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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what theyβve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David SternπΆ
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Lisa Hopkins: Wide Awake Dreaming
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Lisa shares a story about how being unable to sleep because of a racing mind became an opportunity to learn about herself, creativity, and how we edit our own thoughts and ideas before they've had a chance just to exist.
"I sometimes get my best ideas when I wake up in the middle of the night. Itβs a kind of twilight zone when my judge or inner critic is still asleep but my sage voice is wide awake."
AJR "Way Less Sad"
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π **Interested in finding out more about working with Lisa Hopkins? Want to share your feedback or be considered as a guest on the show?**
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Wide Awake Dreaming
Sometimes I get my best ideas when I wake up in the middle of the night. Itβs a kind of twilight zone when my judge or inner critic is still asleep but my sage voice is wide awake.
While my serious, sensible pragmatic brain lies dormant, unable to comment, judge, weigh-in, warn, evaluate or protect me, the sage part of my brain is clear, wide-awake-dreaming, conjuring , flowing freely, creating.
Sometimes when this happens, I actually get up, as I did earlier this week at 3:30 am. Something needed to come out before βsane brainβ woke up and started fighting me to go back to sleep, warning me that Iβd be too tired to function the next day. So, like a mouse tiptoeing past a sleeping cat, I slipped into the other room trying to stay in the zone. My creative brain knew, that if roused, βsane brainβ would use itβs amnesic alchemy and Iβd forget the ideas, or worse yet remember them but somehow be convinced they were useless gibberish. And so the wrestling match would begin and the fear of being too tired would take over, ironically preventing me from going back to sleep again. The ticking clock would serve as a nagging reminder of how much time I was losing and god forbid Iβm still not sleeping when the birds start waking up - singing βI-had-a-good-sleep-I-had-a-good-sleepβ shaming me for not taking better care of myself.
But that night, I managed to stay in the zone long enough to jot down some ideas. They wonβt change the world or help me achieve anything, they are just words.
Unattached to any kind of desire, solution or outcome. No promises or particular purpose, just thoughts that became words on the page. My words. They came out of me.
Days later when I first looked at the words through the lens of my physically awake self, they were fragmented and not particularly poignant. But they invited me to get to know them, assemble and dis-assemble them,
like the child who plays with blocks; enjoying the building as much as the demolishing - happily crashing down creations only to re-build new ones.
What you are listening to right now is some of what was generated. Although there was much more than what Iβve composed today, the experience has provided me some food for thought and an opportunity to reflect.
I should mention that I feel asleep easily that night after I captured some of the thoughts. Maybe I should do that more often.
Iβm Lisa Hopkins, thanks for listening. Stay safe and healthy everyone and remember to live in the moment.