Creativity & imposter syndrome with Elise
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Our Guest today is Elise Aabakken
\\nIn this episode we talk about Elises first course on skillshare, through to her transition into coaching and of course about her inner critic - Chad.
\\nWhere you can find Elise:
\\nLink to instagram: https://instagram.com/elise.aabakken?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
\\nwebsite: where you can find classes and original artwork:
\\n\\nWhere you can find me:
\\nmy instagram - https://www.instagram.com/going_for_something/
\\nmy website - https://lauraferrara.co.uk/
\\nthe lucky dip newsletter - https://forms.aweber.com/form/23/282056123.htm
\\nWhat we talked about in this episode:
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- joining the artist community after lurking for a year! \\n
- how Elise came to create her first skillshare course (that ended up being featured on the artists page!) \\n
- questioning all or nothing thinking to find evidence she had ignored \\n
- imposter syndrome, \\u2018everyone else knows what they are doing and i\\u2019m the only one who doesnt\\u2019 & questioning this. \\n
- seeing the value in \\u2018my own way of explaining things\\u2019 and \\u2018being me\\u2019 vs being an expert \\n
- discrediting her own initial success as \\u2018luck\\u2019 or down to factor other than herself \\n
- remembering that the first time is always going to be the hardest.. \\n
- creating a new IG account to allow Elise to share her work without the judgement of current friends. \\n
- keeping things out of the hands of an inner critic and not allowing other people to decide if its \\u2018good enough\\u2019 \\n
- feedback and constructive criticism - both requested and unsolicited and how to process vulnerable feelings around this, including sitting in her own wisdom \\n
- the pressure to produce a lot and always share \\u2018new\\u2019 stuff \\n
- checking in with your own wisdom and opinions about things! \\n
- celebrating herself & celebrating as a practice \\n
- transferring her mindset from art and creativity practices into life \\n
- the humans behind the numbers \\n
- her failure \\n
- feeling like she\\u2019s doing the \\u2018wrong thing\\u2019 and am somehow going to be punished for something \\n
- the fear of appearing stupid \\n
- making commitments when she feels excited and then not following through on them \\n
- feeling behind \\n
- Elise\\u2019s own beliefs that she uncovered during her coach training \\n
- asking for help \\n
- journalling - \\u2018then what\\u2019 \\n
- finding her \\u201cnice\\u201d as a coach and working on her first coaching package \\n
- getting feedback even when things are unfinished \\n
- attitudes towards money \\n
- setting goals \\n
- \\u201cChad\\u201d - Elise\\u2019s inner critic and how he came to be named Chad \\n
- activism and joy \\n