When You Want To Reignite Your Creative Fire or You Feel Like You've Lost Your Why

In this episode of the Pleasurepreneur podcast, host Regan Figg takes listeners on a journey toward reigniting their creative fires in business through pleasure and authentic connection. 

Regan shares personal experiences, including a surprise birthday getaway that inspired her, and provides actionable strategies to reclaim creativity and passion. The episode covers the importance of creating space for solitude, engaging in non-business activities, being daring with creative experiments, reconnecting to the original 'why,' and following energy rather than strict schedules. 

Regan emphasises that creativity thrives in environments of pleasure and relaxation, offering listeners the tools to reset their energy, reconnect with their vision, and transform their business trajectory.

00:00 Welcome to the Pleasure Preneur Podcast
00:49 A Surprise Birthday Weekend
02:23 Balancing Work and Family
02:59 Recognizing the Need for Pleasure and Space
04:36 Dealing with Creative Blocks
10:12 Reigniting Your Creative Fire
19:33 Creating Space for Creativity
24:37 Creating Space for Creativity
25:03 Engage in Non-Business Activities
27:16 Embrace Playfulness and Daring
30:34 Reconnect with Your Why
32:51 Follow Your Energy, Not Your Calendar
36:01 The Benefits of Reigniting Your Creative Fire
40:49 Join the In-Person Immersion

Resources / Links Mentioned:

• Make It a Masterpiece – In-Person Immersion Join me for a 1- or 2-day in-person experience (Sept 5–6, South Coast NSW) to reset your energy, reconnect to your vision, and reignite your creative fire. Reserve your seat here.
• Listen to my conversation with Lucy from Rewild Your Business — an inspiring chat on creativity, intuition, and mushroom foraging in business. Tune in here.
   

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Pleasurepreneur podcast. This podcast will help you create what you desire in your business with pleasure. Whether that be calling in your ideal clients, making more money, or creating a balanced business life blend, I'm your host. Regan Fig pleasure and business coach, published author of a Mother's Pleasure wife and mama to three little Wildlings.

However, you're choosing to listen to this podcast. Ask yourself, how can I make this more pleasurable and do just that? I acknowledge the custodians of the land on which this podcast is recorded and produced, the Wadi Wadi people of Doland. Now let's proceed with pleasure.

Hello, hello and welcome back to the podcast. I'm just like slowly easing back into this week and it's Thursday. I got a [00:01:00] surprise long weekend for my birthday, organised by my hubby and two of my best friends, and I was just so clever and so delightful, and. It was just so great to have a few days with my besties and all the kids.

We had, I think eight kids between the three families and there was op shopping and walks in the sun. It rained half the time though, but that was cool. We had, you know, 2:00 PM puzzles and cocktails and it was just so great to see all the kids playing together. And, just such a lovely, a lovely, lovely surprise.

I have been with my husband Jake for 20 years this year. And every year around July, because my birthday's in August, I'm on the 13th, and so every year I'm like, is this the year I get my surprise birthday party? Like I'm reminding him that I want a surprise birthday party sometimes even before July and.

I was like, oh my gosh, it's been 20 years. It's getting to the point now where I'm gonna be creating my own [00:02:00] Facebook group message. That would be titled Regan's Surprise birthday Party with Jake and my best friends, and then just like leaving it to them and exiting the the chat. Right. So anyway, I got my surprise better than a surprise birthday party.

It was like four days long. It was so great down the coast, like just very relaxed. Oh, it was lovely. so that has been my absolute highlight and yes, it is now Thursday and I'm only just really kind of getting back into some work stuff for this week. side note, Mondays and Tuesdays are. Just like hanging with my babe days.

it's her last year before she starts school next year she's my youngest, which would mean all the kids are at school next year. So I'm just really enjoying the days when she's not at preschool. And so, yeah, I really only work Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for a few hours each day. That's when I have my client calls and my mastermind calls and actually really get stuck in.

So here we are, podcasting. I'm going to [00:03:00] share today something that might be affecting you now or have in the past, or potentially is coming in the future. And this is gonna be really helpful because it's gonna help you see actually how you can change this for yourself in a way that's actually really supportive.

And hence why I started to talk about my long weekend away. it was so great because I have come back with such a. I, I don't wanna say like refreshed perspective as such, but I'm feeling like more lit up. I'm feeling inspired. I'm feeling like, ooh, like I can't wait to jump in and record this podcast episode.

, If you hear any clicking, by the way, it's my heater right next to me. I've got a mug of tea and my heater right next to me. 'cause I was like, how can I make this more pleasurable? I'm a bit cold. So this is what we're doing. So anyway, we're gonna dive into why it's actually really important to have.

Some space and time to do the things that you love and to do the things that bring you pleasure and to be [00:04:00] with people who nourish you and to have some space and some slowing down time and to be in nature, et cetera. So we'll touch on that later in the episode. For now, we're actually gonna start to dive into what, like why we might need to.

Do those things. Why we might need to give ourselves space and like when is the right time? Like what might be some symptoms that we're experiencing that are actually indicating that we need more pleasure, that we need more space, we need to be in nature more. We need to be doing something that's fun and that's nourishing for our soul.

So let's talk about something that's not super pleasurable. Yeah. Like if you are feeling flat. Those experiences perhaps in your business where you are feeling flat, where your content feels forced, where perhaps you open up your notes app or your laptop or your journal or, or whatever it might be, and like there just seems like there's nothing.

Yeah. [00:05:00] Everything that you come up with feels a little bit like, meh, already done it, or like I've said it before, or it doesn't even really matter, or like, you don't even really care about it. And then perhaps you avoid showing up or you pull back from your business. maybe you look at other people online who seem lit up and perhaps in flow, or you feel like the spark that you used to have is gone.

You know, maybe you started your business from such a place of passion and desire, and now it just feels like, um, like a job or it just feels like meh or flat or, you know what I mean? So it's not just about business either, you know, like it messes with our whole energy. So you might, if you're in this experience, if you're having this kind of like a flat experience, you start second guessing perhaps the ideas that you're having.

Maybe you doubt whether what you're offering is even good anymore. Maybe you can't even just, [00:06:00] you can't even be bothered talking about it, you know? Maybe you wonder if people are bored of you because you feel bored of you, you know, or maybe you feel bored of what you are talking about, or what you're selling or how you're showing up.

and the motivation that you used to have isn't there, you know, the clarity that once felt so strong, like starts slipping. Maybe you feel really unsure, you know, you might be questioning your direction, your decisions, your dreams, and if we're being like really honest, sometimes quitting starts to feel more appealing.

Then kind of like trudging through the, I wanna say like the muck of the mayor, you know, like trudging through like getting through this like flat spot, getting through this like feeling of. Uninspired and like uncreative and like feeling like you've got no content to share, et cetera. You know, sometimes it's like, oh gosh, if I just had a job to show up to and they would pay me some money, like I could do that in this kind of an energy.[00:07:00] 

Yeah. because of, of course, like forcing yourself through it, it doesn't feel aligned, you know? And it feels hard. It does. And when I say trudging and this muck. It feels like you are dragging yourself through like mud, you know? but you know, staying stuck in, it doesn't feel sustainable either. Like, we don't want to stay in it, it, we know it doesn't feel good, this isn't like a, just a low engagement problem.

It's not a, you know, just work harder problem. It's not so much a, just like make it perfect problem. It's a, you are disconnected from your creative fire problem and that disconnection, it starts to touch everything. Yeah. Like your business, as I said, like it starts to feel like a job. Your confidence will drop, you stop making offers or like you pull back, you stop putting yourself out there, you stop dreaming bigger and coming up with like, I don't wanna say, coming [00:08:00] up with I with new ideas.

The ideas can still be flowing, but you don't feel inspired by them. You know, it almost feels like you can't feel anything at all. You are not lit up. Definitely not lit up. you are just trying, trying to keep it all going. And I often say to my clients, you know, in a funny kind of way, like, don't be a try hard.

when you are just like, oh my God, I'm just trying, I'm trying. I'm like, stop trying. Do the thing, like in the sense of your language that you are using to yourself when you're saying like, oh, I'm trying to grow my business. I'm trying to start a business, I'm trying to sign more clients.

You are telling the universe that you are not quite there yet. Yeah. So if you notice yourself, this is just like a little side step. If you notice yourself being like, oh, I'm just, I'm trying to do this and I'm trying like just. Remove that from your mind, from your vocabulary. [00:09:00] The next step up from that might be, I am willing to see how I'm gonna call in my next clients, or I'm currently calling in my next client.

Maybe it's not like I have a million new clients. That might feel like too much of a, a fast step to, for you to actually believe your body will call bullshit. And it's not gonna be a belief that actually lands in your body. It won't even spur for you to take action. but you know, just notice if you are trying, don't be such a try hard, like let yourself acknowledge that you are already on the path.

Okay, back to back to the episode,

so if you are in that space right now, I want you to know I see you. You know, like it doesn't mean anything's wrong with you. It means you are due for a reconnection. Your creative fire hasn't gone out. It is just stifled or just like buried under pressure or perfectionism or you know, all the noise that's really pulled you away from what lights you up.

It's the same as like if you're [00:10:00] actually, like, if you have an actual fire and you try and cover it up, it's going to go out. You know, it's like being buried under pressure. So we want to. Really, in this episode, we're gonna talk about how to reignite that fire because when you do, everything starts to move again.

You know,

your creativity isn't a luxury, you know, it's not just like a nice to have or when you've earned it or when like. Like when the admin's done or the house is quiet, or your to-do list is clear, your creativity is actually your life force. And I always say like it's connected to your sexual energy, right?

Your life force, your sexual energy, your creativity, it is all connected. It's the thing that makes your business magnetic, you know? It makes you magnetic. It is what has your message really land in people's hearts. It's what has people feel that emotion. If you've got life force running through your content, people can feel that, [00:11:00] right?

Your or your offers become irresistible. It is the difference between, you know, just ticking the boxes and showing up and showing up, feeling lit up and turned on, and like fully in your magic. What can happen when we start to notice this like feeling of flatness, noticing this, low energy, this lack of inspiration, this real lack of creative fire is that we can start to panic a little bit and we kind of think like something's going on, the ship is sinking and so I just need to do more.

I need to put out more content. I just need to talk to more people and I just need to put out more offers and maybe I need more discounts. Or like we start to go into this bit of a like fre, phrenic, frenetic energy. You know, this really like panicky type of energy and that is scarcity energy right there, you know?

So that is not gonna be [00:12:00] helpful for creativity either. That is not gonna be helpful for reigniting that fire. It's not gonna be helpful for reigniting that. Life force within us because what we're actually doing is we are turning up the dial on stress. Yeah. So pressure and stress are not things that are helpful for reigniting Our creative fire, and I see this a lot with my clients, who, if they come to me and they are feeling like they're feeling flat or they've reached a real plateau or they, you know, they don't.

They, they had believed in perhaps an offer previously and now it just feels a bit blah. And maybe before they felt really engaged and aligned with what they're talking about in their content and what they're sharing in their work. And now it just feels a little bit meh. what can happen is this idea to sit down and force it out of myself, you know, they're thinking like, if I just sit down and concentrate harder and focus more and force [00:13:00] myself to be more motivated.

Just write out like this content or write out a podcast episode or create some more reels or write out a whole new offer. It will be easier or it will like help me take those steps and what, what happens is this sitting ourselves down and forcing ourselves to do the thing that adds more pressure, especially if we're then also in that bit of a panicky experience because.

Again, more stress, more pressure. And it reminds me of, something that a mentor of mine in the past, Haley Carr, has said before, I might've even shared this on the podcast before, and she had said, it's like forcing yourself to push out a poo that's not ready. And for something, for an analogy that's a little less gross, you know, I think about when, you've been pregnant before.

And you know, maybe you've reached your due date or you're approaching your due date and maybe you are feeling over it [00:14:00] and people are perhaps pressuring you to make decisions about having this baby. Or they're even just pressuring you going, oh my gosh, is the baby here yet? Imagine if you then just was like, you know what?

I'm gonna make this happen and I'm just gonna try and like push this baby out. I'm not in labor. I've not had any kind of signs that I am going into labor, but I'm just gonna like sit and push or stand and push or what, whatever position you wanna be in to get this baby out. Like that kind of sounds really absurd.

Right. You know, and that's the same with creativity. You know, it's like you have to allow it to come when it's ready, but there are things that we can do to allow it to come easier. So I'm thinking back to like the analogy of, you know, in being in labor, clearly we have to wait, but also there's things that we can do to say, be in the right environment so that when we do go into labor, it allows it to re progress a little more easily.

You know, we can [00:15:00] have support that we trust, we can have, like, there's a number of things that we can actually do. And so in this episode, we're gonna look at our creative fire like reigniting our creative fire. Not by trying to do the things that actually go against that ignition, such as like sitting yourself down and forcing yourself to be more creative.

We are gonna look at ways that we can do it that will be helpful for us, that will actually work, that will feel so much more pleasurable

Because creativity, it doesn't respond to, as I said, pressure or stress or overwhelm or like the 40 tabs open in your brain or like literally in your computer, right? It does need tending. It needs space, it needs air and rest and beauty and desire and pleasure.

Yeah, because your creative fire. It's just like any other fire, right? Like without fuel, it dims without breath. It [00:16:00] struggles with the right care. It's gonna roar back to life. And when it does, things will start to move again. You know, you'll feel as though you'll, you've come out of that flat plane, your ideas will flow, words will land, you'll wanna show up.

You stop waiting for inspiration, and you start like being the inspiration. and you just feel, you feel it in your body. It's like this new energy buzzing through your body. So if you have been feeling disconnected or stuck or like everything has just turned to like, I don't know, mush or quicksand or some kind of like muck, you know, some kind of heaviness, you can absolutely get your fire back.

The spark isn't gone. It just needs to be re-lit, right? So what is actually getting in the way? Now we talked about pressure and stress and like chances are you're probably not out of ideas. What it actually is is that you are out of connection. You are probably feeling tired or low energy. You've been showing up [00:17:00] for algorithms instead of actual humans.

you are creating from force, not from pleasure. I remember like that. Just sit down and push out the poo, push out the baby. you are probably overthinking like every word or every real or every decision, like you've kind of lost that connection with yourself. you are in your head more than you're in your body, and chances are, like if you're a mama or you've got a million other responsibilities on your plate, probably feels like there's very little space for the part of you that just wants to play and explore and create.

Without a deadline attached. So we know that creativity doesn't thrive under pressure or under stress, or like by forcing it, It thrives under pleasure. You don't need a new strategy. You need space. You don't need to work harder. You need to remember what lights you up.

Yeah. You've likely been outsourcing your creativity to [00:18:00] what's trending, what is high converting in quotations or like what you think will work, what you, what someone's told you will work. You're like probably looking at how do I make this right? Finding some other right way outside of you instead of trusting what actually wants to come through you.

Yeah, but remember, like the fire is still there. It's just waiting for you to come back to it. It's waiting for you to like breathe some more air into it and set some like, I don't, I don't wanna say gasoline. That sounds very aggressive. You know what I mean? It's there. We can absolutely reignite it. So how do we do that?

Regan, I hear you ask, this is the whole point of the podcast, right?

How do you actually start to reconnect to that creative spark? How do you actually start to feel it again? How do you tend to it? How do you cultivate more of that creativity?

Here are some things I'm gonna invite you to play with to help you answer those questions and to [00:19:00] have you feeling way more lit up, way more inspired. Way more creative and really like connected back to yourself where you are the power source, you are the person, the message comes through. You are the person who whose intuition and ideas and desires are known to you and you are honoring them as opposed to doing all these things outside of you that you think you need to do because they're more right than what you.

Desire and what you believe to be true for yourself. Yeah. So first of all, I want you to think about space, like having some space. Now this doesn't look like, although I don't, um, discourage it, this doesn't look like having to go on a weekend retreat, on your own to like sit and come up with some ideas.

This could literally just be like. Really connecting with the intention of space [00:20:00] when you take a shower, like how many times? I don't know about you, but like how many times I have come up with some really great ideas or remembered important things or put together important pieces when I've just been taking a shower, like I'm not set at my desk.

I'm not trying to force myself to do the thing. I am like just. Responding to life, I'm giving myself some space to not have to do anything other than like clean myself. but just to be, Now, this also includes some solitude, having space in your brain and around yourself.

This might look like having your morning cup. Just outside on your own for five minutes. This might look like going for a walk without putting any podcasts or music or anything in your ears. Now this one's quite tricky for me. I'm like, my brain loves stimulation all the time. I even remember, I've seen a couple of psychics and they've both been like, they've both been like.

No one can get in there. [00:21:00] There's just so much going on. I'm like, yeah, I know. Welcome. but yeah, like if I am feeling like, oh my God, like this is starting to feel like a bit of a job, this is feeling a bit flat for me. This doesn't feel delicious and tantalizing. They're my cues to know that I just need a little bit of space, a little bit of solitude.

I'll go for a surf. I'll like, as I said, like have a shower. In my book I talked about when you take a shower, that that's like a recalibration. I talk about recalibration stations and maybe this is something that you might wanna weave into your life. It's so easy and you don't have to add anything into your life.

It's simply just. Intentionally creating what I call some recalibration stations throughout your day, throughout your activities of daily living. So one is like in the shower, you're gonna take a shower anyway, let's make it intentional where you're just like, ah, I'm just like, for this instance of cultivating more creativity, I am just, you know, letting the water wash over me [00:22:00] and like just letting that I'm tending to my creative fire.

I'm giving myself space. And I'm just gonna take a few breaths. You know, like you're gonna still be washing yourself. You're not gonna need any extra time for it. That could also be like during the day when you are getting in your car. I remember I would al always, when I was getting in and out of my car with my three little kids, those were my times for recalibration.

Like, I'm in the seat, I'm in the car, I'm here Anyway, I'm just gonna intentionally for a few moments, recalibrate that doesn't need to look like I'm closing my eyes and I'm meditating. That's just like me reconnecting with the feel of my body and my seat and the feel of my, the steering wheel in my hands.

Maybe, you know, seeing something beautiful outside of the window, maybe smelling or tasting my yummy coffee. Just like intentionally recalibrating my nervous system and again, like through the lens of cultivating creativity, like, ha, like I'm, I'm really just like cleansing my palette, [00:23:00] awaiting for the next juicy taste of creativity to come along.

You know? So making it really intentional, Just giving yourself space. And considering the environment that you're in as well, you might like to change your space. This was me yesterday. I was like so super productive.

I had one of those days where I just like started plotting away on my laptop at the kitchen table, which would normally be a ludicrous idea, like seven o'clock in the morning when everyone's up doing breakfast and whatever. I got so much done in such a small amount of time because I wanted to, because I had that creative fire, because I was like, yeah, let's do this.

I got so much done for my in-person immersion. I got the website created, I got the PayPal button sorted, I got the graphics done. anyway, so I then was quite productive and then I thought the productive streak would con continue on all day, and it didn't really. So I got myself up and I went for a walk in the sunshine.

So you might like to change your space. You don't actually have [00:24:00] to be sitting. I don't know. Maybe you do, but I'm gonna guess that you don't actually have to be sitting stuck behind a desk for hours upon hours a day. I bet there's some work that you can do out in the sunshine or at a coffee shop, or just in a different area of your house.

Maybe it's on the lounge with a blankie and a cup of tea. Like change your space. The novelty of that is going to access that reward system in your brain because it feels a little bit more enjoyable, and that's gonna spark some of that motivation too. So number one is all about space. Give yourself space.

Give yourself some solitude. Maybe that's space in your calendar. Maybe it's just space in your brain and in your ears. Maybe it's just certain like intentional moments of space throughout your day. Or maybe it is like changing. The, the space that you're in. Yeah. Getting out of the usual environments that perhaps are tied to productivity for you.

You know, inspiration, loves movement. [00:25:00] Fire. Like when you think of fire, it's always moving, right? Number two, create something or consume something that's not for your business. I remember once I was asked on a podcast about like. Having myself, like healing myself, recovering, from perinatal mood disorders.

And so they're like, okay, like, so what sort of like books or podcasts do you recommend? And it was so left of field, but I was like, well, I'm actually currently really enjoying the podcast. My dad wrote a porno. If you have, this was like maybe like 2020 era. No, earlier than that. It was earlier than that when I had perinatal mood disorders.

But. Like, it was not about personal growth, it was not about recovery from depression. It was not about like building my business. It was something that made me laugh, you know? It was something that was so like, I wanna say creative or something. So like left of field, something that was so unpredictable, that really just kind of took me out of the [00:26:00] space of like recovery and healing and, you know, so.

Number two, I want you to create or consume something that's not for your business. Now, I do this too. Whenever I'm in a launch phase, whenever I'm launching the Mastermind, I am focusing on something that is not just about launching the Mastermind. It's got nothing to do with my business. it's got nothing to do with the actual launch itself or like content or whatever it is, something that is pleasurable, like a pleasurable project.

So. The last time it was for me, I was actually learning how to do like skipping choreography, like with a skipping robe. and the two launches before that, I was really focusing on surfing. so for you that might look like dancing, it might look like painting or poetry or photography. It might look like, I think of, Lucy from Rewild, your business, who was on the podcast not so long ago.

Great episode. If you haven't listened to it, go and listen to it. I'll link it in the show notes. , But she also talked about her last [00:27:00] launch that she did. She became obsessed with like foraging mushrooms. Right. Make something just because it feels good. Yeah. Or like explore something or do something just because it feels good.

not because it's going to lead to sales. Yeah. Number three, this is one of my favorite things, like, be fucking cheeky. Like be daring, like dare yourself. Remember like the game of truth or dare, like dare yourself. Like what would I create if I didn't need it to be any good? What would I create? If I'll give you some other kind of versions of that question, like what would I create if, it wasn't the most.

Logical strategy. What would I create if I had a whole different like persona and I just let myself do whatever the heck I wanted to do? Yeah. Like what would you create if it didn't need to be good or if it didn't need to be part of a perfect strategy? Yeah. I talked about this in my imposter syndrome episode, [00:28:00] um, but.

Part of that answer for this question that I'll often ask myself, is me creating and offering my in-person immersion. And I was like, you know what? I wanna create. I haven't seen anything else out there like it. I want it to be like a day spa for yourself and your business. Like we're gonna do like a whole kind of like a makeover for your business with the morning masterclass and get you really inspired and really excited and really connected to that big juicy vision that you've got.

And then we're gonna have a beautiful long lunch with incredible women doing the same thing. And then the afternoon we're gonna have like a sauna and a spa, and. Like mingle in the champagne garden. And then we get to have a whole day two, which is like coffee and breakfast at a local cafe with everyone who's for the VIP day two.

And then we're gonna put some strategy together, like some poolside, you know, private, intimate mastermind strategy type session poolside again, [00:29:00] like let's make it fun and enjoyable. So for me it's like. What would I create if it wasn't meant to be part of this perfect strategy or, you know, anything that I've ever done before?

And that was my answer. So you might have something. I bet like listening to this, I bet you already have something that you are like, oh, I really wanna play with this kind of thing. But like, oh, I don't know if it's part of the strategy. What you desire is the strategy. Remember, like our desires reveal the strategy for us, and our job is not to know.

Like all the next steps and our job to is not to know what the purpose of the desire is. Our job is to just know what that desire is and let ourselves play with that. Right? So here for point number three for my invitation for you to play with Number three. And again, you don't have to do, actually not again, I haven't said it yet, but you do not have to do all of these.

You can find one or two that feel fun for you and like weave them in. So the third point here was like really asking yourself like, what would I [00:30:00] create if I didn't need it to be good? Now, this doesn't necessarily need to be an in-person immersion or even an offering. It could simply be your next Instagram reel.

It could be your next free offering, and it could be a really simple, like a PDF or something. What could I create if it didn't have to be perfect, if it didn't have to be really good, if it didn't have to be part of the most, you know, aligned, perfected strategy. Let yourself play, as I said before, let it be messy.

Let it be fun. Yeah, let yourself enjoy yourself. Okay, number four. Reconnect with your why. Yeah. I want you to like take yourself back to the version of you who started your business. You know, what was she craving?

What was lighting her up? What did she wanna say? Why was she like, oh my God, everybody needs to hear this. You know? What perhaps was your experience that had led you to then now doing this work? [00:31:00] Chances are, it's probably something that's quite emotional and something that really, um, reconnects you with yourself and your emotions and your body, right?

Remember, this is where creativity is not so much in our mind. It's like in our body. It's in our life force. It's in, yeah. It's in that part of us that is emotion and feminine and moving and fluid. Yeah, it's not in our mind, it's not in goal setting. It's not in constantly achieving and accelerating. So like reconnect with your original Why, and maybe you haven't revisited this in a long time, but remember like at the start of the episode, and I was talking about how perhaps at the start of your business, you probably felt like you had this creative fire, you had this passion, you had this excitement.

Maybe it's been lost somewhere along the way. Chances are is because you've probably had a long gap between your why. You know, you've gotten into the [00:32:00] weeds and into the weeds or the weeds. I'm not sure what that phrase is. Anyway, you get what I'm trying to say. You are getting into the day to day of like doing the thing, running the business, helping your clients, growing, doing perhaps the content, et cetera.

You know, so. I want you to reconnect with your original why. Maybe that's through a journal. Maybe you love to do voice memos, so however, is most enjoyable for you. However, feels like there is less resistance and most ease for you do it that way. Maybe it's writing, maybe it's talking to a peer or a friend.

Maybe it is leaving me a DM and letting me know, maybe it is journaling, et cetera. You get the idea, leaving yourself a voice memo, whatever it might be. Like. I want you to reconnect with your why. Like, tune into the emotion of it. Like, let's come back into our body, back into our emotions, back into our heart, back to our soul, right?

And lastly, I want you to follow your energy and not your calendar. And [00:33:00] immediately, I know for most of you, you're probably gonna have this internal freak out, like, oh my God. But then like, everything is just gonna go to shit. And like, like it will all just blow up. And, and I'm not talking, I'm not talking about like, we do this forever.

You know, I'm talking about like, you know, and having this be a, a, an experiment for you. Having it be like coming from a place of curiosity, making it. You know, a bit of an investigation, you know, like noticing what you are forcing yourself to do because you think you should, and letting your next steps be guided by desire, by what feels expansive, by what feels enjoyable, what feels like fun, what feels a bit cheeky, not what feels like obligation.

Obligation. I swear it, it is like the dampener of all that is good in business and maybe life too, you know? it would be like if you're in relationship with [00:34:00] someone, and you kind of realize you weren't that into them, but then you're like forcing yourself to like, go on dates with them or sleep with them or like move in with them or like do like a breakfast, lunch, and dinner with them.

Oh, like, I can't imagine immediately my energy is like I'm sliding down my chair. You know, like, oh, like don't, we don't wanna like act out of obligation. Our business doesn't want that from us. Our business wants to romanticize us and for us to romanticize our business and to be cheeky and have fun and to play and enjoy each other.

And yeah, of course, like contribute to the commitment. But not out of obligation. So notice where you're forcing things just because you think you should and get curious about what it might look like for you to actually follow your energy not like your calendar or your to-do list. Yeah. So as I said, you do not need to go and do all of these right now.

In fact, probably trying to do all of them might might [00:35:00] add to some stress. Chick chip, what am I saying? Oh my gosh. Pick one. Choose one. Start there. Like start with one tiny spark and then the rest will catch on. And like let your desire lead. So out of those five things, what feels most enjoyable and desirable for you?

Like start there, desire. Is what will lead us to what brings us pleasure. Remember, pleasure creates that reward system in our brain. We seek pleasure and avoid pain. So if we wanna, you know, generate more of this creative fire, we start with creating one little spark and we create more of that fire, more of that light and that movement from that momentum of the desire and the pleasure, Start with one tiny spark and the rest will catch on. I want you to tell me what you're playing with. Send me a DM or share it on your stories and tag me. I would love to see what it is that you're doing to cultivate more of that creativity and really [00:36:00] reignite your creative spark.

Yeah, so here's what to expect when you have. Really kind of reignited that fire again, really reignited that creativity. Fire. This one is so obvious and I think part of the reason why we don't take action to cultivate more of our creativity so quickly is because we resist this. We start having fun, we start having more pleasure, right?

A lot of my work is not just about let's have bubble bath and then like business becomes more enjoyable. It's about like what is actually stopping you from letting yourself or from allowing yourself to actually enjoy this experience. Why do you think you are not worthy of pleasure? Why do you think you have to earn it?

Why do you think you have to struggle and suffer and it has to be hard in order for it to be valuable or valid? You know? So the first thing that you'll probably notice. When you have really reignited that creative fire is you're [00:37:00] gonna start having fun again. You're gonna start enjoying your business again.

what else? Your content, like your content isn't just gonna sound better to you, but it's like gonna feel better. Like it's gonna come out in a way that just feels like so good. I talk about the, I talk about the garden hose analogy with my clients when it comes to creativity.

and my garden hose analogy is when we are feeling stifled and we are feeling stuck with our creativity, what we will notice is our content does not feel very good when we start to let that creativity out, but it's a little bit like. The yucky like hose water. Water are, are you a, are you a nineties kid in Australia?

Like did you used to have to drink from the the back garden hose? 'cause you weren't allowed in the house all day. Right. The first part of the water that comes outta the hose, especially in summer, is like hot and like manky and it tastes gross. But then eventually you get to the water that is actually like, not as [00:38:00] gross, it's just as hydrating as the first stuff.

But there is a difference. Our creativity is like that. You know, when we feel really flat and like we're kind of just pushing bits out. It's like the very start of that hose. but when we start to really generate more of that creativity, it's like we're turning the tap up on that hose and we're flushing out all of the gross hot hose water.

Our content gets so much better. It just like then flows out of us. Your creativity is a hose and not a bucket, right? Like let it flow. The more you like allow it to flow, and the more you do the things that really, nurture and tend to that creativity and that creative spark, reigniting, the more is gonna flow out of that hose, right?

So your content isn't gonna just like sound or read better to others. It's actually gonna feel better to you. And they're gonna feel that, right. what else? You are going to notice a complete shift in your energy. Other people are gonna notice it too. And they will be drawn to [00:39:00] it and drawn by it. Right?

This is talking about, now we're starting to get into the conversation around magnetism. Yeah. So I'm not gonna, I know like a 40 minutes or so. So we're gonna slow it. We're gonna wrap it up soon. but yeah, you'll notice a huge change in your energy. I remember I talked about creativity being like life force, energy being like sexual energy inspiration, right?

So clearly when you have really started to reignite that fire, you're gonna notice that your energy shift, other people will be drawn to it. You'll be bolder, you'll be clearer, and you'll be excited. You know, you'll be excited to show up again and to share. Your life and your work with people you know, you'll be excited to talk about what it is you're offering.

and that is what helps your business. That's what helps you from the inside as well. your business will start to feel like you again. Your business will start to feel like your art. It will start to feel like your expression, like something that is uniquely beautifully unapologetically You.

Right. And that is when the magic [00:40:00] happens. That's when clients say yes faster. That is when like clients start to just slide into your dms or people come out the woodwork. You're like, what? that's when your content starts to flow easily. Remember the, the manky hose analogy? that is when you stop questioning yourself and you start trusting yourself again.

That stuff's powerful. That's, that gives you a sense of confidence and conviction, right? Everything starts to flow so much better because you are finally lit up. So if you are listening to this and you are thinking like, Ooh, yes, I wanna feel like that again. I wanna not try and push out a baby that's not ready or not be drinking like manky, like hose water.

If you wanna feel like inspired and excited and have this confidence and conviction and be bolder and clearer. You know, to have fun in your business. Again, I want you to come and join me for my in-person immersion in September. It is like literally a few weeks away. This is a full day or [00:41:00] VIP two day experience. Designed to reset your energy, designed to reconnect you to your vision. That really juicy big, like perhaps unimaginable vision and reignite that creative fire for real, like for your business, for your life, so that you feel alive and inspired and really clear on what's next when you leave.

Yeah, think spa vibes and strategy. Coaching and embodiment and connection with other women who are also visionaries, who are also leaders, who also are desiring this spark of excitement and energy and creativity in their bodies and in their businesses, right? Like this is the space for you to be fully you again, to reconnect with you and your why and your business and what you desire, and what brings you pleasure and what you want to [00:42:00] come.

If you are ready to remember what it feels like to be on fire for your work, to trust yourself again and to walk out with a clear direction for your business and your life like this, is it in a world of like ai, twins and chat, GPT, this and everything, like let's reconnect with real people in real life and really connect with our visions and what would be.

So enjoyable for us and our businesses, right? This is where it all clicks into place. It is not just about more ideas, it's about becoming the woman who trusts her creativity again. So I will have links for you in the show notes, or you can DM me the word immersion or just like DM me with like, Hey, let's do this because that would be so fun.

Um, and I'll share all the details with you. So. It is called make it a masterpiece because it'll, it's all about making your next chapter in your business and your life a masterpiece. And I'm thinking, masterpiece. I'm not thinking [00:43:00] anybody else's. masterpiece. I'm thinking you are uniquely expressively, unapologetically, uniquely, did I say that are yours?

You know, like completely unique to you. So let's make your next chapter a masterpiece. Take a look at the show notes and let me know in the dms, number one, if you wanna come to the immersion. And number two, what it is that you are gonna be playing with out of those five invitations of what you can play with.

So remember number one was all about space. You know, giving yourself space or changing your space. Number two. Creating or consuming something that's not for your business. Ideally, something that you enjoy that brings you pleasure, that makes you laugh. Number three, ask yourself like, what would I create if it didn't have to be the perfect strategy, if it didn't need to be like so fucking amazing.

Number four, reconnect with your original. Why reconnect with that? Why that, that, emotion, that connection, that experience. And [00:44:00] lastly, follow your energy, not your calendar. Not the shoulds, not the to-dos. Look like for you. Okay. I'm wrapping it up now. Thank you so much for being here. I love you so much.

Bye for now.