The Art of Creative Living

Today, I'm joined by Heather Ashley Baker, a creative business owner and coach, who is devoted to helping women move from dreaming into doing. She's a lifelong creative -- having spent time acting, directing, and working a 12 year career in design and tech. Originally from the US, Heather now proudly calls Australia home. Heather and I connected after she reached out to me just before the pandemic...

I'm delighted to bring you today's conversation with someone whose energy, creativity, wisdom and experience inspires me in so many ways. Beth Cregan is a heart-led creative entrepreneur, writer and teacher who I could spend hours talking with about the joys, intricacies and practicalities that come with embracing creative living. Beth's teaching experience spans over 30 years. In 2010, she founde...

Kelly Herrick is a British contemporary landscape artist who helps people fall back in love with nature. Kelly is also a guest teacher in Flourish: The Art of Creative Living and we talk about her guest teacher workshop. She's a wonderful inspiration of someone who has bravely embraced creative living. Kelly creates art and creative wellbeing events, is a creative strategist in an international de...

In this episode, I'm joined by Emma Shields, who is a life coach and somatic therapist-in-training and has been a member of Flourish: The Art of Creative Living for many years now. In fact, she was part of the inaugural round way back in 2015 and I've loved being part of Emma's creative living adventures ever since. In this episode we explore her personal creative living story, how she learnt to c...

So what do you do when you want to express yourself, complete a new project that's important to your heart, your work, or to your creative legacy, but the fear of putting yourself out there is too much and you find yourself falling into a creative shame spiral? You're sitting on the couch and your mind is telling you that what you have to share, say, write, paint or produce isn't good enough, isn'...

Hello everyone and welcome to season two of The Art of Creative Living Podcast. I'm your host, Nicola Newman. I'm a professional artist, creative mentor, author and creator of Flourish: The Art of Creative Living, which is a global year-long creativity school for creative hearts who want to build a loving relationship with themselves through mindfulness and creative expression. I'm very excited to...

I'm completely thrilled to share with you a very heartfelt conversation with Bronnie Ware, best-selling author, speaker, free spirit, mother, story teller, nature lover, teacher, song writer, traveller and gentle rebel. She's been called many things, but above all, she is authentic and bravely lives how her own heart guides her to live, free of any such labels or expectations. I have loved Bronnie...

So for today's episode I'm joined by the awesome Hayley Carr, a life coach for superfreaks and folks at or near the top of their game. She's a 9-time karate world champion and one of the most wonderful humans I know. We dig into her routine and how she follows her heart, finds courage in the face of fear and creates more in her business and life. We also explore the journey of defining her persona...

Denise Duffield-Thomas is a money mindset mentor for the new wave of entrepreneurs and is one of the most inspiring, yet at the same time real and down-to-earth entrepreneurs I know. In this episode she shares some of the surprising ways she's cultivating her creativity these days and how that fits in with her business, plus she lays out the practical process she used to help her finish writing he...

Naomi Arnold, an award-winning life + business coach, entrepreneur, writer and researcher with a background in psychology, health and human rights, a fellow co-host in the Gentle Business Mastermind and one of my absolute dearest friends joins me on the show today! In this episode, Naomi shares practical frameworks to help you choose where to focus your energy, love and attention in your business,...

I shared a post with my Inspiration Letters community recently and it really touched a nerve for many people. I've had more feedback, private emails and messages about this one post than anything I've written in a long while, so I wanted to share it here on the podcast too, in the hope it might bring some loving awareness and perhaps shine a light on an area that isn't often talked about, and thus...

Katherine McKenzie-Smith, a business and leadership coach, writer, and speaker who is a champion for introverted and highly sensitive leaders to find their own way to shine joins me on the show today! We dig into her routine and how she follows her heart, finds courage in the face of fear and creates more in her business and life. We also explore what it is to be highly sensitive and if you are a...

Cassie Mendoza-Jones, best-selling author, kinesiologist, business alignment coach, naturopath, writer and speaker is on the show today! We chatted about the creative process in business, moveable deadlines, the importance of taking care of yourself while you create, why Cass believes writer's block and creative caves are a myth, her practical advice to anyone wanting to pivot in their business, a...

Today's episode draws together excerpts from the draft of my new book, also called The Art of Creative Living, and I hope the show inspires you in your personal creative living journey. We dive into the three surprising benefits I've discovered as a professional artist and also as a creative mentor and teacher, that we experience when we choose to prioritise, nurture and express our creativity. Th...

Amanda Rootsey, Founder of the teen academy, Shine From Within, Hay House author and one of my very best friends joins me on the show today. We dig into her routine and how she follows her heart, finds courage in the face of fear and creates more in her business and life. We also talk a little about the behind the scenes of our Gentle Business Mastermind and growing your business intentionally, sl...

In this first episode, I introduce myself, the intention of The Art of Creative Living podcast and the nine principles which underpin creative living. We talk about how to follow your heart, nurture your self-belief, and bring to life what you long to create in the world.