Friends, we’ve come full circle. We are home. And we've been changed. But the world back home is exactly as we left it… So how do we come home well , especially when the creative life continues to call us into new adventures over and over again? In this final episode for Season 3, Joel asks us to consider the idea of what it means to truly find Home, and to carry this with us, like a snail shell on our backs - a place of belonging within ourselves, so that with each new journey, we lean into the...
Apr 16, 2023•54 min•Season 3Ep. 56
Lesley Wirth is an American-born poet, author, and speaker, with a masters in spiritual psychology, who works to inspire women to embrace their humanity and be open to the power of their spirit. In this conversation, Lesleys shares about her own journey towards healing through the practice of listening - to her intuition, to her body, and through the power and surrender of creative flow through poetry. And along the way, becoming somewhat of a master at tapping into those beautiful, almost unexp...
Apr 12, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 55
Have you ever had a transcendent creative experience but then when you finally brought your work out into the world… it felt like a bit of a letdown? In todays episode, we’re talking through how to come back down the mountain of our creative highs and release our work into the world in a meaningful way. Yep, we’re talking marketing, and as it turns out… it’s not such a dirty word after all! Our sponsors are The Practice Co. and ACOM This podcast is hosted by Joel McKerrow & Produced by Riche...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 54
Joel speaks to Chelsea McGough - a cellist, composer, and producer based in Nashville, who’s compositions have been featured in films, television, social media and ad campaigns in the U.S. and abroad. In this conversation, Chelsea talks through losing her love for music and how she found her way back again, finally landing in a place that felt more like home. Chelsea and Joel recently performed together at Story Festival in the US, and off the back of that went on to record a fully improvised co...
Mar 12, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 53
If you’ve ever felt the pull towards two different directions within yourself or that life is just too short or not big enough to allow all the parts of you to thrive, then this just might be the episode for you. This week on the podcast, Joel speaks to singer, songwriter and musician from Melbourne band The Gentling - Emma Wyndham Chalmers. Emma shares about her relationship with creativity, and how this has changed over time as she made peace with the two “voices in her head” - or different pa...
Mar 05, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 52
In this episode, we’ve come finally to the place we’ve been journeying towards all along… The Innermost Cave. The Centre of everything. The place where we meet ourselves and humanity and God and where all creativity flows out of. Joel gets pretty philosophical as he invites us beyond the Deep Place (our individual inner-self) to the DEEP DEEP (where our inner-selves connect with the inner reality of all things). We find that at the centre of everything is both our deep longing for and fear of co...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Well, you’ve have arrived. You made it to the City Of Success and it feels glorious! …or does it? Is something missing?What is success anyway, and now that you are here, what does it look like to live authentically and genuinely in this life and still be able to give yourself to things that make you feel wonderful? In this episode, we’re building a house. YOUR house, in the City of Success. Not a mansion but a home. A refuge to dwell in and create in and welcome others into. Our sponsors are The...
Feb 12, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 50
Candace Smith is The Essence Photographer - a light seeking, photo ninja on a mission to help women come home to their bodies and see themselves as the perfectly imperfect, radiant, powerful beings that they are. Formerly an art model, Candace knows a thing or two about being on both sides of the camera. In this conversation, she shares her journey from modelling for others to becoming her own artist, and the immense power there is in allowing the beauty and essence in others to be truly seen by...
Feb 06, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 49
This week, we’re talking TRIBE. The Creative Journey was never meant to be walked alone. Like it or not - we NEED other people. So, in this episode, we name some of the different kinds of people that might intersect our paths along the way, and what this could look like as a movement towards community and belonging. Joel challenges us to truly see people and to live with the kind of empathy that allows us to be affected - that through being present to the real stories of others, we become change...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 48
In this final episode for the year, we hear from Ingrid Laguna - an award winning novelist and educator, having published a memoir and multiple childrens books. In this conversation she opens up about her love affair with creativity in all the ways it shows up for her. She talks through collaboration & building trust, to her writing process, to the terrifying joy of discovering improv theatre, how creativity has helped her process unimaginable loss and make friends with risk and failure, and...
Dec 18, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 47
This week on the podcast Joel interviews the artistic director of Clock & Spiel Productions in Sydney - Hailey McQueen. Hailey shares her story from moving to Sydney to study acting at 17, to learning to create her own opportunities in the acting world and finding her way into artistic directing, now running a professional theatre company that works with some of Australia’s best talent. Meanwhile Joel & Hailey take on an impromptu challenge to write a monologue mid podcast (!!) and then ...
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 46
When was the last time you did not have to succeed? When was the last time you did not feel guilty for doing nothing? When did you last think about why you started this creative journey in the first place? In this episode, hosted by Joel McKerrow - we enter into sanctuary; a time of slowing down, of looking inward, of remembering and reflecting and of play, without any agenda. This is indeed, the deep place, the well from which we draw our creativity out of. Our sponsors are The Practice Co. and...
Nov 27, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 45
In this episode, Joel interviews author and Words and Nerds podcast host Dani Vee who gives us the inside view of what it’s like to live with anxiety and a wildly creative mind. Dani goes deep on how she has come to make a companion out of her anxiety, how to sit with it and channel this energy into her various creative projects. Show notes: Dani Vee: https://www.wordsandnerds.com/ Our sponsors are The Practice Co. and ACOM This podcast is hosted by Joel McKerrow & Produced by Richelle Bourn...
Nov 20, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 44
This week on the podcast we launch the School For Creative Development ! An online communal learning platform combining four different creative modules, over 50 hours of audio and video content, workbooks and zoom sessions with Joel McKerrow, to inspire your art, grow your audience and blow your creative practice out of the water! As we launch this, Joel talks us through what to do when we feel we’ve landed in the desert (creatively speaking), when the inspiration has run dry, and we are barely ...
Nov 06, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Liz Milani is writer and creator of The Practice Co. In this conversation, Liz shares about her creative practice and battles with imposter syndrome, and gives us a deep dive into her story of leaving the church, deconstructing and reimagining her faith, and coming home to her creative, physical and spiritual self. Our sponsors are The Practice Co. and ACOM . This podcast is hosted by Joel McKerrow & Produced by Richelle Bourne ....
Oct 23, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 42
As humans, almost all of us have woken up at some point in our lives feeling lost and aimless, unsure of which path to take or where the path even is. And for many of us - and especially in our creative lives - the temptation to just give up at this point is real. In this episode, we find ourselves lost in the forest and Joel McKerrow shares five key tools for getting back on track and what this lostness might have to teach us along the way. Our sponsors are The Practice Co. and ACOM . This podc...
Oct 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 41
In this episode we have begun the Creative Journey. We face into the wild unknown and the foreboding blankness of the empty page and take a few tentative steps forward. Perhaps feeling like an imposter in this strange new landscape and longing for the comfort of home, and yet here we find ourselves. Joel McKerrow talks us through how we begin our journey, how we move forward and who to look to for guidance along the way. Show notes: The books referenced in this episode are: The Creative Habit, b...
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Based in North Carolina, Stephen Roach is a musician, author, podcaster and founder of The Breath & The Clay - a creative arts community exploring the intersections of art, faith & culture. In this conversation, Stephen shares about his creative process, how he sees the relationship between creativity and spirituality, seasons of transition and facing into the dark night of the soul. Show Notes: The music featured throughout this episode is by Stephen Roach’s band, Songs of Water. Find t...
Sep 18, 2022•51 min•Season 3Ep. 39
In this episode we find ourselves at the “threshold” of our creative lives, and we have a choice to make. Will we stay within the boundaries of the familiar and comfortable that we know so well or will cross over into the Great Unknown, and embark wholeheartedly on the Creative Journey? What will we take with us and what will we leave behind? We also explore why this decision can be so hard, and what it means to find ourselves in the liminal space - when one thing has ended and the next has not ...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 38
In this interview, actor, acting coach and writer Grace Naoum speaks about her creative process and approach to acting and storytelling - how she accesses the magic and how she does this with presence, vulnerability and authenticity. You can find Grace on instagram @grace_naoum_acting_coach The music in Grace’s poem is by David Andrew. Find his music on Spotify...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 37
In this episode we explore the Call to Adventure. The inciting incidents and patterns of synchronicity that have brought us to this place in our creative journeys, of leaving our comfort behind for the hope of something more. Anna McGahan (Anna’s story) - annamcgahan.com/
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 36
In this first episode of Season 3 Joel welcomes us to the Creative Journey inviting us for this whole season to step out on a new path. In this episode he guides us in exploring where we are at in our creative lives and acknowledging the parts of us that may have become too comfortable making a home in the “shallows”.
Aug 21, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Snuck in between season 2 and season 3 Joel McKerrow shares a bunch of SUPER exciting things happening that you really need to know about... So check them all out...
Jul 12, 2022•20 min•Ep. 34
Back in 2019 at the GreenBelt festival in the UK Joel interviewed hip hop dancer, choreographer, activist and educator Amirah Sackett about the intersection of her dance and her Islamic faith. Check out her work at- https://www.amirahsackett.com
Aug 15, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This episode of the podcast is an interview with Laura Lindsay and covers things like the Royal Commission on Child Abuse in religious organisations, IVF and miscarriage and the role of creativity to bring healing in these realities. It is a weighty episode, but one about things that need to be spoken about. This is not one you want to listen to with young children. You can Laura's safe-guarding work at https://glasshousesafeguarding.com Music in this episode by Taylor Leonhardt- https://www.tay...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Joel interviews artist, actor and writer Sabrina Lloyd about how she sees creative success having moved from Hollywood stardom to travelling the world to living on an island and taking up painting. www.sabrinalloyd.com https://www.instagram.com/sabrina.lloyd_ STORY COURSE- www.joelmckerroweducation.com Music on todays episode mostly by Taylor Leonhardt....
Jun 20, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Joel interviews singer/songwriter Colleen O'Connell about creativity whilst parenting two toddlers and the intentionality it requires. All music in this episode by Colleen O'Connell- https://colleenoconnellmusic.com https://www.instagram.com/colleenoconnellmusic
May 10, 2021•58 min•Season 2Ep. 30
The third in the HUMAN enneagram series, a poem for all the achievers out there. www.joelmckerrow.com/human Music by Colleen O'Connell- https://colleenoconnellmusic.com
May 06, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 29
The second in the HUMAN series from Joel McKerrow. www.joelmckerrow.com/human MUSIC on human:two:heavy by MEENA SHAMALY- http://www.meenashamaly.com
May 04, 2021•6 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Joel McKerrow and Richelle Bourne start from the blank page and attempt to write a whole poem/song together by the end of this episode. Talk about creative risk. Check out more of Joel and Richelles work together including their latest collaboration HERE The music from todays episode is from RICHELLE BOURNE .
Apr 21, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 27
