Julia Rockowitz is a twenty-something illustrator, creative and founder. Like most millennials, you may know her best by her Instagram @rockdoodles where she posts daily punny doodles. In August 2017, Julia started sharing illustrations from her couch and in less than 2 years has turned her creative outlet into a business. Julia now has a stationery line that is sold across the globe and partners with brands to create custom assets to tell their unique stories.
In this episode we talk about:
- how we met at both of our first wholesale trade show
- how she started her punny doodle brand Rockdoodles
- how having a desire to do something just for her is what inspired her starting her doodle instagram account
- having Cosmopolitan Magazine had a hand in her social media growth
- taking the leap to make her doodles into a card line and how she got started
- how being naive and having a gut feeling it would work pushed her to make the jump and keep going with her own business
- how her strongest quality may also be what hurts her the most
- how she hasn’t left room for many people to surprise her and is working on shifting that
- quick and bad drawing and how that gets her out of her own way
- imposter syndrome and the pressure she puts on herself
- the resistance we fight in doing the work we love
- allowing space to be “bad” alleviates pressure in creating
- her going inward this past year and allowing herself to actually discover herself and be herself
- creating a conscious, forward, open conversation dinner party
- the value of having friendships that truly fill you up and lift you up
- the challenges of navigating the growth or loss of friendships as we as individuals grow
- things that happen early in life that create personas we take on for the rest of our lives
- we dive into my phrase of “The Only Judge of Me is Me”
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Find Julia at:
Get her 2020 daily calendar
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
PS. If we mentioned something and I forgot to include it here leave a comment and I will track it down for you!
Procreate and Apple Pencil
My I call bullshit video on “Choose a job a love and never work a day in your life”
Subscribe to the podcast and rate it, it helps! And if you send me a screenshot of your review to podcast at yourjoyologist dot com, you will be entered to win a surprise box from my product line!
F THE SHOULDS. DO THE WANTS.
Forget what you have been told you should do or should be.
Instead ask yourself, “What do I want?
Learn how to listen to what it is that you truly feel & want so that you are living your most present, aligned, and alive life.
0 Comments