Mar 30, 2020
In this laughter-filled and very inspiring interview with the lovely Christie Glascoe, author, editor, screenwriter, creative coach, and professional life-lesson-learner, we talk and giggle about:
- Life under lockdown
- How people are approaching social distancing
- The speed at which things are changing
- Getting news from all over the world
- Day to day life in Atlanta
- Printing out permits to go outside in Paris
- The need to cooperate to make isolation last less time
- How isolation is easier for folks who usually work from home
- Dressing up from the waist up
- But it’s not so easy to work from home
- Changes that will hopefully become permanent after coronavirus
- The possibilities of this sucky experiment
- How the possibilities of reinventing next chapters are now being thrown at us
- How the environment is improving because we are staying home
- Does Mother Nature have a grand plan to keep us at home?
- How the earth is cleansing and we have the chance to do that to
- Rethinking everything as creativity blooms
- How we can all be creative especially now
- The taboo of therapy in the Black community
- Using writing/journalling as therapy
- How the pandemic is a great social leveller
- Having more time and what to do with it
- No longer having reasons for not having enough time
- The opportunity to tap into the talents we’d forgotten we had
- The forgotten Generation X and how we get lost between millennials and boomers
- How millennials will never survive the zombie apocalypse
- The huge value of old school skills combined with tech knowledge
- What creative adulting means
- Living our best lives within our own capabilities not someone else’s
- Being youlo instead of jlo
- Getting your story out into the world
- Not putting ourselves last on our own list
- How taking care of ourselves is not selfish
- Getting creative about being creative
- Making the most of this time to realize a dream
- Doing something positive in the midst of all this negativity
- Making something that will carry beyond this crisis
You can find out more about Christie:
Website | chatterboxchristie.com
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