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INSIDE | OUTSIDE with Jessica Murnane

Episode 44: Clip Art, Freelancing, And The Tricky Art Of Instagram With Paul Octavious

INSIDE | OUTSIDE with Jessica Murnane

Jessica Murnane

Inspiration, Home & Garden, Leisure, Motivation, Society & Culture, Jessicamurnane, Career, Business, Jobs, Design

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

I sat down (literally, sat on the ground) with Paul Octavious for this week’s podcast. He hosted my farewell-to-Chicago For Reals Meals (coming later this week!), and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to interview one of my most favorite photographers and creatives out there. 

Paul and I discuss how leaving school to care for his grandfather ignited his passion for photography, how getting fired from his first job didn’t turn out so bad, the incredible physical transformation he’s made over the last year, why he’s got a love/hate relationship with Instagram, and his advice on creating authentic work. 

Here’s Paul: 

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Paul’s Instagram + Website + Flickr
Threadless
Socality Barbie
Paul Octavious…Octopus Style
Paul’s Recipe picks: Massaged Kale Salad, Lemon Lime Guacamole + Avocado Salad
The Golden Fig (winner of last week’s The Year Of Cozy Giveaway)
 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's the one part podcast, episode 44.

0:28.6

Hey, it's Jessica Mernan. It's the one part podcast. And I'm bringing you lessons in next level inspiration. As you can hear, it's still raining. And yeah, I could probably do these

0:36.3

inside, but I kind of like the sound of the rain a couple

0:39.8

people have sent me emails saying that it's soothing and relaxing so we're just going with it and

0:45.3

this week's episode with our guest paul octavius we did it face to face so i rarely do them face to face. Usually most people I interview

0:57.6

don't live near me. So I do them over Skype. But he was hosting a for real's meals.

1:04.5

And if you don't know what a for real's meals is, head over Jessica menon.com. And there's a

1:08.1

whole link about it. He was hosting up Real's Meals,

1:11.3

and before the meal, I just thought, what if we could just record a podcast before?

1:16.6

I didn't really know much about Paul outside of his website and Instagram and his creative work,

1:23.2

and I really wanted to get to know him a little bit better. So we had a little interview in one of the coolest living rooms I've ever seen in my life.

1:30.9

It was round.

1:32.7

If you head over to Instagram, I posted a shot of us doing the interview.

1:37.2

You can just see how kind of dark and muty and beautiful his spaces.

1:41.4

And you hear a lot of birds chirping, the blowing so this is just a you know a full on

1:48.0

nature episode a little rain here little birds little wind on the interview i just want to get to

1:56.3

paul he is wow do you hear that? Do you hear the thunder?

2:15.0

He is an incredible photographer, just creative man in general, just really comes up with some of the most unique and beautiful ideas I've seen in a really long time. So I was interested to see what his whole deal was.

2:19.1

And he shared a lot.

2:20.5

And I'm really excited for you to hear this episode.

2:22.7

One quick note, this week, no Freaked My Week podcast.

2:27.8

I am hopefully, oh my God, do you hear the thunder?

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