Going For Something

Creativity & imposter syndrome with Elise

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Our Guest today is Elise Aabakken

In this episode we talk about Elises first course on skillshare, through to her transition into coaching and of course about her inner critic - Chad.


Where you can find Elise:

Link to instagram: https://instagram.com/elise.aabakken?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

website: where you can find classes and original artwork:

www.eliseaabakkenstudios.com


Where you can find me:

my instagram - https://www.instagram.com/going_for_something/

my website - https://lauraferrara.co.uk/

the lucky dip newsletter - https://forms.aweber.com/form/23/282056123.htm


What we talked about in this episode:

  • joining the artist community after lurking for a year!
  • how Elise came to create her first skillshare course (that ended up being featured on the artists page!)
  • questioning all or nothing thinking to find evidence she had ignored
  • imposter syndrome, ‘everyone else knows what they are doing and i’m the only one who doesnt’ & questioning this.
  • seeing the value in ‘my own way of explaining things’ and ‘being me’ vs being an expert
  • discrediting her own initial success as ‘luck’ or down to factor other than herself
  • remembering that the first time is always going to be the hardest..
  • creating a new IG account to allow Elise to share her work without the judgement of current friends.
  • keeping things out of the hands of an inner critic and not allowing other people to decide if its ‘good enough’
  • feedback and constructive criticism - both requested and unsolicited and how to process vulnerable feelings around this, including sitting in her own wisdom
  • the pressure to produce a lot and always share ‘new’ stuff
  • checking in with your own wisdom and opinions about things!
  • celebrating herself & celebrating as a practice
  • transferring her mindset from art and creativity practices into life
  • the humans behind the numbers
  • her failure
  • feeling like she’s doing the ‘wrong thing’ and am somehow going to be punished for something
  • the fear of appearing stupid
  • making commitments when she feels excited and then not following through on them
  • feeling behind
  • Elise’s own beliefs that she uncovered during her coach training
  • asking for help
  • journalling - ‘then what’
  • finding her “nice” as a coach and working on her first coaching package
  • getting feedback even when things are unfinished
  • attitudes towards money
  • setting goals
  • “Chad” - Elise’s inner critic and how he came to be named Chad
  • activism and joy


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