What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

If you're someone like me who is a multi-passionate creator, there is a message in this episode for you.

I wish this was something I had heard or considered sooner than this. That it is okay to change. It is okay to love something, and then fall out of love with it.

If you've ever changed something in your life, or started something new, but felt guilt or loss over that decision. Or felt sad about what you left behind when you chose to pursue that new thing.

I want to let you know that this is okay.

It's okay to feel all of those things, but it's also okay to let those feelings go. It's okay to set them down. It's okay to leave them behind. Those feelings were there to let you know that something has ended.

Thank the thing that brought you joy for getting you where you are today. Say goodbye, and step into the next great thing with light and free and open arms that are ready to take in all of the new exciting things coming your way.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Examine what's in your backpack.
  • Look at the contents.
  • Are you still holding onto things that served you long ago that aren't serving you anymore?
  • What expectations, fears, guilt, thoughts are you holding onto?
  • If you don't need them anymore, put them down.

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What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Where your focus goes, your power grows. So, what is it you want to create in your life? And is that the beautiful rose you're focusing on, or are you staring at the thorns that are in your way?

In this episode, I riff on all of the thoughts that have been on my heart and mind this week. I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but it is quite powerful. I suggest you give it a listen! :) 

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Ask others what value you bring. Ask yourself what value you bring.
  •  Then, write these things down. Create a running list that you read to yourself every morning.
• Are you operating from a place of loss or gain? 
  •  Are you feeling a need to control and figure things out? Switch the way you're thinking to focus on what you want to bring in; how you want to think and feel. 
• Do what brings you joy.
  •  The path becomes clear when we start doing things that we enjoy doing. Clarity follows action.
• For God's sake, stop making things so hard.
  •  Do what you love. End of story.
• Your perceptions become actions. 
  • Reframe to change the things you create in your life to the things you want to attract.
• HAVE. MORE. FUN.
  •  This will create more beautiful things in your own life, in others’ lives.
• You can have both.
  •  If you want coffee and ice cream, do it.

Thank you so much for listening to this, and any, episode of The Creative Commute. I truly value your support. If you took anything away from this episode, please leave a rating on the podcast and leave a review to let me know what you thought!

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Support the show

Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

And if you’re ready to take it even further, I’ve got a Magnetic Marketing workshop coming up on November 13! Grab your spot at JenLiss.com/magnetic

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Enjoy this bonus episode with the duo from the Create for No Reason Podcast, Kate Volman and Shawn Pfunder. This conversation was recorded a few weeks ago, and it so much fun that I wanted to share it for you all.

Shawn is the senior communications director at Go Daddy, and he also just launched a book of his creative poetry "I Believe in a God Who Roller Skates." Kate is the CEO of Floyd Consulting and the best conversational moderator you'll ever meet.

Here's the description of the episode they used on their podcast. It was so beautifully stated, I wouldn't change a thing!
In this episode, we talk to Jennifer Liss, the founder of the Creative Commute community and podcast. She's interested in seeing more people get creative because of the joy it brings into their lives and the lives of the people they interact with. Creative joy is funny that way. It spreads. It has a ripple effect. When we make something--anything, we become a little kinder and confident and encouraging. That's a win-win-win in our book.

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Support the show

Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

And if you’re ready to take it even further, I’ve got a Magnetic Marketing workshop coming up on November 13! Grab your spot at JenLiss.com/magnetic

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Are you doing what lights you up? If you hesitated, it might be time to update your personal meatloaf recipe.

In this episode, I speak with my own coach, intuitive and healer Bree-Anna Vincent, whose gift is seeing people's highest potential. her purpose is helping women see it for themselves. 

As she points out, we often don't even realize what's holding us back. (Is it the meatloaf?) 

In this episode, you'll hear my journey with The Creative Commute through her eyes. The resistance, the wins, the burnout, how I have so much room yet to grow. This talk was an enlightening experience for me, and I think listening will give you some deep takeaways for yourself.  

I'm so fortunate that Bree-Anna was able to see my creative potential and help me loosen the grip on the things that were holding me back. Listen in and dip your toes into the water of your own purpose. 

You'll be amazed how quickly you can transform yourself when you give yourself permission to go all-in.

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE

1. If you’re not green and growing, you’re ripe and rotting.
2. Ask yourself, "Am I squashing my potential?"
3. Anything you dream is absolutely possible. Stop playing small.
4. Are you in burnout? Ask yourself if you're doing things because you love them or because you or others expect you to love them.
5. Are you a living version of grandma’s meatloaf? It might be time to update your recipe.

SOUNDBYTES 

• Focus on what you desire to create and let go of what’s holding you back.
• It’s okay to be scared and fearful. Do it anyway.
• Turn failure into lessons.
• We are all equally born worthy, beautiful, amazing souls. You are worthy.
• Be green and growing, not ripe and rotting.
• Find the people who can support you.
• Lean into what you love.
• Change is great. Change is okay. If you find yourself facing burnout, ask yourself, “Do I love what I’m doing right now?”
• If it’s not aligned with who you are, you’re not living in your truth.
• Creatives often make decisions based on what you think is wrong or right, not what’s in your heart. 
• If you are in burnout, you are not aligned with yourself and what lights you up.
• We get taught what we don’t want, but we don’t get taught what we do want.
• As children, we learn right and wrong, but we often miss a connection to what lights us up.
• When you get to a point that you’re falling out of love with something, the question is “What do I love now?”
• Is what you’re doing lighting up your soul? 
• Or is it the fact that you get to be creative? Ask yourself, “Am I doing this because I love it?” Or because I get to be creative.
• It’s not about changing who you are, but it’s about creating the best version.
• It’s about believing in who you are.
• Do you want to keep the same life that you have now and keep getting the same results? Or do you have big dreams?
• Everything you dream of is possible for you.
  
  

ABOUT BREE-ANNA VINCENT

Bree-Anna is an intuitive and soul mastery coach for female entrepreneurs focused on helping women reach their highest potential. You can find Bree-Anna on Instagram @BreeAnnaVincent or on Facebook in her THRIVE Sisterhood Born to Create Community.

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Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

And if you’re ready to take it even further, I’ve got a Magnetic Marketing workshop coming up on November 13! Grab your spot at JenLiss.com/magnetic

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

Are you stuck in the "how?" Is doing things perfectly causing you to procrastinate? I see you, creator.

In this episode, I share some thoughts on how we often get stuck in the "how," some thoughts on how to to think about the "how" differently,  a two-step process I used to create my current affirmation for feeling more confidence and joy in my work, and how to anchor it all with a word of the year.



Enjoy!

LINKS
If you're interested in joining my free Word of the Year party at 7:30 p.m. CST on Thursday, January 14, sign up here.

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SOUNDBITES

>>"You don’t always have to have everything figured out and perfectly planned. Your time is better spent going inside and exploring what your inner creator wants, needs, what it’s here on this planet to do."  (We’re going to have a podcast all about your inner creator here in a couple of weeks so stay tuned for that!)

>>"Maps, guides, steps, action plans: These are all designed to help us find a way to traverse the unknown. They are human creations that help us get control over things. Because we want to be responsible, we want to have ownership, we want to think that we can set forth the path WE want to choose.

 But what that has done is to force our thoughts outwardly. We’ve gone outside of ourselves, planning and detailing. If we had the perfect plan, we can finally get to where we want to go. Right?"

>>"It’s been a challenging week here in the U.S.  What has happened at the capital has been a lot for us all to take in. I encourage you this week to find your center. Whatever it is that grounds you. Whether that be a creative activity or music or dancing or yoga or sports or writing. It is okay to stay aware of the things around you but also focus on that which is good and stable for yourself."

>>The things we create in this world are powerful. We have the power to create goodness and to create negativity. And the words we use matter, whether to ourselves or to others.

I want to encourage you to share this podcast with a friend, and please rate it and leave a review. This will help us inspire more people to join this creative movement of joy.


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Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

And if you’re ready to take it even further, I’ve got a Magnetic Marketing workshop coming up on November 13! Grab your spot at JenLiss.com/magnetic

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

What if you were told that you can commandeer your own life? What if you learned that from a three-foot-tall, forty-pound, bright yellow wooden fisherman/wannabe pirate captain?

Well, that’s what Geeg Wiles is here to inspire you to do. To find the extraordinary in your own life, seize a new outlook and create what’s possible for you.  He reimagined the purpose behind Captain Ahab, a giant lawn gnome handed down to him from his grandfather.  Together, they travel the world inspiring people to create and complete their bucket lists. You going to leave this conversation ready to go complete yours!

ABOUT GEEG WILES

Geeg is an experienced motivational speaker, TED talker, adventurer and proud caretaker of Captain Ahab. You can follow his and Ahab's travels on their website ahabsadventures.com or support their travels by joining Ahab's Elite.

Website: AhabsAdventures.com
Instagram: @AhabsAdventures
Facebook: facebook.com/AhabsAdventures

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Support the show

Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

And if you’re ready to take it even further, I’ve got a Magnetic Marketing workshop coming up on November 13! Grab your spot at JenLiss.com/magnetic

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

We have an opportunity to make this world a happier and better place. But we cannot do it unless we know who we are at our core – what brings us joy,  what we delight in doing – so we can give it back to the world with love. 

Enjoy this episode that really digs into the basis of my journey in 2020, and how the word I chose for this year – delight – brought me some unexpected gifts. 

This is the final episode of season 1 of The Creative Commute podcast. If you've listened in, please leave a review. That would be the best holiday gift you could give me. 

See you in January!

Support the show

Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

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Kristi Nellor is a multi-passionate creative force who sees everything around her as a possibility. She believes in a growth mindset and has seen the power of "yet" transform lives. A complete creativity and collaboration junkie, her motto is simple: Creativity Always Saves the Day.

Takeaways:

-       You are worthy, and you are exactly where you are supposed to be.
-       Creativity is not a thing. It's a way of being.
-       Honor your seven-year-old self.
-       Believe in the power of “yet.”

About Kristi Nellor
As a Creative Director in NYC for decades, Kristi helped brands large and small define how they show up to the world and how to tell their unique stories. Today, she applies the same principles she used in the design world to focus on mindset and lifestyle coaching through creative means. She helps youth and adults to reconnect to their hopes, courage, voice, and power to believe they are worthy of all that they dream of, inspiring them to achieve those goals one creative action at a time. 

Website: stillirise.love
Instagram: @riotgearxyz & @stillirise.love

Support the show

Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

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Oswald Perez wasn’t expected to survive. Born premature with a mild form of cerebral palsy, he’s been fighting his entire life. Yet, Oswald proves time and time again that he’s more than the sum of his difficulties, facing each challenge with a determined and grateful heart.

We talk about spelling bee disappointments, his brand new book and how quickly a sense of joy is lost by instantly looking to what’s next. I highly recommend you give this special Thanksgiving episode a listen.

Takeaways from this episode:

• The moment where something doesn’t go as planned is not the end of your story. 
• The challenges you face are part of your story, but you are more than those challenges.
• Focus more on what can happen rather than what should.
• You already have the spark inside of you. You don’t have to wait for someone else to come along and light it
• There is goodness everywhere, and in fact, you can be the goodness that lights the way for others.

About Oswald Perez
Oswald is a prolific poet and writer. His recently published e-book “A Poetic Journey, Staying at Home” is a collection of 21 poems that came together as he faced an unprecedented time in New York City during the initial phases of the pandemic. He describes it as a “window into my world for all to take a look inside” and I suggest you do.

Order Oswald’s book at OswaldPerez.com.

Follow him on Instagram @oswaldperez85

Join his Facebook community, The Writers Den: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2220061314804175/

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Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

And if you’re ready to take it even further, I’ve got a Magnetic Marketing workshop coming up on November 13! Grab your spot at JenLiss.com/magnetic

What’s on your mind, unicorn? 🦄 Send me a text!

After being laid off from her job as a pastry chef, Precious Pioneer had a choice to make. She could live her life with clenched fists full of fear – or she could learn to let go. In this episode, Precious gives us a peek into her creative journey and shares some important lessons she’s learned about leaning into the life you love, being honest about your feelings, and letting go of the things that are out of your control. 

Takeaways from this episode:

• No matter where you are on your journey, you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Take a moment to think about what you want and where you want to go next.
• Be true to yourself. Be kind to yourself.
• Failure is a form of winning. Applaud yourself simply for trying.  

ABOUT PRECIOUS PIONEER

Precious is a pastry chef by trade, and a multi-passionate creative by every means imaginable. She hosts the Precious the Foodie podcast, which is designed to uplift and inspire other people wherever their journey is. Precious believes that everyone has a unique story, and she delights in sharing them while uncovering their truth, living her own truth and spreading kindness along the way.

YOU CAN FIND PRECIOUS ON:

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNfWQ5a7-NUY4O1n65S5voA

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/preciouspioneer/

Twitter – https://twitter.com/preciouspioneer

Podcast – Precious the foodie - https://anchor.fm/preciousthefoodie

Blog – https://preciouspioneer.medium.com/


MORE FROM PRECIOUS: 

Hi, my name is Precious Pioneer. I am a chef, foodie, and a creative. I am passionate about creating content that uplifts and inspires people using food as a medium. I believe that there are stories behind every plate and meals that are shared is where we can all find our common ground. I have a background in Baking and Pastries, but I'll be studying at the Culinary Institute of Barcelona this January to expand my culinary skills. Right now, I'm focused on becoming a sustainable chef and creating more green initiatives to help fight the climate crisis. I want to make food education accessible in a way where people can make informed decisions when it comes to policy change, agriculture, gentrification, farm to table, and access to quality ingredients. But, in short, I'm simply a person who loves food... mostly ice cream; who wants to capture the stories of those who eat it. 

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Support the show

Hey friends! If you love talking about making money, marketing, and building a business that actually feels good, I want to invite you to check out my other podcast: F**k Around & Get Paid.

It’s all about getting paid for doing work you love with tangible tools to use in your business right away.

You can find it on your favorite podcast app - just search F**k Around & Get Paid - and if you love it, make sure to follow so you don’t miss an episode!

And if you’re ready to take it even further, I’ve got a Magnetic Marketing workshop coming up on November 13! Grab your spot at JenLiss.com/magnetic