Today we’d like to introduce you to Beth Inglish.
Hi Beth, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
Nineteen years ago, I moved to Nashville to be a songwriter and a painter. Not a backup plan in sight.
Every step forward and back along the way has forged the path I’m standing on now. When I look at it clearly, I can see it was shaped by sacrifice, pain, peace, and joy. I wouldn’t trade any of it, not even the parts that nearly broke me.
In 2016, I got laid off from a corporate job. At the time it felt like the floor falling out. Looking back, it was the door opening. I became a full-time entrepreneur and spent the next several years hustling past my limits, building something real, and burning myself down in the process. I’ve been betrayed by people I trusted. I’ve created things that genuinely changed people’s lives. Sometimes both in the same year.
The world has a blueprint for a successful life. I don’t follow it. I made my own rules, and it’s working.
Now half of my day is devoted to me. My energy, my restoration, my groundedness. That’s not indulgence. That’s the job. You cannot paint the energy of joy while running on empty. You cannot speak about healing burnout if you are still burned out.
I have risen from adversity through sheer tenacity and a passion to do this work. It’s been harder than it’s been good. The lessons I’ve earned qualify me to pass healing on through community, art, and speaking.
That is the work. Creating healing for others. That’s what I’m here for.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Selling everything I owned to make rent. Being betrayed by the people closest to me. Going through trauma recovery. Moving eight times. Moving to Texas during COVID. Losing my Dad to COVID. Having my heart broken. Completely changing industries.
These struggles are what led me to develop the resilience I need to do the work I do now. So I am grateful. Even though I hated every minute in the middle of it, I was pushed to limits I didn’t even know I had.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I paint joy. I speak about joy. I help people feel good.
That’s it. That’s the work.
I’m a painter, a keynote speaker, and a community builder. I specialize in creating experiences that move people, whether that’s a painting that shifts the energy in a room or a keynote that gives an audience permission to heal.
What I’m most proud of is the Joy Bus project. It’s the heart of everything I do and the purest expression of why I started this work in the first place.
The people who work with me come back because of the energy. It’s universal. It meets people where they are. I’ve seen it work in boardrooms, at community events, on a stage, and on a canvas.
I juggle a lot. Multiple projects, multiple organizations, always creating, always collaborating. But every single day I stop and restore myself. I rest. I renew. Because that’s when the purest work comes out, when I’m painting or writing from a full cup, not a depleted one.
That’s what sets me apart. I protect the energy so it never runs out on the people who need it.
What matters most to you?
Joy. That’s what matters most to me. The deep kind that lives on the other side of real pain.
I know what it is to hold onto wounds and shame for a long time. I also know what it feels like to be free from them. That gap between those two places is where my whole life’s work lives.
I want people to find the healing they need to experience the joy they were created to feel. That’s why I paint. That’s why I speak. That’s why I lead and keep trying new ways to reach people.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://bethinglish.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethinglish
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bethinglish/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethinglish/
- Other: http://binglishart.com/
