E8 - IN-Q: How to Master Your Creativity & Unlock Your Inner Poet
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Award-winning Poet, IN-Q, dives deep on how truly tap into your creativity & unlock your inner poet. He explains what it means to undefine to find yourself, to not become a prisoner to your own art, and to live a life of impact. He also shares some of his spoken word poetry of Everything's Gonna Be Alright, Higher View, and Learned Fear.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:23 Undefining Yourself
6:15 Poem: Everything’s Gonna Be Alright
13:22 Reflections on Impact
18:10 You’re No Prisoner to Your Art
20:33 Poem: Higher View
24:36 Tap into your own creativity
30:19 How to Write a Poem
40:09 Poem: Learned Fear
46:44 Conclusion
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IN-Q:
IN-Q is an award-winning poet, multi-platinum songwriter, keynote speaker, and the best-selling author of Inquire Within.
He was named to Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of the world's most influential thought leaders and has worked with countless brands & companies over the years to help them tell their story through collaborative content pieces and story-telling workshops.
Ultimately, IN-Q writes to entertain, inspire, and challenge his audiences to look deeper into the human experience and ask questions about themselves, their environment, and the world at large.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inqlife/
Website: https://www.in-q.com
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Inquire-Within-Q/dp/0062954709
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| 0:00.0 | Well, everybody's a storyteller and your life is your greatest art. So change your story, |
| 0:05.3 | change your life. My best art comes from observing life, seeing where I'm inspired, and then |
| 0:11.7 | creating out of space. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, beautiful beings. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast for every single week. We get |
| 0:23.3 | to the opportunity to sit down with a beautiful soul, somebody that's been on a path in their |
| 0:27.9 | own unique way that can help us live a more liberated human experience. Today, we have a very |
| 0:32.3 | interesting guest, somebody that is an artist, a poet. He is a multi-platinum songwriter. He is a best-selling author of the book |
| 0:41.0 | Inquirer Within. He is an award-winning poet. He is somebody that's worked with individuals and |
| 0:47.2 | brands and companies and celebrities from all walks of life, helping them tap into their own |
| 0:51.5 | innate storytelling capacity. He's been named as one of Oprah's Super Soul 100 most influential thought leaders. |
| 1:00.4 | He's somebody that I really admire and respect when it comes to their craft. |
| 1:05.2 | And yeah, he is somebody that I am really looking forward to having this conversation with right now. |
| 1:10.4 | Thank you so much. That was such a nice intro. Yeah, Adam, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. Thanks for being here, brother. Well, I'd actually like to start in the beginning of your book Inquire Within, which I've been loving, diving into, just in preparation for this podcast. In the beginning, you say, defining yourself is like confining yourself. So you undefined |
| 1:28.6 | yourself, define yourself. So I'm curious about your process of undefining yourself, define yourself. |
| 1:34.6 | Because this show, Know Thyself, is all about self-realization. Real growth and transformation |
| 1:38.4 | in life I find comes through unlearning. A lot of the things that we were programmed with |
| 1:42.6 | through our life and through the things that we've been through. And you, through your beautiful art of the things that we were programmed with through our life and through the |
| 1:44.4 | things that we've been through. And you, through your beautiful art and the way that you show up |
| 1:48.6 | in the world, I'm very curious if you just dive into a little bit about your journey of |
| 1:52.6 | undefining yourself while still being in the world and how you find yourself now. |
| 1:59.3 | Well, like when you were reading my bio, I just get so embarrassed slash bored. |
| 2:09.0 | I mean, I'm proud of it too, but it's almost like, I'm like, wow, who did all that stuff? |
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