Some core traits, hard-wired and reinforced by our life story, can feel incredibly uncomfortable. Self-loathing and comparison can emerge when we have to look in the mirror. Literally cleaning out a closet brought on harsh truth this week and I reflect on how it can affect our flow and energy.

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Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

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To coach with Ben Tallon, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

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Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.

Creativity is ever-changing. It grows, shrinks, intensifies and quietens in response to the shape of our story as humans. Branding agency Middle-Boop Founder Gordon Reid returns to the show to discuss emerging from COVID and new parenthood, plotting a new way forward and being true to yourself.

This week's guest: https://middleboop.com

Please consider subscribing, reviewing, or rating the podcast, and tell a friend to help me elevate creativity through the work!

Supported by https://illustrationx.com - the show's founding sponsor

Foilco provides all your foiling nerdery and gorgeousness to the highest global and sustainable standard https://foilco.com

Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

To coach with Ben Tallon, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

To support the Ukrainian creative community https://ui.org.ua

For Ben's illustration portfolio https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/BenTallon/

Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.

A book whispered to me. It was my own. The page it opened on resonated with my current creative need. What do you need?

Please consider subscribing, reviewing, or rating the podcast, and tell a friend to help me elevate creativity through the work!

Supported by https://illustrationx.com - the show's founding sponsor

Foilco provides all your foiling nerdery and gorgeousness to the highest global and sustainable standard https://foilco.com

Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

To coach with Ben Tallon, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

To support the Ukrainian creative community https://ui.org.ua

For Ben's illustration portfolio https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/BenTallon/

Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.

Mumbai-based artist Archana Srivastava's work is rooted in history and spirituality. We discuss why art moves us and stirs something vital on a level politics and logic cannot.

We touch upon Buddhist traditions, her childhood in India and trusting the things that speak to the heart in a world where logic and data rule the day.

https://archanasrivastava.com/

Please consider subscribing, reviewing, or rating the podcast, and tell a friend to help me elevate creativity through the work!

Supported by https://illustrationx.com - the show's founding sponsor

Foilco provides all your foiling nerdery and gorgeousness to the highest global and sustainable standard https://foilco.com

Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

To coach with Ben Tallon, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

To support the Ukrainian creative community https://ui.org.ua

For Ben's illustration portfolio https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/BenTallon/

Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.

It's too easy to slip into fear and scarcity. We all do it, but what changes when we make creative career decisions based on the life we want to live instead of in short-term mindsets?

Please consider subscribing, reviewing, or rating the podcast, and tell a friend to help me elevate creativity through the work!

Supported by https://illustrationx.com - the show's founding sponsor

Foilco provides all your foiling nerdery and gorgeousness to the highest global and sustainable standard https://foilco.com

Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

To coach with Ben Tallon, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

To support the Ukrainian creative community https://ui.org.ua

For Ben's illustration portfolio https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/BenTallon/

Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.

Justin Wong, the new president of AIGA NY joins Ben Tallon to discuss how design support organisations can get behind creative communities, share equal opportunities and champion brave creativity in the 21st century.

Please consider subscribing, reviewing, or rating the podcast, and tell a friend to help me elevate creativity through the work!

https://aigany.org/

Supported by https://illustrationx.com - the show's founding sponsor

Foilco provides all your foiling nerdery and gorgeousness to the highest global and sustainable standard https://foilco.com

Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

To coach with Ben, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

To support the Ukrainian creative community https://ui.org.ua

For Ben's illustration portfolio https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/BenTallon/

Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.

I hadn't expected the act of peeling a boiled egg in the street to trigger raucous laughter and a wave of self-awareness, but here we are.

When it comes to story, who you are and creativity, there's a lot more to it than the big buzzwords.

Please consider subscribing, reviewing, or rating the podcast, and tell a friend to help me elevate creativity through the work!

Supported by https://illustrationx.com - the show's founding sponsor

Foilco provides all your foiling nerdery and gorgeousness to the highest global and sustainable standard https://foilco.com

Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

To coach with Ben, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

To support the Ukrainian creative community https://ui.org.ua

For Ben's illustration portfolio https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/BenTallon/

Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.

Deyson Ortiz meets countless people with phenomenal lived experiences, big achievers and thought leaders who have no idea how to tell their story. When the camera goes on or the mic is in front of their face, they run for the hills.

He helps them to change that.

We're talking about confidence, why story matters and how to find confidence in our own story to illuminate the path ahead.

Check Deyson out at https://deyson.com

Please consider subscribing, reviewing, or rating the podcast, and tell a friend to help me elevate creativity through the work!

Supported by https://illustrationx.com - the show's founding sponsor

Foilco provides all your foiling nerdery and gorgeousness to the highest global and sustainable standard https://foilco.com

Join the Paradiso Institute and a new wave of creative leaders at https://paradisoinstitute.org/

Music for the show is by Dirty Freud https://www.instagram.com/dirtyfreud/

To coach with Ben, https://thecreativecondition.com/coach

To support the Ukrainian creative community https://ui.org.ua

For Ben's illustration portfolio https://www.illustrationx.com/artists/BenTallon/

Feedback: ben@bentallon.com

The Creative Condition podcast is here to help you maximise the human in your creativity to thrive during the age of automation, through interviews with thought leaders in and beyond the creative industry and personal inquiry.