The Creative Pivot - Actionable Inspiration for Midlife
by Heather Johnston
Are you dreaming of making a change in your life but not sure where to start? Have you stopped yourself from opening a business or changing careers thinking you are too old, or don't have enough experience? Are you suffering from burnout and don't know where to turn? How do you figure out that next first step? On The Creative Pivot we introduce practical advice on how to discover the work you are meant to do, live a life aligned with your core values, and create plenty of space for creative possibilities. We also invite women just like you who decided that they wanted to change their lives, to forge their own path, and to create a business to support a life they are designing. Hosted by Life & Business Coach Heather Johnston. Heather made her own creative pivot after suffering burnout and realizing that the work she was spending her days doing had moved further and further away from what she really loved. She took her love for organizational and staff development and created her coachi
Episodes
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Redefining What We Want Now
This is the last episode of The Creative Pivot, but it is not the last episode of the podcast. The podcast will be coming back in a slightly different form, so stay tuned and ensure you are subscribed, so you don't miss it. Kristina Brummer and I introduce our Grow Mastermind for Women...
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Enneagram 9 Party with Sharon Nichols & Kristina Brummer- Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series
Sharon Nichols joins Kristina Brummer and Heather Johnston on the 9th and final episode of the Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series on The Creative Pivot. Sharon is an Enneagram 9 who loves the insight she’s gained through the Enneagram and encourages others to explore and discover their own...
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Setting Boundaries and Rebooting Your Relationships - Sheila Morgan
This episode introduces you to Coach Sheila Morgan and we talk all about people pleasing, learning to set boundaries, sober October, her podcast Relationship Reboot, and why we both love the professional field of coaching. If you are listening in and you wonder about those earrings that Sheila is...
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Clearing Your Mind for Better Productivity - Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series
This week on the Grow Your Heart Centered Business Conversation, Kristina and Heather discuss ways to declutter and organize your thoughts to improve your productivity and create more time for you. By clearing our minds we allow ourselves to move away from the "I'm too busy to find time for...
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Communication Tips for New Entrepreneurs - Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series
As heart centered entrepreneurs we always want our authentic voice to shine, but how do we do that? What things do you do, or wish you did, to talk with your clients about the ways your business can make their lives better? Bios: Heather Johnston In the summer of 2019, Heather took a leap…
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Creating a New Position - Holly Holton, The Decision Umbrella
In this episode, we are speaking with Holly Holton, creator of The Decision Umbrella. Holly has a story that is a bit different from other women that we have interviewed. Holly's creative pivot was created within the organization where she had built a thriving sales career. She was great at her…
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Choosing to Share Your Story - Amy M. Le, Quill Hawk Publishing
Amy M. Le is a Vietnam War survivor and CHD warrior. She was born in Vietnam nine months before the fall of Saigon and immigrated to the United States in 1980 at the age of five with her mother and cousin. Her family was among the hundreds of thousands of boat people who fled Vietnam after the...
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What's Your Calling Card - Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series
Watching an episode of Downton Abbey we were intrigued by the idea of people leaving their calling cards when visiting. Our conversation today is all about what our calling cards are and what they say to those around us. would the modern-day equivalent of your calling card be? Is it your website,...
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Human Design and Soul Care - Stacy Cordova
Do you have an activity or tool that always brings you back to feeling aligned? That works so well in helping you to learn more about who you are, what you do, and why you love the things you love? You may call it self care, but what about calling it soul care? Stacy Cordova is our guest on the...
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Recovering People Pleasers - Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series
People-pleasing is the strong urge to please others even when they may be putting their own needs at risk. People-pleasers may have the tendency to take on responsibilities that are not asked of them. These actions can lead to higher levels of burnout as both an employee and an entrepreneur. On...
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Writing Your Next Chapter
We are all storytellers, and we can weave some scary stories to keep us from growing, trying new things, or changing relationships. There are tools to start writing our stories from a new perspective of possibility. On this episode of the podcast, I share the five journal prompts that I have…
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How Are You Using Your Time? Grow Your Heart Centered Business - Special Series
How are you using your time? Do you hear the words, "I'm so busy", coming out of your mouth on a regular basis? This episode we talk about our own time management quirks, our real thoughts on why time is one of our greatest assets, and the importance of paying attention to where you are spending...
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Journey to Self Care with Amanda Ferrat, Advanced EFT Practitioner
What if your journey to self-care led you to your dream career? That is what happened to my guest Amanda Ferrat, Advanced EFT Practitioner. What started off as a somewhat toxic relationship with self-care led her to discover the tool that became her self-care tool of choice, and now she helps...
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Five Projects Too Many? Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series
Kristina Brummer and Heather Johnston are back with the second episode in the Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series. This episode Heather introduces the Five Projects Rule, a concept discussed by Charlie Gilkey, the founder of Productive Flourishing, in his book Start Finishing. This concept…
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Grow Your Heart Centered Business - What We Wish We Would Have Known
Kristina Brummer and Heather Johnston are back with another episode in our Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series. This conversation is a juicy one as we talk about the lessons we learned from starting our businesses. We are sharing our top tips to help you get started with your heart-centered...
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Are You Drifting, Flowing, or Paddling in Life?
We all approach midlife from different perspectives. We might be drifting through life putting our hopes and dreams on hold. Flowing towards new beginnings, a chance to change careers, make a move, or start a new business, but we don't yet know how to make that happen, we just have faith that we...
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Grow Your Heart Centered Business - Special Series
Episode 53 and it is a special one as it kicks of the Grow Your Heart Centered Business Series with Kristina Brummer, Founder of The Spectacular Middle, a full service virtual support agency for entrepreneurs. Kristina is a heart-centered entrepreneur building a small business, and she knows…
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Empty Nesting or Career Change? How to Work Through Big Life Changes
This podcast episode is near and dear to my heart as I am talking about two of the most significant life changes I have gone through recently, career change and the empty nest. In this episode, I will discuss three stages that you go through with big life changes: Acknowledge there is an ending....
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Changing Your Mind and Realigning Your Coaching Business
Welcome to Episode 51 of The Creative Pivot podcast. Today's episode is a solo episode and I talk about: What happened after Episode 50 of the podcast and how several weeks turned into several months. Realizing I needed to realign my coaching business. Feeling awkward and like a fraud as a new...
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Thinking Again, Changing Our Minds, Midife Crisis
This episode is a special one, we talk about giving yourself permission to change your mind, midlife reassessment (midlife crisis if you want to call it that), and big changes coming up for the podcast and redefining success. Changes are afoot but still going one step at a time. Interested in...
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Say Yes to You at Camp Yes - Marli Williams
When was the last time you said yes to yourself? Do you have a creative idea that is brewing? Want to try a new career but worried about what others may think? Never underestimate the power of a community that just wants you to say yes to yourself, to your ideas, to the person that you want to…
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Creating a Sustainable Business - Antje Gillard, Null Refillery
Want to start a side business from a sustainable angle? Have a career that you love but feel pulled when you recognize something missing from the market? This episode is for you as I interview Antje Gillard, the Founder of Null Refillery, a small scale refill business in Portland, OR. Who is…
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The Live a Nature Filled Life Pivot - Angie V. from Angel's Excursions
Host: Heather Johnston Guest: Angie V. from Angel's Excursions Angie is a photographer, writer and outdoor enthusiast who lives full-time in her van, Peter Parker. The founder of Girls Who Hike Florida, Angie created the hiking community to teach women how to safely recreate in the outdoors. She...
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The Podcast Pivot - How to start a podcast
Host - Heather Johnston Many of you have reached out and asked if you could pick my brain about starting a podcast, I figured it might be of interest to others in the audience. I think that all women should be sharing their stories, there is power in our voices, and we don’t often share them...
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The Van Life Pivot - Bex of Out Seeking Rainbows
Host: Heather Johnston Guest: Bex of YouTube Out Seeking Rainbows Have you watched the van life videos and wondered how you could get started with a more nomadic life? Do you wish you saw more Gen-X women on YouTube representing our awesomeness? Meet Bex from the YouTube channel Out Seeking...
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Selling Your Home - How to Pivot - Erin Monahan
Host: Heather Johnston Guest: Erin Monahan Selling your home can be such an emotional journey. If you are looking at moving locations as part of your own life pivot, having a trusted realtor can make the process much less daunting. Much like having a coach to help you move from burnout to...
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Injecting Heart Into Your Business - Darcy Lee
Host: Heather Johnston Guest: Darcy Lee This episode speaks to the importance of injecting your heart into everything you do. Your heart is connected to your purpose, having a purpose will lead to a successful business. Lack of heart or purpose for your work can lead to higher levels of burnout…
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Is Your Self Worth Trashed? - Tressa Yonekawa Bundren
Host: Heather Johnston Guest: Tressa Yonekawa Bundren Our conversation on this episode of the podcast is a juicy one, self worth, and society's wiring to pay attention to the trauma. A salve for our anxiety is to seek out the beauty, wonder, and hope. We chat about if our self worth is trashed…
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How to Create a Publishing House with Love - Dr. Tina Welsome
This episode is a discussion about investing in yourself, and how showing your self love and compassion can create that feeling of possibility in your life. To stay up to date on all future podcast episodes make sure you subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. If this episode resonates with...
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How Do You Figure Out the Next Step?
On this episode of The Creative Pivot podcast I share two of the questions that I ask myself, and that I use with coaching clients to help determine what the next step looks like. How you choose the next step, and how you take action, not just making a decision on that step. I would love to hear...
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Everyone is a Creative - Kristi Nellor
Kristi Nellor is a Soul Consultant, Life Coach, Branding & Marketing Strategist, and a Hell Yes Sister. Kristi's creative journey started in Kansas and took her to RISD, NYC, San Francisco, and most recently LA where she is planting her roots with the rest of her brood, husband, two kids, and a...
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Year of Wonder - Choosing Wonder Over Judgement
Welcome to Season 3 of The Creative Pivot podcast. On this episode I discuss my word of the year which is Wonder, as in I Wonder? I discuss why I choose a word of the year and how I will be using it throughout 2022. I also discuss how wonder can win over judgement, that skill is especially…
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How to build a business without the hustle - Kerstin Martin
Interested in making a creative midlife pivot of your own? Visit www.thecreativepivot.com and schedule a time to chat with me, Heather Johnston. Kerstin Martin is a leading Squarespace Expert and Online Business Educator who helps service providers simplify their business tech so they can focus…
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The Power of Investing in Yourself - Gail Keyes Allen
This is the one year anniversary of The Creative Pivot podcast!! To celebrate I invited my friend Coach Gail Keyes Allen back to the podcast. She was my very first guest and is even more inspiring one year later. She inspired me to really go all in on creating my business. Please visit...
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How Breathwork Can Lead to Breakthrough - Susan Giddens,
"Breathwork is a door to step through to find out what I believe about me" says Susan Giddens. Coach Suz is a Breathwork Facilitator, Personal Growth Coach, Podcast Host, Author, Speaker, Adventure Seeker, and Aunt to an amazing niece and two incredible nephews. Many years ago, as a leader in...
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How to Move Past Burnout and Start a Business
Today I want to talk about how to tell you are ready to be an entrepreneur. I will share some of the signs that I noticed in my own life to let me know that a life pivot was happening, and go over some of the key personality traits that I see as being important to being an entrepreneur. This...
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Making The Most Of Your Time - Kristi Floersch
Our guest this week is Kristi Floersch. Kristi has a heart of compassion for people who are anxious, overloaded, overwhelmed, depressed, disinterested, fatigued, bored and spiritless. She understands and deeply cares because she has been through these same debilitating feelings, much of which…
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How to Get Your Book Idea to a Publisher - Vanessa Soto
On this episode I interview Vanessa Soto, Book Proposal Coach. We talk about how she found her love of book coaching, having a "Hell Yeah" moment, and a love of Sassy Magazine. If you have ever thought about writing a book this is a must listen to episode. BIO Vanessa Soto is a book coach who…
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My Life Changed When I Found My Family - Karen Huck
Karen Huck is a wife, mother of two, grandma to three and a dog lover. She was in Early Childhood for over 35 years. During that time she searched for her biological family for 16 years without internet. She found them at the age of 40 and found 4 siblings and her father. Her hope is to help…
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How to Help Others From Your Life Lessons
Lorissa Moore created Moore For Less as a way to help people in her community. She knew what was needed because of her own journey, figuring out the system, and knowing how difficult it is to just find someone to help. She now helps by providing what ever people need, she accepts donations, and…
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How to Banish Burnout and Make a Life Change
On this episode of The Creative Pivot Podcast I am talking about how to use journaling as a tool for banishing burnout. This episode is for every woman going through burnout no matter what stage you are at and I don’t want to hear that you don’t like to write or that you’re not good at…
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The Magic of Discovering Your Badassery Through Writing - Jae Hermann
Jae Hermann is a multi-passionate creative entrepreneur and storyteller. As a veteran copy editor, Jae helps agencies, authors, bloggers, and busy boss ladies craft stellar content. Using confidence and mindset coaching, she also helps women overcome personal roadblocks to embrace creative…
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How to Build A Community by Sharing Your Work - Pamela Bates
Have you connected with @pamelajbates? If you haven't then let me introduce you to one of my favorite, tell it like it is, women. She has a pivot tale to tell. At 49 she found her passion, and she didn't know it was missing. She walked into the Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and saw the...
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Creating a Social Media Company, Saving Puppies, and Living in Mexico - Stacey Birch
Stacey Birch is the founder of the travel blog "Hot Flashes and Boarding Passes" as well as the Instagram account of the same name. She is a travel blogger that has loved to travel. She turned that passion into her creative pivot and started of the year in Bali at the Institute of Code to learn…
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Creating a Sustainable Home Organizing Business - Cathy King
Cathy King is The Sustainable Organizer, a professional organizer who serves women who are overwhelmed by their stuff. In addition to being a NAPO trained professional organizer she holds an MBA in Sustainability from Northeastern University. She was born and raised in New England and has a…
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How Can You Activate Your Super Powers - Chiquita Martin McCoy
Chiquita, a dreamer and believer in all things are possible who is a career educator with a proven history of advocacy for all learners, educators and families. Determined visionary and freedom coach who is an expert at helping others find and follow their true purpose and love in life.…
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How You Can Create an Art Practice and Business on the Side - Angie Bailey
Angie is a Calligraphy & Lettering Artist based in Ontario, Canada. At the age of 12, she taught herself Calligraphy using a Speedball Calligraphy kit that her sisters bought her as a birthday gift. She practiced & enjoyed calligraphy for many years. Eventually, her life got busy with a demanding...
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Bonus Episode - Oswald Perez, A Poetic Journey, Staying at Home
Oswald and I met as many do these days online. We were both fans of Don’t Keep Your Day Job, and took on the challenge of the Made To Do This 12 week course in early 2020. Oswald has grown so much as a person and as a writer this year, stepping out of his comfort zone and taking on this…
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How to Take Care of Yourself and Your Soul - Stacy Cordova
For the past 25 years, Stacy Cordova has worked in education. She has worked as a teachers assistant, special education teacher and administrator. After experiencing burnout, dealing with a traumatic family event and seeing the pandemic wreak havoc on her family, friends, coworkers and students'...
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How to Create a Heart Aligned Life - Heather Johnston
I'm Heather Bea, or at least that's what I secretly loved to be called when I was younger, you can also call me Heather Johnston, and I am the host and creator of The Creative Pivot. The Creative Pivot is all embracing your 40s, 50s, and beyond. Not waiting for retirement to live out your dream...
About this show
Are you dreaming of making a change in your life but not sure where to start? Have you stopped yourself from opening a business or changing careers thinking you are too old, or don't have enough experience? Are you suffering from burnout and don't know where to turn? How do you figure out that next first step? On The Creative Pivot we introduce practical advice on how to discover the work you are meant to do, live a life aligned with your core values, and create plenty of space for creative possibilities. We also invite women just like you who decided that they wanted to change their lives, to forge their own path, and to create a business to support a life they are designing. Hosted by Life & Business Coach Heather Johnston. Heather made her own creative pivot after suffering burnout and realizing that the work she was spending her days doing had moved further and further away from what she really loved. She took her love for organizational and staff development and created her coachi
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Heather Johnston