by Leonie Dawson | Oct 8, 2018 | Creativity Tips, Uncategorized
I’m trying new things lately. Example: In the evenings, after we’ve eaten dinner, our routine of late has been: My husband and kids watch 30 minutes of TV together. Usually something like The Zoo or Tanked. And usually, I would sit on the couch and just...
by Leonie Dawson | Sep 13, 2018 | Creativity Tips
Hi treasures, As you know I’ve decided to close down the Academy + am holding a big bundle sale to release my life’s work. I wanted to give the Academy a good goodbye, and make it a win-win-win situation for everybody involved. And so I decided to do a...
by Leonie Dawson | Nov 27, 2017 | Creativity Tips
Hi loves, I’ve got 45 minutes before our Thai dinner gets delivered. OMNOMNOM. What to write about today? I thought maybe I’d share what it was like to take 6 months off creating in the public arena. For me, it felt like an eternity and deeply unusual:...
by Leonie Dawson | Oct 18, 2016 | Creativity Tips
Loves, This struck me the other night, after writing The Highly Sensitive CEO. I was thinking about the old tale of the Tortoise and the Hare. You know the story. If you don’t, let me retell it in a style I like to call “Leonie’s Fables.” There...
by Leonie Dawson | Jul 24, 2016 | Creativity Tips
Actual conversation with my husband as he scanned in my handwriting above. “Free DVD? FREE DVD? Why don’t you just tell people you have a free betamax tape to give them?” “DVD means video!” “In the OLDEN DAYS Leonie! Let me go get...
by Leonie Dawson | Jun 23, 2016 | Creativity Tips, Life Sharings
I’ve been lost lately. Burnt out, empty, nothing to say. I have this well you see dip the hand-hewn bucket it returns to the surface, brimming with creativity brimming with art and song and stories and magic. I was so used to this well never faltering never failing. I...