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Have you ever felt like your creativity isn’t enough or that your artistic endeavors are secondary to everything on your to-do list? Have you tried all the strategies only to find yourself struggling with this yet again? Join me and my client, Carolyn Fallert, as we explore the impact of familial and cultural socializations and how strategies aren’t enough. You need to understand yourself. Get ready to discover the importance of understanding your unique operating system and how it should determine the strategies you use.

Episode Highlights

• 1:40 The Number One Trick for Getting Unstuck
• 6:40 Protecting Time and Your Creative Energy
• 7:31 Understanding Your Nature
• 17:20 Overcoming Your Conditioning
• 22:50 Identifying Your Why

Resources for this Episode:

• We Need Your Art by Amie McNee
• What is Human Design?
• What are the nine Enneagram types?
• The True Meaning of Success and the Multiple Paths to Publishing Your Book with Courtney Maum
• The Art of Intimacy: Crafting Connections in Memoir and Essay with Lilly Dancyger

Carolyn’s Bio: Carolyn Fallert is a writer with over four years of dedicated study and practice in creative nonfiction. In 2024, Kenyon Review selected Carolyn for their Residential Writers' Workshop. Her first published essay in Spank the Carp received the highest reader vote for its issue. Before her writing career, Carolyn consulted for Fortune 500 companies and the Gates Foundation. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA-ID (Master of Public Administration in International Development) from Harvard Kennedy School. Carolyn is writing a memoir about learning self-defense as a survivor of sexual assault.

Connect with Carolyn

• Instagram: @carolynfallert
• Substack: https://yourpowers.substack.com/

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