Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

[Kimothy Joy, practical matters]: How being creative is like brushing your teeth + untying your sense of self-worth from how much you produce Ep 1125


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This week I am talking with Kimothy Joy, the author of “Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering, World-Changing Sisterhood,” “Focus Pocus: A 90-Day Guided Journal,” and “That's What She Said: Wise Words from Influential Women.” A Denver-based artist and author who combines watercolor and hand lettering to create artwork that uplifts and inspires women worldwide, Kimothy has collaborated with the Women's March on Washington, the US Women's National Soccer Team, Gucci and Melinda Gates, just to name a few.


We covered:


- How following her curiosity into painting watercolors in her journal went took her from “just a person painting my feeling” to “a career”

- How motherhood impacted her creative process

- How her creativity ebbs and flows, and how she learned to accept those ebbs and flows because “the more I resist, the more painful it is”

- Learning how to untie her sense of self-worth from how much she was producing on any given day

- How time spent outside sparks both mindfulness and creativity

- The inspiration for her Focus Pocus 90-day journal

- The concept of creative hygiene

- The tools she uses to catch her creative ideas when they come


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For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.

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