Common Shapes (Cody Cook-Parrott)
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| 08 May 2023 | Welcome to Common Shapes | 00:06:32 | |
Welcome to Common Shapes, a podcast about practices, systems and rituals for creative life.
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| 17 May 2023 | Making a Beginning | 00:31:59 | |
Welcome to Common Shapes! This week’s episode is about the art of beginning AKA the moment just before the sunrise of our projects when anything and everything is possible. Tune in to hear me share—
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| 17 May 2023 | Creating Creative Containers | 00:31:15 | |
Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about creating creative containers for our work and convening the spiritual committees that help us make and share our art. Tune in to hear me share—
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| 24 May 2023 | The Art of Newsletters | 00:36:20 | |
Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about why I love newsletters and why you (yes, you) should have one. Together we’ll explore the marketing side and the creative side of newsletters. I’ll also share—
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| 24 May 2023 | Art as Service | 00:34:07 | |
This week’s episode of Common Shapes is about the fact (yes, it’s a fact) that your art is of service, no matter what you create. I also share my four containers for connecting with the why behind your work. And I offer many, many ideas for how to market your art in creative, fun, meaningful ways. Listen in to learn—
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| 31 May 2023 | Our Work is a Web with Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo | 00:59:34 | |
This week I’m welcoming Common Shapes’ very first guest, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. Lukaza (they/them/Lukaza) an artist, abolitionist, educator, storyteller, cultural worker and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of B.I.Q.T.P.O.C. (Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, people of color) stories. Listen in to hear us discuss—
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| 07 Jun 2023 | Finding the Pace of Our Work | 00:53:44 | |
This week on Common Shapes, I share four practices for checking in with your creative pace — internal seasons, intuitive sharing, weather systems, and the earning pathway.
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| 14 Jun 2023 | Storytelling as a Throughline with Tamara Santibañez | 01:05:30 | |
This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m sharing the mic with my friend Tamara Santibañez for a conversation about oral histories, tattooing, freelancing, and art as activism. Tamara is an interdisciplinary artist and oral historian living and working in Brooklyn. Their work is rooted in storytelling and the visual language of identity construction, exploring subcultural semiotics and the meanings we make from bodily adornment.
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| 21 Jun 2023 | 6 Tools for When You Don’t Know What To Do Next | 00:32:27 | |
I think the great fear of most creative people is that we’ll run out of ideas and not know what to do next. I come up against this time and time again in my own work, so I’ve developed a series of practices for releasing fear, removing blocks, returning to center, and discovering what’s next. Tune in to this episode to learn my six favorite tools for when I don’t know what to do, including—
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| 28 Jun 2023 | How to Commit to the Life of an Artist with Anna Fusco | 01:11:42 | |
This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my internet friend Anna Fusco to discuss dedicating your life to art. Anna is an artist, writer, deep thinker, question asker and truth teller. Her practice consists of writing her Substack newsletter and making drawings. Together we talk about our daily list practice, creating a gallery show, the challenges of pricing your work, and what it means to be a full-time artist. Tune in to learn about—
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| 05 Jul 2023 | 5 Reasons the World Needs Your Online Class | 00:29:45 | |
Teaching online classes is how I’ve made the majority of my income since 2017. And it is a great joy of my career to have had such amazing, invested, weird, inspirational students. In this episode, I’m going to share my approach to creating an online class by walking us through how I teach my class A Quilt Is Something Human.
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| 12 Jul 2023 | Creating Your Offer Ecosystem | 00:37:06 | |
Your offer ecosystem is how your creative offerings branch out of your artistry, fit together in the world, increase your income, and expand your reach.
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| 20 Jul 2023 | Embracing Your Everchanging Job Description | 00:41:06 | |
Making this podcast brought me into a business ecosystem crisis. Very little of my output changed, but my inner understanding of my work needed to shift.
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| 15 Nov 2023 | Leaving Instagram or Exiting the Portal of the Validation Loop | 00:32:09 | |
Welcome to season two of Common Shapes! Since last season, I took a big step in my life and logged out of Instagram for good. So in this episode, I’m going to share why I left and how I did it. Not from a place of knowing-it-all, but by asking the question, “what does it actually mean to be done with social media?” I hope this episode inspires you to take supportive steps that are right for you. Tune in to learn about—
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| 22 Nov 2023 | The Importance of the Personal Essay | 00:39:00 | |
I’ve been writing personal essays for over a decade, and I believe that my personal essay practice allowed me to leave social media. So in today’s episode, I share how I blend the personal, the poetic, and the political in my writing. And I unpack how that supports me in speaking up and sharing my work without shying away from what’s happening in the world.
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| 29 Nov 2023 | How to Tell the Truth with Fariha Róisín | 00:50:11 | |
This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend Fariha Róisín for a conversation at the intersections of writing, politics, care, and liberation. Fariha is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Sydney, Australia. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. She’s the author of five books and writes the Substack newsletter, How to Cure a Ghost. In this episode, Fariha shares her experience telling the truth amidst propaganda and channeling righteous rage into writing. She explains how she approaches writing about Palestine during the genocide in Gaza and how she embeds the depth of her feelings and beliefs in her work. Tune in to hear about—
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| 06 Dec 2023 | Cultivating Creative Seasons with Jacqueline Suskin | 00:50:50 | |
This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m deep in conversation with poet, teacher, and my dear friend, Jacqueline Suskin. Jacqueline is a poet and educator who has been teaching workshops, writing books, hosting retreats and creating spontaneous poetry around the world since 2009. She’s published eight books, and her most recent one, A Year In Practice, was just released with Sounds True press. Together we talk about seasonal practices, radically reconnecting with the Earth, Fern Gully, writing multiple books, having multiple calendars, and choosing to remember. Tune in to learn about—
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| 20 Mar 2024 | A Flexible Office Hello 👋 | 00:07:30 | |
Hello Common Shapes listeners. 🔸 I wanted to pop in with a little mini-episode to check in between seasons and share a few updates. Take a few minutes to hear why I changed my name and how you can join us in Flexible Office this spring. 🔹
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| 27 Nov 2024 | Business Temp Check | 00:18:19 | |
Today on Common Shapes I share what I am up to in my business and my life since the end of last year where we left off. Much has happened! Links mentioned : Creative Ideation Portal : Free three day guide to visioning your projects Look About You : Order your copy Landscapes : A writing group for all genres Writing The Personal : A three week class to bring the poetic, personal, and political together for essays of self discovery and service Taught by Cody Cook-Parrott with guest teachers Anna Fusco and Fariha Róisín Devon Price's essay about burnout Get full access to Monday Monday at codycookparrott.substack.com/subscribe | |||
| 04 Dec 2024 | Self Publishing, Quitting Social Media, and Alternative Biz Frameworks with Nic Antoinette | 00:59:51 | |
Welcome to another episode of Common Shapes. I am delighted today to share this interview with Nic Antoinette where we talk about doing business differently, unhooking from the loops of social media, self publishing our books, anti capitalist business frameworks, and so much more If you want to support the show become a paid subscriber and jump in the comments and let us know what resonated! You can find more of Nic’s work by subscribing to Wild Letters You can check out her website here And her hiking memoirs here Don’t forget to download the free three day Creative Ideation Portal to vision all of your beautiful projects as well as the new Daily Writing Tracker Coming up this week: Landscapes meets every morning M-F 5:30-7:30am EST through December 20 and our regular times Tue/Thu 11-1EST Writing the Personal starts this Sunday December 8 with guest teachers Anna Fusco and Fariha Róisín - if this episode resonates and you want to dig deeper into writing personal essays this is the class for you! Thanks for listening! Book a 1:1 Creative Advising call info@codycookparrott.com PO Box 252 Cedar, MI 49621 Landscapes : A writing group for all genres Get full access to Monday Monday at codycookparrott.substack.com/subscribe | |||
| 11 Dec 2024 | Creating A New Suite of Offerings | 00:32:09 | |
In this week’s episode I bring us through both the process of creating a new suite of business offerings as well as presenting to you my very own. CENTER Creative advising, visionary ideation, and personalized business support with Cody Cook-Parrott All sessions are available over zoom or in my home studio in Cedar, MI YOU CAN READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE People I mention : Nic Antoinette Amelia HrubyTracy Candido of Wavemaker Coaching Don't forget to download the free three day Creative Ideation Portal to vision and plan your own creative projects This podcast is brought to you by paid readers of this podcast, those of you who share it on social media and in your own newsletter and the team : Editing and Support : Softer Sounds Studio Music by SaltbreakerPodcast Art by : Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo Book a free 15 min call to see if any of these offerings are right for you Get full access to Monday Monday at codycookparrott.substack.com/subscribe | |||
| 18 Dec 2024 | Creative Energy Outside of Instagram | 00:23:28 | |
Dear listener, Welcome to our last episode of Common Shapes for the year! We will return with new episodes every Wednesday starting January 8 In today’s episode I share a series of practices, systems, and rituals I am doing in place of using Instagram. Make sure you grab the free Creative Ideation Portal : A three day email guide to help you vision your projects and put them out into the world. SOLSTICE SUPER SALE! $99 BUNDLE OF SIX CLASSES AND FIVE BONUSES! On sale through December 23rd Links mentioned : The Art of Newsletters Episode ALL MY GUIDES : Creative Ideation Portal Weaving in Our Values ToolkitNote Taking Tools + Possibilities Daily Writing Tracker Me on Nic Antoinette's Money Series APPS : Head to codycookparrott.substack.com for images of spreadsheets, list making prompts, and more! You can also become a paid subscriber for only $35/year! Get full access to Monday Monday at codycookparrott.substack.com/subscribe | |||