Coherence Podcast Melissa Wong

Ahran is a multidisciplinary artist, mindset coach and group facilitator who uses art, improv, conversation and storytelling as a way to help us shift ancestral patterns.

Ahran shares about the multi-chaptered journey she’s taken to get to a place of authenticity with her art practice. A practice of vulnerability and pleasure — she trusts creative expression as a critical component to shifting deep seated family patterns. This is an open-hearted conversation that is bound to have you reflecting on your own relationship to your creativity.

** At the end of the episode Melissa breaks down one of the topics from the conversation and offers up a personal challenge you can try.



Learn more about Ahran:

IG: @ahranmakes

Email: ahranleecoaching@gmail.com


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Kim is a marketing expert and coach based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the founder of 3pts, which provides guidance, tools and community to self-funded, creative entrepreneurs.

Kim shares about how he arrived at his current mission and purpose of helping people pursue their passions and some of the top challenges he sees creative entrepreneurs facing (hint: it’s not a tactic, it’s a mindset)

He knows the impact of laying intentional infrastructure as a self-employed creative and shares his tips on how to know what mode of operation to be in based on what your creative business needs.

This conversation is not just relevant to business owners but really anyone who is looking to sustain a flexible, self-directed work life.

** At the end of the episode Melissa breaks down one of the topics from the conversation and offers up a personal challenge you can try.



Learn more about Kim:

IG: @kimrobinsonjr

Newsletter: 3pts.co


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Rachel Smith is a content designer and artist who runs the Words of Mouth newsletter and Repair Shop. 

Rachel shares about how she balances her part-time consulting work for non-profit design agency Civilla with her longstanding newsletter for creatives looking for compelling jobs, and somehow still finds time to run a textile repair shop and sustain her own art practice.

We investigate the power of having a unifying thread that ties your work together as a multi-hyphenate person and the times where it’s beneficial to ‘screw the thread’ and just let yourself be free to operate without a pressure to be consistently one thing.

Rachel illuminates how creating an offering with a simple structure and resisting the pressure to grow or evolve it can lead to an effective formula for success.

** At the end of the episode Melissa breaks down one of the topics from the conversation and offers up a personal challenge you can try.





Learn more about Rachel:

website: www.rachelmeadesmith.com

IG: @stormcloudsmith

repair shop IG: @rrepairsshop

newsletter: www.wordsofmouth.org


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Maggie Hayes is a painter, movement instructor, and a DJ who spreads joy as Miss Paradise.

Throughout all of her mediums, she tries to hold a torch to invite others to envision what a world would truly look like if we could be in paradise together.

In this episode, Maggie shares about her healing journey with cancer and how it’s impacted the way she relates to her art and a sense of what’s possible.

If you want to hear about the path from just scraping by to getting to a place of financial stability and valuing your work, this is the episode for you!

** At the end of the episode Melissa breaks down one of the topics from the conversation and offers up a personal challenge you can try.



Connect with Maggie:

IG: @paradisevitalitystudio

Website: https://www.paradisevitalitystudio.com/

Art website:  https://www.maggie-hayes.com/


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Stevie, aka ‘Spaghetti Witch’, runs her own casting company, co-hosts a popular astrology podcast, she is a writer, producer, friend, lover, carb-queen, the list goes on!

Melissa interviews Stevie about her freelance journey of working for bad bosses, starting side projects in her spare time, launching her own business, and learning how to ride the waves of the freelancer’s work cycle - boom times and bust times.

Stevie shares about how she’s found power in collaboration trios, and how to find a structure to help produce consistently. Listen in to hear how she articulates what she does and how it all fits together.

** At the end of the episode Melissa breaks down one of the topics from the conversation and offers up a personal challenge you can try.



Connect with Stevie:

personal IG: @spaghetti_witch

podcast IG:  @whatsyoursignpodcast

Website: https://stevies.world/




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Kaylene is channeler, tarot reader, and astrologer who also makes music under the name “Krystal Visions”.

Melissa interviews Kaylene about her path to graphic design and social media curation through her music and how she’s grown in her confidence to charge what she’s worth as she’s acquired more and more experience and truly stepped into the role of a teacher.

Kaylene presents a healthy view of how to relate to social media and shares how having a creative alter-ego or moniker can open up portals to creativity on a regular basis.

** Listen until the end of the episode for a digest where Melissa breaks down one of the main pieces of advice and offers up a personal challenge you can try.



Connect with Kaylene:

IG: @krystal_visions

email: krystalvisionstarot@gmail.com


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