12+ Green Room 003: Unlocking Your Creativity Through Place: How Location Impacts Mindset
We’re back for the third instalment of The Green Room, our series where we bring you behind the scenes, and tell you what we’re hyper-fixated on, curious about, and everything we crave talking about. It's loose, it’s fun, and if you listened to Good 4U, well, it's kind of like that.
Join Michelle and Katie as they explore the concept of archetypes that are easier to access in different locations. Michelle also shares her dream of turning her Wonder Valley property into a creative retreat where people can focus deeply on projects.
Come hang out in the 12th House Green Room to hear this thought-provoking conversation that provides insight on unlocking your full creative potential.
Key Takeaways:
How cities, nature, and desert unleash different parts of ourselves
The challenge of deep thinking for frequent travelers and digital nomads
Prestige makeup brands like Chanel compared to drugstore alternatives
How epilepsy sparked Michelle's love for New York City during her NYU dance school auditions
Eliminating distractions and cultivating support to achieve intense focus
“The thing about New York is that so much stays the same, but so much changes. And I don’t know if there is something, at least for me, that I found frequently disconcerting about being in New York for like eight or nine years and feeling like I knew it so well. I lived there and grew up there.”
“It’s so bizarre because you have so many memories in one place, and then it changes. I’m sure I’ll experience that to an extreme because I’ve spent so much time there. That’s part of it. But then also, COVID probably expedited a lot of change there. And yes, I think it can definitely be emotional to return to somewhere that you have associated with a lot of meaning.”
“But I will say the difference between LA and New York, in my experience, is that in New York, it’s really hard. If New York wants you, she’ll keep you. But as soon as you decide you’re done with New York, she’s done with you, and she’ll basically kick you out. Everything sucks, and you’re gone. In LA, if you think you’re ready to leave LA, but LA isn’t done with you, she will make you come back. You’re not allowed to leave; you just won’t. The universe will conspire to bring you back into this city somehow until you’ve made your peace with it or until you’ve lived out your sacred contract with this city. I think New York is different. It’s a little bit more spiteful, like, ‘If you don’t want to hang out with me, I don’t want to hang out with you.’ But LA is like, ‘We’re not done with our karma yet. I’m not done with you. You can’t leave yet.’”
“I’ve been thinking about locations as openings or portals. Obviously, it’s one thing, but locations can be like portals where we can access special gifts or have access to more information. For example, when I’m opening the Akashic records for someone, I see all these different paths for them, and I see all these little doors they can open, like universes that lead them to a new universe or a different type of life. People are walking through these doors all day long. Geographically, I wonder if there are certain spaces — I know there’s something like Astro cartography — but even just certain cities that unlock something in us.”
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Michelle's biking commute
Enjoying juicing yet wrestling with health and lifestyle implications
How Michelle uses Notion for her remarkably accurate predictions
Katie's experiment with Kosis concealer
Katie and Michelle's favorite makeup brands, including Kosis, Chanel, and Physician's Formula
Michelle's journey through NYU dance auditions and her battle with seizures
Katie's New York fascination, kindled by visiting her uncle
Confronting the chip on the shoulder about the necessity to live in big cities to be successful
Katie's unsupervised montreal trip unveils overthinking tendencies
Unlocking creativity and self-discovery through desert places and frequencies
Michelle's house in Wonder Valley as an ideal creative retreat location
Challenges of deep thinking amidst constant change as a digital nomad
Accessible archetypes in specific locations
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