Episode 87: When is the Right Time to Say Goodbye? Honoring Show Up Fully & Welcoming in the Nourishing Creativity Podcast

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Episode 87: When is the Right Time to Say Goodbye? Honoring Show Up Fully & Welcoming in the Nourishing Creativity Podcast

"The good news is, you have survived 100% of your bad days!" —Robin Arzón

Welcome to this week’s episode of Show Up Fully! I have been building and learning from Show Up Fully alongside you since 2020.

This journey has been a soul-shaking challenging process. But it’s exactly what I needed (and many of you) to grow and evolve as I discovered what showing up fully meant in my life.

It’s been really hard to let go and say goodbye to Show Up Fully. But today, I am officially turning the page on the podcast chapter and I am welcoming in the transition of this podcast into the Nourishing Creativity.

Listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Why Nourishing Creativity? For me, as a professional content creator: Food stylist, recipe developer, and podcast host, creation is life. My intention behind transitioning the podcast into Nourishing Creativity is to provide the space, resources, and inspiration for you (and me) to guide yourself to nourish your creativity, where you’re at right now.

As I’m moving into a deeper state of nourishing my own creativity, I’m also exploring new areas of slowing down and taking the time to deeply nourish myself. It’s interesting to me to live the principles of Show Up Fully: Res, Deep Nourishment, Movement, Mindfulness, and Water through a softer lens. If this interests you too, I invite you to do Show Up Fully Challenge

Topics Covered:

A heartfelt goodbye to Show Up Fully and the journey of this podcast over the last four years.

What is Nourishing Creativity? Hint: It’s about making it your own and it is definitely not about perfection

Revisiting the five day Show Up Fully Challenge and how it’s supportive to do if you want to refresh how you nourish yourself.

BTS of how I am nourishing myself right now which includes going to bed at 8:00pm with my kids.

Resources Mentioned:

Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day One: Finding Your Moment of Rest here

Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Two: Deep Nourishment & Finding Pleasure in Food here

Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Three: Move your Body, in Whatever Way Feels Good! here

Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Four: Mindfulness & Using a Simple Breathing Practice to Ground Yourself here

Listen to Show Up Fully Challenge Day Five & Wrap Up: Water + The Episode Where I Talk About Poop here

Listen to my Pilates Mat journey here

Please tag me @chefcarlacontreras on Instagram so I can continue the conversation with you. Use the hashtag #showupfullypodcast

Eat Well,

xo Chef Carla

PS: Curious about my Health Coach journey? Listen to this episode

About Chef Carla Contreras

For the last 24 + years, I’ve worked as a trained chef in: Restaurants, hotels, as a chef instructor at three culinary schools, and personal chef in New York City.

Since 2013, I have been sharing my gift of content creation with publications and brands like Better Homes and Gardens, The Wall Street Journal, Shape Magazine, justBobbi.com, Nutritious Life, Well + Good.

In my personal brand, I not only show up for the hard things, I own them and then share them with the world, like my $38,000 lesson I learned in my business and evolution of a Digital Entrepreneur over the last ten years.

In my online courses, I bring my years of experience as a trained chef, content creator, health and life coach, and meditation teacher to help you with you shift mindset around cooking & the content creation process. Learn more here

Find + Work With Carla:

Online Courses & Books: Learn more here

Instagram: @chefcarlacontreras

Full Transcript:

00:00.00

chefcarla

We're going to start this episode off with a few deep breaths and the reason beingan is is that I'm saying goodbye to show it fully and this is a massive thing for me to do and if you have ever let something. Go you know the magnitude of this so I'm going to invite you to take a couples deep rests with me and if you are doing something active like driving or watching kids or. Doing anything that is involving where you need to pay attention. Definitely keep your eyes open and you can breathe with me if it doesn't feel safe save this for another time if you are in a place that is safe I invite you to. Lower your gaze or soften your eyes. You can even close your eyes. You're gonna take an inhale through your nose and an exhale out your nose or mouth 1 more time inhale. Through your nose exhale through your nose or mouth and 1 more time inhale through your nose exhale through your nose or mouth notice how you feel right now.

01:34.25

chefcarla

I feel calmer I feel in my body and I feel ready to tell you that show up fully is officially over and I did try to record this before but I started crying my eyes out There's so much emotion attached to show up fully show up fully has been the last four years of my life and I have shown up in tremendous ways. Hopefully started in June of 2020 and if you know anything about this time. It was very heavy and heated not only with covid but politics. And murders and there was so much civil unrest so many things in the United States that were going on and other countries as well. I can only speak about myself who lives outside of New York city but I had 2 young children that were in school and had to be homeschooled I was on the verge of bankruptcy.

03:04.59

chefcarla

And had just gotten a job but then covid happened and they laid off all of the cooking school teachers I started to food style at home and this was a gift because. I was styling at home and creating videos creating photos creating content creating recipes all of the different things before people did this at home. So big companies were hiring me because I was already set up. I was doing the job of 6 different people and they didn't have to run to studio space so they were happy to pay me and I was grateful because 2020 ended up being the most profitable year in business that I've had. Of the 10 years that I was on entrepreneur it was. It was incredible and of course things shifted as things moved on things progressed as people went back into studios I lost work i. Had a lot of tumultuous time with money and my count going negative and just so many different things responsibility with my family with my children times where they were sick times that they had covered.

04:36.84

chefcarla

Multiple times I was constantly asked to show up excuse me I felt like I was doing an amazing job of showing up I felt like. I had to be perfect at showing up I had people on this podcast that told me all of their different ways that they showed up including ways that they didn't want to show up and I always found that fascinating. Because it gave me a glimpse and it also gave me permission to take a break to rest to take time to pause and I did that a number of times like I paused with social media. You see my social media now like there is only a few posts. Maybe one post a week on Instagram I used to post every single day and the beanie of covin I was going live all of the time until my daughter was like Mama. No more and I love that she said that to me because it was so much stress on my family for me to go live. Everyone had to be quiet. You know my my partner Ed had to take the kids in the basement like there's a whole thing.

06:12.34

chefcarla

And and this is the thing about Instagram and social media that you you know may not see is that there's a lot of things that happen behind the scenes and for me having my kids was frankly more important than going live and. I do feel like could I have been more successful on Instagram had I consistently posted could I have been more successful or had more followers. If I continue to do the lives continue to show up in that way. Sure but it would have cost me my family and that was a non-negotiable for me. So you're getting the real behind the scenes of what does it look like and also recently. I've uncovered that I don't have to be on social media every single day in order to work with brands in order to continue to do photo shoots continue to do recipe development. This is a choice that I make. And it's a choice that I struggle with because if you've listened to this podcast. You know that I have anxiety you know that you know I had daily panic attacks during 20 there was so much going on.

07:45.90

chefcarla

And I have discovered things like Wim Hof and that's actually 1 of my most popular episodes on the podcast. It's about learning the breath method and I will preface this that I've been doing this for 4 years and Wim Hof has definitely changed I used to take a straight up cold shower now I don't I'm really into keeping my body more in a homeostasis. So I do almost like cool water only on my head. Only on my head to kind of just like refresh myself and wake myself up. Anyways, this is getting on a tangent I've had a really long journey with show fully I've had a really long time journey with my content. And I've had a really long journey with my family and evolving and changing and growing and figuring out what works for me and what works for us as a collective and what I realized with nourishing creativity. Starting my substack that that was an answer to not being on social media. All of the time that I could connect with you via my podcast via newsletter.

09:15.61

chefcarla

Ah, coworking. We have Nourish and create hours and other workshops that I want to create we could create a community without having to be on social media all the time for me, it's draining and so.

09:35.32

chefcarla

What I feel like works. Best is to have everything the same name like this is the strategist in me this is the content strategist in me, it's like all right everything across the board is named nourishing creativity. So the podcast is named. Nourishing creativity because that's how I want to brand my substack and how nourishing creativity came about was I had a membership back in 2020 where I taught content creation and specifically Instagram and Instagram Bios actually to this day doing an Instagram bio is my favorite thing. It's like literally like a home makeover show I love doing them actually recently did one if you're interested in that send me send me a message because I love doing them. Anyways I had 1 lesson in that course in that membership that I never put content into it was called nourishing creativity and I had this in the back of my mind for a very long time. And then finally I like ripped off the band-aid I feel like it was in September of twenty twenty three and I was like all right I'm just going to claim that I'm doing this I have no idea how this is gonna happen but there we are nourishing creativity is now up.

11:08.52

chefcarla

It's on substack and the podcast lives on substack as well And what I also realized by doing substack is that I have so many more listeners because substack actually promotes the podcast outside of.

11:30.29

chefcarla

I'm gonna take a pause substex takes taking a pause substac actually promotes my podcast they put it in the side panel. Anytime you're listening to another podcast. They'll suggest other podcasts. So I'm like this is incredible I can build community. We can have workshops. We can have co-working we can have all kinds of different things go on in substax so this is my new home. I'm grateful that you have tuned in that you're joining me and that you've been through the evolution of this podcast which has gone from cooking is the new healthy which I feel like was 2018 to 2020 then we had a show of fully. Which was twenty twenty to 2024 and now we have nourishing creativity and this podcast has allowed me to grow to shifts and to evolve and I can't wait to do that with you too.

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