The Ärtful Podcast
The Ärtful podcast is an interview show where you’ll get to know the people behind the creative brands we love. These open, casual, and candid conversations will shed a light on what it’s really like to reach your true potential with joy, fulfillment, and freedom. Presented by Ärtful and hosted by Gabe Ratliff, an award-winning artist, entrepreneur, and coach.
054: Cristina Amigoni & Alex Cullimore — Guiding Leaders to Uplift Organizational Cultures
Siamo was founded in the traditional way - two people meeting at happy hour to scribble workplace improvement ideas on a napkin. Founders Cristina Amigoni and Alex Cullimore connected over a mutual desire to make work more human and treat humans like humans.
Both from a traditional consulting background, Cristina and Alex discovered a passion for coaching through professional coach training and realized the potential of blending coaching and consulting approaches. Combining the improvement mindset of consulting with a love for uncovering the authentic potential of people and organizations, Siamo emerged to guide leaders to uplift their organizational cultures and infuse human-centric practices into the workplace.
053: Meridith Grundei — Be a Confident, Credible Speaker
Meridith Grundei is a public speaking coach and change maker. As an award-winning theatre director, producer, and former Second City improv teacher, she recognized the similarities between performing for audiences on stage every night and presenting to clients/colleagues every day, but the latter didn’t have the right tools to bring their stories to life. So she decided to do something about it. She specializes in presentation and public speaking consultation, individual training and development, and creative team solutions using improvisational theatre techniques to build trust, empathy, and out-of-the-box thinking. 11 Years and some change later, Grundei Coaching has helped thousands of individuals and corporations craft engaging presentations and authentic stories to achieve career growth and success.
052: Raylen Davis — Elevate Your Coaching Business
Raylen Davis is a No-BS entrepreneur and coach helping people overcome the obstacles and excuses keeping them from building their dream business and life. He is the founder of Elevated Coaches Academy which helps coaches grow their business so they can spend more time coaching and less time chasing leads, and Elevated Content Marketing to Elevate tomorrow’s thought leaders by help them effectively spread their message.
051: Phyllis Williams-Strawder — Brand Like a Solopreneur
Phyllis Williams-Strawder, aka the Ghetto Country Brandmother®, is an empathic bitch leading a respectful rebellion of solopreneurs. In the politically correct world she's a certified brand strategist, business coach and life coach. She believes everyone should own their crazy because that's where the brand resides. Because of that she brands by example on the regular. Brandma's House was built around GCB so she could move her teenpreneurs back into CKO Creator. It's a house where rebellion is encourage so entrepreneurs can be comfortable in their own skin as they brand. Brandma's House chooses to focus on a one to few instead of one to many business model in order to develop a closer relationship.
050: Matt Essam — Thriving with Creative Courage
Once referred to as the UK version of Chris Do (by the man himself), Matt Essam is a highly sought-after business coach, working exclusively within the creative and digital sector. Specializing in helping agency owners and freelancers to find and attract high-value clients, Matt has been featured on podcasts alongside the likes of Seth Godin, Austin Kleon, Danielle La Porte, and many more. His international best-selling book Create and Prosper received critical acclaim from industry-leading figures and has been read by award-winning creatives across the globe.
049: Janette Gallardo — Humanizing Business Finance
Janette Gallardo specializes in Fractional CFO services with a focus on strategy. She works with entrepreneurs who are great at their craft but don't have a finance background and she provides visibility and guidance for them to reach their financial goals.
048: David Martin — The Importance of Health and Nutrition
David is a Certified Personal Trainer based in Bangkok, Thailand. He is a firm believer in holistic wellness as a lifestyle. David specializes in functional programming, metabolic conditioning, postural alignment, calisthenics, yogic movements, and the fighting arts. He believes that having positive rituals can transform your life.
047: Jude Schweppe — How to Achieve Your Big Grand Goals
Jude is a life purpose and creativity coach, a writer, a creative business owner, and a huge fan of a really good chat! She is passionate about helping people connect to their innate creativity and discover what it is they REALLY want to do with their 'one wild and precious life' - thank you, Mary Oliver, for the perfect quote!
046: Joel Pilger - Helping ambitious studios become industry leaders
Joel Pilger helps great creatives run great creative companies. As consultant and partner at RevThink, he advises hundreds of…
045: Anneli Hansson - How to be a polite explosion
Anneli Hansson is a brand strategist, business designer, teacher and coach. With 20+ years of experience building brands she has…
The continuing evolution of me and Artful
An ärtful re-introduction and a little bit about me. Hey gang! It’s been a bit and I wanted to catch you up on things, share some exciting things on the way, and take you back to where things all started for me…
044: Micah Groenevelt - Telling the tale of The Noble Animal
Micah Groenevelt is a filmmaker, business owner, and adventurer. He was homeschooled growing up and his mom taught him HOW to learn rather than WHAT to learn. He’s taken this attitude toward…
You are valuable (treat yourself accordingly)
In this week’s solo episode, I thought I’d read one of my recent ärtful reminders that speak to your worth, the value you bring to your clients and customers, and that you need to…
043: Tameca Coleman - Giving from an overflowing cup
Tameca Coleman is a multi-talented artist, including a singer, writer, art dabbler, and even a massage therapist that is filled with curiosity about many things. They are a published multi-genre…
Follow your heart while chasing your dreams`
Recently, the cast and crew of the film Almost Famous got together and recorded a podcast for their 20-anniversary reunion. My friend Angela posted about…
Living a life that is drawn and not traced
In this week’s solo episode, I get vulnerable and share some reflections on living a life that’s been drawn and not traced. I open up about some memories, skeletons from my closet, as well as…
Nurturing yourself is key to impacting others
In this week’s solo episode, I share a bunch of updates like transitioning from Libsyn to Buzzsprout as my media host and the improved user experience that comes with it, all-new ärtful reminders that I’m posting regularly on…
Empathy is an essential practice
In this week’s solo episode, I talk about some lyrics from Depeche Mode’s song, Walking in My Shoes, that have been repeating in my mind over the last couple of months and how they feel so…
Purpose is the North Star
In this week’s solo episode, I open up about a long-time secret that I’ve only shared with close friends and family. I speak to regrets, imposter syndrome, and ways that we hold our selves back by…
What is Artful?
Creativity starts with curiosity — a question, then another question and another. Answering those questions lies at the center of our creativity and our craft, no matter what they are and however many of them we are passionate about. That’s what I love about where we’re going with ärtful. In this week’s solo episode…