Welcome back to this last piece (for now) with Ilia!... Ilia Sterling of "Youth Gone Wild" in New Richmond, WI. She and her mentor Elo, are living together, doing an apprenticeship together (her as the apprentice) and partners. This is a very rare, 2 part Diary Entry with someone who can affirm the message, "It's never too late!" Thank you Ilia! You honor us with your story. We'll be keeping in touch as time moves ahead.  God bless!    ****If you liked The Apprenticeship Diaries (T.A.D.), please follow us, rate, and review us! Also, get our webpage to climb on the search engine by visiting it HERE. If you would like to donate to the show, we greatly appreciate the support. Click here to throw us a little love. <3**** All $ will be put back into the show and delivering an elevated listening experience. A wonderful new tattoo community has started. Come and be apart of this social space, centered around everything "tattoo". It's called Tattoos Social and you need only click the name to make your free account; Already, the amount of Tattoo awesomeness there, is mind blowing!  Tattoo Career Builders is definitely worth a follow as this company is goes out of it's way to supplement the education and advancement of future tattoo artist.  ~ We are affiliates of Reinventing the Tattoo and if you would like to get off-the-wall value for continuing art education (from master tattoo artists) then follow this link to save 10% on a year subscription: TAD10 ~Sound Design by: Amy Nicholls who owes (Sound Wizard) Chuck Nunn (@djchucknunn) for Intros/Exits and for his years of audio support that was the foundation of this podcast. Bless you Chuck! ~New Intro and Exit Music by Chuck Nunn. "Jamuary 10" (list of Jamuary's found here at: Soundcloud.com/chuck-nunn ) ~OG Intro and Exit Music (Current Black Box Music) done by: Brandon Carter at (Brandon Scott Carter Publishing). The name of the OG track is "Ink Apprentice". If you like Brandon's sound, you can email him at: (brandon.carter@outlook.com) You can find us currently on: IG: @the_apprenticeship_diaries FB: The Apprenticeship Diaries X : TheApprenticeshipDiaries We are on these listening platforms:  Spotify iTunes or iHeartRadio  Amazon Stitcher If you have a passion for muzzle loaders and black power rifles, be sure to follow Rico's creations here. We would love constructive criticism. :) 5 stars is always great, but we wanna earn it! Another amazing way to support us would be to buy some merchandise. We have hoodies, t-shirts and more, hosted by TeePublic. You can go checkout our store by clicking here. ***If you'd like to reach out to us directly, comment, advise, or offer an interview, please email at:  theapprenticeshipdiaries@gmail.com Remember: The only difference between you and your mentors is time and how much you want to get out of your own way! This phrase (above) will link you to our own independent website. :)