This Creative Life

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall and this is a special and bittersweet ep, as it's the last episode of This Creative Life for now. Join me in reflecting over the past conversations and the things I've learnt that have inspired and nourished my creativity in hopes they do the same for you too.

A big thank you to my guests for sharing their creative lives and wisdom with us and to you - for every listen, like, share, comment and review. Your support has meant the world.

Wishing you endless creativity for 2023 and beyond.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to brand and graphic designer Ash Murray of The Studio Arcadia. Ash shares how her creative life started with a copy of Photoshop and everything she’s learnt along the way, how her human design helped her to fully lean into her calling and cultivate a workspace that embraces her creative process, as well as how to surrender and trust the ebbs and flows that come with creating in order to honour your work.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m catching up with brand and web designer Tess Baldwin of Tess Creative Co, based on the South Coast. Tess shares how realising she was always inherently creative despite feeling the opposite changed her career path and helped her to find the sweet spot of creating for herself as well as others, how important it is to align your values with the work you do and the clients you work with and her advice for embracing the journey of living a creative life as a whole — and there’s also a bit of Harry Styles in the mix!

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to digital content specialist Ally McGrath, based on the Sunshine Coast. Ally shares her creative journey that has come full circle, and how she embraces her multi-passionate nature as a creator and mother. We also chat about the societal conditioning multi-passionates have to work through, how to expand your creativity on TikTok and the truth behind the “master of none” quote we all think we know - until now.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to designer Hollie Arnett, brand strategist and creative coach of Maker and Moxie based in NZ. We dive into living an innately creative life - how multi-faceted and personal our creative output becomes, how essential it is to embrace showing up authentically, the inner work all creatives should do and what it means to be anti-creative.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to web designer and developer Chaitra Radhakrishna of Pink Pot Studio, based in Seattle. We have such a joyful chat about the creative awakening we all seem to go through in realising we want to live a creative life, how we can use creativity to meet our goals when logic tells us we can’t, and how to keep creating in small steps when our schedule is tight. We also talk about how deep rooted colour is to Chaitra and how magical colour really is in our world.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle of Studio Start, and today, I’m chatting to designer Lea Gucciardi of Arq Design Studio. I love every convo I have with Lea - we always seem to flow through musings on life, work and food, and this ep is no exception! I’m sure you’ll all find Lea’s openness to talk about her mental health not only refreshing but so inspiring -  and she shares so many gems on how mental health and creativity go hand in and hand - as well as embracing radical self acceptance and staying true to you.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle of Studio Start, and today, I’m chatting to designer Kelsey McCormick of Coming Up Roses, based in LA. We came full circle in this chat about Kelsey’s expansive creative journey and how she reclaimed back creativity for herself, as well as creating freedom and flexibility to be a mother on her own terms. We also rave about The Artist’s Way and how it can bring us back to our creative why.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle of Studio Start, and today, I’m chatting to designer Lucy Tann of Mullo Studio, based on beautiful Magnetic Island, Queensland. These are such timely creative musings with everything going on in the world - we chat about creating in the current global climate, and how vital nature, community and connection is to our creativity and within ourselves as we navigate these soul shaking times along with finding compassion and alignment when our creative well is dry.

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Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls.

With everything going on in the world at the moment, we’re all in need of some creative nourishment -  and this chat is sure to fill your creative cup. Today I’m sharing such an inspiring chat with Nikkita Cohoon, Brand and Surface Designer of Ritual Morning Studio. We start at Nikkita’s seriously creative journey, and we explore the art and the joy of the creative process, how design intensives can bring back energy and intention to your creativity, and some rituals Nikkita finds balance with day to day.

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Today I chat to Laura Richter, brand, package and web designer extraordinaire of Obscurio & Co Design based in sunny Brisbane, Queensland. Laura’s humour is infectious (you can hear me giggling the whole time) and she shares her creative journey with a side of real talk about what really defines creativity as well as the struggles we all face on the daily including our fear of creative failure. We also talk about how important it is to have a hobby, and our love for potatoes.

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Today is a big one - I chat to Morgan Rapp, designer, design educator and business coach, based in Salt Lake City, Utah about - well quite frankly, everything. We don’t hold back. Morgan shares so openly about her creative life - from defining self and creative worth and how vital self-compassion is in your business, to her experiences of society’s perceptions of a successful female business owner crushing the gender norms, along with the juggle and struggles as a working mum and human as a whole in a time we’re all trying to navigate online. There are so many golden bits of advice in this one, so get your journal’s out and let’s get into it.

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