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Art Creativity & Wellbeing
by Kay Lock Kolp
This show is for the dreamers and the doers. It’s for anyone who was told “get your head out of the clouds!” - and who still dared to dream BIG.I'm Kay! I am a coach helping people who show up for others to stay true to themselves❣️ My background is in human development. I've spent more than 30 years supporting as people of all ages connect, communicate, enjoy their lives and bring about their best and biggest dreams. What fun!Connect with me at kaylockkolp.com.. wishing you very well today ✨PS This show used to be called We Turned Out Okay… and then Practical Intuition with Kay… You're in the right place! This show turned 10 years old on May 1st 2025!! How wild is that!! Much has changed around here, but much has stayed the same. I'm glad you are here. kaylockkolp.substack.com
Episodes
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492: What’s Bad for the Bee is Worse for the Hive
Several interesting ideas are colliding for me today, creating doorways to a good present, and a good future, as well. If you'd like to play along with the Days of Creation 2026 game, here is the post with the Game book and rules. It's free with no strings attached, so please check it out if you...
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491: "How do I stop feeling guilty [about taking a break]?" with John Briggs
John Briggs is a CPA and entrepreneur, who's built beautiful things by taking breaks. John’s formative years were split, first in California in a big city environment where he felt like safety was being invisible, becoming invisible. Then he moved to Missouri, to a city of 2000 and a graduating...
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490: How I no longer feel like a victim
Today we explore the difference between feeling that something is happening TO us, or feeling that something is happening FOR us. I am glad to be back! Thanks for all the support and love as I have been regaining my spirits and energy, and thanks also for spending this time with me today. If…
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489: So much sleep
I meant this to go up a couple days ago, but the universe had other plans. It gives me the chance to say, how much I am appreciating my own body, especially when I give it the opportunity to really rest. This last week there’s been lots of movement, creation of art for art’s sake, baths, giving...
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488.5: Self Care Break. Days of Creation 2026, Part 8/12
Thank you so much for all the love and care you have been sending my way after I shared of the discovery of a lump in my breast. I'll see the doctor soon, and I'll have more to share with you after that. Between that and some quite a few other health concerns, I have realized that I've not been...
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488: "How we create turning points in our life" with Flow Expert Laurie Smith
What a great conversation I get to bring you today. Connect with Laurie in the Subtack app, at her website, and you can find her beautiful book, Flow Habit, here.I have received lots of messages of support after sharing about the lump I discovered in my breast… It's helping. Thank you so much.…
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487.5: I have found a lump in my breast. Here's what's helping me feel okay right now.
Yup. Getting outside has meant like EVERYTHING to me as I sit with the potential outcomes, as well as navigate the healthcare system to receive the care that will help. It’s funny how there are no coincidences – I am offering a workshop this coming Monday, in zoom, 6 PM Eastern time on 27 July –...
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487: "What if I didn't wait to live?" with Life Adventurer Kristy Halvorsen
Today I’m speaking with Kristy Halvorsen, an explorer of life, a coddiwompler, and author of Perfect Unfolding. Where is Kristy right now? Kristy is living inside ‘Coddi’, her Airstream parked near Bradford, New Hampshire; her summer home. Coddi comes from coddiwomple, a word that ‘found her’,...
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486: "What did worrying ever do for me?" Days of Creation 2026, Part 7/12
Today we discuss mechanisms for choosing our mindset, especially during challenging times. In this episode I introduce a question that’s been really helpful for me: “What would help me return to center after witnessing all of this?” This question helps me recognize when I’m trying to control...
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485: "This is what it would look like if everybody just felt safe," with Kathryn Nicolai
Today I am here with Kathryn Nicolai, creator of the wonderful sleep podcast Nothing Much Happens, the amazing mindfulness podcast First This, and the lively and delightful podcast Stories from the Village of Nothing Much. Kathryn'new book, On the Street Where You Live, comes out next month, in...
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484: How Is This Thing That Sucks a Gift?
A reflective one today. I am getting to be a facilitator at the Rebels for Peace Summer Internship Program, and in this episode I give you a little bit of what I'll be bringing to them. Questions for reflection: 1. What do I like, what do I enjoy doing? 2. What's an example of a time that I…
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483: "Pleasure is a birthright," with Violist and Pleasure Activist Meena Bhasin
I'm excited to bring you today's deep, beautiful, very warm and loving conversation. Today's guest, Mheena Bhasin, is a violist, mother of two and Pleasure Activist living in Noe Valley, San Francisco. Her work centers the arts as a vital part of civic life and community wellbeing. Mheena feels...
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Greetings from 1987!
I’ve been on retreat, and I learned lots.. sharing with you today. Here’s what the Zoom Summary had to say about today’s episode, I think it’s pretty spot-on. Kay shared her experience taking a week-long digital detox, disconnecting from the internet entirely to immerse herself in a retreat-like...
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482: Flushing the Cocaine Down the Sink, Days of Creation 2026, Part 5/12
May has been a wild ride! I take you into it today. Also, THERE ARE SOME SWEARS.. fyi :) Nuts and Bolts * Read about – and play along at – the Days of Creation 2026 game (that this episode is about) by clicking here. * Here is June’s workshop signup link, and you can find out more about it here *...
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481: "Living meaningful lives" with the whole wonderful Rebels for Peace Leadership Team
I am soooo excited to bring you this conversation, a Roundtable with the Rebels for Peace leaders! Here’s how Zoom summarized the conversation… In this Roundtable, Rebels for Peace Prince Jimmar, Logan Griggs-Mitchell, Devlin Chestang and Melina Navarette explored the concept of peace and its...
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480: "We've all had to overcome something to be who we are," with Rebel for Peace Melina Navarrete
Today I’m speaking with Melina Navarrete, Lead Facilitator, Lead Bilingual Facilitator, and Lead Trainer for Rebels for Peace. I am SO excited to share this one with you! Here is how Zoom summarized our conversation, I think it did a pretty good job.. Melina shared her personal mental health...
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Your Very Own Island - Monday's Workshop!
Get ready for a quickie meditation today! I take you to your very own beautiful deserted island, and we spend the majority of this episode exploring there. If you'd like to explore some more, you are cordially invited to this Monday's workshop, That Time You Found Yourself on a Deserted Island…
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479: "We need to stop separating ourselves from each other" with Rebel for Peace Devlin Chestang
As we go through this magical series of conversations with the leaders of the Rebels for Peace, I just keep feeling more and more inspired… Hope you enjoy this one! Here’s the Zoom summary… In this heartfelt conversation, Kay interviewed Devlin Chestang, the Lead Youth Facilitator at Rebels for...
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478: Love, Community, Trust. Days of Creation 2026, Part 4/12
Hello lovely, I challenged myself to a short and sweet episode that shares what feels true for me in this moment. I hope it finds you well Hug Yourself excerpt is coming for supporters. This month it’s about one of the most important self care practices I use. Can’t wait to share! * I’m offering...
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477: "Love yourself. That's how you create something magnificent," with Rebels for Peace Executive Director Prince Jimmar
WHAT a conversation we get to experience today! Rebels for Peace Co-Founder and Executive Director Prince Jimmar joins me to share deeply about his own journey, and how connected his journey is with the beautiful organization he now leads. Growing up, Prince felt cast into roles that were the...
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476: "Your reality is whatever YOU make it," with Rebel for Peace Logan Griggs-Mitchell
I'm so excited to bring you this conversation with Logan Griggs-Mitchell, Lead Facilitator and Program Coordinator of Rebels for Peace, a youth-led nonprofit on Chicago's South Side. The Rebels for Peace support kids to "let their environment be a product of them,” rather than feeling like…
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475: Verbs to help us reclaim and reconnect with ourselves
Once I began reflecting on the verbs that got me into trouble as a kid, I got curious about two things: First, how might these verbs show me myself as I am now? And second, what are your verbs? Zoom Summary: In this episode of Art, Creativity, and Wellbeing, Kay Lock Kolp discussed the concept of...
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474: The Fluffy Seedheads of Potential, Days of Creation 2026, Part 3/12
What an interesting podcasting experiment, to return to the same subject matter once each month and see what shows up. March was a wild ride, in the way that whitewater rafting is. See below for links that come up today, and the invitations I'm offering now. Also, click here - my homepage in...
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473: Aliveness, Part 4
3 A’s Framework for Aliveness Kay discussed the final portion of a series on aliveness, focusing on the “3 A’s” framework which includes awareness, acceptance, and agency. She explained how agency represents growth that continues beyond these stages, creating a spiral of ongoing development and...
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472: Aliveness, Part 3
In Part 3 of our series on feeling Alive, we explore the second of the three A's: Acceptance. Hope you enjoy this one! Zoom Summary: The Three A’s to Feeling Alive Kay discussed the second installment of a series focusing on the three A’s to feel alive, following awareness with acceptance. Kay...
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471.5: Maine Camp Retreat Announcement!
A quick announcement!! See more here: https://kaylockkolp.com/events Summary (via Zoom :) Maine Camp Retreat Invitation Kay announced an invitation to join a main camp retreat in September, describing it as a combination of camp and retreat experience designed to help people connect with friends...
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471: Aliveness, Part 2
Today, we’re focusing in on one of the 3 A’s that are helpful in feeling alive, Awareness. Hope you enjoy this one! Find the diagram here if for example you are in your favorite podcast app, and it doesn’t support images. Thanks for being here. See you for part three next week! Kay Nuts & Bolts...
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470: What makes you feel alive?
We are starting something new today, a series on feeling alive! Today's question: What makes you feel alive? I'll see you next week for the next part of our series. Here is the very fun Venn diagram that I reference today: Find it here if for example you are in your favorite podcast app, and it...
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Choosing How I Show Up for My Body: Days of Creation 2026, Part 2/12
What an interesting podcasting experiment, to return to the same subject matter once each month and see what shows up. I see progress with strengthening my muscles of staying with what's aligned, and of remembering that I can give my body feelings of safety and love, no matter the environment…
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468: "The world speaks to us. Are we open to being part of that conversation?" with Ancient Historian Alnoor Dhanani
This conversation reset my perspective in a most helpful way. Today's guest, Historian Alnoor Dhanani, shares about human curiosity and ingenuity over millennia, and all across the globe. One of my favorite things about the conversation is how he speaks of ancient times in the present tense. I…
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467: Our Brains and Us, with Life Coach Sarah Juniper
My Brain & Me Workshop: I am co-facilitating a Roundtable along with today's guest! She is wonderful coach and very dear colleague Sarah Juniper, and our roundtable is about making peace with our internal operating system. This feels important now, more than ever. Click here to read more about…
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466: Cultivating a Positive Money Mindset, Part 4
Here we are at the finale to this series on Cultivating a Positive Money Mindset! Today we bring the ideas we’ve been discussing together and I share two tiny steps that you can take – and keep taking over time – that are super helpful in cultivating this mindset. So open up the notes app on your...
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465: "Leadership looks a lot like loving people" with Chief of Police Cara Rossi
If you’d like to feel some hope and know that you are among people who, like ourselves, are searching for solutions that support everyone, this is your conversation. Ashland, Massachusetts Chief of Police Cara Rossi spent a wonderful hour talking with me today, and I'm so excited to bring you our...
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464.5: How did January turn out? Days of Creation 2026, Part 1/12
This one's a little messy. Not a surprise, given how messy January has been. I wanted to bring it to you even though it's messy, because it's real too. It's about real things that really matter. You're here, reading and listening, so I think they’ll matter to you as well. Thank you for being here...
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464: Cultivating a Positive Money Mindset, Part 3
Today’s show brings in an important idea when cultivating a positive money mindset: being curious about what we are really good at and enjoy doing. How we feel about money will improve as we do more and more of that which we are really good at and enjoy doing. Hope you enjoy this one! I keep...
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463: Cultivating a Positive Money Mindset, Part 2
How we spend our time, and how aligned our days are spent with how we wish to spend them, is directly influenced by the kind of money mindset we have. Today I’ve got a couple questions to help you get a sense of this alignment for yourself. I keep bringing this up, because it keeps being true…
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462: Cultivating a Positive Money Mindset, Part 1
I HAD NO IDEA how negative my money mindset used to be. Lack was the word that best describes it. Over several years I’ve opened more and more to feeling abundance. Even with all that growth, 2025 blew the absolute doors off of any abundance mindset I’d ever had. Between the dream home and…
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461: Three Questions for a Great 2026
Happy new year! For this episode I share three questions that have been super helpful for me in envisioning a wonderful 2026. I share my responses to them… With such curiosity about you. I wonder how you would answer these questions? Here are the questions: 1. A Magical Three from this year’s…
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460: A Playful Quickie Self-Care Practice and A Fun Way to Create 2026!
Well, here we are at the end of a fascinating and pretty buckwild year! I have got a quickie self-care practice for you today, and a game that we can play together all throughout 2026. (The link below is where you can play.) Happy 2026, dear friend. I hope it's an awesome year for you. You…
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459: What does it take for you to allow ease into your life?… Quickie Self-Care Practice #5
On 23 December 2022 I sustained a head injury that took me many many months to recover from. I spent half the following year in physical therapy supporting my eyes to work properly again. The head injury permanently changed how I engage with print and reading. It had one other, very beneficial,...
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438: Keep this in mind when you're bumping up against other humans: Quickie Self Care Practice #4
Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us… To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves. This week we bring our focus to feeling okay even amidst those who do not. Hope it's helpful.Sending you love today Kay…
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437: What's the best thing that happened today? Quickie Self-Care Practice #3
This game came in really handy when my eardrum ruptured over Thanksgiving week! It was great to have a little reminder that even on the worst days, there's still good around when we look for it. THANK YOU to my dear friend and colleague Dr. Alice Ackerman for the game. Today and for the rest of…
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456: A Creative Win, Quickie Self Care Practice #2
Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us, if I’m being honest… To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves.In this one, we’re seeing how it feels to celebrate a creative win.Sending you love today Invitations...
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455: Notice One Need, Quickie Self Care Practice #1
Hello fellow fun seeker! Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us, if I'm being honest… To take into our days and say "I love you lots!” to ourselves.In this one, we’re practicing a simple noticing: what do I need right now? If...
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Taking you into the backstory of my art (and as it turns out, this last year of my life)
There are a couple F bombs! So maybe headphones or listening away from sensitive ears are good choices for this episode today. I love when it happens that stories that I hadn’t really been intending to share just present themselves as what feels right to say in the moment. It turns out that…
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454: Kay's Universal Laws of Human Dynamics, and where they might come in handy in your life
Greetings friend! I'm geeking out a little bit today on something that's been both a passion of mine and my professional work for more than three decades: human dynamics, the study of how humans interact with each other. We human beings are fascinating creatures. We can seem very unpredictable to...
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453: Place the Big Rocks First, or, Prioritizing for a Happy Life
Greetings friend! I'm just back from a transformative and restorative retreat in northern Spain where I got some essential solo exploration time and also took part in a lovely and amazing group retreat offered by friend-of-the-podcast Monique Giroux (here's her website so you can get to know her...
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452: A Mindset Tool that brings freedom through awareness
Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of “lost” Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It’s about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today, I Am Not My Thoughts. We hope that this will be a super helpful episode for you on your...
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451: A Mindset Tool that goes BIG!
Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of “lost” Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It’s about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today, The Law of the Universe. A note for paid supporters: with my travel this past month I...
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450: The Amplifier, a most helpful Mindset Tool that I still utilize lots today!
Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of "lost" Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It's about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today. This was done as a LinkedIn live back in Spring 2025, so the production and sound…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This show is for the dreamers and the doers. It’s for anyone who was told “get your head out of the clouds!” - and who still dared to dream BIG.I'm Kay! I am a coach helping people who show up for others to stay true to themselves❣️ My background is in human development. I've spent more than 30 years supporting as people of all ages connect, communicate, enjoy their lives and bring about their best and biggest dreams. What fun!Connect with me at kaylockkolp.com.. wishing you very well today ✨PS This show used to be called We Turned Out Okay… and then Practical Intuition with Kay… You're in the right place! This show turned 10 years old on May 1st 2025!! How wild is that!! Much has changed around here, but much has stayed the same. I'm glad you are here.
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