This episode of the Creative Introvert is all about evolution. As in, the evolution of YOU, your work, your life, your... you. I'm going to share with you some of the changes that have been occurring in my primary creative project (THIS!) as well as what you can expect from upcoming Creative Introvert shows. I'm also going to share with you a process for working through your own evolutionary blocks, and hopefully coming out the other side as a beautiful butterfly.
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On today's show I have Julia Bainbridge of the Lonely Hour podcast to talk to us about the loneliness epidemic, what it means to experience loneliness (even if you're an introvert), the challenges of isolation we face in the age we live in, and some thoughts for living with loneliness.
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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” ~ Dr. Seuss
That's the quote that prompted today's episode of the Creative Introvert... But it turned into an hour+ of me talking about all sorts, from Jung's model of the Psyche to excavating the Shadow to communicating with your Daimon and much more! Prepare yourself for a weird one...
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Today I have Karen Curry Parker on to talk about Human Design, a system you may have heard of before. I found Karen's work when trying to decipher the mysterious chart that had been generated (you can get yours here) and was so grateful for her way of explaining things.
We talk about the five different types that are described in Human Design, the difference between the traditional system and Karen's Quantum Alignment system, problems in using tools like this to understand ourselves, and much, much more.
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One of the biggest challenges creative introverts face, at least the ones I encounter is, self doubt. And this is what I'm seeing as the root cause as well as the fuel for what I'm calling "The Cycle of Stuckness." If you feel stuck in any way on your creative path, this episode is for you!
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Today I’m interviewing my co-host on my other podcast, The Seeker and the Skeptic, the marvellous Rebecca Fox. If you haven’t checked our show out already, we’re basically exploring all sorts of belief systems, people and places who tend to divide public opinion. So far we’ve investigated ayahuasca – first hand – we’ve been to an alleged UFO sighting location, we’ve explored the magical land of Glastonbury conversed with Pleidians and much much more. More about that at seekerandskeptic.com
She’s also a graphic novel artist – or is it a comic book artist – anyway, we dive into that on the show too. Rebecca tells us all about her creative process, her journey in becoming an artist after no formal training, and much more. Enjoy the show!
How To Be Reasonable by Rebecca Fox
Murmurs of Doubt by Rebecca Fox
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In this video I'm talking about the value of taking breaks, treating rest time as recovery time, and simple yet effective ways we can integrate breaks into our lives for increased enthusiasm, joy and creativity.
On today’s show I’ve got Claire Summers here who is a fellow digital nomad and a fellow Brit and I knew I had to get her on after learning so much from her blog, her books and as I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my year of travel, I thought it would be wise to get a pro in to talk more in depth about life on the road.
We discuss…
• How Claire started the digital nomad life
• How to overcome the challenges faced as travelling solo as a woman
• How to deal with loneliness as a solo traveller
• How to avoid classic digital nomad mistakes
• And much more!
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Today I’m talking about the stages of creativity and how we might work with them in a really practical way in our lives.
I’ll also be launching monthly Creative Moon Circles as of TODAY!
These will consist of me talking a little bit about the particular full moon we’re experiencing, how it might play into your creative work, and provide you with some exercises and tools to make the most of the ‘moonth’ ahead.
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Mark Rogers is a Portland-based artist whose work I've been obsessed with for quite some time. I was keen to chat to Mark because I was so curious about his creative process (when you see his work you'll understand why!) and the journey he's been on in becoming a professional artist.
We discuss:
• Using our imagination as “grown ups”
• Thought forms, tulpas and daimons
• Mark’s journey to picking up a paintbrush (age 30) to becoming a professional artist
• Mark’s experience with working with galleries to working purely from online sales
• How Mark uses the Tarot to inform his art
• The importance of structure in creativity
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What is creativity anyway? What does it mean to create, to be creative? Is it something we all have? Can we all do it? Can we all be it?
And if so, can we become more creative? Is there some kind of definitive measuring stick for creativity?
Now that’s the INTJ in me speaking, but really I think it’s a great starting point for a juicy episode of the creative introvert, and on today's show I’m hoping to go down some paths that don’t just stick in the realm of abstract ideas about creativity, nor do I want to strip creativity from its magic, the kind of stuff that attracts us to the creativity in the first place.
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Mariëlle is a writer and editor and coaches writers and other creatives who are tired of being in their own way. Next to her non-fiction work, she is currently working on a YA urban fantasy series, and she writes LGBTQIA* sexy romance with Sìne Màiri Ní Ailpín under a pen name. She recently moved to Cyprus, an tiny island in the Mediterranean Sea, where she organises private writer's retreats, is inspired 24/7, and feeds more stray cats than she could have ever imagined.
We discuss:
• Using tarot and other divinatory tools in your creative work
• How to tell if it's your ego speaking or your intuition speaking
• Mariëlle's creative process, as an INFJ
And much more!
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Today I want to talk to you about wanting things, all the things - and why we simply can’t get what we want. Ever. Sorry to burst your bubble. I promise there will be something redeeming and positive in today’s message: I want to prove to you that it can actually be a GOOD thing - it might just take a while for us to get to it. It’s worth it though.
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This maybe the podcast I’ve done most research for in the history of the Creative Introvert, and not just book research. It’s a topic that’s been brewing somewhere in my mind, whether it’s consciously or otherwise, and I finally have my ideas in a place where I’m ready to share and fairly confident in my ability to give you something that’s genuinely useful, especially if you’re interested in tapping into your source of greatest creative potential, getting into that flow state, and living from a place that feels true for you.
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On today's episode I chat with Heather Hollick all about what networking really is and how to build real relationships especially if you're an introvert.
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This is something that’s taken me quite a few years and many, many chats with various creative introverts to discover: not all tips to be productive work for me or you or anyone for that matter.
Yeah, I know. Mind = blown.
Maybe you already knew that. But maybe you didn’t and you were like me, wondering why the fuck the advice of this hyper-productive guru just didn’t work when you tried to apply it in your own life.
The truth is, we’re not all identical beings. Nor are we totally unique either. We’re this annoyingly intricate, yet beautifully nuanced jumble of similarities and differences. Which… makes giving advice on things like productivity and getting stuff done… rather tricky.
And I’ll be the first to admit I’ve tried to do this. I’ve tried to speak to you, and thousands of other Creative Introverts over the years, and tried to cover all cases, but I’m always going to fall short. I’m always going to miss the edge cases, the rebels, the square pegs, and that irritates the heck out of me.
The truth is: only YOU know you. Yes, someone else can be very helpful, maybe even necessary, for shining a light on parts of ourselves we didn’t know were there, but it’s really up to us to see what’s being illuminated, accept it, and learn from it.
Then we can take action that fits us like a snug glove. That’s what today’s podcast is all about. I’m going to guide you through three different tools you can use to figure out what productivity tips to ignore and which will actually work for you.
https://youtu.be/l6kjbEZdHcw
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
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If you remember back to 2018, my theme for that year was FUN. I attempted my year of fun, trying one new fun thing a week, and I learned a lot in the process about what I call fun.
This year I decided to focus on… adventure. I’m still not sure what I mean by adventure, but this is what the dictionary says:
: an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks
It’s safe to say I had a year of adventure then. The difference between fun and adventure for me, is that fun is light. Breezy. Joyful. Relaxing. Adventure, on the other hand… might involve peril. Struggle. Challenge. Overcoming fear. Employing courage, embracing the unexpected, encountering the unknown.
So in January 2019, I left my home by the sea in Hove, gave up my flat, gave up a bunch of my possessions all in order to do the digital nomad thing for one year.
I travelled in 3 continents, visited 10 countries and made dozens of new friends.
Now rather than just telling you about my travel stories which I’m sure are only interesting to me, I thought I’d wrap this year up with 12 lessons (one for each month) that I learned from being a digital nomad (I kind of cringe at that label) and what I’m going to do to embody those lessons in 2020.
I don’t know if this will resonate with you, but I hope it does. If you’ve been listening for a while, we’ve probably got a lot in common, even beyond our creative introverted-ness, and I’d like to think there’s one takeaway in this episode that you can take into 2020 too. Maybe we can keep each other accountable in the new year too.
Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/77j2xcFyZ1M
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Today’s guest is someone who I’ve been meaning to have on the podcast since… before it even existed.
Andy Mort is the host of the Gentle Rebel Podcast, a musician, an undertaker and someone who is very much on my wave length (fellow INTJ too!)
We talk about:
• The challenges introvert musicians face
• The stigma attached to sensitivity in our society
• The problem with desensitising ourselves
• How to encourage sensitivity as an act of gentle rebellion
• What Andy would tell his younger self ... And much more!
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In this episode of the Creative Introvert I'm asking the question: What's Your Calling?
In my experience, there is NOTHING as powerful as knowing what your calling is for fuelling your actions.
Willpower is something we have to manage, like our energy. Like a muscle, it get’s tired out. It gets drained by making decisions, by stress, by lack of sleep, by too much sugar.
But we need willpower to stay on task. To get up every day and go to work to pay the bills to look after the kids to make our businesses thrive, to finish that painting that’s been there for months.
What if we could speed up willpower recovery, or provide ourselves with a second wind?
Well, that’s exactly what knowing our calling can do, and that's what this episode is all about.
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According to today's podcast guest, being single does not mean being broken, lonely, or desperate. And whether or not you already knew that, it can feel like society at large is sending us another message.
I rarely talk about matters of relationships on the podcast - mostly because I'm certainly no expert there - but I've been eager to broach the topic, and felt that Acamea Deadwiler, author and all round badass, would be the perfect guest to have on the show.
This podcast is also being released as we approach holiday season, a time of year I can attest is particularly difficult for those of us who are not in relationships. I hope you find Acamea's words as comforting and inspiring as I did.
Why women in particular suffer from the stigma of being single
The challenges that single introverts face in dating
How to handle being single at the holidays
Pros and cons of online dating
Single That: Dispelling the Top 10 Myths of Single Women
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Everything we've experienced to this point plays a part in our overall story.
And they don't all have to flow together neatly into some overused Heroes Journey (though, it is overused for a reason, I'll grant you.)
The story I most often tell is how I left my job. I use this to illustrate how vital it was for me when I finally started paying attention to my introversion.
But you might not know about the time I first built an online course. Which was an abominable fail. I didn’t sell one, not a sausage.
Now, I tell this to clients and when I give talks or do workshops on building a career online, in order to illustrate how bloody important it is to do thorough testing before putting your heart & soul into something.
I also have stories I may never share: stories of unrequited love, rejection, regret, shame. These stories are for me: their purpose isn’t to remind me of the harshness of life or my wounds: they are here to remind me that I lived through them, and came out the other side, a little bruised and battered, but stronger for it. It doesn’t matter if they pale in comparison to stuff you hear about on the news or read about in memoirs. They still have their place.
In each story, I can see part of me that transformed because of that pain or challenge or disappointment. I wouldn't want to forget them, because they are part of me today. Just like you know not to fuck with the past when you’ve got a time machine: I know I wouldn't change a thing because God knows what I'd be like without those experiences.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Stoicism for Creative Intoverts
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Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Lauren Sapala, author, blogger, and writing coach. I’ve been following Lauren for quite some time now on the Intro-Twittersphere and have found her to be a fount of advice on writing, marketing your writing and doing it all as a highly sensitive, creative introvert. After reading her book Firefly Magic and absolutely loving it, I wanted to know more about her and how she writes.
How to stop forcing ourselves into social media boxes that don't fit us
How to drop the "rational" voice in our head that says marketing needs to look a certain way
The importance of boundaries on social media
How we can take the pressure to be perfect off
How to find your a Unique Spiritual Purpose
Firefly Magic by Lauren Sapala
The INFJ Writer by Lauren Sapala
The INFJ Revolution by Lauren Sapala
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Long before I started the Creative Introvert I had come across the term creative block. It was probably at art college I first had a taste of it.
The solution? Didn’t seem to exist. It wasn’t the kind of question I even considered asking my lecturers about.
Over the years I’ve got to know creative block even more intimately, and whilst I’m sure we’ll be meeting for many years to come, creative block does seem to linger less than it used to, and for the most part keep away.
That’s because I’ve worked damn hard at experimenting with different solutions for how to cure creative block and that’s what I hope to share with you today, in the hope that at least one tip here will come in handy, should you have an encounter with creative block.
The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
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