We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kelé Pandolfe . We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kelé below.

Hi Kelé, thanks for joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Each time I pick up the pen to write or the brush to paint it starts as a blank canvas, and just my thoughts. I write and paint because it calls from me and his part of my self-care/healing.

I remember the first time I saw my first book in print form. Thanking who would buy this there are so many options and fabulous authors out there? And I felt God whispered to me, your story matters, and someone needs to hear it.

About a year after my first book was published, I had a young lady come to me, and tell me a story about how she purchased the book for herself, but ended up giving it to her mother. Her mother had struggled with severe depression/debilitating, emotional and mental disorders most of her life. With tears in her eyes, she sat there and told me how this book has changed her mom’s life!

She began to go on, and say that her mother told her that this book was the catalyst to opening a light in her life and her eyes, and a change for her that she’s been waiting for.

As we both sat there and wept, I was reminded once again. That are creating starts internally for us, but then has tentacles that reaches out to those who need it. The world needs our creativity, the world needs our stories, the world needs our vulnerability. We need each other.

Kelé, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Honestly, my writing and my watercolor paintings all began from broken spaces within my life.

My writing comes from my journaling through hard spaces in time. Through divorce, abandonment, searching for truth and belonging along with healing.

My painting started as a way to processor, healing from losing my 17 year old to suicide. It has been so healing to be able to create, and also provide beautiful art for people to hang in their homes that brings them joy.

My books are spoken with authenticity, relatability, and vulnerability. I believe this helps the reader to feel seen & known. We all just want to know that we are not alone. So, when we speak from a space of authenticity, I firmly believe people are attracted to that sense of belonging.

My art is a complete representation of the need to create, the need to release, the need to bring wets internal to the external. Each piece is an original and unique, which draws, art, collectors, and true art enthusiasts interests.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Creativity is a lost art. Literally! With our heads on screens, and our busy busy lives. We have been bankrupt in the creative department.

We were born to create. My goal I’m calling in creating is to tap into the creativity that God placed in each of us. It is so rewarding to encourage future and fellow authors to feel the need to write. I don’t have the confidence.

To witness someone be encouraged by the creativity of a painting and go out and buy a pack of their first watercolor, paints and message me and show me and tell me what they created and how life-giving it was to them.

We are a village, a community, so my reward in creating written word and watercolors, is seeing growth through something they’ve learned, something that’s challenge them through my reading.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

One less than I would say I had to unlearn through my creative experience is to not make it all about me… I know that sounds interesting since I am the one creating.

When my first book was published, I remember receiving the first published copies, opening the box, and then having a small panic attack. Your story is personal, writing is vulnerable, the minute the written word is out into the world than people can have an opinion, and agree, or disagree with what you have written.

when I started painting, I did it as I had spoken about earlier as a healing process for myself and grieving from the loss of my son. I had posted a picture of one of the first paintings I did online and someone reached out and said they wanted to purchase it. I never sent out to you sell my artwork, which I thought was just silly and a process for me to grieve and heal.

So what I would say to other creatives out there and people who are stagnant and not moving forward with what they feel they can offer the world with their creativity. It just stops making it about you! Pick up the brush, pick up the pen, start typing on the keys, Bake all day in your kitchen, sit down to that sewing machine. And do what your hands and your heart were created to do. If you love it, you find value in it, you feel with a passion and a purpose. This is what you were created to do. Go out and show it to the world, without reservation.

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