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Week Four : Recovering a Sense of Integrity

$ · July 14, 2023

The Artist's Way Book Study

Creating Your Offer Ecosystem

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

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

Forming creative community, trusting our light

5 Reasons the World Needs Your Online Class

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

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

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

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

Crying in front of strangers

Your art matters

Setting intentions for The Artist Way Book Study

Storytelling as a Throughline with Tamara Santibañez

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

Adventures of the ordinary

Swimming gives me the answers

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

Finding the Pace of Our Work

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

What we have right now is enough

Thirty five things I know at thirty five

Today is my birthday

Our Work is a Web with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

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

The Artist's Way Book Study

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

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...

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

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

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

First two episodes are live

Creating Creative Containers

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

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

Yes Yes Podcast Archive

$ · May 11, 2023

The reader's advice column

The blessing of being mediocre

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

Welcome to Common Shapes

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

I’ve never grown a plant outdoors

Sapphic love and getting wrecked

$ · April 28, 2023

Queering everything, boy4boy, and lesbian visibility

When our scars make us a quilt

Trans bodies across space and time

Friday Thread : Money and Business Resources

WHAT RESOURCES DO YOU USE + CONSUME TO KNOW YOURSELF ON A BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL LEVEL? As a business owner, self employed artist, person with a side hustle,...

Surrounding ourselves with good witnesses

Savoring our attention and having people to work beside

Finding inspiration in the ordinary day

$ · April 14, 2023

Remaining disciplined without external deadlines, the energetic drain of "hat switching", and finding inspiration beyond the phone

The faith of an inventory practice

Building out your own Creative Ideation Portal

Friday Thread : How do we begin?

HOW DO YOU BEGIN YOUR DAY? YOUR PRACTICE? THE TASKS YOU DO NOT WANT TO TACKLE? I notice when comes time to write I never want to write. I make a million...

The flood of new ideas

The silence before the output

Friendships on the rocks, house buying regret, and caring for loved ones in the throes of addiction

Yes Yes Advice Column

Ten years of newsletters

The commitment to telling the people the facts of my life, the hopes of my spirit, and the magic that holds my attention

Friday Thread : On writing and art, how our practice changes

WHAT BOOKS AND PODCASTS ARE INSPIRING YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE RIGHT NOW? What are you listening to right now or reading that makes your writing, art,...

My little projects keep me company

My hands are covered in paint

Shape shifting, shame, and transformation

My biggest career regret and the hopes that follow

Everywhere is your studio

The practice of telling the people

Friday Thread : Marketing as Creative Practice

HOW DO YOU MARKET YOUR OFFERINGS AND PROMOTE YOUR WORK OUTSIDE OF SOCIAL MEDIA? What happens when we ignore the grid? May we stay tuned in! May it be so!...