How We Create

Empowering artists across disciplines by sharing the obstacles, fears, and triumphs of living a creative life. Conversations with fine artists, musicians, performers, dancers, filmmakers, etc. with a theme for each podcast season. You will learn how they create, how they experiment, and how they turn mistakes into opportunities for growth. Their stories will inspire you to take creative action and will validate your own creative exploration. Listen and join the How We Create community.

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Pain is Not the Process, E8

August 02, 2021 • Corisa Moreno • Season 1 • Episode 8

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We’ve all heard the myth of the troubled artist but what if you do your best work when you are happy? Writer, doodler, and arm-wrestler, Lesley Gouger, talks about finding out what is really blocking you from making your work and that your pain doesn’t have to be your artistic process.

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