Sep 9, 2026 · 38 min · 8 segments
What if creativity is far bigger than the things we make? Jean and Jillian are joined by confidence coach Jennifer Fiedler for a wide-ranging conversation about creativity, self-trust, authenticity…
Jennifer FiedlerGuest
Jean Hamilton FordHost
Jillian StarmanHost
Um, you talk about, you know, creativity, um, from like a personal perspective.

Um, but what do you think about how people kind of show up in your life at different times and how that impacts the creativity that you have? Um, you know, do they add value to where you're at or help you to think differently? Or do you think that just comes from something within you?

Uh, we've now crossed over into the realm of spiritual beliefs, which are, in my world, people are placed in front of us for a reason.

Nothing is some random, "Oh, wow, hey, wow, look at that, wow," right? That's not how the universe designs things, or consciousness or substitute God, whatever word of your choice might be.

And so conceivably, the creativity enters into the picture when we are evolved enough to understand, "Here's something that was placed in front of me.

I don't really get why," or, "I don't really get like, boy, I don't, I didn't really like that person," and then you see that person again a week later or whatever the circumstance is.

Conceivably, the creativity is involved in being able to discern why that person was placed in front of you, that transcends their very presence.

But for us to understand, as you would fashion something from a raw material, why that person is there and to what end-

And that, that back end of that can also be an exercise in creativity, yeah?
But you were saying something earlier about, um, confidence and creativity, and one thing that came to, to mind is the fact that it, it allows us to also nourish some self-belief.
When we own it and we acknowledge it, it helps us engender some self-belief, and I think that's really important because it goes hand-in-hand with confidence, doesn't it?

Um, you talk about, you know, creativity, um, from like a personal perspective.

Um, but what do you think about how people kind of show up in your life at different times and how that impacts the creativity that you have? Um, you know, do they add value to where you're at or help you to think differently? Or do you think that just comes from something within you?

Uh, we've now crossed over into the realm of spiritual beliefs, which are, in my world, people are placed in front of us for a reason.

Nothing is some random, "Oh, wow, hey, wow, look at that, wow," right? That's not how the universe designs things, or consciousness or substitute God, whatever word of your choice might be.

And so conceivably, the creativity enters into the picture when we are evolved enough to understand, "Here's something that was placed in front of me.

I don't really get why," or, "I don't really get like, boy, I don't, I didn't really like that person," and then you see that person again a week later or whatever the circumstance is.

Conceivably, the creativity is involved in being able to discern why that person was placed in front of you, that transcends their very presence.

But for us to understand, as you would fashion something from a raw material, why that person is there and to what end-

And that, that back end of that can also be an exercise in creativity, yeah?
But you were saying something earlier about, um, confidence and creativity, and one thing that came to, to mind is the fact that it, it allows us to also nourish some self-belief.
When we own it and we acknowledge it, it helps us engender some self-belief, and I think that's really important because it goes hand-in-hand with confidence, doesn't it?
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