Wildly Creative Life with Brooke Schultz

It's been awhile since I've done a meditation episode! This week, I want to give you a meditation for when you feel like you suck, when you feel like you blew it creatively, when you're sure you're never going to make it. Just to gently walk through that experience with you, not to pull you out of it, but in THAT moment, to hold space with you. We'll be doing a lot of visualization. This episode w...

Our insecurities, weirdness, quirks, and things we're embarrassed of are our secret powers! I've taken some time to reflect on things I'm embarrassed about in my own life and realize how they've informed the unique offerings I'm able to put out in the world. Mentions: Love Soaked Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBfZDriwu7Vn7

This week's episode is a little different. I've included snippets of 10 ways to unleash your most creative self from a recent interview I did with Annica Fischer on The Tried and Truth Podcast. Packed full of practical goodies, this episode is gonna be one to bookmark. Mentions: Crazy Confident Family Photographer: How To Get Natural, Loving Images Every Time https://event.webinarjam.com/register/...

I'm sharing a little bonus episode about pricing with a snippet from one of my recent Love Soaked mastermind calls. Even if you're not a family photographer, pricing is absolutely essential to create a healthy mindset around to yield abundance. Mentions: Love Soaked Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBfZDriwu7Vn7

Allowing the full process of creativity--allowing it to be a rollercoaster, an up and down, not expecting it to be a straight up-only line. In this episode: -creativity is a rollercoaster and it's meant to be that way! Here's why that's so freeing, not depressing -creativity happens in a cycle, but we often only see the finished product -the 4 phases of the creative cycle and how to move yourself...

Great creators rest. High performers rest. There is an obsession in our culture with productivity but there is so much hidden value and wisdom in rest! In this episode I'm covering 6 super applicable rhythms you can use in your life for rejuvenation. Mentions: Creative Breakthrough Blueprint: 3 ways to get unstuck + clear on your next creative move (even if you're super busy) brookeschultz.kartra....

This week we're talking about the surprising thing that's the enemy to your creativity and ways to work around it to propel you forward in your creative biz. Mentions: Creative Breakthrough Blueprint: 3 ways to get unstuck + clear on your next creative move (even if you're super busy) https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/creativebreakthroughblueprint

Jamie Jensen is an award-winning screenwriter, business strategist, she's a fabulous copywriter + helps writer entrepreneurs scale to 6 figures + helps all creators write copy that doesn't suck. She drops so much wisdom in this episode like its nothing, including how to make money from writing. In this episode: -how to make selling super simple + let money be easy -the mindset shifts that took Jam...

Usually when there's talk about abundance mindset, it's mostly in terms of money. I'm all for that but you also need an abundance mentality to create what you're meant to create! If you don't train and direct your mind to abundance it WILL go to scarcity and it will shut down every one of your most delightful dreams. Mentions: -Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJC...

Aretha Rodney is a spoken word poet, performer, musician, song-writer and bursting with wisdom about your creative process. You're going to be blown away by her artistry and ability to give voice to deep feelings, plus she's just a delight! In this episode: -How Aretha's hospital battle with Covid-19 was the wakeup call she needed to pursuing her creativity full out -How to stop overcomplicating t...

I'm SUPER EXCITED to present to you our very first best of episode here on the Heartful Podcast. In case you haven't had the chance to hear it, or you need a little reminder of what being in a space of gratitude can do for your creativity, this episode is here for you! Gratitude is all over the self help industry lately + has been linked to about a zillion health benefits, but can gratitude actual...

Each artistic medium has its own language. Words are only one language. You have a language, a dialogue with your creativity. You have a language, a back and forth exchange within your creative niche—maybe it's the way you use color, light, line, form, gesture, sound. In this episode we discuss a few different ways to utilize these languages within your creativity to uplevel your art! Mentions: Re...

Lately on my daily walks I've been feeling more like running. To the point where it actually feels worse to walk than to run. I just know my body wants to run! When I truly listen to it, I know it wants to move that way...which sounds kinda crazy like why would you run when you can walk? But what if we are MEANT to run, creatively? Mentions: Retreat + Mastermind 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBf...

You can only receive what you have the capacity to hold. The hard truth is if someone offers you something incredible and you don't have room to receive it...you don't get to have it! Same with inspiration, money, ideas, vision of what your life and creativity could be, and how many people you could impact. What if what you're missing is not skill, or the right marketing technique, or the ability...

One of the most popular episodes of this show is how to get out of self doubt by embracing it. So this week we're diving deeper and talking more about self doubt because it comes up for all of us, but it's not a super useful emotion when you're trying to make things and I think lots of us would like to experience it less! Mentions: My FREE guides for photographers: http://brookeschultzphotography....

So thrilled to have one of my heroes, Jamie Kern Lima, the founder of IT cosmetics, on the podcast today. She started in her living room and grew to the largest luxury makeup brand in the country. She sold the company to L'Oréal in a billion-dollar deal and became the first female CEO of a brand in its 100+ year history. Eventually that landed her on the Forbes America's Richest Self-Made Women li...

What do you get when you hold things lightly? Dangerous freedom! You have a bias toward action and GOING for it when you're not so worried about the outcome--even when it's "serious". Mentions: 6 Hacks for Skyrocketing Creativity (Even If You're Super Busy): https://brookebschultz.com/get-creating/ What To Wear for Family Photos at Home: http://brookeschultzphotography.com/join/ Ep 120: The ONE ha...

This wildly creative life I'm talking about isn't about how MUCH stuff you can make. It's not about holing yourself up in a room with your craft for as many hours a day as possible, or seeing how many accolades, dollars, followers, or pieces of work you can rack up. It's about expanding far beyond your formal creative practice + approaching EVERYTHING in your life with creativity: intention, ingen...

You've heard about the power of outsourcing before but this episode walks you through step by step how to get started outsourcing so you can not only grow your business but also take even better care of your clients than you could on your own, while giving you back more white space time to do the thing you love--CREATE! Kelsey and I are showing you how to do this in a way that feels GOOD and gets...

In this episode I wanna celebrate the mediocre work. The time when you felt like you had nothing to say, you were bored with yourself and your old stale ideas, you were critical of your skill, and you made something anyway. And maybe that something wasn't that great. It was okay. Because the magic is in the process! Mentions: Heartful Creators Retreat Input (quick 3 question survey!) https://forms...

We're swimming in more images than ever before these days. So does professional family photography even matter? I mean, why not set up a tripod? Now, anyone who's tried to do that knows its not as easy as it sounds ;) --but just for argument's sake let's say it's possible. You certainly can get great photos of your kids without a pro photographer. So do we need family photo sessions + family photo...

Take your big feelings and SHOVE em--into beautiful creations!! In this episode: -how creators live twice -how to make meaning from big feelings Mentions: -Ep 119: Becoming the Creator You Long to Be...through Getting Dressed https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-119-becoming-creator-you-long-to-be-through-getting/id1438076373?i=1000506042940

So often we think we need to reinvent the wheel and feel like we're just hustling. We end up believing selling has to take every inch of our work time and then we're not being creative anymore, all bogged down, then we have a bad relationship with selling! In this episode: -I dispel some myths around sales -we talk EMOTIONS in business + selling -4 hard and fast ways to make money NOW, hunny! Ment...

Maya Iman is a visual artist with a focus in photography + art direction who focuses on creating a safe space of collaboration + intimacy with her subjects. In this episode: -how to create a collaborative, intimate process with your subjects -balancing shooting for yourself + shooting for larger impact + change -how to use principles of art direction to tell more interesting visual stories -where...

I have shared many essential habits on the podcast before and there are SO many touch points in your day and your routines that will help you be more creative for sure, but the angle I wanna speak to today is what about when life is just a lot and things are really hard and you're not able to stick with a 14 point morning routine? In this episode: -the one power-packed habit that's directly linked...