Podcasts about the100dayproject

In this episode, Amy Sylvis sits down with Cathy Zhang to discuss her inspiring journey from a secure W2 at Nike to life as an artist and entrepreneur. Cathy opens up about the strategic steps she took to build credibility in a new space and how she turned a passion project into a sustainable career.  Together, they explore the value of multiple income streams, finding a supportive community, and the evolving concept of abundance through their 20s, 30s & 40s. Cathy also shares the ethos that grew her successful YouTube channel, Easy Sunday Club, and her insights on thriving in the creator economy.  Whether you're contemplating a major career change or interested in entrepreneurial insights, this episode offers valuable advice on embracing change, taking calculated risks, and creating a life of abundance with flexibility and creative freedom. More about Cathy: Cathy Zhang is an artist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Easy Sunday Club, a brand featuring modern paintings, art prints, and baby/children's goods inspired by her expressive painting style. Her artistic journey began at age five but was set aside as she pursued traditional success, earning a psychology degree and an MBA, working in a corporate role at Nike. However, after feeling unfulfilled, a move to Portland reignited her passion for art. Participating in the #The100DayProject reconnected Cathy with painting, and watercolor became her medium of choice for its organic, unpredictable nature. In 2019, Cathy and her family relocated to Los Angeles, where she continued growing her business and embraced the vibrant creative community. Alongside her husband, Cathy also co-founded a YouTube channel to help artists navigate the business side of creative entrepreneurship, offering practical strategies and tutorials to support others in building sustainable art careers. Connect with Cathy: https://www.easysundayclub.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/easysundayclub Connect with Amy Sylvis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amysylvis Contact Us: https://www.sylviscapital.com https://www.sylviscapital.com/webinar 0:00 Preview 01:54 Why Cathy left her corporate job at Nike 03:56 Defining abundance in your 20s, 30s & 40s 07:16 Telling her husband she's quitting Nike 11:28 The delicate dance of dealing with external judgment 13:44 Finding community as an entrepreneur 17:52 Abundance is knowing when it's enough 21:49 Biggest adjustment from W2 to entrepreneur 24:07 How Cathy's YouTube took off by giving back 29:20 Transitioning to entrepreneurship: All in or take it slow?

On the 100th episode of the podcast, Lindsay Jean Thomson shares all about #The100DayProject!It's a free global creativity challenge and this year's start date was announced during the episode. Taking part is pretty straightforward - you pick something and do it every day for 100 days, sharing online as you go.#The100DayProject, in its current form, celebrated its 10th anniversary last year and it's going strong! The concept was originally developed by Michael Bierut and in 2014, Elle Luna and friends brought the project online. Lindsay started as a participant in this global art project and loved it so much she became a co-leader of the initiative in 2017. On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Lindsay about this year's event and how you can get involved, the goals of #The100DayProject, how people come up with their project ideas and the impact of participating. Show Notes- Website - the100dayproject.org- Substack - the100dayproject.substack.com- Instagram:    #The100DayProject @dothe100dayproject   Lindsay @lindsayjeanthomson- The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna- Five Years of 100 Days by Michael Bierut----Creative Pulse Podcast socials:  Instagram: creativepulsepodcast  Twitter: @CreativePulseTWMusic credit: https://www.purple-planet.com

Can you believe it?! It's already time to celebrate the halfway point of The 100-Day Project! Today, I'm chatting about the BELONG Retreat with author, Karen Kingsbury, songs of the heart, and my favorite four-lettered word. Plus, our new segment: 100 Days of S.O.N.G. — listen along for the songs I'm Singing, my Observations of the week, what's Noteworthy, and what I'm Grateful for. *The 100-Day Project is a free global art project that takes place online. The idea is you'll practice a creative project every day for 100 days and share your process through social media. You can follow along on Instagram and subscribe here for updates.

Today, I'm chatting about the wonders of digital painting, the rarity of double yolks, and why I love my favorite local arts organization: Daybreak Arts. Also, our new segment: 100 Days of S.O.N.G. — listen along for the songs I'm Singing, my Observations of the week, what's Noteworthy, and what I'm Grateful for… including words by Ann Voskamp and how to cultivate “good soil” in your life. *The 100-Day Project is a free global art project that takes place online. The idea is you'll practice a creative project every day for 100 days and share your process through social media. You can follow along on Instagram and subscribe here for updates.

Creative projects, haircuts, and so many emails… oh my! This week, I'm talking about vulnerability and what I've learned about body-positivity. Also, our new segment: 100 Days of S.O.N.G. — listen along for the songs I'm Singing, my Observations of the week, what's Noteworthy, and what I'm Grateful for… including words by C.S. Lewis AND Led Zeppelin. *The 100-Day Project is a free global art project that takes place online. The idea is you'll practice a creative project every day for 100 days and share your process through social media. You can follow along on Instagram and subscribe here for updates.

Learn about The 100 Day Project and how Quynh is participating, plus the strategies that are helping her achieve her goal. How do you stick to a goal and see it through to the end? It's really hard! We all want to build new habits and skills, and we all have projects we want to finish. In our latest episode of Paper Talk, we chatted about how Quynh is participating in The 100 Day Project. It was founded by Lindsay Jean Thomson as a way to commit people to working on a specific project daily for—you guessed it—one hundred days. Quynh's goal is to work on video: shooting, editing, sharing, all of it. You can hear more about how she's doing this, including lots of tips that you can use for editing and posting your own videos. Here's what you'll learn when you listen to our conversation: ► What The 100 Day Project is, and how Quynh is participating.► Tips for using Instagram Reels.► How and where to edit videos, including stabilizing shaky video.► What to look for in a camera and what to avoid.► How we've been pampering ourselves lately If you can't listen right away, get started with these three things we love about The 100 Day Project that you can use to accomplish goals and finish projects. Be Consistent To reach the end, you have to take lots of steps. If you don't want your project to take years and years, or never get finished, you have to make consistent progress. The 100 Day Project is great in that it pushes people to do something everyday. That's how habits are formed. That's how you move steadily towards the finish line. “I think that's one of the biggest things about creating, is being consistent. So everyday doing something.” -Jessie If you have something you'd like to work on, setting a daily goal is a great start. Quynh committed herself to taking a video everyday. That's a flexible goal that doesn't have a huge time commitment. You don't need to set aside hours and hours a day if you're being consistent daily. Make a Public Commitment Quynh uses the hashtag #The100DayProject to tag her progress on Instagram. Everyone else participating does the same thing. If you miss a day, people might notice. That pressure can be a useful tool when trying to accomplish something. It motivates you to keep up. “It's so hard to be accountable just to yourself.” -Jessie In your own life, you can find ways to build in this accountability. For example, we have long leaned on each other for advice, collaboration, and very importantly, a way to keep each other on track. When someone else knows about your goal, you'll be much less likely to skip out on those smaller steps since you'll know they'll ask about them soon! Keep Practicing Your music teacher was right. You need practice! “I just know in past things that I've done, the more that I do it, the more time that I touch and repeat it and practice and practice, the better I'm going to be at it.” - Quynh The more you work towards your goal, building in consistency and accountability, the easier it will become. Practicing those good habits will lead to them feeling more natural, just a regular part of your day. And as you work regularly towards a goal, you'll get better at that skill! It's a win all around. Listen to the podcast to hear more about the skills Quynh has been building on her 100 day journey, plus lots of tips she's picked up along the way. Also, here's the PDF format for THE WHY WORKSHEET that you can download for free. ********** Join our Facebook group where you can share, connect, and grow with us. Please also consider donating on our website to help us keep producing great content like this. Thank you for your support! www.papertalkpodcast.com

Week Four finds us celebrating our first milestone of #The100DayProject – we're ¼ of the way through! This week I'm talking about Tennessee's Spring of Deception and highlighting Emily P. Freeman's “These Are the Days” series and why I, too, am finding that we're living in a season of AND. Also, our new segment: 100 Days of S.O.N.G. — listen along for the songs I'm Singing, my Observations of the week, what's Noteworthy, and what I'm Grateful for. *The 100-Day Project is a free global art project that takes place online. The idea is you'll practice a creative project every day for 100 days and share your process through social media. You can follow along on Instagram and subscribe here for updates.

What a difference the sun makes! Nashville has gotten a taste of spring weather this week and that natural Vitamin D has breathed new life into my bones and creative energy! In our new segment: 100 Days of S.O.N.G. — listen along for the songs I'm Singing, my Observations of the week, what's Noteworthy, and what I'm Grateful for. *The 100-Day Project is a free global art project that takes place online. The idea is you'll practice a creative project every day for 100 days and share your process through social media. You can follow along on Instagram and subscribe here for updates.

Where did the week go? Did it fly by for you, too? Today, I talk about the themes I'm noticing and what other works I'm sourcing for inspiration. Plus, our new segment: 100 Days of S.O.N.G. — listen along for the songs I'm Singing, my Observations of the week, what's Noteworthy, and what I'm Grateful for. *The 100-Day Project is a free global art project that takes place online. The idea is you'll practice a creative project every day for 100 days and share your process through social media. You can follow along on Instagram and subscribe here for updates.

It's been a weird Week One of #The100DayProject*... but weird times impact creativity! Today, I talk about the themes I'm noticing and what other works I'm sourcing for inspiration. Plus, we introduce a new segment 100 Days of S.O.N.G. — listen along for the songs I'm Singing, my Observations of the week, what's Noteworthy, and what I'm Grateful for. *The 100-Day Project is a free global art project that takes place online. The idea is you'll practice a creative project every day for 100 days and share your process through social media. You can follow along on Instagram and subscribe here for updates.

#the100dayproject starts today.  I've got sketching on the mind and getting better at something one day at a time.  Come join me! 

Scott Watson and Ken Freestone talk about the #The100DayChallenge which they are both participating in. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Notes:The Verbivore talks about using free writing as part of her journaling practice - both on a regular basis and also as a coping strategy when she's emotionally or physically triggered by something. Here are a couple articles that talk about how this practice could look:Freewriting | The Writing Process - MIT GSL ClassJournal Writing Tips: The Benefits of FreewritingWhat Does It Mean to Be “Triggered?” Fable mentions that one year she participated in the The100DayProject by writing a vignette about something she experienced in the day, writing it as she would a story. This is an initiative where every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of creating. If you're interested in participating in 2022, it starts on February 13, 2022.Books & Movies Mentioned:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne LamottDusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage by Anne LamottStitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair by Anne LamottI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth GilbertOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen KingThe Writing Life by Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie DillardMusic from: https://filmmusic.io 'Friendly day' by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

I have a confession… I suck at challenges. DISCLAIMER Colorful words may be used. don't be alarmed. NEWSLETTER https://view.flodesk.com/pages/61525a85337f1c2aacf52f6d Etsy Shop is open! https://www.etsy.com/shop/CGBPrints FIND ME ON ALL THE THINGS Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cindyguentertbaldo YouTube - https://youtube.com/c/CindyGuentertBaldo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/llamaletters/ Discord - https://discord.gg/Rwpp7Ww Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/llamaletters/ Website - www.cindyguentertbaldo.com STUFF I MENTIONED 100 Day Project - https://the100dayproject.org/ Inquiries - cindy@cindyguentertbaldo.com   TRANSCRIPTION I've got a confession to make my friends. I really suck at challenges. Hi everyone. Welcome back to the uncurated life podcast. And today I just, I need to talk about this. I need to tell you about my suckiness at challenges and why I think that might be why you might suck at challenges and what I think might happen as we move forward.   But before I do. Just a quick reminder. My shop will be closing this Friday, December 10th for the rest of 2021 to avoid any mishaps with shipping because the shipping world right now is a shambles. So I want to make sure that if you have anything you want to order for gifts or anything like that, that you get them in time, at least as best as I can control it.   So yeah, if you have any orders you want to put in. Of like prince or whatever, whatnot for the holidays, make sure to get them in by the 10th. I will still continue to ship out until I'm done shipping out, but that's when everything's going to close and then I will reopen it in January. Anyway, move forward.   Sucking the challenge. So here's the thing, here's the irony of this situation. I have been hosting two challenges for several years now. My alum love lettering every damn day challenge, which encourages you to letter a little bit every damn day to get practice, because it's the only way you're going to get better.   Right. And the other one is random doodles, which I just started doing myself before. It was a challenge and people liked it. So I started doing that. And again, it's meant to do a little bit of doodling every day to get better at it right now. In the last year or so though, I haven't actually participated in either of my challenges.   I have created them and posted them. I have sometimes set up a section of my bullet journal to do them, and then I don't do them. And one just it's like, am I bored? Like, what's the question here? What, why, why is it that I put the effort into putting these out there? And then I don't do them. Well, first of all, I will add that I put them out there because other people ask for them, but I I'm just not into it.   And you would think, okay, we'll find one that you're into, but I haven't really done that either. So. To kind of start this when I'm talking about challenges, what I'm referring to mainly is creative challenges that you can find on the internet, like creative type challenges, geared towards getting you to do something every day, something specific for a specific amount of time.   Usually because they want, the challenge is geared towards you getting practice at something, building a habit of something, helping you find inspiration. Blah-blah-blah, there's a bunch of challenges out there, including some that are relatively well known, especially in creative communities. Like the a hundred day project where you pick some kind of creative thing and you do it everyday for a hundred days.   The new one is starting, I think in January. And I have been considering doing it, but doing it on my own terms. But ironically, again, I'm doing an episode about how I suck at challenges and then thinking, oh, but maybe I'll do that now. Who fucking knows another one? That's pretty well known in the art world is ink Tober.   Where are you going to list of prompts? And you're supposed to draw something with ink every day, for a month with the, the idea, being that by drawing it with ink, instead of penciling in, you have to like, go with what you draw rather than make I making mistake. I don't know something like that anyway. So my challenges are a month long and therefore lettering and doodling, like I said, The idea here is to, especially to get in the habit of something.   If you do something every single day for a month or for a hundred days, or whatever, the chances of you building a habit are higher than if you weren't doing anything at all. I vibe with that, I vibe with the idea of doing a little bit of something every single day to build the habit I vibe with somebody else, giving you creative prompts to help you like spur your creative.   I held a vibe with the idea of practicing every day, because it's the only way you're going to get better. And I make my own challenges because I think that it's fun to get different people's perspectives out there. So why do I suck at actually doing them? I started to try and brainstorm why I thought no, I'm going to also say upfront.   I don't think I have any answers in this video. I'm sort of musing here to try and figure some shit out, but I will tell you. Maybe my thought process will help. Like you may be able to light something in you, and then you can tell me because you found the answer and then we'll all be happy. I don't know.   But the first thing that kind of came to mind was the length of time. So there have been times where I've set myself a challenge for like a week and I've usually done pretty well with that. So maybe I need a weekly challenge. Maybe, maybe doing something for a month or for a hundred days is just too long.   And I just need something to inspire me for a week. Maybe that's it. I don't know. But maybe for some people, a week's not long enough, maybe it's what I'm doing. So one of the things I learned with the a hundred day project was if it's too complicated, I'm not going to do it. If it's something I feel like I don't need to do.   Then I'm not going to do it. I have to be really, really interested and engaged with what I'm doing to have a higher chance of following through and not getting bored with it. So I'm similar to those people who, when I was a kid, I would like bounce like a hummingbird from hobby to hobby. I be super into something and then I would drop it like a bad habit and move forward.   Right. And that's eased a little bit as I've turned into. It ha I still do some of that, but I, it has eased a little bit, but I think it's still manifesting itself in how I approach things like challenges. When I did the a hundred day project the last time it was the farthest I'd ever gotten. I think I got like halfway through it and it was because I gave myself a five minute timer.   I spattered some ink or something on a paper, and then I'd make flowers out of it in a quick timeframe. I think what maybe held me up there was that I was filming it everyday for Instagram, making something content, I think is another way to quickly kill a challenge for me. Does it require me to be in a certain place if it's a creative situation and this is actually something I'm running into with my planning situation at the moment as well.   And it's something that I, I talked about in a recent plan with me. I am trying to kind of come to terms with the fact that because I don't want to work on Saturdays and all of my planners and all of my, everything are down in the basement, which is very much my office. I'm not likely to go down there.   So I kind of lose the thread on Saturdays and. I want to figure out a way to do that. And I don't know if that means separating my personal and work planning completely from each other, because right now there's somewhat separated and keeping my personal planner upstairs and not in the basement, except when I'm actually planning out my week.   That might be a thing I don't know yet, but like, If it's creative and it's something I'm supposed to do every day. If I have to come to my office on like, I'm trying not to do that on Saturdays, because once I enter my office, it's like, it sucks me in like a fucking wormhole when I was living in Napa.   And my office was in the middle of everything. It was a little different, but here, because I'm like walking down into the basement, it's like being summoned to the office alter and it's a little, a little, not what I want on a damn trying to fully take off. Another thing. That's something I've been thinking about is like, why, why am I doing it?   Am I doing it to get better at something? Am I doing it out of a sense of obligation, which is how my challenge has felt for a while. There was a while where I was putting the framework in my planner this last year to do my lettering challenge. But I think I was doing it more out of a sense of obligation.   Like, okay, well I created these challenge. I should do them because otherwise, like, am I a poser? I don't know. Am I doing it to keep up with the internet Jones? You know, I think that when I did December daily or when I limped through the first few days of December daily, a couple of years ago, maybe three or four years ago on flood during blog MIS I think I did it because everybody else was doing it.   And it felt like material for blog, miss. And I was like, I'll probably really like it for getting that my entire life scrapbooking has never been successful for me. Any sort of like scrapbooking, any memory keeping I've tried that before, and it just never seems to work for me. And yet I still. Do it. And so I wonder, like, what is my motivation?   Like is my motivation? I think I'll enjoy it or I'll be good at it. Or is like deep down is my motivation. Like what everybody else is doing. It's I got to keep up with the internet Joneses. I'm fucking fallible. And I am quite susceptible to this shit. You guys, I know that if you're doing a challenge, Situation like that, especially if it's a month or longer, there are going to be times when you're over it, but I ideally you would be all in on it.   So you push through, right? Like when you're doing anything like that, there's going to be times when you're in chanted with it. And then there's times when you're like, fuck this, but the fuck, this moments in order to get through them, you need to be like invested in all in, on not only the process, but also the outcome.   And I don't think I've ever been invested enough. Maybe I'll be invested in the outcome, but not the process or vice versa. I don't think I've found the magic for me of being invested in the why I'm doing it, how I'm doing it, where I'm due, although like the, who, what, where, when, why, whatever fucking shit.   Like, I think that kind of applies to challenges, especially creative ones. And if you can't fulfill enough of those. Then when it gets boring or it gets annoying or it gets tedious. What incentive do you have to finish it? I'm pretty sure that for me, with most challenges I have attempted ever since I started this online.   Been doing things like creative for the public man kind of a situation that my biggest incentive was to not look like an ass because I stopped doing it. When I'm posting on Instagram, that's not a good enough reason. So. I need to like really think is there, do I a, do I need challenges in my life at all?   And B if I do, I need to find one that is, is something that I can be invested enough in, in enough ways that when my tendency to slack off on it or to stop doing. Comes up that I have a reason to keep going enough to push me through keeping going. And if you're hating something and you're miserable doing it, don't fucking do it.   But like, I'm not talking about hating as much as I'm talking about just general annoyance, I guess. So I don't have an answer. As to why I suck at challenges, except maybe that is the answer, right? Maybe it's just, I've just not invested enough in doing them. I'm invested in creating them for you guys, but I'm not invested in actually doing them myself at the moment when it comes to lettering practice, I'm not invested in it because I do enough of that freelance wise to keep me fresh.   I'm not invested in. Like the doodling as well. Like it's I do enough of that for work. So maybe the challenge I need is something that's not work-related so that maybe I can exercise my creativity in another way, but then I need to make sure I've defined why it's important to me, why the outcome is important to me and why the process is important to me enough.   So that, that will help sustain me when I get to the boring part. As for my challenges, you may be asking, why are you still going to do them if you're not invested in them? And I'm not sure yet, I'm not sure if I'm going to keep doing them as of January, or if I'm going to change them, combine them, do something else.   I'm not really sure yet. I know that this year doing the Spotify playlist was so much fun for the lettering challenge and the little scenes for the doodling challenge has been a lot of fun, but I'll be honest. I am burning out on creating them as well. And so I may put those on hiatus and try something different, but I'm not sure yet.   So stay tuned for that and make sure you follow me at Lama letters or check out my newsletter and my website. Everything's linked in the show notes because that's where shit like that is going to pop up. So like you'll, you'll find it eventually. But in the meantime, I'm going to just be okay with the fact that I, I suck at challenges and that I would like to find one that resonates with me, but I'm not going to stress myself out about it because.   W I don't need to keep up with the internet Joneses. I am totally fine. Just doing what I feel like doing. And if everybody and their mother loves doing like all the Allie Edward shit, cause that seems to be where the internet Jones is, tend to hit me. Then Allie Edwards your life away, but I don't really feel like doing it and I'm not good.   And I'm okay with that. If you resonate with this, please share it on Instagram because I would love for other people to find this, because I'm sure there are more of you out there that attempt to do a challenge and then suck at it. And they're like, why the fuck do I suck at this? I feel like I'm not the only one.   So if this resonates with you, share it on Instagram, tag me at Lama letters in your stories, and I will look for it. I'll look it up. In the meantime, don't forget my shop closes this Friday. So check it all out. Everything's linked in the show notes. And until next time friends have a great day and peace out.

Notes:There are many articles with helpful advice online regarding vulnerability hangovers and managing your mental and emotional state throughout the querying process. Here are a few that we connected with:A Vulnerability Hangover and 6 Steps to Overcome It - https://myquestionlife.com/vulnerability-hangover/ 17 Ways to Cope with Rejection While Querying Literary Agents - https://tracycgold.com/17-ways-to-cope-with-rejection-while-querying-literary-agents/ How to Use Detachment From Your Writing Process to Not Feel Like an Imposter - https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-use-detachment-from-your-writing-process-to-not-feel-like-an-imposter-728d7c646eee The Verbivore referenced the imitation exercise that we did last year. This practice came from Mary Oliver’s The Poetry Handbook and was discussed in “Episode 22: Imitation as a way to find your voice”. Here’s the link:https://fableandtheverbivore.com/podcast/episode-22-imitation-as-a-way-to-find-your-voice The Vebivore also referenced the 100 Day Project from 2020 that we participated in. Each day we posted a creative work (written, photographic, drawn, mixed media, etc.) from our personal Instagram accounts to the hashtags #The100DayProject and #imitatelikeawriter. Those entries are still available on Instagram.Books Mentioned:Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. Le Guin Music from: https://filmmusic.io’Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Just a little catch up.   Amazed at how day 75 of #100dayproject is coming along.   Try something for 100 days.  Something you suck at and just see how it goes.  Trust me.  Trust yourself.  Also, a bit of guidance on meditation.

The Coaches Training Institute (CTI) reinforces the idea that we are all naturally creative, resourceful, and whole. And YOU are, just as you are!! On today's wise walk, we are slowing down and considering ways to nurture our creative genius, imagination, and ideas. We also invite you to consider participating in the 100-Day Project to let your creative imagination and ideas flow.  As we stride together, the questions on our mind are: What creative talent do you want to exercise? Is there something new you are interested in? Will you carve out time to let your creative gifts soar? Remember, your brain incorporates creativity in almost everything you do. Michael Bierut, an acclaimed graphic designer, and author created the 100-Day Project  in 2007 as a workshop for the graduate graphic design students at the Yale School of Art. Lindsay Jean Thomson now facilitates the100dayproject.org, which in 2021 takes place January 31 - May 10. You can find additional information at @lindsayjeanthomson or #the100dayproject.  If the 100-Day Project resonates with your heart, I would love for you to join me, other Striders, and the thousands of others who are taking part around the world. There are no rules, so you do you, and even if you don't take part, please follow to cheer us on.  Would you like some interesting ideas on things you can do? Check out Liz Young on Stacy Julian’s podcast Exactly Enough Time and see her approach to managing her photos or if mosaic stepping stones are more your thing, follow Leigh Farrow @LPFarrow or #PiecefulPath. No matter what you choose to do, remember to document your adventure and put it in your Value Vault, you deserve this investment in yourself, your creativity and the artist within you.    In this episode: [00:09] Welcome to the show! [02:36] Our brains incorporate creativity into almost everything we do. [04:31] Today, we will slow down and discuss ways to nurture our creative genius. [04:47] What creative talent do you want to exercise and make stronger? [04:56] Is there something new that you are interested in or want to learn? [05:03] And how will you carve out time to make space for your creative gifts and abilities to flourish? [06:00] Listen as I discuss what the 100-day Project is. [09:11] What do you want to get out of the 100 days, and why is it important to you? [11:35] You can pick something simple and repetitive, or something that is meaningful to you and sustainable. [13:45] We are all artists! [15:32] Take time today to brainstorm ideas that support your creative side. [17:03] Follow my friend Leigh at #piecefulpath and see what she is doing for her challenge. [17:55] Whatever you decide to do, be sure to document every day and put it in your Value Vault. [18:36] Thank you so much for listening!   Memorable Quotes "We are all naturally creative, resourceful and whole just as we are."  "I had limited thinking on what creativity was."  "Every single thing we do is a creative element."  "Our brains incorporate creativity into almost everything we do."  "We are all artists; the key is to believe in ourselves and make time for your imagination and ideas to flow."    Links and Resources Mary Tess Rooney Email Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram

Welcome to Season 3 Episode 2 of The Bliss Broker Podcast! Some things I touch on in this episode. How my separation has helped me learn more about how I can be a better human. The 40 day #MovementChallenge ~ The 100 Day Project >>> www.The100dayproject.org To close: Start your day with this powerful question everyday and see what happens! (listen to find out more) Join us in the Free community online: FB group @Sparkchasers and Instagram @TheBlissBroker & @Theblissbrokers100dayprpoject www.TheBlissBroker.com for more! Remember: "Go do something good for yourself more importantly do something good for someone else!" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theblissbroker/support

How does the story in your head change your outlook on life or the direction you go?   Do you tell yourself the same stories over and over?   When was the last time you just listened to your self and looked honestly at yourself?  I try and explain where I am and what is happening in my head!Join me and create something!  https://the100dayproject.org/

 we are born into a world heavy with shoulds, rights and wrongs. growing up in that world we forget that we have the power to change our world. we forget that just because people tell us what we should and shouldn’t do, we can imagine any way to be. and we can always choose our own way forward.elle luna is a designer, painter, writer, and author of “the crossroads of should and must” and co-author of “your story is your power” with susie herrick. she facilitates a global art movement, #The100DayProject, and has previously worked as a designer at IDEO and with teams on apps and websites, including Medium, Mailbox, and Uber.elle is here to remind us that who we are matters and that what we make is ours.some things we talk about: making real the thing you most long to see in the worldhow to transform your story from broken to beautifulthe role of imagining and curiosity in creating your lifethe phenomenon of the shadow artisthow to get to know your "shoulds" so they lead you to your "must" you can learn more about other brave and experimental artists here.and you can follow all things BEYOND and daphne cohn here. 

Elle Luna is a designer, painter and writer, and the author of “The Crossroads of Should and Must.”She facilitates a global art movement, #The100DayProject, where participants create and post something every day for 100 days.She has played a key role in shaping some of the defining products and applications of our time, working as a designer at IDEO, Mailbox, Medium, and Uber.After years as a designer, Elle faced her own crossroads. In a powerful Medium post that went viral, Elle described the realisation that despite her professional success, all she really loved to do was paint. Step by step, while continuing to work full time as a designer, she walked her path toward becoming an artist until she could leave the corporate world behind in pursuit of her MUST.In her first book, “The Crossroads of Should and Must” (Workman Publishing, 2015), Elle explains “There are two paths in life: should and must. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again. And every day, we get to choose.”Recently, in early 2018, Elle released her second book, co-authored with Susie Herrick, “Your Story Is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice“. A potently instructive toolkit on self-examination, it lays out how properly defining and understanding our own lives can help form better futures.Elle currently resides in Sausalito, California and online at instagram.com/elleluna#thecrossroadsbetweenshouldandmust#yourstoryisyourpower

Notes:The Verbivore talks about the line “Who do you think you are? Who are you to think that you could walk a road that no one’s ever walked before” from Broadway’s Hadestown. They performed this song “Wait for Me” at the 2019 Tony awards, and this video on YouTube has the part she references starting at timestamp 2:40.The Verbivore mistakenly changes a word in the Yoda quote from Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It is: “The greatest teacher, failure is.”The Verbivore mentions re-framing unease as excitement within my mind. This is known in the scientific community as anxiety reappraisal, and studies have supported that individual performance in a task improves when we tell ourselves “I am excited” rather than “I am nervous”. The Ted Talk “You Are Contagious” by Vanessa Van Edwards discusses this study starting at timestamp 16:32.Fable talks about a paraphrase of the quote: “It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting”. This quote has been attributed to several people, but it looks like it was made by psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan.The Verbivore completely messes up a quote about feeling ready. It is: “Stop letting your potential go to waste because you don't feel confident or ready enough. People with half your talent are making serious waves while you're still waiting to feel ready." - via @thesoulcenteredentrepreneur.The Verbivore references the book Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott as calling out her writing paralysis when it came to moving forward with her novel. Here is the quote that she was referencing:“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”Fable and the Verbivore are participating in the 100 days project, each day posting a creative work (written, photographic, drawn, mixed media, etc.) from their personal Instagram accounts to the hashtags #The100DayProject and #imitatelikeawriter. “The idea is simple: choose a project, do it every day for 100 days, and share your process on Instagram with the hashtag #The100DayProject”.We are keeping the scope of our projects to reflections of or inspiration from other works of writing, art, photography, theater, movies, and music. We will post our pieces along with the inspiration each day starting April 7th, 2020 for 100 days. We invite you to join us in exploring creativity together.Additional information for the 100 days project can be found at: https://www.the100dayproject.org/Books Mentioned:The Writing Life by Annie DillardAdorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making by Andrew PetersonSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne LamottMusic from: https://filmmusic.io’Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

The concept of 100 days has been a popular benchmark in politics with U.S. Presidents since the days of FDR, but it may now be more celebrated as a popular social media movement which apparently started when in 2007, Michael Bierut challenged his graduate design students at Yale to repeat a design operation for 100 days. Committing to something small for 100 consecutive days can change your life—or at least help you reach goals, refine your craft, accomplish otherwise overwhelming or monotonous chores and become a happier person. If you would like to practice greater awareness or dive into a creative project—this episode is for YOU. On today’s show I have not one, but two guests who are both fans of using 100 days to better themselves, Liz Young and Janelle Horsely. Liz and Janelle are both currently enrolled in my 20in20 course. Liz Young and family Janelle Horsely and family Liz and Janelle will share their advice and biggest take aways from their personal experiences with #The100DayProject and #100HappyDays and I predict after listening you may just be persuaded to join with me and thousands of others—starting April 7th—for the 2020 session. This Covid-19 pandemic begs to be recorded with details and personal observations, so I’m committing to 100 days of journal entries—some with photos. And since most of us have more time on our hands than usual it is a fantastic time to start a new project or reconnect with a beloved hobby. Intrigued? Learn more about the 100 Days Project and then if you still need encouragement you’ll want to read this: How to Have a Successful 100 Day Project . Once you’re convinced, you LOVE this PDF designed to help you track your progress!Pictured here is the Reflection Guide which helps you articulate and record ahead of time your purpose and the specifics of your plan—including the ways you can simplify and make time and space. Writing down how you will get back on track when you slip and who you can reach out to for support are also helpful tactics. Both of my guests speak to the incredible sense of accomplishment you’ll enjoy at the end of this adventure—so don’t forget to also plan how you will celebrate!

Después de todos los cambios que ha traído el coronavirus, nos mantenemos cuerdas en esta cuarentena total con el proyecto de 100 días #The100DayProject.

Notes:Fable mentions the poetry writing exercise that we completed and discussed in “Episode 12: Here Are My Words”, where we read poems and then attempted to recreate the works from memory or immitate the voice or style of the work with our own words. This idea came from Mary Oliver’s book The Poetry Handbook.Fable and the Verbivore are participating in the 100 days project, each day posting a creative work (written, photographic, drawn, mixed media, etc.) from their personal Instagram accounts to the hashtags #The100DayProject and #imitatelikeawriter. “The idea is simple: choose a project, do it every day for 100 days, and share your process on Instagram with the hashtag #The100DayProject”.We are keeping the scope of our projects to reflections of or inspiration taken from other works of writing, art, photography, theater, movies, and music. We will post our pieces along with the inspiration each day starting April 7th, 2020 for 100 days. We invite you to join us in exploring creativity together.Additional information for the 100 days project can be found at: https://www.the100dayproject.org/Books Mentioned:A Poetry Handbook by Mary OliverOn Writing by Stephen King - Page 173-178The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of Love and High Adventure by William GoldmanThe Silent Gondoliers: A Novel by William GoldmanTill We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis - Page 3The Writing Life by Annie Dillard - Page 85-88Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth GilbertMusic from: https://filmmusic.io’Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Jenna Britton writer, podcaster, speaker, and Stop Writing Alone community member discusses writing personal essay, the joy of writing an email newsletter, the struggles and empowerment found when embracing imperfect action, and her latest endeavor into podcasting.  ___ FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVER AFTER SPRING WRITING RETREAT with Nicole Rivera & Sam Kimberle, follow this link https://mailchi.mp/898c01af51e2/everafter2020  __ Mentioned in this episode: Jenna Britton’s website (where you can sign up for Jenna’s Sunday newsletter!!) https://www.jennabritton.com/ Brave Enough To Be podcast https://braveenoughtobe.com/  Jenna Britton on Medium https://medium.com/@jennabritton  Jenna Britton’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jennabrittonwrites/ The Four Tendencies Quiz https://quiz.gretchenrubin.com/ #the100day project https://www.the100dayproject.org/ Creative Pep Talk (Andy J. Pizza’s podcast) http://www.creativepeptalk.com/ Stop Writing Alone Episode 19: Writing Class Radio https://stopwritingalone.com/2019/05/30/episode-19-writing-class-radio-interview-with-allison-langer-and-andrea-askowitz/  EVER AFTER SPRING WRITING RETREAT application https://mailchi.mp/898c01af51e2/everafter2020  Stay connected to learn about all Stop Writing Alone stuff -- get on Nicole’s email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Buy Nicole a coffee (AKA support the podcast!) https://ko-fi.com/stopwritingalone   Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself: Stop Writing Alone FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/stopwritingalone/ Join the Stop Writing Alone with Nicole Rivera FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2205774733034348/ Stop Writing Alone website: https://stopwritingalone.com/ Join the Stop Writing Alone email list: https://mailchi.mp/ff8df93e57dc/penpals  Stop Writing Alone Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/stopwritingalone/  Nicole’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/nv_rivera  The Stop Writing Alone voice number (call to introduce yourself!): (646) 907-9607    When you find a group of people who lift you up on a daily basis, it is important to share their awesome. Here are links to the women in Nicole’s Mastermind group (currently going by the name The Voxer Vixens!). Please support these women who do so much to support Nicole on a daily basis! Kim A. Flodin https://www.howinthehellpodcast.com/ Lisa Murray https://ihavedreamsdammit.com/ Claire Oldham West https://slimmingstories.podbean.com/ Johanna Jaquez-Peralta https://www.instagram.com/latina_livin_keto/ Emma Isaacs https://www.instagram.com/emmaisaacsdesign/   

Annie Riker is an artist and designer who loves exploring mountains, forests, coffee shops, and the unknown. She works from her home studio and lives with her husband and son in beautiful Asheville, NC. For 15 years, she served clients in design firms and ad agencies, and for a big nonprofit in Washington DC. After the birth of her son, she felt a strong desire to spend more time with him—but that meant making the tough decision to leave her big career behind, and it also made her realize how attached she had been to her professional identity. She spent the first year of her son’s life as the primary caretaker while trying to get in a little drawing time during his naps. As much as she adored her new beautiful baby, she felt a loss of identity and missed having time to create. Over time, she gave permission to herself to have both. With dedicated morning time to herself to create art, she feels like a better mother. And having afternoon time to play with her son makes her a better artist. She’s currently working on a personal Asheville illustration project called “100 Reasons I Love Asheville,” which is self-initiated, but in tandem with a global creative movement called “The 100 Day Project.” #The100DayProject is open and free to anyone who wants to create and share something of their own choosing each day for 100 days. Annie loves this 100-day challenge because the energy of knowing so many other people are participating keeps her accountable with a strong reason to follow through (which is hard with self-initiated projects!). While some might see posting daily as a lot of pressure, she feels a release of pressure to make something "perfect" because she just has enough time to keep making and see what happens and maybe edit later. This is Annie’s third year participating in the project. Last year, she created #AnnieChoosesJoy which was an inspirational handlettering project. The year before that, she created #PaintingsOfThingsIKept , a series of watercolor paintings of items that she and her husband kept in their house after going through a 6-month “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” decluttering process. We discuss: 1. The importance of sharing one’s story. 2. Annie’s story of becoming an artist and designer. 3. What it means to follow your heart in the design world. 4. Owning the role of “expert” and what happens when you step into your greatness. 5. The Joy of Stickers 6. Balancing Motherhood and the Call of an Artist Show Notes: The 100-day project is first known to have been started by a famous designer | Michael Bierut Elle Luna, author of | The Crossroads of Should and Must NPCA Logo Project | https://www.annieriker.com/npca-logo NPCA Magazine Cover | https://www.annieriker.com/national-parks-magazine-cover-illustration Franny’s Farm Goat Yoga | https://frannysfarm.com/goat-yoga-asheville/ Stickers: Annie never thought she’d get into stickers so much, until she moved to Asheville and discovered it was part of the culture! It has been a really fun way for her to be able to share her art with everyone in an affordable way. And sharing her art brings her just as much joy as making the art. You can currently find them locally at: Zen and Now | @zenandnow_asheville Asheville Community Yoga | @ashevillecommunityyoga Duncan and York | @duncanandyork ETC Consignment Asheville | @etcconsignmentasheville Mountain Merch |@mtnmerch Baked Pie Company | @bakedpiecompany Bad Craft Black Mountain | @badcraft828 You can follow Annie’s latest work on Instagram @annieriker or visit her website at www.annieriker.com to see her full portfolio.

Andy J. Pizza is an American illustrator, podcaster, and public speaker. You may also know him as the founder of the much-loved podcast, Creative Pep Talk podcast. In this episode, Andy shares his boundless enthusiasm and lays down some wisdom on: reciprocity in creative work the key to finding your creative voice working it out in the work how your art can make a bigger impact This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing including social media management, email marketing, blog writing, and more. For a free consultation, visit goinggraphic.com and mention #The100DayProject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Hope Meng is a graphic designer and branding studio founder with a focus on typography and lettering. In this episode, we talk about how to bring your different interests together (a big theme this season, lots of multi-passionate creatives!), sustaining long-term projects, and how to prioritize your project. This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing including social media management, email marketing, blog writing, and more. For a free consultation, visit goinggraphic.com and mention #The100DayProject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Nkechi is a talented multi-hyphenate – neuroscientist, mindfulness expert, choreographer. It's actually one of the reasons I invited her on the show. As a creative person with many interests, how do you bring them all together? Especially at this point in the project where it's not uncommon to lose a little steam (or maybe a lot of steam), how do you draw deeper? Elle says that this is when the project really starts – when you get bored, when you run out of ideas, when you have no idea how to continue – what do you do then? How do you show up for the things that really matter to you? Where to find Nkechi online: on Instagram @ndnlifestylist her website This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing including social media management, email marketing, blog writing, and more. For a free consultation, visit goinggraphic.com and mention #The100DayProject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Holy crap has it been a long time since I've sat down to record an episode of the show. How have 8 whole months passed?! I've sat down to record a few times in that span, but never knew how to start it or what I would even say. It feels like so much has changed that I didn't know if I could truly encapsulate what has been happening for me.  This episode hits all of the big strokes of what's been going on for me over the last 8 months — big and small — and where things are heading.    Hope you'll take a listen!    And if you'd like to connect after the episode, you can find me over on Instagram (@emilylevenson) or through email at emily@madewithlev.com.       

Adam and Robyn are hilarious and insightful and we cover so much in this episode – how to create space to be yourself, higher powers, hoodies, Instagram culture, and more. About Adam + Robyn: Adam J. Kurtz (aka ADAMJK) is an artist and author. His books including 1 Page at a Time have been translated into over a dozen languages and his “very personal” work for clients like Facebook and Urban Outfitters has been featured in the New Yorker, VICE, Adweek and more. His latest book, Things Are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives is a handwritten essay collection that digs into the emotional realities of being any type of modern day creative person. Robyn Kanner is a storyteller with a focus in writing and design. Her writing on culture has appeared The New York Times, The Atlantic, Broadly, The Cut, and others. She’s led product design at Amazon and Etsy. In 2014, Robyn founded MyTransHealth to ease frustrating challenges trans people face finding quality healthcare. In 2018, she released Friends With Secrets. Robyn’s work has been featured in TechCrunch, Fast Company, The Verge, Business Insider, and Vox, to name a few. This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing including social media management, email marketing, blog writing, and more. For a free consultation, visit goinggraphic.com and mention #The100DayProject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year Of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to majestic, room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Following long careers at Apple and in the music industry, she launched her studio in 2015. Select clients include IBM, the Four Seasons, and the National Geographic Society, and her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times and Martha Stewart. In 2017, Facebook acquired an edition of The Year of Knots. Windy’s book about her work will be published by Abrams in 2019. In this episode, Windy and Lindsay talk about what makes a good long-form project, how to define success for yourself and your project, and more. This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing including social media management, email marketing, blog writing, and more. For a free consultation, visit goinggraphic.com and mention #The100DayProject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Aside from roller skating the treacherous streets of Los Angeles, Zang splits his time between performing Salsa at dance festivals across the world, and his day job as guitarist, producer, and music-video director in the American alt-pop group MAGIC GIANT. The band has played festivals such as Coachella, made TV appearances including The Today Show, broken the top 25 on the US Alternative Chart, and was named one of “10 Artists You Need to Know” by Rolling Stone. In this episode, Zang and Lindsay talk about the ebbs and flows of collaboration, how to "kill your darlings," and why it's totally okay to make something bad at first. This podcast is sponsored by Going Graphic. Going Graphic specializes in logo design, print design, and marketing including social media management, email marketing, blog writing, and more. For a free consultation, visit goinggraphic.com and mention #The100DayProject. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist, and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help women who are ready to break up with diet culture. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She is a contributor for Forbes and pens a weekly column called Take the Cake on Ravishly.com. Tovar edited the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012) and The Feminist Press published her manifesto, You Have the Right to Remain Fat (August 2018). Her new book, FLAWLESS: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, comes out in March 2020 from New Harbinger. In this episode, Virgie and Lindsay talk about how to get comfortable being visible and taking up space, why creative work is deeply spiritual, and how to "punch up" your work. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Elle is a painter, designer, author of The Crossroads of Should and Must, and co-author of Your Story is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice. You may also know her from her many years of facilitating #The100DayProject. In this episode, Elle and Lindsay talk about the history of the project, why Elle is passing the baton, creative collaboration, and a new kind of leadership. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the100dayproject/support

Elle Luna + Lindsey Jean Thompson, the creators of #The100DayProject, define the challenge as such: a free global art project that anyone can participate in. That is something we can TOTALLY get on board with.

Sally Harris from 100 Creatives is participating in #the100dayproject on Instagram and for her 100 days, she decided to create a podcast so she could interview 100 creatives in 100 days.  For someone who has never produced a podcast before, this is an incredible feat and she is ROCKING IT!  Hear about her 100 Day Creative Journey, what she plans on doing after her 100 days are up and what she likes most about her new endeavor.   Show Notes I can't believe that I got to interview: Elise Blaha Cripe - @elisejoy on Instagram   Some of my favourite guests so far:  Augusta of Felt Happens (Episode 10)   Jen Blanco (Episode 16)    These ones are upcoming: - Crystal Moody (Episode 25) - Mary Purdie (Episode 30) and Deandre Purdie (Episode 31) (Coming Soon - June 5 and 6)    I'm really enjoying these podcasts at the moment: Happier with Gretchen Rubin  Side Hustle School with Chris Guillebeau Young House Love Has a Podcast  Sorta Awesome      How to Find Sally and Her 100 Creatives Podcast 100 Creatives website Instagram @100.creatives