The Unlikely Artist gives you permission to stop settling for a life and career you don’t love. You’re an intelligent, accomplished, soul-searching, curious, creative and passionate human being. This podcast will help you master the skills you need to create a more powerful, purposeful and personally fulfilled life. The truth is you’re not stuck, no matter what choices you’ve made or how tied down you feel. This podcast will show you how to create the freedom you need to become who you want and the slow, easy steps to make it happen. Best of all, you won’t need to leave your job or take big risks. Each week, join former international tax lawyer, Heather Kerr, who left the law to become an artist and coach. Heather’s leading a life she loves now. And you can too. No giant leaps are necessary. Each week in this podcast, Heather will share one simple thing you can do to start creating the life you want. Join The Unlikely Artist podcast every week and Heather will help you expand your world.
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episode 130: Little Acts of Kindness | UA130
Little acts of kindness are like little acts of magic. They lighten our moods, tone down our cynicism, reduce our pessimism, and make us feel less judgmental about others and ourselves.
The tiniest things we do can make a huge difference to someone else. When we intentionally extend our goodwill to another person, they can feel it. We might be the only live person they interact with that day...
episode 129: Discovering What You Like | UA129
We’re so consumed with just getting “it” done and moving on to the next thing that many of us have become completely disconnected from knowing what we like.
We think that what we like isn’t important. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Knowing what you like can help you create a life that feels richer and gives you an overall greater sense of wellbeing. Iit can help you make the best decisions about the steps you want to take next...
episode 128: Bravery and the Risk of Changing | UA128
Many of us think we’re not brave enough to make the changes we desire or want. Our overly dramatic, fear-based brains tell us we might possibly die if we do that. So we remain in jobs, relationships, geographies or lifestyles that no longer suit us.
In this episode, I discuss four categories of mistakes we make in the way we think about the risks and benefits of change that keep us stuck where we are...
episode 127: An Intentional Life | UA127
A decision to live intentionally is a choice you can make at any time that will affect the quality and richness of your life.
Too often we forget how much agency we have in our own lives. In our 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, we can find ourselves feeling rigidly contained by decisions we made early on. We doggedly stick to what we decided years ago and fail to understand our ability to make new choices more attuned with who we are now...
episode 126: How Contrast Makes Your Life Better | UA126
Contrast makes our lives feel more energetic, more vibrant, more alive. Knowing that can point us in some useful directions. I discuss four of them here.
DISCOVER WHO YOU ARE
If you’re not leading the life you want, you can build the mindset, emotional and intuitive skills to change that. I use my experience as a lawyer, business leader, artist and coach to help my clients discover who they are and live the life they desire...
episode 125: A Cool Way to Release Your Self Critic | UA125
I learned something so easy and profound last weekend when I attended a creativity retreat taught by Rob Bell and Elizabeth Gilbert at Omega Institute that I simply had to share it with you.
Pretty much everyone I know has a relentless self critic inside their heads. We think self criticism is what helps us improve. Instead it leads, at its worst, to self-loathing and, at its best, to inaction...
episode 124: How to Deal with Rejection | UA124
This episode is about what we make rejection mean and how we can deal with it more usefully when it surfaces.
Rejection can result from our misdiagnosis of an experience or situation. Or it can actually be real, in the sense that someone else doesn’t like something we’ve done or said or the work we’ve produced.
In either case, rejection doesn’t feel good, especially when we make it mean something terrible about us or our prospects...
episode 123: A Garden Tour and the Uniqueness of You | UA123
Last weekend, a gardening group in Prince Edward County where I live generously opened their homes and gardens for us to experience.
I walked away from the tour with a different result than I’d expected – not so much a list of plants or ideas I might use in my own garden, but a beautiful reminder of the enormous diversity and uniqueness of human creative expression, interest, preference and focus, of the very different things that cause each on of us to feel joyful, alive and connected...
episode 122: The Practice of Savouring | UA122
Today I share a healing practice I use when I’m stressed about what might happen in the future or about something that’s already happened. The focus of this practice is savouring. Savouring happens when you experience something with great enjoyment or delight and you’re fully into that sensory experience.
In this episode, I discuss how to develop a habit of savouring to increase your overall sense of wellbeing and enhance your creativity...
episode 121: When Other People Upset You | UA121
You might have noticed that when you’re feeling angry, judgemental, hurt, resentful or annoyed, quite often another person is involved. You blame your feeling on something that person has said or done you don’t like, or on something they haven’t said or done you wish they would.
In this episode, I share two techniques you can use when other people upset you, especially when your upset is sticking around...