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Creative Living with Jamie: A Pause, A Preview & A Giveaway

admin — Wed, 01 May 2013 03:09:53 +0000

Behind the scenes at the studio, the Ridler family is turning all of our love and energy towards my mom, who is not well. I’ll be dialing it down here and there, so I can be more present with my family, but I will be showing up here with love and a full heart, as I can.

This means the schedule for the podcast may be a bit erratic, as it is today. I do have a preview though for you of our next episode and I want to announce our two winners of Drawing Your Life: Learn to See, Record, and Appreciate Life’s Small Joys

Giveaway Winners

The winners of last week’s giveaway of Michael Nobbs’ Drawing Your Life are…

Joy Holland
Johanne Benoit-Gallagher

Congratulations! Thank you to everyone who showed up to the page, drew their life and shared it. I’m celebrating you!

A Preview: Eric Maisel, author of Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

On our next show, I’ll be talking to the esteemed Eric Maisel. He is widely known as a creativity expert who coaches individuals and trains creativity coaches through workshops and keynotes nationally and internationally. He has blogs on the Huffington Post and Psychology Today and writes a column for Professional Artist Magazine. I was honoured to have this great conversation with Eric about creative living. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it!

In the meantime, I have this excerpt to share with you from Eric’s latest book on a topic that I know you can appreciate: Confident Creating! I loved seeing that Stage 1 is wishing because you know that we do regular wishing around here!

Confident Creating by Eric Maisel

If you want to live a creative life and make your mark in some competitive art field like writing, film-making, the visual arts, or music, and if at the same time you want to live an emotionally healthy life full of love and satisfaction, you need an intimate understanding of certain key ideas and how they relate to the creative process.

One key idea is that you must act confidently whether or not you feel confident. You need to manifest confidence in every stage of the creative process if you want to get your creative work accomplished. Here’s what confidence looks like throughout the creative process.

Stage 1. Wishing

‘Wishing’ is a pre-contemplation stage where you haven’t really decided that you intend to create. You dabble at making art, you don’t find your efforts very satisfying, and you don’t feel that you go deep all that often. The confidence that you need to manifest during this stage of the process is the confidence that you are equal to the rigors of creating. If you don’t confidently accept the reality of process and the reality of difficulty you may never really get started.

Stage 2. Incubation/Contemplation

During this second stage of the process you need to be able to remain open to what wants to come rather than defensively settling on a first idea or an easy idea. The task is remaining open and not settling for something that relieves your anxiety and your discomfort. The confidence needed here is the confidence to stay open.

Stage 3. Choosing Your Next Subject

Choosing is a crucial part of the creative process. At some point you need the confidence to say, “I am ready to work on this.” You need the confidence to name a project clearly (even if that naming is “Now I go to the blank canvas without a pre-conceived idea and just start”), to commit to it, and to make sure that you aren’t leaking confidence even as you choose this project.

Stage 4. Starting Your Work

When you start a new creative work you start with certain ideas for the work, certain hopes and enthusiasms, certain doubts and fears – that is, you start with an array of thoughts and feelings, some positive and some negative. The confidence you need at that moment is the confidence that you can weather all those thoughts and feelings and the confidence to go into the unknown.

Stage 5. Working

Once you are actually working on your creative project, you enter into the long process of fits and starts, ups and downs, excellent moments and terrible moments – the gamut of human experiences that attach to real work. For this stage you need the confidence that you can deal with your own doubts and resistances and the confidence that you can handle whatever the work throws at you.

Stage 6. Completing

At some point you will be near completing the work. It is often hard to complete what we start because then we are obliged to appraise it, learn if it is good or bad, deal with the rigors of showing and selling, and so on. The confidence required during this stage is the confidence to weather the very ideas of appraisal, criticism, rejection, disappointment and everything else that we fear may be coming once we announce that the work is done.

Stage 7. Showing

A time comes when we are obliged to show our work. The confidence needed here is not only the confidence to weather the ideas of appraisal, criticism, and rejection but the confidence to weather the reality of appraisal, criticism, and rejection. Like so many other manifestations of confidence, the basic confidence here sounds like “Bring it on!” You are agreeing to let the world do its thing and announcing that you can survive any blows that the world delivers.

Stage 8. Selling

A confident seller can negotiate, think on her feet, make pitches and presentations, advocate for her work, explain why her work is wanted, and so on. You don’t have to be over-confident, exuberant, over the top – you simply need to get yourself to the place of being a calmly confident seller, someone who first makes a thing and then sells it in a business-like manner.

Stage 9: New Incubation and Contemplation

While you are showing and selling your completed works you are also incubating and contemplating new projects and starting the process all over again. The confidence required here is the confident belief that you have more good ideas in you. You want to confidently assert that you have plenty more to say and plenty more to do – even if you don’t know what that “something” is quite yet.

Stage 10: Simultaneous and Shifting States and Stages
I’ve made the creative process sound rather neat and linear and usually it is anything but. Often we are stalled on one thing, contemplating another thing, trying to sell a third thing, and so on. The confidence needed throughout the process is the quiet, confident belief that you can stay organized, successfully handle all of the thoughts and feelings going on inside of you, get your work done, and manage everything. This is a juggler’s confidence—it is you announcing, “You bet that I can keep all of these balls in the air!”
Manifest confidence throughout the creative process. Failing to manifest confidence at any stage will stall the process. It isn’t easy living the artist’s life: the work is taxing, the shadows of your personality interfere, and the art marketplace if fiercely competitive. If you learn some key ideas, for instance that you must act confidently whether or not you feel confident, you give yourself the best chance possible for a productive and rewarding life in the arts.

I look forward to sharing my interview with Eric Maisel on the next episode of Creative Living with Jamie.

Creative Living with Jamie: Michael Nobbs

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:21 +0000

This podcast is 27:21.

This week’s guest: Michael Nobbs, Artist, Blogger & Tea Drinker

Blog: Sustainably Creative
Twitter: @michaelnobbs
Podcast: One Thing Today
Book: Drawing Your Life

About Michael Nobbs

Michael Nobbs is a full-time artist, blogger and tea drinker (not necessarily in that order). He is author of the popular blog, Sustainably Creative and writes, tweets and podcasts about drawing and trying to keep things simple.

In the late 1990s he was diagnosed with ME/CFS and over the last decade and a half he has learnt a lot about sustaining a creative career with limited energy.

His new book, Drawing Your Life (made one page at a time!) is published by Penguin/Perigee Books.

People and resources mentioned in this week’s podcast:

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Creative Living with Jamie: Jane Rochelle

admin — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:05:57 +0000

This podcast is 30:24.

This week’s guest: Jane Rochelle, Artist & Healing Touch Practitioner

Website: BarefootStudiosAndGallery.com
Blog: TeenyTinyPieces.com
Facebook: BarefootStudiosLLC

About Jane Rochelle

Jane is an artist and Certified Healing Touch Practitioner. She has been making Wishes with Wishcasting Wednesday since 2010 on her blog, TeenyTinyPieces.com, where she cradled her wishes and dreams until they came true! In addition to running her studio and gallery, she heads for the outdoors as often as possible, and loves every minute she’s able to spend with her son, Kasey.

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Creative Living with Jamie: Alisha Sommer

admin — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:00:49 +0000

This podcast is 24:07.

This week’s guest: Alisha Sommer, writer and editor of Blackberry

Website: AlishaSommer.com
Literary Magazine: Blackberry
Pinterest: @alishasommer

About Alisha Sommer

Alisha Sommer is a wife and mother of 3. She loves fresh-baked bread, laying in the sun, and the smell of the sea. She digs to find the truths and the stories in her soul that need to be told. When she’s not knee-deep in laundry and lunch-making, she edits and publishes the literary magazine “Blackberry.”

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Creative Living with Jamie – A Pause & A Sale

admin — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:03:26 +0000

Every year around Easter time I find myself simultaneously energized by spring and profoundly ready for a break. As I was ploughing through, pushing hard, I decided to switch gears and give myself (and Shannon) a break this week. Sometimes you just need to pause and catch your breath, stare out the window a bit, read a book. (Okay, I was still reading a book for an upcoming interview but hey!)

This also felt just right with our April theme here at Jamie Ridler Studios: Lighten Up! It’s time to take the Fool’s guidance and stop taking ourselves so seriously, give yourselves some time to play and have fun, to be a beginner, to make a mess. So far I managed to send my April newsletter out with the greeting “Happy March” and launch a workshop with the shopping cart disappearing! Luckily I also managed to laugh at myself (something I’m not tremendously good at) and get on!

And as a little treat for you this week, perhaps just the thing you would enjoy while taking your own pause, here’s a chance to go back to where it all started and enjoy complete transcripts, full interviews and creative living assignments for every show for Season One: Creative Living with Jamie Podcast bundle, including interviews with Susannah Conway, Fabeku Fatunmise, Chris Zydel and more amazingly inspiring creative souls – for half-price, which is only $13.50! All the details are below.

We’ll be back next week! We’ve got some really great interviews lined up this spring season. I can’t wait to share them with you!

Jamie

Creative Living with Jamie Podcast Bundle: Season 1

We’ve bundled together an entire season of podcasts – that’s 12 inspiring episodes – and created transcripts for each one – PLUS I’ve added a Creative Living Action and a Creative Living Reflection for each episode so that you can deepen your experience, taking what you’ve heard and making it your own.

In season one, you’ll hear from:

Susannah Conway, writer & photographer	Danette Relic, life coach & creative self-expressionist
Connie Hozvicka, artist & art educator	Polly Washburn, writer & filmmaker
Meghan Genge, writer	Christine Claire Reed, writer, dancer
Cairene MacDonald, business readiness coach	Jen Lee, writer and photographer
Fabeku Fatunmise, sound healer	mccabe russell, artist
Annabel Fitzsimmons, writer & yoga instructor	Chris Zydel, creativity guide

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MP3 Recordings of all 12 inspiring episodes, plus Jamie’s introduction to the whole series, “Creative Living is for You”
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Each episode’s transcript comes complete with a resource list so you can easily follow up on every tasty reference shared in the show.
It’s become a tradition for each show to include some Creative Living homework. The bundles take it even further, offering a Creative Living Action and a Creative Living Reflection inspired by the episode – and space to include your musings!

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Creative Living with Jamie: Sas Petherick

admin — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:03:46 +0000

This podcast is 31:08.

This week’s guest: Sas Petherick, writer and coach

Website: Sas Petherick
Facebook: Sas on Facebook
Twitter: @saspetherick
Instagram: @saspetherick
Red Fox Retreats: Unravel Your Story

About Sas Petherick

Sas Petherick is a writer and coach: a Life Transformer for people who want an Amplified Life full of WOO HOO! moments. She spent almost twenty years helping thousands of people navigate change in their place of work, before a combination of loss and grief prompted her own transformation path. A CTI trained Co-active Coach, Sas is also a Martha Beck Life Coach in-training. As well as coaching 1-on-1, Sas is putting the final touches on emBODYment: a juicy online programme for women are looking for body peace. She will be co-hosting Redfox Retreats with Susannah Conway & Meghan Genge in Autumn 2013.

People and resources mentioned in this week’s podcast:

Join the Studio – just look up for all the details!
Circe’s Circle
Creativity Coffee
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
CTI
Martha Beck
Martha Beck’s Life Coach Training
Susannah Conway and Susannah on the podcast
Meghan Genge and Megg on on the podcast
Flora Bowley and Flora on the podcast

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Creative Living with Jamie: Catherine Just

admin — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:00:42 +0000

This podcast is 26:58.

This week’s guest: Catherine Just, photographer, spiritual teacher & mentor

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Website: Catherine Just
Virtual Summit: Soul*Full Summit
Program: CtheG TV

Catherine Just says…

“I’m on a quest to fill the world with spirited, creative, resilient women who own their greatness and create their big work. I write, interview, make art, coach, and lead courses, retreats & virtual summits to help instigate more personal transformation, creativity and action toward their dreams.

Let go of the fear and own your greatness.”

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Join the Studio – just look up for all the details!
Circe’s Circle
Creativity Coffee

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Creative Living with Jamie: Amy Sedgwick & Kim Sedgwick, the Red Tent Sisters

admin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:12:18 +0000

This podcast is 30:14.

This week’s guests: The Red Tent Sisters

Amy Sedgwick

Kim Sedgwick

Website: Red Tent Sisters
Facebook: Red Tent Sisters Page
Creative Course: Portraits of Womanhood

About Amy & Kim, The Red Tent Sisters…

Red Tent Sisters is about celebrating and supporting women across the life cycle – from menstruation to sex to contraception to fertility, childbirth, motherhood and menopause. In naming the business, Amy and Kim borrowed the term “Red Tent” from the beautiful Anita Diamant novel to signify a space where women can come together to share wisdom, support and compassion for one another.

People and resources mentioned in this week’s podcast:

Everybody is the name of the Madonna song! I’ve posted the video below.
My brother, Jason Ridler
Bach’s Fugue in G Minor
Join the Studio – just look up for all the details!
Sparkles
Circe’s Circle
Creativity Coffee
Art Picnic
The Red Tent
Miksang, contemplative photography
Michael Wood

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Creative Living with Jamie: Vivienne McMaster

admin — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:00:23 +0000

This podcast is 25:20.

This week’s guest: Vivienne McMaster, photographer

Website: VivienneMcMaster.com
Facebook: Vivienne McMaster Photography
Twitter: @viviennemcm
Instagram: @missviv

About Vivienne…

Vivienne McMaster is a Vancouver based Photographer with a big heart and a spirit of playfulness. She leads workshops and online classes inviting people into a journey of self-exploration and empowerment through turning the camera on themselves to tell their story. Having found her way back to herself after a rough patch through the magic of photography, she believes that self-portraiture and creative exploration can save our lives. She shares her colourful visual stories over at her website www.viviennemcmaster.com.

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Creative Living with Jamie: Self-Nourishment

admin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:00:51 +0000

This podcast is 11:16.

Website: Jamie Ridler Studios
Podcast: Creative Living with Jamie and also on iTunes
Twitter: @starshyne
Facebook: Jamie Ridler Studios Fan Page

This week, once again, it’s just you and me, gang! I’ve been thinking a lot about self-nourishment and creativity and that’s what I’ll be sharing with you today – as well as the winner of this week’s giveaway!

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