In this episode, I'm talking with Michelle Swan - Gold Coast Portrait Photographer about overcoming self-criticism to allow us to see our lives and creativity with eyes of love, rather than judgement. Michelle talks about how an affirmation she's said throughout her life has now become her creative business name and message.

In this episode, Marisa and I connect through our mutual journey with anxiety and how managing your anxiety can shift those dark shadows to be lead of the bright lights of creativity. Marisa shares some of her experiences with anxiety and how this shows up in her business of art direction and styling. We chat about fear of success, fear of failure, perfectionism and over delivering.

In this episode, I am exploring one of the major events in my creative journey as a freelance food photographer that prompted me to get in conversation with our community about emotional health for creative wealth. I chat about how feelings of guilt and ignoring what brought me creative joy lead to being creatively depressed.

What's The Mindful Creative all about? In this introductory episode, I share what prompted me to start this podcast and what Emotional Health for Creative Wealth actually means.