Deep Dive with Blythe Harris on Creative Routines

About this episode

Blythe Harris discusses her journey of rebuilding her identity after a life-altering accident and explores the importance of small, daily creative practices for mental health.

At 22, Blythe Harris was hit by an 18-wheeler in downtown San Francisco, pronounced dead on arrival, and spent the next several years rebuilding her identity from a hospital gurney. What she discovered in that long, humbling process set her on a lifelong inquiry into creativity — not the capital C kind that most people assume doesn't belong to them, but the small, daily, five-minute kind that turns out to be one of the most underused tools for mental health we have. Blythe went on to co-found and lead the creative vision of Stella and Dot, a jewelry and accessories company that put flexible income in the hands of tens of thousands of women, and more recently co-authored (with Mallory May) Daily Creative: The Five Minute Habit to Rewire Your Brain. In the fourth episode of our Wired to Create series, Blythe makes the case that every single one of us is more creative than we think — and that the cost of ignoring that might be higher than we realize. This episode was made possible by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. To learn more, please visit: waltonfamilyfoundation.org. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit…

People in this episode

Host: Kelly Corrigan

Guest: Blythe Harris

Topics covered

• creativity
• mental health
• identity
• personal growth
• creative routines

Keywords

• creativity
• mental health
• Blythe Harris
• creative routines
• identity
• personal growth
• Stella and Dot

Sponsors

Walton Family Foundation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stella and Dot

Books & works: Daily Creative: The Five Minute Habit to Rewire Your Brain

Places: San Francisco

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