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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Meera Lee Patel: Fear and Finding Magic in the Unknown

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The unknown doesn’t have to be a dark, scary place. According to Meera Lee Patel, it can be a fantastic place where you can find yourself and your creativity. She believes everyone has creativity inside them; it’s just a matter of being able to find it and sift through the darker times and the unknown. Listen to her story and how she turned the unknowns in her life into the creativity and art she does today.


Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist who is now an author and illustrator. She just released her second book, My Friend Fear, and her first book is Start Where You Are


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0:00.0

So I think a boundary is anything that separates you from something you want to do,

0:08.0

somebody you want to talk to, somebody you want to be. And oftentimes there are logistical boundaries.

0:17.0

I wanted to be a freelance artist,

0:19.0

but I didn't believe that I would make enough money

0:22.0

so I stayed at my job.

0:24.0

So some would see the job as the boundary between me and the freelance career.

0:29.8

So switching that perspective and seeing the job as something that enables me to pursue the

0:38.3

freelance career without the fear of can I pay my bills without this year of being on the street because they can't

0:45.4

afford rent without this year of the anxiety that I might start living with inside of me because I have all of these other fears.

0:56.4

I think it's a perspective, a change in perspective is choosing to see the fear of something

1:02.4

different.

1:03.0

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1:10.4

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1:14.4

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1:19.3

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