Interview with Kelly Diels – execution, collaboration, & the cycles of stuck

Want to know how to become a super sassy writer on single mom time? Kelly Diels is your woman.

Kelly and I talked about how to deal with a deluge of creative ideas, how to do great work in very little time, how to collaborate to jump start execution, and we also discussed the fact that the “good idea fairy doesn’t pay jack.”

In this 12 minute clip, you’ll find out:

  • how Kelly made the mental leap from corporate job to biz minded lady.
  • how small success lead to big results.
  • and how our creativity isn’t linear – it’s cyclical.

Listen or download our interview below or download the transcript!

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Bridget Pilloud – engaging your vision & identifying your abundant resources

Bridget Pilloud and I jammed about taking an intuitive approach to forming goals and creating action. She offered insight on engaging your desires instead of trying to attract them (ugh!), finding your own abundance even when faced with others accomplishments & skills, and finding your path through visualization.

We talked about much more – but you’ll have to wait for that!

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Shannon Okey – aka Knit Grrl – on feeling stuck, quitting, and finding help

I’m thrilled to have Shannon Okey be a part of The Art of Action. Shannon is a multi-passionate entrepreneur who always has a few irons in the fire.

Sound familiar?

She talked to me about how she organizes the varied tasks of her business, how she works with other authors, what National Novel Writing Month has to do with sweaters, how you can be organized without having a system, giving things a terrifying amount of attention, the flow of taking a big idea to an actualized product, and more.

Below, you’ll find the first 10 minutes of our chat. All the great stuff that happened before I started asking her the questions I had planned.

In that 10 minutes, you’ll learn that even the successful people get stuck, that there’s freedom in quitting, and that there’s almost always a time to find some help. And for the more visual learners, I’ve included a transcript as well.

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Shannon Okey can be found on her blog, on Twitter, and at Cooperative Press.

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