It made no sense at first. I am shy. My voice felt shaky and small. I didn't believe I had anything useful to say. I didn't yet trust my ability to listen and hold space for the kinds of conversations I felt creativity itself was asking me to facilitate. But I listened, I kept going, I trusted, I allowed myself to be vulnerable and kept showing up.

This show, what I'm trying to do here, is create something that truly helps people. I get more and more messages every week from people all over the world saying really profound things to me about how listening to this show, has, stemmed off depression, has stopped them from feeling like they're in physical pain caused by not feeling free to express themselves. That listening to these conversations has helped them find the bravery again, to go inwards and make things and create things and explore this beautiful part of themselves that they had thought was just closed off to them. 

2 time Juno Award Winning Canadian Singer/Songwriter Dan Mangan joins me to talk about the roles of vulnerability, honesty, determination and grit in bringing our art into the world. 

It's really easy to become entranced by what we have become accustomed to in our lives. Whether we get used to stress, overwhelm & chaos or peace, creativity & flow is actually up to us.

Here I am, recovering from being sick. You may have seen on social media, I posted something about how i was going to power through and still keep creating the creative genius podcast for you.. And I was really humbled by a lot of the emails and messages and comments I got from everybody reminding me actually to stop, you know, when your body is sick. So much of what I share in the podcast is about that. It's about listening, listening to the wisdom of our bodies. We're finely tuned instruments, not just for creativity, and intuition and gut instinct. But for everyday information about what we need to do next, what is the next right thing - the...