The Art School Podcast

A little time away from the podcast has given me the perfect opportunity to reflect and learn so much about how we minimize our pain and our suffering, but also our achievements and celebrations. So this week, I'm shining a light on what is actually possible for you, showing you how to see the places where you've been minimizing and ignoring your own gifts, and inviting you to start awakening to the energy of transformation.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/217

Epic artist David Bowie once said, “I've had an incredible life. I'd love to do it again.” As you look back on your life, or even just the past year, what would you love to do again? This applies not only to your creative work, but every area where you have invested your precious time, energy, and life force. And if there is a part of your life that you don't believe was so incredible that you'd love to do it all over again, I'm showing you how it is absolutely possible for you to start living this way from this moment onward.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/216

What is lurking in the shadows for you? Tune in this week to hear some coaching I recently offered a client, tapping into the archetypes that can be at play in the ways that we either resist or run away from the information that darkness offers us. I'm showing you how to identify the demons that are playing in the shadows, and how you can turn toward and befriend them, surrendering with sovereignty, wisdom, power, and an absence of needing to control.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/215

Tune in this week to discover how to make the darkness conscious. I'm sharing where you may have been spending your precious energy running away from the darkness, and how to allow yourself to surrender to the failure and frustration, resting deeply in the rock bottom and feeling safe, before allowing The Glittering Darkness to illuminate the treasure that lies down there.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/214

As we move into December and deeper into the darkest time of year in this hemisphere, I felt compelled to create something that will act as a guiding star as you move through any kind of darkness, whether it's seasonal or metaphorical, and remind you that darkness tends to proceed rebirth. Tune in this week for the first installment in a series all about The Glittering Darkness. I'm inviting you to consider that there are different orientations to darkness, and how to move into The Glittering Darkness.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/213

If I were to tell you to play to your edge, what comes up for you? If you are like I was, it might be a mixture of excitement to grow and evolve, but also anticipating overwork, exhaustion, and feeling deficient. Tune in this week to discover a new way to play to your edge. I'm sharing why playing to your edge doesn't mean you have to be on top of everything, why playing to your edge is all about self-trust, and how to access the absolute gold found in the alchemy of surrender.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/212

Tune in this week to discover an exercise for deep self-inquiry, so you can identify and begin to harvest all the seeds you've been sowing over the course of this year. This whole episode is a Coach with Me, and it will feed your soul and nourish you through a long winter.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/211

Tune in this week to discover the ideas you've internalized about what creativity is supposed to look like and who is worthy of being a creative. I'm sharing a simple exercise to get clear on these paradigms and rigid ways of thinking, and I'm showing you how to start breaking them down and begin exploring all of the ways you can be an affluent artist.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/210

In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the time of year when the veil between worlds is thinnest. So, what better time to knock on the door of your deepest truth, of your unconscious, and ask that the gifts and potential within you be unlocked and allowed to pour through you into the world? The imagination can be an instrument for forces that transcend the human experience, and I'm showing you how to use it to sculpt your life and reality.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/209

Tune in this week to discover why you already have a creative process, if you're willing to listen to it. I'm sharing why the creative process is more intuitive and nonlinear than we often allow ourselves to believe, and the magic that is created when you feed and nourish that which wants to be created through you.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/208

Last week, Sandra shared the story about how a little girl who was raised in a tiny mud hut in Zimbabwe with no running water or electricity became a woman who built seven-figure and eight-figure businesses, losing and finding herself and her alignment in the process. Tune in this week to discover the intricacies of building a life on your own terms, from the inside out. We're discussing the sticking points that keep so many women from valuing their value and sharing their story with the world, and I'm diving into how to find what really lights you up, and why that is what's going to make the biggest impact.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/207

Tune in this week to hear part one of my conversation with entrepreneur, speaker, coach, podcast host, and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Sandra Chuma. Sandra is sharing why the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we could potentially be have the most influence on our lives, and she's sharing her story, going from grinding like she thought she was supposed to in pursuit of success, to instead defining what success means to her, and living it every day.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/206

Tune in this week to discover a new way of reviewing and analyzing the things you've brought into the world, so you can create a little space between you and your work. I'm offering you practical tips for understanding where your mental and emotional energy is focused right now, and how to shift it, so you can start treating your work as just that: your work.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/205

So many creatives struggle to relinquish control enough to actually let flow happen. If you have ever struggled in your life to discern your place between control and intuition, structure and flow, having a plan versus trusting and surrendering, tune in this week. I'm sharing how to recognize this internal conflict and I'm giving you one simple phrase that will serve as a reminder of what works best for you in bringing your creativity to life.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/204

Tune in this week for a reminder of the treasure you've buried deep in the earth, and to receive an invitation to bring it to the surface. I'm sharing the power of allowing enthusiasm to carry you in sharing your creativity with the world, and showing you how to create the kind of sanctuary that allows you to truly explore all that you've buried deep.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/203

Tune in this week to discover why aging beyond possibility is not inevitable, despite what society has conditioned us to believe about what we have to offer the world as we age. I'm sharing some profound thoughts, as well as a powerful question to ask yourself when assessing the horizon of your possibilities that will help you see the gifts you have yet to share.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/202

If you want to create a life that is beyond your wildest dreams and more than you could have ever consciously chosen for yourself, listen closely this week. I'm sharing a story from a client who allowed for the excitement of possibility and now lives an entirely new life, without ever nailing down the how or the why, and I'm inviting you to do the same.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/201

If you've ever felt like you don't feel safe being who you are in the world, or you don't have any evidence that the world can handle you just as you are, tune in this week. I'm showing you how to trust yourself even when it feels like the world around you doesn't, so you can give yourself permission to live a life where you feel truly alive.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/200

This week, I'm sharing an amazing way of tapping into the energy of what wants to happen through you and be released out into the world, and I'm showing you how to decide on the kind of magic you need to let into your life that would make your work flow with ease. Discover how to wave the magic wand that will cast a creative spell on everything you put your mind to work on.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/199

Tune in this week to discover how fear, both external and internal, has been blocking the channels of your creativity and how to instead trust yourself. Learn how to trust the process by dropping the limits of language and leading with your vision and your genius.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/198

In this week's episode, I want to make a case for beauty. I'm presenting a case for how your relationship to beauty can help you to more deeply trust your own instincts while unleashing and nurturing your creative genius, and how embracing beauty can help you cultivate the way of being that makes all of your creative dreams and your biggest goals inevitable.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/197

Whether you feel that your work lacks a certain vitality, or whether you are already feeling very strong in your creative process but want to access something that you know is within you, Creature Mode can be a portal to that. In this episode, I'm continuing the conversation and giving you some real-time examples of what happens when you let your Creature Mode loose on the world.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/196

I'm giving you a brief introduction to what I mean by creature mode today. But more than that, I'm letting you in on a little experiment that I am doing myself. I'm sharing with you what I learned from not thinking, but from doing, from taking action, from engaging my whole self, my creature self, in the creation of new art, and the creation of a brand-new way.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/195

Tune in this week to discover the power of revisiting your original vision, that vision you held before you started worrying about your limitations and watering down your dreams. I'm showing you how to tap into the energy you had when you came up with your vision, and how doing so will light a fire in your heart that ignites your creativity again.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/194

Tune in this week for a unique insight into how I coach my clients and help them uncover their deepest truths and their highest gifts. I'm sharing how I learned that all the reasons I was hiding my process were also the reasons it is so effective and profound, and I'm showing you how to see that it's safe to be unapologetically and authentically you in this life.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/193

Tune in this week to discover the golden threads that are there to be pulled, and the golden threads that you have to offer the world. I'm sharing the knowledge, peace, and creativity that these golden threads will lead you to, and how to follow these threads with deep trust that what you need is waiting on the other side.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/192

Tune in this week to experience the freedom and power of thinking unrealistically. I'm sharing why now is the time to set yourself on an entirely new path, regardless of what you've been told is impossible, and connect with the possibility, power, and potential that lives inside of you.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/191

This week, I'm joined by Kelly Darke, a professional artist, registered art therapist, certified K-12 art teacher, and a celebrated Art School alum. We're going deep on the role that art therapy plays in understanding and healing your soul, how it moves past the sophisticated language and intellect we use to obfuscate the truth, and Kelly is sharing her thoughts on why the truth isn't something to be afraid of, but rather a tool to lift anyone who is willing to explore it.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/190

In this episode, I'm giving you a way to connect to your wildest, most beautiful dreams with the opportunity to make one-degree shifts and changes that are always accessible to you. I'm sharing the benefits of seeing yourself in the best light and offering a question that will help you become familiar with your truth at any given moment.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/189

Tune in this week to discover how realigning your path by just one degree will change your trajectory in incredible ways. I'm sharing inspiration from my clients' lives and my own life, so you can decide where you need to adjust, uncover how you're going to make it happen, and the amazing places you will end up as a result.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/188

Tune in this week as I share some medicine for your soul. I'm sharing a story from my own life where I had lost belief, how my soul was nourished by just one conversation, and how I'm healing. So, if you have something you need to heal, whatever it may be, I'm giving you the questions to ask yourself so you can see the wisdom and the path to healing.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/187

What I want to offer you today is how to continue to move forward with your mending when events in the world can seem to cripple a heart and a spirit as loving and caring and feeling as your own. This is not the episode I had planned, nor is it one I'd ever hoped to do, but in light of recent events, we all need to see how we can bring a little more beauty into this world.     Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/186

Discover how to invite the kind of inspiration and intuition that allows you to transform your creativity and your whole outlook on life. I'm sharing where to find the one line that could become both your spiritual grounding and your guiding star, leaving you guaranteed the value you have to offer the world.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/185

Tune in this week with an open heart because I'm sharing an eye-opening experience and a beautiful conversation that I had with an incredible client, my revelry of this experience, and why for me it holds such meaning and brings genuine joy to see someone I love embracing the moment when love begins.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/184

We often think that there are impressive people that need to be impressed with us if we're going to achieve our goals, but tune in this week to discover why this is simply not the case. I'm sharing why so many creatives live from this misconception, and how to instead embrace your limitations in order to access your potential.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/183

Tune in this week because I'm offering you a beautiful shard that can really mirror back to you a brand new world of possibility in terms of your relationship to your creativity, your relationship to your process, and to the paradox of using this tool of fragments as a way to access your greatest most vast self-concept and work.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/182

Tune in this week for a highly informational dive into your brain's electrochemistry. We have the dials to increase our level of creativity, literally, and I'm showing you how to understand the language and carry out the kind of self-study required for unleashing the full power of your brain as a creative tool.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/181

Discover why there is nothing wrong with you if there is a voice inside that keeps you playing small and disconnected from your truth. I'm sharing why this voice of self-criticism and judgment is so influential, and how you can begin to rewire your neural pathways and begin making the cognitive associations that move your art and your life in the direction you truly want to take it.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/180

This week, I invite you to explore the phenomenal capacities for creativity within yourself so you can do the work of releasing them. Judgment prevents us from releasing these capacities to the world and it stops us from dialoguing with our higher self. So, tune in today to see where judgment is playing a role in your de-genuising and some questions you can ask to start re-genuising.    Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/179

With everything going on in the world, why does capital C creativity matter? This is a question I found myself asking recently, and this episode is my answer for those of you who are also asking it. I hope you will lean into this episode and give yourself the space to ask truly great questions and interact with the greatness within you.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/178

Tune in this week to discover the fundamentals of understanding, harnessing, and working with your emotions to create what you desire for your life. I'm sharing how we do this work in the Art School, and how you can begin to reframe your experience of your emotions right now, so you can extract and apply the wisdom that lies behind them.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/177

Tune in this week to discover how playfulness and fun is a strategy we use in the Art School Mastermind as a channel for your creativity. I'm sharing two exercises you can start on right now to ignite a sense of fun and delight in your work, get your neurons firing, and explore everything that is possible when you engage yourself creatively.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/176

Tune in this week to learn a specific framework for creating miracles. I'm outlining the steps for bringing magic into your own life and the world around you, unwiring the internal messaging that denies your creative genius, and cultivating unwavering self-trust through consistent belief and action.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/175

Discover the ways that your genius and gifts have been discounted by society for far too long, and how to make the leap in consciousness required to reclaim the brilliance you have to offer the world. I'm sharing how to start the work of re-geniusing, and make gold out of the things you might have considered failures.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/174

This episode continues our mini-series where we are moving away from a paradigm of scarcity and not enough, into a place of knowing you are sitting on a goldmine, where you feel safe and empowered to flow your creative genius.   In this particular episode, we're working with three specific manifestations of a thought of not enoughness. One is a thought about your work, that it is not strong or clear enough. Another is that you're not refined enough yet. And the third is the thought that there is still something that you are yet to figure out.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/173

Discover why thinking that you should be further along is not a thought that's serving you. For one, it's not true. But I'm also discussing how these types of thoughts keep you in compare and despair, drowning in shoulds and self-doubt, and taking your focus and energy away from what matters: your magnificence.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/172

Tune in this week to discover how to drop the thoughts of not enough, and instead come at your dreams from a place of sufficiency. We're talking about being Creative with a capital C, and knowing not only that you can climb any mountain, but that you are already sitting on a goldmine and have been this entire time.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/171

Dr. Valerie and I are talking about the importance of creating deep safety and healing from the trauma of Patriarchy Stress Disorder. No matter where you are on your journey, this conversation offers so many moments of clarity and inspiration, along with invitations to go beyond the realizations and embody the transformation that this work offers.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/170

Discover how to become prolific AF. I'm sharing the many reasons why we're often afraid to produce with total freedom, and how to show yourself the unconditional love and trust that is necessary for unleashing your creativity and living a prolifically creative life.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/169

If you feel like you're always on some kind of hamster wheel of problems you need to solve, this episode is for you. Whether it is money, being good enough in your creative work, your weight, or even your relationships, I'm here to tell you that these problems do not define you, and if you stop paying them attention now, they won't define your future either.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/168

Tune in this week to start going all in on your creative dreams in a way that is true and right for you. I'm sharing the self-discovery required and the process for creating the self-trust to start making promises to yourself and pursue your dreams with full authenticity.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.leahcb.com/167