23: Lea Gucciardi's Creative Life

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall and this is a special and bittersweet ep, as it's the last episode of This Creative Life for now. Join me in reflecting over the past conversations and the things I've learnt that have inspired and nourished my creativity in hopes they do the same for you too. A big thank you to my guests for sharing their creative lives and wisdom with us and to you - for every listen, like, share, comment and review. Your support has meant the world. Wishing you endless creativity for 2023 and beyond. KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Follow me, your host! Sacred Vessel Studio Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to brand and graphic designer Ash Murray of The Studio Arcadia. Ash shares how her creative life started with a copy of Photoshop and everything she’s learnt along the way, how her human design helped her to fully lean into her calling and cultivate a workspace that embraces her creative process, as well as how to surrender and trust the ebbs and flows that come with creating in order to honour your work. KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Ash: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!         Follow me, your host! Sacred Vessel Studio Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m catching up with brand and web designer Tess Baldwin of Tess Creative Co, based on the South Coast. Tess shares how realising she was always inherently creative despite feeling the opposite changed her career path and helped her to find the sweet spot of creating for herself as well as others, how important it is to align your values with the work you do and the clients you work with and her advice for embracing the journey of living a creative life as a whole — and there’s also a bit of Harry Styles in the mix! KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Tess: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!       Follow me, your host! Sacred Vessel Studio Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to digital content specialist Ally McGrath, based on the Sunshine Coast. Ally shares her creative journey that has come full circle, and how she embraces her multi-passionate nature as a creator and mother. We also chat about the societal conditioning multi-passionates have to work through, how to expand your creativity on TikTok and the truth behind the “master of none” quote we all think we know - until now. KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Ally: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram   Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!     Follow me, your host! Sacred Vessel Studio Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to designer Hollie Arnett, brand strategist and creative coach of Maker and Moxie based in NZ. We dive into living an innately creative life - how multi-faceted and personal our creative output becomes, how essential it is to embrace showing up authentically, the inner work all creatives should do and what it means to be anti-creative. KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Hollie: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram   Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!   Follow me, your host! Sacred Vessel Studio Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today, I’m chatting to web designer and developer Chaitra Radhakrishna of Pink Pot Studio, based in Seattle. We have such a joyful chat about the creative awakening we all seem to go through in realising we want to live a creative life, how we can use creativity to meet our goals when logic tells us we can’t, and how to keep creating in small steps when our schedule is tight. We also talk about how deep rooted colour is to Chaitra and how magical colour really is in our world. KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Chaitra: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Follow me, your host! Sacred Vessel Studio Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle Hall, and today I’m chatting to designer Eliza Blake of Lize Studios, based in Melbourne. We start with Eliza’s dreamy creative upbringing and explore how impactful joy and play is to creation, juggling creative hobbies in between creative work to find the right balance, when mental health influences creative input and output and how to live a creative BS free life.

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle of Studio Start, and today, I’m chatting to designer Lea Gucciardi of Arq Design Studio. I love every convo I have with Lea - we always seem to flow through musings on life, work and food, and this ep is no exception! I’m sure you’ll all find Lea’s openness to talk about her mental health not only refreshing but so inspiring -  and she shares so many gems on how mental health and creativity go hand in and hand - as well as embracing radical self acceptance and staying true to you. KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Lea: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!     Follow me, your host! Studio Start Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister

Hey, and welcome to This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle of Studio Start, and today, I’m chatting to designer Kelsey McCormick of Coming Up Roses, based in LA. We came full circle in this chat about Kelsey’s expansive creative journey and how she reclaimed back creativity for herself, as well as creating freedom and flexibility to be a mother on her own terms. We also rave about The Artist’s Way and how it can bring us back to our creative why. KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Kelsey: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!   Follow me, your host! Studio Start Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister 

Hey, and welcome to Season 2 of This Creative Life - conversations with creatives on creativity and how we can cultivate, inspire and nourish our creative souls. I’m your host, Danielle of Studio Start, and today, I’m chatting to designer Abbey McGrew of Wayfarer Design Studio. We caught up to chat about living an unfiltered creative life - what it looks like, how we can be more transparent and human in our business, and how important it is to connect with your creative community and clients. If you love listening to true crime podcasts, there’s a few Aussie recommendations for you at the end of the ep! KEEP CREATIN' ☺️ Connect + Get inspired by Abbey: Instagram Website Follow along with This Creative Life: Instagram Love the podcast? Share the love and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Follow me, your host! Studio Start Podcast Intro: Smith The Mister