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LET IT OUT

My Pep Talk From Maria Brito (Art Curator, Advisor & Author) on Creative Reinvention, Career Pivots & Solitude

LET IT OUT

Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9826 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a conversation with art advisor, curator, and author Maria Brito about career and creative pivots when things aren’t working, reinvention, using intuition in work and art, the importance of solitude, and much more. Maria's kindness is always evident throughout and she gives me gentle and wise advice, which I’ve since been working on.

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We need to dedicate time alone to think.

0:04.0

We need to be able to

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marinate the ideas, sift through them,

0:09.0

and choose the ones that are most viable

0:12.0

and makes us happy.

0:14.0

Hello, Let me let it out, let it out

0:23.6

let it out

0:25.6

I'm letting it out

0:27.6

I'm

0:28.6

let it all Hi, welcome back. I hope that you are good wherever you are. This week, art advisor, curator, author, Maria Brito, and I have a conversation about career and making creative pivots when things aren't working, using your intuition and your work and in your art, the importance of solitude.

1:04.5

And she talks to me about her trajectory of growing up in Venezuela and moving to the states and going to Harvard,

1:13.4

going to law school at Harvard, and then starting her career as a corporate attorney,

1:18.6

before leaving it all to enter the art world, where she eventually became one of the top art advisors. And she takes the time, this person who's

1:32.0

incredibly successful, and she's so kind to me. There's a whole pocket towards the beginning

1:37.1

of this conversation that I feel like I must warn you about, where it really becomes a creative

1:43.5

advising session for me, where I share pretty vulnerably about how I'm

1:51.6

feeling about my career and career pivot wise. And she really gently gives me wise advice.

1:59.9

And I hope that's interesting to you and also helpful to you in

2:04.4

some way. We recorded this a couple months ago and since then I've been working on some of the

2:10.4

things that we spoke about here actually and in my newsletter this week I wrote this. And really how the only reason why I feel

2:21.9

bad or behind in my life is when I start to compare. You know, we don't feel behind in a vacuum.

2:27.7

I think it's when we compare our timing to the timing of other people or to the culture. Anyway, maybe I'll read a little bit of

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