Unlocking Your Creative Mojo with Carlie Wacker

How do you keep your Mojo and rediscover your creativity when what you thought you were building has been completely turned upside down. This could be the exact creative gift you really need to get back to basics.

On today’s episode because I have one of my great friends, radio host face of the 80s 90s in the 2000s. My dear friend and fabuloso Carlie Wacker from The World of Wacker.

Carlie has always been an entertainer.

“I’m always producing shows in the neighbourhood as a little girl. It was a natural progression for me to go on and pursue a career in the entertainment industry. I danced in the United States. I came back to Australia. I embarked on what I thought was going to be this most fabulous acting career and dancing career. I ended up on radio”. I travelled all around Australia. I got to work in some really interesting small country towns and little communities. That’s where I discovered the real need for supporting a local community.

Without knowing it, I was unveiling what was going to be the next part of my life. That was to become a brand ambassador for local businesses and fashion has always been a major interest of mine. So when I moved to Noosa in 2012, I became immersed in the community.

I got to know all the fashion and local businesses. I became a real voice for them. That then ended up in me founding with my co-founder, Jacinta Elms runway fashion Australia, which is a sustainable fashion show that was meant to launch on the 21st of March this year.

But of course, due to our restrictions and social distancing that has been postponed. So as a representative for local creatives Carlie asked me advice on how to unlock creativity again and reignite the sense of purpose in work…

This isn’t a survival guide. This is about thriving. 

This is about understanding, unleashing and unlocking the amazing potential that comes with just being present. 

How do we help local creative businesses find their creative Mojo again and get inspired

* when they feel like there’s a lot of restrictions the word, anti business, anti social, all the kind of usual outlets for creativity they might have normally anchored onto might have been taken away.

Carlie: It’s really tough when you don’t have a benchmark or that goalpost, – when there’s no structure – ,what’s the point of planning and putting in creativity when you just don’t know when that’s going to come about? 

How do you find that motivation when you lack motivation entirely?

Step One – First: Stop looking at old frameworks for “success” 

I think underneath it, or the underlying truth is not a lot of people do feel excited about the future because the one that they had built was torn down. 

I always say you can’t build towers on quicksand. 

* So the first step is to start choosing your thoughts wisely and change your language. 

* What we’re going through at the moment on a collective level is a reprogramming of what success validation and business and your whole life looks like, which is what if instead of looking outward, you actually accepted that you could give yourself everything that you needed, that your family, that your community,