Lesson 57: Awakening Your Creativity When You're Feeling Stuck with Listener Jeni

How to make the steps toward creating when you feel stuck

with Listener Jeni

I’m so excited to have Office Hours on Creativity School this season! Office Hours will feature real conversations I have with you, the listener, where you have the opportunity to get some 1:1 creative coaching so you can breakthrough the beliefs holding you back from living your most authentic and aligned creative life.

On today’s episode, listener Jeni says she started life feeling creative, but somewhere along the way her creative desires got put away due to self doubt and imposter syndrome. Jeni describes the feeling as her creativity staying safely sleeping while she’s a quiet observer on the sidelines, watching others out there create their work. Jeni was looking for coaching on how to get unstuck so she can make the work deep inside of her that is longing to be made. 

We talk about what to do when we feel triggered by others that are out there accomplishing their creative goals, how growth and change usually involve doing uncomfortable things, and why it’s necessary to stop the cycle of judging and shaming ourselves when we’re having feelings. We also discuss how cultivating self compassion is the antidote to overcoming self doubt, and how making small and consistent baby steps is the best way to move toward our creative goals .

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Lesson 56: Turn Your Creative Daydream into Reality with Cathy Zhang

How to build your confidence and turn your creative daydream into reality

with Cathy Zhang

This week’s episode is an inspiring interview with Cathy Zhang, founder of Easy Sunday Club and "the analytical MBA turned artist." Easy Sunday Club is a product based brand that features her whimsical watercolor art. Cathy is an incredibly prolific artist who has figured out multiple income streams to generate revenue with her art.

Incredibly, Cathy is completely self taught and has only been painting for 6 years! She didn't even consider herself a creative until she started painting. She holds an MBA in business and was working the corporate life until she quit her job to create the life that she has now as an artist and entrepreneur.

We dig into ALL the things on how to turn your creative daydream into reality -  topics like what it took for her to quit her corporate job, how to build a business from the ground up, how to develop confidence in your creative skills, how to balance what you want to make versus what the market wants you to make, why it’s so important to define success on your own terms, and SO MUCH MORE. If you’re looking for some practical tips on how to turn your creative daydream into reality, this episode is for you.

Easy Sunday Club on Instagram

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Lesson 55: Let Your Fears Show You the Way

how to allow your fears to lead you to more expansion, possibility and abundance in your life

You may have heard the quote “Everything you've ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.”  On this week’s episode of Creativity School, I talk about the 6 pivotal moments in my life when I reached a crossroads and had to make a choice - do I stay stuck where I am, or do I move through my fears and see what unfolds?

I share the lessons I learned while confronting some really scary and uncomfortable moments, and how I was able to make these moves. I also show you how each time I allowed my biggest fears to lead me, I unknowingly created more more expansion, possibility, and abundance for myself and quite literally changed my life!

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Lesson 54: Releasing the Fear of Failure

how to rise to a higher level of thinking and redefine failure from a different view

One of the biggest hurdles we experience on this path of creativity is a debilitating fear of failure. Failure often paralyzes us from even starting, and can prevent us from picking ourselves back up when we fall down. But this is all based on the limited way we choose to define failure what failure actually is.

This week on Creativity School, I talk about how failure is simply a matter of perspective. It truly doesn’t have to mean anything negative about what kind of person you are or what kind of capabilities you have. In fact, if it reveals anything about who you are, it shows far more positive things! Learn how to rise to a higher level of thinking and redefine failure from a totally different and expansive view so you can release the fear of failure once and for all.

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Lesson 53: When Your Overthinking Mind Gets In the Way of Creating

how to begin quieting your analytical mind to let your creativity flow

I’m so excited to have Office Hours on Creativity School this season! Office Hours will feature real conversations I have with you, the listener, where you have the opportunity to get some 1:1 creative coaching so you can breakthrough the beliefs holding you back from living your most authentic and aligned creative life.

This week, I have a conversation with Courtney who is a freelance producer for print work, commercials, reality television, and documentary films. What she really wants to do is explore stepping back from a career in production that she’s built over the last decade and focus on writing and producing her own projects. Courtney finds herself finding that a lot of her projects stay in her head and don’t get turned into anything more. We talk about the blocks in the way that are preventing her from getting her ideas out onto paper, how her amazing analytical producer mind is hindering her writing process, and how to start quieting the overthinking mind so creativity can flow with more freedom. 

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Lesson 52: When People Don't Like Your Work Pt 2

how to handle criticism when people don’t like what you made

It can feel so soul crushing when you put your heart into creating something, only to have people criticize it, not understand it, or ignore it.

This week on Part 2, I share how to handle the process of overcoming criticism or feeling like nobody likes or cares about your work. I also share the 3 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS to ask yourself so you can remember how much VALUE and MEANING your work has beyond what other people have to say about it. If you haven’t listened to Part 1, be sure to go back and give it a listen!

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Lesson 51: When People Don't Like Your Work Pt 1

how to handle criticism when people don’t like what you made

It can feel so soul crushing, shameful, and defeating when you put your heart into creating something, only to have people criticize it, not understand it, or ignore it. What can you do when this happens?

This week, I share how I handle the process of feeling like people don’t like what I made and what you can do to reframe your thoughts so you can stay on the path of creating work that’s important to you, even when you're feeling discouraged.

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Lesson 50: Following Your Intuition to Create Your Best Work

How to listen to your inner voice and create your best work from the inside out

with Kimothy Joy

How can we forever change the course of our life by listening to our inner nudges and following the feeling? Our guest this week has a story that exemplifies everything we discuss on this show, and the magic that unfolds when you listen and take action!

This week on Creativity School, I’m talking to Kimothy Joy, a watercolor and pen illustrator passionate about creating artwork that uplifts and empowers women and girls. Kimothy shares how she went from feeling lost, broken, and disconnected from herself to discovering her love of watercolor painting. In a very short amount of time, her work went from simply living on her dining room table, to being seen at Women’s Marches all around the world, to then being published in her book That's What She Said: Wise Words from Influential Women.

Listen to learn why it’s so important to play and do the things that make you curious, how to begin to listen to the little nudges that are telling you what to do, and how to get into your flow to let your creative path unfold. We also talk about THE SECRET to creating your best work from the inside out, and how most people get this all backwards! If you need a dose of magical inspiration this episode is for you!

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Lesson 49: Surrender, Self Love, and Making Money with Your Creative Gifts

A Office Hours Conversation

with Listener Wendy Choi

I’m so excited to have Office Hours on Creativity School this season! Office Hours will feature real conversations I have with you, the listener, where you have the opportunity to ask me anything about living your most authentic and aligned creative life.

On today’s episode, I have a conversation with Wendy, who has a corporate job by day but pursues her newfound love of block art printing and clay on nights and weekends. Wendy sees herself as an ideas person, but not a follow through person. We have a great discussion about following through and the power of consistency, and we also delve into so many juicy topics around perfectionism, radical self acceptance, letting go of the beliefs that aren’t serving us, making money with your creative gifts and so much more!

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Lesson 48: How to Pivot to a Creative Career

How to Pivot to a Creative Career

with Doug Levy

How did a professional umpire pivot into becoming a sought after commercial and editorial photographer? Doug Levy’s dream was to be a professional umpire, starting from from the tender age of 12. He pursued his dreams throughout his youth and even went to Umpire School. But right before he made it to the Big Leagues, Doug made the incredibly difficult decision to quit and become a professional photographer. Now Doug shoots for clients like The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Amazon, Honda, and more!

Learn why Doug decided to step away from his life long dream job, and how he created a new vision for himself by pivoting to an entirely different career as a photographer. You’ll also learn Doug’s advice on the mindset and behaviors you need to pivot successfully into any creative career.

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