An Other Way

This week KJ Bell tackles the topic of power. Listen as he talks about how we often have more power than we know, why creating is a powerful thing, and how our craft can power us.

KJ Bell and An Other Way return after weeks away. Listen as KJ delves into the recent reasons he found himself lost in life, and the steps he's taking to make his way back.

In this week's episode, host KJ Bell discusses identity. Listen as he talks about identity crises major and minor, why working on one's identity is a good thing to do, and some ways to do so.

This week host KJ Bell breaks down a hijacking. Listen as he details how the word criticism has been warped by our culture and how it isn't always the bad thing we think it is.

This week on AOW, host KJ Bell tackles anger. He talks about how anger shouldn't be dismissed, and how to use it as a tool. Listen as he mixes his own experiences with ideas from Julia Cameron, Ava DuVernay, and the late great Joan Rivers.

This week KJ Bell takes on the related topics of better and best. Listen as he talks about constantly trying to get better at our practices, the idea that all of us are doing the best we can, and how to integrate those ideas into our work.

This week, KJ Bell takes aim at perfectionism. Listen as he describes his own experiences with it, and the revelation that we should work on perfecting ourselves rather than trying to be perfect.

This week, KJ Bell talks about safety. Listen as he talks about creating a safety support system, parental issues, how feeling safe can sometimes keep us stuck, and identifying how the ways that make us safe affect us.

In a follow up to last week's episode on shadow, host KJ Bell talks about light. He describes the physical and psychological lightness that can come from embracing one's creativity. Listen as he talks about the temptation to resist any light, and how to let a little in during the dark times.

In this week's episode, KJ Bell discusses the shadows that lurk in our creative lives. Listen as he talks about external and internal shadows, the ways they can manifest in our lives, and why the shadows might not always be a bad thing.

In this week's episode KJ Bell talks about the importance of mindset. Listen as he talks through ideas about it's role in the creative process and how it affects our everyday lives.

In this week's episode host KJ Bell tackles a topic he's been hesitant to talk about. Listen to why doing an episode on privilege makes him nervous, and why examining our privilege is important as artists, and as human beings. Link to AOW Meetup group: http://bit.ly/2iiSXVO Follow RJ Aguiar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rj4gui4r

In this episode, host KJ Bell talks about consistency. With a warning to do as he says, not as he does, he details the reasons that consistency is important to any endeavor. Listen as he details his writing shots, and how he attempts to keep himself consistent.

In this episode, host KJ Bell talks about the separation of the self from the work. Listen as he explains why the separation of the personal from the professional is incredibly helpful in any work.

In this week's episode of An Other Way, host KJ Bell talks about comparison. He talks about positive ways we can compare our creative ventures, and the many more ways we usually compare things negatively.

This week host KJ Bell discusses the importance of imagining. He discusses how we are often talked out of using our imaginations at an early age, and how tweaking our own lives with daydreams can expand our creativity.

This week host KJ Bell tackles production. Listen as he recounts his discovery of Sturgeon's Law, makes the case for focusing on quantity before quality, and gives some tips for continuing to produce while stuck.

Listen in this week as host KJ Bell talks about the different kinds of silence and how each of them affects creativity.

In this week's episode host KJ Bell presents the yin and yang of seriousness. Listen as he discusses why we need to not take things so seriously, then why we should take things seriously.

In this episode host KJ Bell talks about help. He hates asking for help, and knows you probably do to. Listen to his arguments for why it's not as bad as either of you think it is.

KJ Bell sort of explains why there have been no recent episodes of An Other Way. He promises to be back next Tuesday with one of the episodes he's been working on during the stressful process of moving far away from everything he's ever known (did we mention he can be dramatic?).

In this week's episode, KJ Bell talks about beauty. Listen as he talks about looking for it everywhere, how creatives should not be locked into one definition of beauty, and how our perspectives on it can shift.

In this week's episode host KJ Bell talks about environment. Listen as he explains the two components to our creative landscape - the physical spaces we create in and the other people that we are surrounded by in that space.

In this week's episode, KJ Bell talks about travel; how it can expand one's perspectives, and therefore expand creativity. Doing so doesn't require jumping on a plane.

This week host KJ Bell talks about the conflict that can occur between our hearts and our heads.

This week a physically tired KJ Bell talks about the ways that our practices can tire us out. Listen as he discusses how to combat physical, mental, and emotional fatigue. Brace yourself for a lightbulb moment near the end.

In today's episode host KJ Bell talks about apology. Prompted by his late posting of the episode and the realization that he couldn't do what he had planned, KJ talks about how many of us feel a need to apologize for who we are. Listen as he talks about getting past the stronger parts of us that deny this and getting in touch with those quieter voices that need some attention too. And be sure to check out the new YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-SWdN1_7vDOO9kSBNWAiA

This week we talk about fear. Listen to host KJ Bell as he talks about his relationship with fear, guides listeners through two exercises from his workshops, and talks about the writing that completely changed his relationship with fear. Also check out the new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-SWdN1_7vDOO9kSBNWAiA

In this week's episode host KJ Bell talks about parenting the self. Listen as he discusses the idea of the inner artist child and how to deal with them. Also, check out the new video companion to the podcast on YouTube. Check out a new episode every Monday at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb-SWdN1_7vDOO9kSBNWAiA

In this week's episode, KJ Bell talks about inspiration. Listen to his ways to find it, the importance of balancing it with aspiration, and dealing with some of the cultural bias around the very idea of inspiration.

Join host KJ Bell for another episode of An Other Way. Today we talk about the body. It is crucial for us as artists to connect to the body and use it in our practices.

Join host KJ Bell as he improvises a podcast episode on improvisation. Listen as he talks about the importance of play, striking a balance between routine and spontaneity, and his new Instagram addiction.

In this week's episode, host KJ Bell talks about the need to make art. Using a quote from the late great Joan Rivers and Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs, he explores the need to create.

Join host KJ Bell this week as he talks about his complicated relationship with faith. He doesn't like the word itself and has issues with the concept. Listen as he talks about how art is a faith based practice, delves into some of the reasoning behind his frustrations, and has a rather significant epiphany.

In today's episode host KJ Bell shares a story about holding on too tight to past hurts. He discusses why releasing such things is important and how do begin working on releasing. Falling back on his singing roots he discusses the role of breath in a creative life.

In today's episode, host KJ Bell talks about truth. He argues that there are two different kinds of truth. Reconciling and dealing with both of them is crucial to living a creative life.

Listen as host KJ Bell talks about connection. He details how fear of it can hold us back from creating, and how essential it is to connect not only to other people, but to our art and ourselves.

In this week's episode host KJ Bell gets real about depression and talks about why we all matter. He explains his theory on why we decide we don't matter and the effects that has on our society, our art, and ourselves.

This week host KJ Bell shares a session recorded months ago, in the midst of frustrations about the world. Listen to his arguments as to why getting to know people who are different from you is one of the best ways you can grow in life.

In today's episode host KJ Bell delves deeper into what it means to practice. He talks about the tools that can be used to unlock creativity through the practice of any activity.

KJ started recording this episode right after wrapping up Episode one. Listen as he talks himself through the spiral of doubt that follows the beginning of this podcast.

In the first episode of An Other Way host KJ Bell introduces himself and the podcast. He talks about how starting a project can be the most difficult thing about creating, and shares some of his favorite stolen tools for enhancing creativity.

KJ Bell introduces his podcast An Other Way: Living a Creative Life