Episode 135: Ascension with Kara Lewis

Yoke and Abundance Wise Women Podcast

Episode 135: In this episode, Alisha is sharing her conversation with Artist, Creative, and Author Kara Elizabeth Lewis, talking about empathy, throwing perfect out the window and letting light replace the darkness.
Episode 135 Notes: A conversation with Wedding and Branding Photographer Lindley Battle

Our Sponsor: Abbey Gibb and The MVA! Calling all purpose-driven female entrepreneurs with stories to share with this world. Meet my friend Abbey Gibb, who also happens to be an Emmy award-winning journalist turned business and media mentor.
She’s helped women like you build million-dollar businesses around your personal story, become best-selling authors, and land TED talks in months.
She's currently offering a special for my community on her #1 Media Marketing Course, the Media Visibility Accelerator. A 6 module course for purpose-driven entrepreneurs who want to scale their businesses to $25k+ per month and scale their message into a global movement.

This is the program your soul craves and your bank account deserves. CTA: MVA
Pricing options: Pay in full discount of $1497 ($5,000) or 6 monthly payments of $497

135 Show NOTES:
Kara Lewis:

A creative powerhouse
Entrepreneur
Artist
Teacher
Author
Creating in studio
Creating personal work and personal work
Book: Assentation
This book was a happy accident
As a teacher was starting to feel really heavy about what was happening in the classroom. Was watching disconnection and out-of-control bullying. Not understanding facial expressions, body language, and communication.
Schools would have conversations about being kind and helping neighbors but didn’t see it happening between students.
Kara came across a study that said that children today are 30% less empathetic than we were 20 years ago.
Another study said that parents today think that responsibility and hard work are more important than empathy.
If parents aren’t making it a priority in the home and schools aren’t making it a priority in the school, then the art room is a beautiful place to teach it.
Art is about grace and a place to let go of perfection and offer ourselves grace. How beautiful would it be if a bit of a moral compass could be woven into the curriculum? So it becomes more about the process than the product.
Kara started testing teaching breathing and mindfulness at the beginning of classes. Then making the class about kindness, compassion, peace. The children started asking her, begging her for me.
Sees self as a messenger pointing to the light so that everyone can find it.
Trusting that there is a plan.
Then Kara re-wrote the curriculum for adults.
Light is what nourishes and restores
When you don’t create every day it can be overwhelming to begin to try to create
Throw perfect out the window. We are not interested in perfection.
Creation should happen in layers. Continue to layer and refine, layer and refine. Walk away and come back with fresh eyes.
The more that you talk about your pain, the lighter you’ll feel. The more I pushed it out of my body the lighter I felt. Light was replacing the heaviness. The darkness.
Light is information and darkness is the lack of.
Light is the information that becomes love and it comes back to us.
Do you have questions you want me to answer on the show? Email me at [e-mail]

If you love the Yoke and Abundance Wise Women Podcast Consider Supporting us through Patreon.