Welcome to Maverick Mind - if you are a creative, artistic, and visionary human, on the path to living in alignment with our creative expression and finding your freedom on your terms, then you're in the right place.
I'm your host Ellie Foden: VOGUE-featured fashion designer, entrepreneur, mindset coach, and yoga + meditation teacher, and consider this your home to dive deep into the messy and magical moments of creative living and to find inspiration and guidance along your path to maverick creative success.
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When the Rush Wears Off: On passion, devotion, and staying with what matters
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What happens when the rush wears off?
As creatives, we can mistake excitement, intensity and emotional highs for passion. Then the novelty fades, the work becomes familiar, and we start wondering whether we've lost our passion or motivation.
In this episode of Maverick Mind, Ellie explores creative passion, identity and what it means to stay committed to meaningful work when the initial excitement changes. From romantic relationships to creative careers, we look at the difference between intensity and depth, and why devotion may have less to do with feeling inspired every day and more to do with staying in relationship with what matters.
If you're a creative navigating burnout, creative doubt, changing motivation or the less glamorous middle of building a creative life, this is a reflection on what it really means to keep going without forcing yourself.
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7 Sept 2026
The Practice of Returning
We're surrounded by advice about how to live better, work better, create better and become better. And while so much of it can be useful, what happens when we're taking in so much information that we can no longer hear our own voice?
In this episode, Ellie explores a different way of thinking about clarity — not as having everything figured out, but as developing the discernment to know what is actually true for you.
A conversation about information overload, curiosity, self-trust and the importance of returning to yourself before looking for another answer.
This episode also introduces The Anchor, a new 30-day initiation practice within Ember to cultivate that return in everyday life.
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11 Aug 2026
How to Trust, Before You Have Proof It’ll Work
This episode comes from EMBER (https://www.studio-ember.co/pages/ember), Ellie’s membership space for creative self-leadership, and introduces this month’s theme: POWER.
What does it actually look like to be the person you say you are?
We explore power not as force or confidence, but as the ability to stay rooted in who you are when the outside world hasn’t caught up yet. From comparison and external validation to waiting for permission, we look at the subtle ways we give our power away — and how we begin to build self-trust through the choices we make.
Drawing on the psychology of self-signalling and the yogic principle of Satya, this is an exploration of what it means to embody what you already know to be true.
Who do I say I am — and where am I not yet living like that person?
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