{"podcast":{"title":"Make Joy Podcast","slug":"make-joy-podcast-7430790","podcast_index_feed_id":7430790,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2069472.rss","website_url":"https://champagneqiviut.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2069472/32bb7573feeddbc3483f94e6cef83817.jpg","author":"Allison Thistlewood","episode_count":18,"summary":"A yarn-alogue of knitting, travel and making adventures","last_synced_at":"2026-09-28T08:24:57.748948+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-joy-podcast-7430790"},"episode":{"title":"S1 E6: Bold and Unapologetic with Felicia Lo","slug":"s1-e6-bold-and-unapologetic-with-felicia-lo","published_at":"2025-09-21T06:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-joy-podcast-7430790/s1-e6-bold-and-unapologetic-with-felicia-lo","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-joy-podcast-7430790","url":"https://champagneqiviut.substack.com/p/s1-e6-bold-and-unapologetic-with","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/174121963/93bddcc83206c0bb1a67a2973790d4db.mp3","summary":"Hello yarn friends - Welcome back to our regularly scheduled podcast… It was an unintended break in the podcast these last couple of weeks and I won’t lie that I was wondering if I was cursed to not get a podcast past a fifth episode! Things have been BUSY over here, and that’s more I’ll tell you about soon, but it has meant that with a few things happening all at the same time, and some more travel, that something had to give and sadly that meant pushing back the podcast for a couple of weeks. To make it up to you though, I’m delighted to bring a banger of an episode and one that I recorded while I was in Vancouver very briefly on my summer hols. My visits to Vancouver have often meant flying catch ups with Felicia Lo, the Founder and Creative Director of SweetGeorgia , and my former boss! I was SweetGeorgia’s first sales agent, and that start when I first moved to the UK set me on this amazing journey and love affair with yarn and a career in the craft industry. Listening to the episode again while I was editing it gave me a renewed awareness of Felicia’s gentle, quiet confidence - in colour, craft, and in how she’s run her business for the last 20 years. And yes! This is the 20th anniversary of SweetGeorgia! And how far they’ve come - from the big, bold, unapologetic colour of their hand dyed yarns, to sharing spinning, weaving, knitting and crochet knowledge via the School of SweetGeorgia , to the community of makers that they’re building - this is a company where colour changes everything. In our conversation, I was reminded that Felicia is a kindred spirit in starting new projects, and I love that she sees SweetGeorgia as continuous Work in Progress. We have a shared passion for lifelong learning and, as it turns out, a shared obsession with falling down rabbit h…","meta_description":"Hello yarn friends - Welcome back to our regularly scheduled podcast… It was an unintended break in the podcast these last couple of weeks and I won’t lie…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3211,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/make-joy-podcast-7430790/episodes/s1-e6-bold-and-unapologetic-with-felicia-lo/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/make-joy-podcast-7430790/s1-e6-bold-and-unapologetic-with-felicia-lo.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}