Deep Dive with George Sweetland on Making

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Meet George Sweetland, a first-grade teacher from Connecticut who turned his love of drawing monsters and late-night sketching sessions into a dream career as a children's book illustrator. In this episode of our Makers series, George shares how an Instagram post changed everything, why he keeps bins of "failed" sketches, and what happened when he tried to make pickle juice risotto for his family. We dive into the magic of getting lost in creative work, how to handle feedback without losing your voice, and why encouraging kids to build their own imaginative worlds is more important than ever. George brought Kelly and her daughter Claire's new book Marianne the Maker to life with his beautiful illustrations and his story is a reminder that the future truly belongs to those brave enough to create. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.7	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:04.8	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and we're back with a new four-part series on making and makers.
1:12.4	Our first guest in this second round is George Sweetland.
1:17.0	He is a first grade teacher in Connecticut and also a very talented children's book
1:22.3	illustrator who brought the children's book, Marianne The Maker, to life.
1:28.1	Marianne The Maker is my second children's book.
1:30.3	I wrote it with my daughter, Claire Corrigan Liktie,
1:33.2	and I must say working with Claire and George
1:36.1	has been the creative collaboration of my dreams.
1:40.2	This episode in our Maker's series is pure joy.
1:44.1	George shares stories about his creative evolution from the magical first grade moment when his dinosaur artwork was displayed at a real gallery to getting a life-changing email from his illustration agent after posting one of his pictures on Instagram and tagging her.
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