Nurturing Creativity and Detaching from Comparison with Morgan Harper Nichols

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Episode 153: Are you craving more creativity in your life? Well, you are in the right place at the right time as today’s guest will leave you inspired and motivated to pick up that paint brush or dust off that guitar. Natalie is joined by the multi-faceted, uber-talented, one-of-a-kind artist, Morgan Harper Nichols and the conversation is packed with life hacks to bust through creative blocks and nuggets of wisdom to release yourself from the online comparison game. Morgan shares about her journey from being a college admission counselor, to a full-time touring musician, to an accomplished mixed-media artist and designer and how one relatable poem about failure changed everything in her life. Get ready to feel that creative spark ignite in yourself as you listen to today’s episode and hopefully you walk away with the confidence to express yourself in whatever way brings you joy. Today’s episode dives into: How to detach from shame when comparing to others and dig into why you are comparing in the first place Ways to create community as an introvert The importance of letting go of the expectations of followers and the attachment to them Online life hacks to help determine which content to share Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Morgan @morganharpernichols and be sure to check out her website morganharpernichols.com. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: DOONEY & BOURKE - For 20% off your first order, visit Dooney.com/REAL and use the code REAL before April 30, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast
0:03.0	nation.
0:05.0	The
0:06.0	nation.
0:08.0	The talent in my life
0:12.0	the talent in my life was cultivated on top of the creativity, but I think we all do have like a base level of creativity.
0:21.0	I mean, even the way that you form a sentence is slightly
0:24.8	different than how your sister or your brother or your parent does it. The way that
0:29.4	you used to take notes in class is slightly different than the person next to you.
0:34.7	Like that's you putting your own original ideas and spin on things.
0:39.2	Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real
0:47.4	lives of entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire
0:52.1	you too. I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.
1:00.6	Hello everybody I am going to keep this Central short because I'm in Dallas Texas and I forgot my
1:06.9	microphone so the audio quality you're hearing is not great but I promise you it's going to be good on the podcast so we're
1:14.4	keeping the central short and sweet on today's episode I am so excited for
1:19.1	this guest because she is incredible and I am so happy to have her on the pod. I kind of like was
1:27.3	freaking out when I booked her for the podcast because so many of you are such a
1:31.6	huge fan of her and she's one of the most inspiring people I've met.
1:34.4	So today we have on Morgan Harper Nichols. She is an inspirational artist and poet whose work you've seen on social media.
1:42.0	I'm sure that you've seen it, and on the shelves of Target
1:44.8	Starbucks anthropology, athletic, Aery, Barnes, and Noble, and TJ Max.
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