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
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Your Creative Chord Podcast
Using Struggles As Stepping Stones To Happiness | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 36
This episode of Your Creative Chord Podcast shows how to use struggles as stepping stones to happiness. My message of encouragement for enduring the pandemic and other stress factors of the past few years.
HIGHLIGHTS:
It's easy for any of us to be defeated by our problems. Whether they are big or small doesn't matter. They're our problems and because of that, they can seem tailor-designed to knock us down.
Regardless of specifics, when faced with difficulty, having the attitude to work toward a solution or win victory, is the first step to creating forward momentum.
If we first work on strengthening the attitude behind our actions, we stand a greater chance of overcoming the problem or reaching a goal. Actions we take are only part of the solution or winning strategy.
Excerpt from a poem, How To Feel The Sun, from my book, Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Collection Of Poetry And Lyrics:
“In your heart, you have everything you need to break through
You must awaken to the fact that it all depends on you
There, inside, a battle wages between your darkness and light
You must focus all your energy on keeping victory in sight.”
There’s an Einstein quote I love, 'It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.' Problems can function as beneficial to our lives because they push us into the proverbial corner until we learn to strengthen our belief in the unlimited potential within ourselves and humanity.
RELATED LINKS:
SGI-USA Buddhism https://www.sgi-usa.org/
✨ Free Resources
Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use.
Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnout RESET Guide — simple steps you can use right away.
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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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