ReBloom

What can a love of reading make possible? Anything!
This week, we welcome Kwame Alexander, poet, educator, Emmy Award-winning producer and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 47 books, including The Crossover, The Undefeated, Black Star and Say Yes.
Kwame shares how books and reading shaped his life and his journey as a writer. Together, we explore how creativity and confidence can help us find our voices, open our imaginations and, even when we’re given a “no,” find the courage to keep looking for the “yes.”
Kwame is the founder of the literacy nonprofit One Word at a Time. He also opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana. His work invites readers of all ages to imagine what’s possible.
Until next time — peace, love and rebloom 🌸
Lori & Jamie

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In this episode, we’re joined by Flora Bowley, artist, top-selling author, and internationally recognized creative guide whose work has helped shape the modern intuitive art movement.
For more than fifteen years, Flora has inspired thousands of people around the world to see creativity as more than an artistic practice. Through painting, movement, writing, retreats, and online programs, she helps people reconnect with their intuition, move through change, and live with greater courage and aliveness.
Creativity as a Way Forward
Flora believes creativity belongs to all of us. Her approach encourages us to loosen our grip on perfection, trust the unexpected, and allow the creative process to show us something new about ourselves.
It’s a philosophy that reaches far beyond the canvas: creativity can be a source of resilience, self-discovery, and possibility, especially during times of transition.
The Art of Aliveness
Flora is the author of four books, including Brave Intuitive Painting and The Art of Aliveness, and the founder of FREE FLO, a global creative community centered around creativity, courage, and connection.
Her invitation is beautifully simple: trust your intuition, stay curious, and make space for what brings you alive.
Connect with Flora
Website: https://florabowley.com/we-are-the-revolution/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florabowley
Until next time — peace, love and rebloom 🌸
— Lori & Jamie

In this episode, we're joined by Wendy Solganik, an artist, educator, and the founder of Willa Workshops. She is also the creator and host of Fodder School, an internationally recognized, year-long mixed media art program that has inspired thousands of artists around the world.
Wendy believes art is more than something beautiful to hang on a wall. It can help us relax, express ourselves, build resilience, and live with greater intention. Her invitation is simple: choose curiosity over perfection and rediscover the pleasure of making something with your hands.
Curiosity Over Perfection
Wendy's warm, practical approach gives students permission to experiment, quiet the inner critic, and make room for play. The goal is not a perfect finished piece. It is a creative practice that brings more calm, connection, and joy into everyday life.
Fodder School & Creative Community
Through Fodder School, artists make painted papers, collage elements, handmade books, and mixed media projects alongside instructors from around the world. Through Willa Workshops, Wendy also collaborates with artists and educators to create engaging online classes and meaningful creative communities.
Whether she is teaching or hosting a conversation, Wendy's goal remains the same: to help creativity become a joyful, lifelong practice.
WillaWanders.com
@willa.wanders on Instagram
Until next time — peace, love and rebloom 🌸— Lori & Jamie

For episode 50, we're joined by Janne Ford — a floral designer and photographer based in North Yorkshire, UK. Her background is in fashion and textiles, and more than a decade in that industry gave her a deeply trained eye for colour, texture, and movement. That eye now turns entirely toward flowers.
She grows what she photographs. She shoots only in natural light. The results are floral portraits that feel less like images and more like moments — intimate, seasonal, and full of quiet intention.
Janne's move from fashion to floristry wasn't a departure — it was a deepening. The principles that shaped her textile work (how colour behaves, how texture creates mood, how movement draws the eye) translate directly into how she designs and photographs flowers. That compositional confidence is hard to pin down until you know where it comes from.
Because Janne grows what she photographs, her work is genuinely tethered to the seasons — not styled to look that way, but rooted in the real, day-to-day changes of a living garden. Each image belongs to a specific time of year, a quality of light, a bloom at its exact peak. It's a patient practice, and the body of work it produces feels honest and alive in a way that's increasingly rare.
Janne runs floral photography workshops from her garden studio in North Yorkshire and leads creative retreats in the UK and France. If you want to learn to see and capture botanical beauty with more intention, her website is the place to start. Until next time — peace, love and rebloom 🌸— Lori & Jamie
JanneFord.com
@jannelford on Instagram

In this episode of ReBloom, we sit down with Anna Holtzman, a licensed therapist, coach, and what she calls a “multi-time rebloomer,” to explore what it really means to step into a more honest expression of yourself—and your work.
Anna’s story is one so many women will recognize. She began her career in design journalism and spent over a decade working in television and publishing before feeling the pull toward something deeper. Her transition into therapy and coaching wasn’t part of a plan—it was shaped by experience. Burnout, chronic pain, and the quiet habit of self-silencing led her to ask a different question: What would it look like to trust myself instead?
What unfolds in our conversation is both practical and reflective.
Drawing from her work as a therapist and coach, Anna shares how nervous-system-informed practices helped her reconnect with her voice—not in a performative way, but in a more grounded, sustainable one. We talk about how fear of visibility shows up for high-functioning women, why imposter syndrome persists even with success, and how to move forward without constantly second-guessing yourself.
Anna also hosts the podcast How to Trust Yourself, where she continues these conversations around self-trust, visibility, and doing meaningful work in a way that actually feels sustainable.
Join us for a thoughtful, honest conversation—one that may shift how you think about showing up in your work and your life.
Website: https://www.annaholtzman.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anna_holtzman?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==
How To Trust Yourself Podcast: https://pod.link/1679033028
Free Workshop: “Let Yourself Be Seen”: www.annaholtzman.com/beseen
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