spirit led Like, um, uh,
I'm, I'm, I'm a big believer andum, I, just I felt like that.
It was just his, his lovingness, his kindness to set me on this
path, that that he had for meand to give me the, the strength
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and the, the vision and thedesire to to learn and grow.
And, um, you know, I, I wascreative, but I wasn't a great
painter, so I had to learn andgrow and but I, I was interested
(21:29):
in it and it it gave me I don'tknow, it just breathed life
into me.
I was happy when I did it and,um, you know, I was, I was very
thankful that I my husband was,you know, in a good job, so I
didn't have to like, have a jobor have to make money or
anything.
So it gave me this permissionin this space to just learn and
explore and press into whatmight be next.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Well, you know, it sounds like I mean you're a mom
of young kids and giving mompermission to to be not just mom
but be Rebecca.
Yeah, do you find sometimesthat your peers and then just
society as a whole, um, doesn'talways encourage that and so you
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kind of what you tell somebodywho's in that same position of
of that there can be mom guilt.
That can be so debilitating.
What would you say?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Um, I would say, I totally understand.
Um yeah, the mom, the mom guilt,um, is definitely there for
sure.
But in the same breath, I feellike it has allowed me to be a
(23:09):
better mom to them, because I'mnot totally overstimulated with
just mommy.
Everything, and it's been socool for them to come alongside
me and be creative and paintbeside me and create beside me
and to see mom going out andpursuing something that she
(23:34):
loves and enjoys, is notsacrificing them, but just, you
know, it's, it's kind of a partof everything.
So, um, yeah, I think it's veryimportant to just for them to,
to know that they're, they'reloved, but they're not the sole
(23:56):
purpose.
Like they're not you know whatI mean Like there's, there's
priorities and there's, you know, there's the world does not
revolve around them, so theydon't expect everything to just
be given to them on a silverplatter.
A different perspective of all,right, mommy, mommy works and
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mommy does what she loves andand still gets to play in love
with.
You know, be mom to us.
So.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Yeah Well, I mean, you're almost at their earlier
stages giving them permission.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Maybe you didn't have that and and and, so they get
to see that in the reality andit's.
For me, it's been a lot ofteamwork of like, hey, this is
how we all get to do, and thenI'm on for something that one of
my kids is involved in, or I'mon for the other one, or I need
(25:00):
them on for me, or I'm on forthe other one, or I need them on
for me.
And as my kids grew up, I meanI'd have a presentation or
something and they got reallygood at these different
presentations and PowerPoints toput together.
And so there became thisteamwork and it's kind of neat.
As they grow up, they've grownup with you doing something.
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Do you think that maybe ourdaily actions become who we
really are?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, absolutely.
You know what you, what you putin is what you get out, like
you know.
So, yeah, it's, it's a rhythm.
So, every, every day, we, everyday, we're training our bodies
and our minds and our hearts andwhatever we're doing.
So, yeah, I absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Can you tell when you need a break or you need to go
have an adventure?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yes, yeah, I do and yeah, that's been a challenge
for me is because it's having acreative job doesn't look like
it's not feeling these creativejuices flowing.
So it's it's, and it's not likea nine to five, you know.
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So it's it's hard to figure outa balance there of of capturing
when I'm feeling creative andknowing when I'm not, and giving
myself permission to just gooutside and walk around or go to
the park or go shopping or justdo something.
(26:51):
That's different, that kind ofrests my mind, whereas when I
wasn't doing this as a job, youknow I would.
That would be.
My free time is being creative.
So now it's like all right,what do I find?
What do I, what can I do in myfree time?
That's almost not creative in away.
(27:18):
So I've found that I lovegardening.
I love just being in the gardenplanting, playing in the dirt.
Um, and yeah, that's kind of my, my outside, just something,
something different, stillcreative.
But I have no control over it,it's just, I'm just digging in
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the dirt.
Well, that's kid friendly.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
But that is funny, I mean.
A lot of times if you dosomething that is your passion,
then it can become such adrudgery and you lose the love
for it.
Do you kind of put somesafeguards in there to make sure
you don't?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean I, I try and protect, protect my time as
much as I can.
Just, you know I have, I haveto be more disciplined.
I'm not a very disciplinedperson, so I have to just say,
okay, from you know, nine to two, 30, I'm just going to come to
my studio and you know, if I'mnot feeling creative then I can
(28:27):
do some computer work, or if I'm, you know, if I'm feeling super
creative, then I can just gocrazy.
Um, but yeah, holding thoseparameters of, okay, I can't
just work.
You know I work from home, so Ican't just be in my studio all
(28:47):
day, every day.
Um, cause that's not fair to myfamily.
But um, yeah, and then justbalancing a lot of times I work
on the weekends because you know, I'm at stores or in downtown's
painting or whatever.
So giving myself space on, youknow, monday and Tuesday instead
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of Saturday and Sunday, to justhave some rest and some
downtime.
So, yeah, it just looks a littledifferent than your nine to
five, monday through Friday.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So so do you guys go off as a family?
Do you travel?
Are you a adventuresome family?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, we love.
We love to travel together.
So that's kind of the moneythat I make in art is our travel
fund.
We love taking the kids andjust exploring and going places
and, you know, hopping on planesand going to different
countries and I think it's it'sjust really fun and it's
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something that we value as afamily.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
So, and the kids, you know, love it but yeah, that's
one way to get them to want youto go to work.
Come work, mommy I know.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I tell them I'm like, look, I've got to do this if we
want to go here.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
That's, that's hilarious.
So where's your favorite placethat you've been?
Speaker 3 (30:20):
So we go as a family, we go to a resort in Mexico and
Cancun and it's got, you know,it's an all inclusive and it's
very catered towards the kids.
So there's water slides and,you know, ice cream stands and
all kinds of things just allover and it's.
(30:42):
It's just a lot of fun to gowith them and and just not have
to think about anything.
You just go and enjoy life andhave fun and just get to see
them laugh and giggle and nothave to worry about anything.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
It's just kind of in this dream world for a week my
um, my son is living in Cancunand so yeah, so when he sends us
, it was so funny, he was doinga podcast with somebody and, um,
and they're like, oh, I loveyour virtual background.
And it's like, oh, I love yourvirtual background.
(31:26):
And it's like no that's reallythe leaves are like glowing but.
But yeah, I mean just that kindof escape and and um, you know
some, if it's that, I don't knowjust being able to create that
time where you have mental spaceand physical space.
So what do you think peoplemight mean when they say less is
(31:48):
more?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Gosh, that could mean a lot of different things,
probably to a lot of differentpeople, man, but I think for me,
less is more.
Um, yeah, just, it means moresimplicity, like, just when you
(32:17):
have all these different things,or whether you're trying to
manage different things or cleandifferent things or, you know,
take care of different things,whatever the subject is.
But yeah, it's just, it'salways easier to manage less and
you get more, more space toenjoy.
(32:42):
Enjoy the less that you have,like the less being.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Less can become more, because you've yeah, it just
yeah, it allows space to receivethem.
Yeah, I like that.
Well, being an artist is onething, but you also are running
a business.
So you have to have businesssystems in place and I don't
know about you, but I mean, Iwill throw my hands up in a
(33:12):
heartbeat and say I'm an Englishmajor, I'm sorry, accounting.
So you have all these thingsthat you have to take care of.
Have you figured out businesssystems and how to delegate, or
do you?
Or does that overwhelm you?
How do you, how do you functionas a business owner?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, I've learned a lot.
I've grown a lot.
For sure, my husband is abusiness major, so he has been a
great resource for me to justnow, he doesn't do things for me
.
That's one thing.
He's like I'll just give youlike you can do this, like I
(33:59):
believe you can do it.
So I've had to learn a lot, butI've had a great teacher, great
teachers, a lot of differentpeople who pour into me.
Um, but yeah, the business partI do not like.
I just want to paint and sharemy stuff.
Um, but yeah, it does come withaccounting and taxes and
website and listings and socialmedia and all the different
(34:23):
avenues to to manage and itreally it can get overwhelming
very quickly.
Um, but I also have.
I feel like I've just learned toto not give it so much power
and just to, I don't know, treatit.
(34:47):
Treat it like what it is.
I mean it's, it is a business,it's important, but it's not the
end.
All be all like it.
If I don't make an Instagrampost, it's going to be okay.
If I don't do everything withthe pretty little bow, it's
(35:09):
going to be okay.
Um and um, yeah, just notgiving it the power to steal my
joy of what I really do love todo, and that's to paint and
create and to share my work.
Um so, and sometimes it stilldoes.
(35:31):
It still does steal my joy, butI'm I'm learning that it's a
lot less pressure in realitythan it I put the pressure on
and it's really, it's going tobe okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well, I love that.
Give it the power.
I mean that kind of takes thecontrol back into your own hands
.
Control back into your ownhands is that something that
maybe you have been working andand that's how you started into
your business was taking yourpower and your control and not
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giving things the power theydon't deserve?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
yeah, for sure, it's been a big part of my story and
my healing process of just yeah,like you know, the world, the
enemy, is out to kill, steal anddestroy and wants to distort
things, and you know, and we sooften give it power that it
(36:39):
doesn't deserve, give it powerthat it doesn't deserve, Like,
um, so yeah, just saying okay,no, this is, this is who I am,
this is who God created me to be, and like this is, I'm just
being obedient and to what he'scalled me to do, so and that's
all I can do.
You know, like that's, that'sall he's asked me to do is just
(37:01):
to say yes and to show up andhe'll do the rest, and he does.
He's faithful every time.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
So, um, yeah, you're a self-talker.
Have you always been aself-talker?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Yeah, probably.
Well, I mean in my, in my lateryears, I guess, just yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Are you kind to yourself.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
For the most part, I've learned to be kind to
myself.
I've, you know, I've been incounseling for however long and
14 years and yeah, that's thefirst thing we kind of started
on is just being kind to myselfand um it, it truly is um
(37:51):
life-changing to just be kind toyourself and speak kindly,
forgive and um allow grace, ohyeah, and definitely allow grace
.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Oh yeah, and definitely allow grace.
When was the last time you hadto forgive yourself?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Oh, probably yesterday.
Good morning's fresh right,yeah.
Yeah, I mean that's a, that's a, yeah, that's an ongoing thing,
especially being a mom and awife and you know I'm not I'm
going to mess up a lot.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Really so, as a mom, do you feel that pressure?
Do you feel it from youryourself, your kids, school, I
mean, where do you feel that themost?
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Probably with myself.
Yeah for sure.
Yeah, just you know, there'salways this little underlying
voice of you need to do more.
You need to.
You know, I don't know not morenot more, but I don't know.
(39:09):
Just do things differently, orlove, love differently, or
connect differently, you knowjust.
However, whatever it is, um,but yeah, so I can kind of spin
in those, in those circles.
But, but yeah, I mean when I domess up, I I try and own it with
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my kids, just because we allmess up and they they're not
going to learn if I don't ownanything myself.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So I think it's good for them to see their mom say
oops, I messed up, I'm so sorry,please forgive me Well you know
, there's sometimes that whenyou mess up and they get a
little bit older and they bandtogether and they I mean I had
mine throw a coup on me one time.
No, I had this bright idea thatthey needed to be taking barley
(40:04):
green, I don't know.
It was some kind of thing goingon around and so I was like
we're going to do this, and soit was nasty, it was so awful.
And one day they all threelooked at each other and said
we're not doing it.
And I said, well, you're goingto sit here at the bar counter
(40:25):
until you do.
And they were like all right,they literally sat there for
hours and finally they looked atme.
I looked at them, I said you'renot going to do it, are you?
And they were like not going todo it.
And then it was that moment ofhow ridiculous is this?
This is so ridiculous.
(40:46):
And it was.
And so I just I said okay,y'all win, y'all win, talk about
it now.
And I mean they're in theirthirties, they talk about that.
And my son ended up with a heartissue and we were in cardiac
rehab and, um, he was 13 and inwalks the lady who sold us that
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and he turned to me.
He said I told you he'd killyou.
She had had a massive heartattack.
Oh no, you know.
So sometimes your kids can dothat and it just puts this
reality on you of like, yeah, Iwas out there.
I'm sorry, they get a greatjoke out of it for years.
(41:31):
But you know as a mom, a lot ofthat stuff just happens and
you're doing the best you can doand yet sometimes we expect so
much more from ourselves.
I mean, I've had to grace mymom of like she was doing the
best she knew how, and so I kindof just hope that my kids end
(41:54):
up with that.
Of like, hey, she was doing thebest she could and sometimes
she missed the mark, like withthe barley green could and
sometimes she missed the mark,like with the barley green.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, that is, that is.
That is true, and that's all wecan do.
You know, like same with my momand same with me, like I'm just
doing the best I can and I'mgoing to mess up.
There's going to be wounds andhurts that we're going to have
to walk through, but I hope thatI cultivate, uh, just a
relationship that we can talk,talk about it, and that they can
.
They always feel, they can comeand say, hey, this was uncool,
(42:35):
or I felt this way, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Um, so, you talked about.
You've been in counseling forever and and I can relate to
that I'm really glad that wehave now kind of moved into a
part of our society of like,having a counselor, having
therapy, is not as weird orfrowned upon, but I mean it also
(43:05):
, um, puts you in a vulnerablestate.
So how do you communicate that,maybe, to your friends or to
others of like, hey, there'snothing means that this is wrong
or that a marriage is over, orthat you're, you know, at the
end of your complete rope.
Do you communicate that to yourpeers?
Speaker 3 (43:30):
Yeah to your peers.
Yeah, counseling has.
Well, when I first got married,it was, you know, I didn't grow
up in a family where it waslike, oh yeah, counseling it was
, it had this stigma with it andit was this weird icky thing.
(43:58):
But when I got married andstarted going to counseling, it
just it was a big part of ourmarriage, like just as a couple,
like that's what, that's whatwe did.
We went and it was importantand it was important to us.
And it took a while for me toget on board, like it was very
uncomfortable and but it, yeah,like it's just part of our life.
(44:19):
So our family and friends knowthat and my husband is actually
a counselor now.
So we, yeah, it's just part ofour everyday and I have
(44:58):
personally experienced just thepower of being able to talk and
to get things out and just tohave somebody listen and to have
somebody speak back into thosespaces that needed spoken to.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
You know, like it needed God's word to just shine
right on that spot and for me togrow and, yeah, to become more
like Christ.
So, to become more like Christ,so yeah, well, that's
interesting.
(45:29):
I mean, it's so often one of thereasons I like counseling is
because I don't want to dump onmy friends all the time, or my
kids, you know.
I mean have to consciously likedon't, don't overload this kid
with this.
Yeah, you know that.
And it's like because they will, they're, they're my, they're
some of my best friends and soto hear they, they want to hear
my heart, they want to hear myday.
But if I can pay somebody toget that part and maybe help me
(45:55):
practice the better outpourings,it's just been helpful and
useful and I think I reallybelieve I mean, I'm an older mom
, but I really believe thatyoung moms truly need it because
it can be such an alienatingworld.
Speaker 3 (46:14):
Oh yeah, for sure, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know we're talking about our daily habits
and things that we're pouringinto our kids and what we're
trying to be.
If you had a habit that youwanted to change, do you know
right off what it would be?
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Oh, probably scrolling Instagram or just you
know, just scrolling around.
I mean I'm watching likegardening videos or whatever,
but I can just you know themindlessness of just watching
pretty flowers grow and so manyplant this planter and but yeah,
(47:00):
I mean it's, that's probablythe habit that I would need to
just kind of pull back on.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, cause it can suck the time, can't it?
Speaker 3 (47:12):
really can.
Yeah, all of a sudden it's like, oh shoot, I've just wasted so
much time on this stupid cellphone.
Yeah, but yeah, that woulddefinitely be it.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Yeah Well, you know, at the same time, being a mom of
of youngsters, you have to kindof figure out that whole world.
I didn't have to figure outthat world really.
What's that like for you?
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Yeah, you mean the technology world.
Yeah, that is an ever evolvingthing.
I still haven't figured thatout completely and yeah, it's
really hard because so much, somuch is out there and I
understand, like you know howit's fun playing a game or or
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you know doing a video game orwhatever.
But learning how to putboundaries on that and
safeguards around differentthings is, yeah, it can be a
full-time job just managing that.
So we try and limit the screentime as much as we can.
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But you know it's hard, it'sreally hard, it's a, it's a hard
battle every day.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah, I can't imagine , because you've got the peer
pressure.
I was with somebody let's seehow old is she she's a tween,
yeah and and they had given hera type of phone or I guess they
had given her an iPod and it hadthe same capabilities as an
(48:56):
iPhone, but it didn't look thesame.
And so the peers made fun ofyou know.
Yeah, look at what you've got.
And so not only are you havingto deal with what your
principles are and I know wealways had peer pressure, but
wait, this is in your face.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
It's very in your face.
Yeah, we're definitelyexperiencing that.
My daughter's nine, so we'regetting up into you know, well,
so-and-so did this and she hasthis and this and that, and it's
like, well, you know, we'rethat's.
She doesn't, she's not part ofour family, like, we just have
(49:35):
different family rules andvalues.
And, yeah, it's really trickywith without undermining the
friend or her family, you know.
So not that they're doinganything wrong, it's just we're
not, we're just doing a littledifferent.
It's really well, it's a yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Yeah, we could kind of pull off from some things and
you know, you didn't reallynotice or because it just wasn't
so prevalent.
But I can surely remember mymom saying, well, I'm not her
mother now, am I.
You know, I wanted to go toride my bike after you know dark
or whatever.
But yeah, I guess it's an ageold problem.
(50:21):
Yeah, and it just changessubject.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
Yeah, it does.
And I keep telling myself, likeyou can get, you can really get
overwhelmed with just how muchis out there and just just
everything.
Um, and I keep telling myself,like you know, the Lord knew
(50:44):
that my kids were going to growup in this time, like this is no
surprise, like these all thesedifferent distractions and
things that are coming at ourkids is is he's prepared them
for it and he, you know, given,given us the tools to navigate
it.
So I'm just, I just continue totrust him with my kids and and
(51:10):
with me and my family.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
So, yeah, well, the opportunities you have, rebecca,
are.
You know, you've got all thiscreativity and you know a lot of
kids don't have any of that inin their face and and yeah,
having those options, not manymoms and because we are an audio
show, I'm going to have to saynot many moms have pink paint on
(51:33):
their arm, you know and so allof a sudden they get a treasure
that somebody else doesn't evenhave, because, oh, my goodness,
you're going to make a mess.
So, yeah, and that's, that's a,that's a treasure.
Tell me what?
(51:54):
your perfect day looks like.
Speaker 3 (51:57):
Oh, I think my perfect day would be waking up.
Um, like sleeping in and thenwaking up and the coffee's
already made.
So drink a cup of coffee on myporch.
Um, yeah, maybe paint in thegarden outside on a pretty day,
(52:25):
just walk around, wander around.
I love to just walk around, bein my own head, yeah, and then
in the evening, curling up onthe couch with my kids and my
husband and watching a movie,eating popcorn.
I love that.
It does something to me.
I just love it so much.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's awesome.
If you could shout aboutsomething really loud.
This is your platform.
What would?
What would you communicatewhether it be to the artist or
to moms or to couples what?
What would you shout reallyloudly about?
Speaker 3 (53:10):
hmm, what would you shout really loudly about?
Hmm, yeah, I would probablyshout the loudest about just
being yourself, like being you,not who the internet tells you
(53:34):
to be.
Um, especially in my world,like as as an artist, um,
getting to to know the artcommunity and seeing artists
express themselves in so manydifferent ways and, um, it
(53:57):
doesn't look like the aPinterest board, you know, like
it just it's unique and just tofill your world with things that
make you happy and that arefunky and fun and that that are.
(54:19):
That's you.
That's just completely uniquelyyou.
And it's okay if not everybodylikes the same thing.
Yeah, not everybody likes thesame thing.
Yeah, just to Just permissionto be yourself and to like the
things that you like and to dothe things that you do, and yeah
(54:40):
, that's probably Pretty goodplatform.
Speaker 2 (54:44):
Yeah, very good platform.
So, do you have you had amentor?
Did you look for mentors andhave you, in turn, been a mentor
.
Speaker 3 (55:06):
Yeah, I've prayed for mentors and God's given me
mentors along my journey.
I remember one of my firstprayers after I got saved was I
just want girl friends, I justwant friends that are girls, and
I've always been, you know,I've always been friends with
boys cause they're drama, youknow, they don't have the drama
or whatever.
Um, but when, um, when I gotsaved, that was one of my first
(55:30):
prayers is I just want friendsthat are girls.
And literally the next day, hebrought three amazing women who
just poured into me.
And then, yeah, it's just beenthat way throughout my life and
my journey of just, ok, god, youknow, you know that desire is
(55:53):
there, so I just trust thatyou'll bring somebody and he
does so, and I've I've had very,some very deep friendships that
have come from that Um, so,yeah, and then, yeah, and then
I've um, had the opportunity to,you know, in turn, pour into
(56:14):
some younger girls and, justalong the way, and some kids,
some of my friends' kids, I meanmy kids' friends.
And, yeah, just, I try and beobedient to the opportunities
that arise, but yeah, I'm notlike pursuing it, I'm just I'm
(56:39):
just asking so and beingattentive to what might come my
way.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
Well, you said earlier asking and available
being available.
So when that opportunity comes,yeah there yeah, for sure
that's awesome.
We've talked about a lot ofdifferent things.
Is there anything that wehaven't touched on that you want
to make sure you say?
Speaker 3 (57:10):
haven't touched on that you want to make sure you
say yeah, I think if you'remarried, if you have kids or
whatever, just remember thatthat's a gift from God and yeah,
he's brought it together for areason.
So there's sometimes it's goingto be really hard and it
(57:33):
doesn't feel like it, but Ibelieve he has and yeah, don't
give up.
Speaker 2 (57:44):
That's.
That's a good one.
That's encouraging.
So if you had a superpower, useit any way you wanted to to,
and you had it 24 hours.
You can use it personally orprofessionally.
What superpower would youchoose?
How would you use it and whywould you choose it?
Speaker 3 (58:05):
I don't know there would be a lot of different
things, but like that it wouldjust suck all the clutter out of
my house, like go through allthe little overwhelming spaces
in my home would clear, clearout, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:28):
I want that an overwhelming sucker yeah, that's
funny.
That's funny.
I never thought about that as asuperpower, but yeah, and yeah,
you could market that yeah,that would sell it would um
(58:51):
rebecca.
How do people get in touch withyou?
Follow you see your work yeah,um.
Speaker 3 (58:58):
So I have a website.
It's rebeccaharrisonfineartcom.
Um, I'm on instagram it's, Ithink, at rebeccaharrisonfineart
, as well, um, and as well asfacebook, and, and, if you're in
the Atlanta area, I'm atSouthernite Interiors in Canton,
at Gather and Bloom in downtownWoodstock, at Urban Fresh in
(59:23):
Alpharetta and then at Featherand Stone in Big Canoe.
So those are all my littletouches around.
Speaker 2 (59:32):
Yeah, that is awesome .
Okay, now is Rebecca spelledwith a K it is, it's
R-E-B-E-K-A-H, so All right.
That's great.
Thank you, it has beenabsolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (59:47):
Oh, yay, thank you so much has been really really fun
.
Speaker 1 (59:51):
So to my own song song.
Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
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I got a stomp to my own drumstomp to my own song stomp.
Hey, gonna put all my boots inthe room.
Speaker 4 (01:01:18):
I got a stomp to my own drum, stomp to my own song
stomp, hey, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Gonna sing it out loud and say it real proud.
I'm going to sing it out loudand say it real proud.
Nobody's going to step on mycloud, cause I stomp, stomp to
the beat of my big drum.
I got a big drum.
Whatever you do, it ain'tnothing on me, cause I'm doing
my thing and I got the key toall my wants and all my dreams.
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Yeah, Cause I stomp to my own drum, stomp to my own
(01:02:09):
song.
We'll be you next time.
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