This episode features a conversation with host, Rhonda Willers, and guest, Emily Romens. Emily’s creative practice has evolved from that of art student to arts administrator to presently new mom. We discuss the importance of self-compassion when it comes to your creative practice and how to recognize when you might be missing or lacking your own creative motion. Emily shares ways artists can advocate for themselves when they are beginning careers or jobs in arts administration. She offers ideas for how you can ask for your creative practice to be part of your employment agreement. We also dive into the feelings of shame that bubble up when someone tells us “it’s so easy to make” and yet we are struggling to take that first step and how it requires a lot of energy to be spontaneously creative. Please enjoy this episode with Emily Romens.To learn more about Emily’s work and practice, follow her on Instagram: @emlyrmnsStudio Mix #11 :|: Emily RomensSexy Villain by Remi WolfThe Chain by Fleetwood MacHappier Than Ever by Billie EilishParalysed by The StavesSummer Girl by HAIMPodcasts:Armchair expertLoreThis American lifeMike Bribiglia’s Working It OutListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BggKksXt1YtOrRBUO9NUVEmily Romens Brief Biography:Emily Romens received her BFA in Ceramics from the University of Wisconsin - River Falls in 2017. I make non-objective objects, based on very objective things. I am an object maker, and a bellyacher. I find myself most attracted to patterns of domestic life - each beautiful, overwhelming, insignificant, sexy, humorous, caring, heavy, vague, charming, ordinary, moment. How I get my hands moving has changed a lot over the last five years, but the wonders of my gross domestic life has remained. I am now a mother to my child, the first human who has ever deserved my mothering. And somewhere in there is that object maker.Episode page: https://theartistinmeisdeadpodcast.com