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Tranquility du Jour #373: The Creative Practice

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The Creative Practice with Lisa Sonora Beam. We talk writing, dealing with creative cycles, and the inspiration behind writing her memoir, Sketchbooks: My Personal Creative Practice.

 

Tranquility du Jour #373: The Creative Practice

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Lisa Sonora is an American artist and creative entrepreneur living in Mexico, who wants to live in a world where following your heart's desire is considered practical, and making a living from your gifts is a no-brainer.

Her first book, The Creative Entrepreneur: A DIY Guidebook to Making Business Ideas Real (Quarry, 2008) won two independent publisher awards and launched a movement that has helped thousands to make their creative business ideas real. The Creative Entrepreneur is used as a textbook in many business, entrepreneurship, and arts programs, including University of Madison School of Business.

As an artist and creativity and business consultant, Lisa's work has been featured in Business Week, Entrepreneur Magazine, ABC News, San Francisco Chronicle, and in dozens of online venues.

In 2002, she founded a boutique marketing agency focused exclusively on green business initiatives and social justice in San Francisco. She's designed and taught green and social marketing, and creativity and business curriculum for graduate business, and arts administration programs.

Lisa is a graduate of DePaul University's School of Music, and has professional degrees in Music Therapy and an MBA from New College of California in Sustainable Enterprise.

A sought after facilitator, she's led international creativity workshops on five continents for the past 20 years: at schools in Africa, inside tech companies, coach training programs, churches and zendos, and at retreat centers and universities. She trains others to lead creativity workshops in her Creative Journey Facilitator Training, and has a Creative Entrepreneur School in the works.

Her 30 Day Journal Project brings together a global audience twice a year to celebrate the power and magic of creative journaling.

When she's not consulting or in the studio making stuff, you can find her journeying to foreign lands in search of textiles, trying to take better photos, and adding to her visual journal sketchbooks in cafes around the world.

Lisa lives in Oaxaca, Mexico with her partner Alex, where they host artist retreats and residencies. She blogs about her adventures as an expat artist at lisasonora.com. Lisa's memoir, Sketchbooks: My Personal Creative Practice, is comprised of journals she kept during her move to Mexico.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Tranquility DeJure, June 28th, 2016.

0:09.1

Bonjour,

0:10.3

Hello, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to Tranquility DeJure.

0:17.0

I am recording from the Pink Palace in Washington, D.C. and fresh back from a few days in

0:24.4

Ohio, California, which has the most amazing bookstore, by the way, an open-air one, where I was on

0:31.6

a writing retreat with the lovely Christine Mason Miller, who has just written a memoir, and you've

0:37.3

heard from her a couple

0:38.1

times on the podcast.

0:39.7

So anyway, fresh back from that and delighted to share with you about the lovely Lisa Sonora

0:47.2

Beam, who has been a former podcast interviewee also on her memoir, Sketchbooks, The Creative

0:54.1

Practice. So we talk writing,

0:57.2

we talk dealing with creative cycles, and the inspiration behind writing her memoir,

1:03.7

sketchbooks, my personal creative practice. So as always, be prepared to be inspired. I love interviewing artists, authors, women, men, out in the world doing amazing, amazing things. So I think you're going to really enjoy this one. And I always love to hear from you what it is that you're resonating with. I tell you, I got so many emails about the podcast I did

1:29.8

with Andy from Plum Deluxe T's. And so many of you really liked that. And I hear you. I just think

1:36.0

he's a doll. I love, love, love knowing, like what it is that really speaks to you. So please

1:42.6

share with me and also share via social media what it is that

1:46.4

you're learning or what are your takeaways. There's so many people out there doing such

1:52.1

great things and I am really, really honored to share them with you. Last night I was having

1:58.1

dinner with a friend and she was like, do you still like doing the podcast?

2:02.2

You know, because I've been doing it for a while. And, you know, I said, I really, I have to say I do. I mean, it is a fair amount of work. But, you know, of course, my beloved Tim does all the tech work. But it is a fair amount of work. however, I do like it because I get to interview amazing people

2:18.7

like Lisa or Christine or all the other people that I've had on the show over the past many

2:24.1

years, 11-ish years. And I get to ask some questions that I want to know about. And so I do find

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