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Creative, Happy Life Podcast
by Shannon Sorensen
Creative, Happy Life is a conversational podcast about exploring your creativity and doing more of what makes you happy!We cover a variety of topics ranging from art and theatre to gardening, education, parenting, marriage and spirituality.
Episodes
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017. Our Creative Roots, Thoughts on Education, and Healing with Art
Trigger warning: the end portion of this episode discusses loss and grief, and may be heavy for certain audiences. In episode 17, we sit down and reminisce over memories of learning various crafts and skills, from crochet and sewing, to favorite things we enjoyed seeing our mom make, our own...
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016. How We Communicate, and Welcome Andrea to the Podcast!
Welcome back to the podcast! If you're new to Creative, Happy Life - we're glad you're here! This is the first episode in a new chapter, co-hosting as sisters and people with some shared life experience, as well as individual views and interests. It's the podcast I dreamed of when I started in...
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015. Creativity Conversations with Jess Parks
I was so happy to spend time chatting with Jess Parks, the designer, maker and creative heart behind MissLouMakes. We discussed her journey to becoming a full time maker, what inspires her work, using creative projects to relieve stress, and more! Follow Jess on Instagram.com/missloumakes. Check...
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014. Practice Makes Better
This episode of Creative, Happy Life podcast is all about practice - establishing consistency, creating understanding from the beginning of the process, and not letting the idea of "should" get in the way of starting. Join me for guidance, wisdom, inspiration each week to live a more creative,...
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013. Being a Multipassionate Person
Are you a multi-passionate person? Have you heard that word before? I heard it for the first time a couple years ago, and things started to click together in my mind and in my heart, about my creative interests, skills, and the work I wanted to do. And surprising to absolutely no one, it meant...
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012. Why I'm Loving Block Scheduling
As a working artist, working at home with two young kids during the pandemic, join me to hear more about a method of planning my days that allows me to create boundaries and balance between personal time and work time, flexibility in my day during personal time, and how I'm getting more focused…
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011. Letting Go of Expectations
It's the first episode of 2021! In episode 11, I'm encouraging you to let go of expectations, shift your mindset, and learn to get into the flow. Whether it's creativity, resolutions and goal setting, or day to day things that you generally don't enjoy, you can learn to take steps to feel better,...
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010. What is Your Big Scary Dream?
In this episode, I talk about the "I Want" song, in relation to Disney princesses and Hamilton, to inspire you to listen to your creative wants, needs and desires. There's no dream to big or small that will be worth exploring. At any age, we experience times of shift and change, and maybe feel a...
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008. The Other Side of Fear
Meg O'Brien is my guest on episode 8, and she is serving up some beautiful and important truths about the necessity of the arts in education and in humanity. We talked about silver linings during the global pandemic of Covid-19, pushing through fear, and how learning the basic tools of theater…
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007. It's Ok to Not Be Ok: For Times When You're Not Feeling Happy or Creative
Episode 7 of the Creative, Happy Life Podcast is all about those times when you don't feel happy or creative. They happen to all of us, and especially in the midst of the events happening in our world right now, there are a lot of big, hard feelings to process. In this episode, I'm sharing some...
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006. Working From Home and Family Life in Quarantine
This week I have my very first guest - my husband, Sean! We're stuck at home together, so we might as well make the most of the time, right? In this episode, we talk about how it's going with both of us working at home, while in quarantine together with the kids, we hear a bit from Lily about...
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005. Keep Calm and Get Creative
Recorded on Thursday, March 12, 2020. It is all about tips for people who will be working from home, possibly for the first time, and ideas and resources for learning activities to do with your kids! I wanted to offer some encouragement for how to tend to your own mental wellness, and perhaps…
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004. I'm Not a Creative Person
Have you ever heard someone say "I'm not a creative person". Whenever someone says that to me, it just makes me sad, I want to give them a hug and look them in their eyes and say "Yes! Actually you are!" We need to stop thinking of creativity under the umbrella of talent and skill and final...
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003. Morning Rituals: Making Time and Space for Creativity in 5 Minutes a Day
Recorded January 2020 - This episode is all about how I am doing a very quick morning ritual that has transformed my days to feel calmer, happier, and more focused on what matters. Making time and space for creativity each day is just as vital as eating, sleeping and exercising.
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002. This Is Me: All About Personal Storytelling
In this episode, I'm tackling the subject of storytelling as a means of creating connection, understanding, and empathy. I share a couple personal stories that I consider to be a core piece of my "backstory", that has directly affected who I am, and where I am, today. We all have a story inside…
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001. Start Before You're Ready
Welcome to the first episode of the Creative, Happy Life Podcast! In this episode, I'm discussing the importance of starting before you're ready, rejecting fear, and accepting that done is better than perfect. You are more ready than you know! There are lessons to be learned in every experience,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Creative, Happy Life is a conversational podcast about exploring your creativity and doing more of what makes you happy!We cover a variety of topics ranging from art and theatre to gardening, education, parenting, marriage and spirituality.
HOSTED BY
Shannon Sorensen
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Creative, Happy Life is a conversational podcast about exploring your creativity and doing more of what makes you happy!We cover a variety of topics ranging from art and theatre to gardening, education, parenting, marriage and spirituality.
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Creative, Happy Life Podcast is created and hosted by Shannon Sorensen.
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