#22 Building Creative Momentum After Corporate Life: Sam Waters’ Journey to Full-Time Artist
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#22 Building Creative Momentum After Corporate Life: Sam Waters’ Journey to Full-Time Artist

Is it ever too late to become a full-time artist? In this episode, Liz Ross talks with artist Sam Waters, who shares how she reignited her creativity after decades in corporate life and what it really took to rebuild her confidence, momentum, and art practice from the ground up.

We explore how your past experience can support your creative future, why community and artist friendships matter, and the mindset shifts that helped Sam step into life as a working artist.

This episode is for you if you're craving momentum, looking to reconnect with your creativity, or making space for art in a busy life. Packed with insight, real talk, and encouragement.

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#21 How to Be Seen as a Sensitive Creative: Visibility Without Overwhelm
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#21 How to Be Seen as a Sensitive Creative: Visibility Without Overwhelm

Have you ever felt that lump in your throat when it’s time to share your work? Like you’re about to reveal a piece of your soul to the world?

In this personal solo episode of Empowering the Artist Within, we explore the vulnerability of being visible as a creative, especially for sensitive souls, women, and those who’ve grown up with messages about staying quiet, small, or “perfect.”

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#18 Creating Calm from Chaos with Anna Macdonald (Part 2): Organising Your Creative Life
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#18 Creating Calm from Chaos with Anna Macdonald (Part 2): Organising Your Creative Life

n Part 2 of my conversation with minimalist artist and founder of The Organised Artist, Anna Macdonald, we dive even deeper into how she created clarity and calm in the midst of life’s chaos.

Anna shares how her experience with ADHD, anxiety, and motherhood led her to seek a more peaceful, structured way of living and how her passion for minimalism, organisation, and creativity came together to support her own healing. Now she's helping artists to take control of their lives, through her membership - The Organised Artist.

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