creative thinkers
Quitting Money: crazy? or free? or crazy free?
My relationship with money has been evolving. In large part due to running a creative business, I’ve gotten more comfortable with money. I’m more involved, more responsible, more aware. I enjoy spending and earning money in ways that feel good. Still, sometimes I fantasize about not needing money at all. And not because I’m afraid [...]
About the Author
A career coach for creatives armed with the super power of hearing between the lines, Laura Simms helps passionate creatives discover and cultivate the work meant just for them. Once called a “momentum swashbuckler,” Laura puts the giddy-up in career transition and career strategy. Learn more at createasfolk.com.
The Courage to Prosper
Money is an emotional issue. It has to do with our deepest survival instincts. Some people are obsessed with money and measure their complete personal worth through their bank account, while others reject money as a source of evil, greedy, nasty capitalist values. How to have a healthy, balanced relationship with money? There are countless [...]
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Stephanie Levy is an American artist, illustrator, and ex-pat living in Munich, Germany. She is currently travelling on a 12 Countries in 12 Months European tour and hosting an international e-course called Creative Courage. To find out more and connect with women all over the world who are finding and following their creative dreams, please click here.
Be terrible at something.
Once upon a time, in an art class far, far, away, I was asked to draw an apple. As realistically as possible. Instead, I drew a poop floating in a toilet. A modern post-apple, you could say. My professors took it in stride. “Fancying yourself a conceptualist, eh?” they wise-cracked. They gave me some tips [...]
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Maeg Yosef is an artist, illustrator, and writer living in the Happy Valley of Western MA with her husband, stepdaughter, and son. You can find her writing about art-making, kid-raising, and creative living on her blog,
Edison Rex, and see her artwork here. When she’s not working to inspire you through her writing or bring you joy by putting art on your walls, you’ll probably find her up way too early, drinking way too much green tea, and attempting a wild new yoga position. Or maybe just on Twitter or Facebook.
fresh start: breathe yourself anew
Friday. Yoga. Back on the mat. Learning the ceiling with a gentle gaze. Breathing in, breathing out, breathing in, breathing out. An automatic cycle. Instructor: “Just like each day is a chance for a fresh start, each breath can be a fresh start. You can start anew with each breath.” I breathe that one in. [...]
About the Author
A career coach for creatives armed with the super power of hearing between the lines, Laura Simms helps passionate creatives discover and cultivate the work meant just for them. Once called a “momentum swashbuckler,” Laura puts the giddy-up in career transition and career strategy. Learn more at createasfolk.com.
The passionate creative as symbolic exemplar
This is a guest post from Minna Bromberg. “Really? He said that?” That’s usually people’s reaction when I tell them that even as a singer, songwriter, and voice-finder, I have a story of someone telling me to be quiet. In my case it was my seventh-grade choir teacher who used to tell me “shut up” [...]
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Carrie is Scoutie Girl’s advertising manager & assistant editor. She owns a graphic design & ebook editing biz and also runs a nifty crochet pattern shop for discriminating ladies, likeclochework.
