Creative Habit's Podcast | Exploring Habits For Tapping Into Creative Consciousness

Melinda Hammond reveals the benefits of living in a caravan while traveling the Australian outback. This is especially true with writing and the connection to landscapes and characters in those spaces. Plus you get to hear about her new course teaching kids and young adults the craft of story writing. 

Danielle Krysa is The Jealous Curator and host of the podcast Art for Your Ear. Krysa has a new book coming out in October called Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk. Here in this episode of The Creative Habits Podcast she shares some tools for combating your inner critic so that weight is lifted off your shoulders allowing you more freedom to create! Show notes here.

Sharon Jackson is a writer and owns the website path42 where she helps others recognize that, "life is not a narrow path but a sprawling landscape waiting to be discovered." That discovery is a process and there is help along the way. Help is what Sharon Jackson provides through free courses that help you be successful and more:  http://www.path42.ninja/free-goodies/   View the show notes here for links and quotes from this episode.

Code of the Extraordinary Mind Written by Vishen Lakihani Founder of Mindvalley. Liberate your life from culture bound rules and transcend to a creative life. There is a dark side to personal and cultural habits that limit what's possible. The book covers ideas for identifying those limitations and then tools to overcome them. Show Notes Here.

Matt Peet mainly shoot events such as weddings talks about the craft and provides tips on using video. He has some great ideas for how to approach a video project without using a story board. He is usually moving fast with wedding photography and will sometimes do same day productions. Matt Peet's company is called Re-Peet Productions found here.  Show notes here.

Mary-Jo Dionne has been a copy writer for years for some top agencies along with being a performer (see a clip here), speaker and podcaster. She provides some practical tools for navigating the creative life among insights that could transform the way you celebrate "making it". Show notes are here.

A bit of wisdom from Be Bad First a book by Erika Andersen and The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly. How does the continued pace of technology effect artists and entrepreneurs alike?  Show notes here.

Angus Nelson (a speaker at the Podcast Movement in Chicago!) announces his new book, provides thoughts on writing, the creative process, future of work and more. Angus Nelson provides a corporate perspective with a bit of heart. Show notes here.

Selling art online is essential for either getting started or evening out events, craft shows and holidays. Before you go dishing out cash for a new website though, consider getting onto Amazon Handmade instead. Listen to the show for more on why the handmade section on Amazon is essential for most artists.

Warrior Mind is a book by Dick Morgan. Although the main focus of the book is upon the martial arts, there is a lot of it that translates well to being an artist (think the War of Art by Steven Pressfield now a proven classic). This episode provides a few quotes from the book to ponder and actually apply this to your day to day. Show notes here. Bonus! Steven Pressfield who wrote the War of Art has a new book out and you can get the ebook version here for free. This is directly from Pressfield and I don't know how long this will be up.  

In this episode go over the 100 day challenge and how it can be used to move through procrastination. Show notes here (includes links to any material used in the show).

This week’s podcast is with Megan Gray whose website is DaysWithTheGrays.com. Megan is a photographer, painter and homeschooling mother living in NJ. She and her family have chosen to be car free! It is interesting how that choice has improved her ability to lessen distractions and stay focused on her painting and family. Show notes are here.

Madeline Holler writes on parenting with articles that have appeared on Babble, Salon, NY Times, Mom.me and others. Babble is where she started. She continues to write in around parenting although is now collaborating towards a screen play with a friend of hers who is a fiction writer. She took a moment to talk about her creative habits as a journalist/writer and mom. Show notes are here.

Alix Macey is a broadcaster, voice-over artist and writer with a website at AlixBMacey.com. She has written two funny, incredibly quirky children’s magical fantasy adventure books. She took some time out to talk from England about her creative habits and her journey into writing after formerly working for the BBC. Although there are a few highlights and quotes in the summary post I recommend giving the whole show a listen as there are many fun and interesting tidbits included that are harder to summarize. Some parts of the show might not have as clean an audio as I would have liked, I apologize in advance. Show notes here.

Kevin Tobosa runs a media company and has a background working in the corporate setting. For the last three years he worked as a creative director for a health care organization. He describes it as creative work on demand where he lead brainstorming and ideation sessions throughout the organization. Kevin worked with physicians, hospital management, and marketing to lead sessions and come up with creative solutions to various obstacles. Show notes here.

Michael Adams is the co-founder of Gredio a web application for small food companies and owns Green Mountain Mustard available to 100 retailers across New England. He also has a personal blog atMicAdams.com. Michael also has a new ebook coming out called the Ultimate Guide to Co-Packaging. Enjoy and if you like what you hear, please leave a review in iTunes. Thanks! View show notes here.

Four in the morning rolls around as a magic hour when Tania turns on some Mudvayne and writes. It is a time when she finds focus without family distractions and kids. The lyrics and beat of the music gets the brain going although for more power writing she goes “with creative zen or brain entrainment for the heavy hitting stuff.” Her writing contains a bit of character which she is not shy about letting out. Read the show notes here: http://www.creativehabitspodcast.com/tania-dakka/

Anthony Lombardi and Laura Grosso are husband and wife painters living in Rome, Italy. They took a moment to talk about their creative habits. Go to here for highlights and links from the show. Enjoy and if you like what you hear, please leave a review in iTunes!

Suresh Thakoor takes a few moments to talk about side hustle, Nelson Mandella, and good versus bad procrastination. Check out the show notes here: http://www.creativehabitspodcast.com/suresh-thakoor-nelson-mandella-procratination-be-project/

Michaela Cristallo is a designer, writer and found of For the Creators website (links to free ebook and creative manifesto!). She works in an artist warehouse with 6 other artists which means she is always around other creatives. She has her own space with workbench where she does sewing and fabric work. She took a moment to share her creative habits and how she has come to inspire other artists. http://www.creativehabitspodcast.com/michaela-cristallo-designer-writer-founder-creators/