Courtney Batio on New Chapters, Visual Storytelling, and Authenticity

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In this episode, we are joined by Courtney Batio. Courtney is a multidisciplinary director/designer for the performing arts, now based in Chicago. The last three and a half years of her work have taken place in London, England, working with set design, costume design, film, art exhibit/curation, and performance directing. In this wide-ranging conversation, we cover what Art means to her and how she found it as a passion. We also include many tactical things that others can try to help build better routines since she has come back from London and can start fresh and create new habits.

Website: courtneylaine.co.uk
Insta: @_courtneylaine

Show Notes:

• Background recap - Left for London three years ago

• Bull Dog's - High School Reunion

• Harper College Associates Degree in Fashion Design

• Interest in broader fashion (i.e. fashion shows

• Alexander McQueen
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK_KA9U9rqo

• Central Saint Martins London
  https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins

• Degree Switch to Performance Design and Practice

• Coming Back Home

• Job Interviews

• Embracing New Stages

• Living in the Suburbs of Chicago

• What were some memories of London

• Paris and the Eiffel Tower

• The scale of the United States vs Europe

• Trip up from Texas

• Audiobooks and Podcasts during driving

  • Peter Attia Drive

    • Eric Chehab

  • Being Boss

• Linda Anne the Glass Artist (Instagram: @the_art_of_linda_anne) 

• Chain Reactions Collaborative Art Piece (facebook.com/chainreactionsproject)

  • Visual Storytelling

• Letting others experience what you create

• What we create can take a life of its own

• It takes two to have a discussion

• Expose your work before you feel its ready

• Tools to creation

  • Consistency

  • Marathon not a sprint

  • Repetition

  • Make the commitment

• January New Year New Me vs Cynicism

• Changing Habits

  • Leaving the phone outside of the bedroom

• Connecting to Chicago

• Lip Sync Competitions

• Where you always attracted to Art?

• Growing up with Theater

• Harper Fashion

  • Hand and Lock Embroidery Competition

  • Arts of Fashion Competition

• Mentors that Push You

• Get out of your comfort zone

• Recording a podcast album of my parents

• Remembering Courtney's Nana

• Telling Your Story

• Differences in storytelling from live performance and recorded

• Home recordings

• Finding iPod from Middle School

  • Lizzie McGuire

  • Greenday

  • All American Rejects

• Limewire

• Waking Up

• Learning How to Learn

• Building up to a performance or project

• View through the lens of a project to be able to problem solve more effectively

• Unlearning at London

• Weta Workshop

• Being less detail-oriented early on

• Working in teams

• Learning by Doing

• Let others experience failure

• Coming back home

• Meditation / Mindfulness

• Daily Gratitude

• Yoga

• 30 Days of Headspace

• Tarot Cards

• How can I take a moment for myself?