The Evolution of a Body of Work with Wendy Piersall
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Wendy Piersall, blogger and artist joins us to discuss the evolution of her body of work
Highlights
What happens when we become disillusioned with our success
How loss can lead to the start of true happiness
Having the courage to avoid soul-sucking easy money
Making decisions in the absence of external evidence
Letting go of the “fix yourself” approach to personal development
How forgiveness creates space in your life
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Quotes
My life had to come part to go back together in ways that would actually work
Sometimes you have look nowhere but within yourself for answers
When I started nurturing myself for sake of nurturing myself it spread like waves to people I love the most and projects I cared about the most
When you ask crappy questions you get crappy answers
Why even show up for life if you’re not going to listen to the guiding voice within you?
Wendy Piersall has been blogging here, there and almost everywhere since 2006. She has started and sold several blogs, written a couple of books, and is recently experiencing a very full-circle moment in her career in which she’s getting to be an artist for a living
Wendy Piersall, blogger and artist joins us to discuss the evolution of her body of work
Highlights
What happens when we become disillusioned with our success
How loss can lead to the start...
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| 1:19.7 | You know there's only a few times in my life when my intuition was so strong that it was able to give me enough confidence to move forward without that outside evidence. |
| 1:36.4 | A great example, and I might have even shared this with you the first time we talked because this is one of my favorite stories. |
| 1:45.0 | A great example is when I was, I had just graduated from college and I was like living out of my truck and I was a white water rafting guide in like the |
| 1:53.6 | boonies of Colorado and my intuition said Wendy go back to your college town in |
| 1:58.2 | Arizona and I was like just kind of rationalize it saying intuition that |
| 2:02.1 | doesn't make any sense I have $80 to my name |
| 2:05.1 | it's going to cost me $50 and gas to go back to Prescott Arizona and I have no |
| 2:11.7 | home I have no job I have no home, I have no job, I have no place to stay. |
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