Turning Life’s Messes into Creative Triumphs with Mayi Carles
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Former podcast guest and Panamanian artist Mayi Carles returns to the show to talk about we turn life’s messy parts into creative triumphs.
Highlights
- Letting go of the fear that nobody will show up
- Finding the moments when we put ourselves out there
- Dealing with unwritten cultural dogmas
- The tension between what we want and what’s expected
- Why people who believe in us help us overcome resistance
- The rock that life puts in our journeys
- Embracing screw ups in the creative process
Quotes
You need at least one biggest fan to hug you when all you want to do is quit
I’m a firm believe that you’ll get what you’re seeking. The answers are everywhere
We want to be this version of ourselves that is unattainable.
Mayi Carles is a tiny Panamanian artist with a T-Rex heart making a living on the Internet by being herself + owning her weird + sharing the lessons she’s learned along the way, including the bloopers.
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| 0:00.0 | I just go where my heart I've called my blog Heart Need because that's the only thing that has kept me going throughout this entire process of discovering who I am |
| 0:12.0 | I need to study who who I need to be, who that little |
| 0:17.6 | boys that comes from like that part of my body, that's the one that's burning and doesn't shut up. That's who I pay attention to. |
| 0:27.0 | And that's all I talk about, that's all the products that I make come from that place and it's all so |
| 0:34.8 | corny and when I say it at love it kind of it makes me kind of want to look but it's |
| 0:40.6 | it's true it's how I've I've been able to survive this entire thing because I listen to the only thing that I that has a clear voice and it's really mine. |
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