In this episode, Emily sits down for a heart-opening, world-expanding conversation with Kristin Lueke, a poet, writer, creative strategist, and co-founder of Field of Practice, an award-winning, women-owned design studio.

Kristin reflects on five years of stewarding Field of Practice with her partner and friend, Nermin Moufti, and what it’s been like to practice creative business on their terms. Kristin muses about her lifelong love of poetry, what compels her to write and express herself, and her reverence for the Earth and the birds.

Kristin shares two original poems, including feelings come & go but teeth are forever published by Okay Donkey, and dendrochronology of a murder published by Wildness.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• The power of dreaming with others and speaking our shared visions aloud
• The 4 L’s: a framework for reflecting upon our creative projects, including what we loved, learned, longed for, and let go of
• Weaving the threads of activism, social change, design, and creative strategy
• Poetry as magic spells to express the gigantic feelings within us
• Writing as a mechanism for restoration and connection
• Bird watching as a practice for cultivating stillness, slowness, presence, and wonder

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