with Richard Orlando
Feb 9, 2026
Inside Personal Growth
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My guest for today's episode is author and decorative artist, Elisa Stancil Levine. She's here to share her memoir released last June 2022 entitled This or Something Better: A Memoir of Resilience. Elisa is also the founder of Stancil Studios - an award winning, nationwide decorative painting firm specializing in sensitive color work, subtle and dramatic patterning, gilding and glazing in San Francisco. They are dedicated to producing resonant, fine quality finishes. Elisa had really studied Creative Writing but when she is not writing, traveling or consulting on color and pattern, she and her husband spend hours immersed in nature, running and riding horseback on Sonoma Mountain. With much passion, This or Something Better is already her second book and a third is in the works. If you want to know more about Elisa, please click here to visit her website. I hope you enjoy my engaging interview with Elisa Stancil Levine. Happy listening!
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