Welcome to Collier Girlfriend. A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussaud. And I'm Anne Friedman.

Every other week we'll be bringing you a special phone or friend episode between either Anne

or me and one of our rad pals. Amina, this week I talked to a rad San Francisco lady,

illustrator, woman about town. I always say that. These are always women about town.

All of our ladies are women about town. Wendy McNaughton. Yes, she's the best.

Who does some of the coolest collaborations of many people that I know. I feel like a lot of her

work is done with journalists and writers. And recently she and her partner Caroline collaborated

on a book called Gotzy Girl, which is sort of a like, I don't know, guide to being rad for baby

girls out there. She's illustrated a scratch and sniff book about whiskey. She's worked on a

couple of projects about tattoos. She did a very, I don't know, I guess you would call it

visual journalism, a book of drawings and reports and kind of like, Eve's dropped over her

snippets from San Francisco that is super, super good too. So she's all over the place.

She's so cool. I was recently at a hotel in Tahoe and loved the illustrations and learned

the whole to turn out to be her. Recently again, I was at a gala and all of the wine labels were

done by her. So you know, like, her vibe is very strong and like beautiful. I'm excited to hear

this. Yeah, she's also someone who came to this profession as essentially a professional

visual artist pretty late in life. She kind of had a whole other career. And so I always love

talking to women who are finding really great creative fulfillment and success in kind of a second

act or like later act. So anyway, here's Wendy.

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Wendy, thank you so much for being on the podcast. I'm so excited to be here, Anne.

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