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Hi and Welcome to my Podcast, The Creative Goddess. I'm Nicole Salinger, a Designer, Illustrator, Storyteller and Emerging Kidlit Author! I’ve held a lot of creative titles throughout my life, including having spent years as a Walt Disney singer and performer. So I thought it would be fun to share what inspires and motivates me to become a better artist, writer and human being! Here on this show, you’ll find moments of inspiration, empowerment and mindfulness, to get you into a safe, creative bubble of inner happiness, especially in these crazy, Covid times! Come with me to get comfy, inspired and free, to express your best creative self - at The Creative Goddess.

In today’s episode, I want to start by telling you a little story about myself. When I was 10 years old, I discovered magic inside of me. It wasn’t the magic of a genie in a bottle, or the magical spells of a witch, but it was some other kind of magic that was already inside of me, because out of nowhere, I realised I could illustrate characters. They would magically appear inside my head, the creativity would go down to a pen in my hand, then I would draw some kind of character that would be... it was like magic! Some kind of character would appear on the page! It was someone I had made up. And (pause), the only explanation I have for being able to put it on a page...is, you know, when you are a child, that you’re fearless. You’ll just have a crack at anything. Just to try. And you don’t have any fears inside of you. And so, in this podcast, what I want to teach you, is that I think that as adults, we forget that we still have the magic inside of us, and I want to motivate you to unleash it out into the world, because it couldn’t just be me who had ‘no idea’ about the magic inside of me and then all of a sudden it came out. I believe each and every one of us on this planet has some kind of, you know, untapped talent, that they either haven’t had the courage to, you know, bring out. They’ve been too scared, or too scared about what people think of you, and in this pandemic, we’ve had a lot of time to reflect, and I believe that in that reflection, we can start to harness our own kind of magic. But this takes effort. It takes courage and it takes WORK on your part to get out of your own way, release your magic, bring it to fruition, and perhaps find your life purpose!

In this podcast, I want to inspire, motivate and empower you to find your own kind of magic. Like a female explorer, I want you to excavate it. Like a mermaid, I want you to keep on swimming towards it, and like a hero goddess, I want you to exercise it. Whatever age you are. Whatever it is… isn’t it time to free your inner magic?