Annabel Reader and Dan Huling are simply in love with creating shoes. The Colorado Shoe School was a natural evolutionary step from Dan and Annabel’s past 20 years of creative and artistic work. Annabel earned a bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Dance and Choreography from Unitec, Auckland, New Zealand and Dan focused on Sculpture and Printmaking as he earned a BFA from Colorado State University.Over the years, they went on to work in a variety of art fields as costume creators, performers, dancers and contraption builders for their own companies like The Handsome Little Devils and EyeSoar Performance and for large entities including New Belgium Brewing Co., Colorado Opera, Colorado State University, Theatre Aspen, and Cirque Du Soleil.Annabel’s costume work led her to begin exploring the art of shoe making and in late 2017 they had a fate changing opportunity to attend a Shoe School in New Zealand. After traveling the world as performers they were playing with a change in career and attending this workshop was the catalyst to starting the Colorado Shoe School.They love sharing skills, teaching others, creating things that don’t currently exist and absolutely love shoes so it was a short distance to building a custom shoe making studio in order to teach others how to make their own shoes. In 2018 Colorado Shoe School opened its doors! They focus both on the functionality and the methods behind shoe making, but the main drive is letting whimsy and fun lead to a new creation.  Both of their career paths have required them to come up with creative interpretations of characters, inventive ways to design things and build alternative dream worlds. Simply creating and making things that have never been seen in this world before.###Your hosts of Are You Waiting for Permission? are Meridith Grundei and Joseph Bennett. They're friends, co-hosts, actors, improvisers and coaches. She lives in NYC and coaches actors, business professionals and presenters to fully engage with their audience, and themselves. She also mentors young actors and directors. He lives in San Miguel de Allende, México and  coaches artists and other creative beings about the beautiful business of art — and life. You can find Meridith:Meridith Grundei the performer artist gal Meridith Grundei CoachingYou can find Joseph:Joseph Bennett the artist/coach extraordinaire*Special thanks to Amy Shelley and Gary Grundei of high fiction for letting us use their music for the Are You Waiting for Permission? podcast.And... while the podcast is free, it's not cheap. We'd be thrilled to have your support on PATREONThank you.