Building a Living Around Your Creative Soul: Cynthia Morris

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  So I think a lot of people self identify based on how the world responds to them.

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  And that's one of the things that as a coach and as a creativity coach and a writer's coach that I seek to correct, we get to decide who we are.

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  In a recent conversation with Jeff goins about finding your calling this interesting term portfolio life or portfolio career came up and we went deep on what that is and what it really isnt.

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  And its being used these days to describe a career where you blend a series of deep interests or passions or things that you feel very call to to form a path through life where youre deriving your living and spending a lot of your time doing a wide variety of different things, or sometimes just a handful of different things, sometimes complimentary, sometimes entirely different.

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  Cynthia Morris, who's this week's guest, is a really fascinating and compelling example of this.

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  A world class writer's coach and workshop facilitator who leads workshops around the world.

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  She's kind of kept a secret, which is that for a very long time, she's been an illustrator.

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  Not just an illustrator, but a really gifted illustrator.

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  And it didn't start out as her thinking that she was actually making illustrations.

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  In her mind, she was just doing what she did to take notes as she learned throughout the world.

• 01:30

  But more recently, she's made the decision to step into, to own, to call herself an artist.

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  And today's conversation tracks that journey that I have a feeling many of you have been either trying to figure out how to embrace or thinking seriously about stepping into.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

• 01:56

  Hi, Cynthia Morris.

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  Hi, Jonathan Fields.

• 01:59

  So how weird is this to be sitting, hanging out and actually interviewing?

• 02:02

  It's not an interview, but having like, a real conversation that's recorded for the podcast.

• 02:07

  I think it's kind of cool because it's a completely new setting and I'm all for new situations and new settings.

• 02:13

  Okay, so here's my chance to ask all the weird, inappropriate questions of people that I've known for a fairly long time on a friend level and now a colleague level.

• 02:24

  But I never, like, drilled into your past because I never had an opportunity to sit down and grill you for real.

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