June 23, 2025 • 17 mins
In this second half of Week 3, we’re checking in on what we actually made during the week and how it went.
From sketching on iPads to embracing the “wrong” way that turns out to be exactly right, we’re reflecting on how creativity feels when we let go of pressure and follow what delights us. We talk about the fear of the blank page, the temptation to compare, and how small choices (like lighting a candle or using a different tool) can shift the entire creative process.
✨ This one’s full of gentle reminders:
- Your way is the right way.
- Comparison steals joy - celebration restores it.
- Creativity can be an act of love and connection.
We hope this conversation inspires you to lean into your own process - messy, joyful, unique, and yours.
Thank you so much for listening.
If you know someone who needs this kind of gentle nudge, send it their way. The more kind, creative hearts in this space, the better.
And if something in this episode resonates or makes you smile, come say hi on Instagram @theartpeaceexperiment 🤍
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to the Art Piece Experiment.
(00:06):
We're your hosts, two artistsand friends.
I'm Tasha.
And I'm Brianna.
at the end of 2024 we decided wewanted to cultivate more safety
peace love alignment andexcitement through our art and
our art practices so here we aresharing our journey with you and
(00:28):
we're so excited you're here wehope you enjoy our conversations
they're honest raw just twofriends talking to each other
about the realities of life andcreativity.
We're so excited for you to joinus and be along with us for the
journey.
Welcome to part two of thisconversation.
(00:48):
If you haven't checked it outyet, part one is available.
It's the very first episode ofour podcast.
You might want to listen to thatone first.
If not, if you're just fullyrubbling it and listening to
this episode first, we also lovehaving you here.
Welcome.
This is our first artistcheck-in.
We're going to be talking aboutthe art that we created during
(01:12):
this week.
It's week three of the art pieceexperiment for us.
Without further ado, let's jumpinto the conversation.
So speaking of that, did youpaint this week?
We're kind of long into this andwe're just getting to it.
That's fine.
That was a great conversation.
(01:32):
Yeah, that was good.
I did.
I did do some sketching.
So I did do some artwork thisweek, which was really good.
So it was really interestingbecause I, in the past couple
weeks, have been really tryingto focus on what...
like on what delights me.
Right.
(01:53):
I've said that every singletime.
We'll probably continue sayingthat.
And I love that perspective,but, um, I've tried to make the
art practice a really specialthing.
Right.
But I've only done it liketwice.
And, um, Previously, whenever Iwould sit down to draw art, it
would be like, oh, he's kind ofexcited.
(02:13):
And I would sit down and then itwould be like overwhelmed.
You know, like, oh, the blankpage.
Like, what am I going to do?
And oftentimes that would keepme from even sitting down at–
Fear of the blank page.
The fear of the blank page.
The fear of like not knowingwhat to do or not making it look
good or, you know, whatever.
It was all very fear-based andvery anxiety-based.
(02:37):
But– When I sat down this time,I was kind of feeling that a
little bit before.
And when I actually sat down atmy desk in the place that I had
created that whole atmosphere,it was this instant feeling of
like, calm and safety and peace.
(03:01):
And I hadn't even lit mycandles.
I hadn't even done anything tomake it that atmosphere.
But just because I had done thatthe last couple of times and
really embraced that, justsitting, the act of sitting down
at that same spot made it feelmade those feelings come up
(03:21):
again and made it feel good.
I love that.
And so then I was able to moveforward with, with creating and
it was awesome.
Yeah.
And it was, it was really coolto know that it only took a
couple of times, you know, likeit didn't, I don't know.
It didn't have to be this yearlong thing for me to get to that
(03:42):
place of feeling good.
Um, which, you know, I mean, Idon't know.
Everybody's, Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
(04:08):
You know, at first, like wetalked about earlier, where I
just want to like jump in fullthrottle on things.
And so I'm like, I'm doingtraditional art, which means I
have to sketch it and paint itand do all the things on like on
paper.
And as we were preparing tostart the experiment, I realized
I still want to sketch on myiPad.
I still want to sketch on myiPad.
(04:28):
And I still do some sketches inmy journal.
And, you know, like I do like, Ido enjoy that.
UNKNOWN (04:36):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (04:37):
But giving myself permission of, okay, I'm
starting something super newwith the painting and it's okay
if I want to do the sketches onmy iPad because this is fun for
me.
And so it's like a little bit ofstaying in my comfort zone while
I move forward.
But then I also, I don't havethat major fear of the blank
(04:58):
page anymore.
because I can make a mess on myiPad.
I can get it happily where Iwant it.
I print it out.
I transfer it onto my watercolorpaper.
And then that already, it givesme, it's like, okay, I love the
way this looks.
I'm really excited about it.
(05:19):
And so putting that first markon that paper, on that new blank
page is not so intimidating.
It's not so intimidating.
Yeah.
And, you know, maybe one day Iwill get to the point where I
just draw straight on thewatercolor paper knowing me I
probably won't.
Yeah.
And that's okay.
And that's, you know, but likeit's okay and it's okay, you
know, taking those steps.
(05:40):
And I love that that's like youembracing your process.
Right.
You know, where you started outfeeling like, oh, this is– the
process that i have to do iswith traditional artists i have
to paint you know like i have tosketch on the paper and i have
to do it this way all or nothingbecause that's what everybody
does or that's what people sayyou know but then you realize
(06:02):
like actually that doesn't workfor me you know and this way
feels better to me and so thenyou let yourself do it i feel
like sometimes i just like forcemyself into doing things that
don't actually feel like good tome you know yes because i
because i feel like that's whati'm expected to do or you know
(06:25):
that's what everybody else doesand that's the way you do it and
so i i don't lean into mycreative problem solving or like
my creative right my way ofdoing it right yeah and i think
that you leaning into like doingthe sketch on your ipad and and
then transferring it like thatwas alone was an act of
(06:47):
creativity, right?
Of figuring out a different wayto do it that felt better to
you.
Right.
Right.
And I love that.
I love it too.
Yeah.
And I think that's also whatthis whole experiment is about
is, is finding those ways, youknow, that feel good to us.
Cause that's what we've reallybeen struggling with is like,
(07:08):
well, everybody's telling us todo it this way, but it doesn't
really like, ah, you know, itdoesn't really feel good.
Like I don't, something's likestopping me.
Right.
Because it doesn't really workfor me.
And so that, is what we werewanting to really figure out is
SPEAKER_02 (07:25):
like
SPEAKER_00 (07:26):
how to make this a thriving, a thriving thing
instead of like a, I don't know,stilted, like, like we really
want this, but it's like hard togo about it in the ways that are
within the box.
Right.
That we think that we need to goabout it.
(07:46):
So we're figuring out how to doit outside of the box.
Outside of the box.
Yes, I had an interestingexperience with this week where–
so I did two paintings, twopaintings this week.
Nice.
And my, I guess, fourth one thatI have done– Well, let's see.
(08:08):
Okay, I've done five paintingsin the last three weeks, right?
It's like the fifth one,technically.
The fifth one, even though oneof them was a repaint.
But anyways, okay.
It's really important that youunderstand all of these details.
The fifth one was my bestpainting so far.
SPEAKER_02 (08:24):
Woohoo!
SPEAKER_00 (08:25):
Yeah, and I'm like, I looked back on all of them in
order and I sent you a pictureand I was like, look at this.
Look at this growth.
Look how much growth I've had inthe last few weeks.
This is really exciting.
And was kind of celebratingthat.
And then I sat down and starteddoom scrolling.
But I found some new artists, Imean new to me artists, and was
(08:49):
looking at their work.
And they're watercolor artists.
And I was like looking at theirwork and it's like, oh my gosh,
this is so beautiful.
And it was like botanical, youknow, kind of stuff like I like
to do.
And at first it was just like,oh, this is so fun.
Like seeing what they're doingand what they're working on.
And then it slowly startedfalling into that comparison.
(09:12):
And like, oh, I'm not this good.
And they're so like, oh, likethey're painting with such ease.
ease and confidence and and it'sso beautiful and then i just
have to stop myself and be likeyou've done five paintings five
paintings and you're likescrolling through they've got
like hundreds of paintings onhere wait a minute right right
(09:34):
and it's like even though youhave like you have built this
confidence in working on on youripad and like yeah you know
building patterns and all ofthese other things and you have
do you have that that confidencethere, an ability there.
And it's okay that you're inthis part of your journey.
(09:55):
Okay.
I'm saying this as if I'm nottalking to myself.
It's like, you know, it's okaythat I'm in this place of
learning and like within my ownjourney.
And also what I painted waspretty dang cool.
Like it was good.
It was good.
And I shouldn't lose sight ofthat Like it still feels weird
to me to be like, Oh, celebratemyself.
(10:17):
Like, cause I did not grow upwith that mindset, but I'm
trying to really embrace that.
And, you know, just like, youknow, it's okay to celebrate
your wins and your victories andlike what you did well.
And it doesn't have to compareto where other people are at.
That is such a hard lesson toget, to really like, to really
(10:37):
get into a thing, to get over,you know, the comparison.
SPEAKER_01 (10:41):
Yeah.
UNKNOWN (10:41):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:42):
Oh, because I think we live in a world of
comparison.
You know, that's like all thatwe see all the time is just a
comparison to other people.
Yeah.
And especially since, you know,the social media age.
Right.
That's like such a problem andand so hard.
And so coming coming back tojust we don't need to compare to
(11:04):
the Joneses, you know, like wedon't need to compare to any
other artists or any othercreative person.
Yeah.
We just need to be ourselves.
And flourish.
And let ourselves flourish.
And put beauty into the world.
Yes.
And that's good.
It is good.
And worthy.
Oh, that's a worthy thing to do.
(11:27):
Yeah.
And then, you know, after thatexperience, I had to come back
and be like, you know, what ifthis artist that I really liked
or this artist I really liked orthis artist I really liked or
this musician I really likedstopped sharing what they're
doing?
Like, how...
devastated I would be.
SPEAKER_01 (11:42):
Because
SPEAKER_00 (11:43):
I have a few people that I will, instead of just
scrolling, I'll be like, oh, Iwonder if they posted something
and I will search them and Iwill see because it is uplifting
to me.
It's like this beauty that Iseek and want in my life and I
want to see if they're creatingsomething new and to hear from
them.
SPEAKER_02 (12:02):
And
SPEAKER_00 (12:05):
And, you know, not everyone is going to want to
share their creativity on, like,on Instagram or something like
that.
And that's totally fine.
That's totally valid.
And we're not saying that, like,everybody has to do that.
But, like, what a shame it wouldbe if they weren't putting that
beauty into the world.
Right.
(12:26):
And, you know, we can be thatperson.
SPEAKER_01 (12:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (12:35):
Yeah.
I love that because I mean,yeah, think of somebody, an
artist or a, you know, a singeror somebody that you really love
to follow.
And think of they at thebeginning of their journey
looked at somebody else andsaid, oh, well, they're doing so
much better than me.
And so I should just not eventry.
(12:56):
Yeah.
And then they just didn't,didn't try.
Yeah.
Then what we wouldn't havebecause of that.
Right.
And the same goes for each oneof us.
We all have something to offer.
We do.
We all have beauty inside.
Yeah.
(13:17):
Yeah.
Another example.
So my mom, um, we had this fundynamic where we would go to
restaurants and we would order acouple different things and we'd
share it all and we'd sit thereand we'd eat and then we'd talk
about what ingredients are inthis?
How do you think they made this?
And then can we go home andrecreate it?
(13:38):
Yeah, that's so fun.
It's something that we just loveto do and I wanted to give an
example of something that's notlike a business.
Yeah, right.
It's not on social media.
It's not a business.
There's just those moments ofconnection that were shared from
that creativity.
SPEAKER_01 (13:59):
And
SPEAKER_00 (14:00):
if my mom hadn't been willing to embrace that
side of herself that got curiousand wanted to play and wanted to
have fun, we wouldn't have hadthose moments of connection
that...
made you know my life a littlebit more beautiful and a little
bit more fun yeah it's just it'sso empowering and it's so
(14:21):
important I love that I meanthat made me think about you
know my own mom and and are thethings that we would do I mean
we would make like cards andstuff and with stamps and we
would make jewelry you know likeyeah and those are some of my
favorite
SPEAKER_01 (14:38):
as
SPEAKER_00 (14:39):
a kid, you know, is doing those activities with her.
And it was because she wanted todo that.
She was interested in that.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (14:48):
And, and then we were able to do it together and
she thought, you know, I wouldlike to, but, um, it was, it was
because of her following thatand, and leaning into that
opportunity and that, you know,curiosity and, um, creativity
(15:08):
right that we you know got tosit and we had really great
conversations and that was someof our best like bonding time
SPEAKER_01 (15:16):
you know
SPEAKER_00 (15:17):
and how important is that
SPEAKER_01 (15:20):
yeah yeah
SPEAKER_00 (15:21):
within your own family you know like it's so
important to have those momentsand some of the best times I
mean like making cookies youknow like are some of the best
memories are circled aroundcreative moments yeah sometimes
I feel like creativity is justanother expression of love
(15:43):
that's you know really what itboils down to it's just it's
another it's another way ofsaying I love you yeah and
sometimes it's to yourselfsometimes it's to you know a
child or a spouse or a friend oreven nature or the world like
it's just it's another way ofjust saying I love you yeah
(16:06):
Well, and some of the best giftsthat I've gotten are homemade,
you know, handmade because it'sso meaningful, right?
Because they put in that loveand attention and thought and,
you know, the thoughtfulnessthat goes behind it.
That is creativity.
Yes.
And, and that, yeah, I lovethat.
(16:30):
Creativity is another form oflove.
UNKNOWN (16:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:37):
That's it for today, friend.
Thanks for spending this timewith us.
We hope you're leaving with alittle more light, a little more
peace, and maybe even a nudge togo be creative just because it
brings a little more joy to yourlife.
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thought, or made you smile, we'dlove it if you'd follow the
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(16:58):
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And remember, your creativitymatters.
Your voice matters.
You matter.
We're cheering you on Always.
Until next time, keep making,keep softening, and keep showing
up as your whole beautiful self.
Welcome to the Art Piece Experiment.
(00:06):
We're your hosts, two artistsand friends.
I'm Tasha.
And I'm Brianna.
at the end of 2024 we decided wewanted to cultivate more safety
peace love alignment andexcitement through our art and
our art practices so here we aresharing our journey with you and
(00:28):
we're so excited you're here wehope you enjoy our conversations
they're honest raw just twofriends talking to each other
about the realities of life andcreativity.
We're so excited for you to joinus and be along with us for the
journey.
Welcome to part two of thisconversation.
(00:48):
If you haven't checked it outyet, part one is available.
It's the very first episode ofour podcast.
You might want to listen to thatone first.
If not, if you're just fullyrubbling it and listening to
this episode first, we also lovehaving you here.
Welcome.
This is our first artistcheck-in.
We're going to be talking aboutthe art that we created during
(01:12):
this week.
It's week three of the art pieceexperiment for us.
Without further ado, let's jumpinto the conversation.
So speaking of that, did youpaint this week?
We're kind of long into this andwe're just getting to it.
That's fine.
That was a great conversation.
(01:32):
Yeah, that was good.
I did.
I did do some sketching.
So I did do some artwork thisweek, which was really good.
So it was really interestingbecause I, in the past couple
weeks, have been really tryingto focus on what...
like on what delights me.
Right.
(01:53):
I've said that every singletime.
We'll probably continue sayingthat.
And I love that perspective,but, um, I've tried to make the
art practice a really specialthing.
Right.
But I've only done it liketwice.
And, um, Previously, whenever Iwould sit down to draw art, it
would be like, oh, he's kind ofexcited.
(02:13):
And I would sit down and then itwould be like overwhelmed.
You know, like, oh, the blankpage.
Like, what am I going to do?
And oftentimes that would keepme from even sitting down at–
Fear of the blank page.
The fear of the blank page.
The fear of like not knowingwhat to do or not making it look
good or, you know, whatever.
It was all very fear-based andvery anxiety-based.
(02:37):
But– When I sat down this time,I was kind of feeling that a
little bit before.
And when I actually sat down atmy desk in the place that I had
created that whole atmosphere,it was this instant feeling of
like, calm and safety and peace.
(03:01):
And I hadn't even lit mycandles.
I hadn't even done anything tomake it that atmosphere.
But just because I had done thatthe last couple of times and
really embraced that, justsitting, the act of sitting down
at that same spot made it feelmade those feelings come up
(03:21):
again and made it feel good.
I love that.
And so then I was able to moveforward with, with creating and
it was awesome.
Yeah.
And it was, it was really coolto know that it only took a
couple of times, you know, likeit didn't, I don't know.
It didn't have to be this yearlong thing for me to get to that
(03:42):
place of feeling good.
Um, which, you know, I mean, Idon't know.
Everybody's, Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
(04:08):
You know, at first, like wetalked about earlier, where I
just want to like jump in fullthrottle on things.
And so I'm like, I'm doingtraditional art, which means I
have to sketch it and paint itand do all the things on like on
paper.
And as we were preparing tostart the experiment, I realized
I still want to sketch on myiPad.
I still want to sketch on myiPad.
(04:28):
And I still do some sketches inmy journal.
And, you know, like I do like, Ido enjoy that.
UNKNOWN (04:36):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (04:37):
But giving myself permission of, okay, I'm
starting something super newwith the painting and it's okay
if I want to do the sketches onmy iPad because this is fun for
me.
And so it's like a little bit ofstaying in my comfort zone while
I move forward.
But then I also, I don't havethat major fear of the blank
(04:58):
page anymore.
because I can make a mess on myiPad.
I can get it happily where Iwant it.
I print it out.
I transfer it onto my watercolorpaper.
And then that already, it givesme, it's like, okay, I love the
way this looks.
I'm really excited about it.
(05:19):
And so putting that first markon that paper, on that new blank
page is not so intimidating.
It's not so intimidating.
Yeah.
And, you know, maybe one day Iwill get to the point where I
just draw straight on thewatercolor paper knowing me I
probably won't.
Yeah.
And that's okay.
And that's, you know, but likeit's okay and it's okay, you
know, taking those steps.
(05:40):
And I love that that's like youembracing your process.
Right.
You know, where you started outfeeling like, oh, this is– the
process that i have to do iswith traditional artists i have
to paint you know like i have tosketch on the paper and i have
to do it this way all or nothingbecause that's what everybody
does or that's what people sayyou know but then you realize
(06:02):
like actually that doesn't workfor me you know and this way
feels better to me and so thenyou let yourself do it i feel
like sometimes i just like forcemyself into doing things that
don't actually feel like good tome you know yes because i
because i feel like that's whati'm expected to do or you know
(06:25):
that's what everybody else doesand that's the way you do it and
so i i don't lean into mycreative problem solving or like
my creative right my way ofdoing it right yeah and i think
that you leaning into like doingthe sketch on your ipad and and
then transferring it like thatwas alone was an act of
(06:47):
creativity, right?
Of figuring out a different wayto do it that felt better to
you.
Right.
Right.
And I love that.
I love it too.
Yeah.
And I think that's also whatthis whole experiment is about
is, is finding those ways, youknow, that feel good to us.
Cause that's what we've reallybeen struggling with is like,
(07:08):
well, everybody's telling us todo it this way, but it doesn't
really like, ah, you know, itdoesn't really feel good.
Like I don't, something's likestopping me.
Right.
Because it doesn't really workfor me.
And so that, is what we werewanting to really figure out is
SPEAKER_02 (07:25):
like
SPEAKER_00 (07:26):
how to make this a thriving, a thriving thing
instead of like a, I don't know,stilted, like, like we really
want this, but it's like hard togo about it in the ways that are
within the box.
Right.
That we think that we need to goabout it.
(07:46):
So we're figuring out how to doit outside of the box.
Outside of the box.
Yes, I had an interestingexperience with this week where–
so I did two paintings, twopaintings this week.
Nice.
And my, I guess, fourth one thatI have done– Well, let's see.
(08:08):
Okay, I've done five paintingsin the last three weeks, right?
It's like the fifth one,technically.
The fifth one, even though oneof them was a repaint.
But anyways, okay.
It's really important that youunderstand all of these details.
The fifth one was my bestpainting so far.
SPEAKER_02 (08:24):
Woohoo!
SPEAKER_00 (08:25):
Yeah, and I'm like, I looked back on all of them in
order and I sent you a pictureand I was like, look at this.
Look at this growth.
Look how much growth I've had inthe last few weeks.
This is really exciting.
And was kind of celebratingthat.
And then I sat down and starteddoom scrolling.
But I found some new artists, Imean new to me artists, and was
(08:49):
looking at their work.
And they're watercolor artists.
And I was like looking at theirwork and it's like, oh my gosh,
this is so beautiful.
And it was like botanical, youknow, kind of stuff like I like
to do.
And at first it was just like,oh, this is so fun.
Like seeing what they're doingand what they're working on.
And then it slowly startedfalling into that comparison.
(09:12):
And like, oh, I'm not this good.
And they're so like, oh, likethey're painting with such ease.
ease and confidence and and it'sso beautiful and then i just
have to stop myself and be likeyou've done five paintings five
paintings and you're likescrolling through they've got
like hundreds of paintings onhere wait a minute right right
(09:34):
and it's like even though youhave like you have built this
confidence in working on on youripad and like yeah you know
building patterns and all ofthese other things and you have
do you have that that confidencethere, an ability there.
And it's okay that you're inthis part of your journey.
(09:55):
Okay.
I'm saying this as if I'm nottalking to myself.
It's like, you know, it's okaythat I'm in this place of
learning and like within my ownjourney.
And also what I painted waspretty dang cool.
Like it was good.
It was good.
And I shouldn't lose sight ofthat Like it still feels weird
to me to be like, Oh, celebratemyself.
(10:17):
Like, cause I did not grow upwith that mindset, but I'm
trying to really embrace that.
And, you know, just like, youknow, it's okay to celebrate
your wins and your victories andlike what you did well.
And it doesn't have to compareto where other people are at.
That is such a hard lesson toget, to really like, to really
(10:37):
get into a thing, to get over,you know, the comparison.
SPEAKER_01 (10:41):
Yeah.
UNKNOWN (10:41):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (10:42):
Oh, because I think we live in a world of
comparison.
You know, that's like all thatwe see all the time is just a
comparison to other people.
Yeah.
And especially since, you know,the social media age.
Right.
That's like such a problem andand so hard.
And so coming coming back tojust we don't need to compare to
(11:04):
the Joneses, you know, like wedon't need to compare to any
other artists or any othercreative person.
Yeah.
We just need to be ourselves.
And flourish.
And let ourselves flourish.
And put beauty into the world.
Yes.
And that's good.
It is good.
And worthy.
Oh, that's a worthy thing to do.
(11:27):
Yeah.
And then, you know, after thatexperience, I had to come back
and be like, you know, what ifthis artist that I really liked
or this artist I really liked orthis artist I really liked or
this musician I really likedstopped sharing what they're
doing?
Like, how...
devastated I would be.
SPEAKER_01 (11:42):
Because
SPEAKER_00 (11:43):
I have a few people that I will, instead of just
scrolling, I'll be like, oh, Iwonder if they posted something
and I will search them and Iwill see because it is uplifting
to me.
It's like this beauty that Iseek and want in my life and I
want to see if they're creatingsomething new and to hear from
them.
SPEAKER_02 (12:02):
And
SPEAKER_00 (12:05):
And, you know, not everyone is going to want to
share their creativity on, like,on Instagram or something like
that.
And that's totally fine.
That's totally valid.
And we're not saying that, like,everybody has to do that.
But, like, what a shame it wouldbe if they weren't putting that
beauty into the world.
Right.
(12:26):
And, you know, we can be thatperson.
SPEAKER_01 (12:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (12:35):
Yeah.
I love that because I mean,yeah, think of somebody, an
artist or a, you know, a singeror somebody that you really love
to follow.
And think of they at thebeginning of their journey
looked at somebody else andsaid, oh, well, they're doing so
much better than me.
And so I should just not eventry.
(12:56):
Yeah.
And then they just didn't,didn't try.
Yeah.
Then what we wouldn't havebecause of that.
Right.
And the same goes for each oneof us.
We all have something to offer.
We do.
We all have beauty inside.
Yeah.
(13:17):
Yeah.
Another example.
So my mom, um, we had this fundynamic where we would go to
restaurants and we would order acouple different things and we'd
share it all and we'd sit thereand we'd eat and then we'd talk
about what ingredients are inthis?
How do you think they made this?
And then can we go home andrecreate it?
(13:38):
Yeah, that's so fun.
It's something that we just loveto do and I wanted to give an
example of something that's notlike a business.
Yeah, right.
It's not on social media.
It's not a business.
There's just those moments ofconnection that were shared from
that creativity.
SPEAKER_01 (13:59):
And
SPEAKER_00 (14:00):
if my mom hadn't been willing to embrace that
side of herself that got curiousand wanted to play and wanted to
have fun, we wouldn't have hadthose moments of connection
that...
made you know my life a littlebit more beautiful and a little
bit more fun yeah it's just it'sso empowering and it's so
(14:21):
important I love that I meanthat made me think about you
know my own mom and and are thethings that we would do I mean
we would make like cards andstuff and with stamps and we
would make jewelry you know likeyeah and those are some of my
favorite
SPEAKER_01 (14:38):
as
SPEAKER_00 (14:39):
a kid, you know, is doing those activities with her.
And it was because she wanted todo that.
She was interested in that.
Right.
SPEAKER_01 (14:47):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (14:48):
And, and then we were able to do it together and
she thought, you know, I wouldlike to, but, um, it was, it was
because of her following thatand, and leaning into that
opportunity and that, you know,curiosity and, um, creativity
(15:08):
right that we you know got tosit and we had really great
conversations and that was someof our best like bonding time
SPEAKER_01 (15:16):
you know
SPEAKER_00 (15:17):
and how important is that
SPEAKER_01 (15:20):
yeah yeah
SPEAKER_00 (15:21):
within your own family you know like it's so
important to have those momentsand some of the best times I
mean like making cookies youknow like are some of the best
memories are circled aroundcreative moments yeah sometimes
I feel like creativity is justanother expression of love
(15:43):
that's you know really what itboils down to it's just it's
another it's another way ofsaying I love you yeah and
sometimes it's to yourselfsometimes it's to you know a
child or a spouse or a friend oreven nature or the world like
it's just it's another way ofjust saying I love you yeah
(16:06):
Well, and some of the best giftsthat I've gotten are homemade,
you know, handmade because it'sso meaningful, right?
Because they put in that loveand attention and thought and,
you know, the thoughtfulnessthat goes behind it.
That is creativity.
Yes.
And, and that, yeah, I lovethat.
(16:30):
Creativity is another form oflove.
UNKNOWN (16:34):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:37):
That's it for today, friend.
Thanks for spending this timewith us.
We hope you're leaving with alittle more light, a little more
peace, and maybe even a nudge togo be creative just because it
brings a little more joy to yourlife.
If anything in this episodespoke to your heart, sparked a
thought, or made you smile, we'dlove it if you'd follow the
show, leave a quick five-starreview, or share it with someone
(16:58):
who might need a little creativeencouragement too.
And remember, your creativitymatters.
Your voice matters.
You matter.
We're cheering you on Always.
Until next time, keep making,keep softening, and keep showing
up as your whole beautiful self.
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