Erin Oostra is a visual artist, graphic designer and the owner of Nuwavegallery in Ellensburg Washington. We talk about how to recognize how creativity wants to move through your system so that it can flow better, the importance of leaning into creative nudges, and importantly ‘mistakes’ in life and in the art studio. She shares her tips for how to conjure flow states and muses about how though many of us are put into boxes as children in terms of who we ‘are’ whether that’s athlete or artist - how we can question that at any time and begin to try the things we love.

Follow, Listen, Rate & Review (thank you!)  in Apple Podcasts Subscribe & Listen in SpotifySubscribe & Watch FULL episodes on YoutubeOR listen in your favourite podcast app Genius Moments #7 - 5 Lovely Rituals to Help You Connect With Your Creative Self Hello, friends, I admit I was a little bit shy about doing this again, I did a few Genius Moments episodes. They were little episodes that were intended to be sort of bite sized messages from me - things that I didn't get a chance to say in the conversations that I have with the guests during the regular episodes. You know, my job, as I see it, as host of the Creative Genius Podcast, is to really see our guests as the...

In this episode I speak with Tracy Verdugo, Visual Artist, teacher and Author of the wildly popular book, “Paint Mojo”. Tracy has worked with thousands of people around the world - helping them to find their creative freedom. She shares the insights she’s gained over these years including the one main thing she has found, that she thinks is the key to creating amazing art and how giving it to ourselves can carry over into other areas of our lives changing everything about how we live for the better.

Kimberly Grigg had figured out how to hack her creativity so that it was always ON. While this allowed her to build an empire for herself, it also literally almost killed her. She shares how that happened and what specific things she has done and continues to do to make sure that she remains healthy and able to express the gifts she was born to share with the world. 

Follow, Listen, Rate & Review (thank you!)  in Apple Podcasts Subscribe & Listen in SpotifySubscribe & Watch FULL episodes on YoutubeOR listen in your favourite podcast app “No light, No shadow: How creativity helps us embrace darkness AND shine our light” Phoebe Gander on The Creative Genius Podcast  Episode Summary In this episode Kate speaks with New Zealand Visual Artist Phoebe Gander.  Phoebe shares how difficult it was to live most of her life with undiagnosed ADHD, how for years she believed there was something deeply faulty about her and how that was the root cause of self-hatred and years of depression. When her own young son was diagnosed with ADHD, it led her to her own diagnoses which set her on a path of...