Episode 72: Accomplishments and important things that happened this year.
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The Creative Work Hour Podcast — Episode 72
Accomplishments and important things that happened this year.
Release Date: December 13, 2025
Episode Theme: Year-in-Review, Community, Creative Process
Primary Show: The Creative Work Hour Podcast
Cross‑posted for: The Support and Kindness Podcast
Hosts & Contributors:
Greg, Alessandra, Shadows Pub, Gretchen, Melanie, Devin
Website: https://creativeworkhour.com
Episode Summary
In this year‑end reflection episode, the Creative Work Hour community gathers to look back on what 2025 has meant—creatively, personally, and collectively. The conversation centers on why Creative Work Hour works: consistency without pressure, belonging without judgment, and space for ideas to grow at their own pace.
Each participant shares how daily coworking, shared presence, and creative accountability shaped their year. From music and writing to kindness initiatives, travel, mental health, and slow‑burn ideas still forming, this episode captures how creative work is not always output‑focused. Sometimes it is structure, rest, showing up, or letting ideas sit until they are ready.
This episode also highlights related projects like Practice Not Perfect, Creator Camp (ECamm), and the Hive blockchain archive that preserves Creative Work Hour contributions long‑term.
Key Takeaways & Discussion Highlights
- Creative Work Hour succeeds because it allows people to come and go without guilt
- Creative progress happens at many speeds—including very slow ones
- Structure matters more than motivation
- Community can substitute for momentum when motivation is low
- Rest, waiting, and care are part of creative work
- Daily presence builds habits even when output feels minimal
- Ideas that sit are not stalled—they are gaining energy
Participant Highlights, Quotes & Observations
Greg
Theme: Chosen family, kindness, expanding community
Greg describes Creative Work Hour as a “family of choice” grounded in care and encouragement rather than expectation. He reflects on expanding his kindness‑focused initiatives, including weekly support groups and a companion podcast.
Quote:
“Being part of Creative Work Hour is being part of a loving family—one that doesn’t judge, keeps score, or hold things against you.”
Key Point:
- Creative communities can also be support systems
- Kindness is not separate from creativity—it fuels it
Alessandra
Theme: Mental health, permission, long‑form vision
Alessandra frames Creative Work Hour as a buffer for mental health and creative resilience. She shares how allowing herself to imagine “a big life on paper” led to unexpected follow‑through—even after setbacks.
She also emphasizes long‑term creative preservation through the Hive blockchain, where Creative Work Hour’s work remains permanent and owned by creators.
Quote:
“We’ll see ya when we see ya works—and that might be the biggest proof of concept this year.”
Noteworthy Observation:
- Ideas feel doable when written without pressure
- Creative work includes rest, waiting, and care
- The Creative Work Hour Hive account ensures creative work cannot be taken away
Shadows Pub
Theme: Presence, ecosystem building, sustainable creativity
Shadows shares how Creative Work Hour provides regular social contact and creative consistency. They reflect on expanding the “Echoverse,” redesigning virtual rooms, and creating creative assets designed for future income.
Quote:
“It’s a group I show up to most days. I don’t really hang out with people otherwise.”
Key Accomplishment:
- Redesigned Echoverse spaces for GoBranch Expo
- Created browsable archives of past creative work
- Built foundations for future monetization
Gretchen
Theme: Habit‑building, kindness, real‑world connection
Gretchen emphasizes Creative Work Hour as a space that simply “is”—free of judgment and outcome pressure. She highlights consistency with Morning Pages, cross‑country travel, livestreaming, and new kindness initiatives.
Quote:
“It’s not right, wrong, good or bad. It just is—and that’s what makes it work.”
Key Highlights:
- 7,500‑mile cross‑country van trip
- Creative livestreaming throughout travel
- Launching the Bucket Filler Brigade
- Beginning a global kindness initiative for 2026
Melanie
Theme: Friendship, slow creative pacing, future impact
Melanie reflects on how rare it is to make new friends post‑COVID and how Creative Work Hour offers consistency outside work life. She shares her experience attending ECamm Creator Camp and receiving a professional microphone—symbolizing an idea not yet ready, but very alive.
Quote:
“The microphone isn’t sitting there losing energy—it’s gaining energy.”
Noteworthy Insight:
- Slow progress is still progress
- Observing others’ creativity can be sustaining
- Big ideas sometimes need long incubation
Devin
Theme: Structure, momentum, creative birth
For Devin, Creative Work Hour provides something simple but essential: protected time. That structure directly led to the creation of a new musical, currently in development with a songwriting collaborator.
He also notes the impact of Practice Not Perfect as a parallel space for skill‑building without pressure.
Quote:
“That thing would not exist without Creative Work Hour. There’s no question.”
Creative Wins:
- Conceived and outlined a full musical
- Draft writing underway with year‑end completion goal
- Ongoing music practice supported by shared space
Recurring Themes from the Episode
- Consistency over intensity
- Structure over motivation
- Presence over productivity
- Community over isolation
- Permission to rest and return
Creative work is not always visible. Sometimes it is sitting, waiting, watching, showing up, or letting an idea breathe.
Links & Resources
- Creative Work Hour: https://creativeworkhour.com
- Creative Work Hour on Hive: @creativeworkhour
- Practice Not Perfect (community sessions)
- ECamm Creator Camp
Listener Reflection Prompt
- What did your creative community mean to you this year?
- What idea is still sitting—and gaining energy?
- What structure helps you show up even when motivation is low?
Closing Note
Creative Work Hour is not about perfect output. It is about showing up, together, one hour at a time.
Thank you for listening. Come back next week for another creative conversation.
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The Creative Work Hour Podcast — Episode 72
Accomplishments and important things that happened this year.
Release Date: December 13, 2025
Episode Theme: Year-in-Review, Community, Creative Process
Primary Show: The Creative Work Hour Podcast
Cross‑posted for: The Support and Kindness Podcast
Hosts & Contributors:
Greg, Alessandra, Shadows Pub, Gretchen, Melanie, Devin
Website: https://creativeworkhour.com
Episode Summary
In this year‑end reflection episode, the Creative Work Hour community gathers to look back on what 2025 has meant—creatively, personally, and collectively. The conversation centers on why Creative Work Hour works: consistency without pressure, belonging without judgment, and space for ideas to grow at their own pace.
Each participant shares how daily coworking, shared presence, and creative accountability shaped their year. From music and writing to kindness initiatives, travel, mental health, and slow‑burn ideas still forming, this episode captures how creative work is not always output‑focused. Sometimes it is structure, rest, showing up, or letting ideas sit until they are ready.
This episode also highlights related projects like Practice Not Perfect, Creator Camp (ECamm), and the Hive blockchain archive that preserves Creative Work Hour contributions long‑term.
Key Takeaways & Discussion Highlights
- Creative Work Hour succeeds because it allows people to come and go without guilt
- Creative progress happens at many speeds—including very slow ones
- Structure matters more than motivation
- Community can substitute for momentum when motivation is low
- Rest, waiting, and care are part of creative work
- Daily presence builds habits even when output feels minimal
- Ideas that sit are not stalled—they are gaining energy
Participant Highlights, Quotes & Observations
Greg
Theme: Chosen family, kindness, expanding community
Greg describes Creative Work Hour as a “family of choice” grounded in care and encouragement rather than expectation. He reflects on expanding his kindness‑focused initiatives, including weekly support groups and a companion podcast.
Quote:
“Being part of Creative Work Hour is being part of a loving family—one that doesn’t judge, keeps score, or hold things against you.”
Key Point:
- Creative communities can also be support systems
- Kindness is not separate from creativity—it fuels it
Alessandra
Theme: Mental health, permission, long‑form vision
Alessandra frames Creative Work Hour as a buffer for mental health and creative resilience. She shares how allowing herself to imagine “a big life on paper” led to unexpected follow‑through—even after setbacks.
She also emphasizes long‑term creative preservation through the Hive blockchain, where Creative Work Hour’s work remains permanent and owned by creators.
Quote:
“We’ll see ya when we see ya works—and that might be the biggest proof of concept this year.”
Noteworthy Observation:
- Ideas feel doable when written without pressure
- Creative work includes rest, waiting, and care
- The Creative Work Hour Hive account ensures creative work cannot be taken away
Shadows Pub
Theme: Presence, ecosystem building, sustainable creativity
Shadows shares how Creative Work Hour provides regular social contact and creative consistency. They reflect on expanding the “Echoverse,” redesigning virtual rooms, and creating creative assets designed for future income.
Quote:
“It’s a group I show up to most days. I don’t really hang out with people otherwise.”
Key Accomplishment:
- Redesigned Echoverse spaces for GoBranch Expo
- Created browsable archives of past creative work
- Built foundations for future monetization
Gretchen
Theme: Habit‑building, kindness, real‑world connection
Gretchen emphasizes Creative Work Hour as a space that simply “is”—free of judgment and outcome pressure. She highlights consistency with Morning Pages, cross‑country travel, livestreaming, and new kindness initiatives.
Quote:
“It’s not right, wrong, good or bad. It just is—and that’s what makes it work.”
Key Highlights:
- 7,500‑mile cross‑country van trip
- Creative livestreaming throughout travel
- Launching the Bucket Filler Brigade
- Beginning a global kindness initiative for 2026
Melanie
Theme: Friendship, slow creative pacing, future impact
Melanie reflects on how rare it is to make new friends post‑COVID and how Creative Work Hour offers consistency outside work life. She shares her experience attending ECamm Creator Camp and receiving a professional microphone—symbolizing an idea not yet ready, but very alive.
Quote:
“The microphone isn’t sitting there losing energy—it’s gaining energy.”
Noteworthy Insight:
- Slow progress is still progress
- Observing others’ creativity can be sustaining
- Big ideas sometimes need long incubation
Devin
Theme: Structure, momentum, creative birth
For Devin, Creative Work Hour provides something simple but essential: protected time. That structure directly led to the creation of a new musical, currently in development with a songwriting collaborator.
He also notes the impact of Practice Not Perfect as a parallel space for skill‑building without pressure.
Quote:
“That thing would not exist without Creative Work Hour. There’s no question.”
Creative Wins:
- Conceived and outlined a full musical
- Draft writing underway with year‑end completion goal
- Ongoing music practice supported by shared space
Recurring Themes from the Episode
- Consistency over intensity
- Structure over motivation
- Presence over productivity
- Community over isolation
- Permission to rest and return
Creative work is not always visible. Sometimes it is sitting, waiting, watching, showing up, or letting an idea breathe.
Links & Resources
- Creative Work Hour: https://creativeworkhour.com
- Creative Work Hour on Hive: @creativeworkhour
- Practice Not Perfect (community sessions)
- ECamm Creator Camp
Listener Reflection Prompt
- What did your creative community mean to you this year?
- What idea is still sitting—and gaining energy?
- What structure helps you show up even when motivation is low?
Closing Note
Creative Work Hour is not about perfect output. It is about showing up, together, one hour at a time.
Thank you for listening. Come back next week for another creative conversation.
A heartfelt year‑in‑review episode where the Creative Work Hour community reflects on what 2025 brought creatively and personally. With stories from Greg, Alessandra, Shadows Pub, Gretchen, Melanie, and Devin, Episode 72 explores how consistency, kindness, and shared presence matter more than output—showing how creative work grows through structure, rest, and community over time.
Greg
00:00 - 00:41
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the creative workhour podcast this is episode 72 and in the room with me today we've got myself, we've got Alessandra, we've got Devon, we've got Gretchen, Melanie and Shadows Pub. It is December the 13th 2025 and it's fast approaching Christmas and New Year and on that vein we decided we'd have somewhat of a A kind of a recap on how the year has been going. So today's question is, what did being part of the Creative WorkHour community mean to you this year? And what did you aim to accomplish?
Greg
00:42 - 00:49
And what important things happened this year? Alessandra, I will go to you. How about you? What did it mean to you?
Alessandra
00:49 - 01:45
Well, I have to say that creative work hour as the community, it is a buffer for me, like just in my own mental health, that no matter what happens in my creative work, it doesn't matter if I just fall off the wagon with everything I'm trying to do. It doesn't matter because every single day we're here and whoever can make it comes and whoever doesn't, they come when they can. So the whole, proof of concept of we'll see ya when we see ya works no matter what and that seems to be the thing that was like what was accomplished this year above everything is that we see ya when we see ya works. On a personal level in my own creative work It has been a hell of a struggle and a hell of a triumph all in the same year.
Alessandra
01:45 - 02:11
I got one of these, you know, because this is kind of like smell-o-vision. We record these podcast episodes, we record them in a Zoom room so that we have the vibrance of seeing each other as we're recording. And so what I'm doing at the moment is I'm just turning my computer around so that the crew can see this big ass calendar. That thing is two meters wide.
Alessandra
02:11 - 02:38
It's six feet, six feet horizontal wide. And so what I did is I just took that thing and I just put, if I did not have hangups, if I didn't deal with a mental health thing that really does need to be kept mindfully in check, if I didn't have all those things, What would I allow myself to do? Some people like to phrase it as, what would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?
Alessandra
02:38 - 02:52
That doesn't really work for me. To me, that's just like horseshit. But what could I possibly aspire to just on paper? There's something about, ideally, just on paper.
Alessandra
02:52 - 03:03
When you put some ideas out there, they seem doable. Right. Because it's just pen and paper. So that's what I did on this big wall in my flat here in Leeds.
Alessandra
03:03 - 03:24
I just made it like as big of a life as I could imagine. And I guess the accomplishment was that. We took off the things that felt too heavy because because because. Took off a couple of things that felt too heavy, but we kept.
Alessandra
03:24 - 03:58
90% or more of everything. And even though I had the accident in late summer, everything still came about. So there we are, there we all are. And so I'm just really curious to hear from you, Greg, what is it that community has meant to you this year, and what in the world did you get up to in your own sense of accomplishments?
Greg
03:59 - 04:24
Oh boy, you know how I love these parts, right? Well, for me, being part of Creative WorkHour this year has meant being part of a loving family, a caring family, a family of my choosing, one that doesn't judge me, doesn't hold resentment, hold things against me, and a family that encourages and cares about me. And I think for many of us, that's what Creative WorkHour is. This year, I expanded my kindness community.
Greg
04:25 - 04:47
I created the support and kindness community, which includes free weekly support groups on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and as well as a weekly support and kindness podcast, which we do, we record on a Saturday. After this, we record at 5 p.m. And that goes out on Sunday and I'm currently expanding the community within the Gold Brunch community. So that's, that's me.
Greg
04:47 - 04:57
How about you Shadow? What did being part of Creative Work Hour community mean to you this year? And what did you aim to accomplish and what important things happened this year?
Shadows Pub
04:58 - 05:23
Creative Work Hours, people get to hang out with, I don't hang out with people so It's a group that I show up to most days. There's one day that I don't each week. What did I accomplish? Well, I guess I added some new layers onto the Echoes, layers that hopefully will be expanding into income producing in the new year.
Shadows Pub
05:23 - 05:24
We'll see.
Greg
05:24 - 05:39
And now that you've just actually finished GoBranch Expo again, which you've been part of from the beginning, and I was fortunate enough to visit your booth in there. I'm kind of thinking it's number 130, but do you want to talk about that? Cause that was something else that was quite an accomplishment.
Shadows Pub
05:40 - 06:13
So I redesigned all of my rooms in the Echo, what I call the Echoverse. so that I've got rooms that are dedicated to the Echoes. There's some webpages embedded in the room that I used as a booth for the expo, and they show off not only my products, but people can go in there to explore the past Echoes. so they can punt back through the various months and pick out the words they like and kind of have a look at the images and the echo for that particular day.
Shadows Pub
06:14 - 06:23
So some of those are going to get turned into sets journal pages. Some of them already are in wall art and there may be a couple other things being added.
Greg
06:23 - 06:39
Thank you shadows yeah it's true it's truly a really nice room. I think the room is still up if people want to go visit that. Shadows where would they find that if someone wanted to check you out? We can put it in the show notes actually so yeah if you let me have it we'll add that to the show notes that will be much easier to find.
Shadows Pub
06:39 - 06:43
same link that was used for the expo that's in the channel.
Greg
06:43 - 06:46
Great. Thank you. Thank you very much. Gretchen, how about you?
Greg
06:46 - 06:56
What did being part of Creative Work Hour Community mean to you this year and what did you aim to accomplish and what important things happened this year for you?
Gretchen
06:56 - 07:21
Well, being part of Creative Work Hour has been really a wonderful, you said it the best about a nonjudgmental group that you can come to, that it's a family of choice that truly is. A gentleman I knew that Brian Klimmer, who who once said to me, it's not right, wrong, good or bad. It just is. And that was a motto that he had in all that he worked in.
Gretchen
07:21 - 07:42
And it just really this is a place that just is. There's you can come when you can and you accomplish what you need to accomplish. I've been with Morning Pages very consistent. I mean, with Creative Work Hour, very consistent with my Morning Pages, which I had not done before.
Gretchen
07:42 - 08:03
this before, I just wasn't consistent about doing that. I would think about journaling, but I wasn't. It's helped me build a better habit in certain areas and then to get things done. But it's also been a source of laughter and encouragement and just community.
Gretchen
08:03 - 08:18
And I've been able to meet some people in real life. You know, I met Dr. Melanie in real life and Sandra and it's just in Devon and Nisabu, of course. But what did I do? Well, I did a little cross-country trip in a van.
Gretchen
08:18 - 08:46
And it was 7,500 miles and live streamed along the way back and forth. I've done a lot of art and I'm working on a couple of photography projects. All of them add to within creative work hour and going on. And then with Greg has his kindness program going that it says, and I have started a campaign with my bucket filler brigade.
Gretchen
08:46 - 09:05
to start make 2026 the global year of kindness. So I'm hoping that in the future, Greg and I can kind of collaborate back and forth on that and, and feed off of each other's. It's just, it's just a place to have ideas in your own head come about. It gives you time and space.
Gretchen
09:06 - 09:13
Creative Work Hour gives you time and space to come up with ideas and to find a way to bring them about.
Greg
09:15 - 09:22
Thank you, Gretchen. I love that sentiment and I would absolutely welcome collaborating with you. That would be a lot of fun. How about you, Dr. Melanie?
Greg
09:23 - 09:31
Being part of Creative WorkHour community this year, what does it mean to you? What did you aim to accomplish and what important things happened this year?
Dr Melonie
09:31 - 09:45
I can answer the first question better than the other two. I can't even remember what the hell I was thinking a year ago to tell you the truth. But Creative WorkHour is a new bunch of friends and that's kind of remarkable. especially post-COVID.
Dr Melonie
09:46 - 09:55
You know, if you don't make friends and I'm at the hospital all the time. And so I don't thank you. I don't make friends. I mean, I make friends in the hospital, but they're hospital friends.
Dr Melonie
09:55 - 10:28
So that's a big deal. And apparently what that does is give you kind of continuum such that At the glacial rate, I get things that aren't hospital and work-related things done. They're still sort of supported and remembered by Pintel, and it makes it easier to do things in a glacial rate, which is not my usual mode. And I just got enough peppers to keep my, and you guys, very warm.
Dr Melonie
10:29 - 10:40
This is Rafiq's way of saying hi. So, I don't know. And I went to ECAM this year and it was Very nice. I really enjoyed it.
Dr Melonie
10:40 - 10:56
I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. And I really enjoyed the whole dance thing, the structure, everything. And so that was good. So I feel like I'm sort of soon to be collecting things that are going to go off soon.
Dr Melonie
10:56 - 11:11
I hope sooner rather than later. That's how I feel about it. I cannot keep up with the number of things that many of you are doing, creatively doing things. So I just think about, I do it voyeuristically and that's almost as good.
Shadows Pub
11:12 - 11:14
So that's it.
Greg
11:14 - 11:19
I heard, and I may have heard incorrectly, but I heard that you won a microphone at e-commerce.
Shadows Pub
11:19 - 11:19
Is that right?
Greg
11:20 - 11:20
I didn't even win it.
Dr Melonie
11:21 - 11:29
I think our dilly bloody person never didn't have one, first of all. But the woman who was the you don't have one.
Gretchen
11:29 - 11:44
No, no, no. There was there was a reason that you got it. You stood out to Laura. And she came to me and said, would Melanie like she's she's could she uses?
Gretchen
11:44 - 12:02
I said, oh, my gosh, because I went from her went from her several years ago. But yeah, she's you won the Shure microphone from the Shure person for a reason for being who you are. And she saw potential in how you could use it and the difference that you can make.
Dr Melonie
12:04 - 12:10
Well, it's it's on my desk. And thank you very much, Gretchen. It's on my desk. I have not as yet used it.
Dr Melonie
12:11 - 12:29
but I'm two steps closer. I just looked at the calendar and the bloody conference that my nurse practitioners go to at the same time as the e-chem in April. So I might have a problem, I can't do it. But I haven't forgotten this and things are percolating in my head.
Dr Melonie
12:29 - 12:42
But anyway, I did, and she was amazing. Laura was a remarkable woman. And she came up to me at the end of e-chem and said, would you like this Shure SuperDuper Microphone? And I said, Sure.
Dr Melonie
12:44 - 12:46
I would envy much.
Greg
12:47 - 12:54
Very cool. Very cool. Devon, how about you? What did being part of the Creative WorkHour community mean to you this year?
Greg
12:55 - 12:59
And what did you aim to accomplish and what important things happened this year?
Devin
13:01 - 13:15
Thanks, Greg. For me, creative work hour is first and foremost, creative structure. That's the time I know that I can get creative work done. And it, before that, it just wasn't happening.
Devin
13:15 - 13:37
There was no, I would say, oh, I'll do that over the weekend. Weekend would come and go, nothing happened. And just having that set time and seeing people that I like and good to hang out with, and watching them work inspired me to work. And so it just created this time bubble that I got to spend doing creative work.
Devin
13:37 - 14:07
And I would say the biggest thing that came out of that this year is that I conceived of, outlined, and started a musical where I'm writing with my songwriting collaborator, And it's living by law, and I plan to have the first draft done by the end of the year, which is, as you noted, rapidly approaching. So, and without creative work hour, that thing would not have come into existence. There's no question.
Devin
14:08 - 14:24
So I got to do something I really like and I'm interested in and that flexes that creative muscle. And I know that every day I'm going to get to make a little progress because I have that time that I'll be spending with you lot doing our creative work together.
Greg
14:26 - 14:42
Thank you, Devon, I appreciate that. And Alessandra, before I know you have your hand up, but Melanie had mentioned eCAM and CreatorCAM. And I know Gretchen got to that this year, but you did as well, right, to the CreatorCAM.
Alessandra
14:43 - 15:08
Well, I did. I have, you know, what we were talking about before we came into the studio to record this today, we were all talking about different kinds of experiences that we had as kids in using our voices to convey some message of, I am here to the world and world Hello, are you there? I'm listening.
Alessandra
15:09 - 15:49
And I love things about the conveyance of information messages and just that I'm here. Are you there? There's something so childlike to that, that no matter how complicated and glitzy and high production that it gets, whether it's runaway success accounts on YouTube, or if it's coming out of Hollywood, or from wherever it comes, that there's something so simple about communication by voice, whether there's a face with it or not, or artwork with it or not.
Alessandra
15:49 - 16:22
There's something so basically comforting about that, that whether it is in the best of times, I did it. Or on the worst of times, is there somebody there? I just need to know that there's somebody there, that there's absolutely something really magical about the voice. And so that is why in watching Gretchen's creative work two years ago, I started asking her questions about what is this thing called Creator Camp?
Alessandra
16:23 - 17:18
And she shared with me that it is the community the live in-person event that is part of the community of Ecamm Live, which is a beautiful software that allows you to create scenes and make things that you're doing just on your little lonesome. appear more professional looking. And so, you know, the reason why Gretchen's tile always looks more polished and put together than any of the rest of ours is because she has learned how to do some things in Ecamm Live. So what I wanted to say about creative work hour is we have an account on the Hive blockchain, which is one of our values, is that for whatever creative work is being put out there in the world, it's not that we just support it.
Alessandra
17:18 - 17:38
We support it, especially in places that don't have the power to take it away. or take the account down, or to rob you of your content. And because of that, we could learn, we could have creative work hour in all these different platforms. We can, we will, we have.
Alessandra
17:39 - 18:16
But there is something about being on the high blockchain, which means that after we're all gone, the blockchain technology lasts. And anything that we post there directly into Creative Work Hour as the account, or just in supporting each other's content that's published there, it can never go away. Like it technologically is immutable and locked into place. And the Creative Work Hour account on Hive is simply at Creative Work Hour, all one word.
Alessandra
18:17 - 18:25
And this is how we are described there. Creative Work Hour. Live. Coworking daily sessions.
Alessandra
18:26 - 18:36
And here is the tagline. The global daily online coworking space that's dedicated to bringing your ideas to life.
Shadows Pub
18:37 - 18:39
I love that. I love that.
Alessandra
18:45 - 19:05
So does anybody have anything else that they want to add that was sparked by something that someone else said? Because this would be the time. We could grab that and include it. Just know that this episode will be the one that we can, we can pull into pieces and we can use as little testimonials.
Alessandra
19:06 - 19:18
I don't yet know how to do that. I have a friend who knows how to do that, but this is something that we've been trying to do for a while, but I was just too bashful to ask. So here we are.
Greg
19:18 - 19:19
Anybody?
Devin
19:19 - 19:41
I'll just jump in with, you know, because it's a spinoff, it's part of the Creative Work Hour family. Practice Not Perfect also had a huge impact. Certainly, Alessandra had some big performances this year that were prepped during Practice Not Perfect. And just like my writing, the practicing would not happen.
Devin
19:41 - 20:05
Were it not for time dedicated to practice not perfect, I'm with a group and I can look and see other people that are doing their thing, and it gives me time to invest in the music that I want to learn and improve. So, again, that magic of time dedicated to your creative work, no matter what it is, is just magic.
Greg
20:07 - 20:22
Absolutely. Absolutely. I know that I take part, although I'm not practicing my instrument, I do play, I play the saxophone and the clarinet, and I need to get back into doing that. But I use that practice, that perfect time for other things as well.
Alessandra
20:22 - 20:45
Well, thank you guys so much for being here and just telling us what your thoughts are about the year. And, you know, sometimes when we are accomplishing something, that accomplishment is not bearing fruit. Sometimes the idea just needs to germinate for a nice long while. And all of us have ideas that are like that.
Alessandra
20:46 - 21:29
And it took, like Melanie was talking about, that microphone is sitting there, but it is not sitting there losing energy. That microphone sitting on her desk that she's not yet opened, that microphone is gaining energy. It's gaining more and more and more energy because that idea of hers that we know is so needed in the world to help other medical residents that in turn will save lives, it's a bit of a heavy lift, right? This is not like, oh, here's my favorite blouse today, kind of a podcast.
Alessandra
21:29 - 22:00
What she's talking about is a very micro, specific, clinical kind of a podcast that will save lives. So it needs to germinate longer. So Melanie, that is your accomplishment, is that you've got that box of that sure microphone sitting on your desk, gaining energy while the idea germinates. And that is the magic of creative work hour is it's not a judgy environment.
Alessandra
22:01 - 22:48
So when things just need to sit for a season or two or three, We support you in having that idea sit and germinate, because that too is creative work. We have a friend who came by, oh, several times, and he has this beautiful essay that he wrote about what is writing, and we have applied it to what is creative work. And to paraphrase it, creative work is, sometimes creative work is resting, Sometimes creative work is getting the hell out of bed. Sometimes creative work is putting down the pencil and go getting a snack.
Alessandra
22:49 - 23:08
Sometimes creative work is picking up the pencil and writing one word over and over and over because you don't know what else to do. Sometimes creative work is picking up a book and going and sitting in grandma's rocker. Sometimes creative work, uh oh, a fruit. Sorry about that.
Alessandra
23:09 - 23:43
Sometimes creative work is just sitting down at the same time of day or saying, I want to be there, but I just can't today. I've got squirrels screaming at me from work or what have you. But creative work is not always the image of the composer at the piano at night with the candelabra going and the scratchy pen on the parchment staved paper. Creative work is taking care of yourself.
Alessandra
23:44 - 24:05
Creative work is just being there for other people to be there for themselves. The magic is that we do it in a container of one hour at a time, and we do it together. And with that, I have to ask my friend Greg. Greg, what time is it?
Greg
24:06 - 24:23
That time again, you've wasted some perfectly good time listening to the Creative WorkHour podcast when you could have been doing something else, but no, you tuned in anyway. But what about you? Have you been part of the Creative WorkHour community this year or any other year? And has it been helpful to you?
Greg
24:23 - 24:32
What's it meant to you? Have you listened to the Creative WorkHour podcast this year? What's that meant to you? And what did you aim to accomplish?
Greg
24:33 - 24:43
And what's something important that's happened in your life this year? Let us know. You can visit us at creativeworkhour.com. Come back again next week and we'll have another creative conversation.
Greg
24:44 - 24:44
Thank you.
