Cultivating Purpose Through Podcasting: Reflections on Creativity, Community, and Connection | Ep. 79

The deep connection between creativity and spirituality illuminates how our creative pursuits bring us closest to divinity. When we create - through art, words, or ideas - we align with our true essence and purpose.

• National Minority Health Month wellness tip: cultivate a supportive community
• Creativity connects us directly to spirit and our divine nature
• The podcast evolved from simple entertainment to a platform for exploring creativity and alignment
• Being authentic to our calling naturally attracts the right community and opportunities
• Creative expression takes countless forms - from visual art and writing to podcasting and beyond
• Our creativity mirrors the divine process of creation described in many spiritual traditions

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Related Episodes:

• Timeless Wisdom for Modern Creatives: A Conversation with Vanessa Aldrich | Ep. 52
• Visionary Storytelling: Building Community Through Podcasting with Talib Jasir | Ep. 70

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Theme Music:
She No Dull Beat by Nana Kwabena
Festivities in Belize by RAGE Productions

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Wellness Tip
• 3:35 Creativity Connected to Spirit
• 7:43 Evolution of Podcast Purpose
• 10:59 Gratitude and Closing Thoughts

Transcript

Aliya Cheyanne: 1:22

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Aliya Cheyanne: 1:49

April is National Minority Health Month, so, before we jump into today's topic, I want to share a quick wellness tip that aligns with the episode, and that is cultivate a support network. Just as I've learned from guests and we've learned together, I encourage you to also seek a supportive community for your growth. Support yourself with people who uplift you friends, family, mentors, creative collaborators or spiritual communities. I wanted to use this episode to reflect on lessons I've learned from guests on the show and my personal journey. I've gained so many creative insights. I've gained so many big insights about creativity, about purpose and alignment. In doing this show, I've had the opportunity to sit down with some of the incredible people that I admire and that I look up to in so many ways and who have helped to shape my worldview in so many ways with their brilliance, with their art, with the way they think, with the way they live, with the way they speak, and I'm so grateful for that. One of the biggest insights about creativity that I've gained in going on this journey and doing this podcast is that creativity and creation are deeply connected to spirit. Depending on your beliefs, there are a multitude of stories and philosophies and mythologies and religions about how this world came to be. The one that I was raised with was that God created the world. God used the power of spoken word to create light. God used the power of earth and breath to create the first people. Now, depending on what you believe, that story may vary and I'm not here to debate that or argue about that. But the common thread in so many of these stories or sacred texts, as one of our previous guests, vanessa Aldrich, has shared, is that the human spirit is creative by nature. As she often says, if God is the creator and I am creative, what am I? And that is a deep belief and truth that I hold.

Aliya Cheyanne: 4:49

I think that our society requires so much of us that it's hard for everyone to just pour into their creativity the way that they deserve to. Some people have more flexibility to do that than others, but I think one of the way that they deserve to. Some people have more flexibility to do that than others, but I think one of the things that bring us closest to spirit, one of the things that bring us closest to divinity, to God by that name or any other, is when we are being creative, when we are using our words and our breath and our hands to shape, to mold and to create new worlds and new realities, and we do that in the ways that we know how and that we can. For some people that's creating art that could be visual art. Some people that's creating art that could be visual art, paintings or sculptures in a museum. It could be a show or a film. It could be audio art, like this podcast. It could be writing stories or songs or poems. It could look like any form of shaping and molding and birthing a new idea and, of course, the ultimate form that humans know how to do is to create new life. But I think my biggest insight about creativity is that when we are in the energy of creativity, we are most connected to spirit, we are most connected to the divine and we are most connected to our true essence. And so many things can spark creativity right so many creatives that I've even interviewed on this podcast talk about their love of nature, their love of traveling, their love of being in the world Everyone from Talib Jasir to Samantha Amazon to Brittany Demestine to LaVon Briggs and so many more.

Aliya Cheyanne: 6:45

In doing this podcast, my purpose for the show has evolved. When I started, it was just an outlet for myself, my sister and my best friend to talk and kiki and pick up something new, especially during lockdown. What the purpose of the show has evolved to is something totally different. I am so committed and clear to this conversation around creativity because it is unending. I am so committed and clear to this conversation about alignment because alignment varies by season, but we know when we are. Alignment may vary by season, but we know when we're in alignment with our true nature and our desires and our hopes and our mission.

Aliya Cheyanne: 7:40

My purpose for the show was just entertainment in the beginning, and it's become so much deeper than that. To me, it's an opportunity to build and connect with community. It's an opportunity to connect with people who are also aligned with the spirit of creativity and who have a burning desire to chart their own paths and shape this world in their own image. And in doing this show, alignment has shown up in unexpected ways. Sometimes that's connecting with people out of the blue who may be in this space too, or connecting with them because we're clear on the purposes of our own show and the things we want to talk about.

Aliya Cheyanne: 8:23

But as I've gotten deeper into creativity with this show, it has also allowed me to connect with other creatives in significant ways and to be a part of and to be part of a community of creatives where I feel supported, where I'm inspired, where I can learn, where I can share, where I can get feedback about my craft. And that wouldn't have been possible had I not been authentic to what I felt called to do in this season with this show. I say all that to say that I am so grateful for this prolific community. I am so grateful that we are all stewards of creativity, I am so grateful that we are all committed to pouring into our purpose, in whatever form that looks like in this season of our lives, and I'm so grateful for all of the lessons and the incredible insight to come. So with that, I'd love to ask you what have you learned from this show about creativity, about yourself, from me or from our guests?

Aliya Cheyanne: 9:36

Be sure to let me know in a review or in a text to the show and, after tapping into this week's wellness tip, let me know how it impacts you. Thank you so much for tuning in to another short but sweet episode. If this episode resonated with you, please be sure to tell a friend. To tell a friend and to rate and review the show wherever you're listening to it right now. And to rate and review the show wherever you're listening to it right now. Thank you for lending me your time, your energy and your ears. I appreciate you so much for being here. Have a great rest of your day or night and I'll catch you on the next episode. Bye.