{"id":2175,"date":"2012-03-06T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T09:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2015-07-18T15:07:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T22:07:41","slug":"mar-8-finding-the-artist-within-and-making-the-leap-into-the-unknown-ellen-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/mar-8-finding-the-artist-within-and-making-the-leap-into-the-unknown-ellen-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the artist within: Switching Careers (Ellen Brook)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ellen-brook1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2178\" title=\"ellen brook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ellen-brook1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Do you ever find yourself with boundless creative juices and nowhere to go with them? \u00a0What if you could tap your inner artist and unleash the creative genius that you\u00a0truly\u00a0are? \u00a0Ellen Brook left her \u00a0traditional job in the corporate and nonprofit sectors to become an artist. \u00a0Her inspiring journey will fire you up to find your own inner artist in whatever form that may take. Hear Ellen Brook&#8217;s journey into switching careers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Segment 1 (1:30-1:45PST)<\/span>: <a title=\"Part 1: Moving from a corporate job to becoming an artist\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/part-1-moving-from-a-corporate-job-to-becoming-an-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moving from a corporate job to becoming an artist.<\/a>Ellen shares her inspirational story and is \u00a0great reminder for the incredible rewards that life offers when we are willing to take risks into the unknown.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Segment 2 (1:45-1:55PST)<\/span>: <a title=\"Part 2: Tap into your own creative genius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/part-2-tap-into-your-own-creative-genius\/\" target=\"_blank\">Finding your creative genius<\/a>\u00a0Artist and designer Ellen Brook shares her creative process with her work that offers a model for how you can tap your own creative genius.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>About the Artist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ellen Brook is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who paints contemporary abstracts on silk. She creates vibrant\u00a0and dynamic fine art &#8212; like watercolor on silk &#8212; as well as one of a kind original silk clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen&#8217;s\u00a0artwork can be found\u00a0in residential interiors, private collections,\u00a0corporate settings, yoga studios and\u00a0places of wellness. Ellen&#8217;s clothing can be found in retail boutiques, designer shows, through fashion consultants and on her new clothing site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenbrookclothingworks.com\">www.ellenbrookclothingworks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can\u00a0now buy her newest pieces\u00a0directly online at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenbrookclothingworks.com\">www.ellenbrookclothingworks.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To commission a piece go to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ellen-brook.com\/\">http:\/\/ellen-brook.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bay Area listeners: Experience Ellen&#8217;s work first hand and check out\u00a0her paintings at the\u00a0Hinc Showroom at theSan Francisco Design\u00a0Center and\u00a0her clothing at\u00a0San Jose&#8217;sMuseum of\u00a0Art upcoming\u00a0 trunk show on April 19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever find yourself with boundless creative juices and nowhere to go with them? \u00a0What if you could tap your inner artist and unleash the creative genius that you\u00a0truly\u00a0are? \u00a0Ellen Brook left her \u00a0traditional job in the corporate and nonprofit sectors to become an artist. \u00a0Her inspiring journey will fire you up to find<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[500,56,58],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[634,3436,3652,3437,1431,3650,3647,1234,3648,3653,2804,3651,2420,3649,2049,747,1681,1655,3438,3654],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-writing-art","category-show-archives","category-business"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ellen-brook1-150x150-compressed.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21917,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/21917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}