Does your creative process change depending what project you are working on? To “research” this we three podgoddesses drove down the creative highway with the top down, the music up and the wind in our hair. Wait, three? Yup, we are joined this week by the most methodical, articulate and humorous person we podknow, Expat Cast Podcast Host Nicole Palazzo. Going meta was our goal so we chatted about when to start, pivot and stop creative projects. Surprisingly Summer and Nicole had an interesting shared experience with writing versus podcasting while I was just plain messy in all creative endeavors. What can I say, we got down with our bad selves and it was cathartic, as usual.  

Guest Info: Nicole Palazzo of the Expat Cast Podcast (thanks Nicole!)

-Twitter: @TheExpatCast

-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theexpatcast/

-Expat Cast, Nicole’s Podcast: https://theexpatcast.podbean.com/

-Nicole’ solo episode about her expat story:

https://theexpatcast.podbean.com/e/my-expat-story-with-your-host-nicole/

Quotes:

"A good comparison is relationships. No one meets and gets together on their anniversary date. Typically their anniversary date is either when they decided this is officially a thing or they retroactively decided.”

-Nicole

“I think it’s okay sometimes to wait  until you actually have enough out there to go ahead and promote....where they can see some consistency, that there’s a developing voice. Not just for the sake of the creative process but also with the hope of gaining and retaining an audience.”

-Summer

“All the other stuff I’ve done was very start and stop, I was either doing it or I was not doing it and it didn’t really change a lot while I was doing it. It was that thing or it was nothing.” -Steph

Links:  (in order) Mostly shameless plugs of our podcast episodes with each other! Sooooo, you have a lot of listening to do now, okay? 

-Summer on Nicole’s Expat Cast  podcast: https://theexpatcast.podbean.com/?s=Summer

-Steph on Nicole’s Expat Cast podcast: https://theexpatcast.podbean.com/?s=stephanie

-Nicole on the Geopat’s podcast: 

https://geopats.podbean.com/e/nicole-palazzo-expat-cast-schadenfreude/ 

and

-Geopats Podcast episode where Nicole, Tatjana and I geek out about the book, Schadenfreude, A Love Story by Rebecca Shuman. https://geopats.podbean.com/e/nicole-palazzo-expat-cast-schadenfreude/

-Summer on Steph’s Geopat’s podcast:

https://geopats.podbean.com/e/ep-17-two-podcasting-geopats-discuss-the-global-soul-by-pico-iyer/

and 

https://geopats.podbean.com/e/ep-75-summer-rylander-the-most-productive-procrastinator-in-expatland/

 

Music: And a big thank you to Alex of Kwick Lights (https://kwick-lights.de/de) for recording our snazzy new intro/outro jingles! Thanks also to Lena of Lena On The Move (https://lenaonthemove.com/) for the sound idea and pulling this together for us! Check out Alex and Lena's Nuremberg-based band, Off The Grid, at https://www.instagram.com/offthegrid.music/ 

Contact us: 

Creatively Complicated (in Internetland):

Twitter: Creatively Complicated Podcast, @stephandsummer

Email: creativelycomplicatedpodcast@gmail.com

Summer (in Germany):  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/summeroutside/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/summeroutside

Blog: https://eatsomethinggosomewhere.com/

Stephanie: (in China): https://linktr.ee/stephfuccio

This episode was created with:

• Steph and Summer’s microphones Samson Q2U 
• Auphonic, free online leveling software
• Remote video software, Zoom