The Creative Soul Podcast

Alexandra Franzen is a best-selling author, award-winning editor, and entrepreneur based in Hawaii. She has written seven books including two novels. She has written articles for Time, Forbes, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, and Lifehacker. Her work has been mentioned in The New York Times Small Business Blog, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, Inc., in Tim Ferriss’ newsletter, and she has appeared on the Peabody Award-winning radio show, Marketplace.

She’s the co-founder of a company called Get It Done and a brick and mortar bookstore called One Idea Books and Gifts.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How she became a self-employed creative
• Her decision for getting off social media
• How to market without social media
• Her daily routine
• Why she instituted a 4 day work week for her company
• Working on projects for clients vs yourself
• Self publishing vs Traditional Publishing

Creative Resources:

• Alphabetizer
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Connect with Alex:

Website: www.alexandrafranzen.com

www.youcangetitdone.com

Amy Green Smith is a certified and credentialed life coach and hypnotherapist, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-worth. With acute focus on helping people “find their voice”, she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert in Inspired Coach Magazine and on Fox 5 San Diego.

In this episode we talk about:

• Having difficult conversations with grace
• Being in relationship with people you disagree with
• Setting boundaries
• How to have better communication with your coworkers, family, and friends
• Regulating your nervous system to not be triggered during conflict
• Cultivating Emotional Intelligence
• Why hypnotherapy can help

Creative resources:

• Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

Connect with Amy:

• Website: www.amygreensmith.com
• Podcast: The Bold Faced Truth

Joi is a multi-passionate, educator, community builder, and content creator. She believes having many passions is a gift, not a burden and she’s on a mission to rewrite the narrative around “choosing one thing” being the only path to success. Through her e-book, signature course, and podcast, Joi teaches creatives how to make friends with focus, overcome overwhelm, and step into their Multi-Passionate Mastery.

In this episode we talk about:

• How to know if you're a multi-passionate creative
• Finding focus as a multi-passionate creative
• Prioritizing different creative projects
• Tips for following through on your creative projects
• Building structure for your creativity to flow
• Marketing as a spiritual practice

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• Libby
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Finding Me by Viola Davis

Connect with Joi:

Website: www.joi-knows-how.com

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Podcast: Multi-Passionate Mastery

Tune into this special episode to celebrate 100 episodes of The Creative Soul Podcast. Leya shares a prayer and offering from her heart and sings for the very first time on the podcast.

Song begins at 5:25

Song: Please Prepare Me by Beautiful Chorus

Take a moment to pause, integrate, and celebrate how far you've come.

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Connect with Leya: @leyavandoren

Kat Daou is a Family Constellation Therapy Facilitator helping people clean up intergenerational trauma and support them back to their innate wholeness. She is trauma informed and utilizes parts work, inner child work, felt sense bodily awareness, and intuitive guidance to support clients in moving from "what's wrong with me" to "what happened to me". With a philosophy of one foot in the spiritual world and one foot in the physical 3D, FCT brings life force energy back into the family system and creates healing for 14 generations backwards, and forwards.

We talk about:

• How to Face Negative Emotions
• How she went from an Eating Disorder, Toxic Relationships, Depression, to Healing and Empowered
• Family Constellations Therapy for Healing Generational Trauma
• Why You May Be Called to Heal Ancestral Trauma
• Millennial’s Current Role in Society
• Epigenetics
• Systems of Support for Processing Trauma

Resources Mentioned:

• What Happened To You? By Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
• @the.holistic.psychologist
• @mindfulmft
• Gabor Maté

Connect with Kat:

@heal_with_kat

healwithkat.com

Nadia is a Human Design teacher, spiritual mentor, and host of The Current podcast, a show unpacking the changing energetic tides of our collective consciousness. Nadia also assists psychedelic therapy retreats and is currently a therapist-in-training.

In this episode we talk about:

• How to use your human design type to rest
• Navigating dark nights of the soul
• Growing up religious and finding spirituality later in life
• Masculine/feminine energies in the chart
• Using human design to understand your life path

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Book of Destinies by Chetan Parkyn & Carola Eastwood
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Connect with Nadia:

nadialast.com

@nadialast_

Megan Leatherman is a career coach, mother, writer, podcast host and amateur ecologist living in the Pacific Northwest. Through her nature-based and seasonal perspectives, she’s helped thousands of professionals reconnect to their strengths and to what deeply matters to them. She has a Master’s degree in conflict resolution, a background in Human Resources, and believes that our work can be a spiritual practice.

In this episode we talk about:

• Aligning your work and life according to the different seasons
• Holding all of Earth’s Season to where you are
• Internalized Capitalism and How it Shows up in our Nervous System
• Being A Highly Sensitive Person In A Work Environment
• What to do If You Hate Your Job

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Circle Round by Starhawk

Meditation Teacher: Jessica Snow

Martin Shaw

The Living Myth Podcast by Michael Meade

Connect with Megan:

Website: www.awildnewwork.com

Order her book: Winter at Work: Navigate Mystery and Cultivate New Vitality on your Vocational Journey

Podcast: A Wild New Work

@awildnewwork

Can you believe it's already 2023?

Tune into the first solo episode of 2023 where Leya share some of the lessons and learnings from the last year.

We talk about:

• The themes of 2022: Home, Grounding, Grief
• Experiencing burnout and overwhelm
• Experiencing abuse at a personal and collective level
• Ways to practice self-care
• Why millennials need extra self-care right now
• Why truth is love

+ Leya shares a reading from a poem she wrote, a sacred offering and expression of her heart.

Connect with Leya:

@leyavandoren

The perfect solo episode to kick off Sagittarius season - this one's all about travel, new experiences, expansion, and joy. I share about my recent once in a lifetime trip going on a safari in South Africa and the stories and lessons it taught me.

In this episode we talk about:

• Traveling solo vs traveling with friends - pros and cons!
• A scary close encounter with an elephant!
• The daily schedule of our safari and some of the animals we saw
• Sharkdiving in Capetown
• Discovering my Leo Moon
• Western Astrology vs. Vedic Astrology
• Connecting to animal medicine
• Why Africa feels like the birthplace of God
• The importance of joy during the healing journey

Resources Mentioned:

• Zulu Nyala
• Spirit of the Animals Oracle
• The Last Gift of the Master Artists by Ben Okri

Connect with Leya:

@leyavandoren

Leya shares an update on why the podcast has been on a short break and returns with part 2 of what she is learning during the wedding planning process.

She shares vulnerably about managing finances, feeling unsupported, feeling unworthy of love, and the body image issues that came up while shopping for her wedding dress.

She also shares an update of how the vision of the wedding has changed and evolved in this perfect, co-creation with the universe.

She also shares:

• Why wedding planning is the ultimate manifestation
• 3 key steps to manifest anything you want in life
• Choosing to change the wedding venue from Florida to Michigan
• Dealing with body image struggles during an engagement photoshoot
• The importance of size inclusivity for brides and wedding dress boutiques
• The story of finding her dream wedding dress
• Rejecting tradition and embracing tradition
• Raising your self-worth and self-love
• Stepping into the worthiness to receive the manifestations you desire

Episodes Mentioned:

Wedding Planning as a Spiritual & Creative Practice - Part 1

Unmasked & Open Hearted Podcast: Healing in Relationships with Leya Van Doren

Connect with Leya:

@leyavandoren

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