Ep #201: Stop Planning, Start Imagining

What does it take to create real change as you pursue your greatest life? Too often, we confine ourselves to who we think we have been in the past, to what we’ve known, or what we think others have known. Therefore, our world is constrained by just what we’ve known....

Ep #200: How to Set a New Standard for Your Life

With this being the 200th episode of this podcast, I was thinking to mark the occasion, if I could remind you of anything, if I could wave a magic wand and bestow anything upon your life, it would be for you to remember who you really are, and give you the opportunity...

Ep #199: Waving the Wand that Brings Magic to Your Work

Two intriguing themes seem to be coming up for me lately around the work that I do in the Art School and as a coach. One is around things being a secret, in a delicious sort of way. The other is around magic wands, and it follows on perfectly from last week’s episode....

Ep #198: Energy First: The Secret to Creating with Ease

When it comes to welcoming ease and flow into your creative process, there’s something that might currently be missing: energy. The energy I’m talking about has the power to both enhance your end result as well as enrich your experience of the process. So, in this...

Ep #197: The Case for Beauty

In this week’s episode, I want to make a case for beauty. I’m presenting a case for how your relationship to beauty can help you to more deeply trust your own instincts while unleashing and nurturing your creative genius, and how embracing beauty can help you...

Ep #196: Creature Mode: How to Nourish Your Creative Process

Last week, I introduced you to the concept of Creature Mode: the solution to the idea that, in the modern world, we are too often taught that the creative process is something that just happens in our heads, denying that the rest of us is involved. Oftentimes, we only...

Ep #195: Creature Mode: How to Stop Playing Safe

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for 100 miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” – Mary Oliver. Woven into the design of the Art School process is that you have...

Ep #194: Revisiting the Vision and Reigniting the Fire

Whether you’re in the thick of working towards your creative dreams and it all feels like too much, or you’ve just been thinking about it so long that you’re a little heart-weary and frustrated with yourself, this heart-weariness can feel like it layers concrete,...