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The Creative Soul Podcast

The Creative Soul Podcast is a space to uncover your creative soul. We have conversations with inspiring creatives about the transformative magic of the creative process.

Your host, Leya Van Doren shares from the heart stories about her own personal journey, and will inspire you along your path where creativity and spirituality intersect.

We explore topics on healing, self-love, relationships, expression, travel, herbalism, astrology, ancestral healing, and tapping into your own unique creativity as a form of expressing your purpose and doing what lights you up.

Tune in to be inspired to pay attention to the callings from your creative soul.

Ready to embark on your own daily creative practice? Immerse yourself in The Creative Soul Practice, a 7-day guided writing meditation series, each session just 15 minutes long. Begin your journey here.

Connect with Leya:Instagram: @leyavandoren

www.leyavandoren.com

Cover art by Torrence Browne

Intro song "Surf" by Vlad Gluschenko

Spirituality Religion & Spirituality Arts Society & Culture Places & Travel Personal Journals Education Performing Arts Self-Improvement
Update frequency
every 11 days
Average duration
50 minutes
Episodes
160
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Ep 20: ft. Lindsay Kinder on Food as Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Listening to Your Own Advice

Ep 20: ft. Lindsay Kinder on Food as Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Listening to Your Own Advice

Lindsay quit a 5-year career selling corporate life insurance to pursue a dream of learning to cook in France. After backpacking solo for six months, working with local farmers exchanging labor for r…

00:48:09  |   Thu 07 Jan 2021
Ep 19: ft. Carly Valancy on Reaching Out, Building Habits, and Possibility

Ep 19: ft. Carly Valancy on Reaching Out, Building Habits, and Possibility

Carly is an artist, community builder, dot connector, softball player and slam poet. She is the founder of The Reach Out Party, a course where individuals with diverse minds and from seemingly dispar…

00:51:51  |   Thu 31 Dec 2020
Ep 18: 2020 Year in Review - reflections & lessons

Ep 18: 2020 Year in Review - reflections & lessons

In this episode, I share the lessons I learned during 2020. We discuss moving to NYC to follow your dreams, the economic privilege of being an artist, social media, my journey with ayahuasca and plan…

01:10:40  |   Thu 24 Dec 2020
Ep 17: ft. Megan Bowen on Dance for EveryBODY and Creating Value for your Community

Ep 17: ft. Megan Bowen on Dance for EveryBODY and Creating Value for your Community

Megan Bowen is a performer, creator & entrepreneur in NYC. Alongside her professional performing career, Megan founded Dance From Home LLC, an online company that helps Broadway lovers reconnect with…

00:50:22  |   Thu 17 Dec 2020
Ep 16: ft. Kuhoo Verma on Being a Fully Formed Artist and Developing New Musicals

Ep 16: ft. Kuhoo Verma on Being a Fully Formed Artist and Developing New Musicals

Kuhoo Verma (she/they) is an NYC based artist who has been seen at Joe's Pub, 54 Below, UCB, and countless developmental workshops. Favorite roles include Zubeida (X-Files Girl) in Academy Award Nomi…

00:52:20  |   Thu 10 Dec 2020
Ep 15: ft. Kerri Van Kirk on Human Design

Ep 15: ft. Kerri Van Kirk on Human Design

Kerri Van Kirk is a multidisciplinary storyteller, energy untangler, human design guide & soul-led coach for writers, performers, leaders and deep creatives. She has a podcast called The Cleaner I Ge…

00:51:56  |   Thu 03 Dec 2020
Ep 14: How Boredom is a Portal to Creativity

Ep 14: How Boredom is a Portal to Creativity

In this episode, I share a mini message on boredom and how to move through the feelings of boredom because so much creativity is born out of allowing yourself to get bored and DO NOTHING! While I fin…

00:17:50  |   Thu 26 Nov 2020
Ep 13: ft. Lizzie Markson on Creative Flow, Interpretive vs Generative Artists, and Balance

Ep 13: ft. Lizzie Markson on Creative Flow, Interpretive vs Generative Artists, and Balance

Lizzie Markson is a theatre artist, an acting teacher/coach, and a movement/meditation teacher.  Her mission in everything she does is to empower others to open their hearts so they feel held in unit…

00:48:56  |   Thu 19 Nov 2020
Ep 12: ft. Florrie Bagel on Embodying Your Fullest Expression and Creating as Energy Exchanges

Ep 12: ft. Florrie Bagel on Embodying Your Fullest Expression and Creating as Energy Exchanges

Florrie Bagel is a songbird artist who weaves with words, music, soul and wildflowers. She created Through the Smoke, an intimate cabaret evening honoring the wit, grit and jazz in the music of Amy W…

00:54:46  |   Thu 12 Nov 2020
Ep 11: ft. Yulia Van Doren on Creative Constraints, Crystals, and Professional vs Amateur Artists

Ep 11: ft. Yulia Van Doren on Creative Constraints, Crystals, and Professional vs Amateur Artists

Yulia Van Doren is a Grammy-nominated international opera singer and sound healer and is one of the innovators of the modern holistic wellness movement. Her first book, Crystals is an international b…

00:53:23  |   Thu 05 Nov 2020
Ep 10: Lessons from Kauai & Island Meditation

Ep 10: Lessons from Kauai & Island Meditation

In this special solo episode, I'm coming at you live from the island of Kauai in Hawaii!


I tell the story of how I unexpectedly found myself in Hawaii for the month and the lessons I learned from spen…

00:21:51  |   Thu 29 Oct 2020
Ep 9: ft. Erica Schaeffer on Choosing What You Love and the Privilege of Being an Artist

Ep 9: ft. Erica Schaeffer on Choosing What You Love and the Privilege of Being an Artist

Erica (she/her/hers) is a multi-hyphenate performing and visual artist based in the Los Angeles area. She has an extensive background in Musical Theatre, and is a graduate of UC Irvine's Claire Trevo…

00:55:45  |   Thu 22 Oct 2020
Ep 8: ft. Mandy Sham on Storytelling through Travel and Food

Ep 8: ft. Mandy Sham on Storytelling through Travel and Food

Mandy Sham is a photographer, writer, and yogi seeking the power of human stories through travel and food. She has befriended, documented, and eaten her way through sixty countries. When not travelin…

00:48:43  |   Thu 15 Oct 2020
Ep 7: ft. Alicia Albright on Going Inward, a Career on Broadway, and Mermaids

Ep 7: ft. Alicia Albright on Going Inward, a Career on Broadway, and Mermaids

Alicia Albright is an NYC based broadway performing artist, choreographer, creator, avid traveller and theatre dance/yoga/meditation and empowerment teacher and is starting her own company called The…

00:56:23  |   Thu 08 Oct 2020
Ep 6: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome & How Fear is Part of the Creative Process - Mini Message

Ep 6: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome & How Fear is Part of the Creative Process - Mini Message

In this episode I share a personal story how I learned to make friends with my fear and how I navigate imposter syndrome.


Whether you're scared of "calling" yourself an artist or feel too afraid of y…

00:20:30  |   Thu 01 Oct 2020
Ep 5: ft. Elizabeth Woolf on Discovering Your Unique Voice, Following Your Fears, and Collaboration in the Creative Process

Ep 5: ft. Elizabeth Woolf on Discovering Your Unique Voice, Following Your Fears, and Collaboration in the Creative Process

Elizabeth Woolf is a singer/songwriter/guitarist who grew up in California singing along to early Frank Sinatra show tune recordings in the backseat of her mom's gray minivan, and found her voice whi…

00:36:52  |   Thu 24 Sep 2020
Ep 4: ft. Taylor Fagins on Creating Art for Social Change, Writing as Healing, and Unfinished Projects

Ep 4: ft. Taylor Fagins on Creating Art for Social Change, Writing as Healing, and Unfinished Projects

Taylor Fagins is a writer and storyteller. Through music, scripts, books, and speeches, he tells the story of the human experience from every lens possible. In this episode, we talk about his writing…

00:52:21  |   Thu 17 Sep 2020
Ep 2: ft. Ameya Ajay on the Freedom to Follow your Passions and Mixing Art & Business on Instagram

Ep 2: ft. Ameya Ajay on the Freedom to Follow your Passions and Mixing Art & Business on Instagram

Ameya Ajay is an artist, designer, musician, photographer, writer, and entrepreneur living in Melbourne, Australia. In this episode, she shares her thoughts on how to follow your passions, how to nav…

00:42:46  |   Thu 10 Sep 2020
Ep 3: Creativity is your Gift - Mini Message

Ep 3: Creativity is your Gift - Mini Message

In this episode, I share a mini message on how creativity is your gift. Listen to this one if you've ever struggled with fear on sharing your work - whether it be an offering, a piece of art, etc! I…

00:12:17  |   Thu 10 Sep 2020
Ep 1: Intro & My Journey as a Multi-Passionate Creative, Overcoming Creative Blocks, and Being Aligned with my Path

Ep 1: Intro & My Journey as a Multi-Passionate Creative, Overcoming Creative Blocks, and Being Aligned with my Path

In this episode I share my story from growing up homeschooled in a family of 8 children, starting performing in theater at the age of three, living on an ashram at the age of 14, to studying musical …

00:24:32  |   Thu 03 Sep 2020
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