In this episode, I welcome back Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, for our sixth conversation on Unleash Your Inner Creative. We talk about the enduring power of Morning Pages, how to silence the inner critic, and what creativity needs now in the age of AI.

Julia’s work has helped millions of people reconnect with their creativity and art, and in this conversation we go deeper into the tools that actually sustain a creative life. We talk about why Morning Pages remain one of the most powerful practices for creativity, how to work with your inner critic (Julia calls hers “Nigel”), and why play is essential for creative breakthroughs.

We also explore creativity during uncertain times, writing through fear and self-doubt, and how creativity evolves through major life transitions. Along the way, I share some personal news: that I’m pregnant and expecting my first child… and Julia offers beautiful wisdom about Motherhood and creativity.

If you’ve ever struggled with creative blocks or wondered how to stay creative through ALL of life, you’ll find Julia’s perspective is both grounding and inspiring.

In this episode we discuss:

• The real purpose of Morning Pages
• How to silence your inner critic
• Why creativity thrives through play and curiosity
• Julia Cameron’s thoughts on AI and creativity
• Writing through fear and self-doubt
• Creativity and motherhood
• The importance of “believing mirrors”

Check out ALL of Julia’s art and writing: https://juliacameronlive.com/ 

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This is one of the most personal episodes I’ve ever recorded. I have an announcement...I’m pregnant. That's right, cutie! We're having a baby!

And in this episode, I’m sharing what this moment means not just in my life, but in my identity as a creative. For years, I’ve talked about creativity as something we make. The art. The ideas. The projects.

But this season is inviting me to rethink everything I thought I knew about purpose, growth, and what it really means to create something meaningful. This feels like the greatest creative project of my life so far, and I wanted to share it with you honestly and in real time.

In this episode, I talk about:
-The greatest lesson I’ve learned so far 

-The difference between preparation and pre-suffering 

-The creative expansion that motherhood can bring 

-The Power of letting yourself evolve in public

-PLUS: the full story of how I found out I was pregnant 

Thank you for being here with me. It means more than I can say.

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If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

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How do you know when it’s time to reinvent yourself creatively? And once you do, how do you remember that through it all, who you are in the best thing about you? 

This episode was recorded while podcast host and producer, Zak Rosen and I walked around Belle Isle in Detroit talking about creative reinvention, identity, and what it really means to build a life around your values.

You’ll hear the wind moving through the trees and the ice crunching beneath our feet and sheer creative vulnerability as Zak discusses how he knew it was finally time to shift a long-term project. 

Zak is the host of the beloved indie podcast Weirdly Hepful and a longtime creative whose path has included multiple reinventions, pivots, and personal awakenings. Together, we explore the emotional side of creativity that rarely gets talked about, especially the danger of tying your self-worth to what you make.

We talk about:

-Why separating your identity from your work is essential for long-term creative health
-The freedom that comes from redefining success on your own terms
-Creative reinvention and how to let yourself evolve
-What it means to build a creative life instead of chasing external validation

Listen to Zak's Pod: https://weirdlyhelpful.show/

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If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

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Are you constantly funding your own creative projects and ending up depleted, disappointed, or broke?

In this minisode, I share one of the most powerful lessons I ever learned while coaching a multimillionaire: rich people do not spend their own money to launch new projects. They find sponsors, investors, patrons, and partners.

So why are artists and indie creators doing the opposite?

In this episode, we talk about:

- Why self-funding your art can create resentment and burnout
-How to stop being your own investor
-Where to look for funding including sponsors, grants, corporations, nonprofits, and angel investors
-Why artists used to have patrons and why that model still works
-How to adopt an abundance mindset without going into debt

If you’ve ever drained your savings for your art, this episode is your wake-up call. You deserve funding. You deserve support. And you do not have to go broke to create.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

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What if the story we’ve been telling artists is wrong? What if you don’t actually have to choose between financial stability and the thing you love most?

In this episode, I sit down with actor turned entrepreneur Sarah Kleist to talk about the toxic myth of the “starving artist” and why performers are uniquely equipped to build creative businesses that support their art instead of competing with it.

Sarah is a musical theater performer living in New York City who also runs a thriving web design and branding business for creatives. She shares how she built financial stability without walking away from her artistic identity and why being multi-passionate is not a weakness, but a strategic advantage.

We talk about:

-Why the “if you can do anything else, do that instead” advice is harmful
-The powerful skills actors and performers already have that businesses are desperate for
-How to rewrite your money story as a creative
-Why financial stability can make you a better artist, not a worse one
-Practical ways to start thinking about what your own creative business could be

If you’ve ever felt like you were failing because you want both meaning and money, this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.

You don’t have to choose. You can build a life that holds both.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

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I tried to record a normal episode today. I couldn’t. I sat down to talk about creativity like I usually do, and instead I found myself overwhelmed, heartbroken, and honestly… empty. In this episode, I share what it feels like to be a creative person living in America right now when the news feels unbearable, when your emotions are so full they leave you feeling blank, and when you’re wondering:

What is even worth creating at a time like this?
How are we supposed to go about daily life?

This is a raw, unscripted reflection on creative paralysis, collective grief, human rights, and the cruelty happening around us, including the actions of ICE and the fear, harm, and devastation our communities are experiencing.

I talk about:

-Small ways to stay creative and human when you feel helpless
-Creative burnout from current events and how to move through it
-How to alchemize pain into purpose
-The role of artists, makers, and storytellers during hard times

-Why this moment is not a political issue, but rather, a human rights issue

If you’ve been feeling distracted, heavy, unable to focus, or wondering how to keep making things when your heart is breaking, this episode is for you. I love you. I’m with you.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

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What if the way you learned to love, connect, and succeed wasn’t actually you, but survival strategies you picked up as a kid?

In this episode of Unleash Your Inner Creative, I sit down with Beá Victoria Albina, somatic experiencing practitioner and author of Emotional Outsourcing, to explore how people pleasing, perfectionism, and emotional over-responsibility quietly block creativity, self-trust, and authentic expression.

We talk about what emotional outsourcing really is, how it develops in childhood, and how it shows up in our relationships, work, decision-making, and creative lives. We also explore how healing your nervous system and attachment wounds can help you reconnect with your voice and come home to yourself.

This conversation is especially vulnerable for me. Bea even guides me through a live somatic practice to help release shame, and as you listen, I hope you can do the same. 

In this episode, you’ll learn:

-What emotional outsourcing is and why it develops
-How people pleasing and perfectionism disconnect you from creativity
-Why shame keeps you stuck and how to work with it
-Somatic tools to rebuild self-trust and self-expression

If you’ve ever abandoned yourself in order to be “good,” “enough,” or lovable, this episode will help you return to a more empowered, creative version of yourself.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

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Do you have big goals for 2026 but aren’t sure where to start or how to actually follow through?

In this solo episode of Unleash Your Inner Creative, I’m sharing practical and emotional strategies for goal setting in 2026, especially if you want to go after your dreams in a way that feels doable and sustainable.

This isn’t about hustling harder or burning yourself out. It’s about getting honest about what’s been holding you back, aligning your daily actions with what you truly want, and breaking big goals into smaller steps you can realistically follow through on.

I walk you through how to assess past goals, identify where you have more control than you think, and create a clear action plan that supports your dreams. I also share what I call microdosing courage, taking small steps that build momentum, confidence, and self-trust over time. We also touch on the emotional side of goal setting, including worthiness, limiting beliefs, asking for help, and healing creative wounds that can quietly block progress.

You’ll Learn: 

-How to honestly assess the goals you didn’t reach last year and why
-A simple way to check if your daily actions truly align with the goals you say matter most
-How to microdose courage when approaching a big or scary task
-Why stair-stepping goals works better than all-or-nothing thinking when fear shows up (and how it builds self-trust)
-How worthiness, creative wounds, and asking for help impact your ability to follow through

If you’re setting New Year’s goals for 2026 and want goal-setting advice that supports your creativity, emotions, and real life, this episode will help you move forward with compassion, clarity, self-love and momentum.

Creative Wound Meditation: https://pod.link/1451719426/episode/YTI2YTJkMDM2ZDdkYzY5NWUzODNkOWQ3OGExYzA4ZWQxNzYwYWFjMg?view=apps&sort=popularity

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If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

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Today’s guest is Kim Gravel. Kim is an entrepreneur, tv personality, public speaker, podcaster and industry leader. Most of all Kim has a passion for people and seeing them rise.Her authentic, common-sense style has resulted in Kim being one of the most booked guests on The Steve Harvey Show and starring in the hit docuseries, “Kim of Queens,” and partnering with retail giant QVC to launch her highly successful apparel line, Belle by Kim Gravel®, and the Belle Beauty® cosmetic line. She also has an awesome podcast called The Kim Gravel show! I will be on it next week! Be sure to check it out on QVC Plus, or wherever you get your pods! This is a great conversation about creativity and purpose!

From this conversation you’ll learn:

-Kim’s theory on purpose and how to find yours

-How to take the first step toward your creative dream

-How to use your fear as fuel

-How to reinvent yourself at any age, and

-The key to owning the power of ‘no!'

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

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Every year, I sit down with my parents to record our annual Christmas podcast. What started as a holiday tradition has become one of my favorite conversations of the year. This episode is funny, emotional, honest, and full of the kinds of family stories that only come out around the holidays.

In this special Christmas episode of Unleash Your Inner Creative, my parents join me in the studio to reflect on family, marriage, childhood memories, and the moments that shape us long after the holidays end. We laugh, cringe, reminisce, and share stories that reveal why family dynamics are rarely perfect, but can still be deeply meaningful and beautiful.

In this episode, you’ll hear:
-A shocking story from my parents’ early marriage that still makes us laugh decades later-The tragic yet oddly hilarious story of Tim’s saddest childhood Christmas
-My mom’s extremely confident and very incorrect retelling of Will Ferrell’s Elf
-A heartfelt recap of our wedding and what it taught us about love, family, and showing up for one another
-Why messy family dynamics can still be healing, connective, and full of love

Whether you’re celebrating with family, missing loved ones, or navigating complicated relationships this holiday season, this episode is a reminder that connection does not have to be perfect to be powerful and it’s just also just a really fun Listen!

If you prefer to watch, check it out on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxllx5aGD7U 

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

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