The mountain bike metaphor episode
Gird yourself for a conversation on the power of creative community. While such a community may take time to cultivate, know there are many ways to do it and it's worth the wait.
Imaginative alchemy at work
What if you could turn those creative doubts into fuel for your creative practice? Harvest those doubt nuggets and toss them into the old notion conversion contrivance and fire up an inferno of inspiration.
creative practice = (déjà vu x Groundhog Day) + Middlegame
Lest you think your creative practice will or should be a linear progression to mastery and achievement, we pull back the veil on some of our current experiences in our creative practices that really drive home the notion (you'll see what we did there when you listen
We are all that kid on the playground
In this episode we talk about the kind of narratives in our lives that are like icebergs. We tell a story about a kid on the playground who just wanted to imagine he was on a ship. And then we bring him again. And again.
The gateway meat to introspection. Or something.
This episode marks a new four-ish part series on narratives, what they are, how they affect our ability to start or maintain our creative practice, and what you can do to change those narratives that are not so helpful.
Have you ever fallen into an upward spiral?
This episode goes a little long because that emotional ball of twine is tough to unravel and chock full of good stuff. We attempt to characterize what exactly comprises our why and fail. But we fail forward and upward in a spiral!
Or Dishes of Shame
Say hello to your Inner Critic, the wet blanket part of you that is happy to point out all the reasons you shouldn't start or continue your creative practice. We take a look at the myriad ways the inner critic manifests, as well as offer up some suggestions to take
Cows are beautiful, but they aren't overtly sassy
Everyone is busy, just ask them! Have we traded our precious time to just spin our wheels in the name of seeming productive, valuable or needed? Is being busy a badge of honor or is it a shield to keep us from the creative practice we know we want?
It's really the first frontier of your creative practice.
In which we poke fun at fingerless gloves and work through some ways of overcoming that ever important need of all creative practices: space. We fly dangerously close to the sun that is physics, talking not only at space availability, but time as well (insert mind
They say the waiting is the hardest part, but they were wrong. It's getting started.
Ginger and Jonathan talk about what it's like to get stuck, like those times we decide to vacuum the entire house instead of doing the thing we love to do. Whether it's housework or social media or just general ennui, it happens to everyone and that's okay.