Best Jennifer Louden Podcasts (2024)

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58 | Fulfilling a Calling with Lauren Fleshman 32:35

1y ago32:35

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Join the conversation with one of the most decorated American distance runner Lauren Fleshman as we discuss the mission that drove her to write her NYT's bestselling memoir Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World. We talk about how to write when you have a big story to tell, how to write when depressed, and why it's okay to move on from s…

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57 | It’s Not Too Late 12:14

1y ago12:14

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Jen recently shared in a solo episode that she's been working her way through burnout and in this episode, she shares her new project and how she approached it in a new way to refind her spark. Is it possible to change our patterns and create out loud without burnout? Let's find out. Episode resources: Find out how to work with me here.I'd love you…

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56 | The Audacity to Nuture Your Spark 34:01

1y ago34:01

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In this bonus episode of Create out Loud, I interview a force of nature, Shannon Watts. In case you don't know Shannon, she founded Moms Demand Action, now the largest women’s volunteer organization in America. She's been called a “summoner of women’s audacity,” named a Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People, a Forbes 50 over 50 Changemaker, and…

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55 | Recovering From Creative Burnout 13:04

1y ago13:04

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In this bonus episode of Create out Loud, I explore burnout, the power of quitting, and how your desires are allowed to change - in fact, they must be allowed to morph and grow with you or you will fall into Why Bother. Many of us were raised to believe if you start a project, you have to finish it or you are a failure. But that isn't true! But how…

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54 | 7 Best Tips for Creating Out Loud with Jen Louden 19:26

2+ y ago19:26

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In this last episode of season 2 of Create Out Loud, I share with you some tips for creating out loud, making your thing, finding your desire to create, putting pen to paper (and brush to canvas)... Listen to the episode to learn: What it means to give yourself permission to be seen as a creator Why quantity over quality can help you produce better…

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53 | Create + Climate + You = Hope & Action with Jen Louden 12:57

2+ y ago12:57

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Does the thought of the climate crisis decimating our world fill you with thoughts of doom and gloom… Thoughts like: No matter what I do it doesn’t matter… Why bother with ANY of my desires if there won’t be a world to live in?... I’m powerless in the face of large corporations that continue to ignore their impact on the planet so they can profit… …

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52 | Embracing The Fallow That Follows A Creative Project with Andrea Scher 33:47

2+ y ago33:47

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This episode is all about how seeking wonder can help you bother again and embracing the natural fallow period after you finish a big project.I’m joined by Andrea Scher, author of Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy, to talk about how to fill up your creative well when its run dry.. We talk about the power of mixing …

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51 | Give Not Earning the Middle Finger with Ash Ambirge 41:40

2+ y ago41:40

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Not everyone listening to this podcast wants to make money by being creative, but a larger number of people believe that they CAN’T make money from creative pursuits. That is NOT true! I’m joined by the author of The Middle Finger Project and Meat and Hair, Ash Ambirge, to give a big ol’ middle finger to the idea that you can’t make money by being …

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50 | Solo Ecosystem Marketing with Jen Louden 14:26

2+ y ago14:26

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Do you spend thousands on marketing, or hours researching trendy new marketing strategies… and it doesn’t move the needle forward? Then this episode of Create Out Loud is for you. In this episode, Jen Louden talks about the importance of ecosystem marketing. It’s all about finding out where your people are, and communicating with them there. Not to…

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49 | Step Into Your Power Creatively and Financially with Paco De Leon 49:25

2+ y ago49:25

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We can be remarkably uncomfortable discussing money, but what if we shifted our relationship with the topic by instead recognizing how money can facilitate freedom, power, and creative potential? This is Paco’s mission. As a creative, author, consultant, and coach, Paco is passionate about empowering people, particularly those who identify as women…

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48 | Eve Rodsky On How to Find Your Creative Unicorn Space 45:26

2+ y ago45:26

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Work, relationships, kids, friends… Do you find that everything comes BEFORE your creative desires? Or has it been so long that you can’t remember what it’s like to take some time to just be curious, and play with creativity? Author Eve Rodsky joins Jen Louden in discussing how our patriarchal society has carved away the time and space women need t…

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47 | Susan Shapiro on Getting Published in Any Genre 40:45

2+ y ago40:45

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Do you have to choose between writing for passion and writing for pay? Getting paid to write seems like a fantasy to most, and getting paid to write something you are truly passionate about seems even more far-fetched. Bestselling author Susan Shapiro joins Jen Louden in discussing what it takes to write what you’re passionate about AND get publish…

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46 | Jen Louden: How To Start When You’re Totally Blocked or Afraid 19:15

2+ y ago19:15

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Have you ever had a grand idea for a creative project, only to never actually start it? You get excited about your big (or small) project, but you can’t wrap your head around how to start it. In your mind it’s perfect, so how can it ever be as good in reality? Why do you feel fear and dread when you think about starting?Starting a new project can b…

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45 | Creativity’s Biggest Gift: Helping us Unlock Our Deepest Desires with Sarah Flick 43:19

2+ y ago43:19

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What are your deepest desires? What is the mystery between you and those desires? Who belongs with you explore those desires? Even though she wrote and published as part of her career as a psychiatrist, Sarah Flick never considered herself a real writer. Even though she had wanted to write since she learnt how to read at three, a busy professional …

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Practical Ways To Increase Your Creative Productivity with Sam Bennett 52:00

2+ y ago52:00

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In addition to being an actress, improviser, and best-selling author, Sam Bennett is a highly respected creative coach whose business, The Organized Artist, has inspired thousands to channel their creative urges into RESULTS. Sam is the author of ‘Get it Done’ From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 minutes a day, a wonderful book for creativ…

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43 | Find The Courage To Be Honest In Your Creativity with Heather Havrilesky 42:12

2+ y ago42:12

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Has your work ever been greeted by a firestorm of furiously polarized tweets, both in fierce support and rampant opposition to what you have to say? In addition to being scathingly funny, bitingly honest, and sharply observant, author, essayist, and humorist Heather Havrilesky's work has always been provocative. And her latest memoir, Foreverland: …

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42 | Jen Louden: Easy Ways To Start, Stick With, and Finish Your Creative Projects 20:25

2+ y ago20:25

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One of the questions I’m asked often is, ‘how do I stick with a project?’ followed closely by, ‘how do I know when a project is done?’ We want to see our creative endeavors through to completion, but it’s not always easy to do or be done. This is particularly true if a project has hit the skids or we’ve lost our way in the mushy middle or it’s a bi…

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41 | How Sue Monk Kidd Listens to her Soul (And You Can Too) 45:40

2+ y ago45:40

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Sue Monk Kidd is one of the world's most beloved writers, occupying a rare intersection of critical and commercial success writers dream of. Perhaps most recognized for her #1 New York Times Bestsellers, The Secret Life of Bees, which went on to become the basis for a blockbuster movie, and The Invention of Wings, her earlier works, When the Heart …

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40 | Find And Hone Your Creative Voice w/ Lisa Congdon 48:23

2+ y ago48:23

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Have you seen those beautiful, colorful bottles of Method Soap at Target? They're most likely the work of today's guest, Lisa Congdon, who is one of the world's most recognizable graphic designers, a fine artist, and an illustrator who creates for clients such as Amazon, Comme des Garcons, Crate & Barrel, REI, and MoMA. She’s also the author of ten…

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39 | Yes, You Can Make Your Creativity A Business w/Pamela Slim 46:34

2+ y ago46:34

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Pamela Slim is a dynamic beloved thought leader and has been in the trenches with creative businesses for decades. Her breakout book Escape From Cubicle Nation hit the scene in 2009, and since then she’s launched many creative projects, including founding a beloved brick-and-mortar small business incubator, The Main Street Learning Lab at K’é, and …

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38 | Practical Ways To Get ”Unstuck” In Your Creativity w/Kim Hermanson 37:46

2+ y ago37:46

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Creativity psychologist Kim Hermanson almost died in her 20s. After a brutal near-death, head-on collision, Kim was laid-out in the ICU when a nurse whispered for her to "imagine herself floating on a cloud," and she immediately felt the pain and trauma of the horrific ordeal leave her body. This completely shifted Kim's understanding of the power …

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37 | Navigating Rejection In Your Creativity w/Devi Lockwood 36:37

2+ y ago36:37

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Whether it's on the page, on the canvas, or on the screen, the essence of creativity has always been storytelling. And if anyone understands the power of Storytelling, it's Devi Lockwood, who traveled the world on her bike, documenting the stories of everyday people whose lives have been affected by the increasingly problematic issue of climate cha…

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Housekeeping Announcement! 0:50

2+ y ago0:50

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Hey Create Out Loud fan! A little peak behind the curtain - we're doing some maintenance with our podcast feed, so we're doing a little test announcement to make sure we're keeping the train on the tracks! As all of you know as creatives, change is a good thing, but sometimes requires a little bit of re-orienting when we pivot. No action required o…

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36 | Transform Your Work Into A Conversation Starter w/ Celeste Headlee 46:03

3y ago46:03

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How many Opera singers/wellness experts/radio broadcaster/racial reconciliation thought leaders do you know? You'll meet one today: the remarkable Celeste Headlee. Celeste is a 3-time bestselling author, including of her most recent book Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism — And How To Do It, who specializes in studying, arti…

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35 | Practical Strategies For Knowing YOU Are Enough 17:43

3y ago17:43

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Comparison is the thief of joy. It may be a cliché, but it is profoundly true, especially when it comes to our creativity. Ask yourself now: when will YOU actually feel like you're "enough" when it comes to your work. When you win a regional award? A Pulitzer prize? An Oscar? Stop waiting for your pat on the back. Pat your own back.Today, we discus…

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34 | How To Honor The Classics But Forge A New Path In Our Creativity w/ Maria Tatar 45:17

3y ago45:17

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One of the most important evolutions in creative history is the emergence of a female voice. Despite cultural sociologists of old focusing on men, Maria is among a number of important voices who can recognize that we can both acknowledge, even honor those historic works, but invite the female voice to break them apart. Do you ever feel overly const…

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33 | Giving Yourself Permission To Return To Old Projects 16:30

3y ago16:30

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The pressure to have to create, to write everyday, to make our creativity a "job" is relentless. But what if we gave ourselves SPACE to pick up a project and put it back down? What if we didn't feel shame when because we have to take a break from our work. If you've been in the creative pressure cooker lately, THIS episode is for you.Thanks to Podc…

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32 | Infusing Our Life Experience (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) Into Our Work w/ Ruth Ozeki 45:17

3y ago45:17

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Though she's now considered one of America's most important novelists, Ruth Ozeki didn't think of herself as a writer until her 30s. Before that, she had stumbled into a career editing schlocky, low-budget Japanese horror movies, struggling to find her way. But wisely, she knew, even then, that the experience would serve her. Because ALL experience…

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31 | Marketing Strategies To Reach Your Audience Directly w/ Catherine Babb-Muguira 38:51

3y ago38:51

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When we think of "self-help" we typically think of cheery, bohemian women talking about astrology and crystals, but what if we told you that Edgar Allen Poe - you know, the tragic alcoholic literary genius - was one of America's most valuable self-help voices? Today, we chat Catherine Babb-Muguira about her process of falling in love with Mr. Poe, …

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30 | Giving Yourself Permission To ”Do You” In Your Creativity 18:45

3y ago18:45

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So often, we get caught up in the idea of who we should be as a creative. I should be a best selling author...I should be an award winning filmmaker...I should be giving my Nobel-prize winning speech. But what about who we already ARE? Even the greats wrestle questions of creativity identity and imposter syndrome, but remember, at the end of the da…

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29 | Navigating Creative Partnerships with Crystal Egli and Parker McMullen Bushman 40:29

3y ago40:29

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Crystal and Parker are some of the most exciting voices in the world of female-founded tech startups, and their brilliance lies beyond their product. The two of them have sharply navigated the very white and very male world of tech by following their north star - business that focuses on diversity, ethics, and inclusivity. Like their own business p…

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Fulfilling Our Personal Responsibility To Create w/ Beth Pickens 45:58

3y ago45:58

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Beth Pickens is one of the most practical and grounded creative coaches working today. Though she herself doesn't identify as particularly creative, Beth CHAMPIONS creative instincts and argues that when creative people don't fulfill their inner-need to create, their health, well-being, and general productivity will suffer. Need a boost? THIS is th…

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27 | How To Avoid Toxic Comparison In Our Creative Life w/ Keri Smith 48:53

3y ago48:53

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Though her work centers on wild, uninhibited creative acts, Keri Smith is a self-proclaimed introvert. The hugely popular bestselling author Wreck This Journal is the first to admit that our creative needs to be a sacred choice, an intentional process that we commit to, despite the voices around us (and in our head), telling us not to. Keri and Jen…

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🦃 Happy Thanksgiving From Create Out Loud! 🦃 4:07

3y ago4:07

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If you're looking to find more gratitude in your creative life, today's episode is for you!Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,falling into compare and despair, managing the inner …

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26 | How To Market Yourself As A Creative w/ Toya Gavin 41:11

3y ago41:11

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For better or worse, so much of the creative life relies on marketing, which can feel icky. But for Toya Gavin, who has brilliantly built her life coaching business through her own ingenious marketing strategies, it doesn't have to feel icky. Instead, it can feel social, constructive, and even beneficial for those who deserve to hear about your end…

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25 | How To Make Personal Experiences Universal For Your Audience 55:58

3y ago55:58

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Laura Davis is the author of six non-fiction books, which have been translated into 11 languages and sold more than 1.8 million copies, that focus primarily on healing, recovery, and the beautiful scars that the challenges of our lives leave behind. In the course of her long career as a communicator, she has been a columnist, a talk show host, and …

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24 | Why Bother To Create At All? 21:41

3y ago21:41

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"Why Bother" was the central question of Jen's last book, and so of course, it had to show up on the podcast! But today we go deep: why bother to create, at all? If you've faced creative failure, despair, or you feel like you're facing insurmountable cynicism, it may feel exhausting and impossible to create. Or even worse, it may feel pointless. An…

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23 | Optimizing Your Creativity By Creating A Safe Space 14:14

3y ago14:14

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It's hard enough to feel like "our best selves" when we're creating, but here's a little secret no one tells you: we won't, unless we foster a safe space and sacred space around our work! What does that REALLY mean? Tune in to find out.Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:help you wi…

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22 | The Essential Need For Wonder In Our Creativity w/ Aimee Nezhukumatathil 41:20

3y ago41:20

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays and Kirkus Prize finalist, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES, WHALE SHARKS, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS (2020, Milkweed Editions), which was chosen as Barnes and Noble’s Book of the Year. She has four previous poetry collections, and her …

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21 | Oliver Burkeman On Accepting and Embracing Creative Limitations 53:11

3y ago53:11

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Oliver Burkeman is an award-winning thought leader and the author of 4 bestselling books about time, happiness, and strategies for living our best lives. His new book, Four Thousand Weeks, is about making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentless distraction and political insanity (and 'productivity techniq…

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Season 2 Announcement and Trailer! 2:34

3y ago2:34

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Hey Creatives! We are SO excited to be launching season 2 of Create Out Loud and our first episode drops this Tuesday with NYT Bestselling Author Oliver Burkeman. We have TONS of incredible conversations in the can, and we promise a season that's bigger, better, and bolder as we continue to create out loud! Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastk…

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20 | Jen’s Biggest ”A-Ha” Creativity Breakthroughs From Season 1 35:01

3y ago35:01

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As much as YOU feel like you've learned a lot from season 1 of Create Out Loud, I promise you, Jen has learned JUST as much. In this very special episode, Jen's producer Jeff asks her some of HIS burning questions about Jen's biggest creative breakthroughs, and we through it back to some amazing moments with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Rissi Palmer, and A…

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19 | Poet Kate Baer On Using Your Critics To Fuel Your Art 38:27

3y ago38:27

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Bestselling poet Kate Baer has a beautifully truthful relationship with motherhood, with social media, with internet trolls, and with being a woman. It's wrestling with all of this that inspires her poetry, poetry women love (and some men are threatened by) because she tells the truth.Listen to how Kate uses her life, and her critics, to know her t…

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18 | Ashley Sumner On Letting Roadblocks fuel rather than derail Your Creativity 37:10

3+ y ago37:10

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Shedding identities has been at the center of Ashley Sumner's creative journey and her company Quilt, and a good thing as she had to change her company's entire mission at the start of the pandemic.Ashley is the founder of a social media community Quilt dedicate to connection and self-care, creating a unique bridge between Jen's early work and Ashl…

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17 | Poet Maggie Smith: How To Be Honest In Your Creativity 50:41

3+ y ago50:41

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For bestselling poet and author Maggie Smith, sometimes the secret behind making her poetry interesting, unexpected, and surprising comes to "making it weirder." Maggie's unapologetic, unabashed approach to her work is the reason her work has been read by everyone from Meryl Streep to Dr. Jill Biden.Maggie hits on something essential about successf…

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16 | Novelist Laurie Frankel: Can you Love Putting your Work out As Much As Creating It? 45:03

3+ y ago45:03

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Isn't it wonderful to hear widely celebrated NYT's best-selling novelists talk about shitty first drafts? Laurie's acclaimed new bestseller One Two Three "wrote hard," for her, and that's OK! For Laurie, the joy comes in the process, whether it's easy, hard, smooth, bumpy, or annoying - that complicated cocktail is what makes the creative process b…

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15 | Poet Tamkio Beyer On Creative Play And Freedom 45:34

3+ y ago45:34

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Tamiko Beyer's acclaimed poetry collection Last Days, was assembled from a collection of poetry written over the course of decade, which speaks to Tamiko's sense of open-minded freedom and patience when it comes to work. For Tamiko, the creative process is all about leaving space for play and imagination. By relieving the pressure and intensity of …

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14 | Maggie Shipstead: The Creative Freedom To Get It Wrong... and Right! 41:53

3+ y ago41:53

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Maggie Shipstead is an NYT-Bestselling author of three novels - Seating Arrangements, Astonish Me, and Great Circle (on many best-of lists for 2021) and her work has won a laundry list of awards. She's also written essays and travel articles like her piece for Modern Love. And like all of us, Maggie has to begin again, face the blank page, and watc…

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13 | Susan Piver: Open Your Heart To Your Creative Yearnings 41:30

3+ y ago41:30

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All of us get caught up in the shoulds and I can't of our creative life, but Susan Piver has learned, through decades of meditation and practice, to disregard these inner voices. Susan regards all of her creative endeavors as art projects, a chance to get her hands in the clay of creativity and create something beautiful. Susan has learned to open …

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12 | Lisa Cron: Using Story To Elevate Your Creativity And Change The World 46:52

3+ y ago46:52

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Lisa cron is tired of staying quiet. As a bestselling author and widely celebrated story coach, Lisa has worked as a story consultant for decades with best-selling authors, major Hollywood studios, and taught at NYU and UCLA. And now, she's raising her story voice to help us all.Lisa's philosophies around story are deeply researched truths. She kno…

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