Create Shift

Hello!

It’s another interview episode of the Create Shift podcast. This time with a coach I’ve been working with since 2020, the wonderful Ray Dodd. In this episode we talk all things money making and creativity. We also manage to discuss Lin Manuel Miranda (why not?!), the spreadsheet olympics (because apparently that’s a real thing) and Ray wins the prize for first use of the phrase ‘raw dogging’ on the podcast.

Get your notebook out, there’s plenty of juicy stuff in this conversation!

Topics covered:

* Ray’s approach to money goals, why you need to go for more than enough

* The most common money challenges Ray sees amongst her clients who are artists/creatives

* The need to realise you’re a business owner as an artist/creative

* Being your real self in your art & your money making

* Not judging your own path

* Developing your own relationship with money

* Artists need coaching more than anybody (and if you want it with me, here’s the info)

* How society has shaped our relationship to money & to creativity

Links & resources mentioned

* Listen to Ray’s podcast Real You,Real Money

* Find Ray on Instagram @ray_dodd

* My Alchemy single session coaching package is currently on sale (but only until Fri 16th August) at £175, usual price £385. Buy now.

Thanks for listening! If you’re enjoying the podcast please take the time to rate and review it over on Apple podcasts so more people can find it.

Until next time.

Stay curious, stay inspired, stay connected.

Ellen x

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Hello!

On today’s episode of Create Shift I’m telling you the bizarre story of how I got the best creative advice I ever received, how I didn’t even realise that’s what it was for years (because honestly it kinda pissed me off) and I’m letting you know what that advice was.

Links, references, resources

* My Alchemy single session coaching package is now on Summer sale! More than 50% off. All the info is here . This really is an incredible offer and there are just 10 spots available.

Hope you enjoy listening!

Ellen x

Welcome to another episode of Create Shift. In today’s solo episode I’m diving into the topic of procrastination. Is it a helpful part of the creative processes, a block to be battled through and overcome or perhaps neither of those? If you feel like procrastination is something you’ve come up against many times, this episode will offer you a fresh perspective on it and some tools for how to move through it.

Links, references, resources

* My Alchemy single session coaching package is now on Summer sale! More than 50% off. All the info is here on this PDF (because I’m too excited to share this to wait for it to be on my website looking fancy). This really is an incredible offer and there are just 10 spots available.

* This episode references theories on self-doubt and self-belief developed by master coach Sas Petherick, informed by her own research. I’m diving deep into this learning on Sas’ Self Belief Coaching Academy certification training.

That’s all for today.

Until next time!

Stay curious, stay inspired and stay connected.

Ellen x

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It’s time for another episode of the Create Shift podcast!

I hope you enjoy listening to this conversation with my guest Kimberly Kuniko (aka Lacelit). This is a beautiful conversation filled with magic all about creativity, the ‘rules’ around it and our mutual desire to abandon them. If you’re in a place where you feel your artistic identity is shifting, where you’re questioning if you’re allowed to do something - if you have the ‘right’ experience - this conversation will be like a magic balm for you.

Kimberly Kuniko (she/her) is a mixed-race Nikkei American illustrator, collage + mixed media artist, and poet based in what is now known as Los Angeles, California (unceded Tongva land). Her Japanese roots inform her art through a love of paper, finding the connection between things, balancing delicate detail and texture, and layering stories together. She enjoys designing for her stationery brand Lacelit, hosting guided retreats for creatives of all mediums, and facilitating the Dream & Scheme Community for Small Business Owners. Find her creations and community spaces online in these cozy spaces:

home // lacelit.comsubscribe // bit.ly/lacelit

shop // lacelit.com/shop

create // lacelit.com/creativity-club

dream & scheme // lacelit.com/ds-community

retreat // lacelit.com/workshops

read // kimberlykuniko.substack.com

ig // @lacelit

cara // @lacelit

Topics discussed

* Kimberly’s own winding creative journey from performing arts to visual arts

* ‘Expert’ status and questioning our right to do things as self-taught artists

* Challenging the arbitrary rules of who can and can’t access creativity

* How following curiosity is such a big part of creativity

* There is no one route to creativity

* The value of not knowing the ‘rules’, not being an ‘expert’

Quotes

“I find I make the most interesting things when I’m taking those restraints away”

“part of the expression is the sharing of it”

“there’s no wrong time to start”

“when you are a creative person and you have ideas, any kind of different stumuli or ideas can give you more inspiration”

“a creative life is one that is open to experimentation and play”

Links

* Previous Create Shift episode on the audience as part of the creative process

* Coach with me - I’m currently taking on new 1:1 clients and would love to work together. Book a curiosity call here.

* Trauma Sensitive Theatre & Performance Making Course - earlybird spaces available for booking until 31/07/2024.

* Sign up to my newsletter here.

* Come to the Rebellious Artists’ and Creatives’ Café monthly free gathering space.

Welcome back to the Create Shift podcast. It’s been a little while since I released a new episode, and even longer since I did an interview. I’m so excited to share today’s interview episode with writer Tutku Barbaros.

Tutku is a writer – across forms  – of Turkish Cypriot heritage from south-east London. She is an alumna of the Royal Court Writers' Programme as well as Sphinx Theatre's year-long writer's development programme, Sphinx 30. Her play debut Layla and Youssef was longlisted for the Bruntwood prize and the Paines Plough Women's Prize For Playwriting. "All The Women She Knows"  is her debut book. Tutku also leads creative writing workshops designed to playfully and joyfully help adults unlock their imagination in relaxed settings.

Follow Tuts on Instagram @Tutku_Barbaros (this is also the place to get all the info on the writing workshops Tuts runs)

Order Tuts’s debut short story collection (I really recommend it) All The Women She Knows

Topics covered in the episode

* Writing as a practice for survival, and creativity for the sake of creativity

* Success, finding your own definition of it & how it’s “not about what success looks like, it’s about what it feels like”

* Writing trauma

* Tuts’ process of writing All the Women She Knows, and how she allowed herself to slow down and enjoy the journey of it - “allowing myself to just sit in the world and go slowly”

* Burnout, Tuts’ experience with this in 2019 and how the pandemic was a time for her to re-assess and re-connect with writing

* How there’s a need for a radical overhaul in the theatre industry

* The importance of artist dates, and of surrounding yourself with inspiration 

* Movement and creativity, and the importance of embracing the weird and the uncertainty

* Trigger warnings in creative work

Links & resources

* Dear Damsels So Long As You Write club

* My recent post on the myth of the tortured artist

* My upcoming workshop A seasonal approach to creativity and artistic practice

* Upcoming Rebellious Artists' and Creatives' Café on the theme of inspiration. April 26th (not the 27th as I said in the episode), 12pm BST. Book your free space here. )

* All the info on 1:1 coaching

Thanks for listening.

Until next time.

Stay inspired, stay curious and stay connected.

Ellen x

It’s another episode of Create Shift!

In this episode I am talking about:

* My practice of flowing with the energy of nature & resistance felt towards this

* The magical things that happen when we start to trust our own intuition and flow (lessons learned from my own experience & my clients’)

* Building up evidence that going with your own flow (and against the constant push of society) works and how this supports new beliefs

Links:

* My Trauma Sensitive Theatre and Performance Making Course is now available to book onto. This course is a must for anyone serious about increasing accessibility of theatre and performance making spaces, and ensuring practices are more supportive of everyone’s wellbeing. More info & booking.

* I have space for 4 wonderful new 1:1 coaching clients to work together over either 3 or 6 months. Are you ready to figure out how to have a more sustainable creative work life, and want some help with that? More info & booking here.

* Sign up to be part of my artist & creative newsletter community to receive weekly(ish) inspiration, support and encouragement. Breathe a deep breath and let’s shake off patriarchal capitalist conditioning together. Yeah?

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It’s so easy to get caught in the ‘new year new you’ energy that society pushes on us. Easy to feel full of ‘shoulds’ and bad about not having started all the things yet.

Here’s my alternative to all of that. A reminder that January is not nature’s new year, and it’s okay to (good, even) to take things slow.

Mentions:

The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2024 by Lia Leendertz

Rebellious Artists’ and Creatives’Café - next one happening Friday 26th January, 12pm GMT (I definitely got the date wrong in the recording). Discussion theme will be rest. Book your free space here.

Yoga for Radical Wellbeing - a monthly seasonal and trauma sensitive yoga class for all bodies and abilities. Next one 9:30am - 10:30am GMT Friday 26th January. Recording available for 30 days to all booked on. Full price booking here. Accessible price booking here.

Explore my artist and creative coaching packages here.

Thanks for listening, sharing and spreading the word.

Stay curious, stay connected and stay inspired.

Ellen x

In this episode of Create Shift I’m talking about the ‘other’ in our creative processes. Asking, who are we making our art for? When is this ‘other’ actually useful to think of, and when isn’t it? Often I find we can get caught up in thinking about this ‘other’ and it can become detrimental to our practice. Today I’m offering a few different ways to think about this, which may be helpful to explore.

Listen to the podcast here, or wherever you usually listen to podcasts (just search Create Shift).

Links

1:1 coaching - this is where you’ll find all the info on my 1:1 coaching packages, including my current special offer for one-off packages. £333 £111 when booked by 15/12/2023.

Rebellious Artists’ and Creatives’Café - a new free monthly online gathering space for artists and creatives to come together to connect, share and feel part of a community. Join us on November 24th when we’ll be discussing burnout.

Trauma Sensitive Theatre & Performance Making Course - live round running early 2024.

Thanks for listening!

Until next time, stay curious, stay inspired and stay connected.

Ellen x

The beta version of my Trauma Sensitive Theatre & Performance Making Course is now available to sign up to. Find all the information here.

In this episode of the podcast I talk about why I think it’s absolutely vital for theatre and performance making spaces to be trauma sensitive. I hope you can join me on the course.

https://ellenfranklyncarr.com/trauma-sensitive-theatre-performance-making-beta/

My podcast Create Shift is back! Expect supportive and inspiring conversations at the intersection of creative and artistic practice, holistic wellbeing and entrepreneurship. I love sending audio notes to my coaching clients in our weekly check in spaces, and I’m always recording my own notes and ideas. So, getting back to the podcast was naturally a good idea.

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This episode is all about money and the myths and beliefs we hold onto around creatives and artists making money, asking for more money, doing well financially. It’s a bit of a rant as I feel really passionate about this.

Also a note to clarify, I reference actors, directors and writers in film and TV being really well paid. The way I say it makes it sound like I think all of those people are well paid. What I meant is that there are some who are very highly paid. I just wanted to clarify that, as it felt important amidst all the strikes going on at the moment.

At the end I mention my 1:1 coaching offer - save £300 on your coaching package when you book your curiosity call by Friday 8th September. My prices are rising from £1500 to £1800 on 9th September, but book your call by the 8th and you’ll get the current pricing.