Episodes
299 - 4 Ways to Silence the Inner Critic and Unlock Your Best Work with Danielle Krysa AKA The Jealous Curator
You are holding ideas in your head that are blocking your best work and the worst part? You can’t even see them!
Danielle Krysa AKA The Jealous Curator is an expert at unblocking your work and helping you escape the inner critic that’s holding you back. HECK she wrote the book on it!
Danielle has a beautiful soul that is SOOOO CREATIVE PEP TALK and she’s a tremendous artist. This was a fabulous and meaningful conversation. Can’t wait for you to hear it!
Danielle has …
298 - Unlock Your New Powerful 3 Point Growth Plan by Analyzing This Past Year
If you want new followers and fans in 2021 - listen to this episode!
Who wants to forget 2020 ASAP? Just me??? Didn’t think so. This year sucked. I get it, BUT before you switch lanes and blow past this year to get to the next, there’s a special way to review where we’ve been, that can unlock where you’d like to go in the near future!
297 - Why Creatives are Struggling and Where to Refocus Your Energy with William Deresiewicz
“There’s never been a better time to be a creative person!”
You’ve heard this before, but is it true? Is it your experience?
Best Selling author William Deresiewicz decided to try and answer this question by interviewing hundreds of artists (spoiler: I was one of them!) and diving deep into research. All of his remarkable findings are in his new book “The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech”.
In this epi…
296 - The 4 Step Process to Making Creative Work That Resonates Deeper
How could an archer improve their form if they never saw where their arrows hit the target?
I spent the start of my career like an archer with a blindfold, afraid to look and see if I’d hit a bullseye, or even missed the target completely.
I would try anything I could to avoid getting feedback on my creative work, but these days, finding the right kind of feedback is the LIFEBLOOD of my practice.
What changed? I saw that having a robust relationship to feedback was t…
295 - Feeding Your Creative Spark with Lisa Congdon
Lisa Congdon is back and is the first guest to do 4 episodes of our show! Shouldn’t be a surprise though, as our episodes with Lisa are some of the absolute best! AND this one is my favorite of the 4!
In this episode we talk:
- The power of sharing resources / abundance mindset
- Staying Inspired
- What to do About Copy Cats
- Creative From the ‘YES TO LIFE’ Energy
294 - Scared That You're Not Good Enough At Any One Thing? Listen To This!
Do you ever compare yourself to others in your creative field and feel like you don’t measure up? Do you ever question whether you really have the talent or raw potential necessary to succeed?
If these anxieties keep you from investing your all into your practice today, listen in to this episode! Creative breakthrough is often less about being the BEST at one thing, and more about being creative about how you combine your multiple resources.
In this episode we will tell you t…
293 - How to Get Deeply Inspired from Super Surprising Sources with Yao Cheng
If you want your creative work to be super unique, you need to have super unique inspiration. Today on the show I chat with Watercolor Artist Yao Cheng and she embodies this principle in ways I’ve never seen!
When you think of watercolor art, whatever images spring to mind are not what you see in Yao’s portfolio!! Why? Because there aren't many, if any, watercolor artists who are pulling their inspiration from quantum mechanics!
This episode is a goodie bag of creative i…
292 - 3 Steps on How to Discover Your Creative Work’s Hidden Theme
Are you having a really hard time remembering why you make creative work lately? In these times, it feels especially hard to stay grounded and motivated to keep making.
If you’re feeling lost and unable to find your true north in your creative work - this episode contains an exercise that will help you start connecting the dots again and find the thread through your work that will get you excited and determined to start making again.
This is part 1 of our Creative Target Prac…
291 - Tapping Into Your Creative Compass with Lulu Miller
Creatives have the super power of seeing infinite possibilities but this super power can easily become a confusing burden when it comes down to actually choosing a direction. In this episode we talk to Lulu Miller about how to navigate these decisions and so much more! Lulu is a master storyteller and this episode will help you reconnect with your inner creative compass!
Lulu Miller is the cofounder of NPR's Invisibilia and now the co-host of Radiolab. She spends most of her tim…
290 - Why Making a Complicated Mess will Unlock Your Simple Brilliance with Peter Hastings
When you’re working on a new creative project and things start to get complicated and confusing, the most natural impulse is to turn around and start over. But my guest Peter Hastings says that your most brilliant simple creative ideas aren’t around that complicated stuff, but through it.
If you’re stuck in a confusing moment in your creative career (which let’s face it, who isn’t these days?) I urge you to listen in.
In this episode we dive deep into the creative wisdom of 6 ti…
289 - The 5 Dynamic Steps to Finding Your Creative Sensibility
Do you ever feel like you’re wandering on a weird side road in your creative journey, miles away from where your true potential lies? It’s so easy to get lost and distracted down some random rabbit hole and completely get yourself off course.
In this episode we dive into how to get back to the pulse of your true sensibility and to the work that really matters to you. If you are struggling to keep motivated during these times and want to find how to relight your creative pilot light b…