What'd I miss? And what does soap have to do with it? Nothing. But it makes for a fun backdrop for some potentially juicy stuff: labels, identity, growth and learning, becoming discerning and losing our way, finding it again and discovering as if for the first time what it is we do.

This is what James and I are up to in this episode. It's a refreshing and honest conversation about asking the WHAT and the WHY of what we do both on paper and in real-life in the studio everyday.

We're mashing up the past three episodes and unraveling some of the ideas and mining them for all they're worth.

Join us. Jump in. Question. Smile. Laugh. Enjoy! Share :)

What's soap got to do with it?

"I'm gonna make soap. The first one was like a soap volcano in my kitchen. There was a naivety there, an optimism of I have a little bit of training here, here are all of the components, I'm just going to do this, and the outcome was not as anticipated. So I did more research and I practiced again. And the second batch came out better. So I decided to make a third one. The third one I got a little ahead of myself. I did the research, I did the basic thing. Then it was a little watery and I realized I hadn't put in the beeswax. I realized that I'd gotten ahead of myself. It was the perfect example of the learning process..." -- j

"In the beginning of doing something, there is a lovely naivety and clarity in what we're doing. And that's appropriate and that's exciting and it allows for plenty of space for taking in new information. But it takes time and you do you go out there and you learn a lot and you practice a lot and you refine a lot. That's also exciting and rich. It's where we're just getting to know ourselves in relationship to the thing and we're learning the language and adding our own language and we're creating and deepening. To then...like, make soap. To be able to have a thing, that we know...that we can call it something. But unlike making soap, we get confused along the way and that also feels appropriate, like a part of what has to happen. And also, it doesn't have to happen if we're asking ourselves the right questions early on like: What's guiding me, what's guiding my choices?" -- c

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