Hello Creative Friends, This is episode TWENTY! We are kicking off our twenties with the first guest to the podcast: Jordan Goetz, Founder of Austin based Custom Furniture and Metal Fabrication business: Growler Domestics. You are all in for a treat. Jordan tells plenty of stories about starting a business. You'll be able to tell from this conversation, part of Jordan's Secret Sauce is his ability to connect with people. His storytelling is engaging and fun, and I think you're going to love what...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 21
Hello Creative Friends, To me, Art-Making is so much more than making a THING. Art-Making can be a micro-model for the grandest artwork we'll ever make... our lives. This episode is about one of the specific tools we use to create our life... STORY. Stories are tremendously artistic. We can tell a 100 different stories about one experience, and the stories we pick will paint the experience in very unique and powerful ways. We can literally change our histories, by telling the stories in better w...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 20
Hello Creative Friends, This episode digs deeper into one of the goals of Secret Sauce: To talk about the intersection of artist and art. When I first began having relative success working as an independent illustrator, I noticed something: As my work expanded, it began tugging on ME. I couldn't sleep. I had anxiety. I was perpetually overwhelmed. Overtime it became clear, as my work grew the container from which the work came from had to grow... and that was me. But try as as I might, I couldn'...
Aug 19, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 19
Hello Creative Friends, How do we make great art, when what we have to work with is meager? How do we create amazing new things, when resources are thin? This episode was inspired by the wise words of John Coltrane: "You can play a shoestring if you're sincere." Maybe shoestring music is exactly the kind of art the world needs right now. Maybe we don't need to have power to make powerful things. SUPPORT THE PODCAST We have been overwhelmed with wonderful messages from you all about the future of...
Aug 07, 2020•54 min•Ep. 18
Hello Creative Friends, Anyone here question their purpose during times of crisis? When the world is on fire, does what we make matter? In this episode I use a handful of stories to make a case for Artists during crisis. Not only do we need them... but they are imperative to moving forward. SUPPORT THE PODCAST We have been overwhelmed with wonderful messages from you all about the future of this relatively new baby podcast. She was endeavored during the beginning of the pandemic, and I'm excited...
Jul 31, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 17
Hello Creative Friends, In this episode I glom together some stories about viewing life, business and art through a lens of enchantment. In uncertain times, who the heck has time for fairy dust? This is my first stab at making a case that all of us should make time. SUPPORT THE PODCAST We have been overwhelmed with wonderful messages from you all about the future of this relatively new baby podcast. She was endeavored during the beginning of the pandemic, and I'm excited to say that my work is m...
Jul 27, 2020•59 min•Ep. 16
Hello Creative Friends, What times we're in, huh? The "more" seems to keep getting... MORE. In this episode I make a case for making things together as the best chance of solving some of most looming creative problems.... and making things with people that we wildly disagree with. SUPPORT THE PODCAST We have been overwhelmed with wonderful messages from you all about the future of this relatively new baby podcast. She was endeavored during the beginning of the pandemic, and I'm excited to say th...
Jul 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 15
Hello Creative Friends, This episode I finally roped in my husband Jason. I'm excited to have him on, because inevitably when people ask me for advice about combining art with business, I share with them things Jason has told me. In this episode we talk about Jason's "Secret Sauce...." aka the soft skills that are so important to navigating the relationships that are integral to making anything in the world. This is a true right brain/left brain convo, as we dive into the ways his perspective ca...
Jun 29, 2020•50 min•Ep. 14
Hello Creative Friends, This episode is about what we're making when we're seemingly "not making." It's about how we're all profoundly creative and artistic just standing in a room in silence. What gets made in the pause between making? If you're painting, what happens in the space between strokes? I believe the answer is so much more than we can possibly understand. How can that inform making wild new art going forward? How can that inform making a wild new world? SUPPORT THE PODCAST We have be...
Jun 22, 2020•56 min•Ep. 13
Hello Creative Friends, This episode is a (slightly) later follow up to Episode 8: You Have One Job. I don't really know how to to describe this episode in a paragraph, so I'm not going to. It's a long episode. I honestly wonder how I just talked for 90 minutes straight. I supposed my husband wouldn't be surprised. ;) You'll have to dive in, and hopefully come out unscathed. On that note, we have been overwhelmed with wonderful messages from you all about the future of this relatively new baby p...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 12
Hello Creative Friends, This episode is about the creative power of energy. A philosophical foundation of my work and business is that energy is profoundly artistic. We are making things all the time, even simply standing in a room! I wanted to share a story about a teacher that first taught me how energy is even... a thing. It's certainly hard to talk about with words. I hope that the story in this episode can get a part of the truths around the experience... at least as I see it. This is a tre...
Jun 08, 2020•54 min•Ep. 11
ABOUT THIS PODCAST Welcome to Secret Sauce, a podcast about the secret ingredients in life and work, hosted by Becca Borrelli. Secret Sauce explores artistry as a helpful framework for inspiring meaning and understanding in our everyday lives. ABOUT BECCA Becca is an illustrator-educator and part founder of Austin-based female maker collective: Lemon House. She spends most of her time designing adult coloring books, interactive murals, and speaking to organizations about mindfulness, meditation ...
Jun 02, 2020•34 min•Ep. 10
Hello Creative Friends, This episode is for the graduate kiddos. You Have One Job... and it's do figure out what you truly want, and do it. Simple. Not Easy (in the slightest). Doing what your soul truly wants is the greatest gift you can give to the world. Far more damage is done to the planet and others by those living quiet, lives of desperation trying to live in a way they "believe they should live." Interestingly though, we're usually taught the virtues of sacrificing what we deeply want fo...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 9
Hello Creative Friends, It's fair to say that in this time, we are understanding and re-defining the word "essential" in new ways. Especially during times of collective distress, it's easy to feel like making or creating is not only unhelpful, but selfish. How DO artists matter? What do they offer? Would the world miss them if they were gone? If we imagine a world without art, I think we can collectively agree that feels immediately and viscerally awful. But why? That's harder to articulate. In ...
May 11, 2020•53 min•Ep. 8
Hello Creative Friends, Last week I spoke about being invited to let go ideas of "being right" when we make things. If we're not here to be "right," a continuation of that is this episode: "We're here to make magic." Magic is an elusive thing isn't it? The word conjures up many ideas, and also very few of those ideas are "grasp-able." Maybe we think of Harry Potter or fantasy movies, but how does magic apply in the "real world." For that matter: "What is the real world anyway?" In this episode I...
May 04, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 7
Hello Creative Friends, How are you all doing during this time? Last week, I found myself reflecting on a larger narrative for what the heck artists are doing here. Yes, we make beautiful things. Yes we feel under the surface of the world to make those things. Yes, we're here to serve others as "soul workers." But's what's the larger point of all that in a world that really seems all about dominating things, making money and surviving? Full disclosure, sometimes the stories on this podcast were ...
Apr 27, 2020•32 min•Ep. 6
Hello Creative Friends, In the third and final part of the "We're Artists We're Sensitive as F***" series, I talk about the nature of work, and how sensitivity changes the experience we have with it. What are the assumptions and misconceptions of how we view work? Do we view "making a living" as our most important contribution? Why have we collectively created a world where most of us feel we must do work that we don't want to do? What do we believe about people who are not productive in the mat...
Apr 19, 2020•31 min
Hello Creative Friends, This is audio from my conversation last week with host of Austin's pre-eminent Art podcast: Austin Art Talk . I have been a fan of Scott David Gordon and his thought-provoking art interviews since nearly the podcast's inception. He's incredibly easy to talk to, and in this episode we dive into why artists are sensitive. I also share some stories I've never shared publicly before... yep, he's a great interviewer like that. If you like our conversation, check out more of hi...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 5
Hello Creative Friends, Why are Artists Sensitive? What if it's for a very good reason? In Part 2 of 3 in the We're Artists We're SAF Series, we expand upon the work Artists are actually doing. I use a sports hero from my hometown of Cleveland- LeBron James- as a metaphor for how an Artists work is deeply misunderstood, and how that misunderstanding can paralyze creatively powerful people. How can a renewed understanding of what's happening under the surface when we make things, give us courage ...
Apr 05, 2020•41 min•Ep. 4
Hello Creative Friends, If Secret Sauce is the thing only we can put into the world... what keeps us from doing that? In this episode I talk about making friends with sensitivity. That can be hard to do in a world that still largely views sensitivity as weakness. How can renegotiating the stories we tell ourselves about being sensitive, give us more power to create authentically in art and life? ABOUT THIS PODCAST Welcome to Secret Sauce, a podcast about the secret ingredients in life and work, ...
Mar 27, 2020•30 min•Ep. 3
Hello Creative Friends, In the inaugural episode, I share the inspiration for this podcast, and the tale behind the name (ciao bella to my Italian roots). What is Secret Sauce, and what is it that the world most needs from us? What if it's not to be the best? What if it's be ourselves? And how in the world do we do that when the world tries its darnedest to make us be like everyone else? Can a global pandemic provide space for being our authentic, weird, creative selves a little easier? ABOUT TH...
Mar 22, 2020•46 min•Ep. 2
