Art is the New Wall Street
We were sold a specific version of success. Get the degree. Climb the ladder. Hit the milestones. For artists and creatives, that plan usually comes with a quiet cost: the slow shrinking of the thing that makes you you.
Art is the New Wall Street is a podcast hosted by poet and creative director, Morgan Short for creatives who are done making their art fit around their life and are ready to build their life around their art. Every month, Morgan talks with musicians, writers, photographers, designers, dancers, and others who made that shift. Honest conversations about what it takes and what becomes possible when you do.
The show covers creative identity, creative process, imposter syndrome, leaving inherited ideas of success behind, and what it actually looks like to build a more fulfilling life.
Art is the New Wall Street
Poetry, Healing, and Awakening with Felicia Clark
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Important note: This episode includes conversation about trauma, depression, suicide, and substance use. Please take care of yourself. Listen cautiously or consider skipping this one if these subjects are triggering for you.
Art is often an outlet for healing. For digital nomad, Felicia Clark, poetry was her medicine of choice.
Felicia joins Art is the New Wall Street to talk about her debut poetry collection, Awake: Poetry for the Healing. Together, we explore what it means to be awake, notice synchronicities, write through pain, and use creativity as a form of healing. Felicia reads multiple poems from her book on air and shares how The Artist’s Way, sobriety, and radical self-acceptance shaped her healing journey and subsequent spiritual awakening.
In this episode we talk about:
- Being awake to generational cycles and toxic patterns
- Obsessive writes: the themes that haunt your creative work and following them
- Foster care and the mysterious letter A
- Sobriety, nomad life, and rebuilding creative confidence
- Pets as lifelines (hi, Luna Moon)
- Boundaries, mirrors, and the friends who make up a support squad
- Manifestation as a creative practice
- The Artist’s Way, Big Magic, and other creative works worth checking out
This one is for the artists who are healing, the writers who are listening, and the souls who are learning to see their story as sacred.
Felicia’s creative affirmations:
I am willing to create. I am willing to be of service through my creativity. I, Felicia Clark, am a brilliant and prolific writer, worthy of being a published author.
Connect with Felicia (and buy her book!):
Creative works mentioned in this episode:
- It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Becoming A Published Therapist: Bill O’ Hanlon
- Big Magic by Elizabeth GIlbert
- Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
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- Learn more about host and producer, Morgan Short
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Keep creating, keep making art. Your art is a gift to you and to the world.
