Creative Overflow with Jenny Kiehn

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Creative Overflow is a space for artists and creatives seeking abundance in their work and life. Hosted by Jenny Kiehn, a painter inspired by the open sky, this podcast explores the connection between creativity, meditation, and mindset. We'll challenge scarcity, overcome self-doubt, and embrace the idea that everyone is an artist. Whether you're just starting or deep in your creative journey, you'll find inspiration to create with freedom and peace. New episodes every Friday. Let's make art abundantly.

  1. 3일 전

    How To Go From "Starving" to "Successful"

    This episode is a real and raw episode for me. Today I found out about the death of an artist I once knew who led a tragic life and was literally starving due to anorexia. He once told me "It's more important that you have a good life than that your art is successful. Having a good life is what creates a foundation for the art" Unfortunately he wasn't able to follow his own advice, but I have built my entire life around it. As an artist, self care is paramount. You are a highly sensitive instrument that needs to be nurtured. Making sure you eat healthily, have enough sleep, have the support you need for your feelings, have people to live your life with, and that you shield yourself from overstimulation is unbelievably important. YOU matter! The starving artist myth is pervasive in Western Culture and has had such a detrimental effect on artists. It held me back for 20 years! However, there are some extremely key lessons to be learned from one particular "starving artist" story. When Vincent Van Gogh was alive, his brother Theo supported him financially. Theo was an art dealer, so Vincent would send him his paintings to sell and accompany them with letters. Theo was unable to sell the paintings, so they accumulated in his home. Vincent died suddenly, the Theo died six months later. This left Theo's wife Johanna alone in Paris with a one year old baby and hundreds of worthless Van Gogh paintings. She organized several exhibitions, inviting people and begging them to buy the paintings, but nobody wanted them. Desperate, she suddenly realized she had another asset. She took Vincent's letters and published them in a book called "The Life of Vincent". It was an overnight success. Suddenly everyone wanted to read the story of this artist named Vincent. Then, they wanted to buy the painting. Johanna's publishing of Vincent's story is the only reason we even know about his art today. Ironically, the tragic "starving" artist's story created a $16 Billion collection of art. Stories Sell. The starving artist's story is about overcoming difficulty to create. That's obvious - but when you break it down it's about overcoming adversity to become a new person (the Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell) and the magic of creativity. We can add in a positive impact on the world and turn this story from tragic to triumphant. If you can follow these three steps, you can step from the "starving" artist mode into the successful one: 1. Take good care of your physical, emotional and artistic needs. 2. Be honest about why you make your art 3. Put your art out in the world and ask what people gain from it so you can hear it in their own words If you can do that, then you have the basis for crafting the best marketing story ever: 1. Overcoming Adversity 2. The Magic of Creativity 3. Positive Impact on the world. It's irresistible and magnetic. Once you've got that story, it's just a numbers game of getting it out to as many people as possible. Stories sell, especially this kind. If you enjoyed this podcast, leave me a positive rating or review. If you take a screenshot of it and send it to me at jenny@jennykiehn.com, I will invite you to my next free coaching class in early January. If you want more support before then, just email me at jenny@jennykiehn.com to ask about the Creative Abundance Circle, my weekly coaching group. We meet for 90 minutes each week for inspiring conversations, mindset exercises that create big shifts, and specific advice tailored for you.

    32분

  2. 4일 전

    Follow Inspiration FAST

    This episode is about following inspiration fast, a pro tip because as Dr. Joe Vitale says "The Universe loves speed." When inspiration strikes, just go with it! Take the first steps as quickly as you can. Make a sketch, journal about it, brainstorm, book a session to talk to a relevant person about it, get a super rough draft written. The faster you get the process moving, the more inspiration you will receive. Things will just start coming together. Last Thursday I got super inspired to start a Print Club, and I was so excited I did all the legwork and launched it on Sunday morning! I had to delay everything else, including this podcast episode, but it was well worth it. I'm SO excited about the future of this project. But doing it was tricky! Even though I was super inspired, I was scared too! I had to do several sessions of going to the little couch in my studio to press my hand on the center of my chest and breathe slowly to regulate my nervous system. After doing it for about six minutes, I would settle down and remember that I can definitely handle this. It's just scary to do something new, isn' t it? Throughout the process, I thought about David Bowie's quote that "you need to always go a little farther out into the water than you're really comfortable with. Just about the time your feet aren't touching the sand anymore that's when you're ready to do something really exciting". You can see a video of David Bowie saying that here. Here the links for the Sky Lover's Print Club: You can join with the basic $7 membership here to get a 7x5 print and a personal letter from me every month OR you can join the $12 premium membership here. With the premium membership you get entered into the sweepstakes to win the original painting every month! If you enjoyed this episode, stay turned because I'll be releasing another one tomorrow! (Got to get back on track!) 98% of the time, a new episode comes out every Friday. If you liked it, please feel free to leave a rating or a review. If you send me a screenshot of it to jenny@jennykiehn.com, I'll invite you to my next free coaching class in January. See you tomorrow!

    20분

  3. 11월 28일

    How to Switch from Desperation to Empowerment

    As we approach the end of the year, a lot of artists tend to get frantic as they try to accomplish things by the end of the year. This exacerbates a desperate mindset that we are going to totally step out of today. First, to step out of it I recommend you write down all your wins for the last three to six months. Decide which time period you want to go for, then write down every mindset shift, every positive action, every accomplishment. You will be amazed at how much you've done. This is one of the quickest ways to step out of desperation and build momentum. This touches on Dr. Benjamin Hardy's idea of the Gap and The Gain as well as the Law of Attraction. Next, listen to the rest of the podcast to ponder the nature of accountability. Accountability really comes down to self accountability. Have you kept your promises to yourself? Have you done what you said you were going to do? The promises to yourself are the most important you will ever make. They will make or break your self trust, so be clear on them and honor them. Understand that you always have a choice and reframe the "obligatory" activities you do. For instance, you pay your rent or mortgage because you want housing. You choose to do it and you stand by that choice. Everything comes down to that. You choose to do the dishes because you want a clean home. You are always making an empowered choice, so become clear on that and give yourself credit. When you make your "Get To Do List" every day, do a brain dump and get it all on paper. Then pick out the three things on the list that are the most important and number them in order. Only do three because if you have more than three priorities you have none at all. As soon as you start doing the most important thing first, you will feel so grounded and strong. Carry on the good feeling of recognizing your Wins by writing down your wins every day and reviewing them once a week. This build SO MUCH momentum. If you're interested in "The 12 Week Year" by Brian P. Moran, which I HIGHLY recommend, you can find it here. If you enjoyed this episode, leave a positive review because it will really help more people find the show. If you take a screenshot of it and email it to me at jenny@jennykiehn.com, I will invite you to my next free coaching class where we can talk about how to bring more abundance in your life. If you want to jump straight to coaching now, email me at jenny@jennykiehn.com to ask about The Creative Abundance Circle, my weekly coaching group. See you next Friday!

    26분

  4. 11월 21일

    Enjoying the Process Is Everything

    As an artist or creative, enjoying the process is everything. It is literally the reason you wanted to be a professional artist in the first place. However, it's very easy to get lost in the challenges of setting up and creating a thriving business. The most important thing is to step back, reframe, get grounded in your art, and remember that enjoying the process is the whole point. It's possible to enjoy the process of creating a business too. Geeking out on marketing and business strategies is super interesting once you get the hang of it. It's really, really creative, just in a different way. I meet with a couple of friends each week and we love discussing business strategies and sharing what we've most recently learned. We get to collaborate on the process of building our art businesses and it's super rewarding. We really enjoy the process and it's fun! But the point of all of this is, if you aren't enjoying something or if you feel like you're banging your head against a wall, then you are! Stop what you're doing, take a step back, have a reset, and consider getting help from someone who loves doing what you're trying to do. Your enjoyment of the process is EVERYTHING. You can't build a sustainable business without it. So pay attention to how you feel and use it to guide you. If you liked this episode, leave me a review or a rating, take a screenshot of it, and send it to jenny@jennykiehn.com and I will invite you to my next free coaching class. If you're loving the weekly support from the podcast, definitely email me at jenny@jennykiehn.com to ask about the Creative Abundance Circle. We meet every week and dive deep into these topics. There is so much connection and support available! Have a lovely week and I'll see you next Friday.

    20분

  5. 11월 14일

    How to Cut Through the Noise and Find Your Path

    I don't know about you, but I've been receiving a lot of conflicting advice about my business lately! I am weighing up various options and it occurred to me that this is basically impossible if you aren't centered and grounded within yourself. This is my guide for how to prepare yourself to cut through the noise and choose the options that are best for you. First, you've got to regulate your nervous system. If you are feeling stressed, anxious, frustrated or confused then you are in fight or flight mode on some level. This means your nervous system has sensed something to be alarmed about and it is sending the signal to your body that it is in danger. By regulating your nervous system you signal safety to your body so you can relax. It brings your mind back into the present moment so you can feel grounded and calm. In the episode I walk you through three of my favorite techniques for doing this. Second, when you're weighing up your options, you've got to trust which path feels the most natural to you. The natural path will take advantage of your innate strengths. On some level it will feel easy. This is ideal. The easy path is always the right path. Third, sometimes the simplest, most natural path still has a scary element. You've got to learn to do the scary thing anyway. Confidence follows action. As Jamie Sea says, all of us have self doubt, even your most favorite artists. Aren't you thankful they pushed through it, made their work and put it out in the world? I mean, what would the world be like without them? It's horrible to contemplate. Just know that you are someone's favorite artist too. So go do the scary thing. It's worth it. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave me a rating on Spotify or a review on Apple. If you do, take a screenshot of it and email to to me and I'll invite you to my next free coaching class. If you're interested in weekly support from me, you can also enquire about the Creative Abundance Circle, my weekly coaching group. It's an intimate, beautifully supportive group. I absolutely love it. Thanks for being here! I'll see you next Friday.

    27분

  6. 11월 7일

    Healing to Connect to Your Self Worth

    In this episode, I talk about my recent work in deep healing to help me connect to my innate worthiness as a person. Let me be clear, for most of my life I have only been connected to this worthiness in short spurts. My resting place was one more of hustle, proving my worth, and waiting to achieve something to be happy. I got a lot done, but had a definite tendency to burn myself out. Now I'm working on shifting permanently to another mode. One of allowing, taking the time to consider which is the best path, and listening to my sensations to guide me. I've done this in a superficial way lots of times, but this time I'm going deep. I'm ready for a life where I allow abundance to flow to me instead of chasing and hunting. In the Creative Abundance Circle this week (my weekly coaching program) we did some Quantum Inner Child Healing. This is so powerful. I explain a little about how that works and give you a bit of a guide as to what you can do at home even if you aren't in the Circle. Basically it involves becoming the parent you always needed. We are meant to love ourselves and trust ourselves. Anything that gets in the way of that needs to be healed. If you're interested in the Creative Abundance Circle, email me at jenny@jennykiehn.com and I'll be happy to tell you about it. Next weekend on Nov 15th and 16th I'll be having a mug drop selling coffee mugs with my paintings printed on them. They are perfect for Christmas presents. To get reminders about the drop, sign up at jennykiehn.com/sign-up Also, if you leave a positive review or comment about this podcast and send me a screenshot of it to jenny@jennykiehn.com then I'll invite you to my next free coaching class.

    25분

  7. 10월 31일

    Connecting To Abundance Step by Step

    In this episode I take you step by step through one of the practices I use to connect to abundance. This one works so well for me and really doesn't take very long. It prepares me perfectly to make important decisions in my life and business. Actually, it just prepares me for enjoying my life in every way! We start with gratitude, switch to writing down things that are infinite, feel the abundance rushing through us and then gently take a look at something we want insight on and see what happens. I also take you through a beautiful process of receiving the idea fully into your body so you feel grounded and complete. Enjoy this as I take you right through it! You can also replay this as many times as you need to help you get there. If you enjoyed this episode, definitely tune in every Friday because I will be releasing a new episode each week.  If you're interested in a conversation on how you can bring more abundance into your creative life, leave a review of this podcast, take a screenshot of it and email it to jenny@jennykiehn.com. I'll invite you to a free group coaching class about exactly that!

    27분

  8. 10월 25일

    Managing Stress as a Highly Sensitive Person with Todd Smith

    Are you able to see, hear or notice subtleties that other people miss?  Do you greatly appreciate art or make it yourself?  If so, you’re likely to be a highly sensitive person.  In this episode, I interview Todd Smith who is a coach who specializes in working with Highly Sensitive People.   He helps them understand themselves, protect themselves from stress, and do the inner work to free themselves up to use the full power of their abilities.  We had a wonderful conversation!   Highly sensitive people make up 15 to 20% of the population and play an important role.  We are like very finely tuned instruments who can detect when something is wrong and gracefully guide others in a better direction.  We are also highly creative.  The trouble is, because we can sense much more than the average person, we can easily get overwhelmed and stressed!  Todd offered some wonderful practical solutions for how to reduce and counteract overstimulation, some of which I am going to try out today! We also took a deep dive into the inner work methods of Byron Katie in her book “The Work”.  In addition, we talked about all the essential elements of healing and why highly sensitive people heal so quickly.   If you’re curious as to whether you are a highly sensitive person, and how stressed you are, you can take Todd’s Highly Sensitive Person Stress Test at trueinnerfreedom.com He also has a podcast called Stress Management for Highly Sensitive People at https://trueinnerfreedom.com/podcast/. If you enjoyed this episode, definitely tune in every Friday because I will be releasing a new episode each week.  If you're interested in a conversation on how you can bring more abundance into your creative life, leave a review of this podcast, take a screenshot of it and email it to jenny@jennykiehn.com. I'll invite you to a free group coaching class about exactly that!

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Creative Overflow is a space for artists and creatives seeking abundance in their work and life. Hosted by Jenny Kiehn, a painter inspired by the open sky, this podcast explores the connection between creativity, meditation, and mindset. We'll challenge scarcity, overcome self-doubt, and embrace the idea that everyone is an artist. Whether you're just starting or deep in your creative journey, you'll find inspiration to create with freedom and peace. New episodes every Friday. Let's make art abundantly.

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