Cultivating Creativity: How the Internet Can Steal Your Creative Spark — Part 1

Cultivating Creativity: How the Internet Can Steal Your Creative Spark — Part 1You are creative. But spending too much time looking at what everyone else is doing can make you forget that.A note about this episode: This conversation with Kim Demmon was recorded several years ago, when Kim was actively running her online businesses. Kim has since retired from living her life online, but this conversation about creativity, comparison, and the internet is still worth a listen.In this episode of the Slow Living Podcast, Stephanie O'Dea sits down with her longtime friend Kim Demmon for a conversation about cultivating creativity in an online world.Stephanie and Kim met online years ago, and after mentioning Kim in the previous episode about influencers, Stephanie reached out and asked her to join the podcast. They talked for so long that the conversation became a two-part episode.Kim and Stephanie get personal about how the internet can slowly chip away at creativity. When you're constantly looking at what everyone else is making, writing, decorating, gardening, crafting, or accomplishing, it's easy to decide that your own ideas aren't creative enough.But creativity doesn't have to look a certain way.Whether you love writing, gardening, scrapbooking, decorating, crafting, homesteading, or something else entirely, you are allowed to create simply because you enjoy it.The conversation also wanders—because of course it does—into hormones, MLMs, online influencers, making money from blogs, aging, and the realities of being longtime women on the internet.In this episode, you'll learn:Why comparing your creativity to other people's work can make you feel less creativeHow the internet can chip away at your creative energyWhy creativity doesn't have to fit a particular definitionHow to put your blinders on and “do you”Why starting small and slow can help you get back to creatingWhat it's like to make a living online without losing sight of your own valuesYou don't have to create what everyone else is creating. Start small, start slow, and make something that feels like yours.About Kim DemmonKim Demmon was the creator of Today's Creative Life and Jack Pine Jones, and a longtime friend and fellow online creator of Stephanie's.Kim has since retired from her online businesses and from living her life publicly on the internet. This episode is preserved as a snapshot of a conversation between two longtime online friends during that chapter of their lives.Read Stephanie's Book📖 Slow Living: Cultivating a Life of Purpose in a Hustle-Driven WorldGet the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gPRu37Learn More About Stephanie O'DeaWebsite: stephanieodea.comPodcast: stephanieodea.com/podcastBlog: stephanieodea.com/blogSpeaking: stephanieodea.com/speaking/Podcast NotesFind all podcast notes at stephanieodea.com/podcastnotesHave a question you'd like Stephanie to cover, or a Slow Living Story of your own you'd like to share? Leave a voicemail.