AP 341: Tips to Uncover Your Creative Side || with Michelle Franzoni Thorley

About Progress

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Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Michelle Franzoni Thorley is the artist behind Flora Familiar, where she uses various art forms to address family history, antiracism education, and her culture. When you see her beautiful work you'll want to assume a lot about her talents. But, what she wants you to know is that artistic creativity is something she has worked to uncover within herself. Through her simple tips to uncover your creative side, and the guidance of this conversation, you'll begin to see where your creativity lies, because it's not always artistic. Michelle's upbringing as a Mexican American and daughter of a single mother is what she attributes to being creative in many regards, because although her artwork did start young it did not flourish until she pursued it in her 30's. Now, since pushing aside perfectionism and leaning into the messiness of creativity, Michelle beautifully explores culture, family history, and educates others on antiracism through her art. Her perspective will inspire you to be brave, as she says "bravery is not about the lack of fear, bravery is about fear and doing it anyway." About a few other things... If you’re ready to come back home to yourself, to be able to say that you know who you are and what matters to you, take my foundation course, “Finding Me.” It’s OK that you’ve lost parts of yourself along the way; but as you learn to anchor back into who you are and align your life to what matters to you, you’ll find that you have more strength, more fulfilment, and more creativity to bring to your important roles and responsibilities I have a goal to get to 1000 reviews, and I need your help! If you would leave a rating and simple review on Apple Podcast it would really help the show grow, and reach even more women who need this community. I appreciate each one, as well as your shares, it helps me keep the show going and know better how to serve you! Sign up for the Go Getter Newsletter to get Progress Pointers in your inbox every Thursday. SHOW NOTES Michelle's Instagram, Website, Patreon Leave a rating and review for the podcast! Miss Kelsey Preschool and Kindergarten Boxes - 20% off with code ABOUTPROGRESS Try Better Help online therapy 10% off your first month New audio course on identity - "Finding Me" Get on the waitlist for the Strive Hive, my monthly membership group Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: DRIVE by Dj Nicolai Heidlas @nicolai-heidlas Music provided by FREE MUSIC FOR VLOGS AND VIDEOS bit.ly/freemusicforvlogs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to About Progress. This is episode 341. Tips to uncover your creative side
0:08.0	with Michelle, Franzoni, Thorley. Something I hear a lot from a woman in this community goes
0:14.4	like this. Oh, I am so not the creative type. Well, what exactly is that creative type?
0:23.6	Do you imagine someone who was constantly full of imaginative ideas and living in this messy
0:29.6	space with arts and crafts all over the place, someone who lives on this edge of genius or insanity?
0:36.2	Now, I totally think there is a small percentage of awesome people who reflect that type of creativity.
0:43.4	I believe there are as many creative types as there are people. This month we are learning how
0:50.5	to cultivate more creativity in our lives. And I wanted to start by enforcing this idea in you.
0:58.8	You are creative. It matters deeply to harness into your creativity because it's a big part
1:06.7	of how you can connect to who you are. Today, you are going to hear an interview I did with Michelle,
1:13.6	Franzoni, Thorley. You might know her as Flora Familiar on Instagram. And the first reason I was
1:19.9	drawn to Michelle was because of her burgeoning artistry. She is a self-tart artist. I also found in her
1:27.9	these amazing sources of creativity that were quite untraditional. Ways that gave me permission to create
1:34.8	more and to even be more creative about what counted as creative. In addition to being a blossoming
1:42.8	artist, Michelle is also a family historian, a plant fanatic, and an online anti-racism educator
1:50.2	among other things. Much of how she uncovered her creative side started back as a child who was
1:57.4	raised in poverty and getting creative with problem solving and making the most of what she had.
2:04.0	Michelle will share in this episode how she uncovered her creative side and why that matter to her
2:11.1	and why it still matters now. And she'll also share some amazing tips on how you can do the same,
2:17.1	how you can uncover your creativity and heal yourself along the way and heal others too, both
2:24.3	people that are present and people in the past. And we're not talking about ghosts, I think you're
2:29.5	going to love the connection she makes to creativity and our ancestors. Your creativity is absolutely
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