Creativity Episodes

“Whether you want to publish a book or get paid to be a writer as your job, there are so many different ways to earn money as a writer. I hope people don't immediately think, 'Oh, being a writer means you're going to be broke.' I thought that growing up, and I was scared of becoming a writer until …

“I've learned to be a lot more gentle with myself. I'm usually my own harshest critic, and with this trilogy, I really allowed myself to be proud of what I accomplished.” – J.F. Monroe

"You have to move with life, not against it." – Giovanna Silvestre

“Let's think of ourselves as emotional explorers. And we're always like that. You know, Raiders of the Lost Ark exploration because we want to have that excitement that I think education and understanding new things gives us.” – Ivana Chubbuck

“What better accomplishment could you have under your belt than being able to hand somebody a book with your name on it, saying, this is me.” – Danielle Hutchinson

“Good people make a difference in this world, and when we find good people, we need to gather them together in a community, and things beyond us will happen.” – Amy Olmedo

“Don't let fear stop you with anything you want to do.” – Dawne Christine

“Be willing to be wrong because the life that is waiting for you is yours. Live the life your soul intended.” – Rhonda Britten

“We all are living out our story. We don't all get to choose the manner in which our story begins; however, we do have the power to write what's on the pages.” – Travis Patton Sr.

“Writing is always there for you, even if life stops you from writing for a few days, weeks, or years. It's like yoga; you just have to get back on the mat.” – Sarah Seltzer

“Nurses are not heroes, we're not saints, we're not angels. We're just people trying to do a job, and that job just happens to revolve around probably the worst day in your life. So please, just be nice to your nurse.” – Jennifer A. Johnson, RN

“Every rejection gets you where you’re meant to be.” – Tuula Costelloe

"It's one of the things that people in both films and books woefully underestimate—the amount of time and effort. We can write a screenplay that's fantastic, we can write a book that's amazing, but that's just a third of it. Getting it out there to the world is a whole different thing." – Autumn Ka…

“You owe the people you can see the best you can offer because you have to not only take care of yourself but also the people around you.” – Art Bell

“The things that are most challenging are those that also help us grow and expand and experience life more richly.” – Lisa Tener

“It often takes years to understand our feelings and those reasons when at a time we already have a gut feeling about it.” – Flora Qian

"I never wanted to take my inhales for granted because, you know, of the 8 billion people on earth, there's probably about 15 who stop breathing every second. We don't know when that last exhale is going to happen; we just know that every inhale we get is a gift." – Katie B. Happyy

“I believe that if you have a mission and a passion in life, the universe will conspire in some way to help you with that.” – Melody Horrill

“If you really want change in your life, you have to do the work.” – Debbie Weiss

“When we focus and create space for possibility, it’s up to you to figure out what to do with it.” – Greg Bennick

“An uncluttered life is an abundant life, and that seems very counterintuitive. We tend to think of abundance as a lot of whatever, and therefore we clutter up our lives. But truly, when we have a life that is not cluttered, we can really live the abundant life that we were designed to live.” – Ang…

“I can't do tomorrow the same way I'm doing today.” – Becca Powers

“When you're taking on a new role as an actor, you do a lot of digging into what makes your character tick and what's not on the page that you need to know to bring that character to life. So, a lot of that translates to helping fiction authors create their own characters.” – Sarah Welch

“Failure is the number one way that I've become more successful.” – Christy Callahan