Slow Down and Greet Your Creative Genius with Pia Leichter
Pia Leichter joins Laurel Holland to discuss creativity and inner transformation as a pathway to make your own life your most important creative project.
Pia shares her journey of turning 50, traveling to Bali, and embracing solitude to enhance her creativity. She emphasizes the importance of inner work, self-awareness, and purposefully designing your life experiences. Pia describes her coaching approach as a creative partnership, helping clients navigate sticky junctures and pivot towards new creative directions. She highlights the need to slow down, create space, and trust oneself to foster creativity. Pia also discusses overcoming fear through practical steps and the significance of rest in unlocking creative genius.
In this episode you'll hear about -
- how to begin the journey of coming home to yourself and discovering your creativity
- shifting your perspective to stay grounded in gratitude for simply being here on Earth
- Pia's life breakdown that led to the remaking of her life and reconnection with her creative nature
- listening to and honoring the pull from within that leads to creative engagement
- Pia's defines a creative life for ideas about how to look at your own life for creative shifts
- the importance of slowing down and creating space for ideas to emerge
- strategies for dealing with fear, including recognizing when fear is disguised as logic or practicality
- the role of imagination and dreaming in fueling our creative process and taking courageous action
- recognizing rushing as a scarcity issue and how to deconstruct that habit
Journaling prompts are suggested to further your exploration.
Links/Books mentioned - To get a copy of Pia’s book:
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Welcome-Creative-Club-Biggest-Project/dp/B0DPJ8L4NM/ref=sr_1_1
- And the audiobook: https://www.audible.com/pd/Welcome-to-the-Creative-Club-Audiobook/B0F6VZCWT4
The email to send questions to Laurel Boivin is [email protected] and for Laurel Holland - [email protected]
The link to our private Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/beautifulworkbeautifullife
Host/Cohost/Guest Info
Guiding others to become effective leaders of their own lives, Laurel Holland has been on a journey of awakening and transformation throughout her life. Writing about inner work, Laurel has authored four books, including Crossroads and Love’s 8 Laws. Her books, Live Your Inner Power, the Journal, and Courageous Woman, introduce, share, and explore the eight foundational practices for creating transformation from the inside out. Through her books, programs, and innovative talks, Laurel’s great desire is to lift others up and courageously step into the life they came here to live.
Laurel Boivin, life coach and founder of Flux+Flow Professional Coaching, helps high-performing professionals overcome overwhelm and disillusionment by increasing self-awareness and shifting perspective to improve performance, increase personal contribution, and experience a greater sense of fulfillment and purpose. Laurel began coaching after a 30-year corporate career. A Reiki master and yoga practitioner, collector of sea glass and antiques, she lives in New Hampshire and summers in Maine.
Pia Leichter is a creative partner, published author, certified coach, and entrepreneur. Her path has been anything but ordinary: a recovering nomad, she’s reported as a journalist in Sri Lanka, graduated summa cum laude from NYU, and worked as an award-winning creative director for some of the biggest brands in the world. Now, as the founder of Kollektiv Studio, she’s uniquely positioned to co-create wild visions and ventures. She recently published Welcome to the Creative Club, a book that challenges everything people thought they knew about creativity.
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More about her work: https://kollektiv.studio/
