This is a mind-massage. This is mindfulness personified. The core exercise taught in this podcast will stimulate and exercise a set of mind/heart connections that will help you refine your thoughts and your message. This will help you explore your core and give you the tools to share your art with the world from a place of humble authenticity and undeniable integrity.
This podcast is short, but the lesson here is lifelong. The super simple technique is something you can learn to use instantly. And you can use it as often as needed every day. (Kegles for the soul?)
I expect very few comments. This is pretty personal stuff that I am suggesting you experience. But as always, sharing is highly appreciated. (And reviews on iTunes make my day!)
Aloha…Mckenna
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Enjoy! Mckenna
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Hi Mckenna,
Is there a way to listen to your podcasts besides searching on iTunes? (I don’t use it as it seems to take over!) I thought I might find a clickable link here, but alas, I’m not finding one. I’m pretty tech savvy, so what am I missing? I’m running Chrome.
Thanks!
Karen
Gosh… I think I might be confusing everyone? There is an app for the iTunes Podcast that doesn’t require you to use iTunes, I think? However, the app is for iOS, so you would need an iphone/pad/watch or whatever. Someone else might have a better handle on this?
But your statement implies that you are not able to listen right here on this page. You should have a podcast player showing with a big button to press so you can listen right here on my website, Karen. Is that not showing for you?
Meanwhile, I have added more options for non-iTunes people. For Android phones, I have (finally) worked out getting my podcast submitted to several other sources for listening.
I am, as I write this, the podcast is now available on the Spotify app which you can download via Google Play or for iOS via the “appstore”.
And I just submitted to iHeartRadio, too. I am “under review” but anyone already using that app might just see if I am there by the time you read this.
There’s too much to learn – and I can’t wait to learn more! Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Karen.
Thanks for your reply!
Nope. No podcast player button is showing for me. There IS a gray rectangular box right above the title, “As discussed in the podcast:” but it’s an empty gray box. Wondering if that’s where it should be? (I’m on a pc, Win7 with a Chrome browser, if that helps.)
Sorry to hijack your page with techie stuff, but I’d really like to listen! 🙂 Soundcloud is also a good one if you’re not familiar with them.
Thanks again,
Karen
?? Well well… I have no idea why that is not showing up for you, Karen. And I don’t mind going into the techie issues; others may share your view – or lack of view of the player!
If anyone else is not seeing the player, please let me know!
For now, here’s a link to directly listen:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/findlovinghomesforyourart/Why_why_why_do_you_create_EP_17.mp3
I just signed up for soundcloud, but I would have to manually add the episodes. That is just too much to add into the already 12 – 15 steps I go through to just get the podcast published.
I am very curious as to why you can’t see the player. Maybe you need to re-install your chrome? Or just close it and reopen? I use Chrome (on my mac and on my windows machine) and it is showing up just fine in both and in Safari (on mac and windows), too.
Ah the internet… go figure. Enjoy for now, and hopefully, this will get resolved for you.
Hi Mckenna
I’ve been musing over this podcast and I wanted to ask WHY? Why is it important for us artists to be asking ourselves those questions? Is it to keep ourselves motivated when we understand the importance of our creativity and what it means to us and to other people? And the artist at the beginning, did you have a message for him or her? Did you feel that by getting a side job they were moving away irrevokably from their core mission? Just curious…
Rebecca
You’re a clever one! Yes…I want artists to question their motivations, their fears, and (YES!) especially their value to humanity. I offer this “exercise” as yet another way to help them explore their core artist soul and their significance.
The artist I referred to in the beginning is someone who appears as a deer-in-headlights – never moving towards success or even getting to the side of the road to avoid being crushed by their own self-doubt. This artist seems impervious to planning in a sustainable way. No Website (Years ago, I offered to create a website for free and that never came to be!?) No Marketing. No Sustainable Sales despite having occasional exhibitions. And so, after years of watching this person rely primarily on their partner’s income, the partner has lost patience. So … yes… I fear the “side job” is the potential nail in the coffin. As was stated to me by the artist, “I need to bring more income to the household. My [spouce] has drawn a line in the sand.” Knowing this person’s lack of motivation, this might actually be the “easy” way out.
To be clear, I am not saying that anyone who has or needs a “day job” can’t be a serious artist, but I am saying that once one can get their footing and become focused on making and then marketing their art or craft as their priority, then the “day job” can become a hindrance – rather than the other way around! That is exactly what launched my studio career.
And one more lesson seeps its way out of this situation as I give it deeper thought: perhaps those reading this who have the loving support and financial support of a significant other(s) should take a deep breath and imagine being “hungry” for sales. Not wanting sales out of guilt, not grateful for sales, but really hungry for sales as evidence of success in the studio and their career.
If, as I suspect is the case with my friend, it is out of years of not “needing” to be successful that a pattern of failure became the modus operandi, then maybe an intervention was needed years ago. Maybe the unwitting enabler – the supportive spouse – is an arrangement that needs revisiting.
Just reading your answer through for a second time! Thanks for making such a substantial response. Yes, if we understand why we must make art and why we must find homes for it then we will be more focused on our goals. I once read that one could say “no” to things if you have a burning “yes” inside. I know that I would never be happy or fulfilled doing anything else.
Your description of the artist reminds me of my own change in focus after I had my first child. As a carefree young artist I had enjoyed making art but hadn’t given much thought to making money. But with dependents and hard decisions about childcare (Who goes back to work? Do we pay for day care?) It was then I knew that I really wanted to be financially successful as an artist, support my family and was “hungry for sales” as you say. Looking back I see this “kick” as really moving me forward.
That is a quintessential example of what I would hope would happen for all artists: hunger to succeed. I think there is a full podcast episode hidden in this discussion, Rebecca. I will be giving this a lot more thought. Thanks again for your contributions here!