05: Lisa-Maree Botticelli - Optimizing Your Business, Leadership & Life with Creativity & Art

The Life:Optimised Show

In this episode of The Life:Optimized Show, I speak with Creativity Coach, Lisa-Maree Botticelli, about the social, political and business implications of creativity and art, the stigmas and expectations around these things, and how accessing and nurturing your creativity can actually help you in your business, leadership and life in many ways. Stick around for an amazing guided art-therapy meditation exercise in the last quarter of this episode too! -- Lisa-Maree Botticelli is a gentle force: a Creativity Coach, social activist, artist, photographer, curator, writer and humanitarian. Using the power of art, Lisa-Maree is re-writing Australian history by bringing to our awareness the need for everyone to express creativity in every day life. Idealistic and socially aware, Lisa-Maree has emerged from the shadow of creatively stifling employment, to produce artworks of humanitarian triumph. Lisa-Maree turned to making art and using her creativity, as a tool for healing, after suffering a huge loss in her life. She found expressing her creativity daily increased and optimised her potential, bringing her greater happiness and fulfilment in her life. After taking retrenchment from work and finding more time on her hands, she began exploring her creativity and discovered this was the critical ingredient missing from her working life. From her experience, being an artist and achieving financial success was not easy, especially compared with other careers. And yet, artists still have the same needs and desires, as other humans, in terms of survival and thriving. She founded Pure Creativity Coaching to help others combine their creativity, with making more money, while making a difference in the world. From her research and working with clients, Lisa-Maree found many people are unfulfilled in their money-making activities, working for an organisation can be creatively stifling and it's time to find more meaning from life, while being paid well, doing what you love.