Use Creativity to Unlock Your Everyday Genius | Taryn Voget

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Genius isn’t a label you earn, it’s a practice you live today. In this conversation with Genius Lab founder and Everyday Genius Show host Taryn Voget, we explore how creativity becomes the fuel for everyday genius, real confidence, and meaningful purpose you choose for yourself. 

3 reasons to listen

• Discover Taryn’s simple genius formula and how to apply it in daily life to unlock ideas and momentum. 
• Learn how creative action builds genuine confidence and helps you channel better work with less strain. 
• Reframe “purpose” so you stop waiting for a cosmic memo and start living what lights you up now.

Key takeaways 

• Genius is a practice: passion + strategy + channelling.
• Follow curiosity; passion lifts your state and ideas.
• Iterate your strategy; small experiments compound.
• Trust flow moments; take the next clear step.
• Confidence grows from creative reps and small wins.
• Purpose is chosen; live what lights you up now.
• Creativity connects you to something bigger (flow/“quantum field”) 
• Balancing the masculine bias with intentional feminine creativity

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Ep 89: Soul-led Creative Women - Taryn Voget

video1978019485: [00:00:00] So today I have Taryn 

Voget with me. is is the founder of Genius Lab and the host of the Everyday Genius Show. For the past 15 years, she's helped thousands of people, founders, creatives, and everyday folks discover their hidden genius and turn it into powerful next chapters. She's here to help you find the passion, clarity, and strategy to create the life, career, or business you were meant for.

So welcome, Taryn. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited about this conversation. So today we're going to explore specifically how creativity can help guide you to find your inner genius. So let's start with your story, Taryn, and tell us about your journey and how creativity has supported you in finding your own genius.

Well, my journey is a bit of a winding path, not necessarily a straight line. I, uh, out of college, I went into consulting and I did big corporate consulting for a lot of years, and then one day I burned out on it and got [00:01:00] to this point where I thought, you know, I've worked on everyone else's project. I wanna do my own.

And I kind of had this list of criteria, something that had never been done before, something that would be innovative, uh, something that would help people, something that I would find fun. And I was driving over the Golden Gate Bridge one day, and I was living in Sausalito, which is just north of the city.

Driving over the Golden Gate Bridge and this bolt of lightning, literally like a bolt of lightning hit my head. And in a flash like that, I saw the whole idea for what was at the time the Everyday Genius Institute. And the idea was that I would take people that would be really brilliant or genius at what they do, deconstruct how they do it, and then package it back up in a book in a DVD set so that people could learn strategies of genius from the world's best.

Because what I discovered is that. When people get really good at things, they actually have no idea how they do it. And that led me down this journey of genius where I've spent the last 15 years researching genius and really understanding how it works and how creativity ties into that. And in the process of all of this, you know, I've had a [00:02:00] lot of creative output myself.

I've written a bunch of books and made videos and products and built companies. I kinda went back into the corporate world and started helping companies kind of redesign how they were working and operating, so, mm-hmm. You know, creativity I think takes so many shapes and forms. Um, and, you know, where does creativity come from, I think is such a great question.

Awesome. So tell us more about the concept of genius then. You know, what does that term mean to you, and why have you been so drawn to it? Well, genius is a really charged word. Mm-hmm. And. People often think that genius is this mega genius that, you know, does these world changing things. They have a Wikipedia page and people talk about them for generations.

You know, one in a billion or one in 10 billion. And, and while that is a kind of genius, I am much more interested in the everyday genius because I see that kind of genius around us all the time. And I think it's really interesting, these moments of utter brilliance that just everyday people have [00:03:00] that maybe they don't have a Wikipedia page.

And I think one of my biggest. I'll call it pet peeves with, with the way the world works, is that there's this idea that you could somehow measure your genius on an IQ test. I don't know where this actually, I do know where the idea came from, but it's a terrible idea. And even the inventors of the test said, you know, that's actually really can't measure intelligence on a test.

That's a very one dimensional way of thinking, and many people don't know this, but the genius level hasn't been the highest score on the test since like 1934. It's now like very exceptional or very gifted as the highest level. It's not the genius level. Um, another fun fact, Albert Einstein never took the IQ test.

Um, so, you know, I don't like this idea that you could somehow measure somebody's brilliance on a test, but what it got me to do was really go down this journey of like, what is genius? How does it work? Where does it come from, and how do you know if something is genius? And what I discovered bringing people into my genius lab and deconstructing on a very subconscious level how they do what they do.

Because when you get really good, so much of what you're doing is, is. [00:04:00] Automatic and it happens very fast like that in your mind. And so how do you take those split seconds and unpack what is about 30 to 50 steps in a split second of thinking, um, which is really what happens when you get good at something.

And so in my Genius lab, we do that. We slow that process way down and really uncover kind of how the magic trick of genius works. And what I've discovered is that genius is actually not really best described as a noun. Like she is a genius. Mm-hmm. It's much better as a verb. Okay. She is Genius ing because it's a process.

Okay. And it's a process when three things come together. Number one, someone's operating from passion. They are fired up about what they're doing, and that passion not only creates the fuel to keep going and iterating and getting better, but it also puts you in a higher vibrational state. Like if you think of sadness as a vibration, and happiness is a vibration, and excitement is like even higher.

When you're in that high vibrational state, you actually have access to more ideas in the universe. Mm-hmm. Interesting. [00:05:00] So when someone is acting on their passion or their excitement, they're just jazzed about what they're doing, and it could be anything. They love painting. They love parenting, you know, they love swimming it, it really doesn't matter, like you're jazzed about the thing, and it doesn't have to be your full-time job, by the way.

That just gives you access to a lot more ideas and inspiration and synchronicities by being in that energy. And so you always wonder how do people get so successful? Well, they're in that energy enough to create that kind of success and those ideas that then take 'em to the next level and the next level.

So passion is really the, the foundational element of genius. And genius is really about focus over time. Mm-hmm. So then how do you get good? Well, that passion kind of drives you. You always wanna get better. You wanna bake your blueberry muffin the best the next time, and then the next time. And the next time.

Right. And so. That develops what I call better strategy. It's like how you do it. And when you're first learning something, your strategy is really usually very simple. Like just do the basics of the thing. Mm-hmm. And as you get better, your strategy gets more refined, more sophisticated, more [00:06:00] nuanced. You pull in more information.

And so strategy is like the how. How do you get to mastery? It's just by continuous improvement and getting better every time. And I talk a lot about the elements that go into like strategy 'cause there's a bunch of 'em. But let's just put that bucket into like how you're doing it as strategy. And then the third element, and this is I think where creativity often comes into, into play is what I call channeling.

And we all do this, it sounds like a big, fancy spiritual word. It's really not. Like, as humans, we are designed to tap into something bigger than us and have ideas flow through us. And there's so many ways people do this. You know, they get up and they go for a walk and an idea pops into their head. That's why you get good ideas in the shower.

'cause you're not really thinking. Um, or people get into writing and they get in these flow states or athletes talk about being in the zone where kind of time stops and there is no other option but to win. And so those are all examples of how we tap into something bigger than us and that energy flows through us into a creation.

And we use our intention, our passion, and our strategy to [00:07:00] focus that into something that we want to create. Hmm. And so this is why I say genius as a verb. It's like when those three things come together, enough passion plus good strategy, like you get better at it and you can channel something really cool through you because you've got good strategy and focus.

That is often what looks to others like genius when it can kind of happen consistently enough. Mm-hmm. And it just takes time to, to get there. Sure. But you know, there always these musicians I always think of like the one hit wonder. Sometimes you can just channel something really brilliant through and it was a singular moment and sometimes you have a hard time recreating it.

Yeah. Um, you know, and other times it's the day in, day out you've been able to bring these elements together and it looks like genius every time. Yeah. And so that's why I say genius as a verb. It's because it's the act of doing all of these. Things. And it's, when it comes together, often enough, it can look like genius, but the world is not a very good judge of genius, especially in the moment, especially if the idea is new or big.

Mm-hmm. And there's countless examples of people like Van Gogh [00:08:00] who were just utterly not noticed in their life. So, you know, we can't always rely on the outer world to be a judge of our, of our genius, especially if the idea is innovative or new. So what I, what I, the word that was popping into my mind as you were explaining all of that is confidence.

 I get the sense that you can't really. Be a genius or be ingenious as the, as the verb, um, unless you've got this inner confidence. So when all of those three things that you described are kind of working and in flow, um, is that what happens? Do we become so confident that, you know, we're able to, push ourselves further than, we could go if we, um, didn't have that strong belief system?

 I think that's a really insightful point around confidence. So then you gotta ask yourself, well, what, what builds confidence? Yeah. And, and confidence is built by doing something hard or doing something scary. Yeah. And being on the other side of it. And so passion is often what will.

Get you to do these things that are scary and things that are hard. [00:09:00] And when you do them, you just get a little more confidence and a little more confidence. And that's really what mastery feels like. It feels like somebody is so at ease at what they're doing. 'cause they've done it not even 10,000 times, a hundred thousand times that there's confidence in that.

Yeah. And then that's when, because you're kind of relaxed in a thing, you can often open up to channel cooler stuff through you. So this is where you need a bit of mastery to channel. Yeah. It's a strange thing because if you sit in this kind of self-doubt and this like limited belief system, you're never gonna get the steam, or the, the confidence to be able to tap into that kind of genius, world.

Um, that's what it feels like to me as you're explaining it. So, yeah. Fascinating. So, do you believe that we've all got this inner genius then? and what does that mean for the everyday person? I know that. Everyday Genius is one of your, your brands. So yeah, tell us about that. Yeah, and this is where the word is so interesting 'cause you can use it in multiple ways.

I think everybody has a genius, [00:10:00] meaning that's that special spark in their spirit or their soul that really is almost like their unique thumbprint in the universe. And it's like the thing that kind of lights them up if they were to tap into it. So everybody has a genius now. Not everybody is activating their genius.

Sure. And this is like you mentioned, a lot of people have limiting belief systems or there's been. Tough situations in their life or trauma or you know, circumstances, whatever it is that have not enabled people to really connect into what lights them up. Mm-hmm. But most, most people at some level at least do a little bit of that, even if it's not their day job.

You know, they, they develop hobbies and this is why hobbies are so great. 'cause sometimes it's not your day job. Your hobby's fun. And so that's where that passion can kind of come online. So everybody has a genius. And then when you act on your passion and your excitement in whatever context you're doing that in, you start genius ing and you go through that process that I talked about, and then at some point it looks like you are a genius.

Um, [00:11:00] but that, that's kind of the, the, the way I would use those words is, but everybody has it. And, and, and how, how much is it activated and how much are you kind of focusing that passion over time to get better and make it like a cool output? Like a commitment, you know, it's like a practice. Mm-hmm. A genius practice rather than a genius, um, you know, landmark or destination.

You know, that's a really nice way to put that. A genius practice. I'm gonna borrow that. I like that. It is, and, and what excites us at one moment in our life completely changes and something else excites us later. And I think what that is often about is that. I, I often wanna have people in my Genius lab, I'm, I'm really tracking intuitively at a very high level, like what is that soul gift?

Like what really is their soul gift? And then you can see how that gift is expressed in all these different contexts. Like, to give you an example, I had the CEO of my Genius lab. She's really brilliant. Sold her company for a metric ton of money. And when I really tracked what her genius was, it was that she was just really good at seeing up ahead what was gonna [00:12:00] come.

And guiding people to a new future. Like that was just how I saw it in her spirit. And what she had was a company that did exactly that. They kind of saw these new tech trends and then got big, huge companies, um, on board with new technology that they, you know, were kind of lumbering around. And she would help them really like step into the next, you know, like decade really.

And then when she sold her company, she started doing that, but with younger career women. So she'd really helped these younger career women in their twenties, maybe early thirties. Try to see what was up ahead in their career and create the right roadmap to get there. And so it was the same genius, just in very different contexts.

Mm-hmm. And so I think this is why we develop different passions is that we've got this genius and then we kind of explore it through one expression. We kind of, you know, feel like we've did that. Mm-hmm. And then a new kind of interest comes online, and then we explore that expression of our genius and we get good at that.

And then over time you start stacking all these skills and at the end of, you know, a bunch of [00:13:00] decades, you've got this incredible. Toolkit of, of skills or toolbox of skills because you've been following your passion, building all these skills, but it's all in support of a bigger genius that you can really share with the world.

Mm-hmm. So is genius really tied to purpose then? Is, is that how inter interrelated are those two terms? You know, I spent so many years of my life just being like, God, if someone could just tell me my purpose, if I could just get the cosmic memo from the universe like Taryn, your purpose is, then I would know what to do.

I'd know how to focus. I'd feel fulfilled in all of this. And so I just, for decades just kept feeling like, God, what's my purpose? And then actually somewhat recently, this big light bulb went off is to like how purpose actually works. Two things. Number one is purpose is really what you assign it to be.

If you want your purpose to feed the hungry and make a dent in that way, that is your purpose. Like you've decided that for yourself. If you want your purpose to make people happy and [00:14:00] that's your purpose, then you can assign that purpose to yourself. It's like kind of like your purpose of whatever you want it to be.

But here's the second part to this. So there's no memo from the universe just waiting to be un scrolled and read. You know, like your purpose is. It's really like whatever you want it to be. And so you get to decide, and that really. Jams up a lot of people because it's a big commitment to decide what your purpose is.

Mm-hmm. And so, um, I, I think it's almost too big, but some people really do find that, and they really do have these, you know, passionate things inside them. But here's what I discovered. It's even deeper than that. When you're doing what lights you up and you're really doing what brings you joy and excitement and happiness, regardless of whether it sells, whether the world cares.

Any of it. When you're just doing it because you want to do it and it lights you up, you actually stop asking the question, and what happens is you start feeling like you're on purpose and the question fades away and you're like, this is it. This is my thing. Mm-hmm. That's really cool. I love that. That's so good.

Mm-hmm. Good. Mm-hmm. So. What are we missing then [00:15:00] in the like traditional life roadmap that we've sort of been conditioned to buy into, you know, and how does this concept of the everyday genius really help to tackle that? I've been on my own journey with this, which is to clear away the layers of patterning and beliefs and limitations that prevent us from doing one singular thing, which is doing what lights us up in any moment, and trusting that that is the path.

And it, it, it's a lot easier to say, oh yeah, just go follow your passion. But you're dealing with kids and a husband and a mortgage and dogs and you know, life, you know, aging parents, whatever it is. A lot of times people just can't see a pathway to, if I do, what excites me? How am I gonna be supported?

Mm-hmm. And it, it is really scary and it really can often limit people from taking big leaps because they just can't see away. Um, and so what I think we're missing is that that actually is the way, [00:16:00] and, and our job is to start working through all those limiting beliefs and limitations. That are stopping us from doing that because that really is how the universe is designed to work, which is we follow our joy, we follow our passion, our soul knows the roadmap, even if we can't see it, and we develop this unwavering faith that we will be supported.

Yeah. When we do what lights us up. And I, I'm not saying that that's an easy journey 'cause I've been on it and I, I I will tell you it is difficult, um, to start putting away those limiting beliefs, but it really is magical when you start to do it like crazy cool things happen. And it's really fear, you know, that stops, you know, people from entering that path, I guess.

So, yeah. Really cool. Yeah, and I think that that the biggest limiting belief that many of us carry is that. I won't be supported doing what I love. Yeah, yeah. Like it's just that simple and when you can really start to unravel that limiting belief and say like, well, I can be supported doing what I don't love, why wouldn't the universe support me doing what I do love?

Yeah. Like when you kind of start like thinking of it [00:17:00] logically, it doesn't make sense, but. You know, I, I actually just had a conversation with somebody and they're in their fifties and they are just burned out on their corporate job and, you know, he wants to pivot and do this thing, but he's got aging parents live with him.

Yeah. A daughter in college and two on the way in college into college in the next couple years. And he is like, I need this executive income. I can't just go pivot, but what do you do? Mm. And these are real questions that people have, and what I would say is. If, if you're gonna choose to stay, then you need to find a way to make it more exciting in some context.

Or you start limiting that and you really start amplifying what does excite you until you can somehow, gradually make a pivot. 'cause you always can if you get creative. Yeah. Yeah. Easier said than done though, right? Oh, it takes a real commitment, I think, to, you know, to, to, yeah. And to tackle be fatigued and you need energy, you know, and you've got a lot going on in your life.

I mean, it's a lot. I'll just, I'll just give you like a real world example for my own life, which is, I've had a lot of fun this last year, really [00:18:00] rekindling my passion for everyday genius. And I've put out a ton of creative work on videos mm-hmm. And newsletters. Mm-hmm. And like fun stuff that lights me up and.

I knew when I started a year ago, it, it wouldn't probably pay the bills just yet, right. But I just was like, you know what? Do it for fun. Do it because you care. Do it because you wanna get this information out and help people. And I had this idea for a TV show 15 years ago, okay. Uh, an everyday genius TV show.

And I, and I actually talked to a producer about it, but then I sort of set it down and I completely forgot about it until like a year, year and a half ago. And I just kept knocking at my door, like, pick up the show again. Pick up the show again. So I picked it back up and I thought, you know, I'll just do a YouTube show and it'll just be me.

And it'll evolve and I'll just get practice back in front of the camera. 'cause I haven't been doing that in a while. And then all this kind of crazy synchronicity started happening. Like money just kind of started showing up in these weird ways that I wasn't even expecting. It wasn't because I was selling anything, it was because life was supporting me in these super random ways.

Mm. And, and then also it was like, and you know, and I'm okay still working a bit, you know, and [00:19:00] doing things that I, that I definitely enjoy, but I don't wanna do full-time 'cause I wanna do my creative stuff. And so it's like finding that balance of like, I may not make a gajillion dollars this year, but it's enough to finance my life.

Yeah. What? And give me time to do this other stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's a resetting of priorities almost because mm-hmm. You know, your passion for the thing that you wanna do, um, burns stronger. So, yeah. It's really powerful. Yeah. Do I wanna go to Costa Rica and spend three weeks writing my next book? Yes. Yes.

It's not like super realistic right now. No. Yes. Yeah. So on that then, in our message exchanges, you said that, creativity, you know, has has become an act of soul expression for you, turning inner truth into form. Can you tell us about what that looks like specifically for you? Well, it kind of goes back to like what, what drives creativity?

And I think as humans, we are hardwired to create that is literally like the job of humans is to create. Now we can create [00:20:00] families, we can create relationships, we can create art, we can create great teams. I mean, when you really expand the definition of creativity, there's so many ways we can express our creativity.

Mm-hmm. And I. I think that when we don't do that, we start to shrivel up and die a little bit. And I think so many people limit themselves to like what creativity is. Oh, I don't paint, I don't write, I don't innovate. You know? But that, that's really not it. It's like. This why I think hobbies are so great.

Hobbies are such a great way to like express creativity. One of my very expensive hobbies is interior design. Okay. I move houses a lot just because I feel like I need a new project to design, you know? And I've designed my friend's houses. I, you know, it's not something I do for work. I do it because I genuinely love the creative Yeah.

Expression of bringing things together. Mm-hmm. And so that's what makes us feel alive. And there's a lot of research out there that talks about when you're in that energy of creativity, you actually stop aging and you start reverse a little bit. And so people that are often really creative have this really, um, they feel, they feel very alive.

And it's [00:21:00] because so much of that energy through the universe is like surging through somebody. Like the creation energy itself starts surging through you and. When I make my videos or when I, you know, write a newsletter or even when I do my client work or my healing sessions with people, I mean, that is all creative expression.

Mm-hmm. Because I figured out how to make it mine. You know, I'm not copying someone else's template. I'm doing it my way. Yeah. And so I think that, um, when I see people struggle or they're unhappy or they're not feeling like they're lit up in their passion, it's because they really just aren't, there's no creative expression in their life.

Yeah. And it doesn't mean a job. It can mean you like baking and cooking, spend a day a week doing that. It could be anything. Yeah. So um. You mentioned before that creativity is the thing really that helps us to connect to something bigger than than ourselves. Right? So when did you realize that?

Because I don't necessarily know if everybody knows that. Yeah. It was actually a somewhat recent epiphany. It was [00:22:00] probably a year or two ago. I had someone in my genius lab and I just saw how they channeled an idea, and I say channeled 'cause it was really like in my genius lab, like we go real micro.

Down to the nanosecond of how somebody does what they do and what I discovered. And part of it's probably I've just gotten better interviewing people. So this came out finally. It was probably always there. I just never noticed it for a bunch of years until a couple years ago. I had somebody in my genius lab and I saw how she literally opened up her whole energy field and she said she walked through a veil.

It gives me chills talking about it. She walked through a veil into blackness, and that's when it all came to her. And I was like, oh, that's where ideas come from. That's where information comes from. It doesn't come from our mind. Yeah, it comes from when we tap into the quantum field, which sounds all mystical and mysterious.

It's really just the field of energy that we're all connected into when we stop and we feel it, and we've all had those moments where we felt it, you know, we felt connected. We were at the beach and we just felt like we were connected or we were playing sport and we felt it. I mean, we all have those moments and when we connect into that, [00:23:00] that is where infinite information all possibilities, all ideas that all exist in the quantum fields.

And when we get in there. That and we can tap into that. That's when ideas can flow through us and that's the like the heart of creativity. So good. Yeah, so I actually believe that, our creative, uh, journey, is heavily linked to our spiritual, um, expansion and evolution.

Like, they reflect and mirror each other almost like they were, they're operating in tandem. So have you experienced that kind of mirroring where your creative growth and your spiritual or personal evolution, um, felt really linked for you? All the time. And if I look back over my life, I, I can see that this was very much my journey.

I always say this about founders and entrepreneurs, like that is the ultimate spiritual path. In some ways I think it's creatives. It's also the ultimate spiritual path. Yeah. Because it's hard. Yeah. It's frustrating. It doesn't always work. You know, when you have these brilliant moments, you try to recreate them and you can't, 'cause it doesn't always happen on demand.

Yeah. [00:24:00] And, and so, so much emotional stuff comes up in these creative processes or in this pursuit to create that. Forces us to become sort of the next best version of ourself from moment to moment to moment. And I think creativity can also be very emotional and sometimes it's really hard to manage these emotional swings.

And so it really is a profound spiritual journey. When I say spiritual journey, I mean we become the best version of ourself. Mm-hmm. And that is, to me, like the spiritual journey. Like how do you become like the coolest, best next version of yourself and. When we can really consciously realize how creativity works and tap into that field that is bigger than us and we can find ways that work for us, 'cause I think it works differently for everybody then, then we can really start doing some cool stuff.

And that's where I think a lot of power and innovation and ideas and the perfect stories and. Just all that comes through. I, I often think of like, even just conversations. One of my good friends is a [00:25:00] brilliant communicator, and I just watch her in these moments, have these conversations and they're just pure genius, like her word choice, how she says it, all of that, that is channeled.

I mean, that is like legit channeled, and to me that's creativity. You know, how do you put those words together in a perfect way? And so it, it really is about connecting into something bigger. Yeah, and it's, it's also creating something from nothing, right? Like it's like the blank page, the blank canvas, the blank business, and you are creating something from absolutely nothing.

And that's when I realized in my Genius Lab, this woman, she says, I, I walked through this doorway into basically the void where there is nothing and everything all at once. And then from there, now you're using your. Uh, you know, your intention and your focus. Yeah. But I need to pull this outta that. Yeah.

And pull that out. And you can literally create something from nothing. That is also everything, which is the void, which is kind of a cool concept. Yeah. Such a cool concept. Mm-hmm. So why do you think then that the creative process is so powerful in helping us to connect to that [00:26:00] authentic truth? You know, and building that courage to express, um, ourselves more honestly in life.

You know, is it just because it's that connection to, you know, the spiritual connection or is the actual process, you know, that cathartic process of creating something, does that really help us to get braver, um, as we're tapping into our, you know, uniqueness and authenticity? It's everything you just said, which is Yeah, I like the brave part 'cause I think there is a lot of courage in that.

You know, a lot of people will create in private, but they won't share it in public and, and that's okay. I mean, I think there's a lot of great artists who've been discovered later that created in private and it became public later. And that's fine. It doesn't mean you have to share. Yep. Um. But sharing is also really takes a lot of courage.

Yeah. But when, like I said, you know, people think that ideas come from the mind. They don't, they come from the quantum, they come from a bigger field we're connected into. And so when we do that, whether we're painting or. Creating anything that is us connecting into a bigger [00:27:00] part of the universe and therefore ourselves.

Mm-hmm. And that is where we feel more alive, where more magic is where more is available to us and it feels good. Which is why people get kind of addicted to that kind of creativity sometimes is 'cause it's a juicy place to reside. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. That's beautiful. So what do you wish then that more people knew about the power of creativity for stepping into, you know, our genius and power?

I mean, at the end of the day, it goes back to that foundational element, which is passion for something. Yeah. You've got, you know, when you can find a little twinge of excitement. Yeah. For something, follow a curiosity strand. Go down a rabbit hole, start creating something that you find interesting and it like, again, it doesn't have to be the day job.

It can just be something you do as a hobby or for fun or on a weekend or whatever. Um, but when you really can connect in with that passion, it unlocks all the other pieces. Yeah. Yeah, so good. So for all the women who are ready to claim more of [00:28:00] that inner creative genius, what powerful message or question would you like to leave them with today?

Creativity is ultimately a feminine trait and. So when we look at the world, it's tilted very heavily masculine and yet somehow we manage to hyper, like hyper, what's the word I'm looking for? Celebrate the feminine. You know, the Taylor Swift of the world, Beyonce, you know, these really creative geniuses that do really cool things and entertain us with their.

Beautiful creativity. Mm-hmm. Um, but the world is tilted pretty masculine. And in order to tilt the world back into balance, we need to bring much more creativity, which is more feminine back online. So what I would say to all the women listening and to all the men as well, because I think men all have that feminine aspect within them.

Yeah. Is we bring the world into balance. When we bring ourselves into balance and we bring ourselves into balance by balancing the masculine, which is the linear, the. You know, I'm gonna go for it. I'm gonna push, I'm gonna do with the feminine, which is I'm gonna [00:29:00] create, I'm gonna be in flow, I'm going to do what inspires me.

I'm just gonna be in the moment, right? Like, when we can balance these two energies within ourselves, we then create a much more balanced world. And so if you wanna do something for humanity, tap into that part of yourself because it balances you and then it therefore balances the world. So good. So good.

So how can people get to know you, Taryn, and, and get a real feel for the work that you're doing? One of my favorite things I do, I've talked about it a few times, is my newsletter. It's free. So if you wanna find me on substack, just go to my Substack Taryn Voget at Substack, and it just, I send it out twice a month.

And it's just fun, inspirational, motivational reminders about how you're already genius and how you can take that to the next level. So sign up for my Substack and then from there you can get to everything else, my YouTube channel and my websites, and book a session with me if you're interested in kind of figuring out your next step.

Um, but um, but I really encourage anyone to check out my, my newsletter. And again, it's free. It just comes out twice a month. Excellent. Thank you so much for chatting with me today, Taryn. Loved our conversation. Thank you. Oh, thank you so much. Such good questions. Thank [00:30:00] you.