Wildly Creative Life with Brooke Schultz

Have you ever had an 'aha' moment? An idea that just came to you? How did it come? In this episode you'll learn which phase of the creative process everyone skips and underestimates (plus how incorporating it consciously is gonna give you way better ideas and more of 'em), why being a workaholic is actually terrible for your creativity, and how to avoid the traps of this particular phase of creativity so you can create MORE. In this episode we also dig into how to know if you're truly "not ready" or if you're using it as an excuse, with three tests to give yourself (with love of course!) Mentions: Episode 24: Constraint + Creativity https://soundcloud.com/brooke-schultz-568659304/ep-24-constraint-creativity

Get More from Brooke:

Love Soaked Family Photography https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/lscourse

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

The difference between work that feels lackluster and work that excites the audience and moves them? Curation.

Whether you're a photographer, musician, writer or whatever your creative medium is, this episode is all about the art of storytelling and taking your audience on a journey through your choices.

The order in which you present your work, the juxtaposition you create in your work through the sequence or the sizing or the contrast from one work to the next – let's talk about curation.

Mentions –

The Art of Curation – NEW Free Class Join us live on January 29th:

https://event.webinarjam.com/register/27/pqg5vfx4

Want Brooke to curate your work? Email us at [email protected]

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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

If you have a nagging feeling that you're meant for more, that you're capable of more than you're currently expressing, this episode is for you.

In this episode we detail out the brilliance cycle from Arjuna Ardagh, and how moving through it can help you have not only more brilliance in your creativity and your work, but in your life.

With ideas about how to move through each phase and what to do when you get stuck in any part of the cycle – you don't want to miss this episode.

Mentions:

Radical Brilliance by Arjuna Ardagh: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Brilliance-Anatomy-Original-Life-Changing/dp/1890909440/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548298626&sr=8-1&keywords=radical+brilliance+arjuna+ardagh and his website: http://radicalbrilliance.com/

The Green Eggs and Ham Hypothesis: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-17972-001

Get More from Brooke:

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

Art of Curation: How to Spot Your Best Images (free class) https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/artofcurationfreeclass

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

What if "getting it right" is what's keeping you from getting it done at all?

In this episode, we'll talk about how to shift your perspective from avoiding obstacles to embracing them as the way. Learn to enjoy the process of discovery and perfect the process, not the result– and how to take these thoughts from cute ideas to practical action items for your creative life.

Get More from Brooke:

The Love Soaked Family Photography Vault https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/get-the-vault Dress to Create brookebschultz.com/dresstocreate

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

Risk taking is talked about in relation to creativity--the act of creativity itself risks losing time, and sometimes money and relationships. So should you amp up your risk taking to amp up your creativity? Let's unpack that. Learn about the right risks to take (and which to avoid) so you can use your wild side to uplevel your creativity. Mentions: Risk taking study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289983/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenkotler/2012/10/11/einstein-at-the-beach-the-hidden-relationship-between-risk-and-creativity/#339adf9f9f54 Richard Branson on risk: https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/r-risk-taking Get More from Brooke:

Art of Curation: How to Spot Your Best Images (free class) https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/videopage/Art-of-curation-replay

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

Reflecting on your year can be incredibly powerful, especially if you feel discouraged or didn't meet the goals you set out to at the beginning of the year.

In this episode I share the reality of what I created this year in my business, my musical, my family, and my personal life, with some very vulnerable excerpts from my journal, in hopes that you will feel inspired to find creativity in everything 2023 held for you, as well as making 2024 intentional.

Mentions:

4 lessons learned from pitching my musical to broadway ep 188 https://open.spotify.com/episode/67cISnp77h6HuPIIDcazZG?si=fc25a8bf41414cdb

Soulful Creators Rising brookebschultz.com/soulfulcreatorsrising

Art of Curation: How to Spot Your Best Images (free class) https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/videopage/Art-of-curation-replay

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

We're going to talk about how to price your creative services. We'll talk actual numbers, plus some very unpopular opinions about how to think about pricing.

In this episode:

• minimum amount to charge for a photo session
• how to think about pricing ANYTHING
• should you work with influencers to grow your brand?
• how to price yourself when you are just starting out

Get More from Brooke:

Art of Curation: How to Spot Your Best Images (free class) https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/videopage/Art-of-curation-replay

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

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

In this episode:

• how creations can be the balm we all need
• how being a high quality fan makes you a better creator
• what to consume right now to make fertile soil for your creativity to flourish

Mentions:

Ep 66: the ideal creative diet how to curate the best creative input for you https://soundcloud.com/brooke-schultz-568659304/ep-66-the-ideal-creative-diet-how-to-curate-the-best-creative-input-for-you

Get More from Brooke:

FREE Class to Spot Your Best Images: https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/zJD107

The Ultimate Posing Tip: https://courses.brookeschultzphotography.com/minicourse97offer48hours

Love Soaked Photography Course:

https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/lscourse

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

Serving up a treat for you today: an interview with Summer Murdock. Summer was a burnt out photographer who found her voice accidentally as she re-fell in love with the process of making things. In this interview we discuss creativity as a meditative, sacred process, how to get out of ruts, get inspired, what to do when your kids don't want to be photographed, and much more. Mentions:http://www.summermurdock.com/ Summer's Magic of Light Class: http://www.summermurdock.com/magicoflight/ Illuminate Classes: http://www.illuminateclasses.com/ Sally Mann's Hold Still: https://www.amazon.com/Hold-Still-Photographs-Sally-Mann/dp/0316247758

Get More from Brooke:

The Ultimate Posing Tip: https://courses.brookeschultzphotography.com/minicourse97offer48hours

FREE Class to Spot Your Best Images: https://brookeschultz.kartra.com/page/zJD107

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

Get ready for part two!

Huge swaths of our lives are the mundane: cleaning, eating, driving, working, sleeping– so how do we tap into creativity when life is regular and not that glamorous?

In this episode:

• 4 ideas you can implement today to feel more creative amidst caregiving, logistics, and all kinds of undesirables
• embracing a yes-and mentality to create mindful moments
• a super simple shortcut to making friends as an adult

Mentions:

The Power of Moments by Chip Heath and Dan Heath:

The Power of Moments Book

Get More from Brooke:

Brooke's Personal Style Masterclass

https://brookebschultz.com/dresstocreate

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

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