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b'\\u201cWhose story was I living?\\u201d\\n- BLU\\n\\nHey, fellow earthlings! Welcome back to ONKEN RADIO (previously NION Radio), the podcast where we explore the body, mind, and soul of the creative entrepreneur. It\\u2019s my goal to help you take your creativity, business, and life to the next level. I\\u2019m so glad you\\u2019re joining me on this journey!\\n\\nAs a creative person, I believe it\\u2019s essential to integrate creativity into every part of your life \\u2014 mind, body, spirit, business, and anything else you can think of! That kind of creative alchemy is what I live and work for, and I want to inspire you to do the same.\\n\\nToday, I\\u2019ve got an extra special guest for you. She\\u2019s a personal creative hero of mine, and her art and mission to bring beauty to the world has massively inspired me in my own career as a photographer and creative entrepreneur.\\xa0\\n\\nHer name is BLU, and she\\u2019s here today to teach you how to deeply listen and carve out your own unique path in this world. Here\\u2019s a little preview:\\n\\u201cThe more people living from their heart, living from that gift, and the more people sharing their creative gifts unabashedly and like fully just going for it \\u2014 it will heal the world.\\u201d \\n- BLU\\nIt\\u2019s so true. Whatever your creative gift is, it is essential that your creative projects, at their core, are true to you. When you\\u2019re being your true, authentic self, that\\u2019s when you can impact the world in a big way.\\xa0\\n\\nAnd you guys, that\\u2019s just a little taste of the love bombs BLU dropped in this interview. We\\u2019re about to dive into a ton of knowledge taken from the transformative journey she has been on. Today, she\\u2019s going to help us discover that our greatest struggle can actually be our superpower. Let\\u2019s go!\\xa0\\nWho Is BLU?\\nBLU or BLU Cosmic Eagle is an artist and musician from England. She grew up in a boarding school for girls and served in the Royal Air Force before moving to the States to attend college in Florida. She found herself living a perfect textbook life, but she felt empty inside \\u2014 like all of her creativity that she enjoyed as a young girl was stripped from her and replaced with a sterile cubicle. She knew her life had to change.\\xa0\\n\\nHer neighbor invited her to try magic mushrooms or shrooms for the first time, and that led her on a path to becoming a curious mystic. She discovered that everything she grew up knowing may have been false, which included her internal narratives. When she learned that she would gradually lose her hearing due to an incurable hereditary disorder, she decided to follow her lifelong dream of becoming a musician. She bought a guitar and went traveling with it.\\xa0\\n\\nNow an accomplished musician, BLU had to work through her own shifting identity alchemy to reach the point she\\u2019s at today where she sees her hearing loss as an invitation to listen deeper. She encourages others to turn their traumas into their greatest gifts in her recent TEDx Talk where she shares the amazing story of how she turned limitation into liberation.\\xa0\\n\\nIn this episode, BLU explains what it looks like to live to blow your own mind. We also discuss what it was like for BLU to lose her hearing, the difference between prayer and performance, and why she wants everything in her life to be beautiful.\\nMaking Beauty a Calling\\nBLU\\u2019s name is an acronym for \\u201cBeauty, Love, and Unity.\\u201d She named herself when she discovered that her life\\u2019s work is to bring beauty and light everywhere she goes. By renaming herself she was rebirthing something new in her life.\\n\\n\\u201cIf I was to summarize everything in my life\\u2019s work, it is to restore beauty, love, and unity on the planet again.\\u201d\\n- BLU\\nBLU does try to bring beauty into as many facets of life as possible, whether that\\u2019s how she decorates her house, how she treats her body, how she interacts with people, or how she creates her art.\\xa0\\n\\nShe explains that the artificial glamour pushed on us through society is a false beauty that completely distorts what true beauty is supposed to be.'