Daring Greatly: Celebrating Courage in Art and in Life [52]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This is our one-year anniversary. When we started the podcast, it felt like quite a risk ... neither of us had any idea how to make a podcast and we had to figure it all out on the fly. Reflecting back on the last year sparked a discussion about courage inspired by the Brene Brown book "Daring Greatly." The title for her book came from this Teddy Roosevelt quote: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” We discuss the role of vulnerability in connecting with our audiences, the importance of allowing ourselves to be imperfect, and the need to act even when you are terrified.
We also respond to a question from Susan, who wrote: "There is a hilarious song by Morrissey called 'We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful' and I am wondering if you have lost any friends along the way. Do you notice some people just getting standoffish, angry or acting differently the more you succeed?"
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Brene Brown TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjNtWRBdXws
Caroline Goyder ‘Find Your Voice’ book - available for pre-order: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Find-Your-Voice-Confidence-Situation/dp/1785042831
Caroline in action with some tips for speaking with confidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0325A8-_A4
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| 0:00.0 | Art critics, your words, not mine, are going to walk past and stand in a gaggle and say, |
| 0:06.4 | the work here is pretty good, apart from that one. Hi and welcome to episode 52 of Art Juice. |
| 0:24.3 | That is honest, generous and humorous conversations |
| 0:27.2 | to feed your creative soul |
| 0:28.8 | and get you thinking with me, Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:31.8 | And me, Alice Sheridan. So that makes this our anniversary |
| 0:36.3 | episode, cue the popping Champagne Cox and I can't believe we made it the spark because when we started we said maybe we'll just do |
| 0:47.3 | six and see what happens. Yeah six weeks. Yeah and just see how we feel about it. |
| 0:53.0 | And then there's been a few little blips where we've been, |
| 0:57.0 | oh, it's so much work. |
| 0:59.0 | But we've not actually ever really freaked out about stopping have we? From a personal point of view |
| 1:06.0 | it's taught me a huge amount actually it's taught me a lot about having to be |
| 1:11.0 | organized for somebody else, |
| 1:13.3 | yeah, not just my own, |
| 1:16.4 | sticking to a schedule for something, |
| 1:18.7 | because I know if you guys, |
| 1:19.9 | like this is the one thing that has to go out without fail apart from when we've told you it's not coming and even then it came out. |
| 1:28.8 | But anything else, like even if I do a blog post post there's a degree of flexibility in that |
| 1:34.0 | whereas I know what it's like to listen to a podcast and if it's not there you're like |
| 1:38.5 | where is it what's gone wrong I want it yeah well we never thought it would grow like that did we? No but and it's |
| 1:46.3 | actually taught me that same thing which is I have two things that have to go out |
| 1:50.0 | the podcast and I do a Sunday newsletter and I never miss them because they're, you know, I've |
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