Deep Dive with Blythe Harris on Creative Routines

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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At 22, Blythe Harris was hit by an 18-wheeler in downtown San Francisco, pronounced dead on arrival, and spent the next several years rebuilding her identity from a hospital gurney. What she discovered in that long, humbling process set her on a lifelong inquiry into creativity — not the capital C kind that most people assume doesn't belong to them, but the small, daily, five-minute kind that turns out to be one of the most underused tools for mental health we have. Blythe went on to co-found and lead the creative vision of Stella and Dot, a jewelry and accessories company that put flexible income in the hands of tens of thousands of women, and more recently co-authored (with Mallory May) Daily Creative: The Five Minute Habit to Rewire Your Brain. In the fourth episode of our Wired to Create series, Blythe makes the case that every single one of us is more creative than we think — and that the cost of ignoring that might be higher than we realize. This episode was made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. To learn more, please visit: waltonfamilyfoundation.org. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering what five
0:12.5	minutes of making something every day could actually do for a person and their identity.
0:20.1	This episode is part of our Wired to Create series,
0:23.3	supported by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.
0:26.6	My guest is Blythe Harris,
0:28.5	co-founder of Stella and Dot,
0:30.2	a direct sales, jewelry, and accessories company
0:32.7	that put flexible income in the hands of tens of thousands of women at its height,
0:38.4	and the co-author of Daily Creative, the five-Minute Habit to Rewire Your Brain, written along with Mallory May,
0:44.6	about what it means to build a small-sea creative practice into your daily life, what that
0:50.7	might look like, and what it might do for us. The story that really shaped Blythe happened long before Stella and that.
0:59.2	At 22, she was headed to work in San Francisco,
1:03.4	and something truly shocking happened,
1:06.9	which required her to spend years rebuilding her sense of self from a hospital bed.
1:13.1	That experience center on a lifelong inquiry into identity and creativity in particular.
1:19.9	And eventually led to daily creative.
1:22.5	A best-selling book of low-stakes five-minute creative exercises designed to give anyone, young or old,
1:30.5	creative or quote-unquote, not creative at all, access to some pretty terrific mental health
1:36.4	benefits. Here is my conversation with the very persuasive, Blythe Harris.
1:43.9	I've been in a little bit of an obsession loop about identity, like the identity of a creative
1:50.9	and the identity of a maker.
1:52.8	I feel like it's not as common as like the identity of a jock or a nerd.
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