Creative Ways Podcast

FULL POWER CACAO has been 10 years in the making, she was birthed in 2012 after Liam’s trip to Guatemala for the end of the Mayan Calendar. On his spiritual adventure he met the Chocolate Shaman on the majestic Lake Atitlán and the trajectory of his life was changed forever. He worked closely with the Shaman and discovered the ancient hidden healing secrets of Lady Cacao and wanted to share that magic with everyone he met. This is when the journey began…. Now that magic is ready to be shared with you and the whole world!

For the last two years Liam has been testing and researching cacao from all over the world with his team of healers and holistic therapists to finally bring you his FULL POWER CACAO brand. He has personally sourced this authentic, powerful, magical, heart opening plant medicine from Venezuela, to bring love and harmony to your heart and enrich your daily life. The most important element when choosing Cacao to put his name on was the vibration. It needed to blast the heart open so people could see the magnificence and love that was within them.

Connnect with Liam here 

https://fullpowercacao.com

 

 

 

 

Ilona Drew (yes that’s her actual surname) is based in Brighten and has designed for a number of large publishers including Camden Graphics, Paper Rose, Uk Greetings and sold textiles designs in the UK & US before taking her first stand at PG Live in 2013. Working with mixed media, her pieces evolve often beginning with just one block of colour.

Ilona talks about her creative path - losing her mum just after starting University, and what effect that had on her and her values in life and business now as a mother herself.

I Drew This is now stocked in over 200 retailers around the UK including St Pauls, Edinburgh Castle, Museum of London, Mall Galleries, Paperchase, Fenwicks, Exeter Cathedral and the British Airways i360.

 

Ilona’s Takeaways 

1. Follow your strongest pull

2. What speaks the loudest to you? 

3.Life happens the road can be longer – it can be winder at all at different times of people's lives

1. You can teach yourself anything
2. Things take time, reach and hunt for the breadcrumbs.
3. Reach out to studios, send x20 out and see what comes back

Be adaptable.

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1. If it’s not a hell yes, it’s a no
2. Set up your business days with non-negotiables if it’s a morning workout or not working when you see your children – be sure to stick to this as a habit. These are your company’s values
3. It’s ok to not like 9-5 it’s your life and art, work your business around that.
4. Creatives work best through play – we must trick ourselves to get into doing the work.
5. Some people need a non-creative day job to keep their minds clear for their business
6. Take a business course
7. Look at your boundaries
8. You may love what you do so much that it doesn’t feel like work, however, we need to live, and life will speed past, be mindful of this and design your life with all holistic qualities humans need, family time, fitness, social time.
9. When you get a brief, ask yourself how it makes you feel? Is it for money or is it in alignment with your brand”?
10. As creatives we feel it all, look at what makes a good productive day good t get into that flow state easily again, is it the hustle of the morning city energy? The evening sunlight? The sounds of the birds at 5 am? The radio afternoon chat show? We need these elements so it’s important to note what it all is.

Connect with Ilona Drew here

https://idrewthis.co.uk

 

You might have followed the breadcrumbs and only got to the thing that is truly you,

your unique gift to our planet but 10 years later form the first step, and at 51? This Is Lou’s story…

Lou from Luinluland left Brighton U.K and moved to Portland Oregon with her husband and then 10 year old son.

Since then Lou has created a space for women to come together & empower them to find fresh & exciting new ways to get through life - growing into middle age with optimism & energy, founded in gratitude, truth and a celebration of joy.

Luinluland is a place to inspire you to shake your life up, step out of your comfort zone, in your style, in your health & wellbeing & it’s a place to come to feel all the feels.

1. You might not be able to help what life’s thrown at you – we rarely do, but we do get to control how we react. 

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2. Put both feet into change – join groups that you’re interested in.

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3. What can you do now with what you have? Start where you are. 

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4. Being positive and saying yes to everything leads to a more interesting and aligned path – follow those breadcrumbs.

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5. Life isn’t over when you hit menopause, it’s only just started!  It’s a new exciting chapter. 

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6. See the change as something positive! Lots of your life is in your mindset. 

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7. Life can be exciting embrace your new menopause chapter! It’s your time now to put yourself first. 

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8. There is so much joy in Community with a common purpose.

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9. If you’re struggling, write down each small positive thing that happened to you that day.

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10. If you have a habit that you know needs to stop and is hurting you, change your daily routine too, your route home, the coffee shop you go to, the magazines you buy.

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1. Your inspired ideas and action are very different to the doing – the marketing, or admin action, the negative imposter syndrome will be loud then, learn to ignore it and take each step in the unknown, it’s our brains trying to keep us safe. 

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12. If you’re scared, you’re doing it right, if you’re not, then you aren’t that bothered. 

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13. Open yourself up and you’ll find different paths, follow those breadcrumbs. 

If you’re in LA this week be sure to get to Lou’s amazing event. 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/luchella-a-self-love-revolution-weekender-tickets-297094035257

https://www.luinluland.com

Charlie India is a lawyer turned artist based in London. She documents her life as a creative building her art practice online. Charlie now works part time whist following her vunerable creative path openly to give others permmsion to a more forfilled and aligned lifestyle.

Charlie started posting about her creative journey - opening up about feeling like an imposter after so many years of denying her creativity. She quickly realised that she was not alone. Creatives from all over the world were messaging her saying 'oh thank goodness, I feel that way too'. And in that connection sparked an idea - what if there was a community where we could inspire people to prioritise their creativity, talk openly about the ups and downs of their creative journeys and support each other in the process?

And so began The Creatives' Coffee Club! 

Charlie’s Takeaways

1.Your creative journey sounds abstract but it’s an inner feeling not logical thought process.

2.You may have suppressed your inner artist unknowingly, there might not anyone in your circles and always felt an outsider.

3.Find your inner artist.

4.None of us are masters.

5.You can design a varied life if you’re multi passionate, be true to yourself.

6. Allow the space to be messy and a learner.

7. The two brains fight at exactly that moment when we need it most, the lizard brain wants to keep us safe, it’s not evolved yet – hence the panic attacks in a shop when we really know we are safe. It gets us when we are least expecting it.

8. We could draw before we could write, we danced before we could sing.

9. The fear of feeling judged and the fear of people in your past and life seeing you on your new more aligned path doesn’t go away, you just get used to it.

10. If you have a day job – own it, it doesn’t make you less of an artists.

Connect with Charlie

https://www.imcharlieindia.co/

Sign up to Emma's Free workshop 

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Rachel Emma Wearing is a stylist turned strategist – Racheal helps creatives blend visuals and sales, specialising in Pinterest training and content creation.

Rachel studied film and set design at university so of course she has a great eye for styling and of course branding

1:1 Pinterest training, along with Rachels signature group course Ignite, are for independent businesses, who want to produce creative content showing off the best of your work without having to put in too much work yourself

Pinterest totally transformed Rachel’s business In the space of a month.

Rachel says ‘We don’t set up our businesses because we want to spend our time stressing about social media- we se up our businesses because we want to create and to share our joy with the world’

Rachel’s Takeaways

1.Energy is so important- spend time to get it high and bursting with fun and lightness first and you will get that sale.

2.Takig no action and allowing yourself time t relax and get into feeling a flow state, the ideas will come on the next action.

3.Over thinking can come in when we are feeling overwhelmed and anxious, that scarcity mindset starts forming.

4.Overworking and burnout may not be the job, it can be you and your personality, are you neurodiverse and used to trying to prove your self worth?

5.Pinterest is the 2md biggest search engine! The algorithms work for you.

6.When posting on pinterest put the time into your SEO key words.

7. Make sure you get a business account when you’re setting up a new Pinterest world

8.Pinterest love your fresh ideas and content no other artists pins

9.Idea pins are huge right now, experiment with these. Most people aren’t looking at your whole account, which gives us room to explore

10.Start before you’re ready

Connect with Rachel

www.rachelemmawaring.com

Enneagram-Personality-Test - www.truity.com

Discover the work that makes you come alive - www.sparketype.com

 

 

Shamanic and Reiki healer Angela Sandland was drawn to becoming an arts therapist and after studies at University, Reiki training followed in her own path to wellness. Angela has over 20 years experience as a practitioner, facilitator & teacher in holistic health, covering many areas.

Angela’s knowledge & wisdom have not just come from the training but from her real life experiences that she battled with a life condition Scoliosis and has also been a career too .

She’s had quite a few mountains to climb!

Angela says ‘Our life experiences are where the greatest wisdom comes from.’

Shamanic and Reiki healer Angela Sandland was drawn to becoming an arts therapist and after studies at University, Reiki training followed in her own path to wellness.

Angela has over 20 years experience as a practitioner, facilitator & teacher in holistic health, covering many areas.

Angela’s knowledge & wisdom have not just come from the training but from her real life experiences that she battled with a life condition Scoliosis and has also been a career too .

She’s had quite a few mountains to climb!

Angela says ‘Our life experiences are where the greatest wisdom comes from.’

If you like me have always been drawn to crystals, and all things healing but feel like you have no idea how or where to start, then listen to this conversation with our Deerheart Women! Even though Angela has had both life long condition and 20 years training in this field, she is like the girl next door, after listening over coffee you will learn how we can implement a life of self healing that we can design now with what we have in our homes to make our lives a reflection of our inner souls. Which is really what a home and or lives should be right?

Angela’s Takeaways 

1.Find a purpose, find a career.

2.Find the gold in each situation.

3.What are the key word that life’s teaching us?

4.Pain isn’t blocking us – We aren’t being blocked!  It’s for us to grow.

6.Be in the moment when you’re out walking, don’t drown out the moment with our phones or music.

7.Don’t worship or be heavily influenced by another human, we are all flawed.

8.Be inclusive if you’re running a gathering, sitting on the floor for long periods of time can be painful for many people.

9.Make your home a true reflection of you.

10.Express your fantasy, your surroundings, cos play party, your favourite textures around your home.

11.What’s your favourite favourites environment? Is it the coast, woodland, mountains? You can add this to your home

12.Creating an alter is a space for you, your favourite crystals, affirmations, candles, trinkets seasonal flowers.

13.When you write things down using pen and paper, it happens, start with your journal.

14.Do the work daily, if its meditating, deep breathing, healthy eating, keep doing it like we do an exercise.

Connect with Angela here

www.deerheartwoman.com

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Jemimasara is a multi-disciplinary artist addressing freedom of expression and aspects of daily life. 

Humorous, tongue-in-cheek, expressive and ironic; Jemima Sara creates a mixture of artwork, limited edition prints, illustrative accessories, easy-to-wear clothing and pretty much anything she wants to get stuck into. 

With collaberations ranging from perfume, shoes and handbags to women celebrating women. JEMIMASARA enjoys bringing creativity, art and print to new places. She also works on a private commission basis.

For JEMIMASARA, her practice is a form of self therapy. Jemima enjoys discovering a language in drawing (or 'scribbling' as she describes) to ignite conversations and to exhibit the struggles of daily life. Jemima has exhibited her work in many solo and group shows. 

Jemimasarah’s Takeaway’s

   1.You don’t have to stay stuck with one style, we evolve each day, so can our art.

1. The fixed mindset is the opposite to being creative, we shouldn’t think we will ever know everything 
2. Always be curious 
3. We don’t exec a chef to sell his first batch of dishes
4. Stop the pressure of thinking you need to create every day, we ebb and flow 
5. Intuitive drawing can help shut off your thoughts 
6. Self development is not selfish 
7. Try a body scan
8. Don’t struggle alone.
9. You gave to get uncomfortable if you want to break the destructive habits 
10. You are not your lizard brain, you can put distance between the two.
11. Your brain is 100’s of times eating to seek the pleasure release from jumping off the plan than the hard work you’ve put in.
12. Noting is black and white, give yourself grace.
13. Our mind and body is always connected, our best art comes from this place when we are in a good mental space.

Connect with JEMIMASARAH here

https://www.jemimasara.co.uk

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Ashley Mary is an abstract artist, designer, and illustrator who creates lively, energetic works in her studio in Minneapolis. Her work focuses around strong use of colour and shape compositions. Ashley’s paintings are in heavy acrylics creating thick textures.

Her process is influenced heavily by her collage work, patterns, vintage ephemera, and her background in graphic design. Ashley’s work pays attention to the unintentional and leaves space to be surprised.

Her murals and product designs can be seen nationwide in large scale collaborations with brands such as Starbucks, Anthropologie and Google, 

Ashley is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Curiosity Studios. A creative learning space for those blocked.

Ashley’s Takeaways

1.Be confident in your mark making.

2.Moving your body moves your mind and work.

3.Change your surroundings.

4.Honour your space and silence if that’s where your best art

is born.

5.If you feel the flow and strong energy in your commission, ask your client if they will let you carry this flow to your own natural completion.

6.Sometimes there's no reason why a commission or client isn’t a great fit, it’s not black and white and can just be a personality clash.

7. Look at your why and core values.

8.If it’s a no is a yes to something else.

9.Its ok to have your years intentions different from previous, in fact it should be. what got us here want move us there.

10.Being present instead of big future goals can be huge and more productive and tangible.

11.Making a big life change like relocating or making a fulfilling a life dream or smaller goal will come out in your art and shift your craft for the better.

12.Place close attention to what’s in front of you.

13.Get outside more!

Connect with Ashley here 

http://ashleymary.com/

 

Sponsor - Claire Oldham West 

 

Have you ever felt that your creative spark lies within a feast of chocolate !? I'm sure I'm not on my own when I say in times of stress I feed my feelings.....and here's the thing..............habits, beliefs, and behaviours towards the food you crave can take a new direction within hypnosis.    Claire Oldham West invites you to try a new approach and if you can relate to food cravings head over to the show notes for more information on how Claire can help you to stop feeding your feelings and curb food cravings. Claire understands a holistic approach may sound a little woo woo so I've added a link to her You Tube channel so you can see this process in action!   Click on the link below 

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Louise Hardaker, founder of kids clothing brand Magic Kind, finally listened to those inner nudges she had experienced all of her life and finally turned her childhood passion into a booming business.

More than that, her kids clothing brand has proven time and time again the ripple affect with helping other creatives and business’s. Louise purchases U.K surface pattern designers work and keeps her brand true to her vision.

Louise also shares the importance of having a day job and the boundaries that and running. family has around juggling the business.

⬇️Louise’s Takeaways⬇️

1.If you’re not feeling your truest self, ask yourself this, ‘when was last time I created for myself? For the process? For the joy of it?

2.Have strict boundaries with answering emails and work hours

 

3.You’re not being selfish, as a mum your kids are learning skills and watching you build something. You’re giving them examples of how we can turn a thought into a physical business!

4.Your business helps other business’s look at Louise buying surface patterns deigns, it’s all great generous energy

5.Get out of your comfort zone! If you can’t afford a coach or mentor, ask a friend for accountability who will tell you what you need to hear not what you want too.

6.Business products don’t go viral overnight; you have to keep reminding people. The marketing experts used to advise 7 steps, these days try tripling that these days with social media.

Connect Here -

https://www.magickind.co.uk/

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