A Birthday Letter to my 30-year-old Self on the Eve of My 52nd Birthday Dear Thirty-Year-Old Tanya, It’s your birthday eve. I know exactly what you are doing tonight. You are going out to dinner with your mother, your best friend and your fiancé at Café Escalera, an elegant restaurant in downtown Santa Fe that […]
Abundance, True Self & Creativity
What is abundance? What does it have to do with creativity? People have been asking me more and more about what this means to me. I have built a successful business as a story coach, director and facilitator for twenty years. I get to teach with big-wig artists and writers sometimes. I seem to have always made […]
Authenticity is Power: Questions to Ask Yourself When Writing Your Solo Show
Authenticity can be said to be the heartbeat of one’s life. The more authenticity you allow in your self-expression, your choices, and your identity, the more fulfillment and satisfaction you will experience for yourself, and the more positive, authentic impact you will have on those around you. Every instrument resonates with the next: the most powerful frequency wins. […]
Becoming A Professional Story Coach: Can You Actually Make a Living?
Here is a video I recorded that describes my journey as a professional story coach, the traits I see in successful story coaches and how one can actually make a living at this work. Watch the video, or read the transcript below. Good evening, my name is Tanya Taylor Rubinstein, the Global Story Coach, speaking […]
Beating Resistance by Taking Action – Do the Work
Beating resistance by taking action is one of the most important lessons you can learn as a creative or entrepreneur of any kind. Here is a note and writing exercise that should help you hear this message again and take one step to move through it and start fulfilling your creative purpose. Action is the […]
Does Your Life Support You In Your Creative Process?
Your creative process does not want to fit into your life – it wants your life to fit around your creative process. If you’re working on putting creativity first, you may need to explore if your environment is supporting you, or hurting you. I need space to write. That includes physical space, psychic space and […]
The Fear of Work as a Creative
The Fear of Work as a Creative – Moving From Good Enough to Excellence “The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while ‘Foster the People’ plays gently in the background. Storytelling […]