060: How to Boost Your Creativity with Sharon Burton
The Uncommon Couch
060: How to Boost Your Creativity with Sharon Burton
Do you consider yourself a creative business owner? The truth is, owning a business involves a lot of creativity and learning to tap into that creativity will help you grow as an entrepreneur. In this episode, I was joined by Sharon Burton, founder of Spark Your Creative and specializes in helping people boost their creativity.
Sharon shares why business owners should look to artists for inspiration and some of the characteristics of famous artists that have inspired her creative journey. We also chat about how she stays balanced as a business owner, the role that social media plays in creativity and how taking time for yourself to do something inspiring can be so impactful.
What you’ll find in this episode:
How Sharon started Spark Your Creative
Why we should emulate artists and how they learn
The characteristics of artists that can inspire us
How Yoga and Reiki have helped Sharon stay balanced as a business owner
How social media can block creativity and what to do about it
Relationships and how they can positively or negatively impact creativity
How doing something out of the ordinary can boost creativity
About Sharon:
Sharon J. Burton is an artist, art curator, and creative life advisor and Founder of Spark Your Creative based in the Washington, DC area.
Since 2017, she has focused on helping people in "creative recovery"...those looking to revive or jump start their creativity through workshops, her blog and as the host of Spark Your Creative Podcast which features artists and other creatives who are using their unique talents to create more mindful communities and a safer world.
Sharon holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Master of Public Administration. She completed requirements for the professional certificate in Art Business from New York University as of 2013 and a certificate in Art History through the Smithsonian Associates. She is also currently completing her certification in Creativity Coaching through the Creativity Coaching Association which she is a member. Sharon is also a Level II, Reiki Certified practitioner and received her Breathwork + Meditation Teacher Certification from the Faith Hunter Wellness Academy, of Embrace Om based in Washington, DC. She is also a Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra guide. Sharon infuses her creativity coaching with wellness practices to help her clients break through the blocks that prevent them from fully engaging in their creative potential.
Sharon has an art practice in suburban Maryland, outside of Washington, DC. When she is not working or creating, you can find her hiking in the forests along the East Coast or indulging in Artist's Dates to museums, cafes or spending quality time with her calico cat, Athena.
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Quotes:
“Artists take a lot of risks and they're not afraid to experiment. They're not afraid to fail. It doesn't feel good, but they take a lot more risks.” - Sharon
“I just think that people just need to figure out what the perspective is, how much time should you be on it and how is that affecting your creative life, whether you're in business or your cultural creative? I think when it's becoming so much of a distraction that it's not giving you the kinds of ideals and whatever you need, you just need to take a break.” - Sharon