Episode Description
Join us this episode as we continue to discuss obstacles in art. Today we have a special guest, Brita Ferm.
Brita is the author of the book Secret Families Problem Families, the host of two podcasts, The Loving Parent Podcast, & The No More Elections Podcast. She is an accomplished pianist, an amazing painter, a wife, mom, mother-in-law, grandma (known as Grams), and Christy’s mentor & friend. In previous iterations of her professional life, she worked as:
a telephone operator, a big box store manager, a corporate billing clerk, a non-profit grant writer, and an artist. She went to college in her late 30’s, earning a BS in Health Science and an MA in Education. She co-founded Happy Child, Inc. and served as its Executive Director and Principal Investigator. Happy Child provided substance abuse prevention education to children and parenting/reparenting classes for adults, while researching self-esteem in the families before and after the classes, all of which was funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
She played in the 1988 Super Bowl halftime show as one of the pianists.
Mentions:
Romero Britto, artist and painter - https://britto.com
Super Bowl Halftime Show, January 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrksVDVO6w&list=RDwqrksVDVO6w&start_radio=1
rjkenna.com → writing class
Brita’s Links:
https://www.instagram.com/oceanbeachart/
https://lovingparentpodcast.com/
https://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/o/oceanbeachart/aboutartistbritaferm.html
Chelsea Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5pC0sv2owewxT0u7moL7Pe?si=6A6QAveCQUq-yf9GNkIbfQ
Christy Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2FBHoxFWv0iDmfVMAQl4h6?si=ZkO6rhamRWaqHv7JmPZI6A
thecreativedownloadpodcast.com