Creative Ways Podcast

Hello gorgeous souls! Today's episode comes to you from the IGNITE Q&A vault! I’ve recently realized that I share so many powerful lessons during my live Q&A sessions and I am feeling called to share them here on the Creative Ways podcast. Today’s topic surrounds the feeling of unworthiness and stepping into our feminine creative divine, and what it's like to sit next to ego without allowing it to be in charge. Keeping it at bay so it works with us.

So as always ill shut up and let's dive in! 
Speaking of creating from a place of alignment...

End 2022 with the sales and true success you deserve - the fully step into your deine feminine energy!

https://www.emmaisaacs.co.uk/heart-and-soul

'Sell with Heart and Soul, the doors have OPENED to the jam-packed volt, the sparkly vortex. 

See you at the party! 

Links 

https://www.emmaisaacs.co.uk

https://www.instagram.com/creativewayspodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/emmaisaacsdesign/

Sandra Gale left her really cool  ‘safe’ job as a stationery designer in Brisbane Australia to fully back herself with her stunning brand.

Sandra created vibrant whimsy females to ‘celebrate the amazing, perfectly imperfect women we know and love

 Sandra’s art & gifts have taken off, in just 12 months, her prints, T-shirts and candles are sold in many stores across Australia!

Sandra shows up at many markets plus she’s created a life with the perfect mix of running art workshops and lecturing at a university too. 

Oh, and did I mention she started all of this in lockdown? 

Sandra’s Takeaways 

  1. Mature students and graduates offer great value to a  studio, they have lots of skills and established life practices.

1. There’s no straight path, just follow the breadcrumbs
2. You don’t have professional experience in your field, everyone has skills they can bring to the table – a can-do attitude is more important 
3. Your personality and attitude matter, show positivity and lightness and get stuck in whatever the task no matter what.
4. If you have a dream that scares you, set a date, tell others don’t wait to be ready, you won’t ever feel sorted. 

6. Your business is yours but, it will impact the whole family, deadlines, and trade shows, so make sure you’re intentional with  sharing the downtime 

1. Doesn’t matter what creative path you’re on, we all have  the same imposter syndrome, and insecurities we were shamed at a young age for being sensitive and those ideas that an artist is a loner or 
2. Morning pages are a great way to brain dump the weeds, the story o repeat, and get clearer by writing 3 pages when your first week is up. It clears your head for the clear inspired energy.
3. Always add 20 % of the time to any deadline.
4. Daring to jump is of course what we need, but build your runway before you jump.
5. Look back on your word of the year and see if it aligns 
6. The great resignation is a time in history when we will look back and see people re-evaluating their paths, and realising working for retirement isn’t a forefilled life.
7. Give yourself permission to do it ‘scrappy’ showing up regardless gets the task done.
8. Entrepreneurs have to have a support system that gets the terminology and knows the daily challenges and obstacles we have to work through.

14 . If you can’t get a coach, make sure you have a mentor in some way, you will find if you send the right questions many will love to give advice for free to help in some way. Passion is infectious – All humans from all communities and tribes go to an elder or master, and we are no different.

https://www.emmaisaacs.co.uk/rejuvenate-and-reconnect

Steph Thannhauser has been a freelance designer for over 25 years. She’s known for creating designs for many different products, illustrating kids’ books, creating art for magazines and creating patterns for sewing fabrics.

She loves her job and feels so lucky to be doing what she loves but four years ago she was getting sick of her own company.

Yes, she loved designing but was fed up of sitting by herself every day so started to think of what she could do to change things up. She didn’t want to stop working on creative projects with clients but she wanted her working life to have a more sociable component.

Steph says ‘Have you heard the expression “ask the universe for what you want and make your wishes come true”?

Well, she did ask and she started to get messages requesting beginners’ sewing classes so she thought that’s what she’ll do. It’s sociable plus there is the added bonus that she can use her own fabric designs in class and share those and she got paid for her skill and experience too.

She’s now taught 65 people to sew in face-to-face classes but wants to reach more people so is taking her classes online.

If you want to start your sewing journey with Steph you can join her free Beginners Sewing Sew and Grow with Steph Bootcamp which is running on the 28th and 29th September.

Sign up here

https://stephanie-thannhauser.mykajabi.com/masterclass-2-d95919d9-a2ce-47f7-8a6c-994c9599bd0d

www.stephthannahauser.com

https://www.facebook.com/stephthannhauserdesigner/

https://www.instagram.com/stephthannhauser/

The extremely talented Jacqueline Wild is absolute proof that we can manifest a life with what we are really after … freedom

 time to play, surf, wild sea swimming, explore kelp forest cycle and sleep under the stars in Cornwall where she left her capital city life in London to sleeping under the stars in Cornwall.

Jacqueline and her childhood sweetheart Dal followed the whispers and spent their 20’s and 30’s travelling the country in their campervan working the festivals.

Both have created a life that is full of freedom and joy and working with the Laws of the Universe around their toddler in their life in Cornwall

Dal has a cacao business ‘Food of the Gods’

you can find him at Sennen Cove market and many Cornish farmer markets.

Jacqueline’s degree is in English, labelled the writer out of the two sisters growing up and not the artist.

This trust and working with the universe meant that she knew she could try her hand at illustration and boy has it worked!

She now has two tiers to her business, selling her prints as products physically at markets and Etsy and designing for an agent.

Jackeline’s Takeaways

1. We can’t all swim wildly or surf, but you can find a moment each day alone, under the bridge away from anyone else to hear your inner thoughts, this is what most people are afraid of, it’s the only way we can heal, and we can only create our best art when we are listening
2. Prioritise hobbies – it’s important for our inner creative souls/ our inner being
3. Follow the feeling then you can follow the breadcrumbs correctly
4. If that feeling seems too frisky – off track, for example, finding a forest or diving for kelp, remember we are creative beings, this is what lights us up!
5. Energy meets energy, go shift yours before putting pen to paper
6. Shamanic practices like cord cutting are extremely powerful in letting go of the energies that have held you back

Links

www.foodofthegods.org.uk/about.html

www.emmaisaacs.co.uk

www.instagram/emmaisaacsdesigns

Not only is Gee Scales writing his 3rd book planned to be printed this September, Gee is proof that following the whispers, and surrendering is the absolute only path to the creative life within you.

Gee has always loved wood and creating and designing 3d materials but he didn't know how or where to best carve out life using his talents. Growing up in inner-city Nottingham, Gee became a father at 19 which meant their many memories of himself and his then-wife, despite feeling like kids themselves, pushing through regardless.

Of course, they both have fantastic careers, and Gee tells us their children are out studying them by far! But as it often is on this creative oath, that’s just one thread but that’s just one thread...

Gee got made redundant 3 times – finally, he took the nudge from the universe that he’s got so much more to offer the world!

At 36 Gee studied to be a Teacher!

12 years on, Gees now carved a life which consists of designing 3D prints at home, extreme sports 'Avid gamer, movie and TV buff and self-professed geek. I'm a lover of all things technology-related and he refuses to grow up. Fast Forward is his second novel. Yes, you read that correctly.

Gee is constantly following his passions, tweaking, and learning along the way. I can’t wait for you to hear his story!

www.geescales.com

Brittain Cooper founder of Sparklestyle knows her stuff when it comes to TikTok. Britt took her husband's advice and started an account only to find after hundreds of posts she still had 80 followers, Brit decided to leave it alone. 

Little did she know her husband had created a new account and got all her new customers in on the secret! 

I can’t wait for you to learn what happened and her husbnds approach to getting started with and using TikTok to attract new loyal customers around the world.
You’ll walk away from today’s episode with a new tool in your marketing pocket, and ready to dominate this hot platform whist most importantly keeping the sparkle in your brand.

Brit is the perfect example of following the breadcrumbs, giving her passion the chance to to truly sparkle!

Every piece is artwork made from a collection of curated gemstones/crystals; carefully sourced, arranged, photographed and post treated, bringing you completely vivid designs and unique GEMetic Code patterns you won’t find anywhere else.    

Like a snowflake or fingerprint, all stones have identifying markers which make them unique.

These inclusions and blemishes are the original gemstone signatures which intrigue me the most. It is their GEMetic code! The images they created not only showed their inclusions but their genetic/lab make-up and raw patterning.  

Brittain Takeaways

1. Follow the feeling, your passion has the biggest most exciting energy
2. Your business might not be your first idea, but that’s ok, it evolves with you
3. Do it scared and scrappy, not many creatives know how to do a website! No one was born knowing social media- let’s face it no one knows at the minute either
4. Would you wear our art?
5.   Tagging your art to a life adventure gives your art more electric  energy
6. Markets are the best research for your customers – you get to hear what customers
7. Surround yourself with the energy you want your business to attract
8. How do you want customers to feel?
9. People want exciting energy and joy
10. Albert Einstein says ‘Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.’

Links

insta FB and Pinterest -@sparklestyleco

TiKTok @brit.coop 

www.sparklestyle.co

https://www.emmaisaacs.co.uk/heart-and-soul

Insta FB Emmaisaacsdesigns

Have you been convinced that the Law of Attraction works for everyone but YOU?

You know what you SHOULD be doing, but feel like you're lying or worse still you feel shame because you're not thinking happy thoughts ALL OF THE TIME?

There's an extremely toxic materialistic trend around manifestation at the minute.

It can get frustrating when we can’t manifest what we want, we try vision boards, visualisation technics, journaling and much more but don’t realise that we can be actively blocking and worse - harming the attraction of our desires. 

So of course I thought its time to explain to you the real reason why...

There is much more than ONE law of the universe.

These 12 laws are based on quantum.

When it comes to manifesting through the law of attraction people are unsuccessful because they completely abandon the 11 other universal laws! 

Check out my 4-week live interactive programme 

'Sell with heart and Soul'

Module one is a complete immersive deep dive into the 12 universal laws.

https://www.emmaisaacs.co.uk/heart-and-soul

Micheal Clements has followed that feeling down the winding road as an artist, he’s been a magazine editor in Washington DC, an actor which lead him to work on films with Jackie Chan in Hong Kong, all the while trusting the hear and now and not questioning the outcome.

Micheal is not only the owner and founder of ArtJamz but he is also an outsider artist who has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Washington DC

We go deep in this conversation about artist sensitive intuition and nurturing this superpower. its ok to have lots of different creative paths you've tried, it will fall into play later in life when you work out what you want to try with ease, not with struggle.

Micheal Clements Takeaways 

1. What did you make as a kid

2. What did you instinctively do? Make films? Fashion books – that’s what you’re  inner creative child Is

3. The layers are hiding your true path

4. You won’t always see where it’s going straight away  -

The business ideas percolate over years – can be 10 years later,

5. The answer, who you are is within you, only you can rediscover it  

6. That amazing feeling that lights you up – is so rare in our lives, we have to follow that thing! That’s the thing – now watch the serendipity that follows

8. The power of serendipity is when you follow the ha-ha moments and watch the dots connect.

9. We are so big on the outcome and not the feelings – the flow

10. Art and intuition was around before words

11. Keep on creating - We need more art in the world

Links 

https://www.artjamz.co/about-us

Ilana Lorraine used to work for Sony Records, she curated successful tribute events for Michael Jackson on the MTV EMA’s, for Amy Winehouse and Prince; Kimbereley Kris wrote

'She's brought together seasoned and fresh musicians from around the world at Sessions58 and Tea n’ Jam, including performances by Eartha Kitt, Beverley Knight, Jessie J, Roachford and Nneka.

She’s been a Guardian of Bespoke, Historic Homes; a Promoter of Iconic, Global Music Careers; a Curator of the Fairytale in Hampstead Heath during Lockdown Times, and now she is back to make yet another dream a reality. 

Ilana’s music is hauntingly beautiful. It stirs the soul, the mind, and plucks ever so gently at the heartstrings. Her transformative lyrics and soulful voice awaken the senses, provide hope and evoke courage.

Harmon Audio and the British Arts Council have recognised her as an authentic guiding light as her work, her support, her guidance - has touched so many over the years. Ilana is more than a producer, a promoter, a songwriter, a vocalist and an artist. She's a curator of dreams, a magical creator of communities an architect of making anything possible!'

This Is a true story about a public outdoor space became a wonderland, overlooking the lake in HampsteadHeath, for each passerby to find the freedom to escape the fear, isolation, loneliness and disconnect that occurred during lockdown.

Strangers and locals alike stumbled upon lit trees, crystals and angelic music where each note  Ilana Lorraine sang hit the water creating a truly harmonic enchanting space both Ilana and then new friend Freya created for passersby to feel at home and sit together to play - connect and heal through music, circus skills, yoga and breath and more.

This chapter of how art lifts humans through a pandemic features as a full chapter in Hunter Davis lasted book (Author/biographer of The Beatles Official Biography) … so of course, the story now lives on Happily ever after.

It’s a true story about two girls who met passersby whilst doing what they love with Ilana's music and performance, Fraya's circus skills and therapies and many other creatives later joined offering Yoga, meditations Tom with his telescope and tales of adventures and many became the tribe of light, all to celebrate life in lockdown….The chapters called ‘Hippies on the Heath’ 

Links below 

Book 

The Heath - Hunter Davis  https://tinyurl.com/4t9spusu

Being Ilana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6NfosABwzM

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/ilanalorraine

This week is a very special one. its our 100th episode! And guess who got to chat too? Sophie Miller! 

Sophie is an extremely talented textile artist who has fully stepped back into her practice. You will understand why when I tell you she is a wife and a huge part of Andy J Pizza's creative Pep Talk goodness and of course an amazing mum to their 3 children.

So, of course, I got to ask what inspires Sophie and how important Yorkshire was growing up, what it's like in their home; having two talented successful creatives as parents.

Sophie is so giving and shares her venerable experience this year as she stepped into a studio with other artists for the first time and produced her first exhibition since university.

Sophie has given the last 10 years to their children, while running a successful Etsy shop ‘The Thread House’ making costumes. But of course, being the rock behind Andy's practice too.

Sophie shares how she kept her creative practice going throughout the different seasons in her life since becoming a mum straight after leaving university In Huddersfield in the U.K to moving over to Andy's home town in America. 

Sophie Takeaways 

1. Get lost in the labour of sewing, we know the bliss we get form each tiny stitch.

2.French Notts are an example of a creative practice that can hypnotise, slow time and the gifts that Can be seen framed and treasured – the validation – your creativity can be the gift that binds relationships.

3. Express yourself and get lost in the process

4. Honour where you are in your life and art –the seasons change, so our practice will too.

5.We can’t create when we are stressed, our art changes through the chapters we are at. Sometimes we need a clear start, middle and end like gardening, other times we can invest in a longer more detailed project

6. Try the 5 am club -getting up at that time means you’re starting the day putting yourself first instead of waiting until the end to see if you’re not too tired.

7. The garden and outside have the perfect and unperfect in all of its tapestry, how the seeds and greenery turn out.

8. Where feels magical to you? Where do you get that playful feeling? The element of surprise Is the woods? Where do you escape from wandering?

9. What’s your go-to landscape for your senses? Is it a secret garden in the woods? Or an open mountain or ocean cape?

10. Covid has taught us to notice when we need the quiet – to go under the bridge?

11. Art college is more than finding and learning your art – you find your people at a time when you’re finding yourself

12. It’s a huge relief to be in a safe environment where you can express yourself – you are the art, your style

13. Us creatives are sensitive beings, this is why we feel it all, the invisible parts as Andy illustrates, after a life of shame and embarrassment, trying to fit in, we can now honour it and own it as our superpower.

14. Meet your kids where they’re at. Let them see your messy middle phase in your art.

15. An exhibition or an in-person event gives you that extra urge to finish your art, so the viewer can get close and see touch and taste it almost

16. Creative community is vital for an artist.

17. Letting your children see you the week of a big launch or deadline is good for them

Connect with Sophie here 

https://www.sophiemiller.co/new-page

Instagram - http://instagram.com/thethreadhouse