Nicole on Ancestor's Guidance

THE HEY GIRL PODCAST

Alex Elle

Arts, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Alex sits down with upholsterer and photographer, Nicole Crowder, to discuss meditation, guidance from our ancestors, intentional design, and recentering as self-care. Shop her collection here. Connect w/ Nicole here. ———— hey, girl. is mixed & produced by Wayne Bertram. Connect with Alex on Instagram: @alex_elle @theheygirlpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Alex L and I write books for a living.
0:04.0	The Hey Girl Podcast was created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind.
0:09.0	Hey girl.
0:10.0	Hey girl.
0:11.0	Hey girl.
0:12.0	Hey girl. Hey girl.
0:16.0	Join us as we journey through sharing together.
0:21.0	Hey girl. Hey girl.
0:22.0	Hi Nicole, how are you today? I am well, how are you? I'm doing well today. I'm really actually enjoying this rain that we've been having all day here in the D.C. area. Yes. Yes, I'm doing good. I'm so honored to be
0:36.5	chatting with you. So of course I want to just dive right in but before we do that
0:40.2	can you please let the Hey Girl listeners know who you are and what you do?
0:44.9	My name is Nicole Crowder and I am a furniture designer and a poster. Oh my goodness so I
0:50.7	fell in love. I found you on Instagram randomly and I fell in love I found you on Instagram randomly and I fell in love with the meditation pillows.
0:56.6	Oh my friend Erica shared you it wasn't random my friend Erica shared you and I was like these I need these
1:17.0	I love Erica like he's a beautiful photographer and I'm just I'm so glad that you came across my work because yeah these pillows they have been taken up my living room space but in a great way it's like having a bunch of I don't know colorful gigantic macaroons lying around they're everywhere oh my goodness that's a
1:21.4	great way to describe them so tell me a little more about how you got into your profession as a furniture designer and upholsterer and when these meditation pillows made their way into your work?
1:33.6	Yeah, I have been doing upholstery for full time
1:36.9	about three and a half years now.
1:38.4	But my previous career, I was a photo editor.
1:41.4	And so I was doing that work for about 10 years and just during that time I love what I was doing but I was becoming a little burned out with it just wanting a change of lifestyle
1:50.0	a different working way I don't like repetition too much. At the time I was shooting
1:54.8	sort of like on the side with department therapy doing people's homes and a woman
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