Follow Your Curiosity

About Follow Your Curiosity

You didn’t lose your creative spark. You were taught to leave it behind. Follow Your Curiosity is a podcast about creativity, curiosity, and what helps us remain fully human in a world that would often prefer us productive, predictable, and disconnected from ourselves. I’m creativity expert Nancy Norbeck. I created the Restorative Creativity Framework™ and am the creator and host of Follow Your Curiosity. Every other week, I have in-depth, unscripted conversations with creative people from all walks of life. We talk about how they found their way into their work, what shaped them, the detours they never expected, and what they’ve learned about living a creative life. On alternating weeks, I share Reports from the Creative Closet: solo episodes about perfectionism, people-pleasing, creative disconnection, curiosity, agency, and what can happen when you stop trying to do adulthood correctly and start listening to yourself again. Some explore the ideas behind the Restorative Creativity Framework™, including its six interconnected areas of practice: Humanity, Integrity, Play, Reconnection, Presence, and Community. You don’t need to be an artist, and you don’t need another project to complete perfectly. You only need a little curiosity about what might make you feel more like yourself. Start wherever your curiosity takes you.

Publisher

Nancy Norbeck, Creativity Coach for Burned-Out Perfectionists

Category

arts · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jan 2019

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

34 of 360 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   You Don't Owe Anyone a Consistent Personality | Report from the Creative Closet #12

   Nancy Norbeck, Messy Muse Mentor, explores how aligning your actions with your present self, rather than external expectations, unlocks true integrity and creativity.

2. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Don't Assume a No: How to Pitch, Publish, and Beat Perfectionism with Tony Lee

   Host Nancy Norbeck interviews bestselling author Tony Lee about overcoming perfectionism and the power of asking to achieve publishing and creative success.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why You Feel Like a Machine (And How to Feel Alive Again) | Report from the Creative Closet #11

   Nancy Norbeck, Messy Muse Mentor, explores how modern systems and personal habits drain our energy, offering a path back to aliveness through restorative creativity.

Inside a recent episode

You Don't Owe Anyone a Consistent Personality | Report from the Creative Closet #12

Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I'm glad that it did. Because it marked a change for me in how I see myself in the world and how I see myself in relation to how other people see me. And this is all really important because as I've mentioned before, there are six areas of practice in my restorative creativity framework. Last time we talked about humanity and this time integrity is the one that I want to focus on because integrity is is all about your inside and your outside matching up. It's when who you are and how you are are the same thing. And a lot of the time we define integrity as being true to our values, and that's part of it. […]

Who has been a guest on Follow Your Curiosity

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tony Lee
• Enzo Silon Surin
• Nathalie Latham
• Jackie Haynes
• Anne Odeke

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

54,451

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

34 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

67

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

82

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