Self-coaching questions:
How are you benefiting from *not* celebrating? What is your current mindset and how is it serving you?
What benefits could a mindset of celebration, joy, and abundance offer?
Make a list of as many things as you can that are cause for celebration today. What can you cheers to right this very minute, without lifting a finger?
Why is it so much easier to celebrate the accomplishments of others than it is our own? Merideth shares two things she is forcing herself to celebrate these days and why she believes celebration should be a core value for every artist.
This week on the podcast, Merideth offers a musical meditation with some reflection questions around the idea of an Inner Team (an exercise from Episode 2, Season 3.)
While you listen reflect on the following:
Who are your inner team members? Where do they sit in your car in any given moment? What activities bring out which parts of your team?
What resources do the negative-presenting members have to offer you? Ex: executive function, protection, safety, boundaries, etc.
Show a close friend or loved one your inner team list and ask if you missed anyone. Just because one or two of your team members are the loudest, doesn’t mean there aren’t others who are just as valuable and central to the team, waiting to be attended to.
Today’s music features Marnie Laird performing a movement from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
Whatever you are feeling about fall, bring it on over to this the podcast equivalent of a fire pit and we’ll talk it out. This week Merideth shares a coaching exercise that will help you name your inner team members, resource their skills, and cultivate a sense of self-compassion for the multitudes you contain.
Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament
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Self-coaching Questions:
1. What is my base-line stress level like?
2. In the face of this upsetting thing I am taking personally, what am I afraid this means about me?
3. What am I meant to learn here?
Season 3 debut! Merideth shares what she's been learning from chatting with artists of all disciplines on social media and in her coaching practice: specifically about how to talk to creators about their work—what comments feels good and why. Plus: the number one thing she believe creatives long to hear in their most vulnerable moments.
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This week features a talk Merideth gave recently for a fine arts department at a university in her area. Listen for 3 tips on how to stay joyful as you learn and teach in the arts.
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Prompts from the talk:
Think of someone from a past, present, and future educational experience.
Who can help hold you accountable as you try to take better care of yourself?
What did you enjoy creating as a kid?
Think of a creative memory that stings. Send yourself a text that says “I forgive you” or “I am trying to forgive you.”
This week in bonus content land, Merideth leads you through a breathing exercise called the physiological sigh. Listen when you are stressed to activate your parasympathetic nervous system. Season 3 begins in two weeks!
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What effect does stress have on our creative lives? Can stress be good? Merideth shares what she's been learning about how to manage the biological response to stress, including something you can try IMMEDIATELY to regulate it.
Self coaching questions:
Hear:
What’s that one song that makes your heart flutter with joy every time you hear it? What band makes you do a fist bump in the car? Whose voice calms and soothes and reassures you? Is there a poem that you love to hear read aloud? What sounds of the natural world remind you of the glory of creation? Write some sounds down that spark joy.
See:
What’s that one show or movie that you could watch over and over? Whose eyes can you look into and feel a release the stress of the day? What pictures, images, or even colors help you feel most like yourself? Write down some things that when you see them, you experience joy.
Touch:
What fabric do you most enjoy wearing against your skin? What does it feel like to touch the hand or the arm or the back of the head of your child or significant other? What products feel most luxurious or nourishing on your skin?
Taste:
Try to remember the last truly great meal you remember enjoying. What flavors or textures did you experience there? What was something you ate recently that had you saying, "I should eat this more often." What foods or drinks do you associate with joyful memories?
Smell:
What are the smells that make you close your eyes and smile? What smells do you associate with the people or experiences you love the most?
After you answer these questions, create a master joy tool kit list and put it somewhere you can see it or find it.
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This week's show was recorded in Brooklyn, NY! Merideth shares an idea picked up at this year's Writer's Digest Conference, a practical step in cultivating joy.
Picasso's "Girl in the Mirror"
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Today's episode features some listener mail about last week's episode and provides you with some questions to help you name your season.
What do you spend most of your time on these days
What do you spend most of your energy on these days?
If you had to give your current life season a name what would it be?
What is hard in this season?
What are you grateful for in this season?
What do you need most right now? How can you be kinder to yourself?
What do you need less of? What in you needs protection, nurturing, grace?
What is possible now?
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Besides summer (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), what season are you creating in? Merideth explores how naming and claiming your season of life can help you manage your expectations, guilt, or (lack of) motivation.
NEW bonus content series: this week featuring a guided visualization for self-protection (inspired by Nicholas Daniel and Louise Hay) with music of Ardie Son and Angela Sheik.
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This week on the podcast Merideth interviews a mentor and teacher, Nicholas Daniel. They discuss how to become impervious to harmful feedback, keeping the joy in the face of uncertainty, and harnessing the power of questions to become your own teacher. Plus, Nicholas shares the mantra he repeats to himself before every performance.
More about Nick:
Nicholas Daniel OBE has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s great oboists and is one of Britain’s best known musicians. He has significantly enlarged the repertoire for his instrument with the commissioning of hundreds of new works.
Nicholas dedicates his life to music in many varied ways. He records and broadcasts widely, including regular recordings on the Harmonia Mundi Label, and he boasts a huge following internationally on social media. He is proud to support and patronise many important initiatives, charities and trusts, and has directed several music festivals and concert series, most notably in Germany and Dartington, and has been Music Director of the Leicester International Music Festival and lunchtime series for many years. He is highly sought after as a teacher, being Professor at the Trossingen Musikhochschule in Germany.
Following his BBC Proms conducting debut in 2004, he works with many fine ensembles in wide-ranging repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary, and from small groups to opera. He is Music Director of Triorca, an orchestral project which brings together talented young musicians from Serbia, Germany and the UK. In recognition of his achievements, he was honoured in 2012 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music and cited as having made “an outstanding contribution to the musical life of the nation”. In October 2020 he was awarded an OBE.
Having sung as in the choir of Salisbury Cathedral as a boy, Nicholas was put directly into the spotlight at the age of 18 when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. After a short period of study at London’s Royal Academy of Music, with Janet Craxton and Celia Nicklin and then privately with clarinettist Anthony Pay and with Hans Keller, he quickly established his career with early debuts at the BBC Proms and on disc.
He has been a concerto soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors,
performing a huge range of repertoire from Bach to Xenakis and beyond, premiering works written for him by composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Henri Dutilleux, James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave, John Tavener and Michael Tippett, as well as encouraging many younger composers to write for the oboe. His recording of concertos by Vaughan Williams and MacMillan was awarded the BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award in 2016.
As chamber musician Nicholas is a founder member of the award-winning Britten Sinfonia, the Haffner Wind Ensemble and the Britten Oboe Quartet, whose debut disc was released to great acclaim on the Harmonia Mundi label in 2017. He also works regularly with the pianists Huw Watkins and Julius Drake, and with many leading string quartets including the Carducci, Doric and Vogler. He is principal oboist of Camerata Pacifica, California’s leading chamber music ensemble, and is a popular guest at music festivals all over the world.
Listen to Nick’s Youtube Channel
This episode features music of Telemann and Vaughan Williams performed by Nicholas Daniel and The Doric String Quartet. Our theme song is by Angela Sheik.
Self-Coaching Questions
1. What does crying look like for you? What helps you feel emotional release?
2. What truths do you know that you can use to coach yourself into a more positive mindset? Write them down on post its and put them somewhere you can see them daily.
3. What sounds fun to create right now? Don’t over think it. Find something where you get to make your own creative decisions, even small ones. Do it.
More about today’s performer, Martha Goldstein:
The American harpsichordist and pianist, Martha Goldstein (born: Martha Svendsen), was trained at the Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School and studied with Audrey Plitt, Eliza Woods, James Friskin and Mieczysław Munz.
Martha Goldstein gave concerts in the USA, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. She performed works by George Frideric Handel, Frédéric Chopin, Georg Philipp Telemann, Franz Liszt, Ferruccio Busoni, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, and others. She taught at the Peabody Conservatory for 20 years and at the Cornish College of the Arts. She also performed as a guest artist with the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet, wind quintet-in-residence at the University of Washington School of Music since 1968.
Many of Martha Goldstein's recordings were first released on LP by Pandora Records, which was founded in 1973 and active for more than ten years. The company went out of business with the advent of the CD. The entire archive of recordings is now available for download without restriction and can be found at many download sites. Often her recordings reflect historically informed performance, employing original period instruments and tunings.
Commercial recordings: "The Italian Harpsichord" (Pandora Records PAN-101); "J.S. Bach: Flute sonatas. Complete and Authentic Works from the Neue Bach Gesellschaft", Alex Murray (Baroque flute); Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) (Pandora Records PAN-104, 1974); "F. Chopin: Études, Op. 10; Études, Op. 25" (Pandora Records PAN-107); "J.S. Bach: Flute Sonatas. Incomplete and Controversial Sonatas", Alex Murray (Baroque flute); Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) (Pandora Records PAN-105); "J.S. Bach / Martha Goldstein - The Sound of the Keyboard Lute" (Pandora Records PAN-111); "J. Brahms: Waltzes" (Pandora Records PAN-119, 1987); "J.S. Bach: Music for Solo Traverso, Vol. I", Alex Murray (Baroque flute); Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) (Pandora Records PC-176).
An episode featuring the most requested topic Merideth is asked about. Listen to learn more about how to cultivate resilience and shift your mindset, so you can keep creating with joy.
Today's musical meditation features a powerful exercise for putting down your heavy load. Sometimes the show mustn't go on: here's to normalizing this for artists looking for more joy. The music in today's episode features Brooklyn Classical performing works of Ravel and Delibes. Learn more about the artists here. Our theme song is by Angela Sheik.
Today’s creative lie is the ever popular "the show must go on" mentality. Merideth explores how this way of thinking is not always beneficial or artist-centered. She'll offer a practical exercise for checking in with yourself to help you put down all the baggage that is not yours to carry and love yourself through everything that is wrong.
Self-Coaching Questions:
What obstacles are in the way of you finding a therapist? If you are in therapy, consider how that relationship is serving you and what you might bring to your therapist or counselor next.
What matters most to you? How are the things that matter being given the attention or consideration they are longing for?
Whose critique are you allowing to permeate through the hedge of protection?
Who can you reach out to today that could share in your creative recovery journey? Take a moment after this meditation to send a text or direct message to an artist friend.
Today’s music features:
Nicholas Daniel OBE has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s great oboists and is one of Britain’s best known musicians. He has significantly enlarged the repertoire for his instrument with the commissioning of hundreds of new works.
Nicholas dedicates his life to music in many varied ways. He records and broadcasts widely, including regular recordings on the Harmonia Mundi Label, and he boasts a huge following internationally on social media. He is proud to support and patronise many important initiatives, charities and trusts, and has directed several music festivals and concert series, most notably in Germany and Dartington, and has been Music Director of the Leicester International Music Festival and lunchtime series for many years. He is highly sought after as a teacher, being Professor at the Trossingen Musikhochschule in Germany.
Following his BBC Proms conducting debut in 2004, he works with many fine ensembles in wide-ranging repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary, and from small groups to opera. He is Music Director of Triorca, an orchestral project which brings together talented young musicians from Serbia, Germany and the UK. In recognition of his achievements, he was honoured in 2012 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music and cited as having made “an outstanding contribution to the musical life of the nation”. In October 2020 he was awarded an OBE.
Having sung as in the choir of Salisbury Cathedral as a boy, Nicholas was put directly into the spotlight at the age of 18 when he won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. After a short period of study at London’s Royal Academy of Music, with Janet Craxton and Celia Nicklin and then privately with clarinettist Anthony Pay and with Hans Keller, he quickly established his career with early debuts at the BBC Proms and on disc.
He has been a concerto soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors,
performing a huge range of repertoire from Bach to Xenakis and beyond, premiering works written for him by composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Henri Dutilleux, James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave, John Tavener and Michael Tippett, as well as encouraging many younger composers to write for the oboe. His recording of concertos by Vaughan Williams and MacMillan was awarded the BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award in 2016.
As chamber musician Nicholas is a founder member of the award-winning Britten Sinfonia, the Haffner Wind Ensemble and the Britten Oboe Quartet, whose debut disc was released to great acclaim on the Harmonia Mundi label in 2017. He also works regularly with the pianists Huw Watkins and Julius Drake, and with many leading string quartets including the Carducci, Doric and Vogler. He is principal oboist of Camerata Pacifica, California’s leading chamber music ensemble, and is a popular guest at music festivals all over the world. Read more and listen to Nick here: