Episode 3: reading challenges + art inspires art + spelunking in your soul

The #1 most motivating thing to me? Lists. So, when it comes to keeping my reading life interesting, reading challenges are the best thing for me. Listen in for my favorites! For action, I’m sharing a thing I believe wholeheartedly: art inspires art inspires art. I share what’s been inspiring me lately and challenge you to get inspired, too. Lastly, let’s discuss spelunking in our own souls, a concept I learned from Bob Goff when he came to town. Listen in, friends!

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SHOW NOTES:

• The Read Harder Challenge from Book Riot

• The 2020 Reading Challenge from Modern Mrs. Darcy

• A RAD Reading Challenge

• Inspiration posts for A RAD Reading Challenge

• The Good List (Tsh Oxenreider’s podcast)

• Might I Suggest… (Hayley Morgan’s podcast)

• The National Museum of American History

• Sermon series designs by Emma Julian at The Chapel

• The women at the re:creation creativity retreat:

  • Paige Daniels - Sunday Vibes Photo

  • Nicole Unice

  • Jackie Koenig Painting

  • Carrie Mullins

  • Stacie Heyman - Petal and Stem Floral Design

• Austin Kleon - Steal Like an Artist

• Bob Goff

• Questions for self-reflection / questions to reflect on your year (ignore that it says 2015!)

• Music by Drew Dawson (my talented brother!) // Dawson Music on Twitter + Instagram

• Rachel A. Dawson on Twitter + Instagram + bookstagram

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.”

— TS Eliot

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What’s been inspiring me lately:

Emma Julian // Chapel

National Museum of American History

Austin Kleon

Summit Church

from Verily

poster design

Verily Magazine

Petal and Stem

Sunday Vibes Photo

Womankind Magazine

Elizabeth Olwen

On Flowers

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