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Meet Kate Shepherd

November 3, 2022
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We were lucky to catch up with Kate Shepherd recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Kate thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?
I’ve been a wildly creative person my whole life ever since I can remember. I never really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was just always really led by my desire to make things create Beauty. I have a deep reverence for beauty and colour and shape. and one of the things that brings me the most Joy is creating something that didn’t exist a moment ago.
I grew up in a very chaotic, dysfunctional family. survival was a big thing for me well into my 20s. so the idea of choosing a career that made me happy was not even on my radar for a long time.
I think because creativity is so woven into who I am and comes out and everything that I do I never really thought of as separate. I went to a high school that specialized in the Arts. I’ve taken immersive workshops in almost every topic that’s ever tickled my fancy and I’ve followed every creative desire my whole life. But it Wasn’t until my late 20s that I realized that it might be a possibility for me to pursue my creative desires professionally and that’s when I decided to apply to become an artist at the very famous Granville Island Public Market here in Vancouver British Columbia. I was accepted the very first time I submitted my work to the jury and I spent eight years as a valid artist honing my craft and sharing my art with International guests from all over the world . Having the opportunity to share a large volume of my work with International collectors from around the world allowed me to grow into myself as an artist and I really accelerated. I learned how to trust my instincts as an artist and how to begin to only make things that actually made me happy. I remember realizing I didn’t want to do commission work anymore which was something that in my early days I had to take on lots of commission jobs because that’s what you do when you’re getting going but I came to a place where I realized I really only wanted to make what I wanted to. a And that’s a luxury
Over time that business grew and grew and as a person I grew and realized that it wasn’t sustainable for me to be in a market environment 10 hours a day six or seven days a week. Sometimes my small family was suffering for it and I started to know that I needed to make a transition. and that’s when covid hit. So we’ve been making a pivot to sell morning Moon nature jewellery online and it’s been really wonderful to learn how to connect with people in a new environment and share my work with people all over the world again.
One of the things that the pandemic did for me was make me assess what I was doing with my creative gifts. For many years I felt like I wanted to be in service to something greater than myself but I didn’t know what it was. I actually didn’t really think I had any special gifts to offer.
and so I would pray and ask the universe to use me to guide me to use my creative gifts in a way that helped other people.
I had a life-changing Epiphany 1 morning on a dog walk when I had this voice come into my head and say it’s time for you to start a podcast. and as an introverted shy person who believe that they didn’t have a nice voice on my life because of something a grade one teacher once told me that idea was absolutely terrifying to me on every level. Yet I knew it was the next thing I was supposed to do.
and in thinking about what I might even talk about on a podcast I ask myself well what is your superpower, what is your gift, what can you talk about in a way that nobody else can and I realized it was about creativity.
and not just creativity in general but I understand that humanity is glitching because we’ve become disconnected from our own inherent creativity the creativity that’s our Birthright so many of us have falsely believe that it’s not ours or that it’s not for us to use or that we’re not entitled to her that we don’t have it in us and I believe that every problem in humanity today can be traced back to the limiting beliefs we carry about creativity culturally.
the creative genius podcast is deep heartfelt conversations with people who are huge pipes of creativity who are have learned how to allow it to move through them and to give their gifts to the world in a way that serves themselves and their own creative desires but also the world around them free and other people and giving other people around them permission to also access their creativity and those deep ways.
Kate, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I got into jewelry and art and now podcasting out of a deep and unwavering desire to create beautiful things that move people.

I am the lead designer for Morning Moon Nature Jewelry – silver jewellery inspired by actual textures from nature. These are pieces that are designed to remind you of your own primordial intelligence and infinite nature. You know, when you’re holding a cedar branch or a sea urchin shell in your hand you’re connecting to a magnificence that is at once a complete mystery and also completely familiar to you – it is an incredible feeling of wonder and comfort and awe. I take that feeling and I turn it into extremely well-made thoughtfully handcrafted jewelry that is designed to last lifetimes and be handed down.

The reason my jewelry is different from anything else on the market is that it speaks to an ancient part of ourselves – one that we’ve lost touch with and more and more, are yearning to become reconnected with. I create talismans that connect us to nature – our operating system, our home, the thing we love the most, but have the become most disconnected from and deeply yearn to be reconnected with – the jewelry that I create bridges that divide in a tangible, meaningful way.
Throughout my lifetime as an artist, I have heard thousands of people quietly whisper things like, “I wish I could be creative, but I am just no good at that stuff”. The truth is that creativity is available to everyone.

I started The Creative Genius Podcast to speak with some of the most brilliant, creative minds & hearts of our time, digging into what inspires them, finding out how they deal with creative blocks and how they have gotten out of their own way to allow creativity to move through them, and are now experiencing creative success beyond their wildest imaginations. I invite you to join me on this journey. Together, we’ll discover that not only is creativity available to every single one of us, but that when we let it lead the way, we finally find our way. This just might be the invitation of your life!

I had a rough start in life. As a child, my home life was filled with chaos and violence – I ended up setting out on my own at a very young age. I spent my whole life busily and successfully manifesting all the beautiful things. Money. A great jewelry brand. An expensive home in a big city. And still there was something missing… and it wasn’t material. I realized that at the deepest level of my being I wanted to be in service to something. But I didn’t know what….
Ever found yourself saying, “I wish I could be (more) creative…” ?
This podcast is for YOU

As a lifelong artist, creativity has been my greatest friend and constant companion, the one thing that has never left me. It has walked beside me through the dark times and always led me back to the light. One day, I realized that not everyone has this relationship with the creativity (that lives inside ALL of us) and it HIT ME that this is why HUMANITY IS GLITCHING! And I knew, in that moment, that this was my calling. It all fell into place.

I know that a healthy relationship with creativity is as important as breathing or thinking.

I know that when we activate creativity we access deep wisdom & intelligence that has the power to help us build the lives of our dreams.

And I also know that because of some extremely limiting beliefs about creativity that we have glommed onto as a culture, many people have come to believe they can’t be creative (even though they wish they could) and this is why humanity is glitching.

I am on a mission to challenge these limiting beliefs out loud in the mainstream, to help as many people as I can, remember what creativity really is and that it is inside each and every one of us.

The Creative Genius Podcast is 100% devoted to the emergence of creativity in YOU. It is a love letter to everyone who has ever wished they could be more creative but believed they couldn’t. Because that wish is creativity itself asking to be set free.
Take a moment to subscribe and listen now.

May these episodes reach you in some deep, magical way.

This just might be the invitation of your life!

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

The thing that underpins all of my work is a reverence for creativity for that intelligence that is in us all that’s amazing the entire universe. I feel like whether it’s my jewellery or my paintings or an episode of the podcast everything I do has this Ernest yearning to help people remember that incredible aliveness that exists within that. I think So many people are cut off from the beautiful intelligence of creativity and it’s completely by accident you know we’re taught in school very early were putting boxes you’re an athlete and you’re a mass person and you’re a science person and you’re an artist and when the truth is many of us have lots of those facets in US. and we turn them off in order to better fit in and grow up successfully. But The truth is we actually have this incredible navigation system and source of wisdom and answers and knowledge that can be the thing that we build our lives on so that then we can go off and be the athlete or the mathematician or the artist but it’s all got to be built on creativity. and in some way my work no matter what it is is intended to put people directly back in contact with that beautiful thing inside themselves .

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

I think the most powerful thing we can begin to do is help people understand that everything is already inside them. that we’ve been living in a society that was created to benefit the very few at the top of the food chain and in order to do that we needed to take away people’s creative autonomy we needed to cast doubt over individual intelligence and creative miracles that live inside each one of us. and to begin to undo that we need to start helping people remember that there is this alternate to the rational mind know the rational mind can provide a lot of great Direction when it comes to project building things and conquering things but it’s limited and it’s not the only tool that we need to be using we have this other set of finely-tuned instruments inside of us intuition got Instinct creative intelligence includes all of those things and we need to start to remind people how to exercise and workout those tools so that they can bring the fullness of who they are as a person to everything that they do.

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