Shantell Martin on finding your creative outlet

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode artist and designer Shantell Martin takes us on a career journey. Shantell reminds us why we shouldn’t limit ourselves or careers to one word or box. Instead, we should express ourselves fully and unapologetically.

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0:00.0	The LinkedIn Podcast Network is brought to you by the Progress Report,
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0:08.0	Listen to the Progress Report wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.9	LinkedIn News
0:17.3	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:21.6	Today, I'm talking with the British visual artist Shantelle Martin.
0:25.5	I first became obsessed with her bold black and white line drawings
0:29.4	in the spring of 2020 during lockdown.
0:32.4	It was staying with my in-laws then weeks into the quietest days of the quarantine.
0:37.2	Everything inside me and around me felt dormant.
0:41.6	That's when I caught Shantelle's TED Talk.
0:43.7	What if I told you that you could find a way from your heart to your hand to reconnect again?
0:52.3	Shantelle made a case for how drawing can set you free.
0:55.4	And me, I don't draw.
0:57.4	But this talk, it lit me up.
0:59.8	It made me want to make things.
1:01.4	To be an artist is to live in a constant process of reinvention.
1:05.8	It's risky.
1:06.9	Just when you've mastered one format or captured an idea, you move to another.
1:11.2	You have to trust yourself.
1:12.4	To exercise your creativity, like it's a muscle without worry that it will fail you.
1:17.6	The spring, for example, Shantelle will choreograph the ballet.
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