Connecting to Your Creative Courage, with Maressa Fernandez

Things We Talk About In This Episode:

• The business idea that grew out of Maressa’s own creative slump
• How important it is to value creativity (Maressa says it’s the uniqueness that makes us human) even if the people around us - and society in general - don’t recognise the value
• The challenge of finding the balance on Instagram (and elsewhere) between “what I want to share” and “what people want”
• Developing an Instagram account that creates space for you to be a whole person, and that can evolve alongside your interests
• How talking to camera on video became a way for Maressa to make her content more accessible to people with visual and hearing disabilities
• The way in which Maressa uses her platform to talk about anti-racism, in a way that started out from a need to share and evolved into a process of very personal and vulnerable education
• Talking to our children about racism (“we need to see colour in order to see privilege”)
• Maressa’s Patreon space: why she started it, how she structures it, and how creating a paid space enabled Maressa to start valuing herself, and helped members of her community likewise value themselves
• The difference between consciously selling, versus sharing with genuine excitement about what we are doing
• Parenting and creativity, and how Maressa models the creative life to her children

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Maressa on Instagram: @maressamade
• Mareesa’s Patreon community
• Maressa's Maker Affirmations series
• Some of Maressa's Anti Racism videos: here, here and here
• Nova Reid's HA podcast episode “Anti-Racism Work for Well-Meaning Liberals”
• Nova Reid's Instagram
• The Insta Retreat

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