When you ask others for things, do you use finesse or force?
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Tim and I are thrilled to host a new series on the blog called COLLAB CORNER. Here, we feature posts by guest artists- artists who are active parts of our growing IVS Community as clients, creatives, and/or collaborators. This week’s post is by the wonderful Kari Lynn Cotone. If you'd like to contribute a piece of writing, please send it to hello@innovativevoicestudio.com!
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You know what’s the best? Watching people’s eyes light up when they get excited about something.
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If you had told me before March 12th, 2020 that this would be the year where I learned to work out in my living room, I would’ve told you that you were out of your damn mind.
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…Remember the days of eating at restaurants?
It got me thinking: Chefs, like us, are artists.
Artists with multiple artistic avenues.
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As a storyteller, I’m drawn to good stories. And so I loved my coach, Peter Shepherd’s, recent story on The Long and the Short of It about how and why he got to 100 days of swimming in the ocean.
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Consider inviting more curiosity into 2021 with some sage wisdom from THE Randy Graff.
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Among many things I’ve learned over the past nine months, the most palpable lesson has been the harsh reminder that we don’t actually have as much control over things as we’d like to think.
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This morning in the Reach Out Party, we were asked to share a question that feels interesting to ask others….ya know, something more interesting to be asked than “How are you?”.
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Tim and I are thrilled to host a new series on the blog called COLLAB CORNER. Here, we feature posts by guest artists- artists who are active parts of our growing IVS Community as clients, creatives, and/or collaborators. This week, we invite DANA RAY to the blog to tackle the question, “So what do you do?”
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During this season of Thanksgiving and gratitude, I’ve been thinking a lot about frames. Frames being the vessels in which we contain and display something worth sharing. And I’ve been asking myself, “If you had to put 2020 in a frame, what would it look like?”
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These days, with my general state of being being, well, ‘whelmed (over, under, all of the kinds), it is too much for me to make big choices. So I stick with what I know to be true, which is that dessert is always better with chocolate.
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Recently, someone asked me if there were any things that I can’t physically touch that I wanted to let go of. Put another way, what did I want to remove from my life/head so that I could move forward?
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I present this week’s blog, which is an ode to my 90s childhood as well as a metaphoric attempt at answering the question currently on the tip of many of my clients’ tongues.
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Last week, I asked a wildly successful NYC agent if he had any advice for theatrical actors living through our current theatre-less predicament. His answer shocked me.
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Six months into a seemingly never ending pandemic and theatrical pause, it feels like many of us are in creative and artistic dips. Recently, someone asked me how I navigate the dip, and I said it’s like Battleship. A good harbor maintains a balanced fleet, so to avoid getting stuck in the dip, have multiple projects on the dock. In order to win the game, you have to sink ALL of the boats, big, small, and in between.
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What are you curious to learn this fall? What projects, ideas, noodles, curiosities are itching for your focus and attention? What would it feel like to concentrate on spending the next few weeks creating something new? Expanding your skill set? Establishing a new routine?
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I’ve been thinking about foundations. We’re often told how important they are in building anything- a craft, a habit, a ritual, a look, a house, a marriage, etc. Anyway, it kind of reminds me of when singing teachers emphasize the importance of “using your support”….and don’t ever explain what “support” means.
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