How do you walk away from a successful creative business when your heart is pulling you in a new direction? How do you follow that internal North Star despite the shame around choosing a new path? How do you do the hard work of reinventing yourself as an artist?

Rebekka Seale is an oil painter based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has owned a number of successful creative businesses, including wedding-cake bakery The Cake Parlour and Camellia Fiber Company, a collection of luxury hand-dyed fibers and handspun yarns. Rebekka has also worked as a freelance illustrator, doing work for print and greeting card companies as well as private commissions.

Today, Rebekka joins me to explain how her desire for making and learning translated to several successful businesses. We discuss Rebekka’s ability to reinvent herself when she’s called to a new creative pursuit and how she came to her current work as an oil painter. She describes the challenge of developing a business mindset as an artist and her take on art in the home as part of a family ritual. Rebekka also opens up about her adopted daughter, Pascale, and the traumatic fertility journey she endured on the path to becoming a mom. Listen in for Rebekka’s insight around the relationship between passion and success and learn how she overcomes resistance to follow her internal North Star—and reinvent herself as an artist.

What You Will Learn

How Rebekka’s desire for making and learning translated to several creative businesses

Rebekka’s enneagram personality type as a highly creative, introverted artist

Rebekka’s ability to reinvent herself when it’s time for a new creative pursuit

How Rebekka views painting as a spiritual practice of self-care

Why it’s harder for Rebekka to develop a business mindset around her artwork

Rebekka’s insight on art in the home as part of a family’s daily ritual

How Rebekka’s creative process involves living with and listening to her work

How childcare allows Rebekka to carve out blocks of time for painting

Rebekka’s traumatic fertility journey and struggle with in vitro fertilization

Rebekka’s disheartening experience with corruption in international adoption

How Rebekka and her husband came to adopt their one-year-old daughter

Rebekka’s advice around whether to share personal experiences on social media

How Rebekka worked through the shame associated with following her North Star

The role of passion in birthing the hard work it takes to reinvent yourself

Connect with Rebekka

Rebekka’s Website

Rebekka on Instagram

Rebekka on Pinterest

Connect with Beth

Beth’s Website

Beth on Instagram

Beth on Pinterest

Beth on Twitter

Local Milk Blog

Local Milk on Facebook

Email [email protected]

Resources Mentioned

The Enneagram Institute

Camellia Fiber Company

Beth’s Intentional Goal-Setting Workbook

Tonic Site Shop

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