Creativity is Our Natural State as Human Beings - with Loren Lewis Cole

Loren Lewis Cole is not only a remarkable, effusive, and incredible creative human being, not to mention highly skilled craftswoman -- but she is also my dearest friend.

Her jewellery adorns women around the world (including this one!), and her words and creative fire inspire them to get in touch with their own creative life force energy. 

You can drool and slather over her work at www.lorenlewiscole.com 😍😍😍

• Betty & Loren reminisce about how they met; (circa 2007) on the Gloucester Road in  Bristol; saving to go to India working minimum wage jobs
• The experience of being time-rich and other kinds of rich; despite being financially broke
• Betty on how she used to quit jobs at the slightest sign of adventure(!)
• Loren on appreciation & the importance of embracing our experience as time speeds up
• Loren on the ease & pure unconditional appreciation of her child
• Betty asks Loren to explain her jewellery business & how it came to be
• Loren on creativity, the current state of the world & the duality of the human condition
• Loren on embracing emotions as the fuel for the creative fire 39:00
• Mid-life burnout / chronic fatigue as potential symptoms of being cut off from a one’s emotions / creativity
• “There’s so much potency in the places we’re most scared of”
• Betty asks Loren if she has ever not felt creative & what to do if you feel creativity is not available
• Loren: the spectrum of creativity → destruction, including low self esteem & suppression of emotions
• Women & creativity
• We learn who we are through experience; simply create to feel creative
• The energy of desire; If you can’t claim what you want – you are scared of it
• How to cultivate a creative practice
• Betty summarises; broadening your definition of creativity, remembering and dancing with death
• Loren; on being told you’re not creative as a child
• Creating in the face of late-stage capitalism & AI
• How we as parents unintentionally hand down ‘un-creative’ beliefs
• Where you can find out more about Loren & her work

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