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Latest Episodes:

Creative Ideation Portal Day 3: Art as Service Sep 19, 2025

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Today we complete our mini series going over the free Creative Ideation Portal - a guide to help you vision your projects and share them with the world.

Tune in to days one and two first. Then join me for today’s conversation about why the world needs your art and how to share it (even if you feel scared).

If you’re listening when this comes out, join me and Amelia Hruby at the FREE COMMON SHAPES PARTY on Saturday, September 20th (aka tomorrow!). RSVP here.

Mentioned in the episode:

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Creative Ideation Portal Day 2: Moving the Needle Forward Sep 18, 2025

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Today we continue our mini series going over the free Creative Ideation Portal - a guide to help you vision your projects and share them with the world.

Tune in to ‘Day 1 : Our Many Visions’ first. Then join me for today’s exploration of how to make progress (even when you don’t want to work).

And if you’re listening when this comes out, join me and Amelia Hruby at the FREE COMMON SHAPES PARTY on Saturday, September 20th. RSVP here.

Mentioned in the episode:

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Creative Ideation Portal Day 1: Our Many Visions Sep 17, 2025

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Welcome to a new season of Common Shapes!

We’re beginning with a mini series going over the free Creative Ideation Portal - a guide to help you vision your projects and share them with the world.

Tune in for daily episodes.

Day One : Our Many Visions

Day Two : Moving the Needle Forward

Day Three : Art as Service

Then join me and Amelia Hruby at the FREE COMMON SHAPES PARTY on Saturday, September 20th. RSVP here.

Mentioned in the episode:

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Leaving Social Media and Sacred Attention with Amelia Hruby Jan 29, 2025

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Dear Listener
Thank you for tuning into Common Shapes and my conversation with Amelia

Don't forget to grab the free Creative Ideation Portal : Your three day guide to visioning your projects

More from Amelia:
Amelia's Website
Softer Sounds Website
Off the Grid podcast on Apple + Spotify + everywhere else you listen
Download the free Leaving Social Media Toolkit
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or a five star rating on Spotify
Thank you to :
Softer Sounds Studio for podcast editing
Saltbreaker for our music
Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo for our art

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

The Process of Leaving Platforms Behind Jan 15, 2025

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Dear Listener,
Thank you for tuning in to Common Shapes today
I am teaching Mapping Your Creative Business this weekend Saturday January 18 and Sunday January 19 (8 spots left at time of publishing episode)
You can become a free or paid subscriber to my weekly newsletter here - Also it now has a CLASSIFIEDS section where you can buy an ad :)
It has been so fun and beautiful to see people's businesses get little boosts
Grab the free Creative Ideation Portal to vision your projects and bring them into the world
I mention the artist Kening Zhu
Join Landscapes : A writing group for all genres
Book a 1:1 Creative Advising Session
Thank you for supporting the show by sharing this episode on social media, in your newsletter, or texting it to a friend. You can also leave a review on Apple Podcasts or give us five stars on Spotify
Podcast editing : Softer Sounds Studio
Music : Saltbreaker
Art : Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Weaving Your Own Path to Creative Success with Brandi Cheyenne Harper Jan 08, 2025

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Dear Listener
Thank you so much for tuning in to my conversation with Brandi Cheyenne Harper
Don't forget to grab the free Creative Ideation Portal : Your three day guide to visioning your projects
For more of Brandi's work :
Website
Knitting is a Love Language Newsletter
Knitting for Radical Self Care Book
Brandi on Instagram
Landscapes : A writing group for all genres, where Brandi hosts the monthly BIPOC writers circle. The whole group meets every Tue/Thu 11-1 EST and this Sunday January 12 Jacqueline Suskin is our guest teacher
Mapping Your Creative Business Jan 18 + 19 :
A year ahead planning retreat on zoom to support you in visioning each quarter of the year, designing your weeks, and dreaming up your offerings
To support Common Shapes consider becoming a paid subscriber of my weekly newsletter
Thank you to everyone who makes this show possible :
Softer Sounds Studio for editing + support
Saltbreaker for our music
and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo for our art

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Creative Energy Outside of Instagram Dec 23, 2024

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Dear listener,

Welcome to our last episode of Common Shapes for the year! We will return with new episodes every Wednesday starting January 8

In today’s episode I share a series of practices, systems, and rituals I am doing in place of using Instagram.

Make sure you grab the free Creative Ideation Portal : A three day email guide to help you vision your projects and put them out into the world.
ALL MY GUIDES :

Creative Ideation Portal
Weaving in Our Values Toolkit
Note Taking Tools + Possibilities
Daily Writing Tracker

Sublime - You can also subscribe to Sublimeon Substack - grateful to Alex Dobrenko`for folding me in

Are.na

OTHER THINGS I MENTION:

Tiego Forte’s PARA method
how a photo and video-sharing social networking service gave me my best friends, true love, a beautiful career, and made me want to die - on sale for $5!

LIST MAKING PROMPTS :

Make a list of five things you’re grateful for
Make a list of ten things you can do instead of reaching for your phone
Make a list of five friends to call in the next week
Make a list of your seventeen favorite words - hang these up
Make a list of the ten blessings social media gave you and then make a list of ten places where you can replace that

WAYS TO SUPPORT THE SHOW :

Leave a review on Apple Podcasts
Leave a five star review on Spotify

WHO MAKES THIS SHOW POSSIBLE :

Editing and support by

Softer Sounds

Podcast art by

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Music by

Saltbreaker

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Creating A New Suite of Offerings Dec 23, 2024

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In this week’s episode I bring us through both the process of creating a new suite of business offerings as well as presenting to you my very own.

I bring you through how I invented these and where I started and how I worked back from that space. A little glimpse inside of my brain.

But first : Make sure you download the free Creative Ideation Portal : A three day guide for visioning and planning your own work.

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Self Publishing, Quitting Social Media, and Alternative Biz Frameworks with Nic Antoinette Dec 23, 2024

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Welcome to another episode of Common Shapes. I am delighted today to share this interview with Nic Antoinette where we talk about doing business differently, unhooking from the loops of social media, self publishing our books, anti capitalist business frameworks, and so much more

You can find more of Nic’s work by subscribing to Wild Letters

You can check out their website here
And their hiking memoirs here
Don’t forget to download the free three day Creative Ideation Portal to vision all of your beautiful projects as well as the new Daily Writing Tracker

Thanks for listening!

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.

Business Temp Check Dec 23, 2024

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Dear listener,

SEASON THREE OF COMMON SHAPES IS UPON US

It is my absolute pleasure to be back on the microphone and in your ears. Talking about all things business, art, values, deactivating social media, systems, rituals, and practices!

Links mentioned :

Landscapes : A writing group for all genres

Creative Ideation Portal : Free three day guide to visioning your projects

Devon Price's essay about burnout

Writing The Personal : A three week class to bring the poetic, personal, and political together for essays of self discovery and service starting Dec 8
Taught by Cody Cook-Parrott with guest teachers

Sky Fusco and Fariha Róisín

If you'd like to support the show, please send it to a friend, leave a 5-star rating & review, and download the Creative Ideation Portal.