Creativity as your Birthright with Leonie Dawson

🎙✨I can’t tell you what an honour it was to interview online creative entrepreneur Leonie Dawson. They are quite simply the most congruent person I’ve ever met and I don’t say that lightly - the internet can be a confusing place! We chat here for 50 minutes (Australia to UK) about Leonie’s incredible journey with creativity and her online business, creative flow, personal practise, showing up online and so so much more. Leonie doesn’t have Substack but you can head to their website for ALL the gifts and to learn more about them. In a nutshell, the reason I was so so happy that timing worked out for them to be my first guest was for a few reasons;* They have a mailing list of over 50k and have been blogging and loving the internet since 2004!* I’ve been learning with Leonie for 3 years now and they have propelled my confidence in my creativity, helped me with money stories see my business to a new way - I’m forever grateful. * Leonie is VERY unique in her approach to showing up and sharing online and that’s why I’ve chosen to share this episode with you here. She doesn’t have Substack but that’s kind of the point. * They work 10 hours a week and in our recent coaching call together they reminded me that working part time isn’t an excuse not to grow your business. I’m working on that! There’s a 20 year history of blogging, direct source to the universe, creative flow and a ridiculously generous sharing of her gifts. The reason I wanted to share this interview with you here and right now is because I think Leonie is to creative businesses what Substack is to us writers and creatives - generous beyond limit! It’s a rare and beautiful thing! Here is the timestamped overview to give you an indication of the content in our podcast call/ interview together;[00:01:48] Talking sh*t on the Internet, goal workbooks, courses.[00:05:51] Started first blog in 2004, obsessed with writing.[00:08:10] Art journaling in school and the permission slip that led to blogging.[00:11:35] Permission to create, escaping social media “rules”.[00:15:17] Beautiful journaling during pandemic brought so much joy and insight.[00:21:14] The How to - scheduled time, prioritise tasks, and recycle content.[00:24:01] Fuelling business and enjoying life.[00:28:47] Being enchanted by early message boards, blogging success.[00:34:09] Finding ease in authenticity, online struggles. Gratitude.[00:37:16] Boundaries online - keeping family private and no sharing personal struggles.[00:38:51] Being open about therapy and personal struggles.[00:42:57] Podcast: No editing, jingle, preparation, topic. Just me.[00:48:57] Grateful for insight, magic, beautiful conversation and community.If you’d like to read our transcript it’s here or if you’re reading on desktop you’ll see a tab to open it. If you’d like to watch our video on youtube it’s here. Hope you enjoy this episode and it give you lots of space to own your unique creative path and sparkle up your Substack!Find Leonie online.Find Claire online. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sparkleon.substack.com/subscribe