Your Creative Chord Podcast
Your Creative Chord Podcast
Empowering Your Creative Flow & Inspired Living
Welcome to Your Creative Chord, the podcast for creatives, artists, musicians, caregivers, and anyone seeking to nurture their creative spark, build creative confidence, and live with more intention, resilience, and joy. I’m Jenny Leigh Hodgins—creative empowerment coach, author, poet, pianist, composer, and longtime creativity mentor.
This podcast helps you rebuild trust in your unique creative process with practical mindset tools, self-care strategies, and curiosity-driven creative exploration. Whether you’re navigating creative blocks, managing burnout, or simply deepening your connection to creativity and inspired living, each episode offers clear, actionable guidance to move forward with confidence and clarity.
Drawing from 30+ years of teaching, composing, caregiving, and my SGI Buddhist practice, I share insights that support nurturing creativity, exploring new ideas, and living a more inspired, authentic life.
Free resources to support your creative flow and inspired living:
- Creative Empowerment Sampler – Expanded from the Inspirational Bookmark Trio, with practical tools to reset energy, explore creatively, and nurture ongoing inspiration. YourCreativeChord.com/getinspiredhere
- Burnout RESET Guide – Step-by-step strategies to restore energy, set boundaries, and regain clarity. YourCreativeChord.com/burnoutguide
- Poetry Sampler – A preview of Kaleidoscope of the Heart, offering reflection and creative nourishment. YourCreativeChord.com/poetrysampler
- Piano Strategies Bundle – Key tools from Start Piano to help you build steady, confident progress at the keys. YourCreativeChord.com/pianostrategies
Discover my books:
- Kaleidoscope of the Heart: A Collection of Poetry and Lyrics
- Start Piano: What You Need for Successful Learning
YourCreativeChord.com/books
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Explore how my Creative Empowerment Coaching Program helps you overcome obstacles, build creative confidence, and live inspired on your own terms:
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Your Creative Chord Podcast
Created, produced, and hosted by Jenny Leigh Hodgins © 2025
Sun and Bloom Piano Music © 2016 Jenny Leigh Hodgins
All content © 2025 Jenny Leigh Hodgins
Your Creative Chord Podcast
To Remember You | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 37
In episode 37, I share ideas on preparing a creative goodbye. My personal experiences with multiple tragedies motivated me to help many through the creative memorial planning process. I used alternatives to traditional funeral plans with less or zero corporate &/or religious involvement—and mapped out personalized, meaningful, creative memorial plans. I served as an unofficial celebrant for more than 20 memorials —including 4 personal losses.
I address life and death as one—with the understanding that we die as we’ve lived and that we can live more mindfully once we address death. Whatever inner life state we build during our lives, we take with us into the next natural chapter of death. Living an inspired life with creative energy stems from living fully—with mindfulness in the present moment as well as having the courage to face the difficult things.
How to prepare a collection of your legacy documents as a memorable family activity or a creative project of your own. One idea for your creative goodbye ritual is poetry. It could be a poem or collection that you wrote, by a loved one, or from your favorite famous poet. Poetry is a beautiful way to express the richness and joy of creativity within your loving legacy.
This episode features my poem, To Remember You, (to my late brother, John), from my book, Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Collection Of Poetry And Lyrics.
✨ Free Resources
Experience the expressive power of words with my Poetry Sampler — a curated selection from Kaleidoscope of the Heart that invites reflection, emotional renewal, and creative inspiration.
Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler (expanded from my Inspirational Bookmark Trio)— a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use.
Reset your energy and support recovery
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Connect with Jenny Leigh:
- Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
- Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
- Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
- Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!
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