Wildly Creative Life with Brooke Schultz

A clip of a coaching call from soulful creators rising, which is Brooke's program for creators to take you from stuck to finished project in 6 weeks. This call was from week two, where the students were beginning their projects, and Naomi was having a hard time sharing about her project and feeling a little stuck. Listen in as Brooke helps Naomi get to the root of the issue and find a plan to break out of it.

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So, is beauty actually important? What are we doing creating when there are people dying and far more pressing problems to address in the world? Is beauty worthwhile?

In this episode we explore what beauty is (hint: more than pretty), how to define your own unique beauty sensibility, along with some beauty homework for art and life to get more in tune with the force that drives us to create.

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John O'Donohue on On Being:

https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty-aug2017/

MUST LISTEN.

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl:

https://www.amazon.com/Mans-Search-Meaning-Viktor-Frankl/dp/080701429X

Blaise Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

Pim Yanaprasart: http://www.pimphotography.net/

Evoke Creative: https://evokecreative.com/

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Your fear is boring, but friend, you are not. Fear always says the same thing: What will people think? Who do you think you are? What if it's terrible? What if you fail?

This episode is a continuation of a series of love letters to creatives at different stages of your creative lives.

In today's episode, we'll walk through the place of fear in the creative life, what those fearful thoughts can sound like, what you can think instead, and when to push through fear or listen to it.

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Needing a little nourishment for your creative soul? Perfect. Spend some time receiving with quotes curated from favorite books, poems and some of my own writing.

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What do you get when you hold things lightly? Dangerous freedom! You have a bias toward action and GOING for it when you're not so worried about the outcome--even when it's "serious".

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6 Hacks for Skyrocketing Creativity (Even If You're Super Busy): https://brookebschultz.com/get-creating/

Ep 120: The ONE habit to keep when everything else goes to cra‪p‬: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-120-the-one-habit-to-keep-when-everything-else-goes-to-crap/id1438076373?i=1000506859854

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If you find yourself starting that creative venture you're excited about, then dropping it when other things come up or you realize how bad you are, I have two words for you: me too.

This is a letter to the one who keeps stopping and starting. The one with conflicting desires like me, to build an empire and rule the world, and also to lean into the softness of the earth, the squishiness of my heart and my body, and explore the quiet depths of my interior life without anyone else knowing about it.

This love letter is the first of a series of letters speaking to different places you might be on your creative journey. Coming up: The One Who Hasn't Started Yet, The One Who's Burnt Out, The One Who is Bored, and more.

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Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies https://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-four-tendencies/

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Starting over holds all kinds of power for unleashing your capacity to create. But how do you know when to persevere and when to start over? What's the difference between quitting and starting over because it's in your creativity's best interest? And how do we find the courage to start over when it doesn't make any sense and everyone thinks we're crazy pants?

In this episode you'll learn:

- How to start over on an individual creation (the right way)

- How starting over on a big project or abandoning an idea is the key to long term clarity

- What to do if you're sure you're on the completely wrong track and want to blow up everything in your life

- How to start over in long term relationships and why everything we think we want in relationships is wrong

Mentions: Positive Writer: http://positivewriter.com/starting-over-is-essential-to-your-creativity-and-success/

Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%20Drafts.pdf

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Our imaginations are like birds who are meant to fly, and we mostly use them to walk.

In this episode:

• the hidden benefits of nurturing your imaginations
• why your current wildest dreams aren't wild ENOUGH
• how to go after big dreams while being here now

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Ep 25: How to use visualization to blow your creative mind: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cZURHZ5OisWygpmmaITN8?si=383f3e19fe984b23/ Ep 29: Diva status: how to become iconic https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ybxPIXMMxj2T6BLKaNuLR?si=9fdb7c8d5a194b20 Ben folds interview https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/ben-folds/

La La Land - "Fools who Dream" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL_YMm9C6tw

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One of the most popular episodes of this show is how to get out of self doubt by embracing it. So this week we're diving deeper and talking more about self doubt because it comes up for all of us... but it's not a super useful emotion when you're trying to make things!

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Episode 78: How to Get out of Self Doubt by Embracing It Daring Greatly by Brene Brown https://www.amazon.com/dp/1592408419?ref=exp_brookebschultz_dp_vv_d

Forbes Self-Doubt article https://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2014/09/18/banish-doubt-build-confidence/?sh=6ff749cc4577

Psychology Today Self-Doubt article https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/functioning-flourishing/201409/is-self-doubt-sabotaging-your-success?amp

Self-Doubt discussed on TED https://ideas.ted.com/self-doubt-can-actually-help-you-bloom-and-it-all-starts-with-how-you-talk-to-yourself/

Most creativity + productivity advice just DOES NOT WORK if you are the main caregiver to your kids. If you're a mom, I'm sharing how I rewrite the narrative we've been told from "experts" and how to apply it with an unpredictable "routine".

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