Authenticated

Authenticated The podcast for diverse, in-depth discussions around the creative conscious™ of creative thinkers. Join creative entrepreneur Kate McLeod as she forges the path for authentically optimized creative thinking with other like-minded innovative creative thinkers, whilst offering an array of tools to share with listeners who want to habitualize a pattern of thinking that offers them perpetual creative abundance. Get ready to get introspective, creative and expansive with the latest episode of Authenticated. Available across all streaming platforms. Special shoutout to @j_jury for the 🔥 into and outro beats 🎧 only love to you always fam 🫶🏻 #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #authentic #authenticity #creativeentrepreneur #creativeentrepreneurs #authenticated #spotify #applepodcasts #creative #artist #creatives #creativeconsultant #creativeconscious

Do you ever ask yourself: Why do I think that? Or, where did that thought come from?⁠ ⁠ The next level of active thinking is empathetic thinking. It's like checking on the roots of a plant. Getting to the why, so that not only can you understand yourself better, but you can channel yourself better. It turns "Is that actually what I think?” into “Is that actually what I want to think?"

everything is just information, and you get get to do whatever you want with it. full context on the latest episode of Authenticated w/ ⭐️ guest and friend @whitneyuland ✨ #authentic #creatives #podcasts #creativeentrepreneur #authenticity #newpodcast #podcast #authenticity #viral #information #recieve #mindset #mindsetshift #thoughts

Thank you for coming on the pod @david_merten_ !! You’re a special being of a human. Your wisdom is genuine and introspective. Your energy is gracious and invigorating. David is also FABULOUS in Richard ll, staring Michael Uri at the Red Bull Theatre, running until 12/21

One of the missteps in any “room” you find yourself into that holds a potential opportunity for you is forgetting that you are there to gather information as is everyone else. The focus on “right” leads to black and white thinking that can lead you to leaving value on the table. It’s how you show up in the room. The way you treat people. The way you conduct yourself when the answer is no or not right now. David Mattar Merten understands this in a way that most people in the industry don’t yet. He’s been rejected. He’s been told he’s not right for it. He’s heard silence when he had asked for opportunities. Instead of making it about himself or turning it into proof that he’s not enough, he’s successfully reframed it to: that’s just information. Not fitting isn’t failure. Not fitting is data. It’s the universe and all eyes watching saying: this one isn’t for you, but that means the ones that are for you are getting closer. That’s the difference between taking rejection personally and taking it directionally. One stops you. The other moves you. Rejection or any cousin of no, is a fork in the road. Not a wall up that you can’t get through. The real measure of who you become is whether you stayed kind in the room when it didn’t work out. Whether you were human. Whether you treated the people across from you with the same respect you’d want if the situations were reversed. There’s something in that worth remembering when your ego can get the best of you.

EP. 30 MEASURING BACKWARDS W/ DAVID MATTAR MERTEN The privilege in being exhausted from work you once begged for. David Mattar Merten, Broadway actor, knows what it feels like to reach for something for years, to hold the vision so tightly from the first time you solidified your dream in a poster on your wall at eleven. And then one day, you’re living it. You’re tired. You’re doing the thing. And in your exhaustion that is inevitable, you remember the energy anguished getting you to this moment. “What a gift it is to be tired from the work that I once crossed my fingers for.” What’s particularly intriguing about holding that thought to me, is it’s the little glimmer you get to feel while feeling the other ones: artists should be paid significantly more and the system is built on people running on fumes. All these things are true. The gratitude for having what you wanted doesn’t cancel out the legitimate exhaustion from a system that needs a serious revisit. It all exists at the same time. Between saying “I should be grateful” (obligation) and “I am grateful” (recognition). One crushes you. The other sustains you. There’s something in that for anyone living what they once chased.

For me, taking it personally comes from you making me wear something that you’re feeling. Because, I want to know why do I have to hold that? If we’re in close proximity, why aren’t you taking care of that yourself? Shout out to my main squeezes for therapy and coaching, because that work once revealed, becomes the needed new normal. Taking things personally has a form of intimacy to it, showing up emotionally present enough to let someone affect you. It means you care. You’re not untouchable. But there’s a line between healthy intimacy and becoming responsible for someone else’s emotional state. And discerning where that line is? That’s where a reflector comes in. A coach. A therapist. Someone who knows you well enough to call you on your sh*t. I’ll easily take feedback from my coach and evolve from there. But it gets harder with your closest people, because they have another form of intimacy with you. It’s very special and it is also different. Kara and I choose to believe that people have everything inside them to do what they need to do. And there needs to be accountability systems outside the dynamic to reflect back what you’re not seeing. That’s the most transformative reflector.

Some of my favorite moments from this week’s episode with Kara Brothers. She’s doing her own thing and I’m obsessed with how she thinks. Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen wherever you get your pods. I love thank you’re here xx

Don’t you need a little bit of some ego? Kara Brothers on starting a new journey and actively trying to find her ego again. Not the toxic kind that makes you better than other people. The kind that whispers “you’re that bitch” when you need it as your fuel. The rarely discussed distinction that like many other things tools live on a spectrum and omg is ego and absolute tool. Especially for creatives. We’re trained to diminish our ego. Kill it. Pretend it doesn’t exist. But Kara’s doing the opposite—she’s looking for it deliberately, trying to dial it up as a tool for what comes next. There is power in that perspective shift. Using ego as propulsion instead of running from it. Leveraging it without letting it run the show or someone else. She described her passion as a love for the texture and richness of life. For deeply understanding yourself, unwinding what isn’t working, and sharing what you’ve learned with other people so you build each other up. That level of self awareness requires a voice that tells you “you can do this.” You don’t have to listen to it all the time. But you can know it’s always there when you need it as a tool.

A diva is always a diva. A boss is always a boss. Just in different eras. Whatever your word and definition are. A big picture person who empowers good people to make good things. A conduit to things that expand and inspire everybody else’s brain. Your identity first, matters. We’ve been told you need to spend money to make money. But the economy of attention right now? It’s kind of free. Your access point is your device. However, that looks to you. LadyDi made projects worth so much more than their $500-700 budgets. The value comes from somewhere else. It comes from follow-through. From people who actually show up. From good work done with good people. From having a piece of work. The scale follows suit. Build your own and let the rest of the world catch up.

“I feel like Tinkerbell — if you don’t give me applause, I will die.” — @ladydi.megadiva What is particularly fascinating about the context of being powered by perception, is LadyDi will take the applause whether you’re laughing with her or at her. Because she knows how she feels about it. That’s the difference between performing FOR validation and performing FROM confidence. Being willing and wanting to be perceived while refusing to apologize for who you are is a profound skill. Not everyone can genuinely enjoy their personal human experience and put themselves out there at the same time. Most of us are still trying to figure out which applause we actually want. LadyDi’s been doing it since birth and she’s not stopping. Powered by Perception w/ LadyDi MegaDiva is out on YouTube for your 👀 a wherever you get your podcasts for your 🎧

LadyDi MegaDiva’s version of journaling is writing songs that become her scrapbook of self. She captures moments in rhyming verses that are silly, cliche and real all at once. Then she sings them over and over, with new perspective each time. The same story. Different version of self telling it. Singing your own lyrics is one of the most vulnerable things you can do, in my opinion. You perform a song you wrote as a past version of yourself. And then you sing it as who you are now. Publicly. Over and over. A stunning practice of vulnerability. Holding the you in the past through the lens of who you are now. In front of everyone. 🎤✨ Powered By Perception w/ LadyDi MegaDiva, out wherever you listen to your podcasts @ladydi.megadiva