Janine Kwoh | Saying Yes to the Call to Create
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ever look at someone who has made an astonishing change in career, leaving behind what seemed like a dream career, from the outside looking in, to start something new that makes them so alive and think, “wow, I’d love to do that, too?” Well, you’re not alone. And this week’s guest, Janine Kwoh, shares how and why she left behind the world of private equity and venture philanthropy to follow her heart into the world of art, creativity, and tapping a very old, very physical printing technology to share images and words that give feeling and emotion to the experiences that are often so hard to share.
Janine is now the owner, artist, and entrepreneur behind Kwohtations, a creative studio that offers cards, prints and an array of gifts that reflect and celebrate a diversity of identities and life experiences, as a way to reflect on and honor the lives we actually lead, versus the ones we think we should. Topics range from navigating love and loss, (re)defining family and success, and figuring out what it means to show up honestly and openly in life. In fact, it was the loss of her partner in life at the age of 28 that both dropped her into the experience of grief and also awakened her to a sense of imperative to do what made her truly come alive. What began as a side passion led to sharing her work and eventually grew into her full-time devotion. And, Janine’s lens on grief, in particular, and the way she shares it through her art, led to a deeply meaningful body-of-work that’s seeded her new book, Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone, which she offers not as a how-to manual, but more of an offering to let you know, you’re not alone.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know, I just didn't think it was possible. I kind of dismissed it as like, |
| 0:03.3 | oh, wouldn't it be great if I could just make art for a living? A lot of my friends bought my cards, |
| 0:08.3 | but I remember the first time someone I didn't know bought a card and I was like, |
| 0:14.2 | maybe someone who doesn't love me already would want to buy my art. |
| 0:21.8 | So, I've ever looked at someone who's made an astonishing changing career, leaving behind what |
| 0:26.9 | seemed like a dream career from the outside looking in at least, to start something new that makes |
| 0:31.5 | them so alive. I think, wow, I would love to do that too. Well, you're not alone, and this week's |
| 0:36.9 | guest, Janine Quo, shares Halenwey, she left behind the world of private equity and venture |
| 0:42.8 | philanthropy to follow her heart into the world of art and creativity, tapping a very old, very |
| 0:48.5 | physical printing technology to share images and words that give feeling and emotion to the experiences |
| 0:55.4 | that we all have but are often so hard to share and often doing it with a sense of humor. |
| 1:00.7 | So, Janine is now the owner and artist and entrepreneur behind quotations. A creative studio that |
| 1:06.6 | offers cards and prints and an array of gifts that reflect and celebrate a diversity of identities |
| 1:12.0 | and life experiences. As a way to really reflect on and honor the lives we actually lead versus the ones |
| 1:18.2 | we think we should. Topics range from navigating love and laws, redefining family and success, |
| 1:24.2 | and figuring out what it means to show up honestly and openly in life. In fact, it was the loss of |
| 1:29.6 | her partner in life at the age of 28 that both dropped her into the experience of grief and also |
| 1:35.8 | awakened her to this sense of impermanence and imperative to do what made her truly come alive. |
| 1:42.8 | And what began as a side passion, it led to sharing her work and eventually grew into her full time |
| 1:49.0 | devotion and Janine's lens on grief in particular. And the way that she shares it through her art |
| 1:54.0 | it led to a deeply meaningful body of work that has seated her new book Welcome to the Grief Club |
| 1:59.6 | which she offers not as a how-to manual but more than offering to let you know you're not alone. |
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