A podcast about Practices, Systems, and Rituals for a Creative Life, hosted by Cody Cook-Parrott.
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Common Shapes
By Cody Cook-Parrott
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March 20, 2024A Flexible Office Hello 👋 Hello Common Shapes listeners. 🔸 I wanted to pop in with a little mini-episode to check in between seasons and share a few updates. Take a few minutes to hear why I changed my name and how you can join us in Flexible Office this spring. 🔹LINKSGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayFind all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!...more December 06, 2023Cultivating Creative Seasons with Jacqueline Suskin This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m deep in conversation with poet, teacher, and my dear friend, Jacqueline Suskin.Jacqueline is a poet and educator who has been teaching workshops, writing books, hosting retreats and creating spontaneous poetry around the world since 2009. She’s published eight books, and her most recent one, A Year In Practice, was just released with Sounds True press.Together we talk about seasonal practices, radically reconnecting with the Earth, Fern Gully, writing m......more November 29, 2023How to Tell the Truth with Fariha Róisín This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend Fariha Róisín for a conversation at the intersections of writing, politics, care, and liberation.Fariha is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Sydney, Australia. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. She’s the author of five books and writes the Substack newsletter, How to Cure a Ghost.In this episode, Fariha shares......more November 22, 2023The Importance of the Personal Essay I’ve been writing personal essays for over a decade, and I believe that my personal essay practice allowed me to leave social media.So in today’s episode, I share how I blend the personal, the poetic, and the political in my writing. And I unpack how that supports me in speaking up and sharing my work without shying away from what’s happening in the world.I hope this episode inspires you to share your writing with the people. Tune in to learn about—The importance of your life storyHow to shar......more November 15, 2023Leaving Instagram or Exiting the Portal of the Validation Loop Welcome to season two of Common Shapes! Since last season, I took a big step in my life and logged out of Instagram for good.So in this episode, I’m going to share why I left and how I did it. Not from a place of knowing-it-all, but by asking the question, “what does it actually mean to be done with social media?”I hope this episode inspires you to take supportive steps that are right for you. Tune in to learn about—What it’s like to leave InstagramThe portal of the validation loopA big busin......more October 25, 2023A Spell For Your Creative Practice How are you doing, dear listener? Today I'm checking in with a tiny episode between seasons.
This one's full of personal updates about my current practice and a magical spell to support your creative ideation.
I look forward to being back for season two soon. In the meantime, find everything I'm up to below in the links.
LINKS:- Subscribe to my Substack newsletter
- Take my Skillshare class, Success on Substack
- Sign up for my workshop, Crafting Hidden Marketing Gems In Your Newsletters on Nov 21
- Book a Creative Advising Session
...more July 20, 2023Embracing Your Everchanging Job Description Making this podcast brought me into a business ecosystem crisis. Very little of my output changed, but my inner understanding of my work needed to shift.So in today’s episode, I’m sharing how my job description has changed since I launched this show. And I’m exploring how shifting your job description can transform your relationship to your work.Tune in to learn about—How to discover what you’re devoted toWhat are the themes of your jobWhat is not your jobHow to write your job descriptionAlig......more July 12, 2023Creating Your Offer Ecosystem Your offer ecosystem is how your creative offerings branch out of your artistry, fit together in the world, increase your income, and expand your reach.In this episode, I share how I’ve crafted my offer ecosystem over the past decade, and I tell you the stories of how a few of my offers have evolved and even ended.Tune in to learn about—What an offer ecosystem isMy favorite ways to get ideas for your offer ecosystemHow to choose a container for an offerWhy one-on-one work can be a great place......more July 05, 20235 Reasons the World Needs Your Online Class Teaching online classes is how I’ve made the majority of my income since 2017. And it is a great joy of my career to have had such amazing, invested, weird, inspirational students.In this episode, I’m going to share my approach to creating an online class by walking us through how I teach my class A Quilt Is Something Human.I hope that this inspires you to become the teacher that you are meant to be. Grab a pen & paper, then tune in to learn about—How to decide what to teachReasons t......more June 28, 2023How to Commit to the Life of an Artist with Anna Fusco This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my internet friend Anna Fusco to discuss dedicating your life to art.Anna is an artist, writer, deep thinker, question asker and truth teller. Her practice consists of writing her Substack newsletter and making drawings.Together we talk about our daily list practice, creating a gallery show, the challenges of pricing your work, and what it means to be a full-time artist.Tune in to learn about—The List aka Project MiracleMaking art & having......more
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