Create Out Loud With Jennifer Louden

Season 2 Announcement and Trailer!

Hey Creatives!
We are SO excited to be launching season 2 of Create Out Loud and our first episode drops this Tuesday with NYT Bestselling Author Oliver Burkeman. We have TONS of incredible conversations in the can, and we promise a season that's bigger, better, and bolder as we continue to create out loud!
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

20 | Jen’s Biggest ”A-Ha” Creativity Breakthroughs From Season 1

As much as YOU feel like you've learned a lot from season 1 of Create Out Loud, I promise you, Jen has learned JUST as much. In this very special episode, Jen's producer Jeff asks her some of HIS burning questions about Jen's biggest creative breakthroughs, and we through it back to some amazing moments with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Rissi Palmer, and Angeline Boulley.
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

19 | Poet Kate Baer On Using Your Critics To Fuel Your Art

Bestselling poet Kate Baer has a beautifully truthful relationship with motherhood, with social media, with internet trolls, and with being a woman. It's wrestling with all of this that inspires her poetry, poetry women love (and some men are threatened by) because she tells the truth.
Listen to how Kate uses her life, and her critics, to know her truth and develop her craft. It's incredibly brave. Among other topics, Jen and Kate also discuss:
- How social media complicates creativity but also lead partially to Kate's new poetry book
- Why "a-ha moments" may be a myth
- How to not get a trapped in a certain medium
- What lead her to write her newest book (hint: it wasn't what I thought!)
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

18 | Ashley Sumner On Letting Roadblocks fuel rather than derail Your Creativity

Shedding identities has been at the center of Ashley Sumner's creative journey and her company Quilt, and a good thing as she had to change her company's entire mission at the start of the pandemic.
Ashley is the founder of a social media community Quilt dedicate to connection and self-care, creating a unique bridge between Jen's early work and Ashley's company Quilt. Jen and Ashley are both passionate about using story and connection to help women face the climate crisis without being crushed by despair.
Jen and Ashley also discuss:
- How to follow your signature themes
- What it means to shed an identity and why it's been crucial for Ashely
- How to quiet our souls to listen to our desires even when we are freaked out
- How Ashley's biggest professional setback led her to Quilt
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

17 | Poet Maggie Smith: How To Be Honest In Your Creativity

For bestselling poet and author Maggie Smith, sometimes the secret behind making her poetry interesting, unexpected, and surprising comes to "making it weirder." Maggie's unapologetic, unabashed approach to her work is the reason her work has been read by everyone from Meryl Streep to Dr. Jill Biden.
Maggie hits on something essential about successful creativity. How do we be truly honest in our work? Sometimes it means admitting that we DON'T want to write every day. Sometimes it means making sure you don't miss that therapy appointment. Being honest with yourself is the only way you can be certain to be honest in your work.
In this interview, Maggie and Jen also discuss:
- What if feels like to have written a poem that goes viral when there is a mass shooting or other horror
- How to incorporate our everyday experiences into our writing
- The art of paying attention
- How to unlock a good metaphor
- How Maggie navigated her divorce in public and how it became her best-selling book Keep Moving
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

16 | Novelist Laurie Frankel: Can you Love Putting your Work out As Much As Creating It?

Isn't it wonderful to hear widely celebrated NYT's best-selling novelists talk about shitty first drafts? Laurie's acclaimed new bestseller One Two Three "wrote hard," for her, and that's OK! For Laurie, the joy comes in the process, whether it's easy, hard, smooth, bumpy, or annoying - that complicated cocktail is what makes the creative process beautiful.
And Laurie gets candid about the other side: PUBLISHING. Sometimes "Creating Out Loud," isn't our first instinct, but it's all apart of what we do as artists. In this conversation, Jen and Laurie also discuss:
- Laurie's passion for creative inclusion
- Fiction v. non-fiction storytelling
- The "Prestige" of "literature v. fiction"
- How and why we should study our craft
- Navigating the world of a transgender child
- Being a story savant
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

15 | Poet Tamkio Beyer On Creative Play And Freedom

Tamiko Beyer's acclaimed poetry collection Last Days, was assembled from a collection of poetry written over the course of decade, which speaks to Tamiko's sense of open-minded freedom and patience when it comes to work. For Tamiko, the creative process is all about leaving space for play and imagination. By relieving the pressure and intensity of "generating a product" when it comes to our work, we actually create more space to tell the truth and generate our best, most authentic work.
In this conversation, we also discuss:
- How creative playfulness can enact social change
- How capitalism has corrupted the creative process
- How to re-think book launches
- Craft advice for writing poetry
- How Tamiko's multi-language household informs her work
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

14 | Maggie Shipstead: The Creative Freedom To Get It Wrong... and Right!

Maggie Shipstead is an NYT-Bestselling author of three novels - Seating Arrangements, Astonish Me, and Great Circle (on many best-of lists for 2021) and her work has won a laundry list of awards. She's also written essays and travel articles like her piece for Modern Love. And like all of us, Maggie has to begin again, face the blank page, and watch projects die.
Maggie's newest novel "Great Circle" follows pilot Marian Graves who will take to the sky and circumnavigate the globe at all costs - and isn't that so much like the creative process?
In this interview, we discuss:
- How to make choices in our creative work
- Enjoying the experience of creating
- What tools and software Maggie uses to write
- The "money" conversation
- The places Maggie loves to write
- How Maggie's travels have inspired her work
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

13 | Susan Piver: Open Your Heart To Your Creative Yearnings

All of us get caught up in the shoulds and I can't of our creative life, but Susan Piver has learned, through decades of meditation and practice, to disregard these inner voices. Susan regards all of her creative endeavors as art projects, a chance to get her hands in the clay of creativity and create something beautiful. Susan has learned to open her heart to the creative yearnings and she's passionate about helping other creatives approach their own work with the same level of curiosity and generosity.
In this episode, we also discuss:
- How to remove ourselves from the expectations of our audience
- How we can use our creativity to teach others
- Why sometimes it's the right thing to hide from others
- How to give ourselves permission to evolve our creative tastes and passions
-How Susan creates while dealing with chronic pain
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support

12 | Lisa Cron: Using Story To Elevate Your Creativity And Change The World

Lisa cron is tired of staying quiet. As a bestselling author and widely celebrated story coach, Lisa has worked as a story consultant for decades with best-selling authors, major Hollywood studios, and taught at NYU and UCLA. And now, she's raising her story voice to help us all.
Lisa's philosophies around story are deeply researched truths. She knows that understanding the mechanics of storytelling will help us become the best creatives we can be, but will also help us change the world, by elevating our critical thinking and learning to decode the false stories that culture and the patriarchy try to snare us with.
We also discuss:
- How signature themes define our source material
- How to find the courage to tell our truth in our art and activism
- Why facts don't change minds
- the science behind effective story-telling
Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:
help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jennifer-louden/support