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Creative Business Owner

Giving Your Permission to be a Beginner

This blog is about giving ourselves permission to begin and be okay with not being as good at the things that we are really passionate about right from the beginning.

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Navigating Tough Times

Getting visible and sharing what’s on my mind. I have been working from home for quite a while now, but I had never been able to maintain a schedule and before the pandemic, I was finding myself in need of having a loose structure around my days. I still don’t like to wake up with an alarm. I still prefer waking up naturally. I understand that is also a privilege. #creativity #creatives #smallcreativebusiness #nonfiction #intentionalliving #creativitycoaching #intentionalliving #creativeliving

What To Do When You Have Low Self Esteem

How to build a higher self-esteem?

In this blog post I am going to address the following questions: What is Self-Esteem? How to figure out whether you have low or high self-esteem? Why is it important to have high self-esteem? What are the factors/ causes behind low self-esteem? How to build higher self-esteem?

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Career Inspiration

Meaningful Conversations

My Values

Women Entrepreneurs

Freedom Of Speech

Part ways with the word SHOULD

For some reason, I never liked the word should. Wherever I hear it my head goes ding ding ding, pause. Consider an alternate approach. I used to think it had something to do with my rebel tendencies and as it challenges the way I value freedom. It is so much more than that.

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Struggling to make creative time

Stepping aside from what we think our days are supposed to look like and asking ourselves, how I want my ideal day to look like can create space for ourselves to be seen, heard and understood by our own selves. Read this to know what questions to ask for making your time creative #creativejournal #goodnewsfeed #creativethoughts #innovativeideas #focusonthepositive #growyourself #mindsetgoals #personalgrowthcoach

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Finding your focus being a multi-passionate is a struggle. Download this guided ebook to find yours

As being a multi-passionate myself, I used to find it really hard to find my focus. Too many ideas and too many directions that I feel being pulled towards so have developed a system and a structure to move forward and not let it become a block. I wrote this ebook using my own experience of running around in circles to help you find your focus being a multi-passionate. There are some helpful exercises and journaling prompts to help you find your own answers #creativeliving #multi-passionate

Part ways with the word SHOULD

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My Word for 2019 is ‘Courage’

In my opinion, all you need is your desire to make that change happen and bring it to life as if it was there since the beginning of time. Question is, how bad you want to make a change, that change happen?

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About Friendship

M Learning

Ways Of Seeing

Is support of community important?

Community, to me, means an opportunity for collective growth and becoming. It is about friendship, support, and encouragement to keep going and showing up courageously even when things get oh so difficult. I’ve had a chance to connect with lovely humans all over the world on the internet and one thing that we all had in common was the loneliness. Read to know if support of community by your side makes a difference.

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Importance Of Listening

Living Your Truth

Creative Mindset

Whimsical Photography

Creative Shop

Enjoy The Process

Learning to enjoy the process with The Gray Muse - Living Your Truth podcast

Rubeena is the business owner of a creative shop, The Gray Muse which was founded in 2019 and it is the first enamel pin shop designed specifically with crafters and artists in mind. In this episode, we talked about setting up a creative business for yourself, enjoying the process more than the outcome, finding your own version of success and the importance of listening to your own intuition to guide the way. #creativebusiness #enamelpins #podcastforcreatives #creativity #smallcreativebusiness

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Rebecca Mir

Human Interaction

Being a Multi-Passionate with Rebecca Mir Grady - Living your truth podcast

Rebecca is a southwest-based multi-passionate creative; photographer, jeweler, painter, and writer. We chatted about what it is like to be a multi-passionate with an interdisciplinary approach towards making art. If you consider yourself a multi-passionate too, this episode will encourage you to give permission to follow your curiosities in a way that works for you and keep going. #multipassionate #podcastforcreatives #liveyourtruth #creativeliving #slowcreativelife

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Visualizing And Verbalizing

How to Plan Next 12 Months

Give it a read in case, you are looking for a simpler way to make things happen on your own terms. I want to share a rather simple way to make a simple 12 months plan that works for me hoping that it will also help you to dream, simplify, organize, plan and create in a way that would serve the best for you.

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Reconnecting with Creativity with Sarah Fraser - Living Your Truth podcast

Today’s guest Sarah Fraser is an editor, writer, teacher, and blogger and we talked about her personal journey of reconnecting with her creativity. She took us back on the journey along with her through her early childhood and how she always wanted to be an author but somehow along the way got distracted by the shoulds and quote-unquote real-life responsibilities of finding a well-paid career instead #podcastforcreatives #creativity #slowcreativeliving

Read this to have a sense of direction. I have written a mini e-book + workbook with simple and thoughtful questions to help you dig a little deeper and find out what needs your attention the most on your journey as a multi-passionate creative. Writing Painting, Entrepreneurship Tips, Lose Interest, Painting Photography, Have Faith In Yourself

Writing Painting

Entrepreneurship Tips

Lose Interest

Painting Photography

Have Faith In Yourself

Struggles of a Multi-Passionate Creative

Read this to have a sense of direction. I have written a mini e-book + workbook with simple and thoughtful questions to help you dig a little deeper and find out what needs your attention the most on your journey as a multi-passionate creative.

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Daring Greatly

Living Your Truth: Ep. 04 Figuring Things Out As We Go with Giulia

Giulia is a writer and a translator. We talked about her journey of leaving a dream corporate job, traveling for a year and then finally slowing down to sit with her thoughts, figure out what she’d rather love doing, the power of stories and how sharing our true not so perfect messy parts can empower others to see what’s possible for them too, the messy middle process and how going through the process and the discomfort is inevitable if you wish to deviate from the should do’s in your life.