By Honestly, Dear Listener
Being a creative person is tough.
We want to make cool things, but then life hits us with insecurity, rejection, schedules, etc. How do we push past all the noise and make the things that
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Welcome back to Honestly, Dear Listener! In today's episode, we dive into the tantalizing prospect of sudden wealth, its complex implications, and how it would change our lives as creators. Emily shares her dream expenditures, from hiring personal trainers to collaborating with top-tier scenic designers, all while navigating the high costs of New York living. Carrie, on the other hand, advocates for a more conservative investment strategy following advice from a financial planner.
But does money equal happiness? Does it help us create? Can it buy us more creativity? What are we waiting around to make until we have more money? We tackle all these questions and more on this week's episode.
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TIMECODES:
0:00 - Intro
1:07 - On Vienna sausages…
3:14 - Fall break is killing Carrie & crushing MOM GUILT
11:13 - Emily’s new show!
12:12 - What would you do with 10 million dollars
15:52 - What Emily would do with 10 million dollars
18:35 - What Carrie would do with 10 million dollars
25:55 - Creative community
31:57 - Money and happiness
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
It’s our first episode of Season 4!
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we welcome vocalist, voice coach, friend, and frequent contributor to the show Amber Mogg Cathey back to the podcast. We discuss our strategies for how to positively motivate ourselves instead of what comes naturally to us: kicking our own butts into submission. We talk about positive versus negative motivations and how effective each is at motivating us. We also discuss what it’s like being the kid who stuck out and how we felt like, in order to escape the scrutiny of others, we took our own selves down a peg or two which only ended up hurting our self-esteem.
Where to Find Amber:
Website: evolvevocalstudio.com
Instagram: @EvolveVocalStudio
YouTube: @EvolveVocalStudio
Facebook: @EvolveVocalStudio
TikTok: @EvolveVocalStudio
Listen to our past episode with Amber HERE!
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TIMECODES:
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Amber intro & WE’RE NOW IN SEASON 4!
2:04 - Motivating ourselves while not kicking our own butts
10:47 - Filled up with ourselves/self-centering
20:12 - Toward and away motivations
27:27 - Steps to catching and changing negative motivations
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we face one of the hardest weeks for our creative practice: an entire week of NO NUMBING OUT. Inspired by Week 4 of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, we said no to reading (yes—reading), audiobooks and podcasts, social media, TV, and anything else that we do to fill the silence around us. In this episode, we relay how this silence has changed or hasn’t changed our artistic practice and what we’re taking with us as we transition back after this week.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Fun…go!
1:16 - Week 4 of The Artist’s Way: no numbing out week
7:21 - Cultivating personal integrity
11:00 - Sensory deprivation chambers & showers
13:55 - What Emily’s learning
15:02 - What Carrie’s learning
22:47 - How do we learn how to rest?
23:33 - What we plan on keeping moving forward
32:40 - What if you won 500 million dollars tomorrow…
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking to our friend Gemma Sugrue about how to find our creative identity. Gemma is a vocal coach and performer turned business coach. She has worked with the likes of Bon Iver and Damien Rice and has built several successful social media platforms including a Tiktok with a following of 450K and YouTube with 170K subscribers.
Through our conversation, Gemma narrows down on what we need to know in order to figure out who we are creatively including our core values and then encourages us to share who we are (our honest, real self) with the world.
Find Gemma:
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Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re delving into the concept of Shadow Artists. In her bestselling book on creativity, The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron introduces the “Shadow Artist,” someone who is deeply connected to the arts but isn’t fully expressing their own creative potential. She goes on to describe Shadow Artists as individuals who are often attracted to creative fields but remain on the sidelines, assisting or supporting other artists rather than pursuing their own creative endeavors. They might be surrounded by creativity, but they feel blocked, afraid, or unable to fully step into their own creative path.
We discuss our own shadow artistry and how we can finally start listening to that small inner voice and step out into the light of our own realized creativity.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Emily’s Artist Date this week
6:28 - Carrie’s New BFF
12:42 - What is a “Shadow Artist?”
28:07 - Broadening our definition of what an artist is
37:47 - Give yourself grace
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking about time traveling back to parts of our wounded childhood selves. We talk about how behind every traumatic event in our lives, we form a belief about that thing, and often, these unhelpful beliefs keep us stuck. We discuss pulling up those (often unconscious) beliefs, examining them, and walking our childhood selves through the trauma, with the knowledge, wisdom, gentleness, and support of our older selves. While revisiting these memories, we replace our outdated beliefs with new, wholehearted beliefs.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Childhood homes as a metaphor for our childhood selves
3:22 - Reliving painful childhood memories
4:21 - Basis for EMDR?
7:53 - Neural plasticity - we can change our brains
9:39 - Emily’s unhelpful childhood beliefs
13:43 - Carrie’s unhelpful childhood beliefs
17:26 - “Smell my butthole!”
21:10 - Examining the belief & replacing it
39:54 - Audacity
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re harkening back, back to when we were wee ones; what did we need back then but didn’t have? We discuss how Emily stumbled upon a quote:
"I think we become whoever would have saved our younger self."
We talk about how we are becoming who we needed and how we can re-parent our inner children with love and kindness. We also discuss idealism, Christian fundamentalism and how it still affects our creativity, and penises.
References:
Order your copy of The Artist’s Way for our class starting September 1!
Sign up for the class here!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - The Artist’s Way Class commercial
0:48 - Intro
2:30 - Emily story about penises
4:58 - Carrie’s story about penises
11:25 - Dear men, don’t be creepy.
14:01 - Being NOW what we needed THEN
16:19 - What Carrie needed THEN
21:04 - What Emily needed THEN
25:27 - Adults who apologize
38:48 - The Artist’s Way class info
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking about living a centered life that is rooted in the present. Carrie shares how she feels she is constantly being pushed forward by the past (or the left side) of the frame AKA time of an autoscroll Mario video game, and Emily feels she is ever pushing forward wanting to go faster into the future (or the right side) of the frame.
Both the past and future mindsets make us feel like we’re lazy, and this brings our self confidence and self concepts down. We talk about tips and tricks to help us live in the center—in the NOW.
References:
Order your copy of The Artist’s Way for our class starting September 1!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:20 - “You’re not terrible” - why it’s not a good idea to get your self-esteem from your kids
5:19 - I don’t want to be a pretty girl.
9:22 - Nuance over binary
10:34 - Mario on Autoscroll
15:30 - Goal: center screen
20:02 - Everything is a cycle
22:35 - A bad day doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.
24:21 - Self talk matters
27:49 - How to live a centered life if you’re a future-oriented person.
30:25 - How to live a centered life if you’re a past-oriented person.
38:48 - The Artist’s Way class info
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking to Sydney Parks Smith, Producing Artistic Director of OpenStage Theatre in Fort Collins, Colorado on how we know when it’s time to walk away. Sydney has always acted on stage, and in 2019, she stepped into her dream role as Producing Artistic Director of OpenStage. But when happens when your dream isn’t what you really wanted?
Sydney shares her personal and professional challenges, including fears of aging out as an actor, her transition into leadership roles within the nonprofit theatre industry, responsibilities and pressures within that role and why, after 26 years of working with her organization, she’s decided to stop down.
Sydney’s story of navigating fears, making tough decisions, and finding her true identity outside of her job title offers invaluable insights for anyone considering a pivotal change in their own lives.
References:
Order your copy of The Artist’s Way for our class starting September 1!
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:40 - Meet Sydney Parks Smith
4:46 - What is a Producing Artistic Director?
7:08 - When did you know what you wanted to be?
13:06 - Plot twist! She’s leaving!
18:12 - How do you know it’s time to walk away?
19:50 - Emotional repercussions
25:03 - I’m not special anymore
28:03 - Identity/value wrapped up in what we do
30:07 - Scarcity/fear: What if this is my only chance?
33:27 - Women and ageing in performance
41:59 - Talking to our future selves
46:05 - The Artist Way Class info
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking about trying new things even when we feel stupid or vulnerable. Just the thought of looking foolish makes most of us squirm. It’s easy to keep at doing the same things we know we’re good at and pass up all the things we fear we could be “bad” at. However, learning new things is good for us—and especially for our brains. Join us as we discuss recent times we’ve tried new things…and felt dumb—but REFUSED to let fear keep us from doing the things we want.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - The Artist’s Way Class info
4:56 - Doing new and scary things
6:18 - Carrie’s foray into swimming
15:66 - Emily the Paper Tearer Queen
21:11 - “It was a lateral move”
25:07 - The gym is scary, but we REFUSE to be held back!
26:38 - We think everyone has it all together but us—IT’S NOT TRUE.
31:48 - Curiosity over judgement
33:39 - Social media amping up scrutinization
37:19 - What new thing are we going to do this week that scares us?
Hosts: Emily Hatch and Carrie Schaeffer
Instagram: @honestlydearlistener
Youtube: youtube.com/@honestlydearlistener
The podcast currently has 67 episodes available.