Just keep sharing up and if you're doing the work that resonates with yourself and makes yourself proud, that's enough

Welcome to the Lavender at Lifestyle the podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design

My name is Eileen and I'm here to guide you to shine as your brightest self and create your dream life

We all have a light within and the power to create a life we love

Every Sunday we'll share thoughtful conversations exploring how we can build a better future for ourselves and our world

Life is an art. Make it your masterpiece

Hello my loves welcome back to the Lavender lifestyle podcast. It's Eileen

Today's episode is one for the creatives. We talk about building a career as an artist

Creating art with meaning and a message and tips for the artist's journey. So our guest today is Natalie Bern

Natalie is a Latina illustrator and author based in London whose main purpose is to educate on mental health relationships and social issues through her colorful art style

She has a book called periods which educates people of all ages and genders about everything they need to know about female

menstruation and has also worked with brands such as Adobe, Logitech, Vance and Nike when Natalie is not

illustrating she runs the going places podcast where she invites friends and guests to talk about their creativity process and journey

Hi, Natalie welcome to the podcast. How are you feeling today? I'm good. Thanks. Thanks so much for having me all and I feel so

On it to be here

Such a big fan of yours and you've inspired me so much

Thank you so much. I'm so excited to get into today

So before we go deep into the interview tell us about your background and how you became an illustrator

Well, I think from very small I always drew a lot and I think somewhere along the way

Well, I'm not going to be vague and I know exactly what happened

I know that from many many creative people and many people they get

some sort of feedback when they're younger or you know time to grow up

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