Your Creative Chord Podcast
Your Creative Chord Podcast
Empowering Your Creative Flow & Inspired Living
Welcome to Your Creative Chord, the podcast for people who want to reconnect with their creativity, restore their energy, and live with greater intention. I’m Jenny Leigh Hodgins—creative empowerment coach, author, poet, pianist, composer, and longtime teacher and mentor.
Each episode offers practical tools and thoughtful guidance to help you rebuild trust in your creative process. Together we explore ways to navigate creative blocks, recover from burnout, set healthy boundaries, and cultivate creative flow and inspired living with curiosity, clarity, and self-compassion.
Drawing from 30+ years of teaching, performing, composing--as well as my experience as a caregiver, and my SGI Buddhist practice--I share insights that support sustainable creativity, authentic self-expression, and a more inspired way of living.
Free resources to support your creative flow and inspired living:
- Creative Empowerment Sampler – Expanded from my Inspirational Bookmark Trio, with practical tools to reset energy, explore creatively, and nurture aligned, sustainable flow. 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/poetry
- 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
For deeper creative growth:
Explore how my Creative Empowerment Coaching Program helps you overcome obstacles, build creative confidence, and live inspired on your own terms:
YourCreativeChord.com/workwithme
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Thank you for being part of Your Creative Chord.
Your Creative Chord Podcast
Created, produced, and hosted by Jenny Leigh Hodgins © 2025
Sun and Bloom Piano Music © 2016 Jenny Leigh Hodgins
All content © 2026 Jenny Leigh Hodgins
Episodes
96 episodes
Creativity Brings Comfort, Courage, and Hope | Ep 21 Your Creative Chord Podcast
As a creator, Your Creative Chord podcast host Jenny Leigh Hodgins pondered how to best serve you in the troubling situation with the coronavirus 19 pandemic. The power of art and nature to rejuvenate and empower the human soul is unsurpassed. ...
"You Are Enough Just As You Are!" | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 20
"You Are Enough Just As You Are!" (Part 1 of 2) features my conversation with licensed psychologist, author, and clinical supervisor Dr. Tara Sanderson. Our conversation is relevant for those who struggle with perfectionism, overachieving, anxi...
Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel Pt 3 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 17
“Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - part 3” featuring Creator Kristen Baum: Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman.Featuring LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum. Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who...
Special Episode International Women's Day | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 19
This is a special International Women's Day episode made for Resonance FM. It features excerpts from my interviews with 4 creative women for Your Creative Chord Podcast. These creative women share: their unique approaches to creativ...
Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - Pt 4 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 18
“Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - part 4” featuring Creator Kristen Baum: Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman.LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently coll...
Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel Pt 1 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 15
Part one of “Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel,” features Creator Kristen Baum: Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman.LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently c...
Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel Pt 2 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 16
“Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - Pt 2” features Creator Kristen Baum, a Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman.LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently colla...
How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 2 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 14
In "How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 2" pyrography Artist Amanda Packard, aka, The Phoenix Quill dives more personally and universally into how the artist's creativity began, what led her to create, and what inspire...
How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 1 | Your Creative Chord Podcast ep 13
Episode 13, "How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 1" features Pyrography Artist Amanda Packard, aka, The Phoenix Quill. Our dialogue takes us through a step-by-step of the artist's creative process, the tools essential ...
It's ALL Ok -Just Do YOU Part 2 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 12
In Episode 12, "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU" Part 2 features more from my conversation with Maine-born composer Trace Callahan. Callahan and I discuss her video game music composing process, the tools necessary for implementing game music,...
It's ALL Okay - Just Do YOU | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 11
Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 11, "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU," features my conversation with Maine-born composer Trace Callahan. Our dialogue runs the gamut of Callahan's upcoming original musical to her involvement as a video game...
How To Live A Life of Joyful Creativity Part 2 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 10
Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 10, How To Live A Life of Joyful Creativity Part 2, features a deeper dialogue on successful approaches to and benefits of committing to the creative life. Part 2 of my interview wit...
Learning How To Live A Life of Joyful Creativity Part 1 | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 9
Today’s Creativity episode features Part I of my interview with University of Kentucky Department of Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Ryan Hargrove. Hargrove teaches creative thinking through a variety of projects, trips, interviews w...
5 Ways To Use Music & Nature For Self Care | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 8
Episode 8 offers 5 Ways To Use Music & Nature For Self-Care. ✨ Free ResourcesExplore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my
Landing On The Hopeful | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 7
Episode 7, Landing on the Hopeful, is about the power of the arts as demonstrated by Lexington Ballet Company’s therapeutic performances.✨ Free ResourcesExplore practical ways to nurture your creative e...
Why Taking Care of Yourself Is Best For Others | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 6
Episode 6 explains Why Taking Care of Yourself Is Best For Others.✨ Free ResourcesExplore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my
5 Ways to Master Caregiver Learning Curve | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 5
5 Ways to Master Caregiver Learning Curve offers a few practical tips (from a caregiver) for caregivers. ✨ Free ResourcesExplore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with ...
How To Deflect Negativity | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 4
Episode 4, How To Deflect Negativity, offers insights into handling difficulties and negative self-talk. ✨ Free ResourcesExplore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with ...
Learning To Be Creative | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 3
Learning to be Creative summarizes my Creative Exploration Formula, a practical approach to help you nurture your creativity. These strategies are part of my Inspirational Bookmark Trio and form the foundation for my fr...
Winning Against The Lower Worlds | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 2
Episode 2, Winning Against The Lower Worlds, is my poetic essay about how the inner battle to defeat negativity results in visible positive changes in our world. ✨ Free ResourcesExplore practical ways to...
The Storm Is Worth It | Your Creative Chord Podcast Ep 1
Your Creative Chord Podcast Episode 1, The Storm Is Worth It is about Jenny Leigh Hodgins' view as a caregiver of her aging mother's journey. The story reveals why traveling through severe storm weather to attend an event was so s...
