One Herd Podcast with Kristin Llamas

Kristin Llamas
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(Formally The Socratic Dialogues) "We are all One Herd and deserve to be Heard" Host Kristin Llamas, is an artist and author of ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know. Explore the thoughts and stories behind those who walk amongst us as we celebrate this life on earth as #OneHerd. This podcast is for all the dreamers, creatives, wanderlusts, philosophers and altogether inspired.

  1. 06/30/2020

    What is Education?

    If you are a parent during the covid-19 school closures, this episode is for you! With covid-19 school closures. We suddenly found ourselves juggling a full 9 weeks of at home education in some form or other. I can personally say that my appreciation for teachers grew exponentially! And I quickly realized that while I don’t want our kids to fall behind… I don’t always know how to help them.  This conversation takes us back to the question, are we smarter than a fifth grader? I guarantee that I have forgotten more than I remember from elementary school!  Do you know how to interpret a line plot? How about using an area model for fractions? I know I’m terrible at math but this is elementary school math! Trying to be the full time guide for my kindergarten, 4th grade and 6th grade daughters, was suddenly in for a wake up call! So I couldn’t be more excited about my guest today who has created a company where the goal is to empower parents in their children’s education. Not only does he discuss the importance of speaking in the same language as our children's  teachers, but he actually gives us the resources to do so. We are essentially talking about tutoring… but for parents! It’s really awesome. Dr. Jim Swek has more than a decade of experience in the classroom, earning advanced degrees in educational leadership as well as small business and startup experience dating back to the late 90’s,  Jim is responsible for leading the Cohesion Education team through the development and growth of the business as they establish themselves in the online educational support marketplace nationwide. The timing for this conversation couldn’t be better so I hope that you enjoy and feel empowered! SHOW LINKS: Visit Host Kristin Llamas at: Websites: www.kllamas.com | www.llamasart.com Instagram: @kllamasart @llamasartshow Facebook: @kllamasart @llamasartshow YouTube: Kllamas Book: ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know Check out Cohesion Education Link for Free Registration - bit.ly/cohesionedfree Website: cohesioned.com Social Media: http://www.facebook.com/cohesioned http://www.twitter.com/cohesioned http://www.instagram.com/cohesioneducation http://www.pinterest.com/cohesioneducation https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohesioneducation/ MUSIC BY: Alfonso Llamas

  2. 05/21/2020

    What is Unity? Special Covid-19 Episode With Kristin Llamas

    Today we have a VERY special episode full of firsts. It is the first episode that I’ve done solo… Yep, I’m the only guest today.    And while it is actually our 15th show, I do feel like we have to address the very large elephant in the room. Or should I say the llama in the room…. The name change of this podcast from The Socratic Dialogues Podcast to the One Herd Podcast.    I just want to be clear that I had zero intention of launching this rebrand under such unusual circumstances. Towards the end of last year, I had this inspiration to change the name to One Herd because it felt more in-line with this vision of using art and storytelling to inspire connection and unity around the globe.   In a large way, I now feel like this mission is even more important than ever, given the global effect of this virus, and that we are all navigating through it together, figuring out the answers as we go.    How are you holding up?    We are a few weeks in and I feel like I’ve experienced the 5 stages of covid-19 isolation:    Uncertainty - Anxiously awaiting every new statistic, update, case count, death toll, prediction... waiting for instruction on how to survive thisPreparation - Get supplies, plan a homeschooling program, evaluate budget, create a daily scheduleOptimism - So much time and space to explore all the beautiful and amazing things around us. We are healthy, and so happy to be alive. Let's make the most of this time exploring new things?Overwhelm - Too much noise. Too many possibilities. I can’t get anything done. Mind swimming with all the things I could/should be doing. No moments of silence. Income gone. So many emails. Teachers sending full day curriculums for each kid... Can’t keep up. #failingAcceptance - Getting dressed everyday seems like a lot of unnecessary laundry, homeschooling = kids read a book and did a craft today, no one really cares if I get my newsletter out on tuesday… is it tuesday? What day is it anyway?    So many people around the world are scared, lonely, and grieving. Yet with it all, it feels like we have in a way, become more globally compassionate than ever before.    Before this pandemic and mandated social isolation, we were all just plowing through life with full calendars, noisy days and selfishly going in separate ways. But in this time of tragedy, we have been given a once in a lifetime gift. The gift of going nowhere. The gift of standing still.   In this stillness, we’ve fallen so much deeper in love with one another... not just in our individual homes, but as a global family 💗   As ironic as it may seem, isolation has actually brought us together. The show is getting a reboot and really, the entire world is facing a sort of reboot.    So I am calling this episode, “What is unity?”    With hope to inspire you to ask:   “Where does this pandemic leave us?”  Or better yet,  “How will we begin from here?”

  3. 12/17/2019

    What is Balance? With Abby Flittner

    Abby Flittner is a phenomenal woman that graduated with a master’s in accounting, yet decided to use her wits to become a self-made entrepreneur! Her and her husband created Nashville Guru, an online publication with a mission to help visitors find local businesses and events in the Nashville area. In order for her to spend time with husband and their 4 year old daughter, she has learned that she needs to keep a balance between her work, family and social life. Abby explains to us that her daily balance list consists of four categories that include self-care, family, work, and social. She is honest in sharing with us that she is not always able to fully maintain all 4 categories at the same time, and that’s okay! She has learned that if she’s a little bit more focused on work, she may be neglecting time she could be spending with her husband. She advises us know that balance will never be exactly perfect, we must learn how to prioritize. One of Abby’s top priority is self-care, she knows that in order for her to be productive she needs to workout and eat healthy. She also warns those who have an entrepreneurial spirit that starting a business requires a lot of work that will make life unbalanced for a period of time. Most entrepreneurs can experience a burn out, unless they have the funding to hire a team from the start. Most don't so they must expect to be working long hours. Finding small periods of time to dedicate to areas in your life that are meaningful to you will help to avoid this. SHOW LINKS: Visit Host Kristin Llamas at: Websites: www.kllamas.com | www.llamasart.com Instagram: @kllamasart @llamasartshow Facebook: @kllamasart @llamasartshow YouTube: Kllamas FIND MY NEW BOOK ON BOOKSHELVES!: ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know Visit Guest Abby Flittner at: Websites: NashvilleGuru.com ; GetRealAF.com Instagram: @nashvilleguru, @getrealAF, @abbyflitt FEATURED ARTISTS: Photography of 2 year old daughter at the Gulch, in front of Jason Woodside’s mural in Nashville. A note from the CEO, at a bank that she previously worked at, that read “People rise to new heights like kites do, not with the wind but against it.” MUSIC BY: Alfonso Llamas

  4. 11/26/2019

    What is Courage? With Ashley Hicks

    Kristin invites her behind the scenes assistant, Ashley, to be front and center on today’s podcast episode. Ashley is a soon to be graduate from Tennessee State University who decided to change her major from Nursing to Studio Art. Talk about courage! She discusses her journey on how she was able to build up the courage to follow her passion, regardless of what others thought about her choices to change majors. Ashley’s work focuses on the strong female figure. To her, a woman’s greatest strength is her emotions. Learning how to express her own emotions and how others wield their power of emotions is what drives Ashley into creating art.   Someone once told Ashley that she hasn’t allowed her fears about becoming an artist stop her from doing what she loves. It seems that as we get older we allow fear to stop us from doing things that make us happy. Children, however, have a raw courage to declare who they are and what they want to be in life. What happened to our raw courage, and why do we allow fear to take our joy away? Courage does not exist only in what we do, but also in what we don’t do. In a world full of antagonists who try to push our buttons, we must think of how important it may be for us to not react. Don’t let anyone bully their way into making you do something you may regret, rather, find the courage to walk away As Ashley makes her way into the art scene she is finding out that it takes courage to appear confident in her skills and her abilities. With each passing experience she is finally finding the courage to be confident and show the world that she is an artist. Ashley and Kristin are following their dreams, do you have the courage to follow yours? SHOW LINKS: Visit Host Kristin Llamas at: Websites: www.kllamas.com | www.llamasart.com Instagram: @kllamasart @llamasartshow Facebook: @kllamasart @llamasartshow YouTube: Kllamas FIND MY NEW BOOK ON BOOKSHELVES!: ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know Visit Guest Ashley Hicks at: Websites: byashh.com Instagram: @byashh FEATURED ARTISTS: The Unraveling Zebra By: Raphael Howard (grandfather) MUSIC BY: Alfonso Llamas

  5. 10/29/2019

    What is Home? With Chad James

    Chad James, founder and principal of the award-winning design firm Chad James Group based in Nashville, TN. With a rich portfolio, Chad James Group works to create custom residential and commercial construction, including bespoke boutique hotels, refined restaurants, and perfectly appointed homes. The internationally recognized firm has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Traditional Home and Billboard Magazine, to name a few. Award-winning designer Chad James was honored as a 2017 Rising Star of Design by Traditional Home. Designing a beautiful home is not an easy task, especially if you want it to feel comfortable with your lifestyle. Chad James, an interior designer in Nashville, states that one of the biggest misconceptions in interior design is that design does not follow function. This means that many people believe that if you want a well-designed home, you better be prepared to tiptoe around the house rather than actually using the furniture.  That is why when it comes to Chad James and his design team, their first thoughts are about the types of memories their clients will share with their families. During the show, Chad recalls his fondest memories in his childhood home and how they were a big part in shaping who he is today. The majority of his family lives in Muscle Shoals Alabama. This is where he and his older sister were raised by his mother and father. He shares with us that both of his parents were very creative and were great at making their house feel like a home. His father was a musician and would always be playing music inside the house, while his mother was more of a creative all around. One of his favorite memories was during his 7th birthday, when his mother created a carnival themed party. He said she took cardboard boxes and created carnival characters and games out of them. James truly appreciated everything his parents did for him and his sister. Chad also described his relationship with his sister as oil and water while they were growing up. His sister, who is 5 years older than him, is “the most intellectual person I know” he states. Achieving academic heights was easy for her, but being creative was a little bit difficult for her. On the other hand, he had to truly work hard to achieve B status in school, but creativity was like second nature. Although they differed in many areas, Chad’s parents were good at not comparing him and his sister to each other. He recalled his mother saying that “comparison is the thief of all joy” and to this day Chad continues to live by those words. Chad attributes his success and ability to create well designed homes and functional living space to his mentor, Landy Gardner, and his parents. While Gardner was able to show him the ins and outs of the industry, it was his parents who showed him what a true home really feels like. What do you do to make your house a home? Does your childhood home influence the home you have created for yourself now, like Chad’s has? Tell us your thoughts! SHOW LINKS: Visit Host Kristin Llamas at: Websites: www.kllamas.com | www.llamasart.com Instagram: @kllamasart @llamasartshow Facebook: @kllamasart @llamasartshow YouTube: Kllamas FIND MY NEW BOOK ON BOOKSHELVES!: ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know Visit Guest Chad James at: Websites: http://www.chadjames.com/ Instagram: chadjamesgroup MUSIC BY: Alfonso Llamas

  6. 10/15/2019

    What is Community? With Kristin Luna

    On today’s episode of the Socratic Dialogues, Kristin Luna and Kristin Llamas chat it up about the meaning of community! Luna shares with us how community has become so important to her and how she truly gets to know an area as a travel journalist. Luna had always aspired to be a writer, and before graduating from the University of Tennessee in 2005, she had 7 years of experience in journalism.  While originally interested in sports journalism,  she got her feet wet in the travel industry by writing a hotel and restaurant column for Newsweek, and authored more than a dozen guidebooks for Frommer's. Today, she still freelances for such publications as Travel + Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, Parade and AAA Living. But she more regularly works with city and state tourism boards on their content efforts through her media production agency, Odinn Media, and 12-year-old blog Camels & Chocolate.  Kristin’s ability to connect with people and community has allowed her to maintain a successful career as a freelance journalist. She genuinely loves people and credits being interested and curious to helping her build trusting relationships. Her career began well before social media was used to make connections, and she still believes that face to face relationships are invaluable to building community. In 2018, Kristin and her husband created a mural program that is focused on helping cities add public art to the streets as a way to benefit local communities. They have seen first hand how much murals and public art can benefit neighborhoods, bringing people of all age, race, and background together. Her involvement in boosting the morale in communities all around is truly inspiring!  How do you connect with the community around you? Please be sure to share your thoughts!   SHOW LINKS: Visit Host Kristin Llamas at: Websites: www.kllamas.com | www.llamasart.com Instagram: @kllamasart @llamasartshow Facebook: @kllamasart @llamasartshow YouTube: Kllamas FIND MY NEW BOOK ON BOOKSHELVES!: ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know Visit Guest Kristin Luna at: Websites: https://www.camelsandchocolate.com/ Instagram: @lunaticatlarge

  7. 10/01/2019

    What is Creativity? with Jason Minser

    SHOW NOTES Do you consider yourself a creative? It is easy to think of being creative as being an artist or a visionary. A creative person works well with their hands and is truly inspiring. On today’s podcast, Jason Minser helps us challenge what we may consider as creativity and shows us that we can become creative within our everyday lives. Jason works with Nashville’s WeGo Transit, a form of public transportation that helps connects people to their lives & communities by offering comprehensive service to Nashville's neighborhoods. Jason helps reinvent the way we look at public transit and studies how it could affect the lives of those who use it. Minser shares with us that after spending the majority of his life growing up riding public buses, he now believes that the best way to know a city is to walk it or ride the bus system. Jason was able to use his passion for the bus system to help WeGo Transit create projects such as the llama bus with Kristin Llamas’ artwork to help inspire viewers and commuters. Jason says that we can use public transportation to create joy and a feeling of connection as commuters and bystanders engage more with their surroundings. He admits that he does not consider himself a typical creative person, but proves that creativity lives within us all. Sometimes it takes quiet moments to discover that inspiration. I love this conversation because when people find out I'm an artist, the number one thing they say is that they aren't creative... so this conversation got me wondering, with constant interruptions and ToDo lists, we challenge you today is to shut it all down. Turn off the media, alerts, worries. Find that quiet space within you and tap into your true creativity. Then send Kristin a note or a picture and tell her what you created in your quiet! Learn how you can become more creative in your everyday life. Let’s all set our inner visionaries free to paint this world in a multitude of colors and be sure to let us know what you believe creativity is!     FOLLOW UP: FOLLOW UP:A few weeks after the recording, Jason found himself thinking about the last question that I asked during the podcast on creativity. I asked “What is the one thing in your life that you find inspiring and would want to take it with you?”   After thinking about it a while, Jason had more to say on the topic. In fact, he decided to share with us an amazing story that he has never shared with anyone before! This story is of the very first painting he owned at the young age of 6. Jason transports us back to the 80’s and shares how he became the proud owner of a very special painting, and why it continues to carry significance in his life today. Its an honor to be able to share Jason’s story with you today. You can read it here:   The One Thing... by Jason Minser   SHOW LINKS: Visit Host Kristin Llamas at: Websites: www.kllamas.com | www.llamasart.com Instagram: @kllamasart @llamasartshow Facebook: @kllamasart @llamasartshow YouTube: Kllamas   Visit Guest Jason Minser and WeGo Transit at: Websites: WeGoTransit.com

  8. 09/17/2019

    What is Truth? with Leigh Hendry

    Getting to the truth is not an easy task, but luckily we have Leigh Hendry in the studio to help navigate this tricky conversion. Leigh recently retired as the Director of External Affairs at the Tennessee State Museum, where she worked for over 26 years, and now she acts as a curatorial consultant and arts writer. We learned on today’s episode that truth is different for everyone, as Leigh states, “there is no such thing as ‘collective truths’.” This means that even though you might attend the same event as someone, it does not mean that you share their experience or truth about it, but can someone’s truth be altered? Truth can change over time due to imperfect memories, history, and new discoveries. However, when does a person’s truth become a lie? Do you have to know the truth in order to tell a lie? Truth is knowledge. To live our lives in truth, let go forward and gather as much information as we can to make honest decisions each and every day. Please be sure to share your truths with us, we would love to hear it! SHOW LINKS: Visit Host Kristin Llamas at: Websites: www.kllamas.com | www.llamasart.com Instagram: @kllamasart @llamasartshow Facebook: @kllamasart @llamasartshow YouTube: Kllamas FIND MY NEW BOOK ON BOOKSHELVES!: ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know FEATURED ARTISTS/INSTITUTION : Lyon, France http://www.insideoutproject.net Nashville, Tennessee https://www.akllamas.com/portfolio/nashville-paper-portrait-lanterns/ Susan Stryk - Artist MUSIC BY: Alfonso Llamas Tell me... WHAT IS Truth? Share your thoughts with me on your favorite social channels or visit kllamas.com to email me your thoughts and recommend guests! Subscribe, review & share!

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(Formally The Socratic Dialogues) "We are all One Herd and deserve to be Heard" Host Kristin Llamas, is an artist and author of ¿Como te Llamas? Everyday Llamas You Might Know. Explore the thoughts and stories behind those who walk amongst us as we celebrate this life on earth as #OneHerd. This podcast is for all the dreamers, creatives, wanderlusts, philosophers and altogether inspired.

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