Today I am joined again by Deborah Smith and we share openly and vulnerably about our individual journey's of learning to hear God's voice. Deb shares a crazy story about a painting she did literally being a part of a miraculous healing! It's a very encouraging episode and I pray you leave SOOO full of joy and faith that God can speak to you today!

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Today my incredible mum, Deborah Smith joins me! Together we share stories for when the Lord has helped us overcome fear & comparison in creativity (and life in general!). 

She also has a incredible podcast that share stories of hope in peoples journey's - check it out here!

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This was a word I shared recently at @hopecreativecollective and I really feel like it's a word in season for the creative community as a whole. The times we live in feel dark... but there is SO much hope, and there is a way the Lord wants to use creativity in this hour that is unlike any other in history!

I pray it encourages you and spurs you on to have oil in your lamp and use your creativity to light a flame in others!

If this episode brings up anything you need prayer for, don't hesitate to reach out via DM for prayer.

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Today I'm interviewing someone I deeply admire, the beautiful Justina Stevens! !t was such an honour to meet and have this beautiful conversation! Justina is the art director for @cagelessbirds and has served with them for 10 years so far. Justina is the author behind many of the creative prompts their special publication called 'Cultivate'. She shares from her own story about the times that the Father showed up for her in pages of her creative journals as she processed with Him, and brings an encouragement from a deep well of wisdom for those that are journeying through discouragement or suffering to continue to come close to the Father.

We also have some frank chats about motherhood and the joy of creativity in the midst of the chaos!

I'm praying for those especially that are in a pit right now that as you listen to this that you would be met by Love himself!

Justina and all of the Cageless Birds live entirely off support from kingdom givers! If you would like to support their ministry, head on over to the Cageless Birds website where you can buy their incredible products, or give directly to Justina & her family!

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Today I have an incredible conversation with one of Australia's most incredible creative leaders, Amanda Viviers! She is the creative director of Compassion Australia, has published several books, runs creative retreats, is an incredible mum & wife.. and does all of this with a beautiful posture of humility and joyful servanthood.

We dove into some deep and beautiful topics around what creativity with the Holy Spirit looks like (including some really precious stories) and wrapped it all up with a beautiful conversation about what it looks like to find your authentic voice as a creative & push past fear & failture in a practical way.

I really pray this conversation blesses your heart as much as it did mine!

You can check out Amanda's books + creative retreats here.

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Today I have a beautiful conversation for you that will bless your heart with my friend Jenessa Wait! She is a creative entrepreneur, hand letter & communicator from Austin, Texas ❤️

In this episode we talk about Jenessa’s creative journey as a hand letterer & entrepreneur, about what creating from overflow with God looks like and how to build a business while staying rooted in your identity in God.. plus some stories from her journey! It’s an encouraging episode that I pray builds your faith for what the Lord can do when you say YES to Him and pursue Him in your creativity!

Check our Jenessa's hand lettering shop & her courses for creative entrepeneurs on her website jenessawait.com 

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Today I'm sharing three stories of when I've met Jesus in a beautiful way in the secret place, why it's the foundation of my life & business, and some rapid fire encouragements at the end to bless your creative journey and secret place with God. My prayer with this episode is that you would feel refreshed with the realness of my own journey and inspired to create your own special secret place history with God.

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Today I have suchhhh a treat for you! I’m chatting with my friend Jess Bond from Salt & Gold Collection AKA the Footwashing Series. ✍🏻 Jess is a Kiwi digital artist who lives in Perth, Australia as well as Redding, USA!

Last year her instagram account blew up because of a prophetic picture that she felt led to share from God, and because of that faith filled step, her business is now funding her Bible school journey and missions all over the world! We talk about her journey, social media, the prophetic, how to hear from God and what it looks like to do business with the Holy Spirit! It's an incredibly encouraging conversation and honestly I still can’t get my head around how good and faithful Jesus is to show up when we say YES to Him in our creativity. I pray this conversation blesses you and fills you with faith for God to speak and download His strategies to you 🙏🏻

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Here we gooooo! Today I'm sharing my heart behind launching this podcast, a bit about me and my journey, and the biggest mindset shift that marked my life. I share briefly about what it looks like to create from the overflow with God and a story about when the Father unpacked this in my journey. 

Over the next few months I will be dropping fortnightly episodes including conversations with incredible humans that are living out their day-to-day and creative journey's with the Lord in a powerful way.

Thanks for joining me friends, I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE HERE (as I say probably way too many times in this first episode because I was pretty nervous haha). 

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Hello creative friends,

My name is Susanna April, and welcome to the creative journey podcast!

My heart for this podcast is that you would feel an invitation from the Father to hear His voice in your creative journey. Regardless of your medium, outlet or the form your creativity takes, Jesus wants to be on your journey with you.. this won’t be just a podcast to talk about creativity.. this will be a space where you are inspired to draw near to Jesus and push past fear. A space to learn to create from the overflow of your connection with Him.

Each week we will unpack through conversations and stories topics like finding identity in Jesus, what to do when we fail, how to finding purpose and calling, how God speaks in creativity, how to navigate feeling uninspired and so much more. If you are craving to be called higher, to go deeper, to learn not to take yourself too seriously and instead take on HIS joy - this is the place for you.

My prayer is that this podcast would accelerate your journey with the Father and that you would walk away with a fire in your bones to love Jesus through your creativity - that He has SO many thoughts about you and that it’s in His heart to share them with you. My prayer is that you would unplug your headphones every week knowing that friendship with Jesus is your greatest tool in growing in your creativity.

Stay tuned for launch sooon!

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