Together we discuss:

• How curiosity is at the heart of creativity
• The connection between creativity, family, and identity
• Vintage photographs as storytelling and emotional memory
• Gardening as “dirt medicine” and creative restoration
• Midlife creativity and continuing to evolve as an artist
• Authenticity versus trying to be “unique”
• The role of courage in the creative process
• Facing the inner critic with truth and logic
• Why comparison doesn’t define your worth as an artist
• Creating as an act of healing, honesty, and invitation

Memorable Quotes

“I wasn’t striving to be unique. I was striving to be authentic.”

“What do I need to do to be brave and bold in life?”

“The biggest gifts we can give are to cultivate authenticity.”

“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”

“You can do this. Look, I’m doing it. You can do it too.”

About Stephanie:

Bio - "I believe our creative power is meant to shape not only art, but the life around it. Through plaster, gesso, mixed media, and encaustic, I create luminous, tactile work that invites others to trust their creative instincts and make something—anything—of their own. My online courses and eBooks guide artists through metalsmithing, sculptural plaster, and encaustic with a practical, liberating, & rule-bending approach."

Website: stephanieleeart.com

Instagram: @stephanieleemaker

Youtube: Make & Grow with Stephanie Lee

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Connect with Melanie:

Connect with Melanie Website: www.melaniefaganart.com

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/melaniefaganart

Free Collage Class: Unfolding Joy on the Path of a Beauty Seeker https://tinyurl.com/mrh4mxtd

Together, we reflect on the ways in which God meets us in our right where we are in life and how creativity can become a sacred pathway toward restoration. From mixed media art, landscape-inspired wonder, and claiming your figurative resilience, this episode is filled with encouragement for anyone longing to create from a place of peace, healing, and hope.

We discuss:

• What resilience looks like in the creative life
• How God brings beauty out hard seasons
• How creating can become a form of prayer and healing
• The connection between art, faith, and restoration
• Trusting God’s call through every season
• Creating with honesty, softness, and hope

This episode is an invitation to remember that you do not need to have everything figured out to begin again. God is still creating beauty within your story.

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Connect with Colleen in the links below through her art, online classes, and creative offerings. Free Class in her Art As Healing Series - Sketching Meditations: https://tinyurl.com/yf98k2n2

Also, go read her bio on her website!! ;) https://colleenkastnerart.com/new-about-colleen/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@colleenkastnerart⁩

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colleenkastner/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Colleenkastnerartist

Website: https://colleenkastnerart.com/

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Connect with Melanie Website: www.melaniefaganart.com

Patreon: / melaniefaganart

Free Collage Class: Unfolding Joy on the Path of a Beauty Seeker https://tinyurl.com/mrh4mxtd

Together, we explore creativity, curiosity, simple joys, meaningful rhythms, and the ways God gently meets us through ordinary moments. This conversation is filled with encouragement to slow down, pay attention, and rediscover wonder in the life already surrounding you.

Jodie shares insights from her creative journey and reminds us that beauty is not reserved for extraordinary moments — it is often found right in the middle of daily life.

In this episode, we discuss: • Living with greater awareness and wonder • Finding beauty in ordinary moments • Creativity as a way of noticing and savoring • Curiosity, inspiration, and joyful living • The sacredness of everyday rhythms • Slowing down to experience life more fully

This episode is Part Three of a special three-part series:

• Part One — Becoming Who You’re Meant to Be

• Part Two — This Is the Stuff of Life

• Part Three — Living with Eyes Wide Open

Jodi also shares where you can connect with her art, online classes, and creative offerings.

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yc7tf922

Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/4eernume - @jodene.s

Facebook: /jodene.shaw

Website: https://www.whiteowlwings.com/

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/JodeneShaw

Newsletter: Love Notes From The Gravel Road is available by subscribing on her website at the bottom of her home page.

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Connect with Melanie Website: www.melaniefaganart.com Patreon: / melaniefaganart Free Guide: Finally, merge your faith and creativity with passion and purpose! Download the Ask, Seek, & Knock Guide to Creating with Beauty. https://tinyurl.com/548zm6ns

In Part Two of this special three-part conversation, artist Jodie and I continue talking about the beauty of living awake to the sacredness of everyday life.

This episode is a gentle invitation to slow down, pay attention, and rediscover wonder in the ordinary moments we often overlook. Together, we explore creativity, curiosity, beauty, daily rhythms, and the ways God lovingly speaks through simple things.

Jodie shares insights from her creative life and reminds us that beauty is not something reserved for extraordinary moments — it’s woven into the life we’re already living.

In this episode, we discuss: • Living with greater awareness and wonder • Finding beauty in ordinary daily life • Creativity as a way of noticing and savoring • Curiosity, inspiration, and joyful living • The sacredness of simple moments • Sharing beauty and encouragement online

This episode is Part Two of a special three-part series:

• Part One — Becoming Who You’re Meant to Be

• Part Two — This is the Stuff of Life

• Part Three — Living with Eyes Wide Open

Connect with Jodie:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yc7tf922

Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/4eernume - @jodene.s

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jodene.shaw

Website: https://www.whiteowlwings.com/

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/JodeneShaw

Newsletter: Love Notes From The Gravel Road is available by subscribing on her website at the bottom of her home page.

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Connect with Melanie Website: www.melaniefaganart.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/cw/melaniefaganart Free Guide: Finally, merge your faith and creativity with passion and purpose! Download the Ask, Seek, & Knock Guide to Creating with Beauty. https://tinyurl.com/548zm6ns

Together, we explore how God lovingly shapes our lives through beauty, creativity, curiosity, everyday moments, and even difficult seasons. Jodi shares pieces of her story, her creative journey, and the precious wisdom she’s gathered along the way.

This conversation is filled with encouragement for anyone longing to live more fully awake to beauty, purpose, and the presence of God in ordinary life.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Becoming who God created you to be

• Creativity as a sacred and healing practice

• Paying attention to beauty in everyday life

• Living with curiosity and wonder

• The connection between joy, purpose, and presence

• Finding encouragement through simple moments

This episode is Part One of a special three-part series:

• Part One — Becoming Who You’re Meant to Be

• Part Two — This is the Stuff of Life

• Part Three — Living with Eyes Wide Open

Connect with Jodie:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yc7tf922

Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/4eernume - @jodene.s

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jodene.shaw

Website: https://www.whiteowlwings.com/

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/JodeneShaw

Newsletter: Love Notes From The Gravel Road is available by subscribing on her website at the bottom of her home page.

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Connect with Melanie

Website: www.melaniefaganart.com

Patreon: https://patreon.com/cw/melaniefaganart

Download My Free Guide: Finally, merge your faith and creativity with passion and purpose! Download the Ask, Seek, & Knock Guide to Creating with Beauty.

https://tinyurl.com/548zm6ns

What began in 2008 as a small business using a Cricut machine to create scripture tiles, to help cover grocery expenses, has blossomed into a deeply meaningful ministry.

Donna shares how her work evolved from selling handmade items to creating watercolor art as an act of prayer, worship, connection, and healing. Through seasons of growth and grief, Donna discovered that creativity was never just about making, it was about meeting with God. Her studio became a sanctuary, a place of prayer, peace, and restoration.

Today, she teaches workshops, shares scripture through her art, and gently reminds others of a simple but powerful truth: Jesus loves you. This episode is an invitation to listen for God’s voice in your creative life, to step forward in faith, and to allow your art to embrace every season of life, faith, and creating.

To connect with Donna, visit her links below:

Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/yc87an84

Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3399erzn

Etsy: https://tinyurl.com/mumbded

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/57bpjwbr

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Connect with Melanie: www.melaniefaganart.com

For Jeanie, creativity has never been separate from faith. It has always been woven into daily life, through making, noticing beauty in nature, and creating meaningful pieces filled with scripture, prayer, and symbolism.

Together, we talk about the courage it takes to create, especially during difficult seasons of life, and how creativity can become a way of living that brings peace, healing, and connection with God.

Jeanie also shares how her love of nature, trees, paint, and getting her hands dirty with mixed-media fun influences her art and reminds her of the beautiful ways God shapes and refines our lives.

This episode is a quiet invitation to see creativity not as something reserved for artists, but as a way of living, a way of noticing beauty and responding to God with our hearts and hands.

In this episode, we also discuss:

• Discovering creativity as something innate and God-given

• How faith and creativity naturally flow together

• Finding light and peace through art during difficult seasons

• The beauty of mixed media and embracing the “ugly stage” of creativity

• Creating meaningful art that incorporates scripture and prayer

• How nature reflects God's creative beauty

• Creativity as a form of prayer and healing

• Creating even while living with chronic pain or illness

• Learning the courage to keep creating

• How creativity can happen in small moments instead of big projects

Jeanie has a FREE OFFERING - the Lean Into Christ PDF download she mentions. It's perfect for slowing down, reflecting, and leaning into the love, care, and guidance of Jesus.

Download here: https://subscribepage.io/NVQ6VG

Jeanie's deeply meaningful and sweet little charm necklace is available on her Etsy shop.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/858383979/heavens-reminders-locket-necklace?ref=share_v4_lx

Take Jeanie's latest class: Angels Among Us - Mixed Media Angels https://tinyurl.com/yc79mfsn

Connect with Jeanie:

Website: https://www.jeaniedstudio.com

YouTube: @jeaniedstudio-1

Instagram: @jeaniedickinsonart

Facebook: jeanie.dickinson

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Watch this episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/mho38-7hnw8

Connect with Melanie:

https://www.melaniefaganart.com/links

Hello Friends! Welcome to the very first episode of The Creating with Beauty Podcast.

In this deeply tender conversation, I sit down with my dear friend Alisa Milsap, who is an artist, weaver, photographer, writer, and Beauty-seeker, to talk about creativity, anxiety, and how God meets us in the smallest of places.

Living on a quiet farm in Nebraska, Allisa shares how debilitating anxiety once froze her at the easel and confined her to walking up and down her long country driveway. It was there, among gravel and wild grasses, that God began restoring her heart.

Through petrified wood, feathers, broken robin’s eggshells, and seed heads swaying in the wind, she discovered something life-changing:

God is in the details, and sometimes healing begins by simply noticing them.

Join me, my friend, on the path of the Beauty Seeker where together we'll savor God's Beauty, grow in His Love, and create with joy.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here:

https://youtu.be/LlX0npbaWy0?si=Q3Rjz88Zu_0gWWA9

You can find Alissa on:

Website: https://ellaandrubys.com/

YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/@ellaandrubys

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ella_and_rubys/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alissa.millsap

Newsletter Subscription: https://ellaandrubys.com/connect

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