We were lucky to catch up with Karen Rosenfeld recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Karen, thanks for joining us today. Do you wish you had started sooner?

This is a huge issue that weighs on me all the time. I worry all the time that I’m running out of time to do everything I want to do, and I just wish I had started sooner. However, I know that is not true and I tell myself all the time that everything I did prior to starting my creative career this time was important to go through to help me realize what I wanted to do. Along with all of the skills I learned doing different things over the years will help me in so many ways, personally and professionally. In the end, I am glad that I ended up doing something creative finally because younger me would be so excited.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My two favorite things are traveling and photography. Of course, I found a way to combine them! I am a photographer, filmmaker, traveler, writer, graphic and web designer, and so much more. As you can probably guess, I keep myself pretty busy. I can’t help but think of new ideas and dive headfirst into them.

I have been a photographer for 15+ years and specialize in documentary-style photography. Throughout those years my interests expanded to filmmaking, graphic design, and web design. Naturally, when I started traveling, my camera came along with me. I fell in love with seeing parts of the world I hadn’t seen before and experiencing things different from my normal. So far, I have traveled to 17 countries and 20 US states, and I am always looking for new places to explore. Photography has always made that exploration even more fun and helped me end up in places I would have least expected. There is something about a camera being in your hand that pushes you to explore that hidden spot, walk that extra mile, and improve your patience when waiting for something amazing.

This is how I came up with the concept of The Everyday Adventure. When you start to think of everything as an adventure, it makes life a little more exciting. I help with everything travel. From before your trip to after, and everything in between! My goal is to help others realize that they can do the same. It wasn’t that long ago for me that I thought traveling abroad was something I would never get to do. I’m so excited to see where my business and I both end up in the future.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

My mission that is driving my creative journey is that I want to spend my time working towards and doing what makes me happy every day and to be able to look back and be proud of what I’ve accomplished, or even just experienced, over the years. I think we can so easily get stuck in the mundane comfortable repetition every day, which makes it easy to tell yourself that you’ll do something sometime in the future. And before you know it, time has gotten away from you. My creative ideas and business give me a way to constantly brainstorm new ideas and actually execute them instead of putting them off.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

My whole life has been a series of pivoting in different directions, but the last three years for me have been especially full of changes. For years I worked in accounting alongside my creative work that I did on the side. In 2020, I was laid off from my accounting position which led me to a long journey of figuring out what to do next. I spent the rest of the year applying to new positions unsuccessfully until I finally realized that I should take advantage of this time that was given to me to go in a different direction. I focused a lot on my creative business, The Everyday Adventure, along with a couple of other career attempts like getting my real estate license, and I could not be any happier. I know the 18 year old college art student in me would be so happy that I circled back around and finally started focusing on what really makes me happy.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.karenrosenfeld.com
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