Conversations with Sarah

In this episode I speak with Jason Hall, a life coach and restaurant manager, and my friend from The University of Santa Monica where we studied Spiritual Psychology.

We both have a history of being unsure what we want to be when we grow up. To us, career has been important but elusive as we try to follow our passions.

We talk about Jason's history of school and work, his attempt at figuring out what his purpose is, and the content feeling of beingness that he discovered and how that relates to what he wants to DO with his life. We talk about mastery and presence and how any job can be a good one with the right attitude.

If you want to contact Jason about his coaching services, you can email him at [email protected]

This is a personal episode for me, and one that was difficult to put together. Talking about art and creativity has led me to talk about work, passion, money, and career, topics that have caused me stress and anxiety for years now. In this episode, I introduce you to my own relationship with work, money, and career as I choose vulnerability and sharing over hiding and shame. I speak with my life coach, Julie Chazotte, about contentedness and accepting myself for who I am and the choices that I'm making, about accepting what is and not questioning my deservability of good things.

Sophie Chiche, my stepmom and founder of Shape House, is back!

I wanted to get into her mind a little bit so I asked her about something that I greatly admire her for: interior design!

Interior design has always been a mysterious challenge for me and for almost my whole life I've watched Sophie in the process of creating beautiful spaces, from her home to her office to her Urban Sweat Lodge, Shape House and wondered how she did it.

In this conversation, she reveals her inner process about how she makes the choices that she makes when creating and designing a space. This episode was really informative and educational for me and I even went home and changed my entire living room around! I like it much better now. So I hope that it gives you a nugget of practical inspiration as well.

Huge thank you to Sophie, who endlessly humors me and my creative pursuits. You can follow her on Instagram @sophiechiche

In this episode, Jess and I continue our conversation about what it means to be an artist. We explore identity and how labels have helped us or held us back in our creative pursuits.

This is a continuation of a previous episode and while you don't need the context to enjoy this one, I encourage you to go back to episode 05: Soul of an Artist (https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithsarah/05-soul-of-an-artist) and listen to that episode to complement this one.

Big thanks to Jess for once again opening up to my audience about her thoughts and her life. You can follow her on Instagram at @jesskiers

This conversation with one of my best friends from college, Jess, is a conversation that changed the direction of the entire conversation about creativity for me. It gets to something in my question about what it means to be an artist that I haven't quite articulated yet.

We talk about what it means to be an artist of our lives, taking creative agency over our choices and our experience rather than being a victim of our circumstances and subconscious habits. Jess talks about the God of Ambition, which she has, for most of her life, obeyed, but which she is now questioning as she turns to another creative driver. We also talk about what kind of art inspires us to create vs what kind of art feels inaccessible.

This conversation is jam packed with tons of metaphysical and practical philosophy about creativity and life in general. I hope you glean something useful and new from it.

Huge thank you to Jess for being willing to go on this philosophical journey with me and to share so much about her life with my audience. You can follow her on Instagram @jesskiers

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

Jess's short film, which I called the "grocery store video" I think

https://vimeo.com/330254569

The Michael Singer books she mentions are "Unteathered Soul" and "The Surrender Experiment." They're incredible. Find them and read them.

Jeff Tweedy's Memoir is called "Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)" and here is the Amazon link, you should buy it right away!

https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Can-Get-Back-Discording/dp/1101985267

In this episode I speak with professional artist, Mary Doodles. She's been making time lapse art videos on YouTube professionally for 8 years, and we talk about how she came to do that, the discipline it requires to become good at an art form, and how to maintain creative excitement when the thing you love becomes your work.

Thank you so much to Mary Doodles! You can find her on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/marydoodles

and on Instagram: @MaryDoodles

As I continue to explore what it means to be an artist, I speak with my friend David Carzell, who believes that everyone is an artist if only they're supported as such.

But what about people who don't consider themselves artists? Jaime Kinsella and Guy Tabibian help me understand why they don't really think of themselves as artists and why.

Thank you to my brilliant guests!

David Carzell: @davidcarze11 and @davidcarzell on Instagram

Jaime Kinsella: @jmekinsella

Guy Tabibian

In this episode, I speak with 4 people:

a Professor of Education and Public Policy, my friends Chelsea Hogan and Ericka Young, and my stepmom, Sophie Chiche.

We talk about what it means to be an artist, how to determine whether you or someone else is an artist, and what that means for our own creative expression. Everyone has different views on the matter, which makes the conversation completely fascinating.

Thank you to my brilliant guests:

Chelsea Hogan: www.museumprov.com

Ericka Young: www.shootmytravel.com and @erickamyoung on Instagram

Sophie Chiche: @sophiechiche on Instagram

www.lifebyme.com

www.shapehouse.com

In this episode, three of my wisest friends join me to talk about intuition. What is it and how do we differentiate it from other forms of thought? How do we learn to trust and follow it?

Thank you to my brilliant guests:

Sophie Chiche: @sophiechiche on Instagram

shapehouse.com

Julie Chazotte: https://www.julieannechazotte.com/

David Carzell: @davidcarze11 on Instagram

Welcome to Conversations with Sarah! A podcast where you get to listen in on some of my most interesting and personal conversations.

This episode is a trailer! It'll give you a taste for what to expect in future episodes ;)