In this solo episode, Leya shares her reflections, lessons, and celebrations for her 30th birthday! We talk about:

• The importance of reflection on your birthday
• Highlights from her 29th year
• Being proud of how far you've come
• The lessons she learned in her twenties
• Dealing with purpose anxiety, identity, home, and belonging
• The next phase she's moving into for her thirties
• How to deal with being human

We end the episode with a special herbal reading to guide us through the end of the year and new year!

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• Herbal Astrology Oracle by Adriana Ayales

Leave a rating and review as a birthday gift!

Connect with Leya @leyavandoren

Rachael Cohen is a spiritual guide, space holder, Nature connector, intuitive activator, energy transformer and author. She is the creator and founder of Infinite Succulent and Our Infinite Nature. When her experiences as an environmental educator, wild animal specialist and mother left her anxious and distraught over society’s destruction of Nature, Rachael learned to cultivate a creative relationship with plants and Nature that transformed her life and awakened her spiritual gifts.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Creating with nature
• How to deal with eco anxiety and existential dread
• Staying connected in a disconnected world
• Heart chakra imbalance in the world
• Following our authentic joy
• Nature practices to regulate your nervous system
• Why we DO belong on earth

Connect with Rachael:

Website: ourinfinitenature.co

Instagram: @ourinfinitenaturerachael

Rachaels Books:

• Self-Care for Eco Anxiety
• Everyday Plant Magic
• Infinite Succulent

Anat Peri is an Inner-Child Healing Expert in the coaching and wellness space whose background blends traditional healing arts and modern psychology, with somatic and inner-child reparenting techniques that have enabled her to guide hundreds of practitioners, business owners, and their teams, through her TCS Method.

In this episode we talk about:

• The importance of feeling your feelings
• Why feeling your feelings feels so "taboo"
• The Five Personality Patterns or safety strategies
• Giving your inner child permission to grieve
• The five stages of healing
• How to reparent yourself
• Why reparenting is an act of self-love

Connect with Anat:

Website: https://trainingcampforthesoul.com/

Instagram: @anat.peri

Ashley Sondergaard is a self care coach, a yoga teacher, an astrology enthusiast and host of the Yoga Magic podcast. For 9 years, she has studied yoga, meditation, astrology and mindfulness practices that prioritize self-care and self-discovery. After having her two girls, Ashley discovered the hard way that taking care of yourself first is the only way to take care of others. Today, she supports her students & clients in up leveling their everyday routines into magical self-care rituals.

In this episode, we talk about cosmic self care which are ideas for self care based off your natal chart, motherhood and the lessons its taught her, finding expanders along your path, and what led her to starting the Yoga Magic podcast and the benefits of podcasting.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Buy Yourself The F*cking Lilies by Tara Schuster

The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr

Nikki Novo

Connect with Ashley:

@ashleysondergaard.yoga

@yogamagicpodcast

www.ashleysondergaard.com

Rukmini Poddar is an artist, designer, and educator. Her creative passion lies at the intersection of emotional wellness and creative storytelling. She is also a self-proclaimed 100dayproject artist and author of the book, 100 Obscure Emotions. 

She believes what is most personal is most universal. The sooner we realize how alike we are, the more we can create a culture of empathy and personalism. She draws regularly and posts on her Instagram: @rockinruksi

In this episode, we talk about what the 100 day project taught her, leaning into your creative cycles and resistance, how she grew on Instagram and what it's like to create for other people, how to grow and evolve as an artist, the importance of quantity over quality, and the enneagram.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• On Being with Krista Tippett
• Poetry Unbound
• Jon Batiste - We Are
• Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
• Personality Types by Don Richard Riso
• The Road Back To You by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile

Connect with Rukmini:

https://dearruksi.com/

Anne Ditmeyer (@pretavoyager) is an American creative coach and workshop facilitator based in Paris, France. She pulls from her background in design, anthropology, art history, and global communication as she helps people Write Your Own Rules and Map Your Path through fun, engaging experiences that encourage exploration and play. She's been blogging at Prêt à Voyager (translation: ready to travel) since 2007 where she explores the intersection of travel and design, as well as on her Biz Blog at anneditmeyer.com.

In this episode, we talk about community building, creative constraints, how she became French, how blogging and travel helped develop her perspective, creating your work style as a creator, learning to value yourself and your skills, and paying inspiration forward.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• London Writer's Hour
• Creative Mornings Field Trips
• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
• More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
• The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
• Adobe 99U

Connect with Anne:

https://www.anneditmeyer.com/

https://www.pret-a-voyager.com/

In this month's solo episode, Leya shares authentically about her process on learning how to trust the process as it unfolds. She also shares about duality, specificity in the details, the two antidotes to any creative block, the importance of having a daily creative practice, and the possibilities of the unknown.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Janne Robinson

Mari Andrews

Sign up for Leya's weekly newsletter:

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Rachael Ferrera is a Certified Reiki Practitioner, Life Guide, and Spiritual Teacher. Founder of the Align & Shine movement, Rachael specializes in helping ambitious artists, creatives, and multi-passionates to level-up their lives and careers by learning to deeply love themselves, trust their intuition, and follow their unique paths.

Rachael is also an artist who believes in the powerful intersection of mindfulness and creativity. She is an actress and singer who originated a role on Broadway, has performed on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and can be seen on Netflix.

In this episode we talk about how to remove obstacles to your creativity, how to deal with “should’s” and “supposed tos” as a creative, how saying NO to Harvard and saying YES to the path of the unknown led Rachael to where she is today, her love for reiki, the power of breath, and discovering portals to your creativity. 

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Connect with Rachael:

Website: effortlesseasecoaching.com

Instagram: instagram.com/therachaelferrera

Free Align & Shine Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/effortlesseasecoaching

Alyssa Lauren is an astrocartographer and the founder of Nomad Astrology which combines her love of travel with the magic of astrology. She helps other's align with their soul purpose and find an energetically supportive destination where they can thrive. 

In this episode we talk about how travel mirrors the creative process, what astrocartography is and why you might use it, how to listen to your intuition and see where you feel called, and Alyssa shares some of the travel experiences she's had using her astrocartography chart as a guide.

Connect with Alyssa:

@nomad_astrology

www.nomadastrology.com

Creative Resources Mentioned:

The Line with Ashley Wood

Malorine Mathurin is an Intuitive Astrologer who uses her clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient skills in her Akashic Records, Tarot, Numerology, and Divination readings to help her clients. Malorine has studied various forms of Divination and spirituality through her Caribbean roots and ancestry and is a self-taught Astrologer and Cartomancer with over 25 years experience. Malorine has been featured in Mind Body Green as one of the 40+ black spiritual thought leaders to follow and learn from.

In this episode we talk about how she discovered and developed her psychic gifts, growing up in the Caribbean community in New York, the akashic records: what it is, how to access it, and why you might consult it, past lives, the different clair senses, and spiritual fatigue and how she decompresses.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
• Healing Pluto Problems by Donna Cunningham
• Deviant Moon Tarot
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Connect with Malorine:

@moonladyastrology

Book a reading:

130moonlady@gmail.com

In this month's solo episode, I share all about the different creative cycles and seasons and how to determine which one you're experiencing. From creative spring to summer to fall to winter, how can we honor our creativity as cyclical beings and allow ourselves to ebb and flow?

I also take a moment to honor the life and passing of Episode 23's guest, Amy Oestreicher.

Sign up for Leya's newsletter list:

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Kate Lumpkin (she/her) is the Founder of and Lead Casting Director at Kate Lumpkin Casting, CSA. Collectively, as a casting professional, she has worked on over 40 TV/Film productions and 80 theatrical productions in New York City and across the USA including shows at The Kennedy Center, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, The A.R.T, NYTW, and many others. Kate teaches workshops in New York and at numerous Colleges + Universities and is a professor at James Madison University as well as a private coach to clients all around the world. Kate is also the host of Broadway WELLness for Playbill. 

In this episode we talk about creativity and capitalism, how to develop your point of view, being a casting director, and she drops the best advice I've heard about finding creative resources!

Connect with Kate:

kate-lumpkin.com

@katelumpkin

playbill.com/socialselects

nomarketingsociety.com

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• Broadway for Racial Justice
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Christina Sutra is an artist, painter, and helps women rewild themselves. She shares authentically on her social media platform with her community of over 60,000 followers.

In this episode, we talk about being authentic on social media, sensuality as the art of receiving, the power of gratitude as a ritual, the messages in our dreams, and more.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Shambhala

Connect with Christina:

https://www.instagram.com/christina_sutra/

Elyse Welles is a Greek-Egyptian American earth intuitive witch, podcaster, & author based in Artemis, Greece. A practicing witch for over twelve years on three continents, she is a Priestess of the eclectic Faery Tradition. She writes regularly for Witchology, Witch Way Magazine, and the Wild Hunt, cohosts the Magick Kitchen Podcast, and runs Seeking Numina, giving tours to Greece's sacred sites and teaching magical living in nature through connection to land spirits and spirits of place.

In this episode we talk about:

• The Witch Wound
• Connecting to Nature
• How to Connect to Land Spirits
• Why Travel Can Be a Sacred Pilgrimage
• Sacred Sites
• Mythology & History of Greece

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Witch by Ron Hutton

Connect with Elyse

@seekingnumina

seekingnumina.com

Jessica Soares is an empowerment and self-sovereignty coach specializing in helping women overcome the fear of success and learn how to use their emotions to build a life by design rather than default. She is all about the doing and works to get people from the awareness stage into aligned action. She is also an actor and writer, wildly passionate about bringing original stories to the big screen. Dance floors are her church, she loves ice cream, and she hates mushrooms (except the magic kind)

In this episode, we talk about how to overcome the fear of success, the parallels between acting and coaching, on being a storyteller, how to cultivate your creative toolkit, movement as meditation, becoming a clear channel, self-sovereignty and discernment, and how she uses tarot for her creative practice.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• Mystic Mondays
• Afro Goddess Divination
• Rider-Waite
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp

Connect with Jessica:

https://www.jessicasoarescoaching.com/

https://www.uneditedvoices.com/

Sign up for Discover Your Creative Soul

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What do dragonflies, bike rides, and sunrises in Mexico have to do with Discovering Your Creative Soul? Tune into this special solo episode where Leya announces the launch of her newest creative workshop, Discover Your Creative Soul - a 6 week journey to uncover your next creative idea. You'll hear the story of where she got the inspiration for the workshop, the steps of the journey that make up the creative process, and how and where to sign up!

Sign up for the workshop at https://leyavandoren.com/workshops

Enroll by 3/22/21 and receive $50 off

Shaun Leisher (he/him/his) is a Philadelphia-based dramaturg and producer. As a dramaturg, Shaun has worked on productions of CLYBOURNE PARK by Bruce Norris and SMART PEOPLE by Lydia R. Diamond under the direction of nationally-recognized theatre artist and educator, Kashi Johnson at Lehigh University. As a producer, Shaun has organized play readings and new work festivals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania. Shaun is also a passionate advocate for arts education and is thrilled to have recently joined the team of the theatre and education consulting company, Re:Theatre.

In this episode, we talk about that theater has shifted and adapted during the pandemic, what we miss about live theater, the challenges and issues that theater faces today, the role of the dramaturg in the creative process, and Shaun gives us a taste of how he works with actors to select new audition material.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

New Play Exchange

Delejos by Julie Piñero

Cobra Kai

Moment Work by Moises Kaufman & Barbara Pitts McAdams

Connect with Shaun:

@shaunaturgy

shaunleisher.com

Kim Alexandrescu is the owner of Sacred Space Astoria, a yoga studio and healing center created to fully support your spiritual journey.  Born in Michigan, she’s made New York City her home since 2006.  A 200-hour yoga teacher since 2012, Kim is also a reiki master, Urban Zen Integrative Therapist, End-of-Life Companion and Mama to 3 awesome kids. 

In this episode we talk about end of life work and the lessons it has taught her, her own spiritual process of processing through the chakras, following your intuition, the process of creating her yoga studio, in person vs digital connection, and on motherhood and creativity.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Gather by Octavia Raheem

Deep Human Connection by Stephen Cope

@josielewisart

Connect with Kim:

https://www.sacredspaceastoria.com/

@mindfulmama.nyc

Ashmi Pathela is an artist and writer who left her career in Silicon Valley with this intention: "Show me the power of my heart, and I will teach the world." Her travels took her all over the world, finding love in Bali, moving to Australia… but of course, the greatest journey was within. It opened her eyes to a new way of living – in joyful alignment with her heart. This week, she launched preorders for her book, Awakening the Heart of Humanity (available through @ashmi.path). It is a tribute to this unprecedented time of global awakening, an activation for the soul. She shares videos on the ascension journey with her partner Joel on @theinnerawakening.

In this episode we talk about her journey to the path of her heart, what practices helped her connect with her heart, painting and writing, 3D & 5D Consciousness, the collective awakening of humanity, New Earth, and why she wrote her new book.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

The Energetic Alchemist

Connect with Ashmi:

@ashmi.path

ashmipathela.com

Are you the type of creative that only creates when you're inspired? What do you do when you don't feel inspired?

In this episode, I share a mini message on inspiration and how to find inspiration anywhere and everywhere. I define the two different types of inspiration and share three ways you can find endless wells of inspiration.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

SparkFile - Susan Blackwell & Laura Camien

Lubalin: Random Internet Drama

Connect with Leya:

https://www.instagram.com/leyavandoren/

Shauna Cummins is a Hypnosis Practitioner and Trainer, board certified through the National Guild of Hypnotists in 2012. She is the author of Wishcraft: A Guide to Manifesting a Positive Future and Founder of The Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis.

Her work as a hypnotist and performance artist has been showcased worldwide at The Center for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Scotland, The Queens Museum of NYC, Borealis Music Festival, Norway, Obonjan Island, Croatia, The National Gallery of Denmark and in publications such as The Independent, YAHOO news, NYLON, BUST, Refinery 29, and in the Jet Blue documentary HUMANKINDA among others. She maintains a private practice in NYC at The Center for Integrative Hypnosis.

In this episode, we talk about the difference between hypnosis, meditation, and manifestation, how to use hypnosis to engage your imagination in a creative way, what drew her to hypnosis, a simple wishcraft ritual to cultivate a loving relationship with yourself, and the process of writing and releasing her new book, Wishcraft.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Take a nature walk

Connect with Shauna:

http://www.shaunacummins.com/

Get the book:

http://www.shaunacummins.com/book

Daniela is a ballet dancer turned farmer living in Boston, MA. After walking away from the professional dance world and finding farming in college, she hopes to find ways to bring the two together and share their numerous parallels with others (while dedicating her life to growing the sweetest carrots anyone has ever tasted). Daniela credits being able to press restart on her personal creativity journey to Leya and The Creative Soul. 

In this episode, we talk about what it's like to sacrifice and dedicate everything to your craft as a child and teenager, dealing with perceived "failure", what it's like to walk away from your dreams, allowing your dreams to change, how she found farming, and the parallels between dance and farming.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

On Pointe

Konverjdans

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Podcast: Home Cooking

The Artist's Way

Connect with Daniela:

@danigramz

Amy Oestreicher is an Audie award-nominated playwright, performer, and multidisciplinary creator. Amy overcame a decade of trauma to become a sought-after PTSD specialist, artist, author, writer for The Huffington Post, international keynote speaker, RAINN representative, and health advocate. She has given four TEDx Talks on transforming trauma through creativity, and has contributed to NBC’s Today, CBS, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen Magazine, The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, and MSNBC, among others. Her multi-award-winning musical, Gutless & Grateful has been seen in over 200 venues and she has recently published her memoir, My Beautiful Detour: An Unthinkable Journey from Gutless to Grateful.

In this episode, we go into her story and how creativity and art got her through, how to deal with life detours and the unknown, the importance of sharing your story and taking the proper time to integrate and process contrasted with today's culture of "instant sharing" on social media, and human connection.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Connect with Amy:

www.amyoes.com

www.amyoes.com/shop

In this special solo episode, Leya explains what is a creativity circle, where the idea came from, the meaning behind the "circle" and what makes it sacred, and the four pillars that guide Leya's creativity workshops.

Then, she guides us through a mini creativity circle - complete with a guided meditation and writing prompts. Make sure you listen to this episode someplace where you can get comfortable and grab something to write with.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

The Circle Way

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Attend a Creativity Circle:

https://www.the-modernmermaid.com/offerings

Connect with Leya:

https://www.instagram.com/the_modernmermaid/

In this solo episode, Leya shares a seasonal life update! We talk about checking in on our goals midway through the year and what she's been learning through her own creative process, as well as recapping a trip she recently took to Italy and Greece!

We discuss:

• Showing up to our writing practice
• Telling your story and the process of writing a memoir
• Leya's experience attending a retreat for survivors of child sexual abuse
• Leya's experience attending a writing retreat and sharing her story with others
• Finding your voice and having the courage to speak
• Sharing the process of self-publishing her second poetry book, coming out this fall!
• A recap of mine and my husbands 2 week trip to Europe through Italy and Greece!
• Intentions for the remainder of 2024

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Saprea Retreat

Ep 84: How I Self Published a Book of Poetry

Mari Andrew

Contact Leya: @leyavandoren

Madeline Sayet is a citizen of the Mohegan Tribe and Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. For her work as a theater maker she has been honored as a Forbes 30Under30, TED Fellow, and recipient of The White House Champion of Change Award from President Obama.

In this episode, we talk about how growing up with both Mohegan stories and Shakespeare shaped her, the responsibility of storytelling, the tenants of good theater, the process of writing and performing her solo show in Shakespeare's Globe, exploring the sacredness of theater, and being a multi-disciplinary artist.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Ty Defoe

Tara Moses

Vera Starbard

Perseverance Theater

Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel

Connect with Madeline:

https://www.madelinesayet.com/

Lindsay quit a 5-year career selling corporate life insurance to pursue a dream of learning to cook in France. After backpacking solo for six months, working with local farmers exchanging labor for room and board, and receiving a Cuisine Certificate from Le Cordon Bleu Paris, she arrived in San Francisco. She is the founder of FOOD LA LA and curates unique creativity-inducing food and cocktail experiences. She's worked with brands such as Louis Vuitton, The Fairmont, Williams-Sonoma, Pinterest, Bloomingdales, Saks, Salesforce, Alaska Airlines, Google, Airbnb, and Facebook. Lindsay believes deeply in the healing power of creativity and leverages food as the perfect blank canvas. 

In this episode, we talk about following your intuition and living life by your design, how she discovered her love for French Macarons and why it's the perfect blank canvas for creativity, food as an experience, and how to make cooking a fun, accessible, creative activity for all. She also gives some great tips on entrepreneurship and how to listen to your own advice.

As a gift to our listeners, Lindsay is offering one month free of the Food LaLa Cooking Club!

TRY 1 MONTH OF FOOD LALA COOKING CLUB FOR FREE!

Sign up HERE and use code CREATIVESOUL

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Connect with Lindsay:

https://www.food-la-la.com/

Carly is an artist, community builder, dot connector, softball player and slam poet. She is the founder of The Reach Out Party, a course where individuals with diverse minds and from seemingly disparate industries gather to cultivate connection, community and collaboration. She is a curious questioner, nuanced communicator and mind map lover who has experienced the power of reaching out every single business day since July 27, 2019, and because of it, has found a new world of possibility and new avenues to bring art to artless spaces

In this episode we talk about cultivating habits, accountability fatigue, how to reach out to build community and connection, how reaching out helped her find her voice, imposter syndrome, the intersection between art & science, and how you can start reaching out TODAY for free!

Connect with Carly:

www.carlyvalancy.com

@carlyvalancy

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Rachel Rodger's Podcast

You Can't Stop Us - Nike Commercial

Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Deveare Smith

Moth Stories

Ted Talk: Derek Sivers: How to Start a Movement

In this episode, I share the lessons I learned during 2020. We discuss moving to NYC to follow your dreams, the economic privilege of being an artist, social media, my journey with ayahuasca and plant medicine, hosting creativity workshops, leading Writing Magic, facing your shadow, plants in Hawaii, shedding old dreams, and what navigating this year of ups and downs has taught me.

Take what you need and leave what you don't, I hope my journey can simply serve as a reflection for yours.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Reach Out by Molly Beck

Signs by Laura Lynne Jackson

Read the blog: https://www.the-modernmermaid.com/blog

Connect with Leya: https://www.instagram.com/the_modernmermaid/

RATE & REVIEW the podcast and receive a free writing meditation! Just screenshot your review and send a dm @the_modernmermaid

Megan Bowen is a performer, creator & entrepreneur in NYC. Alongside her professional performing career, Megan founded Dance From Home LLC, an online company that helps Broadway lovers reconnect with the joy of live performance through musical theatre-themed fitness, dance & industry workshops. Megan believes the dance space is for everyBODY and is excited to reenter the industry post-pandemic.

In this episode, we talk about how she created a business during the pandemic, switching your mindset from starving artist to thriving artist, on the joy of dancing for every BODY, using Instagram to create community, and the story of how she ended up on an Instagram live with her Broadway Idol giving away $3,000 worth of LaDuca shoes.

Connect with Megan:

@meganbowen_

@dancefromhome_

https://www.dancebymeganbowen.com/

Creative Resources Mentioned:

@jera.bean

@jess.glazer

Vanessa Lau

Cathrin Manning

Robyn Hurder

Kuhoo Verma (she/they) is an NYC based artist who has been seen at Joe's Pub, 54 Below, UCB, and countless developmental workshops. Favorite roles include Zubeida (X-Files Girl) in Academy Award Nominated The Big Sick and Velma in Dave Malloy's OCTET (Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor). Upcoming: The film Plan B coming to HULU and a show at The Public. 

In this episode, we chat about how she found her path as an artist, her refreshing prospective on manifestation and gratitude, on the similarities of dating and auditioning, the development process of creating new musicals, cabarets and her time doing Octet.

Connect with Kuhoo: @whatisakuhoo

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Esperanza Spalding

James Blake

Lizzie McAlpine

Pen15

BoJack Horseman

https://www.cheeyang.com/maya

Kerri Van Kirk is a multidisciplinary storyteller, energy untangler, human design guide & soul-led coach for writers, performers, leaders and deep creatives. She has a podcast called The Cleaner I Get, orders nachos weekly, and is trying to choose between a hot tub and infrared sauna for her new house in Maine. She also loves TikTok. 

In this episode we talk about her story living in NYC for 12 years, writing a one woman show and finding her voice, and what led her to human design. She gives us all the details on the five different energy types and how that relates to your creativity and how human design helps you figure out what you have energy for whether that be in creativity, activism, or life.

Connect with Kerri:

kerri@kaylocreative.com (for a free intro to human design course)

www.kerrivankirk.com

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Tanya Taylor Rubenstein

Podcast: Conspirituality

In this episode, I share a mini message on boredom and how to move through the feelings of boredom because so much creativity is born out of allowing yourself to get bored and DO NOTHING! While I find boredom very challenging, it can truly be a portal for creativity.

We explore questions like:

• What happens when we judge ourselves for getting bored?
• Is boredom a privilege?
• How can you allow yourself to get bored?
• What will we create when we’re faced with ourselves?
• How can we surrender into the discomfort of moving through our feelings instead of pushing them away?
• What do you want to do with all your time?
• How can just being be enough?

Lizzie Markson is a theatre artist, an acting teacher/coach, and a movement/meditation teacher.  Her mission in everything she does is to empower others to open their hearts so they feel held in unity and catharsis. As an actor, she has appeared as Sophie in the “Mamma Mia!” Farewell National Tour, Anybodys in “West Side Story” at the IHI Stage Around Tokyo, and Natalie in “Next to Normal.”  Every week she sends a newsletter to her mailing list called “Return To You” where she empowers creatives to come back home to their wholeness via blog posts, workshops, and classes. 

In this episode we go deep on how to tap into the creative flow, setting intentions before creating, how to deal with dread and resistance, the importance of a daily creative routine, and the difference between interpretive vs generative artists.

Connect with Lizzie:

www.lizziemarkson.com

insta: @lizziemarkson

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Free Play by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

The Intent to Live by Larry Moss

Heart Talk by Cleo Wade

Lester Mayors - In & Out; of Life!" https://www.instagram.com/p/CB1HnGspcPn/

Florrie Bagel is a songbird artist who weaves with words, music, soul and wildflowers. She created Through the Smoke, an intimate cabaret evening honoring the wit, grit and jazz in the music of Amy Winehouse. She made her Broadway debut last year in The Rose Tattoo and has performed with City Center Encores! and National Tours.

In this episode we go deep on how to use breath, movement, and sound to move through fear and creative blocks, release old stories, and choose the stories you want to tell. We talk about Florrie's Broadway debut in The Rose Tattoo, creating sacred spaces in her dressing room, and on performance as an energetic exchange.

This episode is really helpful to anyone who deals with stage fright, performance anxiety, and more!

Connect with Florrie:

https://florriebagel.com/

Creative Resources Mentioned:

International School of the Temple Arts

In this special solo episode, Leya shares ALL the details about her wedding day on the first anniversary of her wedding!

We talk about:

• The wedding planning process being a portal of transformation
• The death and rebirth cycle of transitions
• Why grief can come up during the wedding planning process
• How to infuse intention & ceremony throughout the wedding day
• Having a sober curious wedding
• Navigating stress, overwhelm, family drama, to come out more embodied on the other side
• Surrendering to the WEATHER on your wedding day
• Recapping the chaos and beauty of Leya and Paxton's wedding day!
• Plus some of Leya's favorite wedding moments :)

Enjoy and send to any friends who are getting married or have gotten married!

Songs Mentioned:

• Escala by Palladio
• Old With You by Chuck Wicks
• She's Magic by Mike Parker

Yulia Van Doren is a Grammy-nominated international opera singer and sound healer and is one of the innovators of the modern holistic wellness movement. Her first book, Crystals is an international bestseller and has won several awards and been translated into multiple languages.

In this episode we discuss creative constraints, on making money as a creative, professional vs amateur artists, and her career transition from opera singer to crystal healer.

Connect with Yulia:

https://www.instagram.com/goldirocks.co/

http://www.goldirocks.co/

In this special solo episode, I'm coming at you live from the island of Kauai in Hawaii!

I tell the story of how I unexpectedly found myself in Hawaii for the month and the lessons I learned from spending 2 weeks in quarantine.

I end the episode with a short meditation to infuse you with the magical island vibes, tap into the present moment, and ask the question - what is your island?

Creative Resources Mentioned:

How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell

On Being Podcast with Krista Tippett

Alisha Sommers Blog: https://www.sommersalt.com/

Erica (she/her/hers) is a multi-hyphenate performing and visual artist based in the Los Angeles area. She has an extensive background in Musical Theatre, and is a graduate of UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts (where she met Leya!). When she is not on stage acting through song and dance, you can find her creating visual works (most often paint, collage, and mixed media), writing poetry, or making jewelry out of polymer clay. She also loves a good hike, thrift shopping, spending time with loved ones (like her partner Nikko), and exclaiming "DOG!" whenever she sees a dog in public.

In this episode, we discuss starting a business during quarantine, on dealing with imposter syndrome and perfectionism, what it's like to have a creative relationship with your mom, on the transition from college into the "real world", support jobs as an artist, and singing at funerals.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Everything is Fucked by Mark Manson

Madison Cunningham - singer/songwriter

Connect with Erica:

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/ericaschaeff/

https://www.instagram.com/schaefferclaymaker/

Etsy:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/schaefferclaymaker

GoFundMe:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-imagination-machine-help-us-stay-open

Mandy Sham is a photographer, writer, and yogi seeking the power of human stories through travel and food. She has befriended, documented, and eaten her way through sixty countries. When not traveling, she is a freelance sound designer and food writer based out of Toronto, Canada.

In this episode we discuss finding creativity in the mundane, how to shed past identities, how yoga and creativity are connected, and her process on expressing your experiences from travel through creativity.

Connect with Mandy:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peach.punk/

Blog: https://orenji.co/

Gobe: https://mygobe.com/blogs/ambassadors/mandy-sham

Creative Resources Mentioned:

The Artists Way by Julia Cameron

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

Alicia Albright is an NYC based broadway performing artist, choreographer, creator, avid traveller and theatre dance/yoga/meditation and empowerment teacher and is starting her own company called The Feed Your Soul Project. She has appeared on Broadway as an original cast member and swing in Disney's Frozen the Musical, and was also as the Dance Captain/Swing of Wicked on Broadway. 

We talk about going inward to discover your creative soul, discerning between intuition and the mind, the lessons she learned performing on Broadway, and what being a mermaid means to us.

Connect with Alicia: https://alicia-albright-njsj.squarespace.com/

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett

Finding Fred Podcast

Chicken Soup from the Soul of Hawaii

Journey of Souls by Michael Newton

Signs by Laura Lynne Jackson

When God Winks by Squire Rushnell

In this episode I share a personal story how I learned to make friends with my fear and how I navigate imposter syndrome.

Whether you're scared of "calling" yourself an artist or feel too afraid of your big dreams, this episode will help you navigate those feelings and make them PART of your creative process rather than letting them stop you.

Creative Resources Mentioned:

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield

Elizabeth Woolf is a singer/songwriter/guitarist who grew up in California singing along to early Frank Sinatra show tune recordings in the backseat of her mom's gray minivan, and found her voice while belting and sobbing to Sara Bareilles and Bon Iver from the driver’s seat of her dad’s hand me down Saab convertible. Once she discovered Stevie Wonder in ear buds on the BART, she knew it was time to fuse these influences into a sound of her own. Over the past two years, Elizabeth has been refining her voice, finding her storytelling, and collecting her favorite sounds. Her passion for music has turned into a craft, as she creates her own sound, based off of her interpretations of the LA indie music scene, where she currently resides. Her debut album is set for release on October 16, you can pre-order on Bandcamp here: https://ewoolf.bandcamp.com/album/til-its-dark-outside

Find Elizabeth on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewoolf/

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Folklore by Taylor Swift

Taylor Fagins is a writer and storyteller. Through music, scripts, books, and speeches, he tells the story of the human experience from every lens possible. In this episode, we talk about his writing process, being a black artist in America, recording new songs on voice memos, the positive and negative feedback he got from his new song, We Need More, what to do when you have too many ideas, his experience working at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and more.

https://www.taylorfagins.com/

"We Need More" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDf2Yl3nSmY

Taylor & Leya's duet: "Run Away With Me" https://youtu.be/C6L-3etM8wA

Creative Resources Mentioned:

Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison

King of the World by Jason Robert Brown

Ameya Ajay is an artist, designer, musician, photographer, writer, and entrepreneur living in Melbourne, Australia. In this episode, she shares her thoughts on how to follow your passions, how to navigate being a multi-passionate creative, and how to turn your passions into a career!

Follow @ameyasrealm on Instagram and check out her incredible poetry books, cosmic cards, and cosmic art.

Follow her band @KeaperMusic and stay tuned for their upcoming EP!

Creative Resources Ameya Mentions:

The Secret

Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

Power vs. Force by David Hawkins

2001: A Space Odyssey

In this episode, I share a mini message on how creativity is your gift. Listen to this one if you've ever struggled with fear on sharing your work - whether it be an offering, a piece of art, etc! I share a personal story on how I was able to move through this particular creative block.

Trust that your creativity is a gift!

Shannon Keating is a Holistic Life Coach for Women, Teen Girls in Middle/High School, & Young Adult Women in College. She supports women with self empowerment, self love, and gaining the tools to cultivate self awareness guiding them back home to their hearts.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Healing from an eating disorder holistically
• Navigating comparison with other women, body image, shame, and depression
• How Shannon guides other women to be their most authentic selves
• Using Human Design as a tool for self-understanding
• Where to look in your own human design chart
• Why we are creating an intentional women's retreat
• Details about our women's retreat in San Diego, October 2024

Ep 75: ft. Shannon Keating on Cultivating Female Friendships

The Soul Radiance Retreat

October 18th-21st, 2024

San Diego, CA

Learn more here

Email soulradianceretreat@gmail.com for any questions

Connect with Shannon:

shannonkeating.com

@shannonkeating

Podcast: Unmasked and Open Hearted

In this episode I share my story from growing up homeschooled in a family of 8 children, starting performing in theater at the age of three, living on an ashram at the age of 14, to studying musical theater in college, working through my creative fears and blocks, self-publishing a poetry book, writing and performing a one woman show, and falling in love with creativity coaching. 

This is my journey. Thank you for walking alongside with me.

Poetry Book

Instagram

Website

HEATHER ECK is a multimedia abstract artist and writer. Heather interprets people, places, and experiences through color, a condition known as synesthesia. Her work has been exhibited in more than 30 shows, and she offers an inspiring perspective on connecting healing through color, symbolism, and form.

In this episode we discuss:

• Leya's experience receiving a spirit portrait from Heather
• Opening up to your spiritual, intuitive gifts
• The importance of color and what colors represent
• Creating healing art for people, places, and spaces

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Secret Language of the Body by Inna Segal

Connect with Heather:

@heathereckartist

heathereck.com/thankyou

THE CREATIVE SOUL RETREAT

Apply for The Creative Soul Retreat by June 1st! Learn more here.

Tune into this solo episode where Leya shares how she has developed a deep connection to nature, and what nature has taught her about her own creative soul.

We discuss how nature and creativity are mirrors, connecting with our childhood self, and Leya shares personal stories about how plants got re-introduced in her life and how nature has inspired her.

She also shares details, about The Creative Soul Retreat, happening July 26th-29th and invites you to attend to deepen your sense of connection to nature, and to yourself.

For more info, email leyavandoren@gmail.com or message @leyavandoren on instagram.

Website: Creative Soul Retreat