Do you believe in the power of Art & Creativity? Our guest, Dana Lynne Andersen, has taught and exhibited on three continents. https://icreatedailypodcast.com/transformative-art/

Her paintings have been featured on the covers of books, magazines and calendars and her artwork, as well as her visionary thinking, have been featured in newspapers, radio and television.

In 1986 Dana founded her first “Transformative Arts Studio” in Berkeley, California – a nexus for the pioneering integration of Art and Spirituality.

In 2002 she founded  “Awakening Arts”, an international network of artists committed to the creation of art that is uplifting and transformative.

In 2009 Dana began teaching in Italy and India, establishing The Academy of Art, Creativity & Consciousness and developing a certification program in Transformative Arts approach.  The Academy has two centers; near Assisi, Italy and Portland, Oregon.

Conceptual Prompts for Intuitive Art 

If you’re new to merging your art with intuition versus instructional prompts on what to draw, it can feel daunting at first. However, intuition and reflection are mind muscles that develop with use.

Conceptual prompts open a two-way conversation between your soul and your art.

You can find technical and specific instructional prompts in most prompt books and art instruction anywhere. Conceptual prompts invite you to fling open the door to musings and imaginings, and in so doing, leaves you more open to your intuitive wisdom.

Are Your Struggling with Intuitive Art? 

It’s not uncommon for folks used to following specific instructions and object prompts to struggle at first. “Just tell me what to draw.” Yet artists with that mindset, are often those who benefit the most by pushing through to greater discoveries. If that’s you, stick with it and you will surprise yourself.

Intuitive prompts free the mind to create from the inside out.

Intuitive art is geared to help mine the depths of your unconscious for gems to hold up to the light of your conscious mind. Your creations allow you to polish and facet these gems to reflect back the depth and color of your own thoughts and ponderings

Conceptual prompts invite you to:

- Think more deeply

- Slow down and ponder

- Let consciousness flow

- Unearth and nurture deeper thoughts

- Look beyond the surface of everything

- Seek, discover and create more meaning

In this Coffee Break, we're sharing the benefits of 30 Day Challenges. Whether you think of yourself as a creator or not... there is tremendous power in pursuing activities of interest, with a group of people also moving in a similar direction.

Who 30 Day Challenges are Good For

Well... Challenges are good for everyone really!

There is a whole range of challenges some of which we mention in this Coffee Break.  The iCreateDaily 30 Day Challenges we host are best for people looking for an environment and community where they can thrive in their creativity and goal setting.

Whether you're stuck in a creative rut, unsure of what direction you want to go in or have a clear goal you want to accomplish, a 30-day challenge can serve you. 

Coffee Break Topics:

- The benefit of 30-day challenges

- Creative communities

- Accountability

- Goal challenges

- Art and creative challenges

- Our Jan 2020 challenges

"It is in the journey that the way becomes more clear."

~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

It’s never too late to do work you love. Joanna White is building a thriving art business, creating and teaching the art of painting on silk through her company, Fiber-Visions. “I was a late bloomer”, Joanna said. “I didn’t get into silk painting until in my 60’s.” Now 70, she is full on into growing her…

Is it possible to make a living as an artist? Not only is it possible to be an abundant artist, Cory Huff teaches people how. Cory knows it’s possible and he teaches artists how to double their money selling art online. As a business coach for artists, Cory has successfully taught dozens of artists how to…

From Graphic Designer to Full-Time Fantasy Artist Eeva Nikunen is painting her own world into being. When she’s not creating amazing art on commission for clients, she’s steadily building her own fantastical cast of characters and the places where they live on canvas and in books, prints and more. Yes… she’s working harder than she ever did in…

Our guests today are new authors of a fantastic new fantasy fiction series. The authors are a mother-daughter team collaborating to bring to life the first in a Trilogy, with book two well underway.

We’ll get into all of that but first, a little about today’s guests.

Audrey Jalving works part-time cleaning businesses after hours. She enjoys reading, cats and her horse, Magic and the occasional computer game. Audrey likes to cook, bake and try new recipes. She lives with her daughter, co-author Marion Storms.

Marion Storms is a professional welder and aspiring professional actor and enjoys spending time with her many cats and an Arabian horse named Sunny. She also enjoys computer games and the outdoors and makes homemade mint tea from homegrown herbs.

Audrey and Marion’s first book is titled:

The Eleventh King: Volumes of Segra; The Cronin Trilogy, Book 1

Conversation Topics:

- Audrey Jalving's story

- How Audrey got into writing

- Paused dreams

- How she returned to writing

- Co-authoring a book with her daughter

- Using the 90 Day Goals Journal for writing goals

- Publishing company Audrey used 

- Audrey's visions and aspirations

Today’s guest grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia before immigrating to Canada at age 25. All was well until one life change caused his health to plummet.

That major life event was the catalyst that led Martin Pytela into eventually healing himself and instilled a passion for natural health and wellness.

If your goal is to eventually make a living from your creative endeavor or to sell work you've made, then this brand-building episode is for you! https://icreatedailypodcast.com/brand-building/

Many creators in our community including Audrey Jalving, Shannon Billings, Kathy Raabe, Cindi Trippe Wentworth, Colleen Nicoles, exploring audience building options.

In this Coffee Break, we're sharing our thoughts on why it's so crucial for creators to share their work and build an audience. Even if you're unsure if you want to establish a brand, building an audience around your work can help you test the waters.

Conversation Topics: 

- The importance of promoting your own content

- Gaining confidence to share your work

- Sharing your creativity authentically

- Restaurant analogy for creators

- Navigating how to "sell" as an artist

- Marketers, charlatans, and corporations

- Fear of perfectionism

- Hiring agencies to market for you

"Branding is about connecting and serving, and it’s about purpose."

~LeAura Alderson, Cofounder-iCreateDaily.com

We need to begin with the usual disclaimers. iHealDaily is a show for conversations on health and healing, and cannot be construed as medical advice of any kind.

Dr. Gordon Pedersen is a two-times bestselling author, an entrepreneur and the world’s leading expert on silver medicines.

Gordon is a clinical doctor, board-certified in anti-aging and regenerative medicine, with additional degrees in diverse and complementary medical disciplines, including a research Ph.D. in toxicology and immunology.

In addition, Dr. Pedersen has a doctorate of naturopathic medicine, is the Director of the SilverHealthInstitute.

We previously interviewed Dr. Pedersen—who insists that we call him Gordon—for the iCreateDaily Podcast where you can learn more about Gordon’s origin story of his creative health endeavors.

iHealDaily Podcast

- Benefits of silver

- Natural cold and flu remedies 

- Silver for candida 

- Autoimmune diseases

- Menopause 

- Fibromyalgia