What if your everyday life could feel like art? In this creative minisode, I share a simple daily writing practice to transform the mundane into magic and help you reconnect with your creative soul. Plus you'll receive an invitation to a live 4 week writing circle starting September 9th, 2025.

We talk about:

• Why the mundane moments of your life hold the most creative inspiration
• A simple daily practice to spark creativity in just a few minutes a day
• How to overcome fear, perfectionism, and the resistance of the blank page
• The power of record-keeping through writing and journaling
• How to tell the stories your creative soul wants to tell
• Ways to romanticize your everyday life and infuse it with beauty
• How writing connects you to your inner voice and creative soul

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In this solo episode, I share the magic of the summer season - from what I'm buying at the farmer's market, to reframing our creative purposes, to making our day jobs work for us, to balancing multiple identities, to navigating seasons of change and transformation.

We talk about:

• The sensual, creative magic of summer abundance
• What I’m cooking and loving from the farmer’s market
• Living seasonally and honoring nature’s rhythms
• Saying goodbye to our Michigan home and honoring the woman I became there
• The cyclical nature of change: beginnings, middles, and endings
• Why I stopped feeling shame about my “day job” and how I reframed it as part of my creative purpose
• Creativity, authenticity, and the soul’s calling in a content-driven world
• Redefining success as a creative and understanding your role in the collective

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• The Social Change Ecosystem Map by Deepa Iyer
• Birth Story Workshop
• My upcoming book I Collect Stories Like Seashells – releasing Fall 2025

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Dalia is an Assyrian-American director and writer focusing on explosive theatricality and subverting existing narratives. She was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Hollywood and Entertainment 2025. Her Broadway credits include serving as Associate Director of Sweeney Todd and as the Resident Director at Phantom of the Opera.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What it really means to be a director
• Learning to trust your creative vision
• Making mistakes in the rehearsal process
• How overstimulation kills creativity
• Why collaboration is a mirror for self-growth
• Telling ancestral stories
• Finding the stories that matter to us

Creative Resources Mentioned:

• Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
• Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Connect with Dalia:

@your_gal_dal

www.daliaashurina.com