Soul-led Creative Women with Sam Horton

Sam Horton
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Welcome to Soul-Led Creative Women — the podcast for heart-centred, creative women who are ready to infuse more soul, depth and meaning into their art and their life.I’m Sam Horton — artist + creative and spiritual mentor,  and I’m here to support women who want to use their creative practice to fuel their personal and spiritual growth.Each episode is an invitation to uncover the spiritual power of creativity to heal, nurture, empower, and transform. Through honest stories, soulful conversations, and inspiring tools, we’ll explore how Soulful Creativity can guide you home to your inner world, help you reconnect to your truth, and give you a safe, expressive, meaningful way to honour your soul’s desires.

  1. 5d ago

    A Journey from Closet Artist to Spirit Artist: TeZa Lord's Creative Life Adventures

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep130 In this episode of Soul-led Creative Women, I'm joined by TeZa Lord, author, artist, lifelong yogi and self-described spirit artist. TeZa grew up in a family where creativity had to wait until the chores were done. She taught herself to draw in secret, then broke away to art school and built a life of botanical illustration, silversmithing, film work, portrait drawing across the Caribbean and six books. We explore the delicate relationship between skill and surrender. We also talk about how her creativity changed when she chose sobriety and love over fear, and why she believes creativity is how we discover we are spiritual beings. Three reasons to listen If you've ever worried that learning technique might squeeze the soul out of your work, TeZa offers a beautiful reframe: skill is what allows you to let go.You'll hear a small, moving story about a fish appearing out of a single pastel stroke, and what it reveals about trusting the process.It's an invitation to notice what your creativity is carrying, and to choose to create from love rather than fear.Key takeaways Why learning the fundamentals of anatomy, colour and materials can be the path to creative freedom rather than a constraintHow the balance of control and letting go sits at the heart of both creativity and spiritualityCreating through addiction and recovery, and releasing old work that no longer reflects who you areChoosing love over fear as a creative and spiritual practiceThe yogic view of creativity as the second energy centre, and what happens when it goes unexpressedHow training your eye expands perception and builds creative confidenceSetting an intention before you begin, and how your thoughts shape colour, form and energyCreativity beyond art, in how you dress, cook, garden and choose to liveReflection question Where in your creative life are you gripping so tightly to getting it right that there's no room for something unexpected to come through? FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep130 Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    A Journey from Closet Artist to Spirit Artist: TeZa Lord's Creative Life Adventures

  2. Sep 6

    Create As If You're On The Moon: The Artist’s Path to Healing, Freedom and Purpose | Carine Van Hee

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep129 Carine Van Hee is an artist, author and speaker whose work explores what happens when we finally let our creativity show all of us, not just the parts that are easy to look at.  For most of her creative life, Carine only painted in her happy colours. It took a burnout, her mother's death, and years of quietly discovering how deeply she'd learned to disconnect from herself before she let her art carry the whole story. Three reasons to listen: Why the gold of your creative expression is rarely the in the first layers.How creating "as if you're on the moon and nobody's watching" can loosen a lifetime of making art to be liked.Why the process, not the finished piece, is where the real transformation actually happens.Key takeaways: Mixed-media painter and author Carine Van Hee works on large-scale canvases on the floor, moving around all four sides so she can approach the work from every angleWhy layering in art mirrors the layering of self-discovery, and why the "gold" is never in the first, rawest layerThe practice of leaving a piece of paper beside the canvas to catch the words that surface mid-creationHow hiding your difficult colours from your art can mean hiding difficult parts of yourselfWhy art installations can open conversations that a formal talk never couldReflection question: Where in your creative practice are you still only showing your happy colours, and what might it feel like to let the rest through? FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep129 Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    Create As If You're On The Moon: The Artist’s Path to Healing, Freedom and Purpose | Carine Van Hee

  3. Aug 16

    The Golden Thread: Turning Life's Hardest Chapters Into Authentic Art | Niki Borger

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep128  In this episode of Soul-led Creative Women, I'm joined by Niki Borger, an international writer, actor and producer whose one-act plays explore the liminal space between life and death. Over a seven-and-a-half-year period, Niki lost her mother, both grandparents, her stepfather and her father, nursing several of them through their final months. Rather than let that grief define her as a victim, she found a different way through it: choosing which story to tell about what happened to her, and following the thread that leads to growth rather than the one that keeps her stuck.  Three reasons to listen  To hear how Niki turned an almost unbearable run of loss into the creative and spiritual foundation for her workTo understand why the story you choose to tell about your pain matters more than the facts of what happenedTo be reminded that the thing you're most afraid to name is usually the one most worth following Key takeaways Storytelling as a healing practice, and how the same event can be told a hundred different ways, each with a different effect on who you becomeWhy growth is described as the most natural state of being human, and creativity as the vehicle that gets you thereHow energy work and meditation can open the floodgates to creative ideasThe connection between acting, vulnerability and safety, and how a well-built creative framework lets you take real risksNiki's concept of the "golden thread", the thread of possibility hidden inside even the darkest experiences Reflection question   Where in your own story is there a golden thread waiting for you to follow, even if it's something you're still too scared to name?   FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep128   Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    The Golden Thread: Turning Life's Hardest Chapters Into Authentic Art | Niki Borger

  4. Aug 2

    Creative Intuition as an Anchor for Grief: Poetry, Presence and Quiet Truths | Katie Rizzo

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep127  In this episode, I'm joined by Katie Rizzo, a former science teacher turned poet, whose life changed irrevocably when she lost her son Nicholas to addiction. Katie shares how poetry became the language she needed to grieve honestly, to stay close to Nicholas, and to slowly find her way back to herself. Her forthcoming memoir, The Trimesters of Grief, borrows the framework of pregnancy, the nausea, the numbness, the showing, to make sense of grief's own unfolding seasons.  Three reasons to listen:  Discover how Katie turned to poetry as a way to stay connected to her son and process grief she couldn't otherwise hold.Hear how her background in biology gave her an unexpected language, turtles, ducklings, a tree Nicholas once helped plant, for understanding loss and transformation.Learn why saying yes to community, even when everything in her wanted to withdraw, became essential to her healing. Key takeaways: Creativity can become a bridge between the living and the people we've lost, offering a kind of connection that logic can't provide.Grief often moves in recognisable seasons or waves, and naming them can make them easier to carry.Letting go of the need to appear "put together" can open real space for authentic creative expression.Community and support groups, though confronting to step into, can transform isolation into shared meaning.You don't need years of training to be creative. You need honesty and presence. Reflection question: What feeling have you been carrying without a place to put it, and what might happen if you gave it a form, a poem, a page, a picture? FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep127   Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    Creative Intuition as an Anchor for Grief: Poetry, Presence and Quiet Truths | Katie Rizzo

  5. Jul 27

    Revealing Deeper Meanings In Your Art | Sam Horton

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep126  In this episode of Soul-led Creative Women, I'm exploring what if the things we're creatively drawn to, again and again, aren't random at all? What if our recurring colours, subjects and themes are actually information, quietly revealing who our soul is inviting us to become? Three reasons to listen:  You'll learn why the things you keep returning to in your art (a colour, a subject, a symbol) might be far more meaningful than personality or habitYou'll hear a simple way of thinking about creative attraction as a language your inner knowing uses when words aren't yet readyYou'll be invited to look back at your own creative history and notice the trail you've been leaving for yourself, without realising it Key takeaways: Recurring creative pulls, a colour, a subject, a theme, are often a form of information about what we need to embrace or releaseCreativity often knows what we need before our conscious mind catches up, which is why certain images or ideas can feel like they're choosing us rather than the other way roundRecurrence is data. When something shows up once, it might be curiosity, but when it keeps returning across months or years, it's usually pointing at something deeperLooking back at what you were creatively drawn to one, three or five years ago can reveal the trail of who you've been becoming all along Reflection question: Where in your creative life is something quietly, persistently calling you, and what version of yourself might it be revealing? FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep126   Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    Revealing Deeper Meanings In Your Art | Sam Horton

  6. Jul 19

    The Creative Healing Power of Music’s Vibration: Kneet's Story of Reclaiming Her Power

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep125 In this episode of Soul-led Creative Women, I'm joined by Kneet, a global independent artist whose music moves between cultures, languages, and truths. Kneet grew up in a strict, tight-knit Indian household where creative expression, especially for girls, wasn't encouraged, and yet music found her anyway, first as a form of teenage rebellion, and later as the thread that helped her find her way back to herself after years of domestic violence and coercive control. We talk about her song "Rise," what it meant to film its music video in the very place where she lost her identity, and how she's turning her story into advocacy for other survivors.  Three reasons to listen:  To hear how one woman used songwriting to reclaim her voice after years of abuse, and what it took to walk back into the place where it happenedFor a beautifully grounded take on creativity as a spiritual practice, across faiths and culturesBecause Kneet's story is proof that the version of you that had to survive can become the version that leads Key takeaways:   How Kneet used music as a form of quiet rebellion growing up in a strict religious householdWhy she describes writing "Rise" as an act of reclaiming her voice after coercive control and domestic violenceThe healing power of returning to the site of trauma to reclaim the story on her own termsKneet's view of creativity and self-discovery as inseparable, you can't access one without the otherHow she connects music to vibration and spiritual practice across Sikhism, Christianity, and beyondWhy her advocacy work, pushing for psychological abuse to be recognised in the courts — flows from the same voice as her musicA peek into her upcoming, lighter Punjabi and Thai-influenced singles, honouring both sides of her heritage Reflection question: Where in your life is your creativity quietly asking you to reclaim your identity or voice?    FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep125  Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    The Creative Healing Power of Music’s Vibration: Kneet's Story of Reclaiming Her Power

  7. Jul 13

    Poetry Minisode - "Beauty in the Fight" | A thank you to creativity for the invitation to become more fully ourselves

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep124 What if the greatest masterpiece your creative practice ever creates... is you? In this short poetry episode, I share Beauty in the Fight, a reflection on the quiet ways creativity carries us through life's seasons. It's a thank you to the paint, charcoal and creative process that have helped me navigate uncertainty, disappointment, joy and growth—not by fixing life's challenges, but by helping me meet them with greater honesty and self-compassion. If you've ever wondered why creativity feels so deeply woven into your life, I hope these words remind you that sometimes the greatest gift isn't the artwork we create, but the relationship we build with ourselves along the way. Reflection Where has creativity helped you find light in a season that once felt impossibly heavy? FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep124 Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    Poetry Minisode - "Beauty in the Fight" | A thank you to creativity for the invitation to become more fully ourselves

  8. Jul 5

    Transforming spaces with rare plants & art inspired by culture, nature & travel adventures | Rupali Kumbhani

    Send us Fan Mail FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep123 Creativity doesn't have to compete with your career, your responsibilities or your ambitions. In fact, it can become the very thing that helps you thrive in every area of your life. In this inspiring conversation, I sit down with artist, photographer, plant curator and global transformation executive Rupali Kumbhani to explore how creativity and professional success can beautifully coexist. Rupali shares how a childhood love of drawing grew into a lifelong creative practice alongside a demanding corporate career, why she refuses to limit herself to a single creative identity, and how art, photography and plants have become meaningful ways to transform spaces, experiences and lives. Together we explore the relationship between creativity, innovation, personal growth and purpose, and why making time for your creative passions isn't a luxury—it's an investment in becoming more fully yourself.  In this episode we explore:  How Rupali nurtured her creativity while building an international corporate career.  Why creativity and strategic thinking strengthen one another.  Finding the confidence to create on your own terms instead of following industry expectations.  The freedom that comes from embracing multiple creative passions.  How travel inspires both photography and painting.  Creating art and living collections that transform everyday spaces.  Why creativity helps us think differently, innovate and solve problems.  Making creativity a genuine priority rather than something you fit in "one day."  How art creates personal meaning and different experiences for every viewer.  Why failure, experimentation and curiosity are essential parts of every creative journey. FOR EPISODE LINKS & MORE INFO VISIT: https://samhorton.co/blog/ep123 Join the Soulful Creativity Video Series Build a Soulful Relationship with your creativity, WITHOUT Sacrificing Skill, Beauty, or Impact in Your Art. I share the three steps to awaken your creative power, release what's holding you back, & safely practise creative expansion, so that you can welcome more abundance & finally come ALIVE with Soulful Creativity. 👉 https://samhorton.co/scvs Support the show Send me a message on instagram - https:/instagram.com/samhortonstudio Follow Soul-led Creative Women on your favourite platform - find all links at https://samhorton.co/podcast

    Transforming spaces with rare plants & art inspired by culture, nature & travel adventures | Rupali Kumbhani
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Welcome to Soul-Led Creative Women — the podcast for heart-centred, creative women who are ready to infuse more soul, depth and meaning into their art and their life.I’m Sam Horton — artist + creative and spiritual mentor,  and I’m here to support women who want to use their creative practice to fuel their personal and spiritual growth.Each episode is an invitation to uncover the spiritual power of creativity to heal, nurture, empower, and transform. Through honest stories, soulful conversations, and inspiring tools, we’ll explore how Soulful Creativity can guide you home to your inner world, help you reconnect to your truth, and give you a safe, expressive, meaningful way to honour your soul’s desires.

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