This book is a guide and comfort for your creative soul. It’s a mix of prompts, visuals that stimulate, thoughts to ponder, inspiration to gather, and anecdotes to laugh or cry at.

Having lived and breathed creativity from a young age, from performing arts to design, I have experienced quite the roller coaster.

In this book I’ve reflected upon my career from the past decade and from teaching thousands of creatives worldwide. I believe the powerful conversations I’ve had with them has aided in unlocking my own creativity. The advice I share can apply to any creative person, aspiring or experienced, no matter where they are on their creative journey, and not just for those who want to pursue a business path.

I’ve lost my mojo many times, and creativity has been my savior. I recognize how powerful creativity is and how we can use it to help navigate the unpredictable world we live in.

I’m known for speaking from the heart and being chatty. People decribe me as funny, a dreamer yet a realist, an ultimate go-getter, and a ray of positive energy. Yet I’ve struggled with crippling depression and a troubled life. I’m honest and raw and I don’t know another way to be. Professionally these traits run through everything I do, and I once worried about it being a flaw. Yet, with sheer determination, years of honing my talent, keeping a sprinkle of positivity with me, and a lot of hard work, I’ve achieved the unexpected and built a successful but most importantly creative life and career. I’ve learned a lot from this colorful life of mine, and I hope that this insight can help give you the courage to be fearlessly creative.

This book is for you to support you. I hope you take comfort from it and feel that my words are from those of a friend.

There are ten key themes that work as stand-alone chapters, some longer or shorter than others, but they all feed into one another. I ease you in with how to BEGIN and take you on a journey right through to POWER.

Feel free to approach this book however you want—in one sitting, in bite-size chunks, or when the feeling arises. It might be that you want to highlight moments that resonate, make notes, doodle, scan pages, or even tear pages out and pin them on your wall. You have my full permission to treat the book in any way you want to! Read it on a beach, the sofa, the bus, or even the toilet—it doesn’t matter because, hey, I can’t see you doing it! What matters most is that you have shown up for yourself just by reading it.

And although this book was made to help you, lovely reader, it’s also about giving back. There are many people who have helped me on my journey, and some have been pivotal to helping me keep my creative spark alight (naturally you will find them in the acknowledgments). I recognize that sometimes we just need someone to help bring out the creative gift we have inside of us.

If I can bring you comfort, ignite your creative spark, guide you on your way, be the catalyst for your dream, put a smile on your face on a dark day, or open your mind to new possibilities, then the book has done what it’s meant to do. I hope it’s the beginning of something truly wonderful for you.