Artistic Spirit

Hello, I’m Katie Moran an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. I’m here with Sara Habbab! Sara Habbab is an artist and creativity coach. She has been creating art every day for over a year and has started a new commitment to 1,000 days of art. Sara leads communities with me for creatives. We believe no creative should have to feel alone. We host 30-day sprints year-round where creatives commit to creating daily for 30 days, for 10 minutes a day, and share it with the community. 

Sara’s Tips to Find Daily Inspiration

• Sit down for ten minutes a day
• Let art meet you halfway
• Give yourself grace
• Make a commitment to yourself, a community, or an accountability buddy
• Remind yourself that your art doesn’t have to be perfect
• Commit to the act of showing up
• Don’t have a “make it or break it” mindset
• Trust your future self to find inspiration in your tomorrow’s

Sara’s art is on OpenSea where she has listed over 400 NFT pieces. Sara shares her 1,000 days of art journey on her social media accounts- her Instagram, her TikTok, and her Twitter. In her journey, she creates daily art. As an artist, Sara founded Ethereal Art Collections where you can find merchandise that features her art. You can find all of her links here.

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I”m Katie Moran and this is Artistic Spirit- your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. I’m here today with MJ Coppola- a wellness warrioress, author, poet, spiritual awareness seeker, spiritual coach, and the podcast host of Mirrored Wellness.

MJ has helped me find the courage to start this podcast, Artistic Spirit. She holds space on her podcast, Mirrored Wellness, where she discusses self-development and spirituality. She has learned through creativity coaching that she needs to feel safe in order to create, like many of us.

MJ’s Tips on How to Feel Safe

• Create Sacred Space
• Remind yourself that it is ok to feel your feelings
• Talk to someone to regurgitate and process
• Utilize objects as symbols to remind you that you are safe
• Practice grounding

MJ recognizes the need to validation in creating and how creative sprints have helped her get back to writing poetry. “Demons Cry Too” is a culmination of years of poetry that she revisited to share this work with the world.

Reminders About Befriending Your Shadow Side

• Accept having ups and downs in your mood without judgment
• Recognize that your shadow doesn’t always feel good
• Slow down and pause when you need it
• Accept that rest is necessary
• You can channel it for creativity
• You can release addiction to shadow feelings
• Music can change your mood

MJ discusses the growth she has had in accountability groups. The power of community can be motivating and uplifting. MJ credits having a space to feel supported and creative to her work in accountability groups.

Connect with MJ here.

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I’m Katie Moran and this is the Artistic Spirit Podcast- your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. I’m here with Ryan Spence- a life and weight loss coach. He’s lost 130 pounds and has kept it off for 13 years. Now he’s helping others. He’s coached me and has changed my life. He’s helped me become more confident, with an audible difference in my voice.

Ryan talks about how he lost 130 pounds with small habits and sustainable change to keep it off for 13 years. Now he is on a mission to coach others through the process of self-love and sustainable change. Ryan has taught me how to accept myself as I am and how to become more confident.

Tips from Ryan

• Start with small habits- they make a big difference
• Don’t wait until you hit your goal to be happy
• Do the things you say you will do and confidence will follow
• Work with a coach or therapist to build confidence
• Look for moments where you feel aligned

Ryan suggests everyone finds out their love language and gives themselves self-love in their love language. We recognize and prefer love in certain ways. We can use this to our benefit to show ourselves the love we deserve.

Emotional eating is when we self-soothe through eating. We eat to feel better, but it may not be a form of self-care or self-love. Ryan recommends working through emotions with a coach and finding the root causes of the emotions that condition bad habits. For emotional eating, he also suggests writing down what you eat and the emotions you feel when you eat to bring awareness to your habits.

Reminders from Ryan

• Someone else’s truth doesn’t have to become your truth
• We are in charge of how we feel
• You deserve your own love
• Change is not about all or nothing
• You can choose to make change sustainable
• It’s okay if the change takes awhile
• You can change one habit at a time

Connect with Ryan Spence here.

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Hello, I’m Katie Moran an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. This is Artistic Spirit’s most powerful episode. I’m here with Sharon Valenti- a serial entrepreneur, coach, and trainer. She is the founder of Sharon’s.club

Sharon discusses overcoming limiting beliefs and sexual abuse as well as trauma recovery. She talks about how abuse cycles and patterns are conditioned and how you can heal from them. 

You can become the person you need. You can give yourself the love you deserve. You can heal and form new beliefs about yourself that empower you and reframe the limiting self-beliefs formed from traumatic experiences or abuse. You can accept yourself the way you are. 

Here are reminders from Sharon

• You create your reality
• Take full responsibility for your life and what happens
• Let go of beliefs about yourself you formed from traumatic experiences
• You can accept what happens in your life by living in the moment
• Show up as you

If you are struggling with self-confidence and limiting beliefs, look in the mirror, affirm yourself, and watch what comes up for you. Reframe any negativity that comes up with courage. Lift yourself up. 

If you are suicidal now, please call an emergency suicide prevention line in your area for help. If you are looking for reasons not to kill yourself watch my suicide prevention video here.

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I’m Katie Moran- an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. I am a sexual assault survivor and have PTSD from the experience. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality.  This episode is with Leah Jones- an author, poet, and mental health advocate. Her first book was a collection of poetry on mental health titled “Semi Colon;: Poetry To Take You Through a Journey Through Mental Health Awareness” and her second book on mental health awareness and workplace stress titled “Listen!”  

Leah started writing poetry as an outlet for healing. She recommends writing poetry or a gratitude list as a healthy coping mechanism and to overcome self-harm.

“I really do think that my poetry saved my life. And I want it to save other people's lives.” -Leah Jones

Here are some reminders from Leah:

• Your mental health and well-being are your priority
• Don’t compare yourself to edited photos on social media
• Point out the things you love about yourself
• Know the signs of when someone needs help and don’t be afraid to ask if someone you love is suicidal
• No job is worth your mental health
• Speak up when you are being bullied

If you have a goal to self-publish on Amazon, Leah suggests finding a supportive community, looking for instructions on Amazon, and googling any questions you have.

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I’m Katie Moran- an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. I am a sexual assault survivor and have PTSD from the experience. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. Arame Ndoye is a podcaster, a life coach trained in Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), an author, holistic healer, and speaker. She has found healing from a history of sexual trauma and now coaches other survivors to their own path of healing. Arame has reminders for anyone who has experienced feelings of worthlessness due to past trauma.

Arame’s reminders for you:

• Know feelings of worthlessness are not true
• Change your own inner dialogue- tell yourself you are worthy
• Intentionally escape negative feelings that are overwhelming
• Boundaries come with practice: have self-compassion
• Know what your boundaries are and then communicate them
• Boundaries come from the place of deciding what’s right for you 
• You don’t need anybody’s permission to take your power back

Arame makes it very clear that if you are healing from feeling unworthy from experiencing trauma, that your inner dialogue matters and feelings are worthlessness are not true. You are inherently worthy of healthy experiences and self-protection through boundaries. Arame recommends for anyone feeling emotional pain to ask yourself: “where do I feel this in my body,” to have more compassion with yourself; this practice was life-changing for me. This allows for you to reframe your negative self-talk. You have the power within yourself to reignite feelings of safety, because you are worthy of feeling safe inside your own body.

Arame’s tips for putting yourself out there online:

• Post even with the fear of putting yourself out there
• Change your narrative about putting yourself out there- you will get what you think
• Tell yourself you are excited instead of nervous
• Just start, even if it’s small
• Don’t wait for everything to be perfect
• Make it an intention to post consistently with a frequency that is right for you

Connect with Arame here:

https://linktr.ee/aramendoye

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I’m Katie Moran- an author, advocate, poet, creativity coach, and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast- your place for art, mental health, and spirituality. I’m here today with Kerri Van Kirk. Kerri Van Kirk is a Human Design Catalyst, Coach, Healer and founder of GUMPTION™ Method. As a creative, she’s a poet, storyteller, podcaster and singer/songwriter.

In terms of finding the right people for your content, offerings, and art- Kerri reminds us that we’re not for everyone. She believes there are people you are meant to connect with and resonate with them on a deeper level.

“There's something about when you put yourself out there, the people that are meant for you will find you.” -Kerri Van Kirk

Kerri describes Universal Health Principles (UHP) as a practice that recognizes the validity in all ways in which people see the world. UHP tunes into the energetic body, emotional body, physical body and environment. Kerri also founded the GUMPTION™ Method, a technique that brings awareness and courage. She streams the GUMPTION™ warmup on Live Warm-up Platform. This method brings full connection and presence. 

Reminders from Kerri:

• You don’t have to be fully healed or perfect to find love
• When you feel “not okay” tell someone
• Love requires you to know when you deserve more

If you are looking for a way to set a goal or intention, Kerri discusses setting intentions at the new moon and observing your growth or manifestation through the moon cycle. She describes her method as a way to make goals stick.

Connect with Kerri Van Kirk here:

https://kerrivankirk.com/

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Hello, I’m Katie Moran an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health and spirituality. Welcome to the second episode, I’m here with someone who has changed my life: Raven McChesney! Raven McChesney is an artist, spiritual mentor, coach, and aerialist. In this episode she will explain: spiritual goal setting, quantum leaping, and inspired action as well as how to connect with the right audience online.

For creators, we often ask ourselves: “how do we find and connect with our audience?” Raven suggests that it is not our content, but the WHY behind what we bring to our content. She says your WHY becomes your fuel and motivation. Having a deep why will stop you from comparing your account to other accounts. Raven explains how the market is not too saturated, although it may appear that way when the algorithm feeds us accounts that are similar to ours.

“There's enough room for everybody to share their gifts and their dreams and to make an impact.” -Raven McChesney

Raven’s tips for connecting with your audience:

• Learn the skills needed to understand your audience
• Put out content that is beneficial to your audience
• Create on your account so the platform knows who you are trying to reach

Raven’s pointers on goal-setting:

• Make a desires list
• Ask yourself, “WHY do I want this?”
• Break down what you want into easier steps

“Whatever it is that you're working on cultivating, you have to keep reminding the brain and keep activating that reticular activating system to whatever it is that you want to see more of. And that's the beginning of that internal quantum leap. Because that internal quantum leap is what changes everything around you.” -Raven McChesney

Raven’s guidelines for inspired action:

• Listen to your intuition
• Feed the desire underneath the flames
• Know your thoughts and how you feel about yourself
• Trust that the universe is going to meet you halfway

Connect with Raven McChesney here: Spirit Of The Raven - YouTube and Raven ✨ Spiritual Mentor (@spirit_of_the_raven) • Instagram photos and videos.

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Hello, I’m Katie Moran an author, poet, advocate, creativity coach and social entrepreneur. This is the Artistic Spirit Podcast, your place for art, mental health and spirituality. Welcome to the first episode, I’m here with Sara Habbab! Sara Habbab is an artist and creativity coach. She has been creating art every day for a year. Sara has been overcoming her self-limiting beliefs to create this daily art as well as leading communities. You can listen to her tips and pointers on how to overcome self-limiting beliefs to do the impossible and to create daily art!

Sara’s NFT collection, Lightholders, on OpenSea marked another abolition of a self-limiting belief of hers where she stepped into digital ownership of her art. Like her other self-limiting beliefs, Sara has achieved the milestones she once considered impossible. 

Sara’s tips on overcoming self-limiting beliefs:

• Connect with a creative community
• Trust the stages you are in
• Practice more to find freedom
• Honor your inspiration

Sara shares her 365 days of art journey on her social media accounts- her Instagram, her TikTok, and her Twitter. In her journey she creates daily art. As an artist, Sara founded Ethereal Art Collections where you can find merchandise which features her art.

Sara’s pointers on creating daily art:

• Trust your future self
• The more you create, the more inspiration you will find
• Take the leap
• Sit for 10 minutes a day for 30 days
• Stay inspired by connecting with a creative community

“You don’t have to do it alone anymore.” - Sara Habbab

This is brought to you by Equanimity Boutique- an online boutique of t-shirts with uplifting messages: Products — Equanimity Boutique. You can find my Amazon author page here: Amazon.com: Katie Moran: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. Connect with Sara Habbab and our community of creatives: Creativille.