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Featured on SHOUTOUT LA and shared about my journey creating for a living and a little Ojai Travel Guide. Read an excerpt below and link in bio to read the entire interview. 🙏🏽🌿✨

Q: Hi Kristine, why did you pursue a creative career?

A: Although I have always been naturally creative growing up, I didn’t pursue any creative pursuits until my 20’s. It started with a fashion brand designing clothing and producing jewelry. I took 1 sewing class in college and was self-taught in making jewelry. It was purely out of passion and loved the feeling of freedom from creatively expressing myself.

While I was starting my fashion brand, I was also in college. I suffered from a lack of self-confidence and self-worth. I actually didn’t really know what I wanted to do but did what I thought was expected of me. So I graduated with a degree in Public Health with the intention to work for non-profits that help communities in the public health sector.

But it was through storytelling through visuals, creating clothing and jewelry as a meditation, and sharing content online that was my way of truly making an impact. In hindsight, my inner suffering and not knowing was the catalyst to my creative caree