The Creative Momentum Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jen Moulton
The Creative Momentum Podcast is for creative women who have amazing creative project ideas they daydream about doing, but never seem to get done because of self-doubt and perfectionism. If you find yourself making plan after plan, learning one more thing so you can feel ready, doubting your abilities (and why it even matters), and fretting over time passing while you still haven’t done the thing, this podcast is for you. In each episode Creative Life Coach Jen Moulton will teach you how to show up and keep showing up for yourself AND the work. You’ll learn how to work with your self-doubt, how to create motivation, and how to rediscover your creative joy and get into flow. Life is a creative act, if you need inspiration and support you’ve come to the right place. If you want to learn my method for how to make your passion project a real thing, head over to www.jenmoulton.com/passionproject to get the Creative Momentum workbook and learn how to plan your passion project in seven easy steps.
Join me this week as I share how I’m approaching goal setting for 2024.
I’ve been having conversations about goal setting for 2024, and talking about it made me realize that my approach to setting goals has changed dramatically over the past year or so.
Here’s what I share in Ep.58: How I’m Approaching Goal Setting for 2024:
- How I’m approaching goals for 2024 - including how I’m thinking differently than I used to.
- An example from my personal life about how to implement this new goal setting philosophy.
- Two resources to support you in clarifying and setting goals that really matter to you - one free and one very low cost.
Three Questions I offered to support you in goal setting HERE
Resources
Year Review Workbook (free)
Take Aim Workshop (low cost - $22)
Process Goals v Outcome Goals video
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Want to begin a daily journaling habit? My Daily Writing Prompts are supportive and thoughtful prompts to befriend your creative self. You’ll discover what you believe is possible for you, what you want, and what's in the way right now. Learn more HERE
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Join me this week as I share the BTS of deciding to take a pause on the pod (and what led me to know it was time).
I share:
- The WHY behind the decision
- How I’m handling being in this unknown-inbetween stage
- What I’ve learned from being here before
- Why I wish other Creators would share when they’re ‘in it’, not just on the other side
ResourcesCheck out the BEST OF episodes: listener favorites, most downloads, + my favorite episodesHERE
In today’s episode, the Daily Writing Prompts that I created are mentioned - they can help you establish a daily writing practice that is easeful and fun. They are an amazing way to discover what you believe deep down, and befriend yourself along the way. // Want to begin a journaling habit? The Daily Writing Prompts are supportive and thoughtful prompts to discover what you believe is possible for you, what you want, and what's in the way right now. Learn more HERE
Tap into your intuition before making creative work. Sign up for the newsletter and receive my Intuitive Journaling Prompts - four questions to connect with your intuition before making art. Sign up HERE
Get the transcript and full show notes HERE
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Join me this week as I share exactly HOW I create new habits from compassion and self-kindness. I share:
- My exact four step process
- How to uncover WHY you want to have a specific habit, and what knowing WHY opens up for you
- How to make a habit so easy to do you’ll still do it on your busiest days
- The habit tracking process I’ve developed, tinkered with, and refined over the past 10 years
I walk you through step-by-step, telling you where to pause me. Give establishing a new habit with compassion a try - I tell you exactly what to do, and where to pause me, along the way.
Resources
In today’s episode, the Daily Writing Prompts that I created are mentioned - they can help you establish a daily writing practice that is easeful and fun. They are an amazing way to discover what you believe deep down, and befriend yourself along the way. Learn more HERE
Tap into your intuition before making creative work. Sign up for the newsletter and receive my Intuitive Journaling Prompts - four questions to connect with your intuition before making art. Sign up HERE
Get the transcript and full show notes HERE
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Join me this week as I share my top two HABIT TIPS, including:
- WHY - and why uncovering the deeper driver is imperative to building a sustainable habit
- Three questions to uncover your deeper WHY
- Two pieces of writing advice that are applicable to any habit (that I think about all the time)
- Exactly how to make a break a habit down into the smallest commitment (so you can do it even on your busiest days)
- Building a habit from self-kindness (versus pressure, shoulds, urgency)
Next week, I'm going to share exactly how I establish a new habit. It's the process that I follow, I wanted to start here so that you can listen to this as a primer and use these tips when you listen to, and implement, How to Build a Habit.
This week: experiment and see how it lands for you, and I will see you here next week, and we'll talk all about how to build a new habit.
Resources
Want to begin a journaling habit? The Daily Writing Prompts are supportive and thoughtful prompts to discover what you believe is possible for you, what you want, and what's in the way right now. Learn more HERE
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio - you'll learn a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
Get the transcript and full show notes HERE
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Join me this week as I share what’s REALLY happening when we’re doing something new and everything feels terrible.
I promise it is not what you think!
- What the Great Reorganization means - and the exact cycle so you know what to expect
- What things are happening beneath what you can see
- How all of this relates to believing you ‘should be further along’ that you currently are
The absolute best thing you can take away is this: when everything feels terrible (BECAUSE you are moving towards something new), remember that all of your shit is being reorganized so you have the bandwidth and capacity to have what you are creating.
You will still feel uncomfortable at times, even when you know what to expect, but knowing what’s happening gives you much more choice over your experience.
Episode Notes
Want to begin a journaling habit? The Daily Writing Prompts are supportive and thoughtful prompts to discover what you believe is possible for you, what you want, and what's in the way right now. Learn more HERE
Tap into your intuition before making creative work. If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
Get the transcript and full show notes HERE
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Join me this week as I share why we have hustle culture wrong. The most important takeaway is - whatever you do to get what you want, you have to keep doing to keep it. Knowing this, you can uncover what you’re really desiring, and use that to fuel what you create.
Here’s what’s possible when you know the difference between creating from desire vs hustle:
- Why ‘doing whatever it takes’ to create what you want usually leads to being disappointed
- How to uncover what it is you’re really wanting (which is the reason you want the thing you want)
- How to utilize your desire to create with self-compassion, befriending yourself, and using goals to pursue self-growth (rather than hustling, proving yourself, and seeking external validation)
Episode Notes
Want to begin a journaling habit? The Daily Writing Prompts are supportive and thoughtful prompts to discover what you believe is possible for you, what you want, and what's in the way right now. Learn more HERE
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share about how to stop making decisions from external pressure, and begin making decisions and choices based on your nervous system (using your inner knowing).
Sometimes we gain awareness around something and our nervous system truly needs time to integrate that information but society tells us to move fast, go go go.
Here’s what’s possible when you move at the speed of your nervous system:
- Learnings and education and lessons that are available within ourselves
- Integrate, feel into, and process whatever we might need to before we make the external switch
- Trust that that unfolding process is valuable for me/you/us
- Live as a practice of our values rather than hustle culture
- Fully intact nervous system, mental health, physical health as you move towards this thing
Show Notes
Want to begin a journaling habit? The Daily Writing Prompts are supportive and thoughtful prompts to discover what you believe is possible for you, what you want, and what's in the way right now. Learn more HERE
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share how I’ve changed my thinking about having a consistent practice - I no longer think it’s better than doing what actually feels in service (it changes day to day).
I have been challenging and questioning what I’ve taken on as meditation student, and how it applies to any practice - creative, exercise, writing, etc.
In this episode, I share:
- How to know if what you’ve learned still feels true (+ in service) to YOU
- How showing up in real life is more important than being a perfect-practice-student (and a sports analogy that I hope makes sense - I am not a sports person!!)
- How I see meditation as a life practice (rather than a sit-for-20-minutes-and-then-go-into-life-mindlessly-or-on-autopilot)
- What I mean by living life as a meditative practice (with a real-life explanation)
Show Notes
Learn how to Map Your Intuition with a guided worksheet, located inside The Resource Library - learn more HERE
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share my five favorite questions you can use to connect with yourself, with your partner, with a cherished friend, or with a new friend.
These are some of my favorite questions to ask ever, and I want to share them with you.
In this episode, I share:
- Five thought provoking questions (+ one bonus question) that you can use to discover + connect with yourself, a loved one, or new friend/partner.
- How asking good questions can help us fulfill a core need we all have - to be seen, known, and cherished.
- I hope you’ll take time this week to ask yourself these questions, and take time in the next week to ask a friend or partner these questions too.
Show Notes
Learn how to Map Your Intuition with a guided worksheet, located inside The Resource Library - learn more HERE
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share the top two things I’ve learned about Creative Process + Creative Practice in the past year of podcasting.
I share:
- How to know when you’re actually ready to start a project idea
- How I’ve developed a creative process that follows flow, intuition, curiosities, and what’s showing up in my life.
- How a consistent practice (I talk about my relationship with consistency) changed the way I relate to my creativity - I have so much more trust and belief in giving voice to the ideas that are coming to me
- I also share my exact process for developing podcast episodes - from how I come up to ideas to the workflow I follow.
Show Notes
Learn how to Map Your Intuition with a guided worksheet, located inside The Resource Library - learn more HERE
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share what it looks like to live an intuitive life, with real-life examples.
I share:
- The most compelling reason to pay attention to our intuition in our life choices
- How living aligned with our intuition can lead us to create a life that is more than we think is possible (or available) to us
- The little ‘breadcrumbs’ that led to the intuitive ‘big rocks’ I share from my own life [What hunches was I having? How did I know it was my intuition?]
- How following our intuition often feels unknown, doesn’t totally make sense in the moment, and can mean sitting in discomfort as we wait for more clarity
Show Notes
Learn how to Map Your Intuition with a guided worksheet, located inside The Resource Library - learn more HERE
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share a new concept I’ve been tinkering with: Mapping Your Intuition.
I explain how to unravel the steps and actions taken to create something you want, and remind you of how important it is to take ownership of your role in the things you’ve created.
In this episode, I share:
- The steps to follow to create an Intuition Map
- How to work backwards to identify actions that led to past creations
- Recognizing inner wisdom
- And how to apply this process to create things you’re currently wanting.
I also share about the importance of staying open and receptive to intuitive nudges for future creations.
Show Notes
- Learn how to Map Your Intuition with a guided worksheet, located inside The Resource Library - learn more HERE
- If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
- Get the transcript and full show notes HERE
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Join me this week as I share my three favorite practices to feel more intuitive:
- Writing daily-ish (and why I believe doing something every.single.day is not better)
- Mental rehearsal + how to do it (plus a free resource)
- Little nudges (and how to set up a day of following your intuition)
These three practices are simple and free, and build your intuition muscle. You’ll also learn that the goal is to befriend yourself in the process - befriending yourself allows you to hear more deeply + clearly.
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share a personal episode reflecting on 18 years of making decisions based on following my intuition.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- HOW to pursue what you want intuitively
- What it looks like to not know and follow your intuition
- How the best experiences in life are ones we don’t plan for
- How wishing for a clear plan for how to do each step actually limits your potential (and what you think is possible for yourself)
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share the importance of understanding your WHY in creating and sharing your art. It is an amazing tool that:
- Provides mission clarity
- Helps in decision-making
- And you can filter decisions through (big and small).
Exploring and defining your WHY, and understanding what drives you to create and share your work, ultimately creates a deep well of enthusiasm and energy in pursuing your creative passions.
I also reflect on my own journey of understanding my WHY in making jewelry, and how it led me to be so passionate about sharing, and teaching, other creatives to figure out their own WHY.
Episode links:
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share about the simple pleasures of being a beginner - and why we need to slow down and relish the present moment instead of rushing towards the next achievement. There’s an offer at the end of the show for listeners to get a unique process to tap into their intuition before starting any creative work.
In this episode, I share -
- Why I think being a beginner is a beautiful experience, and how interesting it is that our minds often rush towards certainty.
- The significance of relishing the present moment before setting our sights on the next mountain peak.
- The pleasure of being a beginner and the power of savoring the present moment.
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio.
You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share the difference between life feeling boring vs. stabilized, and what it feels like firsthand to be in the middle of a big (unknown) personal transformation.
In this episode, I share:
- The difference between feeling bored with life vs. stability (hint: it often takes time for our brains + bodies to catch up)
- How we go through these growth cycles when we’re really living
- Why I’m sharing so transparently about this (I resist the idea that being in in-between spaces - which is often pathologized as low energy, anxiety, even feeling morose - is taboo)
Show Notes
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio. You’ll receive an audio that teaches you a unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share Part 2 of an audio diary I kept while I was on a process painting retreat at Esalen in Big Sur, California.
In today’s episode, I share:
- How perfectionism led me to stop painting as a teenager
- The intention I set for the painting retreat (which surprised me)
- How it feels to make ‘not good enough’ work
This is the final installment (Part 2) of my Esalen Audio Diary.
Show Notes
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio Ritual. You’ll receive my unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
Process Painting website
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Join me this week as I (vulnerably!) share parts of an audio diary I kept while I was on a process painting retreat at Esalen in Big Sur, California.
In today’s episode, I share:
- What I was thinking about on the first day of the retreat
- Realizations around achievement, performance, and attachment to certain results in creative work
- Creating for expression (rather than for results/to create something that will be shared)
- My personal background with painting, when and why I stopped, and how to create without a pre-made plan to be executed
- How all of this relates to my twelve years making + selling creative work
Show Notes
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio Ritual. You’ll receive my unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
Process Painting website
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Join me this week as I share how and why to use precision in creative work over perfectionism.
I share:
- My journey from perfectionism to precision using throwing pottery as a metaphor
- The problem with perfectionism, and how it stops creativity
- How to define precision for yourself, and a practice to do this week
Want some support in getting quiet and tuning into what you’re thinking about, or what’s calling to you, today? Go to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and sign up to get my completely free Intuitive Creation Audio Ritual. You’ll receive my unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share my case for why we should be actively SEEKING boredom in our lives.
You’ll learn:
- Why I advocate for seeking boredom (spoiler: it’s so you can hear your actual desires and callings more loudly than what you consume)
- Eight ideas to intentionally experience boredom
- What to do first if there’s a lot going on, or if you’re ruminating
Want some support in getting quiet and tuning into what you’re thinking about, or what’s calling to you, today? Go to www.jenmoutlon.com/newsletter and sign up to get my completely free Intuitive Creation Audio Ritual. You’ll receive my unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share the exact review process I use on my birthday and half-birthday to reflect, review, and powerfully plan for the next six months.
You’ll learn:
- My five step review process
- Why we aim at something (to begin moving towards something, gain feedback and wisdom, incorporate it, pivot, keep going)
- The tool I use to bridge goals I set and how to make them real
Episode links:
Link to Take Aim Workshop
If you want to feel intuitive in your creative practice, AND tap into your one-in-eight-billion perspective and contribution, head to www.jenmoulton.com/newsletter and get my Intuitive Creation Audio Ritual. You’ll receive my unique process to reliably tap in BEFORE you make any creative work so you can overcome procrastination, overwhelm, and where-do-i-start-itis.
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Join me this week as I share how I think about being in periods where you don’t quite know what is happening (or why).
You’ll learn:
- Why I believe we don’t know things when we might really want to
- A question for you when you really want to know (or want to be further along than you currently are)
Links
If you want to learn my method for how to make your passion project idea a real thing, head over to www.jenmoulton.com/passionproject. Sign up to get the Creative Momentum workbook so you can learn how to plan your passion project in seven easy steps.
If you want to know why you want the change you desire, the deeper purpose behind what you feel called to create, or what your unique superpower is, book a Becoming Blueprint session. I guarantee you have answers lurking inside you about what’s next, and I can help you find them in a Becoming Blueprint session. You’ll leave with specific actionable and embodied areas to focus on.
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Join me this week as I share how I think about self-worth, how we can’t earn our worth (though I know we all try!!), and an exercise to uncover how to feel worthy (using what’s already in your life).
Settled Worth Exercise Steps:
- Choose a life area where you don’t feel settled worth
- Compare it to a life area where you do feel settled worth (often: human relationships, money, work, or your body).
- Be so curious - why does it feel different for you?
- Investigate with curiosity and compassion
- Seek and compost the wisdom
- Be willing to sit with it until it shifts (and it will shift)
- Then, move onto the next thread, and repeat
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Join me this week as I break down how and why the past (and all your past evidence) has absolutely nothing to do with your future, and all the potentials and possibilities in your future.
You’ll learn:
- How and why the past and future and unrelated
- How to tap into the wisdom and feedback your body is always offering you
- A house renovation metaphor - would you redo your future homes to look like your past house? If no, then stop defining your future by your past!
- Exactly how to orient (and reorient) yourself to your future
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Join me this week as I share what to do when you feel stuck.
You’ll learn:
- How to source wisdom from an old ‘forcing it’ pattern
- The 1% different strategy
- How to create compassionate, generous, self-led change (vs. pushing, forcing, urgent change)
- Why it’s a good thing it’s not working for you the way you’re trying to do it
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Join me this week as I share a personal episode about what’s been happening in my life the past few months, and how I’m handling stressful life things differently than I did in the past.
I’m sharing:
- BTS on our house renovation
- My top thing I do for my health since having cancer
- The life strategy that I follow: What happens in my life if I follow what I feel called to do?
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Join me this week as I share the top thing I’ve learned in my 10+ years as a Creative Entrepreneur. In this quick but potent episode, you’ll learn:
🎯 Why it can take hundreds of trying things to find YOUR unique path
🎯 How unlikely it is that someone else’s way is your way
🎯 The one thing you need to do to get into action today
Excerpt:
“Showing up and making your ideas real things looks like trying as many things as it takes until it works. And for many people, this is hundreds of things. You will try so many things along your path and you have to, or else you will never find your unique path that works for you. And you do have a path. All of us do.”
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Join me this week as I share with you the five steps I use to take projects from a glimmer of an idea into a completed, finished thing that lives in the world. I’ve made (and launched) so many projects over the years and I’ve deduced the process down into five steps. Here’s the best part - you only need to know what you know right now!
How to Make Things in Five Steps:
- Set the vision
- Question what’s in the way
- Do what you know
- Keep showing up
- Be curious how it will arrive/unfold/materialize in your life
Tune in to learn how to do each of these five steps.
Excerpt:
“Step number four is to keep showing up and trusting and tuning in for guidance. Sourcing that within yourself. It's very natural for us to look outside ourselves for guidance or for information. Again, we're taught to do this from the earliest age in Western cultures, so of course that's what you're gonna do. But I wanna tell you something here. No one has your answers for you. I can't tell you how many years I spent looking outside of myself for my answers because I thought someone else had them.”
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Join me this week as I show you why you have to start on the idea that you have right now, and you can't be precious about it being the one or working out. Why do I say this? Because you won't know the path or wisdom your idea holds until you take action and get feedback.
You'll learn:
- What stopping and starting projects means
- What dating and projects have in common
- How there's no such thing as failure (and what failure really means)
Excerpt:
"It's very silly for us to think that our one thing, our first thing, the idea that we have right now, the partnership that you have when you're a teenager, or maybe the partnership you have right now, needs to be the one, and you're not willing to take in any other information. You're not willing to be wrong. You're not willing to learn, and morph as you go along and let things take the shape that they're gonna take."
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Join me this week as I share why chasing perfection for perfection's sake is hollow, and what we’re actually seeking through perfectionism (it’s not what you think).
You’ll learn:
- What creative work lacks when perfectionism is centered and prioritized
- What it means to have our energy imbued in our creative work
- Why you need to create with the intention (as part of the ‘raw materials’) that you want to offer through your art and creative work
Excerpt:
“But the reality is, is that the raw materials are everything, right now, exactly where you are. And those raw materials are what you're gonna build on and create your vision on. They're the foundation. They're so important. So your energy that you wanna offer should be priority number one in your work. You should be prioritizing that over perfectionism.”Get the transcript and full show notes HERE
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Join me this week as I share with you my answer to this question, why are we here? I'm also going to share some of my personal beliefs, where they come from, how I approach having beliefs that I can't prove, and my greater life vision, which I hope to impart on you as well.
You’ll learn:
- My beliefs about why we’re here
- An amusement park analogy for life
- Why your idea matters more than you know (and how it can change someone’s life without you knowing)
Excerpt:
“So I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. I believe that we are spirits in human bodies. And that we are here to learn and play and be challenged and grow and expand in ways that only humans can. I think of being a human living life as being in a big amusement park. We can go on rides that thrill us, rides that terrify us, rides that make us nauseous and want to puke. And we were like, why am I on this? I just want to get off this, like immediately.
So, how does this relate to you? Well, while you're here alive on this planet, I think your job is to have your unique experience in the amusement park.”
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Questions for you to consider:
If you agree with me and you believe that you are here for a reason, you have your ideas for a reason, you're meant to express your ideas. Maybe you're working on believing that you are the perfect person to express those ideas. And you're here to have this human experience, which is like a series of amusement park rides.
Then, if you're in that place of believing that: what do you want to work on? What are you meant to create? What should you do today to support that vision?
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Join me this week as I explore intuition and creativity (they are interconnected, if not two sides of the same coin), and the magic that they generate when used in coordination (FLOW).
You’ll learn:
- How taking exquisite care of yourself is part of the equation
- A new way of looking at why you should share your art
- What a lack of consistency in your creative practice actually means about you (it’s not what you think)
Excerpt:
“It is actual alchemy - your brain + your inner wisdom is taking something and transforming it by taking the raw parts a level deeper, and making the invisible visible. By taking what only you can see, and making it explicit.
If you agree with me (which I hope you do), then you can also see why your energy is so critical to this process. Your energy is literally one of the raw parts that goes into this transformational ‘creative’ process. Therefore, it is imperative that you care for your energy, and that you nurture it for the invaluable resource that it is.”
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Join me this week while I share my ‘Intuition Equation’. I break down the process I use to tap into my intuition to create my goals, and how I make intuition-led decisions along the way.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- A process to reliably 'tap in' so you can strengthen your intuition
- Two things that might make it seem like something is going wrong, but actually mean you’re on the right track
- Where I see most Creatives get stuck in this process, and how you can learn to navigate it
Excerpt:
“Having that HOW plan, knowing every step, every how of how you're gonna do something, really limits you because you're only going to do what you can see. You're not going to explore or be open to other possibilities or literally the way it works is you just follow one breadcrumb to the next, to the next, to the next.
And when you can trust while you're doing that, things are so much bigger and better than you can imagine than when you are starting out. When you are setting the goal with what you currently think is possible for you. So just keep that in mind. It's normal to want to know how, the most normal thing about you, and also insisting on knowing how you're gonna do something will limit you and you will create less than you are capable of.”
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Join me this week as I share the very big difference between trying to ‘be the best’, rather than being more YOU. We are conditioned to ‘be the best’ - 1. WHY? 2. Who cares??
When you compete to be the best, you cut off other facets of yourself that make you uniquely you. No one - NO ONE on this planet is like you. You are one in eight billion.
Excerpt:
“Why are we reducing ourselves to labels and titles? Why are we allowing that to happen? Actually, I mean, I know that we're conditioned, but we're perpetuating it. We're trying to become the best. Like it is that whatever medium you work in or whatever trade you work in is such a small part of you.
The quote I'm thinking of, I don't know who said it, but you contain multitudes. There is no title or trade or profession that could possibly contain all of you. And I hope that as you're listening to this, you're starting to see that. That it is not better to be the best painter, potter, writer, whatever.”
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Join me this week as I do something a little different today and share an excerpt from my daily-ish writing practice with you. We're going to go on a journey from feeling overwhelmed, to a three-step process I do when I'm feeling the feels, and then into an homage to creativity and creative acts.
Excerpt:
“It makes me wonder about the cost of suppressing the creativity that wants to move through us. The desire is strong and how hard a lot of us work to suppress it.
To suppress the desire for these ideas to emerge for our creative acts to be acted out, to be created. It has a cost. The cost of not allowing this energy, this creativity, these ideas to move through us often leaves us feeling glum, uninspired, and even fatigued. The energy wants to move. And a lot of us work very hard to hold it in.”
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Join me this week as I share with you the four step process I use (and teach) to find what’s in the way of feeling how you want to feel (and experiencing life the way you want to). If you haven’t already, go listen to Episode 19. Two Most Important Things I Can Teach You before this one - it will provide context about how to use this four step process.
Excerpt from today’s episode:
“Step number three is to be on to yourself when you feel the negative narrative take over. When you begin to pay attention to feelings, and if they're negative, you might start to hear more a more negative narrative about like, oh, I'm feeling terrible all the time. I'm feeling so discouraged. This is never going to stop. Right. This narrative will take over and it will get louder in an effort to protect you. So I want you to be paying attention to and aware of when this negative narrative begins to take over again. When you have dropped out of awareness, and you are back in this narrative and listening to everything it's telling you."
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Join me this week as I share with you the first two concepts that I teach everyone who works with me:
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You are not your thoughts (you are the awareness of your thoughts) and
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You have an inner narrative running at all times - and how important it is to intentionally craft the narrative you tell yourself.
If you learn just these two things from me, it can change your life.
Excerpt from today’s episode:
“The first thing I want you to know is that your natural state is open, joyful, happy, excited, content, full of wonder, curious, effortless, and connected. I believe that like a hundred million percent, that is all of our natural states. And so we don't need to necessarily like, do anything to find those feelings states, I think a lot of us think, like I just need to figure out how to spend more time there, or I need to generate this for myself more often."
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If you've ever thought to yourself, 'if I just worked part-time or if I didn't have to work at a full-time job and I could work for myself, then I would have time to create what I want.' This week I share with you why that's not true, and why having having time constraints can actually be supportive.
Excerpt from this week's episode:
"You don't need to blame yourself and say like, what this means about me, and that means I can't do this. Don't go down that road either. Just talk back and say, this isn't about time. And maybe even get curious, like if it's not about time, what might this be about? What's going into this that's causing me to think that if I just had more time, what else might it be that's contributing to this?"
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Join me this week as I share how subtle differences in our inner narrative have a major impact on what we create (and what we think is possible).
Excerpt from today’s episode:
“Like that is such a privilege when you really think about it. If you are privileged enough to be able to spend some of your time creating a random idea that you have in your head. It is your duty to actually spend time doing that, and you can make it really hard on yourself and not fun and not enjoyable, and like really diminish your energy by telling yourself a negative story about yourself and your effort and what you're capable of and all the things.”
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Join me this week as I share some of my own inner wisdom dialogue, and then expand on it with a metaphor that I think captures creative work beautifully. Plus I tell you how I consulted my inner wisdom for guidance.
Excerpt from episode:
“We are so often in a rush to get to the minute the project is complete. To feel all the feelings when we get there. We want to rush through the tiny tasks, through the becoming, the literal path unfolding under our feet as we walk. We don't notice the beauty in this unfolding path. And most of us don't find a way to find joy in those tiny tasks, but those tiny tasks are everything.”
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Join me this week as I share the concepts of Bottom Up Making and Top Down Making. One opens up your creativity, and your intuition, while making. The other is rooted in perfectionism, efficiency, and productivity.
Excerpt from the episode:
“We don't know, but the important thing is that you're sitting down and letting your brilliant ideas come to the surface. Allowing space for who knows what is like working in your intuition or in the subconscious part of your brain. These ideas to come out and see what they become. And then make a decision about them.”
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Join me this week as I share about what led me to reflect on the past ten years of my creative work. My top takeaway is that even if you want to improve and you want to keep working at what you're doing and want to improve your technique or learn new skills, do it from a place of believing in your skill, talent, and inherent worth. Believe in the goodness that you already have and build on that, rather than making from ‘I'm not good enough yet so I'm gonna keep working at it’.
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Welcome to today's episode, introducing The Creative Collective. I am obsessed with making my passion projects, real things, taking them from idea or concept and making it real and holding it in my hands. Over the years I've launched jewelry collections, heirloom jewelry collections, made and sold pottery, collaborated with Madewell, launched this podcast, launched mini courses and a writing program, I wrote part of a book it's at 37,000 words and I fully intend to get back to it someday.
Side note: I don't think that there's any problem with hitting pause on a project once you feel like you've expressed what needs to be expressed, and continuing to let it like noodle in the background, or just be in a holding pattern while you get more information. I think that is a perfect example of being in touch with your inner wisdom and not forcing a project through or forcing yourself to finish it just because you said you would.
I believe the world needs what we have to offer and we are responsible for making our ideas, real things that contribute and touch the lives of other people.
I would have like fallen over with happiness to find someone who could teach me all of the things that I want to teach and share with you in The Creative Collective. That is my why for doing this work. All of the years that I was sitting at my jewelry bench making work, that I felt so compelled to make, but I was also overwhelmed by the demands of life and launching jewelry collections twice a year, collaborating with brands, growing wholesale.
I spent so much of my time asking, what am I doing with my life? What am I even working towards? Why am I doing this? Will this work? What if it does work and I don't know how to sustain it? I was just in constant thought loops and trying to predict the future and see exactly where I was going and know how I was going to do it.
I felt so compelled to make my work, but I didn't have any belief in why I was doing it, I had belief in the people that I was making it for, but I didn't have belief in myself about why I was doing it. And particularly like how much it mattered. And it crushes me to think back on that time.
The work I was making was so special and it mattered. And all I needed to do was keep going and I would have figured it out. I needed to keep trusting myself and doing what I had hunches about. I needed to allow the journey to unfold beneath my feet as I walked.
And that's exactly what I want for you, for you to learn any skill or knowledge gaps that you need to learn in order to keep showing up for your ideas and keep doing them and trust that you will continue to figure out as you're going along.
My goal is for every creative to have access to what they need to learn and the ongoing support to implement and execute their ideas, their project plans, their passion projects. And beyond that. Let's say you make your passion project and it's my dream for you to be like, I know what I need to do next. And I just need a little bit of support to get there, but I know exactly how to do it now.
It's what I sought for ages when I was a jeweler working solo and spending hours and hours and hours and hours alone at my jewelry bench. I think you can imagine it's pretty meditative work cause it's a lot of repetition, but just my thoughts would be circling. Like, what am I doing? How am I going to get where I want to go? How do
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Join me this week as I tell you why TODAY is the ‘good old days’. Someday you will look back so fondly on today, why not appreciate it while you’re in it?
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Join me this week as I tell you why TODAY is the ‘good old days’. Someday you will look back so fondly on today, why not appreciate it while you’re in it?
Get the full show notes and more information here: https://www.jenmoulton.com/episode-12-there-is-no-such-thing
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Join me this week as I chat about why I think we choose to do creative projects, why working on projects that stretch you is so very valuable, and a project that challenged me big time (and how I worked with it - and ended up creating something I didn’t believe I was ‘capable’ of doing).
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why we choose the projects we do
- What you need to know about your worth
- A big project I worked on last year that was a very different experience than past projects (because of these two topics)
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Write me a few sentences about where you're stuck, what's going wrong. Or something you might like some guidance on.
I love to think about this question: what feels hard that I wish felt easier?
Send me the answer to that question.
I'll reply with an audio note with a question, thoughts, guidance, or something else, I'll see what comes up.
I would love to hear from you, and I would really love to support you and help you figure out your next step or work through something that is stopping you.
Send an email at:
SENDMEANOTE@jenmoulton.com
And let me know the obstacle you're dealing with, the desire, or wish, or dream that you currently have- maybe you just want to speak it out loud to someone. And also, if you have a specific question or something that you're noodling on, let me know that too. That's really helpful for me.
Looking forward to being in touch!
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Join me this week as I share what to do when you’re feeling pressure (or desire) to make a decision or have information that you don’t yet have.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why you need to normalize NOT KNOWING
- What I do when I feel pressure (or desire) to make a decision or have information that I don’t yet have.
- How to identify the felt experience in your body (so you can return to it in the future)
Join me this week as I share the two skills every Creative needs to have, and to continue to cultivate.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- The two skills every Creative needs: self-efficacy and emotional resilience
- The difference between self-efficacy and confidence
- The best way to build emotional resilience
Join me this week as I share a personal episode reflecting on 18 years of making decisions based on following my intuition. I look back and see all the things I made happen for myself (it was never luck). And I talk about how the best experiences in life are often ones we don’t plan for - and how all of the time we spend wishing for a very clear HOW - a clear plan on how to do each step - is actually limiting the potential.
Get the full show notes and more information here: https://www.jenmoulton.com/8
Join me this week as I share how to know when an idea is ‘ready’ to make it a real thing.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- What a turkey timer has to do with when an idea is ready
- A beach ball analogy that demonstrates when NOT making a project is harder than making it
- How to know it’s time to make your idea a real thing
Join me this week as I share ten things every creative needs to know. My hope is that this list makes your journey shorter, easier, and faster than mine has been.
Get the full show notes and more information here: https://www.jenmoulton.com/ten things
Download the Ten Things Every Creative Needs to Know list here: www.jenmoulton.com/6
Join me this week as I teach you how your passion project (or art practice, business, idea) is like any relationship - and to discover if you’re currently being a ‘good friend’ to your project. If you aren’t, then this episode is for you!
Get the full show notes and more information here: https://www.jenmoulton.com/5
Do you know WHY you want the things you want? Do you know what is driving you to seek accomplishment and succeed? Join me this week as I show you the reason why we want the things we want, and where your power is.
Get the full show notes and more information here: https://www.jenmoulton.com/4
Have you noticed there’s an [unknown] delay between getting results from your efforts? We never know how long it’s going to take - to see results from our efforts. It takes the time it takes. We often have opinions about how long we think something should take and that attachment to a timeline causes suffering. Join me where I show you a different perspective (one where there’s nothing wrong with things taking time).
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Join me this week as I show you the importance of your ideas and contribution, why you need to expand your self-concept to actually make your project, and why it really matters.
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Join me this week as I introduce the Creative Momentum podcast, tell you a bit about me and my story, share what I believe is possible for you, and where I envision this podcast going. I am so excited to share this podcast with you, and I’m so glad you’re here and that we get to walk our paths together!
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