Creative self-care for staying fully alive.
Art Creativity & Wellbeing blends gentle coaching, personal reflection, and curious conversation. Kay uses ideas like awareness, acceptance, agency, verbs, creativity games, retreat, and attention to the moon as ways back toward self-connection.
PRESS PLAY
Art Creativity & Wellbeing is a reflective coaching show built around care, creativity, and the work of coming back to oneself. Kay often begins from personal experience, then turns that experience into a small practice or question. The pacing is conversational and loose. It leaves room for unfinished thoughts, practical grace, and the kind of insight that arrives while traveling, noticing the moon, or realizing why a particular verb matters. Recent episodes return often to the idea that people who give care to others also need to offer care to themselves. That theme is not treated as a slogan. It is tied to Kay's own account of moving from needing a wheelchair to thru-hiking, and to the broader question of what helps a person feel alive. The aliveness series gives the show one of its clearest structures, moving through awareness, acceptance, and agency as a continuing spiral rather than a completed lesson. Other episodes are more exploratory. The Days of Creation 2026 series uses a game book and monthly prompts to hold creative possibility open. A quick retreat announcement becomes a meditation on camp, restoration, friendship, and putting down what has been carried. Guest conversations bring in fresh angles without changing the show's center of gravity. With Alnoor Dhanani, curiosity travels through Euclid, lunar cycles, calendars, science, religion, and philosophy. With Sarah Juniper, the conversation turns toward brains, roundtables, presence, and shared inquiry. With Mike Michalowicz, creative life meets money through the story of Profit First and the difficulty many creative people have with finance. Across these subjects, the show values gentleness, usefulness, and honest process. It is best for listeners who like personal development that sounds lived-in rather than packaged. There are frameworks here, but they are held lightly. The appeal is the steady return to curiosity, self-respect, and creative agency.
Made for: For reflective listeners, caregivers, coaches, artists, and creative people who want practical self-care without a hard-edged productivity tone. It especially suits people drawn to gentle inquiry, personal growth, and spacious conversation.
What sets it apart: The show combines coaching language with lived recovery, creative play, and wide-ranging curiosity. A single feed can move from verbs and self-connection to moon journals, history, retreat, brains, and creative finance while staying anchored in care.
This show is for the dreamers and the doers. It’s for anyone who was told “get your head out of the clouds!” - and who still dared to dream BIG.I'm Kay! I am a coach helping people who show up for others to stay true to themselves❣️ My background is in human development. I've spent more than 30 years supporting as people of all ages connect, communicate, enjoy their lives and bring about their best and biggest dreams. What fun!Connect with me at kaylockkolp.com.. wishing you very well today ✨PS This show used to be called We Turned Out Okay… and then Practical Intuition with Kay… You're in the right place! This show turned 10 years old on May 1st 2025!! How wild is that!! Much has changed ar…
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A relaxed conversation that turns curiosity into a practice.
Kay LaColpe and Alnor Danani begin with a plane meeting and let the conversation wander from Euclid to the moon, calendars, and how people learn by paying attention. It stays light on its feet, but not shallow.
A dream of fluffy seedheads and a trail map opens into a gentle meditation on possibility.
A dream about fluffy seedheads gives this March installment of Days of Creation 2026 its quiet center. Kay Lock Cope recalls waking curious about what the seedheads might become, then later opening a trail map in a car and finding similar seedheads tucked inside it.
A warm, curious conversation about brain habits and practical self-understanding.
Kay Lock Culp and Sarah Juniper shape the episode into a friendly, practical conversation about brain habits and everyday self-understanding. The back-and-forth stays grounded, with Kay's operating-manual idea giving the discussion a clear center and Sarah's roundtable style…
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Kay reflects on March 2026 as part of her 'Days of Creation' game series, focusing on the theme of potential.
Host Kay Lock Culp and life coach Sarah Juniper engage in an unscripted conversation about their brains and personal journeys.
This episode features an interview with Chief Cara Rossi of Ashland, Massachusetts, discussing her unique leadership approach centered on love and its application in local law enforcement.
John Briggs's 3.3 rule recommends working for up to three hours, then taking a recovery break equal to 30% of that period.
Kay Locke-Kolb’s Art, Creativity & Wellbeing episode focuses on choosing a mindset and asking, “what would help me return to center after witnessing all of this?” She applies that question to a totaled family car, a coaching client’s major life event, and stress-related pain connected to a tendon condition that previously required a wheelchair.
Kay Lott Culp interviews Catherine Nicolai about creativity, safety, sleep storytelling, and the making of Nothing Much Happens, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, and her July book On the Street Where You Live.
Kay Lock Culp reflects on courage, self-care, and the question "How is this a gift?" in a solo episode of Art, Creativity, and Well-Being.
Mina Bassin describes combining her work as a violist, San Francisco concert-series organizer, mother, and pleasure activist to build community through music and embodied wellbeing.
Kay LaColpe spent a week without internet, calling the experiment “1987” while visiting places including Bangor and Camden, Maine.
In episode 482 of Art Creativity & Wellbeing, K.
This episode explores how analyzing verbs can provide clues about behavior, curiosities, and interests to help listeners reclaim and reconnect with themselves.
This episode is part of a 12-month series in 2026 based on the host's game 'Days of Creation 2026', focusing on creativity, well-being, and personal growth while sharing recent travel experiences.
This episode concludes a series on aliveness by exploring agency as the third component in a spiral of personal growth that builds on awareness and acceptance.
This episode explores the concept of aliveness, focusing on acceptance as part of a series that includes awareness and agency, with personal insights from the host's journey.
The host announces a Maine camp retreat in September, describing it as a restorative opportunity to connect with friends and put down burdens, inspired by personal camp experiences.
Kay LaColpe and historian Alnoor Dhanani trace how Euclid, Ibn al-Haytham, Ptolemy, and Al-Biruni link science to philosophy and perception.
Host Kay and life coach Sarah Juniper discuss their brains and collaboration on a workshop called 'My Brain and Me' in an episode focused on creativity and well-being.
Host Kay interviews Mike Michalowicz about his Profit First financial system, focusing on how it helps creative people manage their finances differently from traditional accounting.
This episode features a roundtable discussion with published authors Janine Halloran and Gail Clanton, focusing on creativity, well-being, and coping skills in a community setting.
This episode features an interview with speech and language pathologist Dr.