57 episodes

Welcome to the Print Life Podcast! A podcast created for surface pattern designers who want to truly build a sustainable creative business doing what they love. Host Leslie Kenehan brings you all things design, sales, marketing & mindset to support you in growing your creative business. Freelance? In House? Just getting started? You are in the right place. Welcome to the Print Life! https://lesliekenehan.com/

Print Life Leslie Kenehan

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Welcome to the Print Life Podcast! A podcast created for surface pattern designers who want to truly build a sustainable creative business doing what they love. Host Leslie Kenehan brings you all things design, sales, marketing & mindset to support you in growing your creative business. Freelance? In House? Just getting started? You are in the right place. Welcome to the Print Life! https://lesliekenehan.com/

    Artist Interview with Tanya "Schatzi" Brown

    Artist Interview with Tanya "Schatzi" Brown

    Today on the podcast join me for an interview with surface pattern designer, teacher, and artist Tanya {aka Schatzi} Brown.
    Hailing from Long Island, Tanya is a freelance print designer who also licenses her work under her pseudonym, Schatzi Brown. Her most recent endeavor includes teaching Photoshop to surface pattern designers.
    If you are a surface pattern designer interested in creating a fashion print portfolio and need the support of how to get started in Photoshop, you will want to be on my waitlist for Portfolio Bootcamp. Tanya and I have teamed up to bring you the best of both the design and creation of the portfolio along with the Photoshop tools you need to learn for fashion print design. 
    Join the waitlist for details here
    https://lesliekenehan.com/portfolio
    Join me today to learn more about her journey in surface pattern design. 
    You can learn more about Tanya and follow along her journey below….
    https://www.instagram.com/schatzibrown/

    • 39 min
    Two Types of Design

    Two Types of Design

    Join me today to chat about two important ways you can increase sales and boost confidence in your design business.  For more on how to grow your surface pattern design business head over to https://lesliekenehan.com/ for details.

    • 18 min
    Artist Interview with Nicole Tamarin

    Artist Interview with Nicole Tamarin

    Join me today for an interview with Nicole Tamarin, a watercolor artist from the east coast who has been licensing her artwork since 2012. What started out as a leap of faith showing at Surtex has turned into a beautiful career in licensing. Join me to learn all about Nicole’s journey after going all in on her creative career. You can learn more about Nicole on her website linked below. 
    https://www.nicoletamarin.com/ 

    • 1 hr
    Sustainable Design Practices for Surface Pattern Designers

    Sustainable Design Practices for Surface Pattern Designers

    Join me today to chat about our role in sustainable fashion and how we can implement design practices that are in line with slow fashion. Let's work toward intuitive and market led design in 2023 so that we can work more efficiently freeing up time to sharped our skillset and becoming better designers. If you are a surface pattern or print designer who wants to learn more about how you can build a creative business doing what you love...head over to https://lesliekenehan.com/freetraining and let's work together!

    • 33 min
    What is Your Word of the Year?

    What is Your Word of the Year?

    Join me today to chat about one of my favorite things to do at the start of the year...choosing a word of the year! Where could you be one year from today if you held yourself accountable to a feeling? Today I will share with you my process for not only choosing my word for the year, but how I can put small actions, habits or goals in place to support that word. To keep myself accountable in feeling into that word and embodying it in a way that keeps me on track all year long. When you choose your word for the year, don't forget to tag me so I can cheer on your progress. https://www.instagram.com/lesliekenehan/

    • 21 min
    Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year! Join me today to chat all about getting grounded back into our purpose and passions in 2023. When building a creative business, it's not hard to get lost in projects, growth, income goals or building that social media following. We end up saying yes to a lot, over filling our plates and we might even find ourselves completely off course for our big picture vision. Today I am offering up the idea of grounding back into our purpose and to our passion to gain clarity on what to focus on this year. Being grounded in your purpose often allows us to build our creative career with confidence, clarity, and authenticity. Giving us that much needed push toward our vision.

    • 27 min

Customer Reviews

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Redzinfandel ,

Always look forward to your podcast!

The newest interview with Nicole Tamarin was so informative, and timely. I am a letterer, surface pattern designer (newer) and I related to everything she said. Would love to hear more interviews or show topics about surface pattern design!
Thanks Leslie!!!!
Suzanne

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