Wildly Creative Life with Brooke Schultz

First of all, have you joined us for Most Creative Year yet? It's my free challenge happening next week and I'm super amped, I'm gonna be live w you every day helping you get out of your resistance and into the most creative state you've ever experienced like for realz and I cant wait to see what we collectively unleash with all the sparks that are gonna fly. Day 1: Identity Shifts that stick + what actually makes a difference in creative goals Day 2: How to never come to a blank page again Day 3: Editing in the messy middle + overcoming resistance Day 4: Your Wildest dreams: becoming a visionary on scales big and small Day 5: Momentum stealers + how to maximize the upward spiral of making (even if you're a busy mother, have a ton on your plate, or are just plain burnt out) Today we're gonna talk ab the messy middle. Messy middle is life! The juice! The everyday! The payoff days of creative work are often few and far between, and even if you have a short turnaround type of creative process, say, making a photo, you still have bigger fish frying all the time like bigger projects or an exhibition or a business you're running. Mentions: https://brookebschultz.com/creative

Most Creative Year is HERE! Whether you're not sure what creativity looks like in this season of life or you have a big project you've been struggling to execute: Most Creative Year is here to help you *actually* move the needle. https://brookebschultz.com/creative Mentions: Most Creative Year challenge: June 13-17 https://brookebschultz.com/creative

Most meditations either focus on the "now" with contentment and presence, or the future, with visualization. This meditation does both and is the one I use most often in my own meditation practice, plus it has some rad science that shows how it increases creativity on a brain wave level! This meditation is a riff on Vishen Lakhiani's 6 phase meditation. I first learned about this from his book the code of the extraordinary mind, which I highly recommend, it's such a good read. Quantified Self meditation program discovering the power of forgiveness: https://medium.com/swlh/the-surprising-thing-i-learned-from-studying-my-brain-with-meditation-technology-for-7-days-114c5d24032e Vishen Lakhiani The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VL9GZ74?tag=onamzbrook0ab-20&linkCode=ssc&creativeASIN=B07VL9GZ74&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.16BFB7LJ9ABI2 Gratitude benefits: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-mentally-strong-people-dont-do/201504/7-scientifically-proven-benefits-gratitude

Thanks for your enthusiasm on the reboot, you all sent in your wins and I'm super excited to share and shout you out at the end of the episode! Let's talk about how to plug into the upward spiral of creativity! Bc lots of you right now think that creativity TAKES from your life–its one more thing to put on your self-care list that you're not doing, it's one more thing that requires time and energy from you. But when you are plugged into creativity you see how much of an upward spiral it is–that it gives you back soo much more than it takes. The more you use the more you have. The more you have the more you want to give away. The more you use the more you want to impact and be generous and contribute to your circles small and worldwide. The more you align w your gifts the more you feel jazzed to wake up every day and express them explore them and give them away. The more you create the easier it is to create, across mediums, and the benefits bleed into your life, you inhabit the world in a different way, you interact w your family in a different way, it's like you know a big secret that nobody else knows and you can walk through your day w this energy and zest and excitement and curiosity and purpose and contribution. What are we even doing if we think that's somehow not essential?? We spend our days buying things, trying things, trying to spend time w certain ppl who we think will give us these feelings. All we want is these feelings, right. So I'm here to tell you being creative is the thing that's gonna get you these feels in a long term sustainable way and not just when your thing is DONE and finished, but all along the beautiful way that's paved with people to meet and experiences to have and wow aha moments and divine downloads and inspiration. I have a friend who is super talented but isn't expressing her gifts bc she feels like she doesn't exactly know what she wants to do, she's also a busy mom, she's struggled w mental health, and I see the light in her dimming, and every time I interact w her I want to do a slightly screamy pep talk bc I see how much other ppl would be impacted by her particular flavor and blend of talents and I see so clearly that it really doesn't matter where she starts, what medium she uses, what business it is in the beginning, bc the starting is the most important part. So that's what we're gonna get into today, how to plug into this, bc it's here, it's available, creativity is waiting and BEGGING you to dance and play and collab w it, so how do we plug in, esp when there's so many other things on our plates? But first have you grabbed my six hacks for skyrocketing creativity–get on this list bc when I send out the coolest thing that I'm in the process of making which is free btw you will be the first to know via email and if you're anything like me, podcasts are the thing you do while you're driving, dishes, laundry, etc. so get on the email list and you'll be notified of these goodies when you're in a place to take action on them. Mentions: Grab my 6 hacks for skyrocketing creativity here: https://brookebschultz.com/get-creating Follow our creators from the shoutouts here: @i.am.robot.mom @breekeyesphoto

I'm BACK, BABY! Welcome to the new Wildly Creative Life. In this episode we're talking how to open to new possibilities and tap into dimensions of your creativity you haven't even considered yet. To celebrate the podcast revival: I want to share your work! Send me a dm @brookebschultz or an email at [email protected] with a win for your creativity whether it was that you've started painting again after years of your brushes being dry in the garage or that you got the domain name and you launched your jewelry line or that you started writing that book that's been on your heart for 6 months. Send me your wins so i can shout you out on the podcast and point people to your creations and we can keep the sparks jumping from heart to heart.

It's the grand finale! We're here together for the final episode and I couldn't be more proud of all of us, what we've created together, and the way you've showed up for your creativity in a new way throughout the podcast. I am so amped to dive into the second part of the top lessons and highlights from the whole entire podcast in this episode, plus be sure to tune in to hear my resounding final takeaway. Thank you so much for being here with me the past 2.5 years and I can't wait to see what you go forth and create! MENTIONS: Crazy Confident Family Photographer: How To Get Natural, Loving Images Every Time event.webinarjam.com/register/20/o8gn7ck Love Soaked Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBfZDriwu7Vn7

This is the second to last episode in the farewell series of the Heartful Podcast where I highlight some of my favorite creativity lessons we've discussed on the podcast over the past few years. If you need a little refresh on your creative juices, this episode is just what you need! Mentions: Crazy Confident Family Photographer: How To Get Natural, Loving Images Every Time event.webinarjam.com/register/20/o8gn7ck Love Soaked Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBfZDriwu7Vn7 Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Pray-Love-Everything-Indonesia/dp/0143038419/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=eat+pray+love&qid=1632420489&sr=8-3

This is probably my ultimate thesis with the podcast, it's so fun to try to synthesize 153 episodes for you. Whether you're in a creative career, creative hobby, or just think, I'm not actually creative but I'd like to get in better touch with that part of myself...don't worry about it being good; worry about creativity being good FOR you! Especially in the beginning, especially when you're feeling burnt out and want to quit, especially when you're in the comparison trap, especially when you just feel not good enough. Use your creativity as therapy, release, expression, meaning making. Make it good for you. Mentions: Crazy Confident Family Photographer: How To Get Natural, Loving Images Every Time event.webinarjam.com/register/20/o8gn7ck Love Soaked Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBfZDriwu7Vn7

Anyone who has a recognizable style is just really good at making decisions and zeroing in on what they like and want. The people who grow the fastest seem to like the least amount of stuff! A vision is a series of decisions--knowing what it IS is just as important as what it ISN'T. Mentions: Episode 77: the indecisiveness cure https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-77-the-indecisiveness-cure/id1438076373?i=1000466838113 6 hacks for skyrocketing creativity (even if you're super busy) https://brookebschultz.com/get-creating Jacob Collier https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtmY49Zn4l0RMJnTWfV7Wsg The Expert https://www.theexpert.com/ Crazy Confident Family Photographer: How To Get Natural, Loving Images Every Time event.webinarjam.com/register/20/o8gn7ck Love Soaked Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBfZDriwu7Vn7

Quitting is generally viewed as a very negative thing in our culture, as though you've given up. In a lot of cases it's true that we don't persevere and ask enough of ourselves. But the way you go about building the world only you can see, expressing yourself, and exercising intention might change over the course of your life (and might require quitting) Mentions: Simon Sinek quote: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/simon_sinek_568196 Crazy Confident Family Photographer: How To Get Natural, Loving Images Every Time event.webinarjam.com/register/20/o8gn7ck Love Soaked Retreat + Mastermind Fall 2021/Spring 2022 Application: forms.gle/mJJCmBfZDriwu7Vn7