Hi Friends! In this episode I am sitting down with Desiree Horner, the creative force behind Painted Pancake Studio, and I have to tell you this conversation went completely off script in the best possible way.

Desiree is a self-taught artist and content creator based in Texas who has built a following of nearly 60,000 people on Facebook by doing one thing really well: showing up exactly as she is. Paint on her clothes, hair out of her face, no filter, no performance. Just her art and everything she knows about it.

We talked about what it actually looks like to quit a stable corporate job when everything piles up at once. We talked about being a mom of three daughters spread across basically two different generations, the guilt of being the last pickup at daycare, and what it feels like to finally be home and present for the one you a ...