Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

On this episode, we are chatting about the concept of negative creativity. Here are the highlights:

- What is negative creativity

- Types of negative creativity

- Negative outcomes of creativity

The Four Q's:

Question:

Is creativity ever neutral? Does it have to be good or bad?

Quest:

Identify a time in your life when you did something creative, but there were unintended consequences to you or someone else.

Quality Creativity:

Prison contraband and creative ways to stop it

Quote:

"Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones." - Bruce Garrabrandt (artist)

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Episode 8: Negative Creativity

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Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

Today on The Everyday Creative, we are talking about the Qualities of Creative people, how to tell if you have them, and what to do to get them.

The Four Q's:

Question:

What is your strongest creative quality?

Quest:

Identify a quality that needs some work and use one of the strategies we talked about to improve it.

Quality Creativity:

Focusmate

Quote:

"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it. They just saw something." - Steve Jobs

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Episode 7: Qualities of Creative People

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Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

Today, we are discussing being creative with limited resources. Here are the highlights:

- The two most common limited resources: time and money

- Changing your mindset around limitations

- How to change your mindset

- Strategies for limited time and money

The Four Q's:

Question:

What is your #1 limited resource? What strategy will you use to overcome this?

Quest:

Employ one strategy this week to extend your limited resource.

Quality Creativity:

Communication

Quote:

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono (physician and psychologist)

For additional info, check out the show notes:

Episode 6: Creativity with Limited Resources

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Have a creative week!

Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

On this episode, we are chatting about minimalism. Here are the highlights:

- Defining minimalism

- Benefits of minimalism

- Misconceptions of minimalism

- Downside of minimalism

- First steps to minimalism

Helpful resource: What is Minimalism? A Practical Guide to a Minimalist Lifestyle by Anthony Ongaro.

The Four Q's:

Question:

How does minimalism show up in your life... or does it?

Quest:

Clean out one drawer. Bonus: Try a decluttering method.

Quality Creativity:

Bookshelf/entertainment center

Quote:

"Minimalism is not the lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something." - Nicholas Burroughs (graphic designer, minimalist)

For additional info, check out the show notes:

Episode 5: Minimalism

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Connect with The Everyday Creative Collective

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Have a creative week!

Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

Today, we are discussing all things consumption. Here are the highlights from the episode:

- What is a resource?

- How consumption shows up in our lives

- Is there a "right" amount of consumption?

- Conspicuous consumption

- Consumption as a sign of a bigger problem

- How to consume less

The Four Q's:

Question:

Take time to answer the questions asked during this episode for yourself.

Quest:

Determine your biggest consumption category.

Quote:

"Sometimes you can find a nice lamp." - RZA

For additional info, check out the show notes:

Episode 4: Consumption

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Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

Today, we are discussing the benefits of creativity. Episode highlights include:

- Why you should care about creativity

- Creativity boosts self-esteem

- Creativity makes you smarter

- Creativity improves your social life

- Creativity improves mental health

- Evie talks about art therapy

The Four Q's:

Quest:

Engage in one of the creative activities mentioned at least three days this week.

Question:

How will you make time for the creative quest?

Quality Creativity:

Carpentry

Quote:

"Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express" - Brenda Ueland (journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher)

For additional info, check out the show notes:

Episode 3: Types of Creativity

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Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

Today we are chatting about different types of creativity.

- Three Modes of Creativity

- Eight Areas of Creativity

- Four Types of Genius

The Four Q’s

Question:

Do you think you can be more than one type of creative?

Quest:

Think through the different types of creativity and decide which one resonates with you the most. Do one thing to develop your creativity in that area. Take the Creative Type Quiz.

Quality Creativity:

Baking Impossible

Quote:

"Creativity is intelligence, having fun." - Albert Einstein

For additional info, check out the show notes:

Episode 2: Types of Creativity

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Connect with The Everyday Creative Collective

Email: [email protected]

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Have a creative week!

Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

Oh hello! And welcome to The Everyday Creative, a podcast that encourages creation over consumption.

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends who strive to live our best lives while dealing with daily life.

For our inaugural episode, we start with some of our background and why we started this show.

Next, we'll get into our definitions of creativity and consumption.

Finally, we introduce the Four Q's, a segment we'll feature on each episode. The Four Q's are:

Question: one of us will pose a question related to creativity or consumption to discuss and for listeners to think about.

Quest: This is a call-to-action/try this at-home idea.

Quality Creativity: we share something creative we've noticed recently as an example of how creativity can be practiced in everyday life.

Quote: Each show closes with a quote that is related to the topic or we simply find inspirational.

For additional info, check out the show notes:

Episode 1: Introduction

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Connect with The Everyday Creative Collective

Email: [email protected]

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Have a creative week!

Episode Credits:

We are your hosts, Emily and Evie Soape, sisters and friends in the midst of figuring out how to live our best lives. Emily Soape produces the show.

Music:

Theme Music:

“Living Life” by ⁠Scott Holmes Music⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠.

Break Background Music:

"Alive In It" by ⁠Ketsa⁠. Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license at ⁠Free Music Archive⁠