MANIFEST Collab + Create Podcast

This podcast is still a thing! This quick connection is a reminder to invest in YOU. As you cultivate a life you love, it will increase your energy, focus and creative output. I hope we can hang out here soon, but in the meantime, I had SO MUCH FUN hanging out with my friend, Melanie Dale over on her podcast "Lighten Up." We talk gardening and taking chances, join us here. Or stop by my Instagram page @KariSowers and fill me in on what you are doing to manifest, collab and create in your own life. Oh! Before I forget, I send out free coaching e-mails to those on my e-mail list. Join in by e-mailing start @ manifestcollab.com

Episode 13 :: Keep Going featuring Alison Fleck of Juniper Designs :: Manifest Collab Podcast How to enter a major industry without much experience and become a nationally recognized taste maker in your field Alison Fleck is the creator, owner and principal designer at Juniper Designs. Based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Alison focused on trusting her instincts and unique approach to become a recognized force in the US wedding industry - an industry that hovers around $55 billion per year. Listen in to learn how Alison focused on carefully sourcing goods that she turned into a unique design that continues to delight her clients and wow those of us watching from the sidelines.   Get More Content: Sign up with your e-mail address to receive expanded content and free e-courses designed for builders, makers, entrepreneurs and creatives just like YOU. Subscribe HERE Show notes and clickable links always available over at www.manifestcollab.com   YOUR HOST :: KARI SOWERS Intellectual Property Attorney + Consultant for creatives and companies Connect with Kari online: Instagram @ManifestCollab and @KariSowers Twitter @KariSowers Facebook Page for Manifest Collab /ManifestCollab ONLINE INTRO :: Alison Fleck of Juniper Designs Juniper Designs Website Instagram @juniperdesigns Twitter @juniperdesigns Pinterest Juniper Designs OKC

"Do it afraid" was the mantra of Samantha Pedraza, owner of Pedraza Designs at pedrazadesigns.com. Samantha's company is less that one year old. She scaled fast due to a crew of friends pushing her forward and a massive (nearly 12 feet!) opportunity that arrived just before Christmas. Join us today to learn how you can manifest your big idea waaaaaaay before you have all the answers. THINGS WE TALK ABOUT THAT YOU WANT TO CLICK: Parcel Design Co. - branding development Hannah Mason Photography   DO IT AFRAID print by Pedraza Designs Parenthood TV Series GoDaddy website registration Get More Content: Sign up with your e-mail address to receive expanded content and free e-courses designed for makers, entrepreneurs and creatives just like YOU. Subscribe HERE   Show notes and clickable links always available over at www.manifestcollab.com   ONLINE INTRO: SAMANTHA PEDRAZA Pedraza Designs at pedrazadesigns.com Instagram @samanthapedraza Twitter @samanthanoami Pinterest samanthapedraza YOUR HOST KARI SOWERS Intellectual Property Attorney + Consultant for creatives and companies Connect with Kari online: Instagram@ManifestCollab and@KariSowers Twitter @KariSowers Facebook Page for Manifest Collab /ManifestCollab

Welcome for the first time and welcome back. Manifest Collab + Create Podcast is a crew for makers, entrepreneurs, creatives, innovators and builders.  In this minisode your host, Kari Sowers, gives an overview of the themes for season 2: potential, authentic self expression and building within a community.   Big announcement :: the first new episode of season two drops in just a few days!   Get connected to our Manifest Collab + Create community and curriculum by subscribing to our e-mail via manifestcollab.com   See you online!    Now, go build something.       About your host: Kari Sowers, Intellectual Property Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: E-mail :: start@manifestcollab.com Web :: www.manifestcollab.com Instagram :: @manifestcollab Facebook :: Manifest Collab + Create   

S1 + Ep.11 Kristi Hayes of KHop Fit Manifest Collab Podcast When Watching the Olympics Makes You Wonder if You Should Get Up Off the Couch Kristi Hayes is the owner and founder of KHOP FIT, a business that teaches others how to journey to health and wholeness through the avenue of nutrition and fitness. KHOP FIT started in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and is now based in St. Louis, Missouri. Kristi is a certified personal trainer and Level 1 Crossfit Trainer. On any given day, you will find her walking on her hands with her kids, challenging others to do what they think wasn’t possible in her garage gym, or re-decorating multiple rooms in her house. KHOP FIT organically formed when her workout team named their workouts in Kristi's garage/backyard, K’s House of Pain.  Kristi likes to say that the P is for Purpose, Potential, Pull-ups and that there’s always purpose with the Pain - which is a good lesson in life as well. Prior to becoming a fitness and mindset coach, Kristi played college basketball, worked with several churches and non-profits, worked in DC as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill and was the founder and CEO of Wiseabe, a for profit company that helped send students to college in impoverished countries. Kristi uses fitness as the connecting point to bring WHOLENESS in all areas of her teams' lives. By empowering men and women to be disciplined in fitness, nutrition, and care of their soul, Kristi utilizes her past role as a former basektball coach.  Her current focus is to create multiple micro teams that may contain people who all have different individual goals, but each person is invested in helping the others accomplish their next goals. Kristi coaches her teams to "CELEBRATE WHOLENESS TOGETHER."  This episode is a great fit for folks who are coaching themselves, their team, their staff, their corporate culture through a mindset change. Kristi applies the tools we all need for a mindset change and applies it to helping clients with body image. What mindset change do you need? You will be able to convert Kristi's approach to your situation right away. Overheard in this Episode  "Discipline breeds discipline. Starting discipline in one area makes you more disciplined in others." click to tweet "A good coach figures out her players." click to tweet "It is such a brave thing to just show up." click to tweet "There is sacred in the simple." click to tweet   Show notes and clickable links always available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook  

When "On the Road Again" Is Your Actual Life :: Not Just Your Favorite Tune from Willie   Jill Pickering is one half of music duo Jill and Kate. Jill has been able to travel *literally* the whole world singing in front audiences ranging in size from mega stadiums to dive bars. She's been on air via network late night, morning shows, youtube, StageIt and everything in between. Jill gives us the inside scoop on how she discovered her passion for writing songs and how it became the center piece of her career. In this episode we chat with Jill about her writing process, balancing personalities in business, discovering who you really are, finding business mentors and setting big goals for the horizon. After the show, you will want to connect with Jill either over on ManifestCollab.com or on her website JillandKate.com Show notes and clickable links always available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook    

Sarah Harmeyer of Neighbor's Table joins us to talk about building something tangible to create something intangible - in her case, craftsman tables that allow folks to build connections with their neighbors. Neighbor's Table has allowed Sarah to hone her love of making people feel welcome, important and celebrated. Already featured on HGTV and popping up in backyards across America, Neighbor's Table is a "love mission" that has connected Sarah with people who desire to connect and celebrate others, but need a little nudge in the right direction. From helping friends throw approachable parties, to making great introductions to pulling the quiet ones into the conversation - this episode is a must listen for those of us who like to or need to pull together a team. After listening to this episode, you will be ready for your next toast, welcome speech or hosting duties and pull it off with ease. Sarah shows us all how to welcome and connect people in a low key, high connection approach that will make you want to throw another party / grand opening / employee appreciation dinner / just because party as soon as possible.   Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create:   www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook Sign up for our e-mail list and get the goods delivered right to your inbox - click HERE  

How do you prioritize all the things? Jenna Worthen went in deep to research and create a new beautiful efficiency system. Jenna's main gig is political and nonprofit fundraising and consulting. She searched high and low for a simple, striking, efficiency tool that would work for her clients and most importantly for her. A confessed, recovering work-a-holic Jenna has a lot of irons in the fire and needed a way to manage inflow, priorities and outflow. Voila, her new company and creation: The Taskkeeper. In this episode Jenna takes us on the ride from deciding to launch a new company, hitting potholes and finally crossing to the other side with The Taskkeeper steno line and a manifesto for "beautiful efficiency." This episode is exactly what you need if you can see a solution that should exist, but doesn't. You are on the fence, trying to decide if you create it, or just deal without.  At the end of the episode Jenna drops some deep thoughts on how she doesn't let others dictate her schedule. How she flipped a popular phrase to shape a new identity for her life.     Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook

For this episode, we parachute right in the middle of a conversation with Vernon Deas of GroupFly #GRPFLY street wear. His clothing line is highly sought after across North America and GRPFLY is a staple in the underground hiphop scene. In addition to being the mastermind behind GRPFLY, Vernon is a graphic designer, CEO, speaker and youth advocate.  Vernon and I talk about selecting collaboration partners for a new line or campaign;  giving opportunities to those up and coming in your field;  the power of mentoring.   Our internet connection wasn't the greatest for some parts of our interview, but Vernon's wisdom is rather inspiring so, we've served up some clips for you to hear his approach in his own words. This minicast will tide you over until we can schedule another interview with Vernon. The rest of the interview not featured in the auto portion is featured magazine style on manifestcollab.com INSIDE SCOOP :: Vernon is the magic behind the MANIFEST COLLAB logo!   Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create:   www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook Sign up for our e-mail list and get the goods delivered right to your inbox - click HERE

Sometimes good opportunities, inquiries and projects start coming your way so fast that your "yes" agreements become too much for your brain, your body, your life and your family. Maybe you need to step back and focus on just a few hallmark projects and some self care to reboot for the next round. Author, conference CEO and connector Logan Wolfram learned that lesson the hard way.  Listen in to learn how you can follow Logan's lead and make 2016 way more zen than 2015. Mixed in with some big laughs, Logan tells us about what happened when she took her own advice about slowing down and rebooting curious adventure - for one thing, she ended up in a quilting class. By tackling fewer projects, she opened a new creative path for her first online summit: The Curious Living Summit, which had a smashing launch this summer.   Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create:   www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook Sign up for our e-mail list and get the goods delivered right to your inbox - click HERE  

Sam Purvis is a dyed in the wool Portland coffee cult favorite. Sam is friends with and part of the fabric of multiple legendary coffee outfits in the great northwest. Sam, and his brother Nick, are responsible for the vision and experience behind GOOD COFFEE in east Portland. This episode turned out to be like a masterclass in hospitality concepts, building a business team, the history that informs a product and how to pick the right team. You will want to listen to this episode at least twice, and take notes. Whatever type of business or start up has your heart, Sam has something to teach each of us. Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook

Marquita Burke-De Jesus is a yogi, dance company director, activist, mom of two, and gardener living in the Dallas metro area. The unifying aspects in all of her roles is to mentor creative beliefs in the lives of those she journeys alongside in dance, activism and at home. Marquita has danced for many years - after traveling extensively, performing and choreographing, she began to use dance to combat child sex trafficking in partnership with non-profit organizations in Asia and Africa. In 2012, she founded the Silence the Violence campaign and in 2014, Marquita published her first book, Radically Ordinary. Today Marquita continues to share her work in various conferences, professional gatherings and events in Texas and across the USA. Each winter she hosts and directs iReach, an annual dance benefit concert which partners with the community to offer under-resourced girls educational and economic empowerment. To date, her dance company has raised more than $75k to invest in empowerment programs for women and girls.   Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook

Sometimes it can get confusing figuring out whether you need a copyright, trademark or both. Who uses what when? What is the difference between a copyright and trademark? Who gets to use those symbols in a circle? Kari offers an easy overview of these two intellectual property tools and how they can be best used by start-ups, makers, innovators and entrepreneurs who want to build out their brand and content portfolios.  This quick 10,000 foot overview will get you thinking and get your team talking. What else do you want to know about copyrights and/or trademarks? Offer up your feedback on the podcast feed over at manifestcollab.com Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook  

Rachel Jacobson is an accomplished artist, graphic designer, brand developer, workshop queen, modern lettering maven and business owner. She is at the helm of Rachel Jacobson Calligraphy and responsible for many bespoke wedding and logo designs. Rachel and I talk about Enneagram personality types, building a business to match your lifestyle, collaborating with other entrepreneurs, all the project scheduling apps we use and the ones we think someone should invent.   Show notes and clickable links available over at www.manifestcollab.com About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook

Today we hang out with Katherine Wolf, one of the most inspiring and gracious women I know. Katherine and her husband Jay are friends of mine from law school. In Jay and I’s last year of law school, Katherine was a new mom and seasoned model taking care of little six month old James when she suffered a massive brainstem stroke. Her survival and recovery, which included a sixteen hour surgery and more than two year journey through brain rehab, have been nothing short of a miracle. She is out conquering life - she and Jay have co-founded an organization called Hope Heals, recently published a much acclaimed book also titled Hope Heals - they create encouraging content and speak all over the nation, all with refreshing realness and grace. Show notes available over at www.manifestcollab.com   About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook  

Today we hang out with Jessie McNamara, one of my favorite people on the whole planet and also one of the mega creative minds behind the nationally celebrated Music City Rollin Jamboree. Jessie was voted one of the funniest women in Nashville and should be voted one of the biggest hearted as well. Listen to this episode to find out why Reba jumped on Jessie’s bus who they were plotting to surprise. About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook  

Today on the show we talk with Brice Yocum, the principal farmer at Sunbird Farms, located in sunny central California. Sunbird Farms operates as a small, slow, sustainable farm for heritage chickens. Their fans are local and international. Sunbird Farms are a favorite of the Slow Food International movement - after listening to this episode, you will be a fan as well. In this episode, Brice talks about how he expanded his work as an attorney and MBA professor to include raising heritage breed chickens. He champions hyper-locality while further exploring entrepreneurship opportunities in the Internet age.   About your host: Kari Sowers, IP Attorney and Consultant for Creatives and Companies @KariSowers on Twitter and Instagram   About MANIFEST Collab + Create: www.manifestcollab.com @manifestcollab on Instagram Manifest Collab + Create on Facebook

Kari introduces the context and inspiration behind the Manifest Collab podcast.