About 15 years into my podcasting journey I recorded an episode entitled, A Virtual Tour Of My Podcasting Studio. I published it 9 years ago today, January 25, 2015. In 2019 I published an update, Welcome Inside The Yellow Studio (This Is How I Podcast Now). Since then I’ve tried to keep a page on my personal website updated – Inside The Yellow Studio.
The technology has changed monumentally since I began almost 24 years ago. Things have gotten so much easier – and so much more refined. As much as I enjoyed those early years when all of us were figuring it out, today is better. Today’s show is less about the operational part of podcasting though and it’s more about the metaphor of The Yellow Studio – creating, publishing and sharing. It’s about the broadcasting of stories, ideas, observations and insights. It’s about a journey into creativity. Well, it’s about a journey deeper into creativity. I won’t bore you with the earliest memories of the journey which began in childhood engaged in all sort of acts of imagination.
As much as I love to learn, which requires mounds of consuming (reading, listening, observing), I’m more in love with creativity, crafting something from mostly nothing. Starting with a spark. Sometimes small. Sometimes not. A burning ember sometimes. A bolt of lightning at other times.
Creativity takes practice. As in, you have to do it. Also, as in you have to do it repeatedly to improve.
Bouts of creativity against not being creative at all have prevailed my entire life. As a little boy playing with an impressive Matchbox car collection to laying in the yard looking up through the pines at the clouds wondering what to do next. Enthusiastic hours spent building a fort in the woods or a treehouse in the backyard coupled with lethargic hours spent telling ourselves we had nothing to do. Boredom always best fought off by engaging the gears of our imagination so we could create hours of delight often doing something we’d not done before. Or doing things we’d done a million times before. And ready to do it again one more time because we loved it so.
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What To Do When Enthusiasm Wanes
The Blurry Lines of Life
Be A Buffalo: Stop Hiding From Your Problems
Coasting On Memories
The Courage To Take A Swing
Re’s Retreat, The Yellow Studio Version 3.0 & Our Encore Chapter
You Are Not A Tree
When Your Son Has Become A Better Man Than You (Happy 42nd Birthday To My Son)
Leaning Toward Less
Goodbye To The Yellow Studio Version 2.0
People Love Hearing How Right They Are
How Many Cigarettes A Day Is Your Loneliness?
Turning Life Upside Down Is Good, When One Side Is Done
Purge, Simplify & Persist: The High Value of Sacrifice
Old Men, Old Love & Old Life
Are You Prepared For Luck?
57 Things To Sell When You’re Ready To Retire/Declutter/Simplify/Something Else
Capitalism, Not Consumption
Hooking Up With Our Dreams
Cash Flowing Life & Taking Some Chips Off The Table
Create your
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It is Free
The Modern West
Every L Podcast
The Empty Rooms of Gorski Manor
This is Love
Things Fell Apart
Uncanny