"Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity". Sharing your creativity with the world requires the freedom to be messy, the permission to get it wrong, the space and time to create, and the self-confidence to be vulnerable. In this episode, we discuss the physical and emotional blocks of being an artist when you're a woman and a mother.

In this bare-all episode, I speak to actors Sarah* and Magda* about the challenges they have had to overcome to express themselves creatively. Sarah was a talented actor from a young age (even getting accepted to the prestigious BRIT School), but with three young children, her creative dreams fell to the way-side. Meanwhile, growing up in Poland, the dream of becoming an actor didn't come to Magda until later in life, when she had worked through internal trauma and blocks.

Timestamps:

00:00 - 07:29 "To be a happy mum you've got to have something for yourself"

07:20 - 14:00 "Being an artist and being a mum you have to be healthy and work on your traumas"

13:00 - 20:30 Overcoming financial blocks to being creative

21:00 - 23:00 Working through trauma so that you can feel worthy of your creative dreams

23:00 - 26:00 "I clawed my way out of this fire pit" - reconnecting to creativity after losing yourself

26:00 - 30:00 Navigating partners that don't support your creative dreams

30:00 - 37:00 You can't tell your children to follow your dreams if you don't follow your own - healing the mother wound

37:00 "Just f*cking do it" - advice for female creatives