Keep the Flow

First of all, I'm ok. It's funny how when I post episodes about negative issues we deal with, people assume I'm going through something. I always have a few people who reach out to make sure I'm ok.

I…

Creativity is why I started Keep the Flow and launched this YouTube channel. How many subscribers I have, or don't have shouldn't have an influence on what I create, but it's hard not to notice when …

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When we get so close to our creative work, we can lose perspective. It’s good to ha…

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By becoming more intentional with something we do naturally, it can change the way we loo…

We can sometimes get into endless debates with ourselves about the next step in our creative process. My own overthinking is usually based in fear or perfectionism and leads directly to inaction.

This…

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If you feel like you’ve been hovering around the same place in your creativi…

What happens when we change our perspective, when we flip the subject upside down, when we entertain the notion that things could be different?

This week on Keep the Flow we look at how artists and cr…

If you’ve ever felt like you’re putting off creating because of something you think you need to do or buy first, this one’s for you. 

This week on Keep the Flow I'm tackling the pitfall of putting off…

Short but sweet. This was a quick 'n' dirty recording I did while visiting in Virginia.

We get into the idea of quitting a creative outlet. I tell the story of my brush with quitting, how I found my w…

Bored? Good. This week on Keep the Flow we look at 3 ways we can leverage boredom to unleash our imagination, curiosity and hone our problem solving skills. Let's all get bored!

If you'd like to join …

If you ever feel like your self-worth is tied to your creative successes and failures, this episode is for you.

This week we explore the creative's ego, process vs. results, fixed vs. growth mindset a…

It can be easy to misplace your priorities and forget why we're even putting the time and energy into this whole creativity thing at all. 

This week on Keep the Flow, I get into the big WHY behind all…

This week on Keep the Flow, we get into the idea of being able to choose our thoughts as creative people.

Ideas are a kind of thought, so to get good at dealing with our ideas we have to get good at d…

This week on Keep the Flow we get into the balancing act of hard skills vs. soft skills: knowing how to do a thing vs. knowing why we do the thing.

There are many ways to look at this equation as appl…

So boring! But is repetition useful to creatives?

This week we get into how we can harness the power of repetition to make our ideas more impactful, digestible and manufacture expectations... which we…

In this episode I explore the idea of infusing ourselves into our creative work... and how to figure out who we actually are creatively?

Videos mentioned:

David Carson at Fabrica: https://youtu.be/KugS…

This week I get into the feeling of having lost our mojo. Why this happens. Can we prevent it? And what we can do to get it back.

Trigger warning: Episode mentions slow cooked pork.

Videos mentioned:

BB…

This week I interview pianist, composer, teacher and Zen Buddhist priest, Ástvaldur Zenki Traustason. We talk about his approach to the internal critic, how Zen influences the way he plays and the ro…

In this episode I get into the enormous question of "what do we want?" as creative people, the impact of social media and the importance of having a mission statement.

Links to relevant videos:

Jeff Go…

In the 2nd interview of this podcast, I'm joined by Pat Rosario, known on Instagram as numberfoursofttaco.

She's an artist and printmaker living in Tennessee.

This is also the first episode that was ca…