Thank you for joining us for episode 402 of Live Happy Now.

Creativity is a driving force of innovation, but have you thought about how it can change your life at work and at home?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm being joined by Stephen Kowalski, a leading voice in the global movement for conscious creativity.

In his new book, Creative Together, Sparking Innovation in the New World of Work,

he explains that all of us are creative, whether we think we are or not.

And he tells us how to find our own creative style, then use that to find greater satisfaction,

both on the job and at home. Let's have a listen.

Stephen, welcome to live happy now.

Great to be here.

This is such a great topic to talk about because, you know, we talk about creativity in our lives,

but you are really taking it into the business

space and looking at how it affects us at work, at home, and all these different ways. So I'm

excited to talk to you. And I guess before we dive in, can you tell us what you mean when you

talk about conscious creativity? Because this was interesting to me. Yeah, super. I think conscious

anything, conscious leadership, conscious anything, conscious leadership,

conscious capitalism, conscious creativity, we're hearing a lot of that these days. What that really

means to me is that we're bringing attention and intention to what we're doing. So there's a

component of self-awareness. There's a component of being clear about what I'm aiming for,

reflecting on how results are mapping to my intentions. Intention and attention is probably the

shorthand. Yeah. And how does one start giving more thought to that? Because I do think in the

past, we've been like, either, oh, I'm creative or I feel creative

and not really thinking about our control over it.

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