Wildly Creative Life with Brooke Schultz

In a world centered way too deeply on efficiency, this episode asks: what if instead, we focused on fun?

This week, we cover 5 building blocks you can use to craft your perfect creative process so that you can fall in love all over again with making your creative thing.

Get More From Brooke:

Find Your Style Masterclass

https://event.webinarjam.com/register/20/o8gn7ck

The Love Soaked Vault

https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/get-the-vault

Tell Brooke how this episode impacted your creative life @brookebschultz

Mentors help you see the forest through the trees, give you perspective and the kick in the booty you need to take your creativity to the next level. But what about imaginary mentors? Before, during and after real-life mentoring relationships, successful peeps of all kinds have interacted with imaginary mentors. It's a simple thing you can do too that will boost your clarity and inspire you to take more action so you can CREATE more, boo!

In this episode you'll learn:

• How to assemble your roster of imaginary mentors and the one person EVERYONE should include
• How to interact with your imaginary mentors and when to kick 'em out of your mentoring cabinet
• How being mentored in your mind puts you in an altered state so you can get unstuck way faster

Mentions:

https://prsuit.com/finding-imaginary-mentor/

https://yesandyes.org/2013/08/my-imaginary-mentors.html

Lewis Howes School of Greatness podcast: https://lewishowes.com/blog/

Heartful episode 19: What to look for in a creative mentor: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-19-what-to-look-for-in-a-creative-mentor/id1438076373?i=1000427844212

Get More from Brooke:

Dress to Create

brookebschultz.com/dresstocreate

The LoveSoaked Vault

https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/get-the-vault

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life:

https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz

Everyone has to deal with clothes every day. Lately, when I show up for Zoom, people are surprised that I'm dressed + ready. But I like to show up for my life because it's happening NOW, not when my 4 kids are older, not when I "have somewhere to go."

In this episode I defend getting dressed as an access point to becoming the person + creator you long to be.

In this episode:

• How I used getting dressed to tune into the version of myself I want to be
• How getting dressed will directly boost your creativity (and lends some unexpected bonuses too)
• Using the science of getting dressed to support your creative goals

Mentions:

Ep 25: How to use visualization to blow your creative mind: https://soundcloud.com/brooke-schultz-568659304/ep-25-how-to-use-visualization-to-blow-your-creative-mind

The science of how clothes affect creativity:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dress-for-success-how-clothes-influence-our-performance/

Get More from Brooke:

Dress to Create

brookebschultz.com/dresstocreate

The LoveSoaked Vault

https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/get-the-vault

Description: If you've ever wanted to evolve or change in your business but you're scared to make the move because you still need money, this episode is for you. We talk to Alice Claire Photography about how to bridge the gap + the first steps to take when you want to make a big shift but need to hold onto your past clients.

Alice Claire Photography:https://www.instagram.com/aliceclairephotography https://aliceclairephotography.com

In this ep you're going to meet Alice, who's been doing fine art photography and has built a really successful business. But like humans do, she's evolving and growing and wants to shift to a style that feels more raw and real. But she also can't quit everything cold turkey and be making zero money and try to get all new clients. We talked extensively about how to bridge the gap, but here's just a clip of it.

Get More from Brooke:

The Love Soaked Family Photography Vault https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/get-the-vault

Heartful Magazine's Spring 2024 Issuehttps://heartful.brookebschultz.com/opt-in-page

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life:https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz

This one's for the multi-passionate entrepeneurs. I've sold everything from in-person retreats to photo shoots, mini courses to podcast ads, magazine ads and more.

I've been a wedding photographer, an educator, a musician, a copywriter, and sometimes many of these things all at the same time.

In this episode, I walk you through a few of the lessons I've learned along the way plus how it's shaped the way I do business now.

Get More from Brooke:

Heartful Magazine's Spring 2024 Issue https://heartful.brookebschultz.com/opt-in-page

The Love Soaked Family Photography Vault https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/get-the-vault

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life:https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz

Description:

In this call you'll meet Brittany, who has been refining what kind of family photographer she wants to be + what type of client she wants to attract. We do a review of her website and while some of the details will be lost since you can't see the photos, you're still going to get a ton out of this and it will be like a vicarious review for your own website esp if youre a photog. We talk about whether to repeat images and where to repeat them in a site and pricing guide, how to approach designing a website for max impact for potential clients, how to spot the best testimonials, and lots more.

I want to thank Brittany for letting us share this review w all of you, you can follow her on ig @brittanybekas www.brittanybekas.com for all her beautiful imagery.

Message me on IG @brookebschultz the word 'VAULT' to learn more about the Love Soaked Vault!

Mentions:

Brittany's Family Page:

https://brittanybekas.com/florida-family-photographer

The Love Soaked Vault: https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/vault-48hrs

The Art of Curation (Free Class!):

https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/videopage/Art-of-curation-replay

What happens when your creations involve not only inanimate objects like paints or flowers, but HUMANS too? You need to be a diva who's uncompromising in her vision, but you also need to collaborate. In this episode we talk about the two kinds of things in the world, how humans can be both, and which category we're best served within. We also talk about 4 rules for improv as they apply to creating in collaboration with other humans so you can use your creative power to create better relationships, your ideal family (especially for mamas heyo!), and all other collaborations with other humans in art and in life. Mentions: Love Soaked Family Photography online course: https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/lscourse Things to act + things to be acted upon: https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.27 https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2012-03-014-acting-and-not-being-acted-upon?lang=eng Teddy Roosevelt man in the arena quote: http://mentalfloss.com/article/63389/roosevelts-man-arena Tina Fey's 4 Rules of Improv (from her book Bossypants): https://balancedworklife.com/tina-feys-rules-for-improv-and-the-workplace/ Get More From Brooke: Dress to Create: brookebschultz.com/dresstocreate Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life:https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz

Boredom is almost extinct in our modern lives and we're paying the price in our creative work. If you're bored with your creative output, the ironic cure might be actively seeking out boredom, white space, and wandering. But HOW can we include these when we have to get.stuff.done? And when does wandering become just avoiding our creative work and giving into resistance? In this episode you'll learn: -why giving yourself breaks + white space isn't just a luxury but is absolutely necessary -why your relationship with time is messed up + how to fix it so you can enjoy the entire process more (in life and art) -the easy-peasy baby step to take now to get more boredom + white space into your life -how wandering aimlessly can amp up your creativity (just ask creative big shots like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Aristotle, and Beethoven) Mentions: https://time.com/5480002/benefits-of-boredom/ https://qz.com/1020976/the-scientific-link-between-boredom-and-creativity/ Wander society book: https://www.amazon.com/Wander-Society-Keri-Smith/dp/0143108360 Small move, big change book: https://www.amazon.com/Small-Move-Big-Change-Microresolutions/dp/0670015342 The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conquer-Hidden-Level/dp/0061735361/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2B8IRZE4N3FGH&keywords=the+big+leap+by+gay+hendricks&qid=1568229959&s=books&sprefix=big+leap+gay%2Cstripbooks%2C209&sr=1-1 Get More from Brooke:

Free class for Family Photographers to Find Your Style: https://brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystylenow

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz/

Heartful Magazine for Family Photographers https://heartful.brookebschultz.com/

The creative process is often painted as eternal bloom; we see only the polished, finished work in carefully curated highlight reels in an endless scroll. But the incubation and quiet that has to accumulate over a seed before the bloom is just as vital to its growth as the vibrant blossoming.

Often, in talking to creators, they say things in winter like, "I'm burnt out", "I don't know what I'm doing anymore" "All my photos are crap" or "I'm just not inspired or motivated." These experiences can feel like a crisis, a shameful problem that requires us to do more and urgently fix, fix, fix.

If you have periods of bleakness, of darkness, there's nothing wrong with you. We often forget that there is no light without darkness, no bloom without black, rich soil and the bare, gray-brown limbs. Darkness is the contrast that gives light its meaning and magnificence.

Get More from Brooke:

The Art of Curation FREE Class: https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/artofcurationfreeclass

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz

Each artistic medium has its own language -- words are only one language. You have a language, a dialogue with your creativity, a back and forth exchange within your creative niche. Maybe it's the way you use color, light, line, form, gesture, sound. Maybe it's a little something else. In this episode we discuss a few ways to identify and utilize these languages within your creativity to uplevel your art. Mentions: My FREE 6 Hacks for Skyrocket Creativity (Even If You're Super Busy): www.brookebschultz.com/get-creating/ The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936891026?ref=exp_brookebschultz_dp_vv_d 8 Elements of Art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elements_of_art Get More From Brooke:

Free Find Your Style Masterclass brookebschultz.com/findyourphotographystylenow

Tell Brooke how this episode helped your creative life: https://www.instagram.com/brookebschultz