Choosing Yourself and Doing What You Love with Itzel Islas
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How are you showing up for yourself?
In today’s episode of Ellas, Itzel Islas is a visionary graphic designer, illustrator, and founder of YayItzel. As a trailblazing Latina who has continuously shown up for herself and gone full speed on her creativity, Itzel shares how she took the leap of leaving her full-time job to focus on growing YayItzel.
Itzel talks about her amazing decade journey of graphic design and the lessons learned throughout her path. Since 2016, Itzel has been able to create a positive bi-cultural impact through YayItzel’s designs and empower young creatives to pursue their creative career. Inspired by her Mexican upbringing, vibrant color palettes, and playful elements of everyday life, she has given joy to her audience and to me.
We talk about Itzel’s journey of choosing her health and taking the leap to focus on YayItzel during the pandemic. During difficult times, we discover the strength and possibilities we possess. Itzel is a remarkable example of embracing her vision and work. We go over the smart steps she has taken to grow YayItzel and the fulfilling emotions she has experienced of making her own designs.
Take your creativity, your passion, and work seriously. This conversation with Itzel has given us a reminder of taking that necessary risk of embracing your work and putting in the time to experience important opportunities to grow and live your own version of success.
Listen to this episode if you’ve been thinking of taking that leap of focusing on growing your side business or in need of showing up for yourself!
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1:57 - Itzel Islas shares about her decade journey of being a graphic designer
3:13 - Itzel talks about always being creative and discovering the path of graphic design
5:18 - Listen to Itzel share about the lessons she learned throughout her decade journey of graphic design
9:50 - Discover how Itzel’s journey has evolved over the decade and starting YayItzel
13:51 - Itzel talks about how designing for herself and creating her own products is such a satisfying experience
17:51 - Itzel opens up about the decision of choosing her health and taking the leap to grow YayItzel
23:15 - Discover the smart actions that Itzel did to going full speed on growing YayItzel
27:48 - Itzel talks about showing up for herself and seeing how her designs have evolved little by little
30:49 - “I just feel fortunate and fulfilled.”
32:35 - Listen to Itzel talk about choosing to work on what she loves
35:09 - Itzel shares about the actions she does to live and work a mindful schedule
38:03 - Discover Itzel’s definition of success
40:53 - Itzel shares the skills she excited to learn and refine for the next decade
44:05 - Listen to how Itzel opens up about feeling anxiety when doing PopShop Live!
49:36 - Show up!
50:58 - Follow Itzel and support her on Patreon!