The Power of Creativity
How can you discover the power of creativity? In this episode of Wisdom of the Ages, Guest Paulette Rees-Denis joins the show to talk about creativity not through the lens of art but of everyday living. Paulette is a passion instigator and movement motivator. She is a Lifestyle and Business Coach for creatives, a speaker, dancer, author, and a leader of feminine celebration. Paulette is also a Tribal Hostess that gathers creatives together in various manners. By finding your cultural tribe, you will feel culturally creative. She believes that creativity can be found through our daily life, each day is unique, and we can never do it twice. In other words, change equates to creativity. Tune in to master your power of creativity!
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Welcome, friends and mystical travelers. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, host of Wisdom of the Ages, and today I have a really fun, very creative guest.
Her name is Paulette Rees-Denis, which sounds very French to me, maybe I will find out some more about her background here. I know she’s, well, you know, I think I’m just going to bring you straight on. I know that you run with things, that you have a podcast that you’re creative, so just jump on in here, Paulette.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
Wow. Creativity is my name.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
I have a question for you. How does creativity help us in these times of increased change and uncertainty and so forth? What’s the power of creativity?
Paulette Rees-Denis:
We could be here for hours. That’s a great question.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
That’s a great way to be.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
It’s a great question. I truly believe that everyone is a creative spirit. A lot of people don’t think that. A lot of people say, “Oh, I can’t draw a straight line.” Well, I don’t even want you to draw a straight line. That’s not what I’m talking about.
Life is creative. Living every day is creative. You never do the same thing twice. Even if you have a ritual, you never do the same thing twice. So living life is creative, as it should be because we are creative souls.
Creativity is change, and I love change. I can’t be stagnant. I can’t stay in the same place. I love to experience all that life has to offer, which is a lot. I’m a creativity coach for lifestyle and business. I’ve written four books. I’ve created a global dance company. I’ve done a lot of things. I’m a chameleon. I live for a change.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
That’s good.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
My dad used to say to me, “When are you going to pick one thing?” and I’m, like, “I’m never going to pick one thing.” It’s too much. There’s too much.
Now there’s a difference between stepping into a creative zone of genius and spreading yourself too thin.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Right. We probably can get into that after the ad break because that’s actually really true. I mean, I’m ridiculously creative also, and sometimes you have to really look at your list of things to do and go, “I’m going to focus on these three things,” so, yeah, I understand that.
But I loved watching your dancers, they’re beautiful, these gypsy dancers, and I listen to some of your podcasts. I think they’re good also to help people understand that it’s okay to be creative. It’s feminine. I mean, the feminine, seems to be rising again so this is good news.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
Yes.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
We need this balance in the world, the dance of the masculine and feminine.
I’m going to just delve a little bit further, and then we’ll take this ad break. But it seems to me that a lot of people, I mean, so maybe we’re busting out of the traditional mindset and people want things to be the same, banks to look the same, and money to look the same, and everything to look the same, and health to look the same, and that’s not what’s going on. And it seems like, I mean, I grew up in an artist studio. I showed you my mom’s painting.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
Yes. Fantastic.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
She’s great, gwencatesart.net. She’s really fun, and so I’m used to colors and dancing ladies and all sorts of things.
Now that fills me with hope and delight and the shifting from ordinary mindset to extraordinary mindset.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
I love that. That’s good. That’s a good phrase right there.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
There you go. Okay, run with that one.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
I mean, I am a wordsmith, I love words. Thoughts become words, become things. This is one of the things that I’ve been doing so much lately because I run a journaling class. I’m actually doing a journaling challenge this week, and getting people to really understand how they use words and how they describe themselves is so huge, and to own who you are, to stand up and own who you are, and use words that describe you and use words that are powerful and illuminating and descriptive and colorful. I mean, how many times do you hear, “Oh, I’m overweight,” or “I need a nose job,” or “I haven’t done my hair in a year?” I mean, just really negative banter.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Not so often in my world.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
Well, and that’s great, and that’s great. But as a coach-
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Yeah, but I’m lucky though, I think, because I’m, yeah.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
As a coach, I hear this and, of course, I’m here to help rearrange that. But I feel that a lot of women fall into those ruts, and that’s a general statement, of course. I mean, I surround myself with beautiful, inspired, creative artists, too, and I have always.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Well, your dancers look pretty beautiful to me.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
My God.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Right?
Paulette Rees-Denis:
Well, right, but they didn’t start that way.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
You know, I was wondering. I was actually, maybe we can talk about it after, but I was, like, “Does she have a dance class we can do on Zoom because maybe I could do some belly dancing?” I mean, all of this pandemic, you know, I could get into that.
Okay, so I’m going to take an ad break. What’s your website? How can people find you? And also mention your podcast.
Paulette Rees-Denis:
Oh, the podcast is Heart and Hustle, Visionary Healers, Movers and Shakers, which, of course, a guest on. That’s it right back there behind me with a big halo. My website is pauletterees-denis.com.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Okay. We’ll see you in a minute. All right. So we will get more into the power of creativity in a minute. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.
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