Changing Minds
I am not unreliable or fickle for not wanting to continue on a path that makes me miserable or has no purpose. On the contrary: if something isn't working, it is my responsibility to course-correct.
I Write How I Draw
Drawing taught me that you never show everything. You can't. And there is a profound beauty in that. And responsibility.
Creative Garden
I used to believe the natural cycle of creative flow had to be respected at any cost. Indeed, creativity will take you for a wild ride if you let it. If you don't tend to your creative garden.
Breaking Capitalism
If you ever find yourself thinking "how can I make a difference?", remember: that's what you're supposed to think. It is better for the status quo if we each believe that the weight is to heavy.
Imposter Complex
At least, not at first glance.
I think I'm pretty cool and hella good at things. I think people like me, I'm great at my craft, I'm creative, my work is important, my thoughts matter.
My Imposter Complex hides in not starting.
If I never start, I never have to commit. If I never start, no one can tell me I gave up. If I never start, I can never be found out.
Remarkable Coach Podcast
Key to Effective Branding
Are you an emerging leader who likes to build potent, values-driven brands that grow from within and evolve through practice? I hope so – because your brand is the key to building a business for this new world.
Sisterhood Podcast
A Conversation About Ethical Branding + Marketing and Finding Your Authentic Voice with Alice Karolina
The Wild Podcast
"The way we consume and the way we are manipulated to consume is highly unsustainable. And the consumer cycle is leaving the bottom of the supply chain with nothing and no way to get out."
This week on The Wild, we're chatting to Alice Karolina, Founder of @theethicalmove about all things ethical marketing.
Perfectionism
Only recently did I discover how much of a perfectionist I am. I always brushed it off because I just needed things to be 'complete', not 'perfect'. Now I realize that the level a project has to be at to be 'complete' is ridiculously high. Basically perfect.
Change + Uncertainty
Join Marie Poulin + Alice Karolina for a candid and casual conversation about how we navigate transition and uncertainty, using Notion as a tool for mindfulness and self care.
TD(g)B Podcast
Think marketing and pricing can’t be ethical? Think again – our guest Alice Karolina started a movement, aptly named The Ethical Move, to change that.
Rebel Uprising Podcast
The business-changing brilliance of the 300-Day Challenge
What if 300 days is what it took to transform not only your business, but your life? Alice Karolina is on the podcast today and she's sharing the story of how she challenged herself to 300 days of money making activities, creating change that she never could have expected.
Using My Voice
Turns out, I'm terrified of using my voice.
Not scared of what to say, I am crystal clear on where I stand.
What I am afraid of, is what others will do with it. Having to completely give up control over their reaction and surrender to their choices.
But I'm learning that the reaction to my voice is not a reflection of me, but a freeing in them.
Liberatory Consciousness
This framework is how I'm learning to be thoughtful and intentional in my anti-racism work. Before I learned this I went straight from Awareness to Action and caused harm.
Ethical Marketing Day
Intersection of brand and market - creating strong values and messaging pillars to guide marketing effort.
Now More Than Ever
It has always been Now More Than Ever. The ‘world as we knew it’ was not healthy for anyone, and supremely damaging to most. Covid is not the ‘great equalizer’, but it has opened a door.
On Surrender
I practised surrender for loving partnership.
What I didn’t expect to discover was my identity.
Surrender has completely reassembled my DNA in the tiniest of increments. And I was there for every one of them. I know every chromosome that I am made of now - and I could not be more proud.
THSB Podcast
Marketing with integrity and the fight to break the consumerism cycle
Transition
I’ve been visited by herons a bit lately.
Herons are teachers in being with uncertainty, in transition, between worlds. One foot in the water, one on land, hunting in twilight. Fitting, with one more month left living by the water.
The Swan
My favourite piece of music right now is ‘The Swan’ from Carnival Of The Animals. It inspired my first intentionally layered drawing in preparation of actual artwork. As in NOT design. As in no function other than to exist.