Common Shapes

Hello Common Shapes listeners. 🔸 I wanted to pop in with a little mini-episode to check in between seasons and share a few updates. Take a few minutes to hear why I changed my name and how you can join us in Flexible Office this spring. 🔹 LINKS Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m deep in conversation with poet, teacher, and my dear friend, Jacqueline Suskin. Jacqueline is a poet and educator who has been teaching workshops, writing books, hosting retreats and creating spontaneous poetry around the world since 2009. She’s published eight books, and her most recent one, A Year In Practice, was just released with Sounds True press. Together we talk about seasonal practices, radically reconnecting with the Earth, Fern Gully, writing multiple books, having multiple calendars, and choosing to remember. Tune in to learn about— Links Visit Jacqueline’s websiteA Year in PracticeSubscribe to Jacqueline’s Substack newsletterGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my dear friend Fariha Róisín for a conversation at the intersections of writing, politics, care, and liberation. Fariha is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Sydney, Australia. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. She’s the author of five books and writes the Substack newsletter, How to Cure a Ghost. In this episode, Fariha shares her experience telling the truth amidst propaganda and channeling righteous rage into writing. She explains how she approaches writing about Palestine during the genocide in Gaza and how she embeds the depth of her feelings and beliefs in her work. Tune in to hear about— Links Visit Fariha’s websiteSurvival Takes a Wild ImaginationSubscribe to Fariha’s Substack newsletterFollow Fariha on InstagramJames BaldwinMother Country RadicalsGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

I’ve been writing personal essays for over a decade, and I believe that my personal essay practice allowed me to leave social media. So in today’s episode, I share how I blend the personal, the poetic, and the political in my writing. And I unpack how that supports me in speaking up and sharing my work without shying away from what’s happening in the world. I hope this episode inspires you to share your writing with the people. Tune in to learn about— Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondaySign up for Writing the Personal, Dec 3 -17Body Work by Melissa Febos69herbsSister SpinsterLukaza’s SubstackFariha’s SubstackFriendship Village bookBear HebertOff the Grid podcastAyana Zaire Cotton Substackcodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Welcome to season two of Common Shapes! Since last season, I took a big step in my life and logged out of Instagram for good. So in this episode, I’m going to share why I left and how I did it. Not from a place of knowing-it-all, but by asking the question, “what does it actually mean to be done with social media?” I hope this episode inspires you to take supportive steps that are right for you. Tune in to learn about— Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondaySign up for my Skillshare class, Success on SubstackListen to Off the Grid podcast5-step Plan to Leave Social Mediathis conversation with Melissa Wordcodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Making this podcast brought me into a business ecosystem crisis. Very little of my output changed, but my inner understanding of my work needed to shift. So in today’s episode, I’m sharing how my job description has changed since I launched this show. And I’m exploring how shifting your job description can transform your relationship to your work. Tune in to learn about— Links Your Everchanging JobBook a Creative Advising SessionsGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🔶 Interested in finding out more about placing an ad for next season? Fill out this form! 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Your offer ecosystem is how your creative offerings branch out of your artistry, fit together in the world, increase your income, and expand your reach. In this episode, I share how I’ve crafted my offer ecosystem over the past decade, and I tell you the stories of how a few of my offers have evolved and even ended. Tune in to learn about— Links Learn more about Teaching As A PracticeGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Teaching online classes is how I’ve made the majority of my income since 2017. And it is a great joy of my career to have had such amazing, invested, weird, inspirational students. In this episode, I’m going to share my approach to creating an online class by walking us through how I teach my class A Quilt Is Something Human. I hope that this inspires you to become the teacher that you are meant to be. Grab a pen & paper, then tune in to learn about— your Links Learn more about Teaching As A PracticeGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayLearn about Melissa Word’s class Grief Threadscodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m joined by my internet friend Anna Fusco to discuss dedicating your life to art. Anna is an artist, writer, deep thinker, question asker and truth teller. Her practice consists of writing her Substack newsletter and making drawings. Together we talk about our daily list practice, creating a gallery show, the challenges of pricing your work, and what it means to be a full-time artist. Tune in to learn about— Links Make Miracles in Forty Days by Melody BeattieVisit Anna’s poster shop, Lord CowboySubscribe to Anna’s Substack newsletter, UnsupervisedFollow Anna on InstagramGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

I think the great fear of most creative people is that we’ll run out of ideas and not know what to do next. I come up against this time and time again in my own work, so I’ve developed a series of practices for releasing fear, removing blocks, returning to center, and discovering what’s next. Tune in to this episode to learn my six favorite tools for when I don’t know what to do, including— After you listen, go get my free Creative Ideation Portal, and join me in dreaming up what’s next for you and your work. Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayGet Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Waycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

This week on Common Shapes podcast, I’m sharing the mic with my friend Tamara Santibañez for a conversation about oral histories, tattooing, freelancing, and art as activism. Tamara is an interdisciplinary artist and oral historian living and working in Brooklyn. Their work is rooted in storytelling and the visual language of identity construction, exploring subcultural semiotics and the meanings we make from bodily adornment. Tune in to hear us discuss— Links— Visit Tamara’s websiteFollow Tamara on InstagramSubscribe to Tamara’s SubstackCould This Be Magic? Tattooing as Liberation WorkGet the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

This week on Common Shapes, I share four practices for checking in with your creative pace — internal seasons, intuitive sharing, weather systems, and the earning pathway. This episode feels like an updated version of How to Not Always Be Working, and I hope it serves your practice, your pace, and your deepest alignment. Listen in to learn— After you listen, go get my free Creative Ideation Portal, and join me in making our art and pacing ourselves. Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayTake my class, Organizing A Daycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

This week I’m welcoming Common Shapes’ very first guest, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo. Lukaza (they/them/Lukaza) an artist, abolitionist, educator, storyteller, cultural worker and person of multitudes. Through a practice based in the printed multiple, community-based work and installation building, they invite the viewer to recall and share their own lived narratives, offering power and weight to the creation of a larger dialogue around the telling of B.I.Q.T.P.O.C. (Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, people of color) stories. Listen in to hear us discuss— Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Mondaycodycookparrott.com/commonshapes More from Lukaza Visit Lukaza’s websiteFollow Lukaza on InstagramSubscribe to ROOTS WEBS NETS BRANCHES BULLETIN BOARDS 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about why I love newsletters and why you (yes, you) should have one. Together we’ll explore the marketing side and the creative side of newsletters. I’ll also share— After you listen, go get my free Creative Ideation Portal, and get ready to hit send on your first (or next) newsletter today. Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayJoin Flexible Office, my digital co-working spaceTake my Newsletter classUse the code MARLEEGRACE to get 50% off your first year of FlodeskFariha Roisin’s Substack How to Cure a GhostLiz Migliorelli’s Sister Spinster newsletterKevin Morby’s SubstackOff the Grid episode, “To Substack or Not to Substack”codycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

This week’s episode of Common Shapes is about the fact (yes, it’s a fact) that your art is of service, no matter what you create. I also share my four containers for connecting with the why behind your work. And I offer many, many ideas for how to market your art in creative, fun, meaningful ways. Listen in to learn— After you listen, go get my free Creative Ideation Portal, and join me in sharing your work with the world! Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayJoin Flexible Office, my digital co-working spaceTake my Newsletter classSam Slupski’s I LOVE TO FAILcodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Welcome to Common Shapes! This week’s episode is about the art of beginning AKA the moment just before the sunrise of our projects when anything and everything is possible. Tune in to hear me share— Then grab my free Creative Ideation Portal and start dreaming up your own beginnings today. Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayThe Art of BeginningTake my Newsletter classcodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Today’s episode of Common Shapes is about creating creative containers for our work and convening the spiritual committees that help us make and share our art. Tune in to hear me share— Then grab my free Creative Ideation Portal and start gathering your committee and outlining your first project today. Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayJoin Flexible Office, my digital co-working spaceTake my Newsletter classBear HebertMarketing for WeirdosOff the Gridcodycookparrott.com/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

Welcome to Common Shapes, a podcast about practices, systems and rituals for creative life. It’s hosted by me, Cody Cook-Parrott. And on this show, I talk about crafting business ecosystems that are in alignment with our values, marketing as a creative practice, and crossing the bridge between artist and small business owner. Tune in to the first four episodes for my Creative Ideation Portal guide, and then stay tuned for conversations with artists, writers and thinkers I’m grateful to be in community with. Whether you’re dreaming up a book, a newsletter, a thoughtful text to a friend, an online class, a podcast, a collection of beautiful paintings in an art gallery, a membership site, a dog walking service, or anything else — Common Shapes is here to support you on your path to creation and to service. Subscribe to join us. Links Get the Creative Ideation PortalSign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday MondayJoin Flexible Office, my digital co-working spacemarleegrace.space/commonshapes 🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!