If you see something missing in the world, then create it. Do it yourself, but more importantly, do it for others. Be benevolent. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

Everyone is creative. We should not feel uncomfortable when someone shows us a part of themselves that doesn’t fit into a singular role. We are all many things, not one. We need to encourage each other to be creative, not discourage each other because of capitalist or systemic conditioning. The more we create, the more kind we become because the more fulfilled we feel. Isn’t it logical to encourage that in everyone, not go silent when someone shares the fact that they’ve created something? For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

Community comes from a latin word which means “shared in common”. So how do you know who your people are? They share a common need and love for the same things as you. Which means you have to find your people. Peers. Mentors. They will give you insights, encouragement, support, kindness, gentleness when you’re down. Community helps you with the inevitable wall of rejection and failure. Your creative identity and sense of purpose will be transformed because you will inspire and validate each other. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

We suffer. It’s painful to find our voice. And equally painful to find a vocation. And we all suffer when we try to create something, no matter how amazing the creation or creator is or was. Beethoven did. Baldwin did. Van Gogh did - simply read his wonderful letters. And it’s suffering that they transformed into art. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

Play and humor are wonderful doors to creativity, to the imagination. But why? Because it reminds us not to take everything so seriously. Otherwise we might as well jump out the window. If we’re too serious we can drop into mental health problems or rigid stereotypes. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

Creativity and the imagination is not simply the mind, or body but a combination of mind, body and spirit. To create, we have to connect the inside with the outside. Separation, to use a Buddhist tenet, is an illusion. And because the capitalistic worldview wants us only to look to the outside we grow up with this false understanding of who we really are and how creativity can help and heal. We are not simply body, or mind, or spirit, but all 3 together. The trick is to try and marshal all 3 together so as to create something authentic. Sincerity. Authenticity. These are holistic tenets of the imagination, of creativity. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

As soon as you want inspiration it will not come. It can’t be forced. You do the work, follow your process and rituals and it will come. To open to inspiration, we have to train our minds to shut up, to encourage our emotions to remember, and open our in-sides to the love of doing what we need to do. We have to get out of our minds (thoughts) to get to the heart (emotions) of what it is we love (inspiration) to create. This is not a want, it’s a need. A want is the mind again. A need is what we love. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

It’s important to understand this idea: that when we create we give emotional resonance to what we create. We affect people out in the world emotionally, a lot of the time without ever having met them. But even before that there’s our own emotional perspective. Because when you get a feeling or feelings about something, inside you, and these feelings evolve into an emotion, which combined with action and inspiration then we make a new creation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

Creation will not come immediately. It takes time. You have to “transition” into it, not change everything immediately, give up your job, leave your family. To become a creator you start by accepting that change is difficult, that there are stages, that it is situational and psychological, and with awareness and acceptance you will create what you need to create, with patience and time. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.

The word sacred literally means “set apart”, in Latin. So, what is set apart to you? What is sacred to you? Whatever it is, it’s probably a good place to create from, a good place to be aware from. You create what Heideggar calls a clearing, a place to think, pure thinking, not declaring anything, a placeless place apart from the noise where you can have an opening, a lightening, where openness allows you to shed light, where everything that becomes present and absent at the same time, an opening in the forest, set apart from the rest of the trees. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow: www.instagram.com/johnfanning_, or https://twitter.com/fanning_j, or visit: johnfanning.me or email the show directly on [email protected]. To support the podcast visit: https://www.patreon.com/johnfanning and sign up for the price of a pint every month. In return, you will gain full access to future series and episodes - interviews with writers, artists, filmmakers, as well as all manner of other creators John has met in the Portland area and from his 20 years of meeting creators as the founder of La Muse in southern France. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Create with John Fanning podcast is clearly and accurately provided. Thank you.