All the episodes I've devoted to understanding creativity and the writing process—along with my favorite books on the topic.
Jul 10, 2026
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What Makes Us Whole (Susan Cain)
Listen now (56 min) | “I think we all have these stories, you know, whether they come through bereavements or betrayals or, or whatever, we, we all have these losses..."
Pulling the Thread by Elise Loehnen • Elise Loehnen
Unblocking the Creative Self (Julia Cameron)
Listen now (51 min) | “Are you doing something that brings you joy? Are you doing something that brings you fulfillment? Do you take yourself seriously..."
Doing Beautiful Things (Richard Christiansen)
Listen now (50 mins) | "I think there's something to be said, but just like the velocity of doing a builder becomes a builder by building a baker, becomes a baker by baking..."
On Cultivating Creativity and Abundance (Richard Christiansen)
Listen now (58 mins) | “I'm grateful for seasons. I'm so happy that there can be a winter and there can be a spring and there can be a summer, that it can't always be summer, can't always be..."
How Story Can Heal (Akiva Goldsman)
Listen now (50 mins) | “I think what's interesting about healing, psychological healing, is there's always a narrative that helps. So sometimes when you go to therapy, and you tell a story..."
On Collaborating With Ourselves (Alexandra Grant)
Listen now (58 min) | “Now I'm making something that I didn't imagine. It's not going like I imagined, but it's going. And then when you finish the Object, Thing, Book, then it has the power to...
Building the House of Knowledge (Joy Harjo)
Listen now (51 min) | “Humanity is messy, each of us starts with ourselves, it's horribly messy and then multiply that times millions. And that's an incredible, lovely mess."
Does Love Require Complete Acceptance? (Jedidiah Jenkins)
Listen now (54 mins) | “Nature, the universe, speaks in metaphor, and one of its truest things is paradox, is holding two things that are both true at once. I remember laying in bed..."
When Love Feels Unbearable (Anne Lamott)
Listen now (45 mins) | “You want to find yourself? Give. We're not hungry for what we're not getting. We're hungry for what we're not giving. And then at the same time, you watch this old pattern..."
Challenging the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Elizabeth Lesser)
Listen now (54 min) | “The obviousness of something that has been with us forever and must change, is often the most painful part..."
So You Want to Write a Book? (Monthly Solo)
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Wintering with Our Feelings (Katherine May)
Listen now (46 mins) | "We might see wintering as this defined phase where we are struggling, but I wanted to talk about being in contact with our emotions on an everyday basis..."
Falling in Love with the World (Katherine May)
Listen now (62 mins) | “When I'd gone off and got lost in the woods and I walked for hours and I just couldn't find my way back out of the woods, there was this moment when I stopped..."
A Fully Sensed Life (Gretchen Rubin)
Listen now (56 mins) | “So one of the things I explored in life in Life in Five Senses was the value of boredom. Because when you're bored and when your mind is just kind of running free and..."
When It's Time to Go (Joy Sullivan)
Listen now (53 mins) | “What is that instinct that might be asking me to do something really unadvisable or radical or leap outside the bounds of my own life? And that's the space by which I think..."
Igniting Creativity (Ozan Varol)
Listen now (58 mins) | “Ideas don't arrive with a bang. There is no parade. The big thing never screams that it's a big thing. The big thing actually, at first, looks quite small, but..."
Finding the Sacred Pause (Jennifer Rudolph Walsh)
Listen now (48 mins) | “I didn't wanna be still, I had to be still, but I wanted more than anything to continue being a human doing. And the universe was insisting..."
The Best Books About Creativity & Writing
Whether you’re trying to get your creativity flowing in general (The Artist’s Way), are contemplating writing a book (The Art of Memoir, Bird by Bird), or are contending with writer’s block and resistance (Do the Work), some antidotes await.