Episode 53: On How To Live Your Best Life Now | Stacy Solodkin | Abstract Artist, Gallery Owner
Stacy Solodkin had a thriving career as the founder of a successful talent agency, but her life shifted dramatically after a Stage 3 ovarian cancer diagnosis. Instead of slowing down, she reinvented her life, becoming an artist, opening her own gallery, marrying the love of her life, and embracing every day as her best day. She shares how cancer transformed her priorities, the life-saving changes she made to her diet and health, and why the people you surround yourself with matter more than anything. Stacy’s story is a reminder that there’s no perfect time to start living fully. Her perspective on love, resilience, and creating a life that reflects your true self will leave you inspired to make bold moves today.
“I think that once something happens to you and you live through it, it’s now our duty to help others.”
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Chapters:
00:00 Meet Stacy Solodkin
04:10 Why Surviving Something Means Helping Others
07:15 From Theater to Running a Talent Agency
12:14 Living with the Last Day in Mind
15:40 The Moment Cancer Changed Everything
20:14 How Cutting Sugar Changed Her Health
28:09 Choosing Art First
32:40 Building a Business Around Creativity
40:02 Why You Don’t Need Anyone’s Permission
47:40 Turning Challenges into New Opportunities
52:43 What She’s Learned from Healing and Love
57:23 The Friends Who Showed Up When It Mattered Most
59:36 How to Connect with Stacy
Every day I live now I live for how I'm gonna feel on the last day of my life. And that informs every decision. So I just know like I'm never gonna wish I worked more. I'm always gonna wish that I did what I love and that I was a with people that I love. That's the most
important. That's Stacy SolodSolodkin and this is The Powerful Ladies podcast.
Hey guys, I'm your host, Kara Duffy, and this is The Powerful Ladies Podcast where I invite my favorite humans, the awesome, the up to something and the extraordinary to come and share their story. I hope that you'll be left, entertained, inspired, and moved to take action towards living your most powerful life.
So many of us are waiting for something to happen before we begin living our life. We're waiting to graduate. We're waiting to be married. We're waiting for that new job. We're waiting until we lose 20 pounds. Stop waiting. Two years ago, Stacy SlotSolodSolodkin was kicking butt, being a boss at the talent agency she created.
Life was good, and life was stressful and moving fast. Then she got cancer. Today, she's not an only an entrepreneur, but also an artist, an actor owns her own art gallery, got married to the love of her life and is a cancer survivor. Getting cancer changed everything. Today, she lives to make every day her best day and to live her best life.
Now on this episode, we talk about all of that, plus how changing her die and alternative treatments saved her life, how her girlfriends came to her rescue, and how we all may be playing the love and life game all wrong. All that and so much more coming up. But first, if you're interested in discovering what possibilities and businesses are available for you to create and to live your most fulfilling life, please visit the powerful ladies.com/coaching and sign up for a free coaching consultation with me.
There is no reason to wait another day to not be living your best life. When you instead could be running at full speed towards your wildest dreams today.
I love that you were sent to me from not only another powerful lady, but another ginger powerful lady. Exactly. The amazing and wonderful Kendall Dolores. Yes. And she met you 'cause you just got, I think you had an elopement. No, I got married. Full wedding. Full wedding at the age of 49.
Congratulations. First wedding.
Thank you very much. I'm hoping that you waited for your prince. I did. I did. I, it was all worth it. Like I, I am the epitome of. Of just waiting for the right one. It was really obvious and he wasn't letting me push him away. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I found the love of my life.
How did you find him? We met online. Ooh. Yeah. Yeah. I did a lot of work on myself. First I. I've been very successful at pretty much everything in my life except for relationship. And there's this magical thinking that a relationship is just supposed to happen with no work. And I said I obviously don't know what I'm doing, so I need to find someone who does.
And who can help me. And so a friend of mine had written a book, Ooh. She'd Be a Good Person for you. And it was called The Four Man Plan. And it was this whole like thing that she did, and it was really funny. And I called her and I said, would you coach me? And she said I'm super expensive, but, and I have no time 'cause I have too many people, but I have this other woman.
And so I started talking to this other woman. She had me change the way I spoke. To men. Because men are really centered in their brain and women are centered in their heart. Because I'm a business woman, I have a lot of masculinity. Yep. But if I wanna attract a masculine man, I needed to step into my femininity, which, when I told a lot of women this, because everybody was like, how did you attract this gorgeous six foot four French man?
Successful French man. And I, I said I did all this work. And they immediately, when I said something about being more feminine, they thought that meant that I was weak. That I was weaker. And I was like, no, actually I'm stronger. I'm actually sitting back in my power and I'm letting him be a man.
And it doesn't mean that I have no choices. It doesn't mean that I don't have a voice in the relationship. I, I. We're actually extremely equal. But anyway, that it's a, I'm sorry, I'm going on about that. No, this is fascinating. Yeah. Many, I highly recommend doing work on yourself if you really wanna find someone.
And it's been a long time because I definitely had an amazing human who fits me perfectly. Come in as soon as I chose to work on myself.
That's the way it works. Yeah. And we haven't even told anyone who you are yet, which I love. Do you wanna introduce yourself and tell people what you're up to?
Yes. So
my name is Stacy Kin. And I am turning 50 this year. Congratulations. Thank you very much. I am from originally Louisville, Kentucky, but I live in California now for over 25 years. I am a business owner. Of almost 23 years. I own a talent agency. I represent actors. And I also just opened my own art gallery 'cause I'm an artist on Pico Boulevard and I'm also a cancer survivor of a year and a half.
Congratulations as well. Thank you. I beat stage three ovarian cancer. Wow. I'm a year and a half cancer free right now. And so that's one of my other passions is I'm lighting the path for others, to help. I think that once something happens to you and you live through it, it's now our duty to help others.
Yeah. And I think that fits for if you've survived a medical condition or if you've started a business, or if you've moved or if you've found the love of your life. Like being someone who's passed through the keyhole. Like it's, you have to whisper back and yell back. It's okay.
Come through. Yeah. Because others have done it for me. Yes. So you paying it forward. Yeah. What brought you from Louisville to California originally? Oh I
was an actor. I started, I've always been an artist and then I fell into acting in college and I loved it. And so I drove out here in my grandfather's car with a CB radio, which was supposed to be just for the summer.
And I. Studied with Sanford Meisner and, some really amazing teachers. And I was supposed to go back home to finish my senior year of college, and I was like, no. And I actually got a sign on the beach, which is another whole story. But anyway, I stayed. And that's what brought me out here originally was acting.
Very cool. Yeah. And when you told everyone no, I'm staying what was the reaction? Was it easy and suddenly things just started working? Or did you have to fight for staying for yourself here, like with jobs and work and also back home?
So it was very hard for my family to accept. Because I also had scholarship to Art Institute of Chicago. Straight out of high school. And my family just didn't really think of the arts as something that you made money from. My life could have gone a bunch of different ways. And when I had a savings account for college before I was ever even born.
So my family just went to college. It's just what you did, and you were not gonna be successful unless you did. And so I got a lot of pushback from everyone. And they wanted a timeline. They wanted everything, and but God love 'em. They just, trusted me even though they didn't, they did.
Yeah. And it wasn't until I started my company which at the time was a was a management company because I saw. A lot of people who were so talented but had agency representation that wasn't helping them. And I had worked for an agent when I first, I'm a kind of a hustler, so I wanted to know how things worked.
Yeah. Worked for an agent. I worked for a casting director and I was like, I could do this. And so I just started a company with 10 people from my theater company and we were rogue. Yeah. And it just turned into this whole thing and. At a certain point it got very successful and I started making more money than my mother and my father.
And at that point they had to be quiet. Yeah. 'cause I was obviously more successful financially than they were. And so they left me alone about
the college thing. And how has it been, what's that ride been like having that company? Has it evolved? Has it been, oh my God, it's so evolved
and it started as, I felt like I was like Robinhood, right?
And we were all just in this like co-op thing together and I just ran it really well. And then people really started working and I was really learning how to negotiate and how my father was an entrepreneur. And I watched my mother when they divorced, rebuild her life as her own.
So I was a very independent woman. Prone for entrepreneurship. And as the company grew I got too busy to act anymore. And I just couldn't drive across town. Yeah. And my mother passed away 10 years ago, and that was also something that kind of was a big shift in my life.
And I just decided I was gonna do the company because that's what was growing. And now I have four employees and we just got a new office on Hollywood Boulevard and I've really learned the art of, doing what I do best, but bringing people in and having them do what my weaknesses are.
And it's just grown the company exponentially. I'm sure people say that all the time to you, that you,
it's shocking to me. Yeah. How often people are killing it and doing it by themselves and wondering why they can't get past that next level.
Yeah.
And my answer as coach or powerful ladies host is always, do you have a team?
Yeah. Because it changes everything. It changes everything. If you have to step out of what you're best at, you're instantly taking money away from your bottom line. Yeah. And we don't think about it that way. No. Whatever your financial goals are, if you can be making that money right now.
You shouldn't be doing all the other stuff that you can delegate.
Yeah. I'd rather make less and have really brilliant people around me and watch something grow and then everyone Yeah. Benefits from it.
Yes. Yeah. And when you made the decision to bring people on was it hard at first or were you instantly I need a team?
I've always had one person helping me over the years. And I'm a control freak. And actually what happened was I got cancer. And that was the game shifter for me because I do believe that. Even though my genes, both my parents have passed from cancer, I had that.
I don't believe you have to turn those lights on in your own body, but stress is a huge factor. And as my company grew and I was trying to do everything, everything on like spreadsheets like that I did on Word documents the stress level was so high. I didn't even pee I had to have people tell me to go to the bathroom.
And then when my father passed all this stress and then I found out, and I looked great. Nobody would've ever known I had cancer. I find out that I have stage three C cancer, like almost stage four, and all of my girlfriends. Rallied around me and they said, you are not working. And they basically took over my company and they made like my assistant go through them to talk to me.
And for a year or two, I had to stop. And that's when I started hiring people to help. Yeah. And so the universe made me, the universe shifted me. And and I, that's when my art came out, that's when I started painting again. And I really I like, it's such a big lesson that I tell people now. It's every day I live now I live for how I'm gonna feel on the last day of my life.
So any decision I make, it's like, how am I gonna feel about this on the last day? Yeah. And. And that informs every decision. So I just know like I'm never gonna wish I worked more.
No,
no one does. No one does. I'm always gonna wish that I did what I love and that I was with people that I love. That's the most important.
And how amazing for your girlfriends to beyond be there for you, but be that stand for you surviving this, kicking its butt and just not and having your company still thrive. It takes amazing friends to be able to force a control freak business owner into that space.
Yeah. So congratulations to them for like actually making it happen. 'cause your whole life has changed as a result.
Yeah. I remember my mother telling me when I was really young, I used to admire her and the fact that she had this big strong support system of women around her. And she said, if you have five.
Really like fe amazing female friends. Like the friends that will lie in the street for you. You've made it like you're successful. And I had exactly that. Five female friends and a couple of male who just, there's this thing that I think women have that we have to do everything alone.
Again, it's the theme. And I didn't even know I had that kind of support system until the chips were down. And that's when you find out who really is in your life
for that. Yeah. And it's and how do we get awareness to that before something. That scary has to happen.
Yeah. I started a blog when I got sick.
And I basically videotaped everything. And people who didn't have cancer were saying thank you so much, because it was a wake up call for people. When I went into the hospital with just pain, I was just having pain. They sent, wanted to send me home with, they said I was that I was constipated.
And so they were like, you're fine. You're just constipated. We're gonna send you home with constipation medicine. And I said no, something's wrong. And they, the other doctor came in and he is maybe it's a pulled muscle. I, no, it's either constipation or pulled muscle. And I said. I'm telling you right now, I'm 47 years old and I know my body.
And there's a blockage. I can feel it. And I need you to do tests and I'm not leaving. Good for you. And I was there in the thing with the thing in my vein in a wheelchair, while they're doing things with my computer on my lap working cell phone negotiating on the phone in the emergency room.
And 12 hours later I'm on the phone with my assistant and they start to wheel me back into a room and, that's not good. And I was like, they're wheeling me back into a room. This is not good. And he's maybe they're just gonna discharge you. I'm like, they don't wheel you back in the room for that.
And the woman who had originally said that I had constipation came in, it was like a bad episode of Grey's Anatomy. Shut the door and. Came up really close to me and she said, I'm so sorry you have cancer and it's everywhere. I was like, holy fuck. What do you do?
Yeah. What do you do? Like my mouth is over here, like open and stun.
'cause I'm like, what do you mean everywhere?
Yeah. And
talk about
powerful women. She felt so bad because the people who were the ovarian cancer specialist came in to examine me and the stomach specialist came in to stay and nobody would admit me. They were like, oh, it's not ovarian cancer. Oh, it's not stomach cancer.
And they wanted to send me home. And this woman who had originally said I had constipation was like, I am not letting you leave this hospital. If you leave this hospital, you're gonna have stage four. It's gonna take weeks. To get in with a specialist. And she got some doctor who's not even a cancer doctor to admit me.
And I was there for three days and we started the journey, the long journey.
So when she said it was everywhere, what did that mean? I'm imagining head to toe? No, basically it was all
contained within my belly area, thank God. But it was all over my belly. It was all over my liver, it was all over my kidneys.
It was all over my spleen. It was all over my digestive tract. It was all over my my uterus. It was everywhere. It was just ovarian cancer spits out and it just lays on top of everything. Yeah. And when they tried to operate first. I did lots of, research about the best doctors to go to.
And I found City of Hope and they opened me up and then they closed me. And I didn't know this, but they went out to tell my then fiance, by the way, he asked me to marry him a month after I got diagnosed, which. That's a very pretty amazing Yes. And they said to him that the level of morbidity would've been too high.
If they had operated, I would've died essentially. So they closed me back up and I did chemo and and then I got operated on again. And in between that time I educated myself because I wasn't working. And because my parents had passed and I had been left some money. I just spent it, I just used it all on any alternative medicine I could find.
I found the best alternative doctor with all the integrative medicine, and I was like, let's, I'm just gonna be a Guinea pig and I'm gonna do everything. And by the time they opened me back up again, the doctors came out and they said we were mesmerized. It was like the cancer had melted away and all that was left was one tiny bit inside my ovary, which is probably where it started, probably where it started.
And so now I'm a huge advocate for alternative medicine.
What were
the alternative practices that you tried? Oh my God, I did everything like I did missile toe injections. What is that? Like missile toe, like the Christmas missile toe, like the Christmas missile toe. It basically, if you extract it uhhuh and you have to shoot it into your belly.
It's a huge immune system booster. Oh. And then I also went into these oxygen tank. And I was taking, I still take 80 supplement pills a day from this doctor Nini Coff, who is an acupuncturist, but also worked with my chemotherapist. And she's like an herbalist. She's an herbalist as well. Yeah. And I did acupuncture two or three times a day.
I did cranial sacral two or three times a day. You name it, I did, it changed my diet completely. What is your diet now? It's pretty similar. Yeah. I'm a pescatarian and I stay away from sugar. I stay away from dairy. I have a little cheese now. Now that I'm past stuff.
Yeah.
And I imagine a French husband would require at least like 0.01%.
Yeah. Like when we go to France to visit his family, all bets are off. I'm like, yeah. For two weeks I can cheat. Yeah. But that first year I didn't. And it's basically. Not putting anything in your body that turns into sugar.
Nothing that's gonna raise your glucose levels, because cancer cells eat eight times, or I can't remember how many times the amount of sugar. So a lot of people poo that. But two of my friends who are now my friends who were diagnosed the same time as me, same BRCA positive, same everything.
We started chemo together. One of them is dying and one of them is is fighting it again. And the only difference is that I changed my diet and did supplements and did all these other treatments. And so I just posted on my blog today that you saw it, not the, I saw the post to Elizabeth Gilbert.
Oh, to Elizabeth Gilbert. Yeah. Yeah. But I did a post today because my dream is to partner with a 5 0 1 C so that, not that people who. Who don't have money to do alternative medicine can, that's what I wanna do. Yeah. I've helped some people, but if they can't do the ongoing, I haven't made a dent.
But you shouldn't have to be rich to stay alive. Yeah. And so that's a big passion of mine is trying to find some people who and already people are like coming to me saying, I wanna do that too, because Yeah. Anyway.
Jimmy Kimmel made that that big public push about why we need just standard healthcare.
Yeah. Because of the surgeries that his son has had to have. Yes. He's I have the money to pay for this, but no other dad should have to choose. And I think it's true for all of these medicines we've had recently had a woman on who is she was a licensed therapist and now she's a coach 'cause she can blend alternative holistic healing with her therapy practice.
Yep. And you can't do that when you're operating as a licensed therapist. She's this is ridiculous. Like. When I have options to heal people in all these methods and I can only use one. We're not really helping anyone. And then same with I'm totally obsessed with all of the food and health documentaries that are out.
Yes.
Me too.
Cannot get enough if if people keep making them, I'll keep watching them. But they share so many things in common, whether it's about like modern agriculture practices or the food we choose, that so many people who you think are there to look out for us as a population aren't.
And it's so frustrating. So frustrating.
When I stopped acting, I lost my health insurance. And no one would insure me and. Because of Obamacare. Yeah. I was able to, and I was a healthy person. Now they were probably right 'cause I had cancer, but nobody, I, and I would say, look how healthy I am.
I eat healthy. I work out and I'm so good and nobody would insure me and thank God for Obamacare. Because I, it's astronomical the amount of money Yes. That you have to pay when you get sick. And I know lots of people because they follow me on my blog and they talk to me and they, they don't have the money.
Even going to a. A doctor who can, western medicine is only like a piece of the pie. Yes. And they can't even afford that piece of the pie. Not even all the other stuff that could help them. No. So it's it's pretty sad state of affairs, especially the government right now.
What did, yeah.
No, and we, and I also do some financial coaching. It's becoming a smaller piece of my coaching business now, but I bring it up because, we talk about people being in debt and how to get of it. And you would think based on what's talked about at a political level, that student debt is the number one cause of debt.
After credit cards in the US the truth is the number one reason people go bankrupt and have debt is medical bills. I didn't know that. And it doesn't need to be high medical bills. Yeah. To like really push you over the edge based on where your family's at and how, even just the mediating line for knowing that you are what's it like middle income is like $45,000 in the us
That's crazy.
It's crazy. Yeah. When you look at us at as a nation, and so if you think someone making you $45,000, even if like how much it can cost to have a baby, like 35 was what I got quoted recently from a friend. So it's gonna take you a year to pay that off.
Yeah. If you can.
Yeah.
And if they demand it now you're screwed.
Yeah. The 45,000 would not have covered just my copay. No. For all my treatments. And
it's yeah. Thank goodness you had extra money. Thank goodness you were successful. You probably had a savings account on top of that. Yeah.
Thank goodness you were in that position. Yeah. And it's just, I don't understand why access to health and education aren't like the two things. Yeah. If you have those two things, you can create all sorts of stuff from that. I know. I know. Yeah. It's really scary. I just don't understand how people can say that they care about.
People and not care about those two things. But that's me, so Me too sister. Me too. So now that you have come through this Yes. You rediscovered your art.
I did.
What, how did you get back into that and what has rediscovering that process been like? Like through the cancer and since I've been an artist
since I was a child.
And I think that becoming a strong woman to me through my twenties meant making money so that I could take care of myself. I didn't need a man. That's what it meant to me at the time. And so I achieved that. And my art was just something I just did and I was good at. And then when I had this space where all I was doing was either having treatment.
And feeling sick all of a sudden this kind of space what do you want, Stacy? What's in your gut? What wants to come out? And I just wanted to paint. And so my now husband set up a studio and I had always had, I look I'm not saying it just started. I was in the Venice Art Walk, like I was a successful artist.
Sort of ish. Yeah. A local, like people knew you locally and people, like I sold some stuff. I had some stuff in restaurants, but I wasn't like, I couldn't live off of it. And he made a studio for me out of our second bedroom. So basically all this stuff happened. My father died, we. We were buying a house, I found out I had cancer.
It all happened at once, right? Yeah. So then he set this thing up. So I would just go from the bed and I would go into the other room and start painting. And I started painting every single day. And it became a series. And I just did a show at my gallery and it was called 30 Days. And the, because I had so much space, and this is gonna sound woo and weird, but my paintings were talking to me and I was hearing my voice come out. And
I could cry now just talking about it because I said to my husband, I said, I could die now and be happy because I finally put my art first. I finally put my creativity Yeah. First and. When I found my gallery on Pico and just the signing of the lease. I say this a lot now I said I could die tomorrow.
Because I've achieved it. I put me first. I didn't put, my business, which helps others and all this other stuff. First I really did also include myself in that. Which is really hard for women to do. Because women, it's all about helping others, it's all about mothering and caring for people. And I, for the first time in my life, cared for myself and brought that to the forefront and it's really become the most important thing in my life now, which is not letting that voice be pushed down anymore. It has to at least be equal. Yeah. And so now I am just going to my studio whenever I can.
I'm still obviously working in my business, but I'm more mentoring, I'm more guiding, I'm coming in for, with the negotiations and being an owner now instead of also being the everyday the doer. Doer. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. So
my life has
completely
shifted and I'm sure that opens up so many other things for you.
Relationships and space and peace of mind and yeah, I'm just a completely different person. I. My friends feel it. They're, yeah. And I have, I started to fall back into the stress of the job again and then I got sick. I, so to me, for me, it's all really about being so in tune with your body that you listen to those signs. Yeah.
Anyway, it's health us so much.
Yeah.
We've had everyone on here from mobility specialist to athletes to, the coach, the reiki practitioner was talking about. And there's a red line that's finally modern science is catching back up with the ancient science of we get all these messages all the time and we ignore them.
Yeah.
And whether we're ignoring emotional or physical trauma or any of this stuff it goes somewhere, like it starts building up.
Yeah.
I thought it was fascinating when I learned that, people the definition of Poltergeist is stored up, energy released from a body in into a space.
Oh, wow. And I was like, that makes total sense actually. It makes sense. Like you, this step goes somewhere.
Yeah.
And if we just stuff it down, like it, it's going to show it physically. Yeah. Even at one of the we do monthly meetups in Costa Mesa for Powerful Ladies and we're looking to expand.
But on the fir in October it was all about intuition. And we do like round table discussions about what that means. And we had a woman there who is a hairdresser and she goes, I can tell where people are at in their life based on their hair.
Yeah.
She's I don't really know what it means all the time, but I can tell like something's up.
Either they're stressed or they're sick or something's going on. She's I'm like a hair whisperer. And she's now I don't know when I notice this, if I should ask people or tell people or be like maybe they don't need more stress than their life, but she's I think I have to because I want them to know your body's saying something and maybe you can't, you don't see it.
Yeah. Yeah.
But it's wild how all of this gets communicated.
Yeah,
absolutely. When you look at your art and your gallery, like where do you get your inspiration from? What do you want your art to be expressing and sharing with everyone else?
I feel like. Early on I had this famous artist in Venice come to my gallery and or my studio at the time, it was a garage, and he started yelling at me about how I needed to go back to art school and just basically berating me about my art and I'm never gonna be in a museum and blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's lovely.
Yeah. And I cried for three days and then I just really had to think about what you just asked me pretty early on. And I make things that make me happy. And I make things that I feel are beautiful, and if somebody else finds them beautiful, great. But for me, it's about being in the moment in.
Total flow with who I am. And what I'm hearing and what I'm getting. And to be in connection with what I'm working on and watching that evolve into this thing, it's almost like a diary. And if I can just make people happy with my work or, I love it when people like go up to my work and they look at it and how did you do this?
And it provokes other kinds of conversations. And and that's it. But I've also really gotten to the point where my artwork is for myself. Yeah. And so if other people like it, that's like icing on the cake. But. But it has to be for me first, and it can't be about money or I bring up Elizabeth Gilbert a lot because her book Big Magic Oh,
we talk about on this podcast all the time.
Everyone's a fan. It's my bible. Yeah. So I
go to it all the time, and one of the, one of the par one of the what do you call it? Chapters? Yeah. One of the chapters. This is what happens when you're getting old. One of the chapters talks about not putting pressure on your creativity.
And. I really subscribe to that. It's if I sell a painting, that's great, but I don't have to sell a painting. I can keep them all. I have hundreds of paintings at my studio and they're like my little baby, so I covet them a lot. People, I just did one yesterday and somebody's like, how much?
I'm like, I don't know, but no really how much? I'm like, I don't know. I don't even know if it's finished. It's just yeah. It's not about that because I've also developed this other part of my life that, that supports my art. So I'm not in that space where my art has to support me. I'm actually supporting my creativity.
Yes. I totally understand that. I love helping people get to discover what their flow state is and then figure out how do we monetize it. But sometimes you monetize it on its own. Sometimes you monetize it just like you're doing with something else that you're also good at that you can make money at Faster.
Yeah. And easier. Yeah. Without the emotional attachment.
Yeah.
Yeah, I, no, I love that book and I think it applies to so many different levels of creativity and just like she talks about the story she had that wasn't hers to finish when she met that woman. I love, yes. Love things like that. Chills. I just got chills.
Yeah. But even with your art, I imagine that there are art, like when people go to like it, you almost know no, that's meant for you. You can feel that exchange of oh yeah. Like you're the one that I've been waiting for to figure out a price for this one because no one else meant to have it.
Yes. Yes. And how cool is it that happens in the world? It's
so cool. Yeah. It's really cool when someone so strongly, and yeah. I love seeing my art out in the world. Kendall bought two pieces.
Yeah, no, they're amazing. I, like she told me about it and then she recommended you, and I'm like, oh.
And it's very much style that I like because I don't like when things are. I don't like my art to have 90 degrees. And so especially your watercolor swirl paintings, like I'm literally scrolling on your website right now. I'm like, oh, I want that one. And because like they're just, they're very emotional and I see a lot of story in them.
Yeah. That why I think they're cool. Jordan's checking them out now, they're very feminine. Everything that I do is very feminine. There's no hard lines. And I went to art school so I was, doing still lives and drawing faces and this was really my outlet because I was so much in my head in my business that I wanted to just be able to be free and not think in my work. Yes. And now I travel around to different cities and I. I find artists that I love and I say, can I come and do a private with you? And I work with them and I meet all these really kick-ass amazing women and and now and I have a love-hate relationship with social media, but the beautiful thing about social media is that I'm a, I'm connected now to these artists all over the world. I have an artist in Germany and we just love each other, yeah. And we, and I'm just like amazed by the work that they do and we support each other and we realize that it's, we're not in competition. No. Yeah.
It's just a beautiful thing. I, it's my favorite thing about powerful ladies is that just connecting women who are awesome and up to something.
Yeah. All the time.
Yeah.
And we had, there was a fellow coach at the meetup this past month, and she's is it okay that I tell people where to find me. I'm like, yeah. She's I'm like, yes, of course. Like the comp, like I don't believe in the competition concept. No, there's different, just like there's different art for every person.
There's gonna be different coaching needs. Is it like, you want to be around different people? Yeah. And there's so many people it's awesome. Yeah. And I
really I also, like we were talking about bringing healthcare and making healthcare affordable. It's one of the things I wanted to do with my artwork, which is why I I offer prints because there's this she is in the art world here in Los Angeles, and when I started to get into the art world here I started to notice the stress coming back and I feel like I already did that race with my business. And I was like, no, that's not what this is.
Yeah.
This is about love, right? This is about bringing joy into people's homes. And so I wanted to make it accessible. I didn't want it to be for the elite. And and I decided to. Somebody had offered to come and do this video of me and all, and he was gonna help me, like and I was just like no.
I'm not even stepping into that pool. I'm just gonna have my own fucking gallery. Yeah. And I'm gonna do my own fucking shows and I'm gonna invite other strong, powerful artists to come in and we'll just do our own shit. It's the same thing I did with my company a hundred percent. It's like I'm just gonna do it on my own.
That's what I, if I can say anything to anyone, when they come to me for advice, I'm like, I always say, you don't need anyone else. You just need to follow your gut. And then the people who will help you will just start to come. Yes. But you don't need anyone to open the door for you. That's it's you just don't, you gotta kick you, you kick the door open.
Yeah. And I think it becomes so clear what you need to do once you move all the things you should do out of the way. It amazes me how often we look at what we are gonna do in the world. And when I ask people, do you really wanna do that?
90% of the things like move outta the way. Yeah. Like why do we take on other people's dreams?
I don't understand it. And why do we think life needs to be hard? Because it also, it doesn't. Yes. Thank you. Even when I just said, kicked down the door, I was like no, really, you just go around the door and you go down the path that has the pretty flowers that you like, and you walk down that path, right?
Yes. And then you find what jazzes you there. It's, and I know I don't know. I did, I wasn't born rich. I wasn't, I didn't come from money at all, but I do believe that. Somehow I navigated life to find a balance of everything. And I think a lot of it comes from just really believing in myself finally and following what's bright and what's light and what's positive and leaving the negative.
Yeah.
Because I believe that our words are powerful and our thoughts are powerful.
They are. They really are. And I hear in your share a lot of, no matter what you were doing, like working your butt off for it like it was Yeah. There's a difference between.
Choosing the path that is more attractive to you versus choosing the path that's easier. And I think that's a distinction that gets lost sometimes. When you talk about a flowery path, like it wasn't, that was the easier path. That was the one that brought you more joy and sometimes you have to climb a mountain to find that path.
Yeah.
But it's really about like, how do we. How do we stay in the place where we're having the most fun? Because when you're having fun, you're gonna work hard. And when you're working hard, things are gonna open themselves up. Yeah. Yeah. If you're at a desk that you hate every day and all you're doing is consuming and creating negatives, energy, like you're not gonna have any sort of a life that you want, just not possible.
Now, listen, I
flipped burgers. I worked at a gas station, I worked at a flower shop. I was a waiter, I was a bartender. I've done I've worked since I was 12 years old, whatever it took. I've done just about everything, but I, when I look back now, the biggest leaps I made were the ones that where I just.
Trusted that voice and went, oh, I'm gonna do this. Yeah. And I'm just gonna figure it out as I go. Everything I always did, I just figured it out as I went. Yeah. I didn't really do anything by the traditional method.
No. And I'm so happy that we're in a little bit of a, like a find your own way entrepreneurial renaissance because I'm so over people thinking like, I have to do it this way.
And even, I have some clients that come to me and they're like, okay, I need my Twitter strategy. I need my YouTube strategy. They need all these things. They think, and I'm like, you don't even have a thing yet.
Yeah.
What's your thing? But all these people are out there selling the right way to do things.
I know. And it's a lie. It's such a lie. Yeah. Yeah. It makes me crazy 'cause there's some people who are doing amazing things that there're to help people. And there are other people who, I don't think they realize the box that they've created for themselves or others.
Yeah. I will say that. I was in debt when I was younger.
And the book that got me outta debt was You were born Rich by Bob Proctor. Did you ever read that? Oh
no.
Okay. So whenever somebody's telling me that they're spending all this money to go do this or that to try to figure all this stuff out, I'm like 1299. You were born Rich Bob Proctor, literally within reading that book.
And I went to his seminar, which he paid for by the way, for me. 'cause I didn't have the money to go. Literally within the year I was out of debt and I've never been in debt again. There was something, there's something very spiritual about the book and I just, it just jived with me. And when people come to me and they tell me I have money problems, I'm like, just go read this book.
And I think that there's so much of. How you value yourself. Tied into that whole story.
Yeah.
So much.
Oh, yeah. Oh, and I have a dance, right? So I have a, we, okay. People are just gonna think I'm really weird at all. Now, at all. You're speaking to your people. Okay. So I have a thing that I say that I used to say all the time.
I don't say it anymore because now I, I. Achieved it. God bless. I have I don't worry about paying my bills anymore. I say money is flowing to me. Like a river to the ocean, and I am the ocean. And I envision that, right? And I would go around my apartment and I would sing it, and I would dance, and I would say it, and literally money would come to me the very next day, like literally a check in the mail.
And people don't believe me, but there's a power in that, right? And I just believed it. And ever since then, I just, I don't worry about money. Yeah. I don't know. I just had to say that because if somebody else wants to say their little thing,
you're not crazy. Everyone who's been on this podcast or listened to this has a mantra.
Similar to that, or I'm a big believer in saying something over and over again and then it happens. Yeah. Like we've talked about it, so Kara's talked about it so many times. Like you put it on into the universe, it's gonna happen. Yeah.
Yeah. I do believe you have to meet it halfway.
Yeah,
if you were saying that in your apartment, and then like you would just lay back down for the next week.
I would be surprised if a check showed up. But if you're saying that and then you're also out and doing the things and causing the energy to move around and you're working like you are, like, yeah. Like you're playing. Yeah.
Going back to Elizabeth Gilbert, genius and the universe and all these things they wanna play along.
Yeah. If you are not willing to play, they're gonna move on. You have to be in the flow,
right?
You have
to be in the flow. If you're on the side of the river holding onto the rock, you're not gonna be in the flow. So nothing's gonna come to you. Yes. But you, so you have to be in the game of it and in the flow of it.
And I, I'm a big believer in not my meditation teacher once said, don't give advice unless it's asked for. And i'm not perfect with it, but I try only to say something to someone if they come to me and ask me. And most of the time when someone's come to me and asked me about something, it, I hear it in their voice.
All of their words, all of the things they say. Everything goes down, right? It's all, this is what's ha and it's all, and I say, you need to change your speech. Whatever you can do to change up that energy because you are literally calling in what you're saying. Yeah. Just change the speech.
Just fake it for a while. Just start to say other things. Because I do believe that, that all the people who are successful and who have wonderful things in their lives are doing what you just said, which is they're saying these positive things and. You, when you start to say things, you start to see them.
Yeah.
And it's not even woo, it's just you see what you're looking for. Yeah.
No, why not choose the lighter, easier, happier option?
Yeah.
To your point, it doesn't need to be this hard. I think every thing I do is because I, it makes me crazy that everyone makes it so hard.
I know. For no reason. Yeah. Come and play on the side where we're having fun. We're not picking up rocks over here. And I was there in my teens,
I was depressed and oh, woe is me. So it is a journey, right? Yes. 100% such a journey. But one of my friends, we're all turning 50 this year and she was like, oh God, it's turning 50.
And, I just realized that I've lived more life than I have left to live. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe not. And I just said, but isn't it cool to be at this age now where you know things? I was like, I just think that's so fucking cool. I feel like I know things. And. I, I just, I don't know.
Maybe, I don't know. Maybe it's 'cause I'm feeling good in my life, but I've just I like that. I like, I would not go back.
No. I read an article last night about a woman who turned 110,
oh my God.
110. And she's still reading, still lives in her own place, still doing her own thing. Like most people probably think that she's 70 or 80.
Wow. But she's 110. And then a friend of mine who's been on the podcast as well, sent me a video of her grandmother on the treadmill. Oh my God. Dancing. Who just turned 90 something. I'm like, we need her on the podcast. She's hilarious. But really 50 doesn't have to be more than half your life anymore.
No. Although my immediate family died. Early, so I'm not sure about me, but wouldn't it be great if I, if my vision of me with all my gray flowing hair and me and my man are living on a lake somewhere and i'm painting and we're both naked or something, I don't know, yeah. It'd be awesome to be in my eighties, and that's Yeah.
Certainly a goal. But just in case that's not the case. Like I wanna make every year
Great. Yeah. I think no matter what age you're shooting for. Yeah. I think too, we were just discussing the the book, the one thing, 'cause that's what our January meetup was about. And one of the things they talk about is how people have to-do lists all the time, but they're full of stuff that you really don't care about.
And what I hear in what you're talking about is. Like you, your wisdom. Also, years of freedom in knowing oh, I'm not doing half that stuff. Let's not even talk about it. Yeah. Like the video guy. Nope. Yeah, no, thank you. Yeah. Like you're just not putting extra stuff in your space.
I really feel into stress.
So if something starts to make me feel tight I just immediately go, no. I remember when my mom got cancer and I came home and I think I threw some sort of tisy fit or something. You always turn into a child when you go back home and she just said, I don't have time for that.
If you need to do that, you can go outside or you can go back upstairs. But I don't have time for that anymore. And I hear that now, right? Yeah. I hear that. I'm like, there's a list. And it's life is too short. That goes in the life. Life is too short pile, right? And so I'm gonna do things that bring me joy, period.
And that's powerful. It is. And it's powerful and free. Yeah. And look, going to the doctor doesn't make me happy and joyful, but it's for my health. Yeah. So that brings me joy. Yeah. So it's sometimes it's not always gonna be like, all daffodils, but it's, the purpose of it is daffodils.
It's the
commitment. Yeah. Yeah. When you think about, who's inspired you along this path and who reminds you to be a powerful lady in person? Who are those people? Number one is my mother.
Like my mother is gone now, but man powerful woman. I'm so lucky. And and she just the thought of that also reminds me every day.
It's like I learned a big lesson when I lost her and, oh. You gotta be around the people that you love. And that's number one you never wanna regret. That's, you never wanna regret that you didn't spend more time. So I had to learn that in a hard way, but man, watching her like canvas for the candidates that she believed in and, never backing down and.
Having a divorce with my father and having to give up everything to do that, and then buying her own house and rebuilding her life, man, just like really powerful. And I love Elizabeth Gilbert. To me, she's just living her best life. And also at the same time, embracing others and shining a light.
And I don't, I did do a, I went to hear her speak and did a weekend thing with her, but I I don't know, I'm not her friend, but man, would I love to be her friend and like Michelle Obama, like those kind of women. And then the hundreds of women on. Instagram that are all like, putting their art out there and putting themselves out there.
I just, there's so ma all my friends there's so many.
Yeah.
Helen Frankenthaler, like the women who started the art movement and just even though they, none of them got famous 'cause they were only recognizing men, but they were just putting their shit out there, love that. No, it's,
is that too many people No such thing. There's no such thing. When you look at like, how you are today versus how you were younger, like how has being powerful changed? You spoke to about leaning back and letting the feminine show up, but like what else has changed for you and what it means to, to be a powerful lady?
I would be interested to hear if this is something that gets said a lot, but. I feel like once I really just decided to love who I was, there's a shift that happens when I was like, oh, this is my body. This is my body. This is my body. And and then, I used to hate my hair.
I used to straighten my hair. I have curly hair. And now I'm like, your hair's amazing. And now I'm like, my hair's amazing, right? Yeah. It's but there was a shift that happened and I just. And it's not always this way, but I just don't care as much about what other people think. And I think I lived at least half my life caring about what other people think and doing things to please others and hoping that they would like me so that I would be enough.
And that has now shifted to where I'm enough who's gonna come play. Who's gonna come play with me? Yeah. And I'm not perfect. I'm not always at that space. I still want people to like me. Of course. Yes. But I Am I answering the question? You're doing a great job. Okay. I just decided that this, if you believe in reincarnation or not, or whatever, this is my trip this time, and so let's just do with what I've got.
And let's just paint the town.
Yeah. As much as I can. Yes. Then that leads me into the question we ask everybody. Oh. Where on the scale the powerful lady scale? Do you put yourself? Is zero is average, everyday human and 10 is super powerful lady. How do you feel today and how do you feel on average today?
I feel powerful 'cause I'm here.
So today I feel like an eight. Awesome. And I would say on a day-to-day basis, I probably would put myself, I think I'm a badass. I would put myself around a seven. I think, kicking cancer's ass and Yeah. Having a gallery. I don't know, if you would've asked me this three years ago, I would've said a seven, but I put myself at a seven.
Yeah.
You're
doing the things now. I'm doing the things. It's really important. Yeah. So many women and people in general, like I love all the men that tell me they're secretly listening to all the episodes. People are really asking like, how do I find my thing? How do I find my purpose?
How do I get started on that? For people who are really in this seeking space, what would you tell 'em to look for or to, how do they start discovering those things that are gonna get them as excited as you are about your life right now?
I think you have to get as quiet as you can because I think the everyday doing of everything is so much noise in your head and who you wanna be can't possibly break through that noise.
So many years ago, I started to meditate.
I know I, I was one of those people, I have a very, my, my mind goes a thousand miles a minute, so I never thought I could meditate, but there is no bad meditation. It is just about sitting in a chair and closing your eyes and letting the voices come up. But I think even in my painting now, always, it's just getting as quiet as you can, taking your shoes off and going and walking in the grass, giving yourself some space.
Which we don't do a lot these days. There's such a rat race going on in a hamster wheel and we're all on it. And you have to step off of it to really hear yourself. 'cause it is whispers. And you just trust that it will come And remember that you don't know until so don't force yourself to know.
It'll just happen, but you have to give it space.
Yeah. And I've also seen too that the whispers will get louder if you both of you ignore it or if you keep trying to listen.
Yeah.
Sometimes they get like a smack in the face 'cause they're just over you not listening.
Yeah. And sometimes somebody's holding onto it so hard.
And they're like, I have to find it. I have to find it. Nothing can breathe in that space either. So you have to say, Ooh, I'm really ready. That's what I said when I wanted a relationship. I was like, I just decided, oh, I would really like to grow old with someone. And then I just waited to see what would happen and I was like, oh, I think I'm gonna ask her for help.
And then I just wait. So it's this, it's like you said, it's not sitting back and just saying, oh, this is what I want, and then going back to bed. It's this fine dance between not holding on too hard, but really making a conscious decision about what you want in life. And not being hard on yourself.
Yeah.
We've gotta give ourselves grace. Yeah. Yeah. As we look into, what you're up to for this year, what are you excited about? Oh, my, I'm excited about tomorrow. I was
just I am, I just, I, I have, I was sick for a month and a half, so I just got back into my studio yesterday and I walked past all the little voices in my head saying, oh, you haven't been doing this lately and you don't know what you're doing, and maybe you should sit down and meditate and think about what you wanna do.
And I just let it come out. And I probably did one of my favorite paintings ever. And I guess I just. I'm just excited to find out if I get to live to be 80. I'm just, there's nothing necessarily specific because I have to tell you I feel like I've done it. Yeah. I've traveled, I've, I, I just, I'm at this place now where I just I don't know.
I'm happy to wake up tomorrow. It sounds like you're really in this beautiful place of discovery. Yeah. Yeah. No, not no pressure. Just let's see what shows up.
Yeah. Yeah. And let's, I've put these seeds out, right? And I'm just watching everything grow. Yeah. And so now I just get to water everything, right?
Yeah. I get to pay attention and see the people I love and try to be better every day. I just try to be a better person every day and remind myself of these things every
day. You sound the farthest, like I would imagine a talent agent would sound like I,
this is the thing. So I'm, my company's called Beth Stein and Associates and I, when I'm in my business, I'm Beth Stein and my husband does not like her.
And, when I'm in that mode, like you don't really wanna talk to me on the phone. I sound I'm definitely a different person when I'm negotiating a deal and when I'm actually Stacy in my real life. Yeah. And is that a, like a name you made up for the company way back when? Yeah. My middle name is Beth.
And way back then, I was still acting, so I had to have a different name and so I chose Beth and my last name is Kin, so I said s but it should still be Jewish. And so I was like Stein, and I'm like, okay. Beth Stein and Associates. And then I came out. Probably, I can't remember. Once I stopped acting, I came out and then I transitioned Beth into Stacy Beth.
And people would be like, Hey Beth. I'm like, Stacy Beth. And then some people who knew me as an actress were like, Stacy, is that you? And I'd be like, yeah, it's me. I've been wanting to tell you for years. It's me, and yeah, it was this whole thing coming out
as Beth Stein. Yeah.
The entrepreneurial serial entrepreneur thing doesn't stop.
I, no, I know. I know. Anytime I see somebody doing something like, oh, you can make money at that. You know that, right? Yes. Oh, you can make money at that. Why aren't you making money
at that? Yes. I'm always like
that.
Yeah. Like mines like, I'm glad I have a funnel for that now.
But I, like you said, I need to ask people permission first, would you like to make money at that? 'cause you could. Yeah. Yeah. It's no, it's like such a, for me, that's a, such a fun game. Yeah. I
think
people have a
negative connotation about money. Money is a tool. Yes. And it can and it can be fun and a wonderful thing and you can really help people with it.
I think you just have to change your mindset about it. Yes. I think that's, I thought being a starving artist was a thing. Romantic. Yeah. It was romantic. It's not it's not. No. It's
cold and hungry
usually. Oh yeah. Not I'm totally I learned pretty quickly I was like, oh, I'm not into this.
I'm not into this. I did it for a lot of years and I'm like, I'm not into this.
No. And especially when like with both of your businesses you just get to bring like opportunity and joy. Yeah. At the end of the day. Yeah. You're like so many people, when you ask what they sell, they're like, I sell bricks.
And I'm like, are you sure? I don't know, like I think you sell a new home for somebody. Yeah. I think you sell all this, like, all these other words that people care about that are not the brick. Yeah. But most people aren't pitching those words. They're pitching the brick. And I'm like, that's why it's not working.
Yeah.
And I feel like I was successful because I was I did set up a company that was helping other people. Like that is definitely one of my purposes in life. And then I wasn't, I didn't feel whole until I also started helping myself. Yes. Because I always felt depleted and I always felt like I was leaving myself out of that equation.
And then it was finding that balance of also oh, putting myself up there and helping myself. I never, I always said, oh, I don't know how to do that. And now, marrying those two, it's yeah. Finally I got it.
Yep. So I imagine that you were an example of a powerful lady, right? With your powerful man.
Yeah. How do you get inspired from him and like how do you guys work together to make sure each other's living your, their best lives?
He's really good at things that I'm not good at, and he's really taken the pressure off of me having to do the man things, right? So we set it up right from the beginning where I was just like, I was so entrenched in my business when we first met that I literally said, all I wanna know is what time to be ready and what to wear.
And that's it. And he did everything else right. And then as we became boyfriend, girlfriend, and as we moved in, things started to equalize. But it started out with, I was just like, I'm just gonna look pretty, and now, w we just balance each other really well. He sees things in me, like whenever he sees me going into the stressful place, he can bring me back.
He's very kind of grounded and I am full of air and fun, and so I bring laughter and I go around the house naked dancing and putting on shows and I make him laugh and, so we just, I don't know, we inspire each other in that way. And we're also, he's a production designer in the business, so we understand each other's businesses really well.
And he likes my art, which helps, and he puts it in his commercials and we have it. He puts it up all over our house. So it really is about finding someone who just compliments you and their quirks match your quirks. And I just feel like I met my person. How cool.
I didn't think it was gonna happen. I really had said, I'll be fine by myself for the rest of my life. And now I'm like, Ooh, I get to do it with someone else. That's
cool. Yeah. Yeah. It, I love all sorts of romance. Romance, so I love all of this. Yeah. I know. Online crazy. My boyfriend and I met on Tinder, so Love it.
Six years later. Yeah. I love it. You never know anymore, you just don't. No. And I, back in those days when it was first coming out, everyone was like, oh, it's not gonna be real that way. I'm like. It really is no different than meeting someone anywhere else. It's just like how, I keep using dating as an example of like building sales funnels for clients.
And like you're just putting them into the funnel. Yeah. You something to go through all the steps. Yeah. All the steps are
real. Yeah. And I used it as an investigation as well. Yeah. Like I was saying, yes. That was one of the things I said yes to everyone. And then I would go and I would just, there's always something interesting about someone.
You can learn something from everyone. So I was just like figuring out what was gonna work for me as I went. And then I walked into meet him and I was, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I was like, oh, I'm in trouble.
Yeah. I'm in trouble. Yeah, for sure. And I think there's that level of. Just going to see what happens.
Like people with so much pressure when they are dating that every coffee you go on or drink, you go on. It's like this big serious date. Yeah. I'm like, just go make a friend. Start there. Start there. Yeah. You might not wanna be friends. And
yes, it's like we as women, and I know I'm going off on a tangent, but like we as women, when we meet someone, then we make them very important, right?
And it, when I started working with this. Relationship coach. She was like, just keep dating and just so you don't put too much pressure on anybody. And then somebody will step up. And that's what Vincent did. I said, I just want you to know I'm seeing other people and I can't remember at what point I said this, and he was just like, no, you're, no, you're not. Yeah. I'm like but I am, I'm really waiting to find someone who actually wants to grow into something real with me. And he was basically like, yeah, that's me. And I was like, oh, okay. Awesome.
He actually said, if I saw you walking down the street with another man, I'd wanna hit him. And I was just like, he's not a violent person. No, of course. But he said that, and we were like, okay, I guess we're boyfriend girlfriend.
That's adorable. This just gets better. I appreciate all this. As we are wrapping up today.
What would you like to leave everyone with about you? Or a quote you like or anything else that we didn't get to talk about? Oh, I'm so glad you asked
me the quote 'cause I thought you might ask me. So I'm a big quote person. I have bajillion on my Instagram. But I have two that I love. Yeah, please. And the first one is from a woman named Rebecca Ray.
She was never quite ready, but she was brave. And the universe listens to brave.
I love that.
Oh my god, I love that quote.
Yeah.
Because you never feel ready,
right? No. And if you do, it's not the right move. Yeah. Yeah. I love that. I heard something today about the first step is you do it and the second step is you're brave and inspired.
Ooh, yeah. I love that.
You just have to take the leap.
You have to, and just start. Yeah. And I say that to people all the time. 'Cause they're like, oh, I'm I need to lose five more pounds. I'm like, no, you don't just do it. Just do it now. Yeah. And I say to people all the time, my answer whenever you come to me is always gonna be yes.
Do it. Should I do this? Yes. Should I do yes. The answer's always gonna be yes. Because what do you got to lose? Because saying no just stops the
energy. And I think there's a big difference between. Yeah. Saying yes and starting and then having to like stick with it and finish it.
No one's saying stick with it and finish it. Yeah. Because if you want to, you will. Yeah. But go start, go try things like people who are trying to find their career path and everything else and go do a bunch of stuff.
Yeah.
Like you shouldn't feel bad going somewhere and realizing this is not it.
You do not need to stay for a year like bounce. 'cause they don't want you there anyway.
And that's my other quote that I think about all the time. And one of my teachers, Jeffrey Tambor used to say this all the time and he would say, open your aperture. Because if you're too laser focused on one thing, you're gonna miss all the other presents that are all around.
Yes. So it's yeah, go in that direction, but keep your aperture open because then all these people, all these ideas, everything's gonna flood in. And, so that's the other quote that I love as well.
I love that one too. No there's so much, there's so much.
When you ask a question of how can I do X? Yeah. And just start playing the game of like, all right, what are all the ways?
Yeah.
There's so many different things and I find it so fascinating about the human condition that. We so often don't see what's next to us.
Yeah.
Like how is that, do this happen to other animals?
I'm not sure. Yeah.
And I think read Big Magic and Read Art and Fear, which I love that book. Like both of those books just gave me so much, just space and ideas of how to just embrace life, and my own creativity and
yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Yay. Yeah. It has been such a pleasure to have you so much fun.
Thank you so much. I'm so honored. No, it's been great. I love your energy. I love who you are and what you stand for. I'm so thankful to Kendall for connecting us, and I am left fully rejuvenated and inspired after this, so thank you. Me too. Me too. Thank you. Thank you.
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