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Make It. Share It.Five Years, One Salsa, and Why Creative Dreams Can't Be RushedKent, Cooper, and Lauren pull back the curtain on their own creative journeys in this one. From the five-year evolution of a coffee shop dream to navigating the harsh realities of independent filmmaking, this episode is a tribute to persistence, faith, and the messy beauty of bringing creative visions to life.Discover how a fun conversation over homemade salsa became a thriving business partnership, why George Harrison of The Beatles financed a Monty Python film, and what it really takes to keep creating when the path forward isn’t clear.🔑 Three Key TakeawaysDream...
2025-11-0657 min
Man to MenMen and Story Work with Kent Rabalais // Lead CourageouslyAbout the Guest:
Kent Rabalais is the founder of Kent Studio, an organization dedicated to helping individuals and companies navigate transition and change to achieve clarity, fulfillment, and growth. Before founding Kent Studio, he led creative marketing teams for prestigious clients such as the University of Notre Dame, the American Heart Association, and the Dallas Children's Medical Center. An award-winning communicator, Kent has also worked as a creative director for pursuant, a Dallas-based marketing agency, and was involved in the production of the independent film "Between Notes."
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2024-07-1852 min
17TwentyE168 || Dave Reichert || Lawyer to LumbermanThis week we have a special guest and a guest host, something that we haven't done since 2021 with Daniel Harris [E025] and David Fults [E026] when Preston Pressley and Meloni Raney filled in for Stewart while he was tied up in a large, multi-week trial.This week's guest host is Kent Rabalais [E096] of Kent Studios; this week's guest is none other than Dave Reichert of Reichert Woodworks. For 100 years, the Reichert Woodworks family of companies has served those building and restoring Dallas’ most timeless, exclusive homes by supplying premium lumber and crafting beautiful millwork.Dav...
2024-02-191h 05
Make It. Share It.Creating A Unique Space For Restoration, Purpose, and CommunityRachel Joy joins the show to talk about big dreams, bold faith, and the long journey of making and sharing Sparrow.Rachel is the founder of Sparrow, a non-profit that exists to help women learn their gifts, talents, and passions through connecting with content, collaborating with community, and catalyzing into calling. Rachel shared how one of her favorite and most formative memories is the safe place her grandmother provided for her to create. This led to Rachel wanting to create that same space for others, which helped launch Sparrow years later.We talk a...
2023-10-1354 min
Make It. Share It.Welcome To Make It. Share It.Lauren, Steven, and Kent have a discussion about "why" they wanted to create Make It. Share It. This episode includes stories from each of their journeys in the creative process, their hopes in hearing from other creators of all kinds, why it's encouraging to hear about people in their 40s and older continuing to create, a crazy story involving The Chainsmokers, thoughts on The Taste Gap, and advice from Billy Corgan. Here are some links that are referenced in today's episode:The Taste GapWhatever Is Lovely with Lauren ChandlerLet's Play Heardle...
2023-09-1235 min17TwentyE096 || Kent Rabalais || Every Hero Needs a GuideThis week the 17Twenty crew sits down with Kent Rabalais, the founder and CEO of Kent Studio, a company powered by creatives and technologists who tell redemptive stories that reveal the wonder so often hidden in our world.Kent is often-described as Stewart's oldest friend, dating back to around 1988. Though the story that's told on this week's podcast starts with an old basketball story, it weaves through tales of self-reflection, depression, the path to identify "Who am I? What am I called to do? What are the right next steps to get there?", loss of a parent, d...
2022-07-181h 27