Unleash Your Inner Creative with Lauren LoGrasso (A Creativity Podcast)

Hi Creative! As I prepare for motherhood, continue building my business, Lauren LoGrasso Productions, release my next single and get the show ready for maternity leave, I realize need a little space to make the best work for you.  Therefore I have decided that I will [most likely] do best of episodes for the rest of July so I can get ahead and bring you brand new content in August and September wh...

Hi Creative Cutie! This week I am just getting back from my Babymoon and wanted to reshare an episode that I LOVE and I've been thinking about a lot on my entrepreneurial journey. What I have found about both creativity and business ownership is that underneath it all, it's really a healing and self-development journey. This episode talks about exactly that: How to attain success through healing....

Have you ever had one bad day that suddenly made you question everything? Yesterday, that was me. After my most successful month as an entrepreneur, I found myself crying hysterically, convinced I wasn't doing enough and wondering if I was failing.  Looking back, I realized my brain had turned one incredibly stressful day into a story that wasn't fully true. In this solo episode, I'm sharing what...

Have you ever poured years into building something only to watch it fall apart right when you thought you'd finally figured it out? That's where Steve Kamb was when he wrote How to Try Agai n, his new book on starting over after failure. Steve, founder of Nerd Fitness , wrote this book on how to try again while actually trying again himself, navigating a divorce, a cancer diagnosis, and a full rei...

Have you ever made a big change in your life, only to realize you're still living by the same rules that made you feel boxed in, in the first place? After leaving corporate America and becoming an entrepreneur, I started noticing all the old beliefs, fears, and expectations I had unknowingly carried into this new chapter. In this solo episode, I share the hidden rules I’m learning to let go of, wh...

Have you ever been told that becoming a mother means losing yourself? Losing your creativity, your ambition, your momentum? Well, what if the opposite was actually true? Today's guest is comedian, writer, and one of the sharpest voices on the internet, Ginny Hogan, and this conversation will completely reframe everything you've been told about motherhood and creativity. From this episode, you'll l...

Since leaving corporate America, my podcast downloads have increased nearly 200%. And it’s definitely not= because I suddenly became a genius marketer.  It’s because, for the first time in over a decade, I stopped treating my dream like a side project. In today’s solo episode, I’m sharing the surprising energetic shift that changed not only this podcast, but my entire creative life and business. W...

Have you ever noticed that the moment you step into a new, big, chapter of your life, your old patterns can suddenly come rushing to the surface? I have…  In this episode, I share a major realization I’ve had during week three of full-time entrepreneurship: sometimes you have to start saying you’re the thing before you fully become it. I share how I came to this, how it helped me manifest one of m...

Have you ever wondered if all that doing is actually getting in the way of your creativity? What if I asked you to let yourself be less useful? This week I'm sitting down with photographer, documentarian, and creative force Lindsey Lerner, founder of Field Notes From the Work in the Wild, a stunning project on Substack that documents people in the messy middle of their most meaningful work. Lindse...

For years I taught other people to unleash their creativity. This week, I finally had to put my money where my mouth was and unleash myself. This is my real-time, raw, first-week-of-full-time-entrepreneurship origin story, and I'm not waiting until I have it all figured out to tell it. Last week, I left corporate America after 11+ years to launch my own company, Lauren LoGrasso Productions, while...

Have you ever needed just a little more time to finish a creative project? I definitely do right now. I underestimated how much energy it would take to fully launch my business this week while traveling and balancing life, so I need one more day before the new episode drops. In the meantime, I’m re-airing a solo minisode that deeply helped me get to this moment. It’s all about how tiny steps lead...

My sweet Creative Cutie! Today is a BIG HUGE day in my creative life . After 11+ years working a creative job in corporate America, I am finally taking the leap and taking a chance on myself with my company, Lauren LoGrasso Productions ! It's my last day at work. I am super grateful for all the opportunities this job has brought me and the amazing shows I've gotten to executive produce and meet AN...

What if the reason you feel stuck creatively… isn’t because you don’t know what to do? Maybe it’s not that you don’t know what to say, maybe you’re just not letting yourself say it. In this episode, I’m talking with award winning podcast producer, storyteller, and author, Rich Boerner, about what it takes to step out from behind the scenes and actually share your voice. Because for years, Rich hel...

Have you ever noticed… the more you try to force something, the less it actually works? The more you push, control, overthink… the more stuck you feel? Same here, cutie!  In this solo episode, I’m sharing something I’m actively working through in real time as I step into full-time entrepreneurship… how to stop forcing everything and start trusting that things can actually work out. Because lately,...

Have you ever realized… you might be the one making everything harder than it needs to be? In this episode, the tables are turned. I’m the one being interviewed by nervous system expert and returning guest  Nahid de Belgeonne and what came out of this conversation was very refreshing, so I wanted to share it with you!  We talk about stress, burnout, codependency, and the moment I realized I was ta...

Have you ever had a moment where everything you thought was “working” suddenly wasn’t… and you had to figure out who you were again? In this episode, I’m talking with Emmy Award-winning producer, speaker, and writer Teri Weinberg, former EVP of NBC Entertainment, Founder of Yellow Brick Road Productions, and one of the creative forces behind The Office, Ugly Betty, and The Tudors. But what stayed...

Have you been sitting on something you know you’re meant to share… and still not putting it out? Yeah. Me too. This episode is a real, unfiltered look inside my creative life right now and into my literal diary. I share what I’ve been thinking about, what I’ve been struggling with, and the biggest shift that’s changing everything for me: Choosing expression over perfection. And impressions.  Becau...

Have you ever known sending one email could change your life… and still didn’t hit send? Yeah. Same. If you’re a creative who’s been waiting to be chosen or secretly hoping someone will just discover you, this episode is your loving nudge to stop waiting and start creating your own opportunities. To say YES to yourself and open the door to your dreams! I’m talking with Carly Valancy, founder of Re...

Have you ever felt creatively blocked and had no idea why? Lately, I found myself stuck on a project I knew I wanted to complete… and instead of forcing myself to push through it, I decided to ask a different question: Why am I actually blocked? In this solo episode, I share the breakthrough I had when I finally stopped beating myself up about procrastinating and started getting curious about what...

In this episode, I welcome back Julia Cameron , author of The Artist’s Way , for our sixth conversation on Unleash Your Inner Creative . We talk about the enduring power of Morning Pages , how to silence the inner critic, and what creativity needs now in the age of AI. Julia’s work has helped millions of people reconnect with their creativity and art, and in this conversation we go deeper into the...

This is one of the most personal episodes I’ve ever recorded. I have an announcement...I’m pregnant. That's right, cutie! We're having a baby! And in this episode, I’m sharing what this moment means not just in my life, but in my identity as a creative. For years, I’ve talked about creativity as something we make. The art. The ideas. The projects. But this season is inviting me to rethink everythi...

How do you know when it’s time to reinvent yourself creatively? And once you do, how do you remember that through it all, who you are in the best thing about you?  This episode was recorded while podcast host and producer, Zak Rosen and I walked around Belle Isle in Detroit talking about creative reinvention, identity, and what it really means to build a life around your values. You’ll hear the wi...

Are you constantly funding your own creative projects and ending up depleted, disappointed, or broke? In this minisode, I share one of the most powerful lessons I ever learned while coaching a multimillionaire: rich people do not spend their own money to launch new projects. They find sponsors, investors, patrons, and partners. So why are artists and indie creators doing the opposite? In this epis...

What if the story we’ve been telling artists is wrong? What if you don’t actually have to choose between financial stability and the thing you love most? In this episode, I sit down with actor turned entrepreneur Sarah Kleist to talk about the toxic myth of the “starving artist” and why performers are uniquely equipped to build creative businesses that support their art instead of competing with i...

I tried to record a normal episode today. I couldn’t. I sat down to talk about creativity like I usually do, and instead I found myself overwhelmed, heartbroken, and honestly… empty. In this episode, I share what it feels like to be a creative person living in America right now when the news feels unbearable, when your emotions are so full they leave you feeling blank, and when you’re wondering: W...