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On this episode of the Art Grind Podcast, host Dina Brodsky and Marshall Jones interviews Mae Read who just recently decided to become a painter and leave her safe but unsatisfying tech career. She shares her rocky journey and questions her role as an active participant in life or as a lucky passenger enjoying what fate has in store for her. Only here. Only on the Art Grind Podcast.

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