Awakening With Grace — Creativity & Consciousness

Welcome back.

After three years away, I'm returning with a lot to share, including a new name for the show, an honest look at what I've been up to, and where we're headed from here.

Here's what I know to be true: creativity and spirituality have always been the same thing. After 20 years of building a career as an animal photographer, author, and creator, I'm done keeping those two worlds separate. On Awakening With Grace, we're going all in on consciousness, creation, and the unseen world of energy, metaphysics and more.

In this episode, I open up about the single scariest thing I've ever done (hint: it wasn't quitting my corporate job or moving across the country for art school). And I share why I believe your awakening isn't just for you, it's for all of us.

In this episode:

• 0:00 — The rebrand and what's changing
• 3:27 — The three things that sparked my awakening
• 7:12 — Why I kept my spirituality hidden, and why I stopped
• 8:50 — Fully coming out of the spiritual closet
• 13:20 — The loneliness no one talks about when you're pioneering your own path
• 18:21 — Why your awakening is bigger than just you
• 22:30 — Introducing Coffee and the Cosmos and what's coming this season

Links and Resources:

• ☕ Join Coffee and the Cosmos (a free monthly gathering)
• Follow me on Instagram for weekly spiritual and creative content
• Awakening With Grace for more info

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Consciousness, Creation & Connection.

Awakening With Grace is a show about the spiritual dimensions of creation, and what it means to bring your most meaningful work into the world.

Hosted by energy intuitive, acclaimed animal photographer, and author Grace Chon, this podcast explores the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and the unseen.

Through solo episodes and conversations with teachers, healers, and creators, you'll discover that the awakened life is also the creative one.

Awaken and create. Transmit through delight. Leave life more fertile than you found it.

If you've been here before, welcome back! Creativity School has grown into something deeper. Learn more at awakeningwithgrace.com.

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 the process of developing trust in ourselves, our creative process, and the forces larger than us. We also discuss the inner voice beckoning creative people to listen, and how we can make space to hear it even when it can seem so hard to do this. Esther also speaks on the connection between nature and our creative practice and how our menstrual cycles and our creativity are deeply intertwined.

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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 media, his work has been featured in numerous publications such as Delish, Buzzfeed, and the New York Times.

We talk about the resistance Saeng faced as his visibility and platform grew, how to be authentic as you create meaningful work, and how he protects his mental health as he creates and shares online. Saeng also lets us in on what his creative process looks like, and his best tips on how to get started on TikTok.

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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.

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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.

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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 you enjoyed this episode please let me know!

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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 others!)

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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:

1. Get really clear on what you like.

2. Embrace it wholeheartedly with bravado, and without shame or judgement.

3. Allow this connection to yourself and to your own tastes to flow into your creative work.

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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 creative process, eventually leading her to teach people how to discover their innate creativity. She believes everyone is creative and is passionate about helping others find and express the creativity that resides inside of them. In this episode, she shares all about her insights as a creativity expert and teacher.

Mentioned in this episode:

• How Esther became an illustrator, burned out, and eventually discovered her intuition

• How creativity has a whole range of pathways and is something innate in all of us

• Exercises to develop our intuition, trust it, and act on it

• How to quiet your inner critic

• Why we need to feed our creative spirit

• Overcoming the fear of what people are going to think and the fear of sharing our work

• Giving ourselves the freedom to make mistakes

• How to find your passion using your intuition

• Open mode and closed mode - the two modes we need for the creative process

• The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron

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