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She Never Called Herself Creative | Grace Abigail Devaprasath
Feeling like you're losing a race no one told you about is one of the loneliest experiences a creative person can have — and Grace Abigail Devaprasath spent years running it.
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Grace is 23, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and she will tell you straight — she never called herself creative. Bad O Level results. Bad A Level results. Always behind, always doing more just to escape the thought of not doing enough. Then she walked into a classroom of special needs children and everything she believed about creativity fell apart. Today she is head of projects at an NGO, co-founder of a sustainable clothing brand built for bodies the fashion industry ignores, and a collaborator to multiple creative businesses in Colombo — none of it from a degree, all of it from curiosity and a willingness to fail in public.
This episode is about what happens when you stop waiting for permission to call yourself creative.
In this conversation you will learn:
- Why spending years feeling creatively behind is not a sign you missed your window — it is the window
- How teaching special needs children rewired Grace's entire understanding of what creativity actually means
- Why she built a sustainable clothing brand specifically for mothers whose bodies the fashion market had forgotten
- How she manages multiple creative ventures simultaneously while keeping her Sri Lankan parents' peace of mind
- Why she would rather fail at something than spend her life wondering if she could have done it
- What she did the exact month she got fired from the job that was her heart and soul
- How to use curiosity as a daily practice even when you don't see yourself as a creative person
Host: Sheran Ranasinghe Guest: Grace Abigail Devaprasath — head of projects, NGO sector; co-founder, sustainable clothing brand; Colombo, Sri Lanka Recorded at: Hatch.lk Startup Hub, Sri Lanka Produced by: Odyssey House Media Episode theme: A 23-year-old who never called herself creative builds three ventures from curiosity and a refusal to play it safe.
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/12SGsSsLz4DqlLFwxigjXX 🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/the-creative-odyssey-podcast/id1750306317 📧 [email protected]
🎙️ The Creative Odyssey Podcast explores the inner lives of creative people — why they create, what it costs, and why creativity might be the most important thing any of us can do. Hosted by Sheran Ranasinghe. Produced by Odyssey House Media. Recorded at Hatch.lk Startup Hub, Sri Lanka.
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By Sheran RanasingheFeeling like you're losing a race no one told you about is one of the loneliest experiences a creative person can have — and Grace Abigail Devaprasath spent years running it.
📥 Get the Sri Lanka Podcast Tour Magazine: https://stan.store/TheCreativeOdysseyPodcast/p/get-inside-the-creative-odyssey-magazine?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio
Grace is 23, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and she will tell you straight — she never called herself creative. Bad O Level results. Bad A Level results. Always behind, always doing more just to escape the thought of not doing enough. Then she walked into a classroom of special needs children and everything she believed about creativity fell apart. Today she is head of projects at an NGO, co-founder of a sustainable clothing brand built for bodies the fashion industry ignores, and a collaborator to multiple creative businesses in Colombo — none of it from a degree, all of it from curiosity and a willingness to fail in public.
This episode is about what happens when you stop waiting for permission to call yourself creative.
In this conversation you will learn:
- Why spending years feeling creatively behind is not a sign you missed your window — it is the window
- How teaching special needs children rewired Grace's entire understanding of what creativity actually means
- Why she built a sustainable clothing brand specifically for mothers whose bodies the fashion market had forgotten
- How she manages multiple creative ventures simultaneously while keeping her Sri Lankan parents' peace of mind
- Why she would rather fail at something than spend her life wondering if she could have done it
- What she did the exact month she got fired from the job that was her heart and soul
- How to use curiosity as a daily practice even when you don't see yourself as a creative person
Host: Sheran Ranasinghe Guest: Grace Abigail Devaprasath — head of projects, NGO sector; co-founder, sustainable clothing brand; Colombo, Sri Lanka Recorded at: Hatch.lk Startup Hub, Sri Lanka Produced by: Odyssey House Media Episode theme: A 23-year-old who never called herself creative builds three ventures from curiosity and a refusal to play it safe.
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/12SGsSsLz4DqlLFwxigjXX 🎧 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/the-creative-odyssey-podcast/id1750306317 📧 [email protected]
🎙️ The Creative Odyssey Podcast explores the inner lives of creative people — why they create, what it costs, and why creativity might be the most important thing any of us can do. Hosted by Sheran Ranasinghe. Produced by Odyssey House Media. Recorded at Hatch.lk Startup Hub, Sri Lanka.
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