Sometimes You Get Asked to Be on Someone Else’s Podcast!

I spend a fair amount of time sitting behind a microphone.

For years, I’ve been having conversations with artists on my own podcast, Show Up or Shut Up. I get to ask the questions. I get to be curious. I get to hear the stories behind the art and learn about the winding, weird, wonderful paths people take to becoming the artists they are.

But every once in a while, somebody turns the tables and asks me to be the guest.

And recently, that somebody was Lori Siebert and Jamie Jamison, hosts of the podcast Rebloom.

Of course I said yes.

I mean… Lori Siebert is one of my creative superheroes!

I have admired Lori and her work for a very long time. She has that rare combination of enormous creativity, curiosity, generosity, and a willingness to keep exploring and reinventing. She’s also been part of the Fodder School world, which makes getting to sit down and simply TALK with her even more fun.

And then there was Jamie!

One of the really lovely surprises of the conversation was getting to know Jamie Jamison better. We had never really had the chance to talk like this before, and somewhere along the way I discovered that Jamie lives not all that far from me!

How did I not know this?!

There is something so funny about the internet. You can exist in overlapping creative circles for years. And then you sit down for an actual conversation and discover all of these little connections that were there all along.

That’s one of my favorite things about podcasts.

They give us time.

Not 15 seconds. Not a Reel. Not a perfectly composed photograph with a caption underneath it.

An actual conversation.

And this one was FUN.

We talked about creativity, art, building a creative life, and all of the strange twists and turns that have brought me to where I am today. And because it was Lori and Jamie, it didn't feel like an interview so much as three creative people sitting around talking about the stuff we could probably talk about all day anyway.

Those are my favorite kinds of conversations—the ones where you forget there is a microphone recording the whole thing.

There was also something unexpectedly lovely about being on the other side of the interview. After spending so many years asking other artists about their stories, it is interesting to have someone else ask me about mine.

Sometimes you don't realize how much has happened until somebody asks you to tell the story.

And apparently, I have a LOT to say.

So thank you, Lori and Jamie, for inviting me to Rebloom, for the wonderful conversation, and for giving me the chance to get to know both of you a little better.

And Lori, just so we're clear: when one of your creative superheroes asks you to be on her podcast, YOU SAY YES.

Every single time.