Inteviews with the Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard)

Enjoy this fantastic, collaborative "Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard)" interview series by Jill Badonsky and Molly Anderson-Childers — it's full of aMUSEing insights, coaching, and humor to inspire your creative life, the small-step Kaizen-Muse way.
» Spills the Imp
» Muse Song
» Bea Silly
» Albert
» Aha-Phrodite
» Arnold (The Bodyguard)

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CCA : Inspiring Creativity Excerpts : Kate Quinlan

Inspiring Creativity
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It’s Not What You Create, It’s That You Create

Repudiating the Damaging Admission that You're Not Creative
By Kate Quinlan
We’ve all heard it. Many of us have muttered it in frustration, or silently surrendered to the anguished thought. “I’m just not very creative.”

Five Confidence Eroding Notions to Resist
By Kate Quinlan
Everyday you are subjected to attitudes and notions that influence your life, your thinking, your creating. Some are damaging notions and opinions that can undermine your confidence.

Five Creativity Nurturing Practices to Embrace
By Kate Quinlan
It’s as important to recognize attributes that you must resist as it is to determine the behaviors to take with you on your personal creative adventure.

The Ultimate Truth about Creativity
By Kate Quinlan
It is imperative that we all discover and encourage our own creativity.

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Creativity Coaching Features

When Books Are Less Than Life (And Yet Writing a Book Enhances Your Life)
Nature shows us what is inside us: in every rosebush seeking to bud and also heavy with spent blooms, we can see a way of knowing ourselves ~ our own nascent beginnings and endings, the birth-and-death that is our own inner nature.

Interview with International Child Art Foundation's Ashfaq Ishaq
Ashfaq founded ICAF in 1997 “to harness children’s imagination for positive social change” based on the belief that “creativity and empathy are preconditions for a more just, prosperous and nonviolent world.”

Lhasa de Sela: A Bid Farewell
When I first heard the voice of Lhasa de Sela, I felt we shared a common universal heart.

Interview with Spills the Imp
Summon Spills when you’re feeling the nit-picky urge to over-edit and obsess, or when the demons of perfectionism rear their ugly heads.

Creative Courage, Ice Skating, and Floppy Red Clown Shoes
What do you think about creative courage and going outside of your own comfort zone?