Lesson 63 - BEST OF: Building Self Confidence and Resilience with Aimee Hoover
Release Date: 06/07/2022
Lesson 84 - Faith, Love, and Developing Trust in Ourselves in the Creative Process with Esther Maloney
Creativity School
This week on Creativity School, I’m talking to Esther Maloney, a multidisciplinary artist, educator and mama. She’s the creator of award winning films, an author, a visual artist, and the founding director of Illumine Media as well as a founding member of the Creative Sovereignty Lab. Esther also facilitates The Vitality Collective and Making Sessions, two 10-week, online workshops offered for those ready to make powerful shifts in their creative work. Esther’s work is rooted in the belief that our creative life is inseparable from our spiritual life, and she shares how to begin...
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Lesson 83 - Visibility and Impact Through Authentically Being Yourself with Saeng Douangdara
Creativity School
How can you grow your visibility and impact through authentically being you and embracing all parts of yourself and the work you create? This week on Creativity School, I have an inspiring conversation with Saeng Douangdara, a popular content creator and personal chef who specializes in Lao cuisine. Saeng shares his journey of how he was born in a refugee camp in Southeast Asia after his parents fled Laos, to eventually working as a college counselor, to now creating storytelling videos that advocate, uplift, and center Lao cuisine. With over 700K followers and millions of views on social...
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BONUS - How Do You Know if You're Psychic?
Creativity School
I believe there is a very strong relationship between creativity and spirituality and I’m excited to share this BONUS episode with you this week! It’s a conversation I had with my dear friend Sylvia Beatriz, an intuition coach and psychic medium. This week we chat all about how to know if you’re psychic (psst - we all are!), how to start learning this language of sensing, feeling and knowing beyond our 5 physical senses, and how our intuitive abilities can lead us to our most expansive and aligned life. WORK WITH ME! 🌟 CONNECT WITH SYLVIA BEATRIZ: | CONNECT...
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Lesson 82 - Transform Your Triggers
Creativity School
This week on Creativity School, we’re talking about triggers! While triggers are extremely uncomfortable and can leave us feeling deflated and paralyzed, they’re ACTUALLY here to pinpoint where you have stuck energy and where you have the capacity to expand into your highest self. Learn how to use the things that trigger you as a way to know exactly where your limiting beliefs are, and bring these subconscious thoughts to the surface so you can expand and grow into your fullest and most authentic, creative being. WORK WITH ME! 🌟 CONNECT WITH CREATIVITY SCHOOL: | ...
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BONUS - How Working with Spiritual Guidance Changed Our Lives
Creativity School
I believe there is a very strong relationship between creativity and spirituality and I’m excited to share this BONUS episode with you this week! It’s a conversation I had with my dear friend Sylvia Beatriz, an intuition coach and psychic medium, all about how working with spiritual guidance changed our lives. We talk about: -How to begin to start cultivating a relationship with our intuition. -Why it’s SO important to learn to integrate critical thinking and intuition for the world today. -The personal cost of ignoring the call to slow down and tune into what we need …and MORE. If...
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Lesson 81 - Cultivating Creativity: Finding Your Own Unique Voice and Style
Creativity School
Over the last 15 years of my career as a professional photographer, one of the compliments I’ve loved the most is when someone tells me they just *know* when a photo is mine. It shows me that my work is recognizable and that I’ve been able to find my own unique voice as a creative. This week in our Cultivating Creativity Series, I’ll be sharing how to develop your own unique voice and style as a creator. Tune in for a deep dive on deconstructing the process of taking all your influences and inspirations, and turning them into something that is uniquely you (and WITHOUT copying...
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Lesson 80 - Cultivating Creativity: What Do You Like?
Creativity School
Today’s episode is the first in a new series called Cultivating Creativity, where I’ll be sharing simple and practical tips on how to craft the way you think and ideate TO BE MORE CREATIVE! At the very foundation of cultivating creativity is a simple truth: know what you like and why. Tune in this week to learn about why it’s essential to: Get really clear on what you like. Embrace it wholeheartedly with bravado, and without shame or judgement. Allow this connection to yourself and to your own tastes to flow into your creative work. WORK WITH ME! 🌟 CONNECT WITH...
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BEST OF -Becoming More Creative Through Your Intuition with Esther Loopstra
Creativity School
This week’s episode is all about HOW TO BE MORE CREATIVE! How to tap into it, how to follow the creative process, and how to feed your creative spirit by listening to your intuition. My guest today, Esther Loopstra, is a prolific artist and illustrator, specializing in food and travel, hand-lettering, and surface design. Her work has been used for print ads, editorials, books, stationery products, and textiles and her clients include Target, Frito Lay, Google, Jo Ann Fabrics, Eddie Bauer, and American Greetings. Esther’s insatiable curiosity drew her to learn as much as she could about the...
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Lesson 78 - The Subjectivity of Creativity - Everything is an Opinion!
Creativity School
Creativity is NOT math - there isn’t one defined, clear answer on what’s right or good. Everything is simply an opinion, completely subjective and in the eye of the beholder. I recently had a portfolio review and had the chance to share my latest photo series with top industry people from photo festivals and museums. This week on Creativity School, I share my top takeaways to remember when you have a disappointing response to your work. Here’s a gentle reminder: The point of creating what matters to us, isn’t so that it matters to everyone! Feeling like our work is ENOUGH is a key part...
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Lesson 77 - Connecting the Natural World with Our Creative Spirit with Jess Keating, Part 2
Creativity School
Here’s Part 2 of my conversation with Jess Keating, a scientist, bestselling author of 23 books, shamanic guide, and holistic money mentor. Jess bridges the gap between science and spirituality, guiding creatives and entrepreneurs to healing their deepest blocks so they share their medicine and message with the world. In the second part of our conversation, we discuss how to build a sustainable creative business through slower deeper moves, rather than the flashy stuff that sells on the internet. Jess shares the most common forms of self sabotage she sees with creatives, and how to build a...
info_outlineToday’s episode is for everyone that was told you can’t make money doing what you love, especially as an artist.
(I have a feeling this is the majority of us!)
The myth of the starving artist is one of the biggest misconceptions there is about creativity. I was told my entire life that I could never make a living with my creative hobbies. But my guest today, Aimée Hoover, has made a successful career as an extraordinary fine artist for 20 years, painting contemporary portraits of animals. Her paintings are in collections all around the world, seen in galleries and exhibitions, and featured in countless magazine articles.
In this episode, Aimée tells us how she accidentally stumbled upon her niche painting portraits of pets 20 years ago, built her business as a side hustle, and how she’s been able to sustain a long lasting career creating exactly what she loves to make. She talks about the point in her career when pleasing clients left her lost and burned out, and how she shut down a successful, profitable business to find joy in her work again. Aimée also shares how to build self confidence and resilience in your work, especially in this day of social media when it’s so easy to feel like you’re not good enough. You’ll also find out why I call Aimée a social media and marketing genius!
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