Intuition, Journaling, And Overcoming Fear. The Creative Cure With Jacob Nordby
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
How can you release more creativity into your writing — and your life? What are some practices to foster creativity in a time of change and overwhelm? Jacob Nordby gives his tips.
In the intro, tips for spring cleaning as indie authors; Death Valley – A Thriller Kickstarter; Death Valley book trailer; Footprints Podcast – Bath in Literature;
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Jacob Nordby is an entrepreneur and author of several books, including The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life.
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Show Notes
* Indications we might need a “creative cure”
* Practices to strengthen your connection with creativity
* Journaling as a tool to work through mental and creative blocks
* Practices around the physical body
* Tapping into your intuition
* Overcoming the fear that holds you back
* Time and effort involved in changing career directions
* How to keep pivoting, changing, and moving forward
You can find Jacob at JacobNordby.com.
Transcript of Interview with Jacob Nordby
Joanna: Jacob Nordby is an entrepreneur and author of several books, including The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life. So welcome to the show, Jacob.
Jacob: Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be here, Jo.
Joanna: I'm excited to talk to you. So first up—
Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into creativity and writing.
Jacob: Well, I was born … We won't start there! When I was 10 years old, I came out into the living room, and I'd been reading a book, which I did mostly. We didn't watch television or see movies or anything like that. So books were my very best friends.
So I came out of the living room and told my parents that I want to be a writer. Of course,
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business. |
| 0:14.7 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint, and lots more at thecreativepen.com. |
| 0:22.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 798 of the podcast. And it is Wednesday, |
| 0:34.2 | the 5th of March 2025, as I record this early early as we are off to Iceland for my 50th birthday. |
| 0:41.1 | In today's show, I'm talking about creativity with Jacob Nordby, who was very good at throwing |
| 0:47.0 | questions back to me actually, so he had quite the revealing discussion that went in directions |
| 0:51.7 | neither of us expected, which is always refreshing. |
| 0:59.4 | But we talk about how you can release more creativity into your writing and your life, |
| 1:04.2 | practices to foster creativity in a time of change and overwhelm, |
| 1:13.7 | and much more, including leaning into your intuition, dealing with fear and lots more. So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:22.2 | In writing and publishing things, well, there's not much to report because I'm a bit early on this. |
| 1:29.3 | So I thought I'd share something I've been thinking about. Spring has definitely sprung here in Bath. The crocuses and the daffodils are out and the sun is warm, although it's still pretty chilly in the shade |
| 1:35.1 | and in the evening. But people have been walking around town and smiling and everyone's just so |
| 1:40.2 | happy the winter feels like it's over. And I am having a hankering for spring cleaning |
| 1:45.3 | decluttering and generally emerging from the hibernation of winter. One of the blessings of seasonal |
| 1:52.3 | living is leaning into these changes and so it got me thinking about what spring cleaning |
| 1:57.2 | means to us as authors. Here are a few things we can do to spring clean. |
| 2:03.1 | First of all, clean out your old backlist and refresh your sales descriptions, keywords and |
| 2:09.3 | even your covers if they are dated. So I use Claude and Chat GPT to rewrite my sales descriptions |
| 2:16.0 | or write them from scratch for pretty much the last |
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