Your Creative Chord Podcast
Your Creative Chord Podcast Empowering Your Creative Flow & Inspired Living Welcome to Your Creative Chord, the podcast for people who want to reconnect with their creativity, restore their energy, and live with greater intention. I’m Jenny Leigh Hodgins—creative empowerment coach, author, poet, pianist, composer, and longtime teacher and mentor. Each episode offers practical tools and thoughtful guidance to help you rebuild trust in your creative process. Together we explore ways to navigate creative blocks, recover from burnout, set healthy boundaries, and cultivate creative flow and inspired living with curiosity, clarity, and self-compassion. Drawing from 30+ years of teaching, performing, composing--as well as my experience as a caregiver, and my SGI Buddhist practice--I share insights that support sustainable creativity, authentic self-expression, and a more inspired way of living. Free resources to support your creative flow and inspired living: Creative Empowerment Sampler – Expanded from my Inspirational Bookmark Trio, with practical tools to reset energy, explore creatively, and nurture aligned, sustainable flow. YourCreativeChord.com/getinspiredhere Burnout RESET Guide – Step-by-step strategies to restore energy, set boundaries, and regain clarity. YourCreativeChord.com/burnoutguide Poetry Sampler – A preview of Kaleidoscope of the Heart, offering reflection and creative nourishment. YourCreativeChord.com/poetry Piano Strategies Bundle – Key tools from Start Piano to help you build steady, confident progress at the keys. YourCreativeChord.com/pianostrategies Discover my books: Kaleidoscope of the Heart: A Collection of Poetry and Lyrics Start Piano: What You Need for Successful Learning YourCreativeChord.com/books For deeper creative growth: Explore how my Creative Empowerment Coaching Program helps you overcome obstacles, build creative confidence, and live inspired on your own terms: YourCreativeChord.com/workwithme Subscribe & Support: Subscribe to Your Creative Chord on Apple Podcasts and other platforms for new episodes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yourcreativechord-nurturing-creativity-inspiration/id1467240333 If you find value in the podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts—it helps others discover the show and strengthens our creative community. Thank you for being part of Your Creative Chord. Your Creative Chord Podcast Created, produced, and hosted by Jenny Leigh Hodgins © 2025 Sun and Bloom Piano Music © 2016 Jenny Leigh Hodgins All content © 2026 Jenny Leigh Hodgins
Episodes
In this episode, I explore how small, compassionate shifts—pausing, resting, setting boundaries, and regulating your nervous system—can help interrupt hypervigilance and overextension. I share practical ways you can learn to embrace restoration, protect your energy, and create the spaciousness needed for sustainable creativity and inspired living.
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In this episode, I share how small, gentle shifts can help rewire overwhelm, support nervous system healing, and unlock creative flow without adding more pressure to your life. Drawing from my own burnout recovery journey, I explore how overfunctioning becomes identity, why rest equals productivity, and one simple practice that is helping me create lasting change from the inside out.
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In this episode, I reflect on how grief, burnout, and long-term responsibility can create creative blocks by compressing identity and keeping us stuck in survival mode. I share insights from my own recovery journey, exploring how rest, boundaries, autonomy, and gentle self-compassion can help rebuild creativity, restore aliveness, and reconnect us with our authentic selves.
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In episode 90, I continue sharing my personal grief journey through original music, poetry, and reflection, showing how creativity can help you to process loss, stay connected to your loved ones, and find meaning in your experiences. I invite you into a meditative space to explore your own emotions, using creative expression as a gentle way to honor your feelings, reduce isolation, and cultivate healing and connection.
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In episode 89, part 1 of my Grief, Loss & Creativity series, I share my personal journey through grief and loss, and how you can use creativity—through poetry, music, and reflection—as a way to process emotions, reduce isolation, and find deeper meaning. I invite you to sit with your own feelings and explore creative expression as a gentle, healing path toward connection, resilience, and inner strength.
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In this episode, I share how to actively practice nurturing hope, joy, and creativity from within by facing your emotions honestly, embracing self-compassion, and using life’s challenges as fuel for growth. We explore simple, consistent ways to encourage yourself—through creativity, gratitude, and spiritual practices—so you can cultivate a deeper, more resilient sense of happiness regardless of external circumstan...
In Episode 87: Burnout Recovery & Spiritual Practices for Brain Health I share how spiritual practices support burnout recovery, brain health, and sustainable creative energy. Learn simple, practical ways to strengthen resilience, restore clarity, and engage creatively without depleting yourself.
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Episode 86: How To Attune to Your Creative Voice
In this episode, I share how to attune to your creative voice using simple, self-compassionate practices that help you move past blocks and creative uncertainty. I walk you through my Creative Exploration Formula so you can reconnect with your intuition, strengthen your creative flow, and begin creating with clarity and confidence right away.
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Explore the 7 steps of my C...
Episode 85: From Overwhelm to Creative Flow - Lessons in Resilience, Boundaries, and Sustainable Action
In this episode, I share how burnout, caregiving, community leadership, and life’s ongoing challenges taught me powerful lessons about resilience, boundaries, and sustainable creative action. Drawing from real-world experience and Buddhist practice, I offer practical insights to help you protect your energy, reclaim clarity,...
In episode 84, How Sightreading Sparks Creative Flow, I’m talking with piano educator David Holter about sightreading, creative flow, and playing with more ease and confidence. We explore his “blue mode” and “red mode” approach—along with the approach of focusing on one skill at a time. David's teaching method is based on the Lister Sink Method, which relieves pressure, builds tactile awareness, ...
In this short episode (83), I invite you to pause, rest, and embrace the gift of seasonal stillness. Using the RESET framework from my Creative Empowerment Coaching program, I share a gentle musical meditation with my piano piece You’ve Got My Heart to help you restore energy, calm your mind, and nurture your creative spirit.
Take this moment for yourself—whether it’s listening to the podcast or pairing it with the...
In this episode, I speak with singer-songwriter, Creativity Coach, and host of the Creative Engagement podcast, Dan Mandel, about how curiosity and creativity can guide meaningful life transitions.
We explore:
- How Dan’s travels and songwriting shape his storytelling and coaching
- Why curiosity is essential for sustaining creativity
- The role of discipline and practice in making creativity empowering and rewarding
- Ways creativity...
Ep 81 — The Unseen Garden Within: Creative Power & Feminine Truth with Sam Horton
In this thoughtful conversation, I talk with artist, poet, and women’s empowerment specialist Sam Horton about the feminine nature of creativity — and how creative expression can support emotional wellbeing, healing, and a deeper connection to yourself.
We explore the importance of honoring your inner seasons, reframing creative bl...
EPISODE 80: Creative Power, Burnout Recovery & Becoming the Main Character in Your Life
In this reflective episode, I share my personal story—why burnout recovery, boundary-setting, and creative empowerment have become a vital part of my work. You'll hear how navigating caregiving, family dysfunction, and community leadership led me to reclaim my voice and shift from overextension to alignment.
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Episode 79 – Creative Tools for Navigating Boundaries
Setting boundaries is hard enough—what helps you process the emotional resistance that follows?
In this episode of Your Creative Chord, I walk you through how creative and spiritual practices can help you stay grounded, clear, and compassionate through any boundary maintenance challenges.
You'll hear the full version of my original song For You and Me (from my 2001 Butt...
Setting boundaries is hard—but what comes after can be even harder. In episode 78, I share personal strategies and creative tools for navigating the emotional resistance that often follows healthy limits. Whether you're facing backlash from others or internal guilt, you’ll hear reflections grounded in Buddhist practice, caregiving, and creative expression—including a clip from my original song For You and Me and v...
Episode 77: Boundaries For Protecting Your Creative Energy
In this solo episode, I share practical insights on why setting boundaries is essential for preserving your energy, staying creatively aligned, and avoiding burnout.
You’ll hear real-life examples of red flags—both personal and professional—that signal the need for boundaries. I offer clear, doable ways to set, communicate, and maintain boundaries with confi...
Tune in for key insights from a Piano Panel Event I hosted, for an in-depth discussion on overcoming challenges at the piano. Get actionable strategies from 7 expert piano teachers on building consistent practice habits, improving technique, staying motivated, and exploring musical creativity—especially for adult learners.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to practice consistently without relying on motivation
- Techniques fo...
Episode 75: A replay of the Creativity Panel Event, hosted inside our Creative Flow & Inspired Living Facebook group. Join me and six panelists as we share expert insights on creativity, wellness, and overcoming blocks, exploring the powerful connection between creativity and wellness!
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Episode 74: Stay Organized with My Task-Tracking Google Sheet
In today’s episode, I’m sharing a simple but powerful tool I use to stay organized and on track with my podcasting workflow: my task-tracking Google Sheet. This system helps me manage everything from podcast creation to social media posts, emails, and YouTube versions of my episodes—and it can easily be adapted to your own projects or goals.
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