Monday Monday

I grew a tomato

August 28, 2023

Miracles of time

Week Ten : Recovering a Sense of Self Protection

$ · August 25, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Success on Substack

August 21, 2023

Craft a Subscription Newsletter Worth Reading

Week Nine : Recovering a Sense of Compassion

$ · August 18, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

May the leap from the top be swift

August 14, 2023

Coming out of retirement

Week Eight : Recovering a Sense of Strength

$ · August 12, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Alone on the shore

August 7, 2023

Unapologetically me!

Week Seven : Recovering a Sense of Connection

$ · August 5, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

As the flowers find their names

July 31, 2023

The art of the diagnosis

Week Six : Recovering a Sense of Abundance

$ · July 28, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

The plants become themselves

July 25, 2023

When nothing is steady the plants stay true

Week Five : Recovering a Sense of Possibility

$ · July 21, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Embracing Your Everchanging Job Description

July 20, 2023

Making this podcast brought me into a business ecosystem crisis. Very little of my output changed, but my inner understanding of my work needed to shift.So...

Running out of ideas

July 17, 2023

Summer's cruel illusion

Week Four : Recovering a Sense of Integrity

$ · July 14, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Creating Your Offer Ecosystem

July 12, 2023

Your offer ecosystem is how your creative offerings branch out of your artistry, fit together in the world, increase your income, and expand your reach.In...

The dilemma of self employment

July 10, 2023

How we become our jobs

Week Three : Recovering a Sense of Power

$ · July 7, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Artists Need Each Other

July 5, 2023

Forming creative community, trusting our light

5 Reasons the World Needs Your Online Class

July 5, 2023

Teaching online classes is how I’ve made the majority of my income since 2017. And it is a great joy of my career to have had such amazing, invested, weird,...

Week Two : Recovering a Sense of Identity

$ · June 30, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

How to Commit to the Life of an Artist with Anna Fusco

June 28, 2023

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my internet friend Anna Fusco to discuss dedicating your life to art. Anna is an artist, writer, deep...

Teaching as a practice

June 26, 2023

Our creative offerings aren't always obvious

Week One : Recovering a Sense of Safety

$ · June 23, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

6 Tools for When You Don’t Know What To Do Next

June 21, 2023

I think the great fear of most creative people is that we’ll run out of ideas and not know what to do next. I come up against this time and time again in my...

The desire to stay hidden

June 19, 2023

Crying in front of strangers

Your art matters

June 16, 2023

Setting intentions for The Artist Way Book Study

Storytelling as a Throughline with Tamara Santibañez

June 14, 2023

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m sharing the mic with my friend Tamara Santibañez for a conversation about oral histories, tattooing, freelancing,...

The magic of the artist date

June 12, 2023

Adventures of the ordinary

Swimming gives me the answers

June 10, 2023

The only place you can't use your phone is the water

Finding the Pace of Our Work

June 7, 2023

This week on Common Shapes, I share four practices for checking in with your creative pace — internal seasons, intuitive sharing, weather systems, and the...

Looking for the in between

June 5, 2023

What we have right now is enough

Thirty five things I know at thirty five

June 2, 2023

Today is my birthday

Our Work is a Web with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

May 31, 2023

This week I’m welcoming Common Shapes’ very first guest, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. Lukaza (they/them/Lukaza) an artist, abolitionist, educator, storyteller,...

Doing things with other people

May 29, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Friday Thread : Tending to our Self Esteem in the studio and beyond

May 26, 2023

HOW DO YOU TEND TO YOUR SELF ESTEEM? What rituals do you do daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, or yearly to root you into an unshakeable sense of self? When...

Art as Service

May 24, 2023

This week’s episode of Common Shapes is about the fact (yes, it’s a fact) that your art is of service, no matter what you create. I also share my four...

The Art of Newsletters

May 24, 2023

Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about why I love newsletters and why you (yes, you) should have one. Together we’ll explore the marketing side and the...

Fatigue and the digital footprint

May 22, 2023

The dance of disappearing and showing up

How to stop loving your ex, self employment without social media, and the faith it takes to write

$ · May 20, 2023

Yes Yes Advice Column

Common Shapes Podcast

May 17, 2023

First two episodes are live

Creating Creative Containers

May 17, 2023

Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about creating creative containers for our work and convening the spiritual committees that help us make and share our...

Making a Beginning

May 17, 2023

Welcome to Common Shapes! This week’s episode is about the art of beginning AKA the moment just before the sunrise of our projects when anything and...

The annoying act of telling people what you do

May 15, 2023

I am annoying

Yes Yes Podcast Archive

$ · May 11, 2023

The reader's advice column

The blessing of being mediocre

May 8, 2023

The long process of falling in love and the art of beginning

Welcome to Common Shapes

May 8, 2023

Welcome to Common Shapes, a podcast about practices, systems and rituals for creative life.It’s hosted by me, Cody Cook-Parrott.And on this show, I talk...

Friday Thread : Picking up the loose ends

$ · May 5, 2023

HOW DO YOU BEGIN AGAIN AFTER YOU HAVE STRAYED FROM A PRACTICE? When you have daily rituals, projects you are working on, things you tend to with love - when...

The dawn of the great garden experiment

May 1, 2023

I’ve never grown a plant outdoors

Sapphic love and getting wrecked

$ · April 28, 2023

Queering everything, boy4boy, and lesbian visibility