Unlock Your Creativity + Live A Creative Life with Austin Kleon

In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast sitting with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Austin Kleon, he is the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work!, The Steal Like an Artist Journal: A Notebook for Creative Kleptomaniacs, and Keep Going. His work has been translated into over twenty languages and featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS News Hour, and in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. What you will learn●      How to live a creative life●      We can take influence from what’s around us that impacts our life and business.●      What does creative work involve? A lot of creative work is clearing space, creating a space in which things can come forth rather than you trying to push something into being you're actually making the space so that things can appear.●      We all have a creative self within us, and when time & space meet it to flourish.More about Austin KleonAs for the New York magazine called his work “brilliant,” the Atlantic called him “positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet,” and the New Yorker said his poems “resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead.” He speaks about creativity in the digital age for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. In previous lives, he worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons.Contact Austin KleonWebsite: www.austinkleon.com Twitter and Instagram @austinkleon Facebook @Mr.Austin.KleonSubscribe, REVIEW, Share & Balance BoldlyOn the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa Ren Thigpen talks with ambitious women in business (and a few brave men) from a wide array of industries about their pursuit of success, how they face business burnout, navigate relationship hurdles, and what overall work/life balance looks like for them. Not your conventional personal development podcast, Balance Boldly uncovers real solutions to real problems afflicting real people at home and in the workplace, daily.If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or your favorite podcast app to subscribe to the show and leave your honest review.If you want to dive deeper into personal development topics shared on the BBP (Balance Boldly Podcast) and get the “how-to” for implementing and infusing these tools, connect on LinkedIn so you get notifications for the Live Fully LinkedIn LIVESTREAMS held  first and second Wednesday at 12pm EST (as long as I’m not selfishly vacationing and intentionally refueling) 😊Order a paperback copy of my survivor memoir and personal transformational story for yourself or a friend. Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love and Laugh Your Way to Joy at Barnes & Nobles, Bookshop.org or anywhere books are found.  Now Go! Enjoy the balance of your day, but remember, do it, BOLDLY!Naketa Ren Thigpen is a Balance (and) Relationship Advisor activating power couples (and) potent humans ready to self-actualize wholeness |Architect of Intentionally Selfish Suite Incubator- Training & Certification for Women Entrepreneurs| Podcast Host & Transformational Speaker. Interested in learning more, visit www.thigpro.com Ready to activate joy in work/life (and LOVE), enjoy this Complimentary Masterclass at