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jess scheer is a business strategist who supports “indigenous leaders and earth keepers with a powerful vision for the world to bring their message to the masses.” in this conversation, jess speak about many things. about the unshakeable stability of the inner world and our connection to all things. how she began to experience a deep peace while following what she most longed for. but more than an...

ashley river brant is a “multi-dimensional artist, writer, teacher and bridge between worlds.” she is a “spiritual alchemist with a vision of bringing more beauty to this planet […] a mystic sharing the teachings of the otherworlds, a channel for Mother Earth.”  her work is “about reconnecting you to your creative genius–the whole ecosystem of life swirling within you. guiding you home to your […]...

julia cameron has been changing lives all over the world since the artist’s way first came out in 1992. millions of people write morning pages and take artist dates - two of julia’s most well-known tools for finding your creativity and living out your truth.  since then julia has gone on to author more than forty books, plays and works of poetry.  she is commonly referred to as "the godmother" or...

there are so many ways we are taught to make art, to create a business, to live a life. laura horn shows us that the most powerful way to do any of those things is to do them as yourself: to make art that feels good, to build a business in alignment with your strengths and to live in deep acceptance of who you are. after many years of fighting herself, laura  embarked on the slow and steady path o...

when I first discovered valarie kaur, I cried. I cried watching her six-minute video that went viral and garnered over 40 million views. I cried reading her book “see no stranger: a memoir  & manifesto of revolutionary love,” and I cried in our conversation as she shared her wisdom, heart, passion and love. valarie is a seasoned civil rights activist and celebrated prophetic voice “at the forefron...

 we are born into a world heavy with shoulds , rights and wrongs . growing up in that world we forget that we have the power to change our world. we forget that just because people tell us what we should and shouldn’t do, we can imagine any way to be. and we can always choose our own way forward. elle luna is a designer, painter, writer, and author of “the crossroads of should and must” and co-aut...

there are so many ways to be human. so many ways to look at what we have been given. so many ways to respond to a life. I turn to  rob bell  when I want to be a human filled with possibility, to look at what we have been given with joy, and to respond to life with wonder. rob is a master creator who talks, writes, and teaches you how to say the thing you’re dying to say and do the thing you’re dyi...

in a time when covid physical distances us from one another, politics emotionally separates us, and an economy driven by individual success financially divides us, it can seem almost impossible to create what we most need to truly belong: community. mia birdsong , pathfinder, activist, storyteller and author of “How We Show Up: reclaiming family, friendship and community ” has devoted her life to...

morgan harper nichols offers her art daily to her 1.6+ million instagram followers, via her podcast and her book of poetry and art, “all along you were blooming” and through her many collaborations with companies like coach, adobe, live nation, aerie and more. in this conversation,  we talk about going from paycheck to paycheck to a business with employees, two books, multiple partnerships and a m...

listening to david whyte reminds me of something I had long ago forgotten. his words, written and spoken, feel like a homecoming. there is permission within them to lose oneself in the questions and the listening. to simply arrive at what is here, waiting for me. for us. david calls this “the empty space beneath the breath where everything real emerges.” david is a poet and a philosopher. he is th...

 in this conversation with self-help pioneer and author of, "why bother: discover the desire for what’s next," jennifer louden talks about claiming your agency and knowing your work matters, how to know when to stop bothering and move on to something else? what to do when you don’t know what your desires are, how to keep choosing yourself over and over again and how to be vulnerable in your work a...

there are those souls that are both soft and strong, wise and wide open. toko-pa is one of those souls. when toko-pa was just 15 she ran away from a violent, destructive home life and found herself having to navigate “the system.” the next decade was a hard one as she figured out, on her own, how to become an adult in a complicated, often uncaring world. this was the beginning of her search for be...

in this episode of the ten-part series, "who we might become," joy researcher, jesh de rox, explains  what is joy, why it’s so important to creativity, and how to connect to it how to respond to sadness and pain with a creative spirit the path to greatness and how we let go of what doesn’t serve us anymore in order to make what does you can learn more about jesh and download the remaining seven ep...

join joy researcher, jesh de rox, and I for part 2 of our ten-part mini-series “who we might become.” in this episode we explore how to see differently, create your own language and change the culture with your creativity. some things we talk about:  the seed of all creativity the three stages of the creative process the gift of enough and not enough what it takes to become an artist who will actu...

jesh de rox, at heart, is an explorer. a man who has spent much of his life asking the big questions; the ones that help make sense of who we are and why we’re here. over the years, traveling the planet, immersing himself in experiences and conversations that test the boundaries of commonly accepted ideology and culture, jesh has become a very successful creative entrepreneur, thought leader, and...

marlee grace is a writer, a dancer, an artist, and a “shape maker.” she has books on social media addiction and  “how to not always be working.” she teaches and does creative advising. she has a podcast and a project called CENTER, “an experiment unfolding in space and time.” she lives in a patriarchal, cisnormative, heterosexual-driven culture as a queer female artist constantly blurring the line...

with the world falling into chaos, it always lightens my heart to find artists and women like elaine. elaine is a rebel of the highest cause: rising up against the worst parts of a capitalist economy to bring about a more sustainable, peaceful life for all. elaine’s studio, inner fields , is founded on the principles of deep ecology and buddhism.  inner fields  has two key wings: on one side are e...

laurie wagner is an expert on telling the truth. it’s the way she writes, teaches, and lives. there was a time early on in laurie’s success when the success began taking precedence over the truth. what the market wanted became more important than what her heart wanted. so she quit. she left the public writing world behind – the world of book deals and magazine articles – to find her own words. she...

this is world-renowned photographer, brooke shaden's, second time on the creativity habit podcast. in this conversation brooke shares how she built an entire career, and life, basing every decision on this one question: will this bring me, and others, maximum fulfillment? and she means EVERY decision. in this conversation we talk about: how to trust your voice above anyone else’s saying, and makin...

when things were hard for anna as a child, and they often were, she disappeared into writing and reading. she left behind what was hard for a world that was hers. a world where she had power, voice, and words. a world where she made up the rules and created what she wanted. that world was her salvation. eventually anna turned that world into her livelihood. today anna is a writer, an editor and a...

when jen was eight her father died. the last words she said to him were “I hate you.” those words would haunt her well into adulthood as she found herself dropping out of NYU as an english major, working as a waitress for 14 years while “pursuing” acting and dead-end relationships, and falling deeper into depression. the day she began taking anti-depressants was the day she began finding her way h...

we all get thrown off course. sometimes it’s the teacher who told us we weren’t any good. or the school that rejected our application. or the job we didn’t get. or the launch where no one bought. it’s different for everyone but everyone has some version of this story. for araki it was when she was 16 and, after having devoted a childhood to making art, to loving art, she didn’t have the grades for...

painter and writer, lindsay king, is devoted to love: self-love, unconditional love, and spreading love. it's her art, her business, and her purpose. in her own words, my “intention is to create meaningful work that carries the energy of love and healing. Asking to be a clear conduit for messages of love to move into the paint and fibers of the paper itself.” these are hard times. no matter your p...

It’s hard enough to feel worthy and good about oneself just being a human in a big, uncertain world. But for Kaylani , it was even harder. Born to a black father and a Filipino mother, Kaylani never felt like she belonged. She was bullied in school and at home. The messages she received about her worth and inherent goodness were twisted and cruel. And yet, somehow, Kaylani found her way through ar...

Catherine Just started using drugs and alcohol when she was 13. By 18 she was addicted to crystal meth. Then one day, in the throes of addiction, she heard a voice. It said, “There’s more to this life than what you’re living.” Something in Catherine woke up and she got sober. She "checked herself into art school" where she immersed herself in discovery through photography. Today Catherin...