The Apprenticeship Diaries

The Apprenticeship Diaries

A Podcast about beginnings: How the tattoo artists (and professionals) we revere, got their start; What it took, what it takes, and the stories that are made!

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July 15, 2025 51 mins

Just a personal entry this week. I expand on how my physical life has been lately (as well as mental and spiritual, life.). It's been a trial, but overall, an immense blessing; A blessing I attempt to communicate.

Thank you for listening and any care that you give to myself, personally. You are a blessing and I pray you continue to be blessed. May we all "hop" together, into bigger and better, futures. 

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This is the last bit with my good friend Kelly J Mendenhall... For now. As she said, "I didn't come this far to only go this far"... or something to that effect. There's so much more ahead! This is what we all have to remind ourselves as we navigate the crap of life... Don't give up before you get to the good parts.

Kelly... Thank you. You are truly a Godsend. I love you and I'm so thrilled to finally have you on the show. We need...

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This week, we share more of the relationship that Kelly J Mendenhall and I (your host) have. How we manage to love each other despite differing in political views. Overall, as long as we are "Team Human" (another amazing title for this episode :P), we can work together and maintain the love.

Kelly is the friend you never knew you needed. Definitely follow her and join the mailing list on her website (click here). To join the Chron...

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This week is our introduction to Kelly J Mendenhall; Artist, Disabled, Author, Advocate, Speaker and much more.

Your host has had her own pain in recent years and it was so nice to turn lemons into lemonade with someone who knows acutely what chronic pain is about. What's more, she knows how to find the humor still.

Kelly is the friend you never knew you needed. Definitely follow her and join the mailing list on her website (click...

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Your Host missed another week. Last week, I had wanted to fill you all in, but circumstances being what they were, has led to a Diary Entry, a week later, explaining a bit of what "had happened".

Love you Listeners and super grateful for your time. God bless you always!

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If it's between listening to this podcast or taking a moment to reflect, collect and heal... Choose the latter. I've been forced to take a moment.

Hopefully this will communicate gratitude, humility and merit, of the past few weeks. As always, praise God! Lot's of things... All good to some degree. Whether good or bad, it's all a gift.

Love you Listeners and super grateful for your time. God bless you!

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This is a personal Entry. It's a bit of a ramble so be forewarned. I just wanted to share some updates and give glory to God. It's pretty positive, overall, so my hopes are that you will feel uplifted while listening. If not, just turn it off and listen to better people than me. :)

Love you Listeners and super grateful for your time. God bless you!

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It was a common theme, throughout this entire time between Swasthik Iyengar and me, that it's very hard to keep things simple. Simplicity often gets misappropriated with ease or easy, but this couldn't be further from the truth 

Hat's off to Swazzy however, for she's managed the task of changing continents, within her journey, thus far. In many ways, life could have been simpler, but then agein, this wouldn't have yielded such a b...

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We are back with our 2nd piece of this 3 part, Diary Entry with Swasthik Iyengar, of Good Luck NYC. She's a fantastic artist who's gearing up for her first gallery showing in LA at the Devout Gallery. It's June 21nd.

Despite being in a major flow-state, painting, making, meditating... Swazzi gave quite a bit of time to this show by sharing how she combines her practice in tattooing with her faith.

This is the continuation of a fan...

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Wow... What an amazing time meeting this awesome person, talent, and tattoo artist! This is the first part of our time with Swasthik Iyengar of Good Luck Tattoo in NYC. She's here, sharing her culture and at the same time, loving our culture here in the states. Our recording marked her 1st year anniversary. Welcome Swazzi!

She's lived in multiple countries and really is a rich human in terms of experience (and all the other ways th...

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I think my mic might be going... That's one more prayer I need answer to... Why my audio has this terrible sound in the background? Is it the mic or the cord? Guess I'll get a new cord and see... Please God... Let it be the cord! 

This week is just a call for prayer. Your host is stressed and needing some spiritual cheerleading. 

Thank you Listeners... God bless us all as we traverse this crazy, non-stop, existence. Let's keep our ...

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We are back with the rest of the wonderful time, we spent with Erika Lalita of Sylph Art Studios. In this next half, we learn more about being a chalk artist; Except, now that the all the wonder of this job has been revealed, we must talk about the realities.  

This next part is about self care, being realistic, and what sort of things Erika manages when she's not pursuing passion. 

There's always a toll to pay on the road to one'...

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Erika Lalita of Sylph Art Studios, joins the podcast this week and offers us a 2 part Diary Entry, all about her time as a chalk artist (Who works mostly on public walkways, parking spaces, etc.)

In this first bit, Erika comes off all her secrets. If you watch this and think, "Oh man... I'd like to draw for a living, on the street"... This is the Diary Entry for you!

Thank you for sharing and giving so much time to this show Erika...

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Well, we certainly can talk! It's probably because Ken Madden and I don't see each other often, that we are bursting by the time we finally get together? I pray we don't wait so long next time.  

However, in this 3 part Diary Entry, there was a reoccurring theme of God and the gifts we are given to express God's love in this life. Ken, like me, recognizes this tremendous calling and in this 3 part series, we really look at how Ken...

Alright folks... We're set for this week and next, with the wonderful Ken Madden of MaddK Studios

Ken got excited when I started to share my walk with God and wanted to show me and all of you, how God works and speaks, in his life. 

It was so nice catching up with this distant, friend who I just keep learning more and more from. Please continue to listen as Ken an I talk about all the different ways God works and moves in our liv...

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Our good friend, Ken Madden, is back and beyond catching up with me personally, he shares his personal story of accepting Christ.

This podcast goes in and and out of many conversations, as we often do, but Ken has a great relationship/story in regards to his walk with Christ... Check it out Listeners! Come back next week too... As there is more to come. 

God bless you all! 

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This is Part 2 of our Diary Entry with, "Therealnoshoes" (or Scott). He's an audio producer and has quite the following on YouTube (ever growing). Definitely check him out! He's sincere and makes a point of giving authentic "reactions". 

In this 2nd piece, we talk about learning practices as well as discover how Scott adopted that "forever" smile; It's not always kept him out of trouble, but it does allow him to deliver hard infor...

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This week, we have an 'interview' with Scott, AKA "Noshoes", who had to workshop his name a bit to work with the internet, making him "Therealnoshoes". He's an audio producer and is making his name known via 'reaction' videos. Definitely check him out! He's sincere and meets his viewers with a smile. 

God put Scott in front of this show and it felt wrong to let the opportunity go by without gathering a Diary Entry from him. He's e...

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Early today (12:20am), this Diary Entry was recorded. It's been a full week and full day. This is just another personal share, but within the week and upon declaring more personal entries, there's been many beautiful people who've offered to record and share their stories. It's like God telling me that this show must be more than just a relationship between me and him... It must expand and continue to gather. 

What glorious things...

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Lot's to share in this week's Entry. I changed a few more things and grow more and more, excited to keep "playing" with this show/podcast/diary. I'm having fun exploring.

Much happened, so I'll let you all listen.

Special shout outs to:

Allie Oxenblood

WV Home Educators Association

Black Lotus Tattoo Gallery

Rico Illiano... because he's my Turkey!

Thank you Diary Listeners and God bless us all!

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