The Creative Wheel keeps on rolling! In this episode, we talk about inspiration and how it fits in the wheel. Inspiration is all around us in so many forms and in so many places. One of Ward's biggest inspirations in music is Taylor Swift. We chat about the amazing things Taylor does to inspire people all over the world to create music and pursue their dreams.

PART 2 OF ORIGINATE! We continue the conversation around the mentality needed to originate your new ideas. Learn how to develop and sharpen the right thinking and creative mentality that will help you in your creative efforts to originate ideas, develop better processes, create new art, music, and design!

ORGINATE! We have arrived on our Creative Wheel journey to Orginate. We broke this topic up into 2 episodes because there was so much to unload! We cover skills needed to originate your new ideas. Learn how to develop and sharpen the right thinking and creative skills that will help you in your creative efforts to orginate ideas, develop better processes, create new art, music, and design! Stay tuned for Orginate part 2 next week!

Evolve is the next stage in the Creative Wheel. As you work through the process of copying, then remixing, you arrive at evolve (also known as similar or adjacent ideas). Ward discusses ways you can evolve your creative ideas and approaches and how that gets you one step closer to originating. Expect ideas, insights, and hacks on evolving your ideas and increasing your creativity.

Remix is the next stage in the Creative Wheel. What does it mean to remix something? How can remixing help you get closer to originating your own creative work? We share examples, ideas, and everything that goes into remixing two ideas into something new and powerful.

In this episode, Ward helps dispel the taboo around copying others. Copy is the first step in the Creative Wheel process and an important approach to getting closer to originating your own work. Copying is training, skill-building and learning. Learn how copying is a confidence booster and step in your creative process.

Everyone can be creative! There is a process for developing creativity. Ward outlines the stages in the process of learning and gaining confidence in creative thinking and doing. This is about your creative journey, the steps work in a cycle as you go, we call it the Creative Wheel.

Hacks! Hacks! Hacks! Who doesn't love a creative hack? The internet is full of them! 

On this episode we discuss several creative hacks, including random dance parties to get the creative juices flowing! Whether you are parent, a business owner, an artist or first responder, these creative hacks can help you make improvements in your life and reach a higher level of creative confidence.

In this episode we explore the value in finding trust in yourself and how that powers your ability to learn and execute creatively. 

We explore the possibility that your life may have been designed by you before you started it. 

Trusting yourself is one of the highest forms of self-love and gives you a foundation to find your creativity.

Welcome to Create Forward with Ward Andrews! In this episode, we dive into what creativity means and easy hacks that can help you unlock your creativity. Everyone is creative and creativity comes in all shapes and sizes, we help you learn how to access and use your creativity more.