Jul 30, 2026 · 38 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Finding Your Inspiration, we sit down with Joel Mejia, tattoo artist, creative entrepreneur, and Ink Master competitor, to explore the mindset that helped him turn a lifelong…
Joel MejiaGuestPaul TullyHostYeah, you know, I used to have this saying I would tell my nephew and my son when they were young and say, you know, life is full of collecting keys, right? It's like that game, like I think it was a Legend of Zelda, aging myself when I was a kid, that was like a big game.
you know, you collect these keys and every key,
So, I mean, everything I feel like if we if we live with that kind of mantra or that kind of perspective of like instead of I think what happens and I want this ties into what you just said, that showbiz.
What happens, I feel, with a lot of people in the industry is you're mixing your art with the business.
Difficult for an artist because you're not really being based merit off how good of an artist you are.
It opened the door to your own marketing and social media and, you know, podcasting.
And it's not like... holding on to one thing in our life doesn't define who we are.
Yeah, you know, I used to have this saying I would tell my nephew and my son when they were young and say, you know, life is full of collecting keys, right? It's like that game, like I think it was a Legend of Zelda, aging myself when I was a kid, that was like a big game.
you know, you collect these keys and every key,
So, I mean, everything I feel like if we if we live with that kind of mantra or that kind of perspective of like instead of I think what happens and I want this ties into what you just said, that showbiz.
What happens, I feel, with a lot of people in the industry is you're mixing your art with the business.
Difficult for an artist because you're not really being based merit off how good of an artist you are.
It opened the door to your own marketing and social media and, you know, podcasting.
And it's not like... holding on to one thing in our life doesn't define who we are.
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He remembers when elimination moment really hit
Mentor On The Run
Then comes his mentor's outlaw biker twist
Queer In A Machismo World
He opens up about queer tattoo barriers
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