Inspired Creators: Prioritizing Play and Preventing Burnout with Anita Stubenrauch
Sup squiggly brained intuitives! Welcome to our six-part series on Inspired Creators, where we’ll be chatting about everything from burnout, embodying your creator archetype, finding your flow-state, and what the witch wound has to do with our creative output.
This week we’re lucky to have the ingenious creative Anita Stubenrauch to talk about pushing through creative blocks and strategies for combating burnout as they appear. Over a 13-year creative career at Apple, Anita authored Apple’s credo, designed presentations given to Steve Jobs, and was Angela Ahrendts’ executive speechwriter. She currently lives in Murphys, California, where she's building a beautiful retreat space, The Land of Make+Believe while running her brand-vision agency, Cause:Effect Creative.
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Show Notes
The pros and cons of being a creative genius
Pillars that are a little bit burnt out and pillars that have been refreshed
Doing your sacred work without sacrificing yourself and your wellbeing
How to recover from burnout as a creative person
How do you thread all different endeavors together in a way that people can understand a cause-and-effect relationship, and in a way that they care about?
Good copywriting as compared to flirting
How to get into that space of having fun with writing and the creative process
What it’s like working with toxic leaders
The difference between burnout and overwhelm
When joy suddenly turns into a challenge
Forcing a model of flexibility on people that isn't actually flexible
Face to face conversation versus virtual
Thriving to do so many things all at once
From being awkward to building resentment
What is the salary range of Apple employees?
How long should someone stick to a job?
How we can use play as creatives to reignite
The things that drive you and the things that might drive the people you want to connect with