The Metaphor Mindset is a podcast for artists and creative thinkers, entrepreneurs and leaders who want to explore ideas around creativity and commerce. Think like an artist. Work like a boss. See full images and show notes at https://www.metaphormindset.com
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The shape of your goals, career and business is created by the decisions you make - The constraints or freedoms you choose, and what you do and don't do.
Mostly we look at Positive Space - the shape we are creating. But … looking at the negative space gives us a new perspective on any situation, from art, to sales,...
Seeds hold profound symbolism and are often associated with concepts of growth, potential, and new beginnings.
Inside every hard shell - including the one on our shoulders - is a world of knowledge that can guide you in your creative entrepreneurship, but sometimes you just need a little guidance.
In this episode, art and business coach Shannon Borg talks about the symbolism of seeds, and ...
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Landscapes are the place of personal mythology
Inner to Outer: Sand Play, the Beach, the Desert
The Inner Journey often begins in real places, translated and transformed into art through the artist’s creative process to inner places.
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Brene Brown’s challenge to “Enter the Arena”
The Roman Arena = The Place of Sand
Inner to Outer: Sand Play, The Beach, The Desert
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www.shannonborg.com/metaphor-mindset-podcast/22-in-the-arena-of-sand
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History of the Artists’ Studio Tour
The Studio is the Mind
Visit me on the San Juan Island Artists’ Studio Tour
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https://www.shannonborg.com/metaphor-mindset-podcast/21-studio-tour
On Mother's Day, let's talk about baby steps. And breakthroughs. One usually precedes the other - but sometimes they work back and forth, from baby steps to breakthrough and back, in a continual process of growth.
Find images and show notes at: https://www.shannonborg.com/metaphor-mindset-podcast/20-baby-steps-breakthroughs
In this episode I talk about the Feather of Truth from the story and many sculptures and narrative images of the Ancient Egyptian goddess Maat, who wore a beautiful ostrich feather on her head, representing truth, justice and cosmic harmony. Learn how this metaphor helps us think about balancing our thoughts from different parts of our lives, including art and business.
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Rosa Bonheur hung out with Wild Bill Cody, and got a special permit to wear trousers. She was truly a horse of a different color.
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Recap: Plato’s Allegory of the Soul : The “soul” is a chariot driven by a charioteer (Reason), drawn by two horses - let’s call them Yin (dark) and Yang (light).
Rosa Bonheur’s “The Horse Fair” painting is a beautiful e...
Are you “White Horsing it” in your art or business? Have you noticed when you are in the state of waiting for that (fill in the blank: prince, princess, cowboy, savior, hero) to come and save you? (‘cuz I have).
This episode returns to Plato's Allegory of the soul, with its charioteer managing two horses - a wild one, and a noble one. We need both horses - both sides of ourselves to get there.
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The Chariot of our Creative Life is pulled by two horses - according to Plato - a noble horse, and a wild horse.
We have many sides to our interior life that we must manage as artists - emotions, thoughts, ideas, expectations - all are important. Plato’s allegory of the soul as a charioteer driven by two horses - one noble, one wild - gives us some interesting ideas to think about whe...
What IS Impostor Syndrome?
Where did it come from, and how does it manifest in the artist’s life?
How you think about Impostor Syndrome can create a powerful result.
Find Full Show Notes at https://www.shannonborg.com/metaphor-mindset-podcast/15-embrace-impostor-syndrome
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When is a work of art DONE? How do you decide?
Do you have anxiety over when to call a work finished and move on?
Use the Wild/Abandon Scale to help you gain self-awareness around your pathway to finishing project.
I can't believe I've been doing this for a whole quarter!
In this episode, I offer 3 tools to help you review your art, business or any other event, class or project.
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How much time do you spend in the past? In the future?
A Quarterly Review can be a calming and grounding practice in your art - and business.
Here are 3 too...
Creative Meditation can help you find new ideas, process and feel calmer and more connected to the ideas you have, and enhance your creative process, so you can feel calmer, more centered, and more productive as an artist.
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George Bernard Shaw said, "We do not find ourselves, we create ourselves."
So when it comes to artistic voice, I really feel like it's a combination of the two. Finding yourself and creating yourself. What do you think?
"It’s bigger on the inside."
Today I want to talk about TIME - how time works in art — and also - how to manage your time.
This is a line from the British cult sci-fi show Dr. Who - the TARDIS looks like a blue phone booth on the outside, but when you walk in, it is a huge spaceship.
This is like our brains, our art, too.
When you enter a painting, it expands i...
The art world was in a tizzy last week when a visitor to the Art Wynwood Fair in Miami accidentally kicked the pedestal, where a shiny bright blue porcelain, balloon shaped dog stood knocking it to the floor. This "art event" made all the papers, and made the artist, Jeff Koons, even more famous than he already was. What is fame, what is obscurity - and , as an artist - do you want either? Or both?
In this episode, I talk about obs...
Let's talk about the artist's struggle. There's a concept I teach called the Struggle Button. This episode, I'll tell you all about it, and there are also a few paintings and stories about little creatures who have overcome their struggles in order to grow.
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Each week, artist and art & business coach Shannon Borg explores an idea that relates both to art and to business.
By making these connections, Borg helps her artist clients d...
Today, I want to talk about the flow state. That moment when time stops and you are in the zone. We often know what this feels like because we've experienced the opposite.
Fear of the blank page, the creative block.
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Each week, artist and art & business coach Shannon Borg explores an idea that relates both to art and to business.
By making these connections, Borg helps her artist clients discover more unique and innovative ways to...
What are the roles artists need in a business to help it thrive?
The 4 “Hats” we wear are:
The Creator Hat
The Leader Hat
The Operator Hat
The Promoter Hat
Take the “What is Your Artistic Archetype?” Quiz
Take the Free mini-course: The 4 Hats of Artists in Business, and get the free 4-Hats Business Assessment (PDF) at www.shannonborg.com/4-hats
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Each week, artist and art & business coach Shannon Borg ...
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