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hi, i'm ash!
Creator of the New Travel & Design Series, 'OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES.'
Travel writer & host, cultural explorer, and architecture & interiors freak.
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Every week, we're exploring global culture through the lens of the home. From floorplans to fixtures, we examine how houses are built, designed, and decorated around the world (with a side of sass, of course!)
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A new series of OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES books designed to help you try on a new life in different places around the world—by getting to "go behind closed doors" inside local homes to discover what it's really like to live there.
Amber I would say you have some mixed media art and creative story telling to do so get cracking!
I agree with Elle! It sounds like you know exactly what you want to do – it’s just scary to get out there and start doing it, which is totally normal. But the picture you painted even in that brief description sounds amazing and inspiring and completely doable! Think of what first small step you can take in that direction that’s not scary, and then keep doing it, at your own pace. I think you can do this!
Man, Ash. I read your last column and some of the comments. I didn’t have a chance to comment yet but love that you followed it up with this.
I suffer from fear having failed before and lost money as a result. My husband and I started a canned cocktail line, launched it and had to shut it down after two years due to inflation and supply chain issues. But in that short time span we made it on the shelves of Whole Foods. I still can’t believe that.
He’s gone back to his first passion with a custom clothing business. I want to join him (eventually full time) because we can do women’s and men’s and that gets me really excited. Now I’m applying your question to that business. What’s my 100? I’ve got some thinking to do.
Ash you know you hit this one out of the park with all of the comments from the last post. I’m taking notes here too, to find/create my 100 AND to not think about what others will think about it will be so freeing!
These last 2 posts got me thinking that I should restart my YT channel and create that 100 videos on whatever my passion is and it doesn’t need to be always the same subject. Maybe along the way I’ll discover more about what I am passionate about.
I’ve got too many irons in the fire and get nervous about going full into one for fear of burnout. Because I do just that. So I stay have decent at a handful of things instead of really amazing at one. And I think I might like it, but it makes marketing a nightmare.
Called all the way out with this one!
For 20 years I had a cute little side hustle making things like a mini Martha Stewart. I taught crafting classes in person and even made a totally functional chair out of paper mache that sold to an eclectic client. I shut it down when Covid hit and it was feeling less fun than it used to.
I changed careers to go into marketing to have a blend of creativity and strategy (aka safe but still a little fun) at the insistence of everyone else telling me I couldn’t just run off and be a creative or an artist and that I wasn’t talented enough to make a living (supportive right? 🥴)
I love marketing and am hella geek about it but the expectations rampant in the industry are grating on my nerves some days. It’s caused burnout and imposter syndrome and I crave doing something fun and life giving — which makes my sassy shirt shop idea so intriguing lol
Today I learned my last NYC agency subcontract client is moving on and I became one part relieved and one part oh crapppp lol it’s an opportunity to start fresh and have more fun, and to do so without feeling chained to a sunk cost fallacy of having spent the last 14 years deep in the trenches helping oodles of people make millions and exceed expectations of what’s possible for their business growth.
Today also marks the day another marketing client is moving on after seeing 151% growth in her business and getting a 63.9% lead conversion rate but her personally feeling that having her best results ever and her first 6 figure year just wasn’t good enough for her to stay working together. 🤷🏼♀️
Okay universe, what’s next? Let’s shake ish up!
I’m an ex marketeer and now turned creative and I mix it up always. Totally get you on how some clients can be so draining despite the mind blowing results that are delivered from us! Totally see this as your chance to start something new and exciting!
What’s my 100? I have no idea. Even taking the thought of making money out of the equation, I’m still not sure.
It can be challenging to those of us who have worked joylessly for years in the soul sucking vortex of earning paychecks to pay bills and hopefully keep our heads above water to dare to look outside the box and believe we can be creative (I’m pretty sure that sentence needed a comma somewhere).
Years ago (like 30) I really thought I was creative, albeit creative without confidence. Now my creative self is lying on a stretcher somewhere waiting for me to come in with the defib paddles and get it going again.
I’ll keep pondering my 100 and hopefully find my “flowers in a trashcan” idea.
I followed this advice on a whim – and added “Stay-at-home Parent” as my most recent work experience on my resume 🤣 ‘m curious how employers will react to this lol
“2021-Present Stay-at-home Parent
Caretaker, Home Finance Manager, Cook, Housekeeper, Project Manager, and Chauffeur
* Supervise and care for children throughout the day, create a safe and stimulating environment for children to learn and play. prepare meals and snacks for children, taking into consideration their dietary needs.
*Manage household chores, including cleaning, laundry, and organization.
* Plan and prepare family meals.
* Coordinate and schedule appointments for family members.
* Monitor and maintain the health and well-being of family members.
* Administer basic first aid when necessary.
🤣🤣🤣 wish me luck lol
Love this so much. I think I have a list of 100 things to make 100 of…