{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Road to Your Name Podcast","title":"Road To Your Name - Season 8, Episode 7: Kelsey Powless of Powless and Company on her journey to her dream job","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4844,"description":"Road to Your Name \nSeason 8, Episode 7\nGuest:  Kelsey Powless - From Scroll Saw to Six Figures of Followers\nThis episode was recorded in December 2025.\nEPISODE DESCRIPTION\nWhat does it take to walk away from a stable career to build something you actually love? For Kelsey Powless of Powless & Co., it started with a night market, a 3D sign she couldn't stop thinking about, and a Christmas present she had to talk her parents into.\nKelsey is a Haudenosaunee woodworker and artist from Six Nations of the Grand River. She's known for her intricate wooden mosaics — one-of-a-kind pieces that have found their way into the University of Utah, McMaster University, Cadbury's head office, and now the Royal Botanical Gardens. She has over 150,000 followers on Instagram and has shipped her work to customers across Canada, the US, and as far as England.\nBut four years ago, she was a 27-year-old programs and services manager climbing the ladder at her local employment agency, making good money and feeling miserable. It took her three-year-old son putting his hand on her face and asking, \"Are you okay, Mama?\" to make her finally ask herself the same question.\nThis episode is about what happens when you stop asking \"why me?\" and start asking \"why not me?\"\nWHAT WE TALK ABOUT\n- How Kelsey discovered scroll sawing at a Christmas night market in 2018 — and spent the next two weeks obsessing over a machine she'd never touched\n- Growing up a \"serial hobbyist\" — beading, knitting, sewing, crocheting, baking — and why the scroll saw was the first thing that ever truly stuck\n- Rising to programs and services manager at 27, one position below the CEO, and realizing she was anxious every single day going to work\n- The moment her three-year-old son Dax grabbed her face during Paw Patrol and asked if she was okay — and why that was the turning point\n- Reading The Secret by Rhonda Byrne at an off-grid cottage in Mattachewan and having what she calls her \"life epiphany\"\n- The difference between...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EMAPSU_o9vetcBfJJ4OU41woZtyCGFgI7d9nIXpjEOY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iMGM3/MjAxOGE0Njg1ZWVj/MWUxZTFkMzllNmI3/ZWQzZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}