CAREER & SPIRITUALITY
Conversations
We investigate where professional and spiritual journeys intertwine.
Career
& Spirituality
Conversations
We investigate where professional and spiritual journeys intertwine.
Episode 19
Coming Back To Art
With Tina Frey
Conversations Take Aways:
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“It never occurred to me that this could be a career”
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Pros and cons of following an “expected” career path
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The switch to “doing her own thing”
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Sculpting art is sculpting life
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How to interpret difficulties: signs to quit, or persevere?
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Burnout and breaking the vicious cycle of perfectionism
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The benefits of psychedelics and meditation
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What’s the next step after fulfilment?
About Tina
Tina is the Founder and Creative Director of TF Design, the homewares, furniture, lighting, and accessories company that she founded 16 years ago in San Francisco, California.
Tina has started her career in Finance, following an “expected path”. Then, even though appreciating the financial stability her work offered, and to put it in her own words:
“There was something tugging at my soul and calling me to make a change.
After 13 years, I got my chance to listen to that call. After an exit from a startup, I decided to use the break to think about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. While art had always been there, waiting patiently in the background, it was initially hard for me to see. And I’ll be forever grateful to those around me for giving me the courage and support to follow my dreams, and back “home” to the world of creating.”
Tina has been a successful artist since, sculpting beautiful objects and her new career path in the process.
