Calligrapher Lauren Essl: Sometimes Changing Everything Is The Only Answer

Lauren Essl has had an incredible calligraphy and custom wedding invitation design career; she even calls several lettering phenoms/artists former students. Last year, she picked up her life and moved to Seattle with her husband and dogs to follow their dreams of exploring a new city. Over the past year, she’s experienced some life highs and lows and is currently pondering a pivot from entrepreneur to employee as her business has hit some bumps in the road while away from her client base and comforts of home. This candid podcast is a wonderful story of success, perseverance, reflection and rebirth. Don’t miss Lauren’s inspiring story that reveals the real side of a self-employed creative person looking for what’s next.

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Step inside the world of Flea Style — a hub for handmade, vintage and one-of-a-kind lifestyle goods from hundreds of makers and shakers — and join founder Brittany Cobb as she interviews established and budding business owners, operators and influencers about their creative companies. On each episode, Brittany and her guests kick back with a coffee or cocktail and dig into start up stories, business pitfalls, regrets, lessons learned, advice they want to share and plenty of funny stories along the way. Get ready to laugh out loud and take lots of notes!