Creativity Found: Finding Creativity Later in Life

From Blueprints to Brushes with Emily-Jane Sarroff


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Finding a balance between career and creativity. 

Have you ever built a "successful" career only to realize it was draining the very creativity you intended to nurture? 

Artist Emily-Jane Sarroff spent a decade navigating the worlds of architecture and high-level business consulting before realizing that her most important work was the art she made for herself. 

Emily-Jane shares her journey of deconstructing the "societal programming" that linked her worth to her career and explains why she recently pivoted to real estate to provide her nervous system the safety it needed to create again.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • The "Disappointment" Narrative: How the internal pressure to succeed led Emily-Jane away from her creative roots after high school.
  • The Architecture Trap: Why a "creative" degree can sometimes feel more technical than expressive, and the brave decision to "leap" away from a career that wasn't fuelling her soul.
  • Choosing Self over Scale: Why Emily-Jane closed a successful, six-figure business to stop "proving herself" and start living from a heart space.
  • “Weird and Woo Woo” Art: A look into Emily-Jane’s spiritual, abstract style and why she prioritizes creating for her own healing and expression rather than for commissions.
  • Practical Creativity: How to set up a permanent art space (even in a garage corner!) and the importance of scheduling “buffer zones” to transition your brain from logical work to creative flow.

You might also like:

Rediscovering the Inner Artist with Kerry Lyons

Peonies, Paint and Personal Growth with Sally Jean Fox

Society, Stereotypes and Sparkle with Jessie Elliott


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