Communication + boundaries = freedom to explore and play

So, yeah...we're talking about sex as self-care with Karen Yates, somatic sex educator as well as creator and host of Wild & Sublime, the live show and podcast that delivers a sexy spin on infotainment.

Sex however is too narrow a term - at least by current, uniquely American standards. Erotic mindfulness is more expansive and inviting, focusing on openness and sensual pleasure rather than just the act.

If you're like me - a full-grown, cis-gendered, sexually active adult - even PG-rated discussions about sex (like this one) still make your cheeks flame.

Karen, who's a longtime member of Chicago's sex-positive scene, has a knack for making frank discussions welcoming no matter where her audience falls on the sexual spectrum. "We talk about kink. We talk about vanilla sex. We talk about LGBTQ issues. We talk about just how to relate to each other."

Did you catch that? Relating to each other and to self is Wild & Sublime's main thrust. Pardon the pun but when you hang around with Karen, you can't help it.

And if COVID has left you blissfully or woefully partner-free? Erotic mindfulness should be at the top of your self-care practice. "It's always good to build a new relationship with your body because the body gives so much information," Karen says. "Bottom line, no matter where you come from, it's going to be an expansive, extraordinary exploration."

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Jetty Nieuwenhuis (pronounced Yeti) is the rebel in question. It's an appropriate modifier to a term that absolutely conjures images of well-connected content creators seemingly unencumbered by life's petty worries.

Also: young.

Influencer is overwhelmingly associated with youth. When it comes to the typical influencer credentials, Jetty aged out of the ingenue mold before she even began. Those few additional years have gifted her with wisdom, experience, and a healthy dose of authentic middle-finger mindset.

I love Jetty because when she says living your life is the ultimate act of self-care, it's not a hollow platitude; it's her ongoing practice. A survivor of Lyme disease and bulimia, Jetty gradually grew into a place of listening to her body and mind rather than other people.

So, here we are, ever so slowly move beyond our protective bubbles. We're bound to bump up against our fears out there. That's okay. Maybe we know ourselves a little better than before. Perhaps we're more adept at focusing inward as we proceed outward. As Jetty says, we can live life on our own terms.

There's no time like the present.

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One of the themes to emerge from the not your typical self-care series is connection. Specifically, the idea that pursuing practices that require greater inward focus or offer less obvious immediate gratification creates a ripple effect.

Anti-racism is self-care on a global scale.

If you're thinking, "Um, Andrea, that's a bold claim and an unconventional discipline to add to my routine," let me counter with this: it's all about mindset. Lori L. Tharps - yes, of Kinky Gazpacho fame - believes that each individual action chips away at a towering problem until our collective efforts topple the entire system.

There's one critical catch. "If people look at anti-racism work, particularly white people, if they look at it as 'well, you know, this is charity work for Black people and Brown people and I should just do it because it's the right thing and they need my help,' that's not the right mindset to go into," cautions the blogger and host of My American Meltingpot.

On her podcast, Lori approaches the practice of anti-racism with clear-eyed directness, especially in her "Don't Be Racist" series, recorded in the last half of 2020. In it, she offered some different ways of thinking about how we view the subject through a broader lens, how we incorporate these efforts into our lives, what that may look like - and allowing space for what that may not look like.

Lori's creative non-fiction style transitions seamlessly from her writing to her show which makes the prospect of dismantling this whole fabricated story of race totally doable.

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I don't know about you, but at this moment, at the end of March 2021, moving into April I am feeling like it is time for a shift.

That makes sense. It's springtime in the Midwest. It's about those green little plants that are popping up out of the earth. It's about opening the windows for the first time in ages and doing some spring cleaning, clearing the dust.

And WHOA, has it been one long winter! I'm going to go ahead and categorize summer 2020 as winter, spring 2020 as winter. It was all winter, as far as I was concerned, for, you know, pandemic reasons.

And I decided to do a little spring cleaning for my VOICE with a voice lesson -- coaching session actually -- but I have not had a voice lesson in more than 10 years and this opened up a bunch of cans of worms (ew!) -- about health, recovering from trauma, fears about aging, identity, the way people perceive me, and the stories we tell ourselves.

Thank you to Davin Youngs for the session and the insights! (Meet Davin in episode 082.)

Now as we move into this shift together... What is challenging or confronting you in your creative life and work? What are you exploring? What questions are you asking? What do you want to talk about or hear about on the show?

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Throughout this entire pandemic (hello, first anniversary!), I've grown more keenly aware of my need for:

• A protective bubble for my mind, a metaphysical helmet if you like, to protect my synapses from the torrent of bad news and keyed-up discourse and…
• A phrase to describe the practices that contribute to my sense of inner + outer wellbeing – something beyond the retail boon of self-care and…
• While I'm at it, a true reckoning around those beneficial practices with problematic roots

It's a lot to unpack in a year that has served up more than its share of awakenings.

Gong resonance sound therapist and yoga teacher Mason Pain has a strategy for calibrating his thoughts and actions around all those weighty issues. He advocates that we all develop more discernment and build intuition into our everyday lives.

He's well aware of what a challenge that can be having wrestled with the recent (as well as the long-standing) revelations accusations of disturbing abuse committed by Yogi Bhajan, the now-deceased spiritual head of Kundalini yoga.

Oh, self-care, why can't you just be about delicious cupcakes and cat/cow pose (delicious as well, but in a different way)?!

I struggled with what to call this episode...

Slow down, go deeper

Meet your inner teacher

Move and breathe

Protect your mind and your heart

...They all apply to both the episode AND the deep healing that any of us could use right now. What do you think?

I'd love to hear your response to this conversation with Mason. Email me your thoughts, share your own experiences. You can send a regular old email, or attach a voice memo.

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One of the throughlines to emerge from our exploration of not your typical self-care is the basic human need for routine, some sort of practical ritual that anchors us to calm even during life's daily chaos.

Mira Binzen believes the power of practice lies in its rigor and discipline - two words the commercial well-being industry willfully ignores.

She has a keen understanding of the adjustments needed to return emotional, behavioral, and physiological systems to balance. As a yogi with a background in developmental therapy working with children who have sensory processing issues, aromatherapy is one of her favorite tools.

Adolescents aren't the only ones in need of self-regulation assistance these days. Most of us have spent the last year swinging from manic productive impulses to bone-deep lethargy.

The use of oils and oil blends as part of long-range self-care practice works to even out those opposing drives. There's a science to scent, of course, but you don't have to understand the process behind its power.

"You already know," says Mira, somehow addressing both essential oils and our intrinsic need to return to the rigor of our routines. "We don't trust ourselves, or we wonder if we're doing it right or enough, and you are. You are. Trust yourself."

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The sun is setting a bit later these days (hurray!), so I thought I'd take Creative Impostor listeners back to an episode I recorded around the time of the winter solstice, those darkest days of the year. Hear me out. I promise this conversation remains relevant to our time, regardless of what the calendar says, and our ongoing exploration of not your typical self-care regimes.

Lisa Lackey, M.A., LCPC, CSAT, CMAT, lays out her fundamental approach to some of life's most vexing challenges: depression and the generational traumas that often compound it. Racism, too, and the cultural norms embedded within our public and private approaches to mental well-being.

Besides being one of my podcast clients, Lisa is an insightful, some might say even a prescient person. OK, I am saying that because our chat back in December touches on issues that many of us are experiencing today.

Yes, it's easy to forecast the spirit-crushing lethargy to come at the onset of a midwestern winter. Yes, it's just as simple to predict nationwide sadness over the first anniversary of the pandemic, with its unfathomable death count and slow vaccination rollout. Coupled with the country's ongoing racial reckoning, however, it's been starkly apparent to me how many people in my personal and professional circles have all - very recently - reported feeling something more profound than a passing case of the winter blues.

For a collective depression this deep, the self-care must be revolutionary. This episode hits the trifecta by exploring the bold, messy, and real issues that are keeping us apart while simultaneously drawing us closer together.

Two brilliant series from Lisa Black Women, Racism, and Trauma and Black Woman Burnout are available now on Insideout Conversations. The episode I specifically referenced (and sobbed while editing) was 36: Black women, racism, trauma, and our beautiful bodies.

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Productivity and self-care may sound like contrary pursuits. Still, if anyone can combine these classic opposites into an uncommon but cohesive practice, it's podcaster, conscious productivity coach, and recovering procrastinator Pam Covarrubias.

Heads up: This episode makes liberal use of a "b" word, an "s" word, and an "f" word. Intrigued? Fabulous! Although the language doesn't get nearly as salty as you might imagine (what, precisely, are you imaging?), the episode does provide a few choice words, courtesy of Pam, to add to your self-care arsenal. Fire away the next time you need to make space for productivity.

Once you've made some breathing room, it's time to supercharge those tasks and lean into some reciprocal encouragement. For that, you're going to need a PowerSister. No, not a blood relative. No, not even a close friend (don't despair, it's for a good reason).

Learn what a PowerSister is and how to find one in this episode and then head over to last year's Podcast Envy conversation where Pam and I chat more extensively about her show Café con Pam.

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Good conversation over a delicious meal with friends is the stuff of my pandemic daydreams. Emmy Award-winning journalist Kate Sullivan has found a distinctive way to tell inspiring stories over food - and package the combo for streaming.

To Dine For is her celebration of ingenuity, hard work, and achievement told over food, now available via PBS and Amazon Prime. There's also a companion podcast.

Each episode showcases a conversation between Kate and her guest at a restaurant of her guest's choice. Whether recorded in a Michelin-starred dining room or a booth at IHOP, Kate's genuine curiosity makes for intimate and revelatory discussions. With a side of buttermilk pancakes. Or garlic noodles.

As a viewer, To Dine For's format feels especially transportive right now. Part armchair travelogue, part ask-me-anything, the show offers respite from the uncertainty swirling around us. The interviews remind us that daring to dream is always an option.

Kate says the process of crafting, pitching, and producing the show taught her the same. It took a leap of faith to leave her secure but draining job in local news and trust that inspiration would lead to personal and professional fulfillment.

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What is self-care now? In the wake of last summer's peaceful protests against racial inequity? Alongside a presidential transition marred by threats of further violence?

How can we support the collective while caring for ourselves - and vice versa?

Challenging questions about wellness have led me to people who are redefining the standard answers, like Cassandre Dunbar. As host of the podcast, Be Well, Sis, she embodies the idea of self-care as a civic duty, speaking directly to women of color, a group long under-considered by mainstream wellness content creators.

Even with her medical degree and a background in teaching, Cassandre had difficulty locating wellness information, especially discussions centered on mental health within the Black community. So, she did what anyone with a full-time job and a family would do when inspiration struck: she let it percolate in the back of her mind for five years.

Then the pandemic hit and all her fears about starting a podcast morphed into fuel for her fire. "I just embraced being an amateur."

Podcasting inadvertently became a three-pronged approach to wellness. Crafting each episode made her feel good, which, in turn, made her family happier. Producing the show connected her community and expanded their access to vital information.

"I want women to have a safe space to exchange ideas and information, to get encouragement...I want people to feel empowered in their health and in their wellness."

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After a year that's spanned 42-odd months, the first episode of 2021 is a conversation steeped in practical magic, the kind that can recenter individuals and rehabilitate entire social structures.

That's a tall order, I know. Luckily, Rebecca Lefebvre BSW, BSN, RN is an expert with a gift for interpreting ancient tools and applying them to 21st-century challenges. As all those post-nominal letters indicate, Rebecca knows her way around modern systems: social work, science, graphic design, public policy, small business ownership. She understands what makes personal and public systems tick. And what has thrown so many of them out of whack.

At Avec La Vie, her online shop, Rebecca curates a collection of products for conscious, purposeful living she created to restore individual operating systems. My favorite is her trio of lush, boxed card decks. With each nature-inspired deck, Rebecca gently ushers the querent through stages of contemplation, healing, and transformation.

Collective Wisdom, the beautiful bi-monthly magazine that Rebecca began self-publishing in March of 2020, is another outlet for her interest in resetting our collective outlook. Each issue she says is a place where science and spirituality unite around insights, opportunities, and activities.

Rebecca's creative artistry and professional expertise are the perfect antidotes to the year that was. I've got my deck ready...

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It came to my attention recently that I did a whole series on travel stories and had not recorded my own travel story to share with you.

And while I have been recording these conversations for you with amazing guests about travel AND now self-care, Erica Courdae and India Jackson offered a theme for the month of November in their professional DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) network Pause On The Play.

The theme: wellness.

Perfect timing!

And then one day India posted the following prompt in the group:

What's the most adventurous or uncomfortable thing you've tried in support of your wellbeing? What were your takeaways?

Now wellness, wellbeing, self-care... that was the industry that I was in, and ultimately feel like I failed in, for more than five years. Between yoga, meditation, therapeutic bodywork, Reiki, essential oils, tarot, acupuncture, sound healing, botanical skincare... I've tried a lot of things and they have often put me in uncomfortable positions, but the word 'adventurous' felt different.

It immediately brought to mind a risk, more accurately, a series of risks that I took for my 34th birthday in 2012.

I posted a response to that prompt in Pause On The Play and India asked me if I had yet recorded a podcast episode about that experience. I was surprised to look back over my catalog of The Creative Impostor to discover that I hadn't... not really.

But now that I have crafted that story on virtual paper, I see why I hadn't shared it. It feels vulnerable. I think it's because I have some regrets from this time in my life and from this story in particular.

So, here goes...

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If your inbox is anything like mine (I feel for you), there's no end to the number of resolution-writing guides you've received; everything one needs to generate! improve! accomplish! To say nothing of the bad habits you're sure to (finally) crush.

As aggressive well-meaning as they are, those articles promising more and better ultimately leave me feeling less than.

It's beyond time for resolution evolution! Inner-voice coach, author, musician, and podcaster Kelly Covert agrees.

After years of failing to live up to grand resolutions, Kelly swapped quantitative perfectionism - those mostly material goals our culture loves to measure - for kinder habits.

Kelly distilled these techniques into a quarterly journal called The Enoughness Planner. I love this format! Unlike traditional goal-setting, this guide prompts participants to discern the difference between conditioned expectations and deeply-rooted intentions. Once identified, you create a personalized routine to support what Kelly calls everyday worthiness.

After that, it's just a matter of building upon activities that make you feel good rather than ticking tasks off a homogenized list of accomplishments.

Kinder habits and everyday worthiness. Better goals for the New Year.

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It's not a stretch to say that travel is a form of self-care. As this series transitions from unusual travel paths to uncommon self-care, it's not a stretch to say that Shannon Harris is the perfect person to help bridge the gap. Shannon's a musician, DJ, world traveler, educator, Qi Gong practitioner, and mastermind behind Audio Pharmacology™.

What the...? You got it right if you're thinking sound as medicine.

By tapping into the science of sound, he harnesses frequencies associated with the body's systems. Acupuncturists enlist needles to impact the body's energy flow; Shannon works with music. The goal of each is the same: to positively impact organs, brainwaves, muscles, chakras, tissue, etc.

To further his self-directed, sound-centric education, Shannon's made travel a priority. Before the pandemic, he gigged around the globe, using his downtime to learn from local elders and spiritual leaders.

These days, he's sticking closer to home. While he waits for the world to reopen, Shannon's putting the finishing touches on a project that's near to my heart: an immersive experience tailored to the needs of Chicago public school students.

Interested in Shannon's original conscious music compositions? Check out AfriFuTrinity, his SoundCloud series of genre-blending music-as-medicine.

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Conversation with Debbie Arcangeles is a lot like spinning the giant prize wheel at a carnival: every topic is a winner. And since I'm terrible at choosing, Debbie obliged me with a spin 'round multiple subjects - travel! entrepreneurship! remote work! work/life balance! podcasting! - in just under thirty minutes.

As the creative force behind The Offbeat Life, a business that includes her podcast, an entrepreneurial skills platform, and brand partnership opportunities, Debbie's built a fully-remote lifestyle doing what she loves: traveling and speaking with people. While there's a lot to love about her digital nomad perks, big lessons come with the territory. Some are cultural; like how her Filipino features are often mistaken for the predominant local ethnicity. Others are professional; like the amount of time she's dedicated to growing her business.

After years as an informal source for answers to entrepreneurial and digital nomad questions, Debbie created a menu of masterclasses and professional podcast services. She's equal parts teacher and cheerleader of the location independent lifestyle.

Debbie has tips for making the most of local life, and plenty of international tales to tell.

Hear some of Debbie's favorite strategies for monetizing her podcast on the crossover episode she recorded for Podcast Envy episode 76.

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Listen to The Creative Impostor's current series, and you'll quickly pick up on a theme: travel as a love story. The guests differ in age and background, but all have prioritized travel, building a professional life on the go. These inspiring people share a love for the places and people off the beaten path, some backing into romance on the road, while others have found forever homes in foreign lands.

Rebekah Read's story is a bit different but no less love-filled. "All of a sudden, I was thrown into motherhood and was not expecting that. I was 22, you know? I thought I was going to be doing marketing."

Now 28, the Seattle-based owner of Rebekah Read Creative, a website branding agency, looks back at her younger self and knows with complete conviction that her trajectory pointed in one direction.

Rebekah first visited Central America as a student fulfilling college degree requirements. She returned as a grad with her marketing degree in hand and big dreams of assisting a local non-profit with its messaging. Reality quickly settled in. Rebekah shifted gears, working on a foster care program for orphaned children while also providing ad hoc care in the nursery.

The physically, spiritually, and emotionally exhausting experience crystalized Rebekah's desire to combine passion with purpose.

Digital nomads and skill seekers take note: Rebekah's offering a Squarespace SEO course for $97 which includes a Facebook group for community support during your website revamp process. She'll also host Round 2 of her online mastermind program in 2021! Space is limited and registration begins in November. Check out all the details at rebekahreadcreative.com

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Traveling is a state of mind - especially during a pandemic. And free access is awarded to those who think outside the box. Lisette Austin takes that axiom and spins it into COVID comfort for those suffering from acute wanderlust. Before she gifts us with her stay-put suggestions and addictive optimism, however…

Allow me to cry into my teacup for a moment. Chances are if you're an avid traveler (or were an avid traveler) before COVID, you're doing some crying of your own -- perhaps into a different beverage but tears all the same. There's a frivolous kind of torture that XXX my soul every time I hear a jet engine roar overhead. Planes crisscross the sky all day long - but no one's going anywhere. Especially not me. Or you. Unless you're lucky enough to live beyond the restrictions imposed on US passport holders.

So what's a globetrotter to do when the world's in timeout?

Jet Set Lisette as she's known to her podcast audience and travel-hack students has some ideas, and they all begin with this question: what is the thing inside us that makes travel feel so important? The answer, she says, strips away all the admittedly fun distractions that add flavor to our trips and reconnects us to our heart-centered motivation.

Is there a salve that recreates the adventure and connectedness of travel? "Travel can feel like this amazing, quick vehicle for those kinds of experiences," says Lisette. By identifying core motivations and using those as prompts, pouty armchair travelers (with teacups in hand) will land on resourceful ways to bring the feeling home and pass the time until the world opens up again.

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Sarah Mikutel is back! This time, for her Creative Imposter close-up. If you haven't yet tuned in to our conversation over on Podcast Envy...queue up that episode immediately. On it, you'll hear Sarah share her evolution from avid podcast listener to creator of two+ shows: Postcard Academy, Podcasting Step-By-Step, and a *secret* one that takes niche podcasting to the next level*.

For this show, Sarah treats us to some lyrical, sensory-laden armchair travel. If, like me, you're aching to feel the excitement of landing in a foreign country again, Sarah's origin story of sorts will spark creative daydreaming. Her predictions for post-pandemic wanderings will prompt you to revisit that travel vision board you shelved way back in March.

What sets Postcard Academy apart from other travel-focused media is the lens through which Sarah presents her stories. Her narrative exists outside the Eat, Pray, Love trope, the lost soul that - for better or worse - has become the defacto persona of many female-driven works. Instead, she provides an alternative viewpoint, a fun and informative guide for the average traveler. "I like to feature women, and we talk about their adopted city and how they made it happen and get their insider food and culture tips."

*Want the details on Sarah's *secret* show? Then, you know where to go: Podcast Envy!

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This episode is a love story, an old-fashioned romance with a quirky meet-cute, all filtered through the lens of decidedly modern challenges: WhatsApp courtship, COVID complications, and digital nomadship. It's the stuff of Netflix dreams – with a dose of reality that only serves to make the story more relatable.

The heroine of this adventure, Zselyke Kecskés, is a multilingual digital marketing specialist for small business. Her decisions may appear scattershot on paper. Girl goes to a mountain meditation retreat. Girl meets boy. Girl and boy spend intense days together. Girl travels 30 hours to be with boy one week before starting a new job.

And that's just where the story gets exciting! Listen closely.

As Zselyke's journey progresses – from Hungary (the country of her birth) to Chicago (her current location) – the main drivers of her life become apparent and begin to make complete sense together.

Wanderlust and belonging are competing forces on paper. The push to get out vs the pull to settle down. And the two apply not only to travel but to jobs and relationships as well. But beyond the incredible travelogue that Zselyke's story provides (especially in the time of pandemic-paused roaming), her life experiences are a reminder that the two work well in tandem if we allow ourselves the space to let them play out.

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Mark this episode as your first dose of The Creative Impostor's cure for cabin fever, a prescription for passport blues and Instagram envy in the time of COVID. Lisa James kicks off a series of conversations with travel storytellers. The woman behind Adventurous Midlifer is challenging the rigid terms by which influencers are defined - and fostering genuine connections along the way.

An intrepid adventurer, Lisa's embraced travel realness since she first grabbed her passport, her backpack, her five-year-old twins and set off Guatemala. In 1999. Pre-5G. Post-Guatemalan civil war.

35 countries later, Lisa's enjoying her life as the antithesis of Instagram's typical travel influencer. She's Black, budget-conscious, and middle-aged. She doesn't even like taking or posting pictures all that much! Not exactly a POV found with a quick scroll.

"I just felt like I wanted to create something where I can talk about what I love - which is travel - but I can talk about what's in my heart, that's relevant to this season in my life, of midlife."

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This episode is for the birds. Or, rather, about birds. Or, more accurately, how much creative humans have in common with molting parrots.

Hang with me; this episode isn't wall-to-wall ornithology talk. I recorded my conversation with Vocal Leadership Expert and Podcast Host Tina Dietz way back in the before-times. Still, her message about self-acceptance and faith in our creative evolution rings doubly true at a time when putting our trust in anything is a struggle.

She just happens to equate this transition with shedding feathers.

As founder and CEO of Twin Flames Studios, Tina molds (not molts) experts into influencers, teaching clients how to amplify their message. Whether it's through their own podcasts, as guests of other shows, or as in-demand speakers, Tina's vocal leadership expertise goes beyond the simple correction of speech mechanics.

Transitions rarely come without challenges. There's the macro level, global shifts taking place right now, and then there are the awkward personal doubts and missteps.

You're not wrong for feeling vulnerable. Massive life changes force us to question our personal and professional identities.

Happy molting!

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Tune in for this interactive overview of crafting a podcast you and your audience will love! Thursday August 13, 2020 - I have just a few spots left on a "pay what you can" sliding scale. Anything over $1 is fair!

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By listener request, I am brining you this bonus episode with Lucas Spivey, founder of Culture Hustlers, to talk about how COVID is good for creators. What? Yeah... trust me...

Culture Hustlers is a business school for creators made by creators. It's also an educational media company, which produces podcasts, documentaries, photo essays, all telling the story of how artists, designers, performers, writers, and makers can not only make art, but they can make a business.

Culture Hustlers has a cohort of different creators all over the world from 35 States and five countries so far who are creative people working together to help each other to build a business model.

Lucas and I had about 20 minutes to catch up online to chat about challenges and opportunities for creatives right now just before the launch of the NEW COHORT assembling for September 2020.

Applications are due Monday Aug 3rd so don't delay! Work study is available (Lucas believes that everyone deserves access to this program!)

We promised you a ton of resources and treats in this episode's show notes. You can find them here: http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/lucasspivey

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I want to have a little heart to heart with you today about where we are right now, how we are right now.

Moments ago, I completed a recording session with Pat Wetzel, founder of Cancer Road Trip (from episode 109.) We were recording a conversation for her brand new podcast Bump In the Road.

We know what that means, right? It's when things are going along one way and then, then whoops -- Yeah -- Not going along so great. There's a hiccup. There's a problem. There's a change of plans that is required and maybe not welcome.

I think that we could safely say that the vast majority of us have in 2020 hit a bump in the road. I mean, what are the chances that we would all hit one at roughly the same time?

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with me at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/110

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Putting together a series on travel stories for the show (hey a girl can dream, right?)

You MAY be a travel podcaster, blogger, photographer, digital nomad, entrepreneur etc... but it's not necessary. What is necessary is a good story, a willingness to reflect candidly on travel, identity and the creative process, and speculation on the future of travel either personally or professionally. Please share some details with me using this Google Form: http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/bemyguest

And if I think your story is a good fit for our series, I will email you to schedule a time for us to connect.

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When I asked Pat Wetzel to imagine her life in the wildly uncertain future, the creator of CancerRoadTrip and the new podcast Bump In The Road, responded with complete certainty.

But first…

To understand Pat's optimistic attitude toward the personal and the professional, it's helpful to know how she got here. Diagnosed with supposedly inoperable cancer in 2009, Pat embarked on her treatment journey to discover that "care" rarely addressed experiences beyond the physical.

AntiCancerClub was her antidote, a platform that gave voice to cancer's unspoken topics (social isolation, fear, spiritual inquiry, and the shifting nature of friendships). Investors followed and the project gained momentum only to suffer devastating legal and financial blows culminating in the loss of her intellectual property and her house.

With no place to call home, Pat set out on a road trip.

The much-needed change of scenery became a perspective-shifting project that eventually morphed into CancerRoadTrip. If she could find healing on the road, why couldn't she recreate that environment for others?

But nothing is easy. Outside forces have, once again, forced Pat to idle in place, this time in the form of a travel-restricting pandemic.

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with Pat at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/109.

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~India Jackson, brand, marketing & visibility specialist

India Jackson is in the business of giving companies and solo entrepreneurs permission to be themselves. As CEO of brand agency Flaunt Your Fire and host of a podcast by the same name, India busts people out of their marketing ruts by providing strategies to connect their inner motivations with their brand's external actions.

"Visibility," says India, "is a two-way street." Without proper guidance, the vital connection between brand and audience can get wobbly. And that's during the best of times. Throw in a pandemic (a recession! social crisis!) and suddenly the entire foundation crumbles under fuzzy social media goals or tepid convictions or engagement oversights.

As dire as these issues seem, they're fixable if the entity in question is willing to go deep. "Creating a connected community is a lot easier when you're able to go beyond the surface."

India's got tips to help us get started with tweaking our message or embarking on full scale introspective brand analysis, including simple tactical upgrades to try like a brilliant IG hack for keeping track of connections!

Right now, the universe seems to be sending us a clear message: Now is the time to transform the brand/audience relationship. India's expertise can help us turn prefab monologues into meaningful conversations.

P.S. India also co-hosts and co-facilitates Pause on the Play podcast & community with Erica Courdae from episode 106 -- Collaborate with other leaders in a safe space to support diversity, equity + inclusion with intention..

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with India at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/108.

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We stand with our sisters from the WOC Podcasters led by Danielle Desir and crafted by Tangia Renee.

Their words below:

PODCASTERS FOR JUSTICE CAMPAIGN

Collectively, we have built engaged audiences that listen to our voices regularly, and with coordinated effort, we can combine OUR voices to take a STRONG stance against racism and police brutality.

We serve many audiences, but we can speak with one voice. One voice that does not mince words and demands justice.

We created this simple PSA for podcasters or any content creator to post and share in hopes that we can come together across digital spaces to support the work of activists on the front lines of change, who risk themselves daily to create a better world for us all.

Please join us in using your voice to take a stand and encourage action at this critical time by issuing the following statement on your podcast or other digital platform(s):

We are (podcasters/bloggers/youtubers/influencer/etc.) united to condemn the tragic murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and many many others at the hands of police. This is a continuation of the systemic racism pervasive in our country since its inception and we are committed to standing against racism in all its forms.

We believe that to be silent is to be complicit.

We believe that Black lives matter.

We believe that Black lives are more important than property.

We believe that we have a responsibility to use our platforms to speak out against this injustice whenever and wherever we are witness to it.

In creating digital media we have built audiences that return week after week to hear our voices and we will use our voices to speak against anti-blackness and police brutality, and we encourage our audiences to be educated, engaged, and to take action.

Suggested Action Steps

1. Read this statement on your next show release and post the above statement and graphic to your social media feeds. (You can get the graphic from me in the show notes at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/107)

2. Donate a portion of your show proceeds and ask audience members to donate to any of the following:

George Floyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Minnesota Freedom Fund: https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/

Black Visions Collective: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/

Campaign Zero: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

Black Lives Matter: https://www.Blacklivesmatter.com

Minneapolis NAACP Branch: https://www.paypal.me/mplsnaacp4050B

3. Sign A petition & Ask Your Audience To Sign:Text "Floyd" to 55156 to sign a petition a demand justice for George FloydSign-up at Color of Change: https://colorofchange.org/ to be notified of more opportunities to take action.

Also recommended in our Chicago community...

IGrow Chicago Peace House

My Block, My Hood, My City

Chicago Food Depository

Brave Space Alliance

Food Not Bombs

Or find a local neighborhood action or mutual aid group near you.

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with Erica at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/107.

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~Erica Courdae, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Consultant

Everything I knew about structure I've had to reframe, reexamine, re...structure over the last 5,000 weeks of shelter-in-place. Multiple times. There have been days in which my professional systems and personal habits have operated at next-level peakness*. Glorious stretches of productivity. Seemingly boundless hours high-vibiness*. And then…

The inevitable at-capacity crash. Chances are, you've wandered around in that fog yourself. Multiple times throughout the pandemic's never-endingness*.

Erica Courdae is a Baltimore-based, multitalented mother and entrepreneur who's navigating the deep end of uncertainty with realistic optimism and structures-in-progress (rather than hyper-aspirational, GOOPiness).

As a salon owner, creator of the podcast Pause on the Play, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant she's feeling her way through the process of managing professional and personal expectations.

What does "safety" look like IRL for a salon owner? How does a DEI consultant convey her message in an exclusively virtual environment? What the heck does homeschooling a kindergartner and a second-grader look like? How does self-care exist now that outlets for simple pleasures are off-limits?

*terms created to mildly amuse in week 5,000 of lockdown - it's come to this.

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with Erica at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/106.

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~Nicole Otchy, personal stylist, branding consultant, podcaster

What's your wardrobe style?

That question can short circuit the finely-tuned minds of otherwise competent people. Throw in a pandemic with its whiplash-inducing pivot to online all the time meetings or events and you've got a recipe for closet calamity.

Performed without context, all the recent Kondo-izing or late-night online buying binges can add up to a closetful of clothes but no strategy for creating outfits that project a sense of the person behind the brand.

Enter Nicole Otchy, personal stylist, personal branding consultant, and host of The Self Styled Podcast, a show helping listeners unlock their personal style. Yes, before you say anything, it's Nicole's firm belief that everyone has style.

Things get complicated, however, when confidence gets hijacked by chatter. Conversations around how women "should" dress are mired in all sorts of "rules" - for our body type, our age, our career path or industry.

Everything's changed, seemingly overnight, and dressing can be an act of self-care right now. As the world shakes off its layers of pandemic pajamas, however, greater emphasis will be placed on virtual professional events and entirely revamped careers.

Nicole also foresees drastic shifts in shopping habits and as well as a greater emphasis on societal wellbeing. In other words, if you haven't given style much thought, now might be a great time to revisit how you intend to style yourself and your brand for the future.

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with Nicole at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/105.

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~Sarah Buino, therapist, podcaster, speaker, founder Head/Heart Therapy

Ready for some virtual therapy? Truthfully, I'm casting a side-eyed glance toward anyone who, at this point in the pandemic, answers, "Nah. I'm fine."

And this is why I'm not a therapist.

But returning guest Sarah Buino, LCSW, CADC, CDWF, is and she's here to say it's fine if you're fine...for now. Whatever you need to do to support your mental health, to save your business, to care for your family, to get through these weird, exhausting days (weeks, months), is exactly what you should be doing.

As a fellow content creator and podcast royalty in her field, Sarah's life on the other side of the mic hasn't changed all that much. At Conversations With a Wounded Healer, she continues to connect with practitioners of various modalities, discussing the parallel paths of healing the self while caring for clients.

As host of Transforming Trauma, a podcast produced by The NARM Training Institute, she finds no shortage of topics to explore within the world of complex trauma.

As the owner of Head/Heart Therapy, however, Sarah's on the frontlines of the tele-health battlefield. Given the haphazard response to the pandemic by some of our institutions (looking at you, health insurance, banks), she's cautiously optimistic that the masses will galvanize, especially around the subject of tele-health, and change is gonna bleepin' come!

Until then, how about some tips from Sarah for preserving our mental health and a delicious smoothie recipe?

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with Sarah at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/104.

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~Cher Hale, director and founder at Ginkgo Public Relations

Raise your hand if you've experienced a new wave of creator impostor symptoms since shelter-in-place orders began. You're not alone.

When crisis strikes - world-wide and well outside our control - the brain turns up the volume on negative self-talk, making it next to impossible to pitch ourselves. We wonder about our ability to serve our communities. We downplay our hard-fought experience. We worry about appearing insensitive.

Stop it.

Cher Hale, owner of Ginkgo Public Relations, says your message still matters - now more than ever. Her advice for confused creative imposters? Stay in your lane no matter how compelling a similar creative's 180º pivot appears. Whether that means shifting to daily Facebook Live postings or putting your business on pause, stay genuine.

Ultimately, Cher reminds us that we've created something; we're experts at that! A crisis shouldn't radically alter our fundamental message or our ability to support the communities we've built.

Pitch your true self out there - when you're ready.

Get the full show notes, resources, and connect with Cher at http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/103.

P.S.

Cher's offering her Pitch List for free at: https://ginkgopr.com/subscribe

And don't forget to check out the 30 Minute Italian Podcast at: http://icebergproject.co/italian/podcast-2/

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~Ana Paz, visual artist, teacher & retreat facilitator

Want to stave off shelter-in-place boredom and re-energize your spirit? Ana Paz, a Romanian artist living in Bodensee, Switzerland, says creating art during COVID-19 is the ultimate act of self-care.

This episode isn't a study in productivity or even fine art. Instead, it's an invitation to return to something you once loved or engage in a new project.

The medium isn't important. Nor are the results. It's all about the process, says Ana, a lesson she shared with students via multi-day artists' retreats across Europe prior to COVID-19. Now, the pandemic has severely limited her ability to host offline, especially in nearby Germany and Northern Italy, so she's taken her inspiring creativity virtual, teaching free workshops and posting replays on YouTube.

That's not to say Ana hasn't felt the pull of a long bath or lazy afternoon of Netflix. She's given in to fluctuations in her mood and output, a direct result of pandemic fatigue. She's allowed herself the space to set aside goals in favor of recharging both physically and mentally.

Eventually, though, Ana points out that everyone reaches their Netflix or social media consumption limit. That's when the urge to create strikes. When it does, she recommends that we ignore perfectionism in favor of connection to that driving force. Consuming other people's work is easy. Creating can feel difficult at first.

Be kind to your art, follow your curiosity, and enjoy yourself.

Get the full show notes and connect with Ana http://www.thecreativeimpostor.com/102.

P.S. Ana's Italy retreat has been rescheduled for September 2020! https://www.anapazartist.com/italy

And she's added a Switzerland retreat as well: https://www.anapazartist.com/switzerland

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~Jen Hemphill, certified financial counselor

Somewhere between the stress of planning for tomorrow and the distractions of paying for today lies the sweet spot of financial health. Jen Hemphill, a financial counselor and host of the podcast Her Dinero Matters, has helped countless people, myself included, confidently manage their money.

With her strong focus on the Latina community, Jen's committed to showing her clients how to thrive beyond their bottom line via coaching, public speaking engagements, and episodes of her show, including How To Be Financially Resilient.

In this episode, she shares some budgetary crisis management tips with the CI audience and insight into the entrepreneurial pivots she's making to increase her business resiliency.

COVID-19 has affected everyone's finances differently. Lost wages! Unexpected savings! Increased household spending! Lower incidental purchases! Whatever your situation, one aspect of money management has remained true: money is personal and it's emotional.

Grab your Plan B to being financially resilient. This worksheet is a free gift from Jen! http://www.jenhemphill.com/planb

And here is the free financial counseling resource Jen mentioned in the episode: https://www.yellowribbonnetwork.org/afcpecovid19

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