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What if your art could hold a mirror to your soul — revealing your strength, beauty, and purpose? In this soulful episode, internationally exhibited artist Joanna Blair joins Sam to explore the transformative power of painting, symbolism, and intuitive creativity as a path to personal healing and empowerment.

3 Powerful Benefits of Listening:

1. Discover how creative flow can reconnect you to your intuition and inner truth.
2. Learn how symbolic storytelling in art can empower and inspire transformation.
3. Gain insight into cultivating creative resilience through life's challenges.

Episode Summary:
In this deeply personal and inspiring conversation, Sam sits down with figurative artist Joanna Blair to explore the journey of becoming a soul-led creative woman. From her early love of painting to navigating burnout, breast cancer, and artistic reinvention, Joanna shares how returning to her inner truth through painting unlocked a new level of freedom, expression, and resilience.

Together, they explore the role of feminine symbolism, intuition, and storytelling in art, and how creativity can be a mirror, a meditation, and a tool for healing. Joanna offers heartfelt reflections on overcoming self-doubt, following inner whispers, and embracing the vulnerability of sharing your inner world through your work.

Key Takeaways:

• Creativity is a lifelong conversation with the soul — and it’s never too late to begin.
• Lifes challenges can be a portal to creative transformation if you choose to listen and realign.
• Symbolism in art (like keys, butterflies, and flowers) can hold deep healing messages.
• Creative expression doesn’t need to be perfect to be powerful — it just needs to be true.
• Art can be a meditative space for reflection, resilience, and personal empowerment.
• Following intuition often means saying yes to things that feel soul-aligned, even when they don’t “make sense” on paper.
• Joanna’s use of hidden keys and QR codes in her paintings offers an inspiring model of layered meaning and interactive art.
• Trusting your own voice — whether in paint, poetry, or decision-making — is a radical act of self-belief.

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In this mini-episode of Soul Led Creative Women, Sam Horton reads an original poem taken from a personal reflective creative moment of her every day life.

This one is titled "Self Love"

And asks the question:
What part of you is quietly asking to be seen, held, and loved,just as you are, in this season of your life?

Let this question be a doorway. You don’t need all the answers, just the willingness to begin.

Sam says: It’s not loud or showy. It doesn't need to be earned. Instead, it’s a remembering of who we are beneath the noise. Of the beauty that’s already blooming within us, even if we haven’t noticed. And when we finally pause long enough to listen, to truly see ourselves without judgment, we start to feel it, that quiet kind of power, rooted in truth and nourished by compassion.

Take care,
Sam x

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Have you ever felt a creative nudge but held back because it felt too risky? What if leaning into that discomfort is exactly what your soul is asking for?

There’s a moment in every creative journey where the page is blank, your breath catches, and the fear of getting it wrong whispers in your ear. In this powerful solo episode, Sam Horton shares how creative risk is not something to avoid—but something to embrace as a path to spiritual awakening and emotional resilience.

🌱 Discover how low-risk creativity can calm your nervous system and lay the foundation for deeper self-expression
🔥 Learn why high-risk creative acts like improvisation, raw expression, and starting from scratch are deeply transformative
💫 Begin to see creativity as a spiritual practice—one that connects you with your intuition, resilience, and soul truth

Key Takeaways:

• The difference between low-risk and high-risk creative expression
• Why creative risk teaches self-trust, courage, and emotional presence
• How facing creative fear builds resilience and rewires your inner critic
• What it means to use creativity as spiritual practice and soul connection
• Simple ways to start taking creative risks—even if they’re small and messy
• How each act of high-risk creativity helps you remember who you truly are

🎧 Take a deep breath and press play. You might just hear your soul whisper back.

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