#17 – Lauren Phelps: On Creativity, Pursuing Dreams, and Motherhood

Collected Clan: The Company You Keep

Lauren Phelps is an accomplished creative entrepreneur. I first knew Lauren as she achieved great success with her clothing line LEONA then as a client when I had the opportunity to photograph several seasonal lookbooks of her fashion designs. She has continued her creative endeavors since then and now lives in New York where she continued her work in fashion then turned into an even deeper creative direction, which, of course, we talk about here.

What We Talk About

• 0:02:20 Nashville Fashion Week "Nashville Fashion Forward Fund" award
• 0:08:58 Where Lauren's creativity comes from
• 0:13:03 CEO as a title
• 0:20:20 Closing LEONA
• 0:23:14 Sweet home Alabama
• 0:28:28 Alabama to Nashville to New York
• 0:31:10 Why Paris
• 0:31:34 COO of Brandon Maxwell
• 0:34:37 Non-Profit Spotlight: Samual Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
• 0:36:59 Lauren's mother
• 0:43:32 How motherhood has impacted Lauren's work and world
• 0:47:17 "Each baby brings its own loaf of bread"
• 0:49:26 Motherhood and mothering without a mother
• 0:54:16 Moving to visual arts
• 0:58:21 Choosing materials for mixed media pieces
• 0:59:40 Lauren's creative process
• 1:02:37 Monochromania
• 1:05:37 My creative envy
• 1:08:03 Conversation as an audio portrait
• 1:11:03 "If you could have one more conversation with your Mom..."
• 1:12:44 Closing remarks

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