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Ashley and Steph share their highlights from Season 1 and tell us more about Season 2 of Curious About Creativity.

Sean Hill is an award winning multidisciplinary artist & humanitarian with the focus of supporting universal inner & outer peace in a realistic, fun, & passionate way.  As a SAG actor, host, speaker, touring spoken word artist & workshop facilitator he has shared stages and pages with Oscar winners, platinum singers, Grammy winners, and literary giants. In this episode, Sean opens up about his journey into creativity through poetry, and friendship. What it means to be nourished by creativity, friendship and even research. How important it is to dive into the realm of our creative mediums and to fall in love with it again and again. Sean has an incredible TED Talk, he has several books out which can be found here. For his albums, go here. www.patreon.com/LetsBendReality / All Social: @LetsBendReality /  www.LetsBendReality.com
Book: Peaceful Warrior  by Dan Millman / Power of Now By Eckhart Tolle / Malcom X Autobiography 
Song:"In the Beginning" by K'Naan/ "Traffic in the Sky" Jack Johnson 
Film: What Dreams May Come/ Good Will Hunting
Artwork: A Compilation of all of the Flash Costumes

Lowri Drakley is a textile artist based in Snowdonia, who also dabbles in creative coaching. She has trained in fine art and textiles, with experience in fashion, retail, artistry and quilting. She spends her time foraging for natural products for dyeing that she uses with recycled materials to create and make quilts and other textile products. She weaves her work with stories and passion and allows the natural world to nurture  and dictate her work. Lowri discusses using and reusing to make, as well as understanding how to build in cycles and seasons, following natural patterns of what is available in seasons, and listening to your own inner cycles to build as well. *Note: Lowri talks about Wabu Sabi, but the practice is actually called  Kintsugi 
Book: Big Magic by Liz Gilbert
Song: "Faith" by George Michael
Film: "The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel" 
Artwork: Karen Nichol

In this episode, we chat with Marie Phillips. We discuss the importance of saving and sharing space for the true voice. Marie is a British writer, storyteller and writing coach. Marie enlightens us with so many incredible insights for what it means to actually give your creativity a place to live, in your daily life. She talks openly and vulnerably about what it means to build a career in writing and telling stories in different ways and different mediums. 
Her work includes the novels Gods Behaving Badly, (also a film), The Table of Less Valued Knights, Oh, I Do Like To Be..., and Create Your Own Midlife Crisis. She has performed her stories across the UK and Europe, including sell-out shows at the Amsterdam International Storytelling Festival and the Oerol Theatre Festival. As a coach she works with all kinds of writers including storytellers, novelists and musicians.
Find Marie on Social Media: Website | Newsletter | Instagram | Twitter 
Book: Capture The Castle by Dodie SmithSong: Rhythm Nation by Janet JacksonFilm: The Princess BrideArtwork: Henri Matisse

Rudo Nondo, is a creative design practitioner who works across rural and urban areas of Zimbabwe and Eswatini and is currently the country coordinator for Fashion Revolution ZImbabwe. We discuss the importance of creating products as a means of craft, heritage and telling the story of community. Rudo talks about the need for work, how to create and build products and projects in varying communities, but also how to leave and move on to the next product, and the next community. We also delve into the need for celebration, taking breaks and finding beauty in the everyday. 
Book: "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho
Song: " Wait on You " Maverick City 
Film: Real Housewives of Potomac
Artwork: A large white painting, with a single black dot in the center

Steph and Ashley, talk the talk and walk the walk in this episode. Answering the questions they have asked their guests all season long. Through interviewing each other about their own creative pathways, they both discover the similarities and differences. Each understanding that sometimes achieving what you always dreamed of, might not be anything you would ever want for yourself.
 
Both discuss the meandering of their careers and practices. Steph and Ashley both open up  how they find creativity to be a powerful tool for healing, expression and a life line that lots of people around the world need.
 
Have a look at Steph and Ashley's websites and check out the Curious About Creativity website. 
 
Steph's PicksBook: Sow Stitch By Claire Wellesley SmithSong: "Good Woman" The StavesFilm: Bridget Jones Diary Artwork: Rothko
 
Ashley's Picks
Book: Walk Two Moons by Sharon CreechSong: "Fighting Dragons"   Norbert Leo Butz from the Musical "Big Fish" / "Hallelujah" Brandi Carlille
Film: Garden StateArtwork: Night on the Rhone By Van Gogh