190: Making Inspiration a Habit + Reclaiming Creativity with Morgan Harper Nichols

Feel Good Effect

Robyn Conley Downs

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ready to feel inspired again? I’ve always wanted to talk to Morgan Harper Nichols, she's one of the greatest poets & artists on the planet. She's giving us a look behind her creative process & the tactical ways she seeks inspiration in her life. Morgan's tips are things we can all use (even if we aren’t artists or don’t think of ourselves as creative). Her wisdom & her ability to help us think differently about the world is such a gift. What a thrill to get to share this conversation with you.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the feel good effect. We're talking about inspiration and creativity today.
0:06.9	And when our guest gave me this one analogy for inspiration, it completely changed the way that I think about it.
0:16.2	And I think it's going to change the way you think about it too. Let's make it happen.
0:23.2	Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel-good effect will help you redefine wellness on
0:28.3	your terms. Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about
0:33.8	achieving another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you.
0:39.5	Drawing from cutting edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, this podcast offers
0:44.6	a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life
0:50.9	and allows you to embrace the idea that gentle is the new perfect.
0:55.8	I invite you to listen in as we cut through the clutter and find the small shifts that create
1:00.2	huge changes in your life, thus striving, more ease. It's time to feel good.
1:16.8	Well, hey, feel good fam, I am so glad you're here. Okay, when you hear the interview with this guest, you will hear in my voice that I did not at all contain my enthusiasm. I had zero
1:22.8	chill about my excitement in getting to interview this guest. She was on my bucket list of people. I've always
1:29.2	wanted to talk to. I think her work is incredible. It's impacted my life. I know it's impacted some of
1:36.1	yours. I think she's one of the greatest poets of the last hundred years. Yeah, I am talking about
1:43.4	Morgan Harper Nichols.
1:45.8	Morgan is a popular Instagram poet, which I feel like if you're not into Instagram,
1:51.6	that almost it doesn't do her justice, but she has shared her work so freely there,
1:57.3	and that is where she's really gained like this presence and this incredible audience.
2:02.9	She's also the author of All Along You Are Blooming, which is truly one of my favorite
2:08.8	morning routines, ways to start my day book. It's a book of poems and art she created in
2:16.4	response to the personal stories submitted by
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