153: Cheri Magid on Feeding Sustainable Ambition in Her Creative Work
Overview
How can we pursue our ambitions without sacrificing our lives or ourselves in the process?
It’s easy to get overextended while following our passions, but we can use those moments to learn our limits and what we need to do in order to sustain ourselves for the long term.
In this episode, I talk with Cheri Magid about her art and how creative practices can help us live and work in more fulfilling and satisfying ways. Creative practices don’t have to be big investments of time or money. Small, manageable habits can go a long way to serving our well-being and ability to be ambitious sustainably.
Cheri leads a full, ambitious, creative life and today she shares how investing in her creativity helps her stay committed to her work, her interests, and her values without sacrificing herself.
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More About Our Guest
Cheri Magid writes plays, screenplays, narrative podcasts, opera and television. Her play A Poem and a Mistake has been produced around the US and is in Edinburgh Fringe this year. A Poem, which was also made into a film/play, was originally commissioned and presented by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. Her opera Penelope and the Geese, composed by Milica Paranosic, was produced at Museum of Asian Art in Corfu, Greece and aired on Autogram, Radio Belgrade 2 in Belgrade, Serbia. Playing Dog, her play for young audiences, toured the Hudson Valley July 2024 with Little Theatre of Wonder. Cheri also wrote for the Emmy-award-winning children’s television show Arthur and is a 2024 OpEd Public Voices Fellow at NYU where she is an Associate Arts Professor in Dramatic Writing at Tisch.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
Challenges of balancing multiple creative projects and teaching responsibilities
How Cheri juggles simultaneous creative projects
What an overextended season taught Cheri about limits and constraints
Managing emotional investments in creative work
Cheri’s practical tips for sustaining creativity
Learn more about Cheri Magid:
Resources Mentioned
132. Prioritizing Joy and Creativity in Our Lives with Emily Shaw
133. How Art and Creativity Transform Our Well-Being with Tasha Golden, PhD
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