March 25, 2025 • 25 mins
Are you stifling your creative spirit in pursuit of business success? As high-achieving entrepreneurs, we often overlook the vital role creativity plays in our lives and ventures. But here's the truth: unused creativity isn't harmless - it festers, transforming into grief, rage, and shame.
In today's episode, I talk about some strategies to reconnect with your innate creativity such as the power of daily journaling and why embracing a beginner's mindset can unlock new levels of innovation.
For those struggling with deep-seated fears around creativity, I introduce a powerful tool to reprogram your subconscious and release those blocks. Learn about the upcoming launch of my hypnotherapy programs designed to help you tap into your full creative potential.
If you're ready to break free from the myth that success demands suppressing your creativity, this episode is your wake-up call. It's time to harness the full power of your creative spirit and fuel your journey towards your biggest goals!
Tune in and let's reignite that creative spark together.
In today's episode, I talk about some strategies to reconnect with your innate creativity such as the power of daily journaling and why embracing a beginner's mindset can unlock new levels of innovation.
For those struggling with deep-seated fears around creativity, I introduce a powerful tool to reprogram your subconscious and release those blocks. Learn about the upcoming launch of my hypnotherapy programs designed to help you tap into your full creative potential.
If you're ready to break free from the myth that success demands suppressing your creativity, this episode is your wake-up call. It's time to harness the full power of your creative spirit and fuel your journey towards your biggest goals!
Tune in and let's reignite that creative spark together.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Last week. This quote came across my awareness on three
separate times in the same day. Now, when something like
this happens, I have to pay attention. I have to
ask myself, why is this being presented so many times
in such a short timeframe, and what do I have
to learn from this. So it was a quote from
Brene Brown, and what it said was unused creativity is
(00:24):
not benign. It metastasizes. Unused creativity turns into grief, it
turns into rage, it turns into judgment, sorrow, and shame.
One of the things I've noticed about high achieving entrepreneurs
is that we tend to put creativity in a box.
We think that creativity is just about painting or writing
(00:47):
or having some sort of hobby. But the truth about
being a high achieving entrepreneur is that creativity is how
we innovate. Creativity is how we problem solve. Creativity is
how we express our truest selves. It's in our branding,
it's in our marketing. And when we suppress it, that
energy doesn't just disappear. It actually festers, and it will
(01:09):
show up in our lives and our businesses as frustration, resentment,
or possibly even burnout. And also when we suppress it,
it means that we're not showing up as the best
versions of ourselves in our businesses. Because if we're not
being innovative in our businesses and we're not effectively problem solving,
if our branding is not aligned, if our marketing is
(01:32):
not aligned, our business cannot be the business that we
need it to be. So in today's episode, we're going
to dive into why creativity is absolutely essential not only
for a fulfilling life, but also for success in your
career and in your business, and how ignoring this creative
urge within us can lead to very deep emotional blocks.
(01:56):
And then we're also going to talk about reconnecting with
our creative of instinct. I am lucky. I do consider
myself a creative person, but even if you don't, you
still have access to this ability. I'm going to share
with you some resources, some habits and practices that you
can start employing in your life to help you reignite
this creative spark so that you can use it to
(02:17):
fuel you towards all of your biggest goals. I can
tell you've got big goal energy. Are you ready to
turn your wildest dreams into your everyday reality. You are
in the right place. Welcome to Big Goal Energy, the
podcast that helps you turn your audacious and delusional dreams
into your everyday life. We know that you don't settle
for the ordinary, that you have dreams which others may
(02:39):
deem unrealistic. But here we help you defy reality and
bring those dreams to life. Each episode of Big Goal
Energy empowers you with knowledge, inspiration, and mentorship to conquer
your most unrealistic goals. From transparent roundtable conversations to short
form episodes, you'll hear the experiences of women who have
dified reality, as well as learning practical tips and strategies
(03:01):
to fuel your journey. Join us by subscribing to Big
Goal Energy, and together we'll turn your audacious dreams into
remarkable achievements. Hey hey, hey, Bricie, we hear hostess of
Big Goal Energy, and today's episode just feels so timely
for me in my life and hopefully also for you
(03:21):
and yours. I rounded up a group of women that
I know here in Tulsa, and we started a book
club together back in January, and we are going through
the artist Way. The Artist's way is really truly about
helping you kind of like reignite that creative spark. Like
I mentioned earlier about helping you connect with that inner
creative part of yourself that we often turn off. We
(03:45):
often tell ourselves like, oh, creativity isn't productive, so I
can't focus on it. How is being in my creativity
today helping me achieve my big goals? So I want
to reread to you this quote that was put in
my path three times last week from Brene Brown. Unused
creativity is not benign. It metastasizes. It turns into grief, rage, judgment, sorrow,
(04:10):
and shame. It's like I mentioned in the intro, when
something like this comes across my path three separate times
in the same day, I can't not pay attention to it.
And my question for myself was, of course, where am
I not tapping into my creativity? Where am I not
using or accessing that level of creativity to help me
(04:31):
truly thrive both in my life and in my business.
And then of course I thought of all of you.
I'm like man, high achievers really truly make We make
a lot of excuses about not tapping into our creativity.
If you look at the way the world works, creativity
is not something that's superprised. Think about it, the whole
(04:54):
starving artist archetype. Well, if you're gonna be creative, you're
not gonna be able to eat, You're not gonna be
able to pay yourself, if you're not going to be
able to take care of yourself. We are conditioned to
kind of stuff our creativity. But the truth is, as
high achieving women, creativity is not an optional element of
our lives. It's actually essential to our well being and
(05:15):
when ignored, like Brene Brown said, it festers into frustration,
self doubt, and a lack of fulfillment. So let's kick
today's episode off by talking about what is creativity Because again,
like I mentioned at the beginning, we think of creativity
as like traditional arts, right, painting, sculpting, music, like traditional arts.
(05:37):
But creativity in life, creativity and career in business is
truly how we are able to approach complex ideas, complex
problems with solutions and innovations, as well as being able
to express ourselves. I mean, hell, what you wear every
(05:58):
single day is part of your creativity. How you style yourself,
if you have glasses or not, how you do your hair,
how you do your makeup, the jewelry, you wear, how
you do your nails. All of that is creative self expression.
So if we're approaching all of these things in our life, problems, innovations,
or self expression as something that just fits into a
(06:21):
nice little box, we're actually preventing ourselves from accessing everything
that is available to us. This is actually an innate
part of being a human. Even if we look down
to the biology, humans on a biological level are creators.
We create our lives, we create our careers, our businesses,
(06:42):
We can create other many human beings. We create experiences,
we create. We are creators. That is who we are
as human beings. So when we think about creativity through
that lens, it becomes not just a nice to have thing,
It is actually a pivotal part of what it means
to be a human. Over the course of my entrepreneurial
(07:05):
journey eighteen years, I have absolutely lost touch with my creativity.
There's so many elements of business that require you to
show up in a certain way or do things in
a certain way. I remember when I had my fashion label,
I would create all of these amazing, just out of
the box, insanely beautiful, ostentatious creations, but at the end
(07:29):
of the day, it had to come down to how
was I going to bring this thing to life? How
was I going to create it? What were the profit
margins involved in bringing this thing to life? Would I
be able to sell it for the prices I needed
to sell it? And so little by little, my creativity
started really getting like chipped away because my focus was
(07:50):
less on bringing to life these like amazing creations, letting
my mind run free, and instead putting myself in to
the box of what is sellable, what is marketable? What
are people going to buy? How do I get this
out to market? Now, of course in business it is
important to have both. You need to look at the
(08:11):
nuts and bolts how this product is going to get
out there. But at the same time, if that's all
that you're looking through, you're losing the essential crux of
why we're creating in the first place. So, as I mentioned,
I stripped away and stripped away, and stripped away and
stripped away at my creativity so much that I felt
like I was showing up as a shell of myself.
(08:33):
You've listened to this podcast before, you know that, towards
the end of me owning that fashion label, I was
having panic attacks, I was severely depressed, was in the
fetal position in my bed all the time. And I
attribute a large part of that to me disconnecting and
losing that ability to tap into that creative flow, to
(08:53):
tap into the juice that runs through all of our
veins and through all of our souls, as Brene Brown
talked about, when you do this ignoring these creative impulses,
or essentially I mean what I did was essentially turn
the tap off. It was like I had this beautiful
flowing stream of water from this tap that was wide open,
(09:15):
and the water was rushing out of the tap, and
little by little I closed it off. So shutting off
these creative impulses, like I mentioned, can turn into things
like grief, anxiety, depression, judgment, sorrow, shame. We start living
in an endless loop of frustration, self criticism, resentment. When
(09:37):
I was in that spot, I felt like I truly
had no other options out. I felt like I was
at a dead end. I felt like the universe had
abandoned me. It was not a great place to be.
I feel like the pandemic also kind of spun me
into a bit of this. Now, as most of you
also know puzzles are one of my happy places, and
(09:59):
so during the pandemic, I was doing a lot of puzzles,
but basically I was living alone in a box in
New York City. What better things did I have to
do than work? So I got back into that habit
of overworking and underliving because twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week, I couldn't leave my house. What
else was I gonna do? Yes, I was working out,
(10:20):
Yes I was doing puzzles, Yes I was reading. But
I was also very much overworking myself. And it's also
really hard to be in your creativity if you're not
actively engaging with the world around you. So that experience
also spun me into a pattern where I was disconnecting myself,
removing myself from that creativity within me. Let's take just
(10:42):
a quick little break. I have a free resource for you.
When we come back, I'm going to talk about how
do we start shifting this how do we start writing
this ship, how do we start moving back into our
creativity if we've been in a cycle where we've been
shutting it off, where maybe the tap, instead of being
a free flowing stream of water, is just a teeny
(11:02):
tiny little trickle. How do we begin opening back up
to our creativity? I will be right back. Enjoy this
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All right, so we've talked about kind of the nature
of creativity. We've talked about the suppression of creativity. Now
(12:07):
let's talk about if we have been in a pattern
of suppressing our creativity, how do we reignite that spark.
How do we open that back up so that we
can re access the things that help us. I believe
truly feel alive in our life and in our business,
help us get back into that place of problem solving,
of being able to innovative, being able to see opportunities
(12:31):
and take risks, and trust ourselves. I believe I mentioned
this briefly earlier, but I want to challenge the idea
that creativity is only for artists. I can't tell you
how many people I've met or clients that I've worked
with that say like, Oh, I'm not I'm I'm not creative.
Excuse me? What? Like, you're not creative? You have birthed
(12:56):
a business, a career, a child, insert anything that you've
brought to life here, and you're not creative. You're not creating,
You're not a creator. I'm sorry, that's not actually true.
People limit the definition of creativity to be something that
is only available to artists, only available to musicians. When,
(13:21):
as I said before, creativity comes into your branding, Creativity
comes into problem solving. Creativity comes into your business strategy,
your marketing, how you innovate, how you show up differently,
how you are the only one like you in the
entire fucking world. So one of the ways that I
(13:45):
have been able to kind of turn my tap back
on reignite that spark is through daily journaling. Now, if
you've ever read or done The Artist's Way, it is
an absolutely incredible book. I started at once in twenty nineteen,
did not finish it, and going back through it with
a community of women to have the accountability for us
to go through all twelve weeks together. There are two
(14:06):
primary things that she recommends for every single week of
the twelve weeks, and then each week kind of has
its own theme. The two things that she recommends to
reignite that relationship because it is a relationship with that
inner creator inside of you. Two things one daily journaling.
(14:27):
Now I can already hear I don't know what to
write about. Journaling isn't my thing? Find a way to
get what's in here. If you're not watching the YouTube
video right now, I'm pointing out my head, what's in
your brain out? Okay, especially for my neurodivergence out there,
present company included. We tend to hoard our thoughts and
(14:47):
we want to hold on to them because we don't
want to forget them, and so we hold on to them,
and we hold on to them, and we hold on
to them. They're literally cluttering up our being. They're cluttering
up our mind. They're cluttering up our energetic field like
they' uttering everything. You have to have a practice to
get what's in here out. Journaling can also help you
(15:07):
explore some really beautiful questions. Why am I perpetuating this
pattern that I've been playing out in my life for
so many years? That was my journaling prompted yesterday. If
you're having an interpersonal issue, being able to journal it
out and see clearly on paper what truly is going
on and how you're truly feeling about it. Journaling is
(15:28):
really a way if you were to have a thing
of yarn and it was all nottted up and it
looks like it's going to take years to undo. I
see journaling as being able to pull a thread and
pull another thread, and pull another thread and pull another thread,
to untangle what's going on inside of us, how we're feeling,
how we're thinking, and being able to create space more
(15:51):
than anything. I think it was around week two of
The Artist's Way. I was going through something deeply, deeply personal,
and normally I would not have journaled about it. I
would have just kept running it through in my head
because I didn't want to forget how I was feeling
and I didn't want to forget all the things that
I was going to say when I was going to
have a conversation with this person, and so it was
(16:11):
just looping in my head all the time. Those loops
are literally keeping you from your creativity. I found that
by sitting down and journaling. Now. She recommends three pages
a day, three pages a day. If you look at
all of us in our book clubs, some people have
pages that are like small. I personally have college ruled
(16:33):
metal spiral, traditional like college school notebook. Right. Some days
I don't hit three pages, but I get everything out
so that I'm able to free myself in my brain.
Because creativity cannot thrive if you are busy. Creativity cannot
thrive if your brain is full of other shit. So
(16:53):
we have to find a way to take the busyness,
take the mind loops, take all of those things and
put them somewhere so that we know we have them
and create spaciousness. Creativity does not thrive when it's being
pressed upon by all of these other things. So journaling
for me in that circumstance was a way to put
(17:15):
it all on paper, free myself from having to carry
it around with me all the time, and in creating
that space, I actually was able to see, Holy shit,
I'm being way more creative right now than I would
have been able to be if I had held onto
what I was experiencing and going through in that moment. Now,
the second part that she recommends daily journaling three pages
(17:37):
a day. The second part that she recommends is having
a weekly She calls it an artist date. You could
call it a creative date if the word artist triggers you.
One of the ways to do this is to start
engaging in play and having a beginner mind without that
pressure to be good at it immediately. What are some
(17:58):
things that you could go out and do and experience
and immerse yourself in where you don't have to be
perfect at it, but you just give yourself the opportunity
to experience it. It's about prioritizing curiosity over perfection, because
creativity is not about achieving an end result. Now I'm
(18:19):
gonna pause and say that again because it's high achievers
were like goals, goals, goals, goals, all of the goals,
big goal energy. I got the goals. Goals are about
end result I got the goals. Creativity is not a
goal driven end result creating experience. Creativity is about self
(18:39):
expression and it's about freedom. Creativity is about getting to
know yourself better. Creativity is about giving yourself permission to
have fun and to play and to be curious without
their having to be something that comes out of it.
So I know myself well enough to know when in
(18:59):
Week one of the Artist's Way that if I got
to a Friday and I didn't already know what to
do for my Friday artist date that week, that I
would just be like, well, what the fuck whatever, I'll
I'll just work today and like I'll figure it out later.
So what I did in week one is I actually
sat down and I made a list of fifty different
(19:20):
artist dates that I could take myself on, because I
know that if I have options, but I've already pre
planned what all of my options are, then on Fridays
it's just about showing up and saying, ooh, which one
do I want to do today, rather than having to
think of, oh, what am I going to do today
for my artist date. So week when I sat down
(19:40):
and I made a list of fifty different artist dates
that I could do. Now, obviously I have been working
my way through the list and very very much enjoying it.
Some of the things that I've done. I had a
candle making date with myself. I replanted all of my
plants in our sunroom. I sat a a cafe with
(20:01):
a fiction fiction fiction book for any of you that
don't remember, fiction means not real creative book by a fireplace.
It was lovely. A few weeks ago, I went to
a sweat and stretch class, which I have not worked
out in nine months because of my shoulder. A few
weekends ago, I gave myself two full days of meditation.
(20:25):
I really want to get back to a Joe Dispenser retreat,
and it's just not looking like the timing is going
to match up. So I threw myself my own meditation retreat.
Last week. I did a puzzle. Next week, I'm going
to get a tattoo. Creativity is not about the end result.
It is about self expression and freedom. So if you're
feeling creatively blocked, I want to encourage you to start
(20:47):
implementing at a bare minimum, these two things. Morning pages,
three pages a day, write it all out. Get everything
in here that's rattling around inside of you, get it out.
You need space to be able to tap into your
creativity to a weekly artist date where you're letting yourself go.
You're letting yourself play. Go put hands in clay, Go
(21:09):
to the children's museum, Go take a photography class, Go
take a poll dancing class. Do something to let yourself
be uncomfortable, be in that beginner mind and be in
the experience of it without having your mind on the
goal on the end result. Okay, now I want to
drop one more tool for you in case you need it.
(21:30):
We can have a lot of subconscious fears tied up
around our creativity. Fears of failure, judgment, rejection, not knowing
our future selves like, all of these things can really
truly block us from being able to fully tap into
and allow ourselves to be creative, to be that inner
artist that we are, to be the creator that we
(21:52):
were born to be. If you have any interest in
working with your subconscious using a tool to release some
of these blocks in the ninety five percent of your
brain that you cannot access on a daily basis, hypnotherapy
is one of the best tools that I have ever
found to remove these blocks. Hypnotherapy can help free you
(22:14):
up those old stories and those old programs and those
old paradigms and let your creativity begin to flow naturally.
So in April, I am launching a suite of hypnotherapy products.
We're gonna start by launching four thirty day hypnotherapy programs.
If you have any interest in learning more, go visit
bricle dot com slash Hypnosis Hypnosis. You can get signed
(22:39):
up to be notified when these become available. This is
just a way for you to express that you're interested
in learning more. They are not available for sale yet,
they are not up to access in any way. This
is simply a I'd like to learn more when bre
releases this, So go to brisely dot com slash hypnosis
and get signed up to be notified. In closing today,
(23:00):
I just want to remind you that your creativity is
not a luxury. It's actually a necessity, not only in
your life, but also in your career, in your business,
in all of the goals that you're going towards. Your
path is going to be so unique, and in order
to access and understand what that path looks like, you
(23:21):
need creativity. So I want to invite you to reflect
on where you have suppressed your creativity. I shared some
of my stories in this episode today, What are your stories?
Where have you turned off that tap, stop that flow,
reduced it down to a single trickle, and what has
taken its place? Are you overworking? Are you avoiding tapping
(23:45):
into the emotions that are present or that have metastasized
from you cutting off your creativity? And what are some
ways that you can start reigniting that flow within your life.
I'm bury seely. Thank you so much for joining me
on this episode of Big Goal Energy. Don't forget to
visit brisealy dot com slash hypnosis to indicate your interest
(24:07):
in learning more about the four thirty day hypnotherapy programs
coming out. I'm so excited to be on this journey
with you and to experience you unlocking your creative potential.
If you know someone that would benefit from listening to
this episode, please feel free to send it to them.
Make sure you're subscribed. We have some great episodes coming up.
(24:28):
Thank you again for joining me. Have a great day
and we'll see you on the next episode. Thank you
for joining us on this episode of Big Goal Energy.
We trust that it fueled your ambition and made you
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(24:49):
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you on the next episode.
Last week. This quote came across my awareness on three
separate times in the same day. Now, when something like
this happens, I have to pay attention. I have to
ask myself, why is this being presented so many times
in such a short timeframe, and what do I have
to learn from this. So it was a quote from
Brene Brown, and what it said was unused creativity is
(00:24):
not benign. It metastasizes. Unused creativity turns into grief, it
turns into rage, it turns into judgment, sorrow, and shame.
One of the things I've noticed about high achieving entrepreneurs
is that we tend to put creativity in a box.
We think that creativity is just about painting or writing
(00:47):
or having some sort of hobby. But the truth about
being a high achieving entrepreneur is that creativity is how
we innovate. Creativity is how we problem solve. Creativity is
how we express our truest selves. It's in our branding,
it's in our marketing. And when we suppress it, that
energy doesn't just disappear. It actually festers, and it will
(01:09):
show up in our lives and our businesses as frustration, resentment,
or possibly even burnout. And also when we suppress it,
it means that we're not showing up as the best
versions of ourselves in our businesses. Because if we're not
being innovative in our businesses and we're not effectively problem solving,
if our branding is not aligned, if our marketing is
(01:32):
not aligned, our business cannot be the business that we
need it to be. So in today's episode, we're going
to dive into why creativity is absolutely essential not only
for a fulfilling life, but also for success in your
career and in your business, and how ignoring this creative
urge within us can lead to very deep emotional blocks.
(01:56):
And then we're also going to talk about reconnecting with
our creative of instinct. I am lucky. I do consider
myself a creative person, but even if you don't, you
still have access to this ability. I'm going to share
with you some resources, some habits and practices that you
can start employing in your life to help you reignite
this creative spark so that you can use it to
(02:17):
fuel you towards all of your biggest goals. I can
tell you've got big goal energy. Are you ready to
turn your wildest dreams into your everyday reality. You are
in the right place. Welcome to Big Goal Energy, the
podcast that helps you turn your audacious and delusional dreams
into your everyday life. We know that you don't settle
for the ordinary, that you have dreams which others may
(02:39):
deem unrealistic. But here we help you defy reality and
bring those dreams to life. Each episode of Big Goal
Energy empowers you with knowledge, inspiration, and mentorship to conquer
your most unrealistic goals. From transparent roundtable conversations to short
form episodes, you'll hear the experiences of women who have
dified reality, as well as learning practical tips and strategies
(03:01):
to fuel your journey. Join us by subscribing to Big
Goal Energy, and together we'll turn your audacious dreams into
remarkable achievements. Hey hey, hey, Bricie, we hear hostess of
Big Goal Energy, and today's episode just feels so timely
for me in my life and hopefully also for you
(03:21):
and yours. I rounded up a group of women that
I know here in Tulsa, and we started a book
club together back in January, and we are going through
the artist Way. The Artist's way is really truly about
helping you kind of like reignite that creative spark. Like
I mentioned earlier about helping you connect with that inner
creative part of yourself that we often turn off. We
(03:45):
often tell ourselves like, oh, creativity isn't productive, so I
can't focus on it. How is being in my creativity
today helping me achieve my big goals? So I want
to reread to you this quote that was put in
my path three times last week from Brene Brown. Unused
creativity is not benign. It metastasizes. It turns into grief, rage, judgment, sorrow,
(04:10):
and shame. It's like I mentioned in the intro, when
something like this comes across my path three separate times
in the same day, I can't not pay attention to it.
And my question for myself was, of course, where am
I not tapping into my creativity? Where am I not
using or accessing that level of creativity to help me
(04:31):
truly thrive both in my life and in my business.
And then of course I thought of all of you.
I'm like man, high achievers really truly make We make
a lot of excuses about not tapping into our creativity.
If you look at the way the world works, creativity
is not something that's superprised. Think about it, the whole
(04:54):
starving artist archetype. Well, if you're gonna be creative, you're
not gonna be able to eat, You're not gonna be
able to pay yourself, if you're not going to be
able to take care of yourself. We are conditioned to
kind of stuff our creativity. But the truth is, as
high achieving women, creativity is not an optional element of
our lives. It's actually essential to our well being and
(05:15):
when ignored, like Brene Brown said, it festers into frustration,
self doubt, and a lack of fulfillment. So let's kick
today's episode off by talking about what is creativity Because again,
like I mentioned at the beginning, we think of creativity
as like traditional arts, right, painting, sculpting, music, like traditional arts.
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But creativity in life, creativity and career in business is
truly how we are able to approach complex ideas, complex
problems with solutions and innovations, as well as being able
to express ourselves. I mean, hell, what you wear every
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single day is part of your creativity. How you style yourself,
if you have glasses or not, how you do your hair,
how you do your makeup, the jewelry, you wear, how
you do your nails. All of that is creative self expression.
So if we're approaching all of these things in our life, problems, innovations,
or self expression as something that just fits into a
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nice little box, we're actually preventing ourselves from accessing everything
that is available to us. This is actually an innate
part of being a human. Even if we look down
to the biology, humans on a biological level are creators.
We create our lives, we create our careers, our businesses,
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We can create other many human beings. We create experiences,
we create. We are creators. That is who we are
as human beings. So when we think about creativity through
that lens, it becomes not just a nice to have thing,
It is actually a pivotal part of what it means
to be a human. Over the course of my entrepreneurial
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journey eighteen years, I have absolutely lost touch with my creativity.
There's so many elements of business that require you to
show up in a certain way or do things in
a certain way. I remember when I had my fashion label,
I would create all of these amazing, just out of
the box, insanely beautiful, ostentatious creations, but at the end
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of the day, it had to come down to how
was I going to bring this thing to life? How
was I going to create it? What were the profit
margins involved in bringing this thing to life? Would I
be able to sell it for the prices I needed
to sell it? And so little by little, my creativity
started really getting like chipped away because my focus was
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less on bringing to life these like amazing creations, letting
my mind run free, and instead putting myself in to
the box of what is sellable, what is marketable? What
are people going to buy? How do I get this
out to market? Now, of course in business it is
important to have both. You need to look at the
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nuts and bolts how this product is going to get
out there. But at the same time, if that's all
that you're looking through, you're losing the essential crux of
why we're creating in the first place. So, as I mentioned,
I stripped away and stripped away, and stripped away and
stripped away at my creativity so much that I felt
like I was showing up as a shell of myself.
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You've listened to this podcast before, you know that, towards
the end of me owning that fashion label, I was
having panic attacks, I was severely depressed, was in the
fetal position in my bed all the time. And I
attribute a large part of that to me disconnecting and
losing that ability to tap into that creative flow, to
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tap into the juice that runs through all of our
veins and through all of our souls, as Brene Brown
talked about, when you do this ignoring these creative impulses,
or essentially I mean what I did was essentially turn
the tap off. It was like I had this beautiful
flowing stream of water from this tap that was wide open,
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and the water was rushing out of the tap, and
little by little I closed it off. So shutting off
these creative impulses, like I mentioned, can turn into things
like grief, anxiety, depression, judgment, sorrow, shame. We start living
in an endless loop of frustration, self criticism, resentment. When
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I was in that spot, I felt like I truly
had no other options out. I felt like I was
at a dead end. I felt like the universe had
abandoned me. It was not a great place to be.
I feel like the pandemic also kind of spun me
into a bit of this. Now, as most of you
also know puzzles are one of my happy places, and
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so during the pandemic, I was doing a lot of puzzles,
but basically I was living alone in a box in
New York City. What better things did I have to
do than work? So I got back into that habit
of overworking and underliving because twenty four hours a day,
seven days a week, I couldn't leave my house. What
else was I gonna do? Yes, I was working out,
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Yes I was doing puzzles, Yes I was reading. But
I was also very much overworking myself. And it's also
really hard to be in your creativity if you're not
actively engaging with the world around you. So that experience
also spun me into a pattern where I was disconnecting myself,
removing myself from that creativity within me. Let's take just
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a quick little break. I have a free resource for you.
When we come back, I'm going to talk about how
do we start shifting this how do we start writing
this ship, how do we start moving back into our
creativity if we've been in a cycle where we've been
shutting it off, where maybe the tap, instead of being
a free flowing stream of water, is just a teeny
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tiny little trickle. How do we begin opening back up
to our creativity? I will be right back. Enjoy this
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All right, so we've talked about kind of the nature
of creativity. We've talked about the suppression of creativity. Now
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let's talk about if we have been in a pattern
of suppressing our creativity, how do we reignite that spark.
How do we open that back up so that we
can re access the things that help us. I believe
truly feel alive in our life and in our business,
help us get back into that place of problem solving,
of being able to innovative, being able to see opportunities
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and take risks, and trust ourselves. I believe I mentioned
this briefly earlier, but I want to challenge the idea
that creativity is only for artists. I can't tell you
how many people I've met or clients that I've worked
with that say like, Oh, I'm not I'm I'm not creative.
Excuse me? What? Like, you're not creative? You have birthed
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a business, a career, a child, insert anything that you've
brought to life here, and you're not creative. You're not creating,
You're not a creator. I'm sorry, that's not actually true.
People limit the definition of creativity to be something that
is only available to artists, only available to musicians. When,
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as I said before, creativity comes into your branding, Creativity
comes into problem solving. Creativity comes into your business strategy,
your marketing, how you innovate, how you show up differently,
how you are the only one like you in the
entire fucking world. So one of the ways that I
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have been able to kind of turn my tap back
on reignite that spark is through daily journaling. Now, if
you've ever read or done The Artist's Way, it is
an absolutely incredible book. I started at once in twenty nineteen,
did not finish it, and going back through it with
a community of women to have the accountability for us
to go through all twelve weeks together. There are two
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primary things that she recommends for every single week of
the twelve weeks, and then each week kind of has
its own theme. The two things that she recommends to
reignite that relationship because it is a relationship with that
inner creator inside of you. Two things one daily journaling.
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Now I can already hear I don't know what to
write about. Journaling isn't my thing? Find a way to
get what's in here. If you're not watching the YouTube
video right now, I'm pointing out my head, what's in
your brain out? Okay, especially for my neurodivergence out there,
present company included. We tend to hoard our thoughts and
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we want to hold on to them because we don't
want to forget them, and so we hold on to them,
and we hold on to them, and we hold on
to them. They're literally cluttering up our being. They're cluttering
up our mind. They're cluttering up our energetic field like
they' uttering everything. You have to have a practice to
get what's in here out. Journaling can also help you
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explore some really beautiful questions. Why am I perpetuating this
pattern that I've been playing out in my life for
so many years? That was my journaling prompted yesterday. If
you're having an interpersonal issue, being able to journal it
out and see clearly on paper what truly is going
on and how you're truly feeling about it. Journaling is
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really a way if you were to have a thing
of yarn and it was all nottted up and it
looks like it's going to take years to undo. I
see journaling as being able to pull a thread and
pull another thread, and pull another thread and pull another thread,
to untangle what's going on inside of us, how we're feeling,
how we're thinking, and being able to create space more
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than anything. I think it was around week two of
The Artist's Way. I was going through something deeply, deeply personal,
and normally I would not have journaled about it. I
would have just kept running it through in my head
because I didn't want to forget how I was feeling
and I didn't want to forget all the things that
I was going to say when I was going to
have a conversation with this person, and so it was
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just looping in my head all the time. Those loops
are literally keeping you from your creativity. I found that
by sitting down and journaling. Now. She recommends three pages
a day, three pages a day. If you look at
all of us in our book clubs, some people have
pages that are like small. I personally have college ruled
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metal spiral, traditional like college school notebook. Right. Some days
I don't hit three pages, but I get everything out
so that I'm able to free myself in my brain.
Because creativity cannot thrive if you are busy. Creativity cannot
thrive if your brain is full of other shit. So
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we have to find a way to take the busyness,
take the mind loops, take all of those things and
put them somewhere so that we know we have them
and create spaciousness. Creativity does not thrive when it's being
pressed upon by all of these other things. So journaling
for me in that circumstance was a way to put
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it all on paper, free myself from having to carry
it around with me all the time, and in creating
that space, I actually was able to see, Holy shit,
I'm being way more creative right now than I would
have been able to be if I had held onto
what I was experiencing and going through in that moment. Now,
the second part that she recommends daily journaling three pages
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a day. The second part that she recommends is having
a weekly She calls it an artist date. You could
call it a creative date if the word artist triggers you.
One of the ways to do this is to start
engaging in play and having a beginner mind without that
pressure to be good at it immediately. What are some
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things that you could go out and do and experience
and immerse yourself in where you don't have to be
perfect at it, but you just give yourself the opportunity
to experience it. It's about prioritizing curiosity over perfection, because
creativity is not about achieving an end result. Now I'm
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gonna pause and say that again because it's high achievers
were like goals, goals, goals, goals, all of the goals,
big goal energy. I got the goals. Goals are about
end result I got the goals. Creativity is not a
goal driven end result creating experience. Creativity is about self
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expression and it's about freedom. Creativity is about getting to
know yourself better. Creativity is about giving yourself permission to
have fun and to play and to be curious without
their having to be something that comes out of it.
So I know myself well enough to know when in
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Week one of the Artist's Way that if I got
to a Friday and I didn't already know what to
do for my Friday artist date that week, that I
would just be like, well, what the fuck whatever, I'll
I'll just work today and like I'll figure it out later.
So what I did in week one is I actually
sat down and I made a list of fifty different
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artist dates that I could take myself on, because I
know that if I have options, but I've already pre
planned what all of my options are, then on Fridays
it's just about showing up and saying, ooh, which one
do I want to do today, rather than having to
think of, oh, what am I going to do today
for my artist date. So week when I sat down
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and I made a list of fifty different artist dates
that I could do. Now, obviously I have been working
my way through the list and very very much enjoying it.
Some of the things that I've done. I had a
candle making date with myself. I replanted all of my
plants in our sunroom. I sat a a cafe with
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a fiction fiction fiction book for any of you that
don't remember, fiction means not real creative book by a fireplace.
It was lovely. A few weeks ago, I went to
a sweat and stretch class, which I have not worked
out in nine months because of my shoulder. A few
weekends ago, I gave myself two full days of meditation.
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I really want to get back to a Joe Dispenser retreat,
and it's just not looking like the timing is going
to match up. So I threw myself my own meditation retreat.
Last week. I did a puzzle. Next week, I'm going
to get a tattoo. Creativity is not about the end result.
It is about self expression and freedom. So if you're
feeling creatively blocked, I want to encourage you to start
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implementing at a bare minimum, these two things. Morning pages,
three pages a day, write it all out. Get everything
in here that's rattling around inside of you, get it out.
You need space to be able to tap into your
creativity to a weekly artist date where you're letting yourself go.
You're letting yourself play. Go put hands in clay, Go
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to the children's museum, Go take a photography class, Go
take a poll dancing class. Do something to let yourself
be uncomfortable, be in that beginner mind and be in
the experience of it without having your mind on the
goal on the end result. Okay, now I want to
drop one more tool for you in case you need it.
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We can have a lot of subconscious fears tied up
around our creativity. Fears of failure, judgment, rejection, not knowing
our future selves like, all of these things can really
truly block us from being able to fully tap into
and allow ourselves to be creative, to be that inner
artist that we are, to be the creator that we
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were born to be. If you have any interest in
working with your subconscious using a tool to release some
of these blocks in the ninety five percent of your
brain that you cannot access on a daily basis, hypnotherapy
is one of the best tools that I have ever
found to remove these blocks. Hypnotherapy can help free you
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up those old stories and those old programs and those
old paradigms and let your creativity begin to flow naturally.
So in April, I am launching a suite of hypnotherapy products.
We're gonna start by launching four thirty day hypnotherapy programs.
If you have any interest in learning more, go visit
bricle dot com slash Hypnosis Hypnosis. You can get signed
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up to be notified when these become available. This is
just a way for you to express that you're interested
in learning more. They are not available for sale yet,
they are not up to access in any way. This
is simply a I'd like to learn more when bre
releases this, So go to brisely dot com slash hypnosis
and get signed up to be notified. In closing today,
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I just want to remind you that your creativity is
not a luxury. It's actually a necessity, not only in
your life, but also in your career, in your business,
in all of the goals that you're going towards. Your
path is going to be so unique, and in order
to access and understand what that path looks like, you
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need creativity. So I want to invite you to reflect
on where you have suppressed your creativity. I shared some
of my stories in this episode today, What are your stories?
Where have you turned off that tap, stop that flow,
reduced it down to a single trickle, and what has
taken its place? Are you overworking? Are you avoiding tapping
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into the emotions that are present or that have metastasized
from you cutting off your creativity? And what are some
ways that you can start reigniting that flow within your life.
I'm bury seely. Thank you so much for joining me
on this episode of Big Goal Energy. Don't forget to
visit brisealy dot com slash hypnosis to indicate your interest
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in learning more about the four thirty day hypnotherapy programs
coming out. I'm so excited to be on this journey
with you and to experience you unlocking your creative potential.
If you know someone that would benefit from listening to
this episode, please feel free to send it to them.
Make sure you're subscribed. We have some great episodes coming up.
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Thank you again for joining me. Have a great day
and we'll see you on the next episode. Thank you
for joining us on this episode of Big Goal Energy.
We trust that it fueled your ambition and made you
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