You're listening to the savvy painter podcast episode number 268.

Hey artist so this past week I have been working a lot on growth studio and planning things for the rest of the year and trying to

figure out where it is that we're all going to go and I'm super excited about it.

And this week, three separate artists ask me why I do what I do. They wanted to know why do I devote so much time and energy helping other artists? And I thought this would be a good

thing to talk about this week because I think it's really important. So this podcast, artist is something I am passionate about.

I realized as I'm recording this episode of the savvy painter that it's eight years old today. So for eight years I have

been recording the savvy painter podcast and helping other artists get past their

mental blocks so that they can be confident in the studio.

And when artists are confident in the studio, they free themselves to create from the heart,

from a place of authenticity, from a deeper knowledge and intimacy with their true self.

And when artists do that, that's when they create their most powerful work.

They trust themselves. They allow themselves to have time and space to develop ideas and experiment and to learn, to learn how to communicate in this language that we speak that has no words.

This is a primal language when that a lot of people have lost touch with.

And I think I've talked about that before in why your art matters and in some other

recent episodes, but remembering that language, using that language and becoming fluent in it has a profound effect on our own mental health and our happiness and fulfillment in life.

And that's why we get so grumpy and unsettled if we go too long without painting.

That's why so many artists I talk to literally get tear-eyed at just the idea of not painting anymore. And it's also why the very idea that maybe I'm not an artist is so

unsettling, so terrifying even. That's why I do this, that's part of why I do this. I'm going to talk more in depth

in that and in this episode and I'm also going to share with you some of the conversations that I

had so these are two artists that I work with and so you'll hear parts of that of those conversations.

Early on in Growth Studio and in some of the workshops that I've run, I've had artists say things like,

maybe this means I'm not a real artist.

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