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Common Shapes

By: Cody Cook-Parrott
  • Summary

  • A podcast about Practices, Systems, and Rituals for a Creative Life, hosted by Cody Cook-Parrott.

    New episodes weekly on Wednesdays. Learn more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes

    © 2024 Common Shapes
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Episodes
  • A Flexible Office Hello 👋
    Mar 20 2024

    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 Portal
    • Sign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Monday
    • Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes


    🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

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    7 mins
  • Cultivating Creative Seasons with Jacqueline Suskin
    Dec 6 2023

    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—

    • The radical nature of connecting to the Earth’s cycles
    • How to tap into seasonal rhythms
    • Jacqueline’s daily & weekly planning practices
    • What’s our work & what’s not our work
    • How to hold nuance in your writing


    Links

    • Visit Jacqueline’s website
    • Order Jacqueline’s new book, A Year in Practice
    • Subscribe to Jacqueline’s Substack newsletter
    • Get the Creative Ideation Portal
    • Sign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Monday
    • Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes


    🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

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    51 mins
  • How to Tell the Truth with Fariha Róisín
    Nov 29 2023

    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—

    • Feeling the responsibility to speak out
    • Fariha’s process for working on two books at once
    • Pouring your feelings into your writing
    • Demystifying spiritual practice
    • The importance of surrender
    • Where the personal meets the political
    • How Fariha writes her weekly newsletter


    Links

    • Visit Fariha’s website
    • Order Survival Takes a Wild Imagination
    • Subscribe to Fariha’s Substack newsletter
    • Follow Fariha on Instagram
    • Mentioned in the episode: James Baldwin, Mother Country Radicals
    • Get the Creative Ideation Portal
    • Sign up for my weekly newsletter, Monday Monday
    • Find all these links & more at codycookparrott.com/commonshapes


    🖱️ Join me in Flexible Office: A Digital Co-working Space for all of us. We begin April 2nd!

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    50 mins

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