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041: Rooms you daren't enter

The unexplored innerspace of your creativity

Feb 10 • Rachel Connor

040: Community as creative fuel

We create courage when we tend the fire together

Feb 3 • Rachel Connor

039: The journey of a courageous creative

The 4 pillars that provide a structure for your growth

Jan 26 • Rachel Connor

038: Why creative courage matters

An invitation into deeper wholeness

Jan 16 • Rachel Connor

037: Luminosity in darkness: carrying the light together

What a Scandinavian winter festival reveals about creativity

Dec 13, 2025 • Rachel Connor

stories of creative courage

32:18

Episode 11: What is creative courage?

Stories of Creative Courage | Watch now

Jan 30 • Rachel Connor

43:55

Episode 10: Maghan Haggerty, coach, advisor and writer

Stories of Creative Courage | Watch now

Sep 26, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Maghan Haggerty

46:33

Episode 9: Alexandra Lais, somatic coach and yoga teacher

Stories of Creative Courage | Watch now

Sep 18, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Alexandra Lais

50:59

Episode 8: Gabriela Blandy, writer, coach and breathwork facilitator

Stories of Creative Courage | Watch now

Sep 11, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Gabriela Blandy

45:26

Episode 7: Rick Kitagawa, artist, writer, creative coach and community leader

Stories of Creative Courage | Watch now

Aug 11, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Rick Kitagawa

47:11

Episode 6: Sara Riccardi, art history communicator

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Jul 24, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Sara Riccardi

48:21

Episode 5: Daniel Mandel, singer-songwriter and creative coach

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Jul 10, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Daniel Mandel

46:58

Episode 4: Tom Parson, creative tech entrepreneur, musician and educator

Stories of Creative Courage | Watch now

Jul 1, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Tom Parson

essays

Meeting your creative self: part 1

The guardians at the gate

Jan 22 • Rachel Connor

The geography of becoming: a (love) letter to those living in the in-between

On transitions, commitment and not 'fleeing into the future'

Jan 11 • Rachel Connor

Precision is power

On trusting your creative instinct

Dec 17, 2025 • Rachel Connor

What grief taught me about creativity

(that you won’t learn from books)

Dec 4, 2025 • Rachel Connor

The power of creative community

Finding your voice in the company of others

Mar 18, 2025 • Rachel Connor

The secret essence of your creative power

What's really in the way of your creativity?

Feb 25, 2025 • Rachel Connor

Be the architect of your future

And furnish the rooms of your life with what you love

Jan 23, 2025 • Rachel Connor

Hitting the sacred pause button

Knowing when (and why) we stop

Jan 17, 2025 • Rachel Connor

free resources

17:12

Introducing the 'Design Your Creative House' challenge

A 3 day creative sprint running February 27-March 1st 2026

Feb 15 • Rachel Connor

'Design Your Creative House': a weekend sprint

A free 3-day challenge to map the architecture of your creative life

Feb 13 • Rachel Connor

49:35

The Creative Use of AI

A conversation with Tom Parson, tech entrepreneur and innovation consultant

Oct 20, 2025 • Rachel Connor and Tom Parson

A practical guide to finding (and thriving in) creative community

In this essay, I liken a network of like-minded creatives to mycelium—an underground yet powerful organic infrastructure, connected like mushrooms with…

Mar 18, 2025 • Rachel Connor

How to work with your survival mechanisms

An exercise to help you identify your core limiting fears

Mar 12, 2025 • Rachel Connor

Open this when … you feel grief for what you never created

A letter to read in times of regret for unfinished projects

Feb 11, 2025 • Rachel Connor

5:07

Finding your signal

A 5-minute meditation to help you access your true voice

Feb 6, 2025 • Rachel Connor

fiction

How to curate a life

A short story by Rachel Connor

Mar 21, 2025 • Rachel Connor

The Properties of Water

A short story by Rachel Connor

Mar 21, 2025 • Rachel Connor

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