Unleash Your Inner Creative with Lauren LoGrasso (A Creativity Podcast)

This is one of the most personal episodes I’ve ever recorded. I have an announcement...I’m pregnant. That's right, cutie! We're having a baby!

And in this episode, I’m sharing what this moment means not just in my life, but in my identity as a creative. For years, I’ve talked about creativity as something we make. The art. The ideas. The projects.

But this season is inviting me to rethink everything I thought I knew about purpose, growth, and what it really means to create something meaningful. This feels like the greatest creative project of my life so far, and I wanted to share it with you honestly and in real time.

In this episode, I talk about:
-The greatest lesson I’ve learned so far 
-The difference between preparation and pre-suffering 
-The creative expansion that motherhood can bring 
-The Power of letting yourself evolve in public
-PLUS: the full story of how I found out I was pregnant 

Thank you for being here with me. It means more than I can say.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

Follow the show: @unleashyourinnercreative 

 
Follow me: @LaurenLoGrasso

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How do you know when it’s time to reinvent yourself creatively? And once you do, how do you remember that through it all, who you are in the best thing about you? 

This episode was recorded while podcast host and producer, Zak Rosen and I walked around Belle Isle in Detroit talking about creative reinvention, identity, and what it really means to build a life around your values.

You’ll hear the wind moving through the trees and the ice crunching beneath our feet and sheer creative vulnerability as Zak discusses how he knew it was finally time to shift a long-term project. 

Zak is the host of the beloved indie podcast Weirdly Hepful and a longtime creative whose path has included multiple reinventions, pivots, and personal awakenings. Together, we explore the emotional side of creativity that rarely gets talked about, especially the danger of tying your self-worth to what you make.

We talk about:

-Why separating your identity from your work is essential for long-term creative health
-The freedom that comes from redefining success on your own terms
-Creative reinvention and how to let yourself evolve
-What it means to build a creative life instead of chasing external validation

Listen to Zak's Pod: https://weirdlyhelpful.show/

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

Follow the show: @unleashyourinnercreative 

 
Follow me: @LaurenLoGrasso

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Are you constantly funding your own creative projects and ending up depleted, disappointed, or broke?

In this minisode, I share one of the most powerful lessons I ever learned while coaching a multimillionaire: rich people do not spend their own money to launch new projects. They find sponsors, investors, patrons, and partners.

So why are artists and indie creators doing the opposite?

In this episode, we talk about:
- Why self-funding your art can create resentment and burnout
-How to stop being your own investor
-Where to look for funding including sponsors, grants, corporations, nonprofits, and angel investors
-Why artists used to have patrons and why that model still works
-How to adopt an abundance mindset without going into debt

If you’ve ever drained your savings for your art, this episode is your wake-up call. You deserve funding. You deserve support. And you do not have to go broke to create.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

Follow the show: @unleashyourinnercreative 

 
Follow me: @LaurenLoGrasso

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

What if the story we’ve been telling artists is wrong? What if you don’t actually have to choose between financial stability and the thing you love most?

In this episode, I sit down with actor turned entrepreneur Sarah Kleist to talk about the toxic myth of the “starving artist” and why performers are uniquely equipped to build creative businesses that support their art instead of competing with it.

Sarah is a musical theater performer living in New York City who also runs a thriving web design and branding business for creatives. She shares how she built financial stability without walking away from her artistic identity and why being multi-passionate is not a weakness, but a strategic advantage.

We talk about:
-Why the “if you can do anything else, do that instead” advice is harmful
-The powerful skills actors and performers already have that businesses are desperate for
-How to rewrite your money story as a creative
-Why financial stability can make you a better artist, not a worse one
-Practical ways to start thinking about what your own creative business could be

If you’ve ever felt like you were failing because you want both meaning and money, this conversation will feel like a deep exhale.
You don’t have to choose. You can build a life that holds both.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

Follow the show: @unleashyourinnercreative 

 
Follow me: @LaurenLoGrasso

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

I tried to record a normal episode today. I couldn’t. I sat down to talk about creativity like I usually do, and instead I found myself overwhelmed, heartbroken, and honestly… empty. In this episode, I share what it feels like to be a creative person living in America right now when the news feels unbearable, when your emotions are so full they leave you feeling blank, and when you’re wondering:

What is even worth creating at a time like this?
How are we supposed to go about daily life?

This is a raw, unscripted reflection on creative paralysis, collective grief, human rights, and the cruelty happening around us, including the actions of ICE and the fear, harm, and devastation our communities are experiencing.

I talk about:
-Small ways to stay creative and human when you feel helpless
-Creative burnout from current events and how to move through it
-How to alchemize pain into purpose
-The role of artists, makers, and storytellers during hard times
-Why this moment is not a political issue, but rather, a human rights issue

If you’ve been feeling distracted, heavy, unable to focus, or wondering how to keep making things when your heart is breaking, this episode is for you. I love you. I’m with you.

🎙️ Connect & Work with Me:
If you love this episode and want personalized support to break through creative blocks, build confidence, and finally share your work with the world, I’d love to help. As a creative coach, I work with artists, entrepreneurs, and multi-passionate creatives to unleash their inner voice and build a thriving creative life from a place of self-love. ✨ Want to work together? Email me at [email protected] or visit https://www.laurenlograsso.com/contact/ to book a free 15-minute discovery call.

Remember to subscribe/follow the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. Please leave us a rating and review- it helps SO much in getting the show out there. And tell a friend about the show- podcasts are very personal and tend to be spread person to person. If this show helped you or made you smile, share the love :) 

Follow the show: @unleashyourinnercreative 

 
Follow me: @LaurenLoGrasso

Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.