Soul-led Creative Women Sam Horton

OVERVIEW

In this episode I’m talking with career transition coach and mentor Andrea Horvath about her work supporting clients to make significant career shifts and the importance of embracing and honouring your own unique creativity in your work.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

💗 Andrea’s journey from life as a certified practising accountant in the corporate world to finding her passion and calling as a career transition coach

💗 That shift you are feeling most likely stems from a suppressed desire for connection, creativity or freedom which often overlap, even if you don’t realise it yet!

💗 The journey from living and working on autopilot to alignment

💗 Challenges people may face incorporating more creativity into their work

💗 Finding ways to inject your personality into your work

💗 Everybody’s path to move towards a more soul-aligned career will look different

💗 We discuss entrepreneurship as the epitome of incorporating creativity into your work

💗 Creativity is a necessity for fulfilment and not a nice to have

💗 Andrea discusses her ongoing adjustments to self-care, shifting from a corporate career to life as an entrepreneur.

💗 Andrea discusses the importance of writing and journaling as an integral part of her own empowered wellness journey

💗 Questions women should ask themselves when they feel a career shift coming

💗 Contrasts in parenting kids with their career choices versus our own experiences

 

GUEST INFORMATION

Andrea Horvath is a Career Transition Coach who helps badass people determine their soul-aligned career or business. She helps bring them into alignment with the work that they came here to do, and then helps them confidently make that transition. Even if they have no idea of what that looks like or how to get there.

Her signature framework, helps her clients connect with who they really are at their core and teaches them how to make decisions that are in alignment with who they are and what they actually want. Through that process, a new career vision is born and then created.

Andrea was a Certified Professional Accountant in the corporate world, managing budgets between $10M-$20 and realised she was totally unhappy and unfilled. By all outside appearances, she was successful, but she felt completely empty on the inside.

From that place she began searching for and ultimately, finding the answers of how to feel completely excited and passionate about her career again. She first started her business as a side hustle around her 9-5 corporate job and since then has been able to transition to full-time and do what she absolutely loves and help other souls step into their power and follow their hearts.

Andrea lives in Vancouver, Canada, And she is a solo parent with two teenage daughters.

Website: https://www.andreahorvath.com

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/andrea.horvath.90834

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6sPdwEXI3KLxc9urncEk2C

Other links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreamhorvath

 

HOST INFORMATION

Sam Horton is a practising Artist and Creative Wellness Coach who lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, in between the stunning coast and the luscious hinterland with her young daughter Daisy and their little bouncy dog Beau.

She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, and sentimental treasures. Sam helps women discover the powerful links between art, creativity and well-being.

She supports creatively curious transform their self-care and improve their well-being by finding authentic, empowering ways to deeply express and connect with themselves. She does this through holistic art-making & wellness practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman; including her inner heart space and closest relationships, her beliefs and perceptions, her energy for change and her interactions with the wider world.

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OVERVIEW

In this episode, we’ll explore the many complex and emotional layers of a larger creative project and how these help you to tap into your inner power and wisdom. KEY TAKEAWAYS💗 There are many layers to completing a large creative project 💗 The creative journey is a continual cycle of reflection generating new ideas 💗 The power in taking the time to reflect on your work 💗 Learning to access your inner knowing and trust yourself through the creative process 💗 My own experience of feeling like i’m in creative jail when my creative desires are ignored 💗How my creative practice unknowingly supported me through divorce 💗 The extreme emotional experience of the creative process. From calming meditation in action, to empowering freedom and expression.HOST INFORMATION Sam Horton is a practising Artist and Creative Wellness Coach who lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, in between the stunning coast and the luscious hinterland with her young daughter Daisy and their little bouncy dog Beau. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, and sentimental treasures. Sam helps women discover the powerful links between art, creativity and well-being. She supports creatively curious transform their self-care and improve their well-being by finding authentic, empowering ways to deeply express and connect with themselves. She does this through holistic art-making & wellness practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman; including her inner heart space and closest relationships, her beliefs and perceptions, her energy for change and her interactions with the wider world. By incorporating these nourishing creative practices into self-care, Sam’s goal is empower women to access and harness their inner power and wisdom as they realise that they already have everything they need within themselves to feel more expansive, self nurtured and whole - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. 🌟🌟🌟GET YOUR 3 ACTIONABLE CREATIVE WELLNESS TIPS🌟🌟🌟 To claim your 3 actionable creative wellness tips personalised to your circumstances that you can implement easily straight away, head on over and take my free quiz at https://samhorton.co/quiz

Part 3/3 - The WHAT, WHY & HOW map of creative wellness

OVERVIEWIn this episode, we’ll explore the third part of the 3 part series - The WHAT, WHY, and HOW map of creative wellness. Are you overwhelmed by where to start reigniting and reconnecting with the creativity in your heart? This episode is for you. KEY TAKEAWAYS 💗 Procrastinating over trying creative projects is a huge reality for everyone 💗 Our resistance to creativity just proves that our creative work is important. 💗 Acknowledging the natural ebb and flow of our creativity and taking positive, creative action, when we start to feel disconnected 💗 Creativity can be many things but the creativity in our hearts that we need to connect with. 💗 What it might look like when you are creatively disconnected 💗 What it might look like when you are creatively curious 💗 And 5 principles we can use to navigate the journey towards creative empowerment HOST INFORMATION Sam Horton is a practising Artist and Creative Wellness Coach who lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, with her young daughter Daisy and their little bouncy dog Beau. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, and sentimental treasures. Sam helps women discover the powerful links between art, creativity and well-being. She supports creatively curious transform their self-care and improve their well-being by finding authentic, empowering ways to deeply express and connect with themselves. She does this through holistic art-making & wellness practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman; including her inner heart space and closest relationships, her beliefs and perceptions, her energy for change and her interactions with the wider world. By incorporating these nourishing creative practices into self-care, Sam’s goal is empower women to access and harness their inner power and wisdom as they realise that they already have everything they need within themselves to feel more expansive, self nurtured and whole - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. 🌟 🌟🌟 GET YOUR 3 ACTIONABLE CREATIVE WELLNESS TIPS 🌟🌟🌟 To claim your 3 actionable creative wellness tips personalised to your circumstances that you can implement easily straight away, head on over and take my free quiz at https://samhorton.co/quiz #creativepodcast #wellnesspodcast #creativewellness #creativehealing

Part 2/3 - The WHAT, WHY & HOW map of creative wellness OVERVIEW In this episode, we’ll explore the second part of a 3 part series - The WHAT, WHY, and HOW map of creative wellness. Exploring why creative empowerment mirrors your overall wellness and why it’s such a powerful addition to your wellness toolkit. KEY TAKEAWAYS 💗 When we’re creatively disconnected, we’re most likely disconnected in other areas of our lives. 💗 The distinction between creative craft making for relaxation or passing the time and the work of deep creative art. 💗 We examine what creative craft making for relaxation or passing the time, looks like versus the deep work of creative art-making 💗 The road to creative empowerment requires you to dig a little deeper within yourself to trust, experiment, play, express and take action and risks, despite your fears, limiting beliefs, lack of experience and lack of resources. 💗 Why is this deep work of creative art-making so powerfulHOST INFORMATION Sam Horton is a practising Artist and Creative Wellness Coach who lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, with her young daughter Daisy and their little bouncy dog Beau. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, and sentimental treasures. Sam helps women discover the powerful links between art, creativity and well-being. She supports creatively curious transform their self-care and improve their well-being by finding authentic, empowering ways to deeply express and connect with themselves. She does this through holistic art-making & wellness practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman; including her inner heart space and closest relationships, her beliefs and perceptions, her energy for change and her interactions with the wider world. By incorporating these nourishing creative practices into self-care, Sam’s goal is empower women to access and harness their inner power and wisdom as they realise that they already have everything they need within themselves to feel more expansive, self nurtured and whole - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. 🌟🌟🌟 GET YOUR 3 ACTIONABLE CREATIVE WELLNESS TIPS🌟🌟🌟 To claim your 3 actionable creative wellness tips personalised to your circumstances that you can implement easily straight away, head on over and take my free quiz at https://samhorton.co/quiz

OVERVIEW:

In this episode I’m talking with artist and business coach - Ros Gervay about her many exciting projects, the artists’s journey and how women can empower themselves through art.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:


Ros’s journey from a background in design and primary teaching to becoming a full time artist and artist business coach
How Ros has developed a confidence super power despite being an introvert through her art practice
The challenges and opportunities in applying this confidence to a new singing hobby or other new endeavours
The transformation in understanding how creative practices can be a spiritual practice Ros’s discusses her challgenes with creative space and flow in pereparing artworks for the Sydney Affordable Art Fair 
The difference between being an artist in business making money from your art and being an artist creating art for the process
The process of creating Ros’s delightful and fun wall mural projects Inspiring artist empowerment stories from Ros’s Artist Business Coaching program
The beauty in the art process with no attachment to the outcome
The importance of play and exploration in a creative practice

GUEST INFORMATION: Ros is a business coach for new and rising artists, helping her clients to develop the confidence to show up as an artist, sell their work and master their marketing so they can build a fulfilling art business and get paid to do what they love even if they are self-taught. She is also a practicing modern botanical artist based in Sydney, creating stunning vibrant abstract art inspired by nature. Ros uses beautiful splashes of colour and her work often features the most glorious almost fluro pink. Her work is regularly featured in a number of Australian galleries, has been a finalist in the Unearthed Art prize and somehow she finds the time to take on amazing wall mural projects, co hosts a podcast and is currently getting artworks ready for the Sydney affordable art fair.

Ros’s FREE facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/permissiontopaintfreecommunity

Website: https://www.permissiontopaint.co/

Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/rosgervayart/

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3XkuZ4KuoUgy3Shu7IpmjN

Ros’s Art: https://rosgervayart.com/

OTHER INFO: Ros mentions two other artists in the interview. Their social detail are as follows: Karen Buenger https://instagram.com/artbykaren.buenger Brhody Wallis https://instagram.com/brhodywallisart Ros also mentions a book - “The Artist’s Way" - by Julia Cameron Sydney Affordable Art Fair - https://affordableartfair.com/fairs/sydneyHOST INFORMATION: Sam Horton is a practising Artist and Creative Wellness Coach who lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, with her young daughter Daisy and their little bouncy dog Beau. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, and sentimental treasures. Sam helps women discover the powerful links between art, creativity and well-being. She supports creatively curious transform their self-care and improve their well-being by finding authentic, empowering ways to deeply express and connect with themselves. She does this through holistic art-making & wellness practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman; including her inner heart space and closest relationships, her beliefs and perceptions, her energy for change and her interactions with the wider world. By incorporating these nourishing creative practices into self-care, Sam’s goal is empower women to realise that they already have everything they need within themselves to feel more expansive, self nurtured and whole - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Their unique creativity is simply a way to tap into and access this inner power and wisdom.

🌟🌟🌟 GET YOUR 3 ACTIONABLE CREATIVE WELLNESS TIPS 🌟🌟🌟 To claim your 3 actionable creative wellness tips personalised to y

Part 1/3 - The WHAT, WHY & HOW map of creative wellness

OVERVIEW In this episode, we’ll explore the first part of a 3 part series - The WHAT, WHY, and HOW map of creative wellness. Let’s dismantle the artist pedestal and get back to basics, exploring 10 simple examples of what a nourishing, accessible creative practice, supporting wellness actually looks like.KEY TAKEAWAYS


you don’t need to become an artist in any way to benefit from a deep and nourishing creative practice.
tuning into your creativity through holistic art-making practices can unlock your creative power in other areas of your personal and business life too.
a deep and personal creative practice is not a nice to have that should be parked for a rainy day. It is a ticket to nourish and care for yourself, make better decisions and feel less overwhelmed in your life, as you access your natural inner power and wisdom
10 examples of what a creative practice supporting wellness looks like:

Grounding your creativity
Organising materials
Gather inspiration
Permission to play
Creative goals
Become aware of your excuses
Prioritise your creative time
Express yourself freely
Bask in reflection
Share your art



HOST INFORMATION Sam Horton is a practising Artist and Creative Wellness Coach who lives on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, with her young daughter Daisy and their little bouncy dog Beau. She is a self-confessed homebody obsessed with connecting her heart with her home through her love for art, flowers, and sentimental treasures. Sam helps women discover the powerful links between art, creativity and well-being. She supports creatively curious transform their self-care and improve their well-being by finding authentic, empowering ways to deeply express and connect with themselves. She does this through holistic art-making & wellness practices that support soul-led inquiry encompassing the whole woman; including her inner heart space and closest relationships, her beliefs and perceptions, her energy for change and her interactions with the wider world. By incorporating these nourishing creative practices into self-care, Sam’s goal is empower women to realise that they already have everything they need within themselves to feel more expansive, self nurtured and whole - mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Their unique creativity is simply a way to tap into and access this inner power and wisdom. GET YOUR 3 ACTIONABLE CREATIVE WELLNESS TIPS To claim your 3 actionable creative wellness tips personalised to your circumstances that you can implement easily straight away, head on over and take my free quiz at https://samhorton.co/quiz