Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Courage to create.

And today's episode is very special because I'm going to be joined by Luca, who was the producer of the music project that I have been working on.

So I'm very excited to share a bit of our conversation

with you guys. This whole project has really been about holding myself accountable to put this

work out into the world and also to bring you on the journey that I've been on from the very beginning,

because some of you have followed me for a really long time, and for some of you, this will be totally new.

And perhaps if you're a fan of Saturn Returns, you might have thought I have no idea what she's talking about.

But it's been really important to me, and I still maintain that belief that our creativity nurturing our inner

worlds and the things that bring us joy and a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment

are so worth pursuing they don't necessarily mean financial or monetary or status but they do bring something that is incredibly valuable.

And as I said at the beginning of this series, as we move more and more into this tech-driven

AI space where there feels like it's less and less room to just be, to allow ourselves

to be bored, to allow inspiration to strike. I worry a little bit about where that leads,

and that's why I think it's important that we begin practicing our creativity, our creative pursuits as a day-to-day practice.

We live in a world where the creative is just not respected, not given the credit.

Like creatives give literally all the light to this world.

We make such profound change.

We create people's lives. We like decorate

people's lives with so much magic. We help people see themselves. We help people feel safe.

Like creatives are here doing absolute most, the most generous and vulnerable thing that humans do.

And so I wanted to reflect a little bit about how creativity forces us to look at parts of ourselves, some of our darkest parts, and of course it reveals a lot of our light, but I think it brings out the aspects of ourselves that keep us hidden.

That's why we have so much resistance around self-expression

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