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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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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
Rico Illiano... because he's my Turkey!
Thank you Diary Listeners and God bless us all!
There were several themes this week as I'll let you discover for yourself. We're sticking to the title being the date, but some growth has happened in pre-show preparation. Praise God!
Drink more water Listeners and remember:
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you."
~ A quote from Winnie the Pooh, and A.A....
Happy MLK Jr Day and Inauguration Day!...
I'm rushed to production today. This Diary Entry was not as streamline as it was last week. Of course, "God laughs when man plans".
So, this week's Entry is rather all over the place. I call for prayers to be made and announce prayers answered. I also give some drama advice (both in cinema and within interpersonal relationships).
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This is something a bit new. I'm (Amy) amazed how long I was able to speak and how much more I could have concerning the happenings this week.
This is my first attempt to chronicle how God moves and speaks, in my life. I'm leaning into this being both a Diary and a work dedicated to the glory of God.
This was pure and mostly freeform. As I admit, it's not concise, but if nothing else, I pray it will be entertaining. Above all, I wa...
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