Honing In
Honing In
Podcast Description
Honing In is a podcast for creative thinkers where we’ll hone our skills, explore our passions, and nurture our dream projects into being.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast dives into themes such as creativity, neurodiversity, and self-publishing. Specific episodes include discussions on the history and impact of the Black Pod Class, ways to balance ADHD with academic pursuits, and practical insights into self-publishing versus traditional publishing. It often emphasizes the importance of compassion in creative processes and real-world applications of productivity techniques.
Honing In is a podcast for creative thinkers where we’ll hone our skills, explore our passions, and nurture our dream projects into being.
If our websites are our homes in this vast digital landscape, then jess herrera, a Venezuelan graphic designer, writer, and restless creative, is an architect. Informed by their experience moving through the immigration process, farming, and being in tune with their own humanity, they build human-first digital spaces for real needs.
Together jess and I unpack the “user experience” when it comes to navigating online spaces, along with examples where the experience is overridden by a need to streamline and systematize. jess also shares the various ways that tending to the fields as a farmer has guided them towards centering ease and care into every aspect of their work. If you’re looking for the complete opposite of “tech bro culture,” this episode is it.
Together we hone in on:
- How jess identifies projects across personal and professional work
- What makes something a “human-first digital experience”
- How the immigration process has informed jess’s approach to building truly inclusive online spaces
- The various ways that farming has given jess insight into the “user experience” and has helped them center human-first care
- jess’s art expressions of writing, collaging, and screen printing as ways to explore their queer identity and Venezuelan culture
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More from jess:
- jess’s website: https://sundogcowboy.com
- jess’s Substack: https://onbeingalive.substack.com
- Article: National Identity Document
- jess’s Instagram: @sundogcowboy
- jess’s newsletter package offer
More from Kate:
- ⭐ Productivity Coaching with Dr. Kate Henry
- 💌 Sign up for Kate’s free newsletter
- 📚 Download Kate’s free Sustainable Productivity Planner
Podcast editing and support by Softer Sounds Studio.
Theme song by Melissa Kaitlyn Carter
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