Episode 60: Living and Grieving as Art with Nadia Payan

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[Children] are teaching me about how to live and about how to BE, no matter what.”

-Nadia Payan, The Everything Belongs Podcast


 

Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Nadia Payan. Nadia is an educator, speaker, montessorian and artist devoted to conscious creativity, community care and embodied interconnection. She coaches individuals and groups into becoming fuller and more integrated versions of themselves — so they can deliver beautifully on their missions. By applying grounded wisdom and adaptable frameworks to life’s challenges and opportunities, she helps leaders transform their organizations, their teams, and themselves. In this episode, Madison and Nadia speak on being in service to creativity, living as an art, and how systems and beliefs can lead to having a contentious relationship with art.

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In this episode, we talk about:

  • Practices that are keeping Nadia grounded at the moment

  • Why many have a contentious relationship with art due to capitalism

  • What living as art means to Nadia 

  • Being in service to creativity

  • Learning from children to be yourself, be unapologetic, to lead and to follow, to challenge ourselves and to go after learning. 

  • Capacity to grow room for grief

  • Relating to grief with creativity

  • Thinking as an American, in a line, verses thinking in a circle

 

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