Listening to your intuition and running a conscious business - with Jo Chunyan
Following the Creative Spirit Podcast
Release Date: 11/05/2020
Finding inspiration through repair and mending with Molly Rooke
Following the Creative Spirit Podcast
Today’s guest episode is with artist and printmaker, Molly Rooke. Molly talks about some of the themes in her work, particularly around the coastline and preservation and how she uses darning and small acts of repair to comment on the climate crsis. We chat about her influences, inspiration and her creative practice, and Molly shares some advice from her experience working as an artist for others who want to persue fine art as a career. Molly’s website: Molly instagram: and Full show notes at Follow www.instagram.co.uk/me.and.spirit
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Taking inspiration from nature as a multi-passionate creative with Portia Yip
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Today’s guest, Portia Yip is a multi-passionate creative. She’s a business coach, copywriter, creative mentor and artist. Portia works with other creatives to empower them in building their, version of what a sustainable business ecosystem looks like. Her work draws a lot of inspiration from nature which feels really lovely and nurturing and in our conversation, we chat about how to embrace the different seasons in our business and how to find focus as a multi-passionate creative with lots of different interests and passions. Seasonal Guidance Collection: Creative Compass...
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Four simple ways to overcome creative block
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As a creative, at some point you've probably had a project you need to work on, maybe you’ve got a deadline coming up, or you haven’t created anything in a while and want to make something but you sit down at your desk to a blank piece of paper, or a blank canvas, or an empty word document and you literally have no ideas and no inspiration. It can be really frustrating and annoying and stressful because you’ve no idea how to get started. In this episode, I'm sharing 4 simple ways to help get you unstuck when you come up against creative block. @me.and.spirit
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Marketing your business as an introvert with Flora Davidson
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This week's interview is with Flora Davidson, who is a marketing coach for introverts. She helps introverted entrepreneurs get visible using Instagram with strategies that don't sacrifice their personality. Today's conversation was so interesting because I'm an introvert myself. We chatted about how there are actually different types of introverts and depending on what your personality type is, you might struggle with some slightly different things. And so bringing self awareness and self acceptance to that is super important to getting the best strategy and showing up in the way that's best...
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The benefits of building your creative brand with strategy
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In this episode we’re going to be chatting about some of the reasons why having brand strategy for your business is so beneficial. Strategy is one of my favourite things because it’s what sets your brand and your business up for success. But it has become a bit of a buzzword these days - it seems like everyone is offering brand strategy but a lot of people talk about it as this big, scary complicated thing. But it's not as complicated as it sounds and there are so many amazing benefits to building your brand with strategy.
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How creativity can support our wellbeing with Jackee Holder (part 2)
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This is the second conversation with Jackee Holder. Jackee is a London-based executive coach and writer who is really passionate about creativity and journaling and nature and the benefits of practices that include these. In our episode last week we talked a lot about the connection between creativity and nature but we didn’t have enough time to chat about how creativity can have a pretty huge impact on our mental health and wellbeing. And I’m so glad we got the chance to do this follow-up episode because we cover so much stuff. You don’t particularly need to listen to the episodes in...
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Using nature and journaling to connect to your creativity with Jackee Holder (Part 1)
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I am so excited to start the new season with this interview with Jackee Holder. Jackee is a London-based executive coach and writer. In this episode we’re talking about how important nature is to creativity - we’re discussing how journaling can form part of your creative practice. Jackee shares some properly incredible nature-inspired journaling prompts. We touch on why it’s important to embrace the process and the messy aspect of creativity and how, at its core, creativity is just self-expression, so everyone can be creative. Jackee’s website: Jackee’s instagram: Me...
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How to Overcome Creative Anxiety
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There aren't many creatives I know who don't struggle with creative anxiety - unfortunately it's just part of the creative process. But developing a consistent creative process can help you learn to trust the process and manage that anxiety. In this episode, I'm sharing a few techniques and exercises that I've found useful in helping to manage and overcome creative anxiety.
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Signs your creative business is ready for a rebrand
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In this episode, I'm going to be chatting about how to know if your business is ready for a rebrand. There are five signs that your business might want to consider a rebrand, and there's also a couple of reasons why people often want to rebrand your business that are definitely not good enough reasons to do a whole rebrand, so we'll chat about this as well.
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Capturing Small Stories and the Beauty of Everyday Moments
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Laura Pashby is a lifelong lover of stories and she captures moments and shares stories that reveal the beauty in every day. Her new book will be published in October, and in this episode, we talk about embracing the power of storytelling to share our own truth, finding your own voice, and how combining storytelling, mindfulness and photography can benefit our wellbeing.
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