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And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen

John F Simon Jr | Understanding Your Story

And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen

Cory Allen

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

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Artist and teacher John F Simon Jr joins me for a white hot chat about creativity, awareness, and how people understand their own story.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody what's going on. Welcome to the Astro Hustle. I am

0:07.0

Cori Allen and as always are you having a wonderful day today. Today on the

0:12.0

podcast is my dear friend John F Simon Jr. I've known John F.

0:15.6

Simon Jr. I've known John for 10 years. I've known him since I was 25 26 and it's been fascinating how our

0:29.8

relationship has evolved and changed and just continued to flourish over the years.

0:35.9

As we cover on some of the early podcasts that him and I did together on the astro hustle,

0:40.0

he was very instructive and fundamental and shaping the part of my early artistic personality

0:50.4

whenever I was emerging as a young fellow trying to understand myself, creativity, and how all of that and my thoughts fit into the world.

1:02.0

He was a warm and welcoming and open mentor for me whenever

1:08.2

we shared a month-long residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida in 2006 I want to say possibly

1:18.9

eight so since then our paths have not surprisingly continued to run somewhat parallel. He is an incredible visual artist and has continued to produce

1:37.3

unbelievable work from the time that I met him up until today.

1:45.6

He's woven his interest in knowledge

1:49.5

about mindfulness and meditation

1:52.4

and his own creative process. mindfulness and he released a book called Drawing Your Own Path, which is a fantastic book and it helps people

2:06.7

use the active drawing as a form of meditation and as a form of helping them understand

2:12.2

themselves and their creativity.

2:14.0

He also has his own podcast now called Drawing Your Own Path.

2:19.0

On this podcast, I have to say this is a pretty white hot one. I really enjoyed it. I believe it to be my favorite of the

2:28.1

podcast that I've done with John. We've done a good deal of them together. But we go deep into creativity as we always do and then

2:40.8

unbeknownst to John I ask him for his definitions of things like awareness, spirituality, creativity, and we get into some really interesting territory around all of those topics.

2:56.4

So I hope you enjoyed this podcast.

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