Ready to make the creative projects you dream of? This is a podcast for all creative dreamers out there, both experienced and beginners. I’m Elin Lööw, a creative coach and writer, and I’m your guide in the depths of the creative process and in building a creative life that is good on the inside.
This is the last episode of the season! I take you behind the scenes of what I’m going to be up to this summer, as well as how my spring went with shifting my job/business balance and starting my Substack. Also, I’m sharing which creative project that will finally get the attention it deserves. ✨Read my Substack The Good Creative Life 🌻 Get the Seasonal Planning Guide 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Time for a Q&A! In this episode, I answer four questions about having a healthy relationship with social media, how I started my creative business, where I’d live if not in Sweden, and how to balance work, creativity, freedom and income needs. ✨Read my Substack The Good Creative Life 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Creatives are passionate. We often have plenty of ideas for projects, and so we keep adding and adding to our creative lives until they’re messy and overwhelming - and we get the urge to burn things down. In this episode, I talk about why we need this cycle and embrace letting go of beloved creative projects now and then. ✨Read my Substack The Good Creative Life 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Life will always get in the way sometimes. It’s just what life does! So how do we manage when it happens? How can we design creative lives that can handle life getting in the way? How can feel okay about it and get back quickly? That’s what this episode is about! ✨Read my Substack The Good Creative Life 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
I’m just coming out of two months of launches, change and starting new things, and it has me reflecting about launch mode and transitioning back into the regular everyday. In this episode, I talk about how bigger projects require creative energy, how to manage that, the flipside of the calm everyday creative life and finding the balance between the two. ✨Read my Substack The Good Creative Life 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
The podcast is back after a little mid season break and while I’ve been gone, I’ve started a Substack! I’m so incredibly excited about this, and in this episode I share what I see as the return of blogging, my behind the scenes process of starting this project and share my tips for what to keep in mind when starting a new creative projects. ✨Welcome to my Substack The Good Creative Life ! 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
When we’re dreaming of a creative project, we’re often dreaming of the end point. The finished creation, the change we might crave. We dream less on the messy journey of getting there, but it’s in that journey that life - and our creative lives - happen! In this episode, I talk about what to remember when you’re navigating the messy journey. ✨Come join us in my group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loo...
It’s not easy to figure out what you actually want in your creative life. What projects you want to make, what your style is, who you want to be as a creative - and how you want to do it all. So in this episode, I’m diving into how you can explore your creative direction, both in a bigger scale and in this season of your creative life. ✨Come join us in my group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
What do you need for a good creative life? Today I share what I consider the top three most important ingredients for a good creative life. This is based on all the creatives I’ve worked with as well as my own journey. The trends I’ve seen for the challenges creatives face, and what helps us the most. ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
The season of fresh energy and creative inspiration is finally starting to arrive! For me, that means it’s time for reflecting about winter and make my spring plans. In this episode, I talk about seasonal planning, focus areas, what my winter was like and what my plans are for spring! 🌱My seasonal planning guide Four Seasons of Creative Work ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Two years have passed since I went self-employed. It has been both wonderful and hard, and now I’ve decided to shift back to having a job and running my creative business on the side. In this episode, I go into the reasons behind my choice, and why I believe side-businesses can be the best option for creatives. 📖 Read my blog post There And Back Again: The End of the Self-Employed Chapter 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: eli...
What is the difference between creating art and creating content? Are you putting content expectations on your art? Are you allowing enough creative freedom for art? In this episode, I dive into the different needs and roles of art and content, how we can balance them and find the right spot on the wide spectrum between art and marketing. 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Continuing on from last week’s episode on inspiration, I’m back from Amsterdam and filled with new experiences and ideas to fuel my creative habits. In this episode, I talk about what we do with inspiration when we get it, and the delicate balance between habits and inspiration. 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
How’s your inspiration doing here in the end stretch of winter? While waiting for the spring energy to rush in and flood our minds with ideas, our creative lives can be a little uninspired this time of year. So in this episode, I share my tips for finding inspiration, motivation and energy when those things are not already in abundance. 📖 Read the blog post about creative ecosystems . 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinloo...
Here we go! 2023 is fully started, the podcast is back, and it’s a good time to get going with your creative projects. In this episode, I share five tips for working on your dream project this year. I also share what I’m intending to do to work on my novel more in 2023. 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Happy New Year! I’m popping in with another little bonus episode with a reading of my 2023 yearly intentions blog post. This year’s word is a silly and mischievous one, and my goals look different than they have in the past few years. It took a while, but now I can see clearly what I want from 2023, and I want FUN. 📖 Read the 2023 intentions on my blog 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
I’m popping in with a little bonus episode with a reading of my 2022 review blog post. It has been a year that didn’t quite turn out as I planned, and that has involved one crisis, one rebirth and a whole lot of growing up. 📖 Read the 2022 review on my blog 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
This episode is the last one of the first season, and I’m answering your questions! I talk about simplifying creative business, finding slow on Instagram, balancing client work and your own creative work, managing overwhelm and switching to a creative mindset, and how I’ve found podcasting in relation to Youtube. Thank you for listening to this first season! It’s been a pleasure to make. 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinl...
What is a good creative life for you? That’s an incredibly important question to ask yourself. Not what you should want or what other people want, but what your good creative life looks like. In this episode, I dive into three areas to explore to build your own best creative life. ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity is open for new members until November 28. Come join us! 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
I’ve been planning my creative work seasonally for a long time now, and I absolutely love it. A couple of years ago, I surveyed creatives about how each season affected them, and I developed a seasonal planning guide. In this episode, I dive into why I believe so much in creating and planning seasonally, and what the seasonal cycle looks like. ✨My group coaching community Companions In Creativity is open for new members until November 28. Come join us! 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻We...
However much we care about our creative projects, it’s not always easy to make space for them in our lives. In solo projects, we rely a lot on our own motivation and dedication, and it can be difficult to keep making your creativity a priority. In this episode, I share my best tips if you want to make more space for creativity in your life, and how I’ve managed to work on my novel alongside running a creative business and now working a part-time job as well. ✨My group coaching community Companio...
Balance is one of my core values as a human, writer, business owner and coach. It’s something I’ve explored for myself and it’s something I help creatives embrace through my work. In this episode, I dig into five aspects of building a balanced creative life, and share what to think about if you also crave creating in a calmer, slower way. 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! ✨Join Companions In Creativity 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
It’s now been 7 weeks since I shifted my creative coaching business to run part-time alongside a content writer job. I’ve been learning a lot about what I want this balance to look like, what’s important to me in this season of my creative journey and also what isn’t. In this episode I take you behind the scenes to share my experience so far! ✨Work with me in The Dream Project 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Dream projects are impactful projects, much beyond the practical outcome and possible external success. These are projects that hone our skills, form our creative identities and shape our creative lives. In this episode, I tell the story of how my dream projects have changed my life in both big and small ways. ✨Work with me in The Dream Project 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow...
Here’s the thing. You can have the best idea, the best plans and the best habits, but if fear gets in the way and you don’t dare to move forward with your dream project… then you’re not going to get very far. This is a really big source of creative block, and in this episode I dive into the murky waters of fear. I talk about the most common fears I see in my coaching clients, and how you can navigate them and dare to work on your dream project. ✨Work with me in The Dream Project 💌 Get your own ...
Now we’re really getting into it - in this episode, I talk about about moving from the idea stage of your dream project, and into actually creating it. This is a tricky part of the process, where all our doubts might rise up, and it’s of course also an essential part of the process. I talk about how to make that transition, where to start and what to think about as you start creating. ✨Work with me in The Dream Project 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: ...
Continuing on with the topic of dream projects, in this episode I dive into the first part: the idea stage. This stage is often confusing and messy, yet wonderful and important. Since dream projects often represent a start or a shift, understanding your idea and figuring out your direction is essential. I share my best insights and tips for developing your idea and getting through this stage. 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow ✨ Work with me...
There is one specific type of creative project that I believe is more important than all the rest: the dream projects. They are the projects we care about the most, that matter most for our creative journey, and that also challenge us the most. In this episode, I dive into what dream projects are like, how they shape us as creatives, and what to think about when pursuing one. 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow ✨ Work with me...
I’m so incredibly excited to say welcome to Inside Creativity! This is a podcast for creatives who want to make the projects they dream of, and build a creative life that is good on the inside. It’s been in my thoughts for a long time, and now I’m so glad to invite you in. Welcome! 💌 Get your own free Project Journal ! 💻Website: elinloow.com 👋 Instagram: @elin.loow ✨ Work with me...
