The Confident Creative: Recent Episodes
Donna Louise | Certified Confidence & Success Coach For Creatives & Practitioner in NLP, EFT & Hypnosis
A podcast of conversations about cultivating more authentic confidence in yourself and your creative practice, profession or business.
In episode four, I'm talking with the incredibly colourful, resourceful and successful upcycling fashion designer Selina Sanders at selinasanders.com/shop and @selina_sanders
After over a decade of working as a designer in fashion and seeing the massive waste produced by the industry, Selina felt a deep desire to start a clothing line that helps reduce our carbon footprint and is environmentally responsible.
So today, Selina and her team make kaleidoscopic maximalist clothing from carefully sourced from vintage materials, like tea towels, linens, curtains, blankets and quilts.
And In little over two years, Selinas has not only grown her beloved Instagram community from 250 to over 100,000 followers, but she has launched a wildly popular DIY course on Domestika, and her one-of-a-kind creations have been featured in magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire and W Magazine.
And over the next 60-minutes you’ll hear Selina and I talk about:
- Her creative journey from fast fashion to fashion educator to fashion phenomena.
- How being made redundant at the start pandemic was the catalyst for change, she needed to revisit her entrepreneurial spirit.
- What can happen when the right influencer promotes your work.
- And last but not least, What she had to do to overcome her competitive nature, which was fueling her comparison.
Links mentioned in this episode:
- FREE TRIAL to The Confident Creative course for a 20% discount before midnight on September 22nd CDT.
In Episode Three, I'm talking with the magical. mystical and powerful Meagan Boyd @yinshadowz and Meaganboyd.com
Meagan is a multi-disciplinary artist whose essential foundation is painting and drawing. Meagan’s work has been featured globally in magazines such as Paulette, Disfunkshion, and Vice’s Creator’s Project. She has also contributed art to Taschen’s Library of Esoterica, Volume II: Astrology and Volume III; Witchcraft, created by Jessica Hundley. And collaborated with Jaden Smith and Hendricks Gin.
Over the next 50-minutes you’ll hear Meagan talk about:
- Why she didn't finish art school
- The 15 years it tools of working part-time jobs before she became a self-sustaining and now thriving artist.
- How both having her child and the pandemic were catalysts for her career.
- You never know who is watching and following your work and that your career can change overnight.
- When you become more consciously aware of your shadow side and love that part of you, it has less control.
Links mentioned in this episode:
1. Join the Good Enough 2-day challenge on August 17th and 18th, 2022
2. Get on The Confident Creative course waitlist for a 20% discount during the pre-sale in September 2022
I'm talking with the world-renowned Mexican textile street artist in this episode. Victoria Villasana. Follow her on Instagram at @villanaart
Victoria has exhibited her work at the Saatchi Gallery, had her profile published in numerous prestigious artists' books and has been commissioned by Harper Bazar, The NY Times Magazine, The Guardian, Netflix, and The Academy for the 93rd Oscars in 2021, to name a few.
Over our 40-minute conversation, you'll hear Victoria talk openly and honestly about:
- The ten years of trial and error in different creative careers she had pursued before finding the path that she is on today
- How, at times, she too wondered if things were ever going to take off for her
- How she believes that all the struggles she had to go through led to her being her authentic self, which she believes is at the root of creative confidence and self-belief
Links mentioned in this episode:
1. Join the Good Enough 2-day challenge on August 17th and 18th, 2022
2. Get on The Confident Creative course waitlist for a 20% discount during the pre-sale in September 2022
3. Access The Creative Perfectionists Guide to Finishing and Sharing THAT THING!
About this episode:
- About your inner critic
- How your mind works
- How negative emotions impact you
- How the subconscious mind derails your creative growth
- Healing your inner critic
Because once you've learnt to recognise when and why your inner critic is stepping in to protect you, you'll be able to coach yourself through the inevitable challenges every passion-driven creative encounters as they pursue their dreams and grow.
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Funny Game of Thrones, 'Winter is coming' Gif
- 🌟 Join the workshop: The Creative Perfectionists Guide to Finishing or Sharing THAT THING
- Create your free account and access the empowering free resources and courses for creatives in the online learning portal the Bibliotheca
Hello and Welcome to The Confident Creative, a podcast of conversations about how to cultivate more authentic confidence in yourself and your creative practice, profession or business.
I’m Donna Louise, a Certified Confidence and Success Coach for Creatives, a Practitioner in a range of mindset modalities, a qualified teacher and a serial creativeprenuer.
In this show, I’m going to explore the number one characteristic 9 out of 10 creatives and clients tell me they wish they had more of; confidence. So you can learn how to start feeling more at ease with fully exploring, expressing and sharing your creative passion, potential, projects and profile.
I’m going to be talking by myself and also interviewing other passion-driven creatives about:
- How to diminish your inner critic and cultivate more authentic confidence.
- What blocks confidence and how to release those blocks
- Mindset shifts and tangible actions we can implement to cultivate confidence
- And so much more
The first episode will go live in late July 2022, so I look forward to connecting and creating with you soon.
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