Rainy Day Diaries

Katie Abey talks about how mean our brains can be to each other, how to overcome depression and anxiety, and how INCREDIBLE Katie’s journey in the illustration world has been! (Just out of Uni she started an illustration empire and now has 6 employees and two physical shop locations. Crazypants!!)

I’m going to be honest, working while being a stay at home mom is just harddddd! In this month’s short & sweet solo episode of Rainy Day Diaries I share some suggestions on how to make your life easier when you're a mom running a business. Mompreneur Sanity Saving Hacks as my friend Brandy called them! As your listen, you’ll get FIVE take aways to hopefully help you create a little more work/life balance while taking care of your little one. I feel like these would be helpful even if you’re NOT a Mom too, but mandatory if you are a mama-bird! :) As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D

Today on Rainy Day Diaries I’m interviewing Ambivalently Yours, an artist known for her very pink, emotionally stimulating artwork. For the last five years, she have been exploring her ambivalence and feminist questions by posting pink drawings on her Tumblr blog. She then went viral and her work has been turned into products, videos, installations and even a podcast called Rebelliously Tiny. One of the coolest parts of her artwork if that she challenges the social norms, sharing various political and feminist beliefs, and by doing that she connects with such an abundance of people. As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D  

Why is being gentle with yourself SO freaking Hard?!?!? In this month’s short & sweet solo episode of Rainy Day Diaries I talk about a my thoughts on giving yourself GRACE and give you a few tips to help you be kinder to yourself!!

This week’s episode of Rainy Day Diaries is actually the VERY FIRST interview I ever conducted! It’s with my best friend, (of over 20 years!) Amanda, and I’m just posting it WAY LATE! lol (literally ONE YEAR after I recorded it! eep!) We talk about how opposites attract in friendship, growing up & how your friends can help you during rough times. I hope you enjoy this SUPER casual, easy listening interview!Also, everyone congratulate Mandy, she’s a new mama! Yay! As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D

What are you MOST grateful for??. For the past year, I've been trying various techniques to help me feel more grateful. .So in perfect end of the year spirit, this week's Rainy Day Diaries is all about #gratefulness. In the episode I share three different graditude ideas which I hope will help you too!! We'll also reflect on the end of the year and a brand new year starting. I hope you’ll take a listen, and can’t wait to hear which prompt works best for you! As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D

I’ve been following along Marloes De Vries’s journey for quite a few years now and have always admired her bold, brave way to share hard things using comics. She’s open and funny and I just adored interviewing her! Her business journey is fascinating, as is the job she held before she was an illustrator! We talk about everything from going through hardships like depression, having anxiety and being an introvert to talking to animals, buying legos & our favorite and least favorite condiments. It’s an incredibly interesting conversation and I hope you love listening to it as much as we loved recording it! As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D  

For YEARS I have done all the things I thought I SHOULD be doing. Filling check lists, going after goals that go after the shoulds... but what happens if you start listening to the WANTS inside you, instead of things you SHOULD be doing - instead of filling out the check lists?This week is Rainy Day Diaries I talk about the SHOULDS vs the WANTS. And about the first time I decided to heck with the shoulds! I'm going after a want!! Head to www.jenipherlyn.com/podcast to take a listen, or open up Rainy Day Diaries on @googleplaymusic, @itunes or @stitcherpodcastsIf you like the episode I'd love for you to leave an @itunes review! And subscribe!! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D

Today’s episode of Rainy Day Diaries is with Stacie Bloomfield from Gingiber. She has SO many wise nuggets for you about life, business, and trying her best to balance the two of them. She also talks about how she’s grown her business to include multiple staff members, trade shows, and about following her illustration dreams! Also, fun story.... I was SO excited to interview Stacie from Gingiber, and I'm pretty sure we scheduled our date WAY in advance, but I ended up interviewing her like two hours before I went to the hospital to get induced to have Ollie. As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D  

In this month’s solo episode of Rainy Day Diaries, I talk about how learning about something new (an important cause in this case!) can quickly turn into a passion… or if you’re really lucky, can quickly turn into a reason you beat yourself up. I discuss the Zero Waste Movement and easy ways for all of us to eliminate trash.  My favorite straw!My favorite silverware set! So cool story, this is one of the VERY FIRST episodes of the podcast I recorded when I was pregnant. I actually came up with the idea of this episode while at a networking event in St. Pete while being surrounded by plastic cups and pre-wrapped granola bars.In all honesty though, since I became a Mom, this has been WAY harder. WAY WAY harder. Mom Brain is a real thing, and I often can’t even remember to wear shoes when I leave, let alone remember all my reusable items, but I’m trying my best. :) Also HERE is my full list of my FAVORITE waste-free products! Mentionables:- Sad Sea Turtle with Straw in Nose - graphic.- Give Yourself a BREAK! - I didn’t know about her back when I recorded this episode but I love that she explores way to reduce waste without making us feel bad about it. :) 

Today’s inspiring episode is with Heather Davulcu aka April Heather Art. We covered so many topics, from Friendship to Illness, and how art helped her cope with her pain she was feeling. We also chatted about how one bridesmaid card changed the course of her art career.Friendship was a big full circle of topic in this episode. We talked about learning how not only to make friends as a adolescent, but as an adult as well. I literally cried while editing this. I’m so inspired by Heather (and Alyssa from episode 3)’s bravery - they both got bulled and then both joined tons of groups to make friends, even though joining things and meeting new people is scary! PS: You can tell when I recorded this, it was almost Mother’s Day! Ha! But her women marching artwork is so amazing and still available!!

In this solo PEP TALK! I encourage you to EMBRACE your sensitivity, yo! I'll talk about Hyper Sensitivity also known as HSP. Growing up feeling like a weakling, I didn't even know HSP was a personality trait until I was much older. But alas, IT IS A THING! A real, personality thing, and it's MORE than okay if you have it! Being sensitive can make things harder, but it's also what makes us amazingly loving folks too! Notables:  -  Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny -  Are you a HSP?? Find out here! -  An Amazing article about the hardship of transitions.  As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D  

* Content Warning: Discussions of eating disorders. In this episode of Rainy Day Diaries, Jessie and I talk about everything from unicorns to following your dreams, and oddly enough, bond over our recoveries of our eating disorders.   In this talk we discover how someone with a hardcore eating disorder can simultaneously have a business around dessert recipe development.  A few fun Topics:  -  Believing in Miracles.  -  Creating the perfect job based on all of your favorite things. -  How Jessie managed a business ALL about baking WHILE struggling with an eating          disorder. As always, thank you SO MUCH for listening! To read more show notes head to www.jeniphelyn.com/podcast or email me at Jenipherlyn@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions! :D  

In this month's solo episode of Rainy Day Diaries I share about how hard dealing with social anxiety can be! I also share that sometimes our anxious brains scare us MORE than necessary, and how the turnout of an outing could actually be better than we expected!  Aside from always being pregnant in all these episodes, (which is a dead giveaway) this is the first episode that you'll 100% realize it was taped SOOOOOOO many months ago! lol 

Vanessa Newton is a BEACON OF LIGHT. She's a magical unicorn, and quite honestly, she has the best laugh ever!  When I first found out about Vanessa's work, I was baby sitting at a cute little munchkins house reading her a goodnight book, and the book was so gorgeous I snuck back in there to look at all the pictures once she went to sleep. This book, One Love was illustrated by my good friend Vanessa.  In addition to how Dyslexia (among other things) did NOT hold her down in pursuit of inspiring children around the world, a few fun Topics we discuss are:  - Her interesting journey to illustrator-hood. - How she overcame her nay-sayers. - How music can change and uplift even the  You can Find Vanessa here: Website I Instagram I Facebook Mentionables: - The Snowy Day - Matilda "When I Grow Up".  --------------- Website: www.jenipherlyn.com/podcast Music: Cute uke tune by Scott Homes.