Holly Hatam is the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Dear Girl, and Dear Boy, which she had the pleasure of creating with Amy, Paris, and Jason Rosenthal. Some of her other books include Made by Maxine, written by Ruth Spiro, and Jack (Not Jackie), written by Erica Silverman. Holly lives in Waterloo, Ontario, with her wacky husband and even wackier son.
In this episode we talk about:
- growing up always knowing she wanted to be an artist and her parents supporting that
- taking a professor’s advice and focusing on graphic design instead of illustrating which she was also good at, but ended up taking jobs and hating it
- how often we get steered into the “safer” careers but if they are killing our soul is not really easy, or safe
- getting let go from her firm jobs where the environment was toxic and feeling so much self-doubt she didn’t even apply for another job and started working freelance which led to a booming business designing wedding invites
- having a successful business designing but still not feeling fulfilled
- how her pregnancy pushed her to finally put herself out there as an illustrator to be hired for children’s book
- fully stopping her successful business and actively putting herself out there and submitting to agents to be an illustrator so that she didn’t have a fall back plan
- signing with an agent and launching herself into living into the life she envisioned for herself as a kid and all the emotions and reality that comes with that
- how children’s book publishing works
- how having less time now as a working mom actually makes her more productive
- how she has learned to not force creativity
- learning to say no so she doesn’t overwhelm herself and her workload
- how we have to say no to even the awesome things so that we can be our best selves when we show up for them and all the other things on our schedule
- the word she picked for herself to align to this year
- how she keeps her connection to her passion and creativity alive
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Learn more about Holly and her work at https://www.hollyhatam.com and @hollyhatamillustration
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