Creatively Complicated: Owning it: Traveling Creativity

Geopats: conversations with expats

English - June 21, 2020 17:21 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MB
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Welcome to the Creatively Complicated podcast, where we dive into the messiness of our creativity. Summer and Stephanie are two Americans living abroad in two different countries: Germany and China. We met via podcasting so it made sense for us to start a podcast to talk through our creative ponderings. This podcast is NOT an advice podcast: it is more of a process through the deep, murky waters of our own creative struggles and guilty successes.

In this episode Summer and Steph are both on European soil. Summer is at home in Nuremberg, Germany and Steph is traveling in Lake Como, Italy. This travel sparks off a discussion about how when we travel a significant distance AND to a different enough culture, our brains can disconnect and let go. This release can (at least for these two expats) create space for creativity to flow through us and even create a brain frenzy of ideas.

Creative terminology/ideas to emerge from this episode:

-”visa job”: the job that you keep to have paperwork to live legally in a host country BUT is not necessarily something you’re passionate in

-”brain frenzy”: energy that is a mix of excitement, anticipation and relief when you step away from your daily life. Your body relaxes so your brain goes crazy with fun ideas.

-”podconfidence” ; owning our podcast selves instead of saying “I am just ….”

Example: I am just doing a podcast about creativity.

And finally, a request from these two expats:

When someone you know leaves to go live abroad, instead of saying:

”wherever you go, there you are”

please say

“I will miss you”.

It’s way more supportive.

Thanks.

-Summer and Steph

LINKS

-Summer’s new mic: Samson Q2U