16. What's Your Relationship with CREATIVITY? - Lauren Spangler

Our guest today is a creativity coach, artist, musician, and strategist, she is Lauren Spangler. She nearly lost a child and learned how precious every moment, every heartbeat, and every breath really is. She discovered how creativity expresses gratitude and helped her unlock the power within herself to overcome anxieties of loss. Now Lauren helps aspiring artists build a fulfilling creative life without giving up financial stability. It's all about finding that sweet spot where artists can build wealth and their creative portfolio at the same time. She's a painter, writer, and musician who enjoys creative consistency, financial abundance, and lasting fulfillment.

Lauren shares art can create message that is provocative and in many different ways. She shares also the strategies and techniques to help people embrace their artistic identity and make time for creative pursuits in balance with the rest of life.

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Chapter:
00:00 - Intro
03:47 - Passion for art stifled, then reignited 
08:15 - “Artist are professionals noticers” Austin Cleon
10:20 - Scary side of parenthood
13:26 - The moment of relief - gratitude unparalleled 
15:08 - Postpartum anxiety 
17:41 - How infound strength with child in NICU  
22:28 - Episode 1: Dr. Paul Jenkins: https://youtu.be/ddD2033jm2c
24:23 - “A bird does not worry whether the branch will break because he trusts his wings” 
27:22 - Creativity coaching
in a corporate setting 
31:54 - Tips and strategies  What’sypur relationship with creativity?
36:27 - Start in a place of pain
39:03 - The coaching process: (1) Where you are, (2) Set the vision, (3) Bridge that gap, (4) Roadmap