How She Creates: Instagram + Creativity, Friend or Foe? Ep 404
In today's episode Instagram expert, Sara Tasker from Me and Orla, is uncovering truths with us as to how we use Instagram as creatives. Instagram is a great source of inspiration and of pain in our creative journeys as artists, so how do we balance it and use it to support our creative goals without falling down a rabbit hole of scrolling and comparison? Sara is a champion at using Instagram to build community and push her creativity to grow in new directions. In today's episode, she is sharing her views and strategies for curating our feeds, finding inspiration, dealing with negativity and the algorithm woes, managing comparison, and creating for ourselves instead of likes. Listen in for a fresh dose of creative inspiration that will stop your scroll and start your paintbrushes.
Show Notes
Meet Your Host
Lauren is an American crafter, adventurer, and storyteller living in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, with her husband. Lauren is an art maker, grace giver, photographer of life, laugh enthusiast, creativity chaser, believer in people, inspiration aficionado, street food lover, and DIY fanatic.
Meet Your Guest
Sara Tasker is a writer and creative business consultant who credits Instagram with changing her life. Her podcast, Hashtag Authentic, offering advice for creatives business owners online has over 1M downloads to date. Her work is regularly featured by press such as The Guardian, BBC Radio, Stylist Magazine and Wired, and she was named 'content creator of the year' by Cosmopolitan Magazine in 2018. Sara has a chronic health condition that makes it hard for her to access traditional work, and is passionate about helping others build lives and businesses that allow for both their strengths and struggles. She lives in the Yorkshire countryside, UK, with her husband, daughter, and an unlikely assortment of pets.
Connect with Sara: Instagram @me_and_orla, Twitter @meandorla, Website meandorla.co.uk, Podcast Hashtag Authentic
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