The Deep Place: On Creativity and Spirituality

Friends, we’ve come full circle. We are home. And we've been changed. But the world back home is exactly as we left it… So how do we come home well, especially when the creative life continues to call...

Joel speaks to Chelsea McGough - a cellist, composer, and producer based in Nashville, who’s compositions have been featured in films, television, social media and ad campaigns in the U.S. and abroad....

If you’ve ever felt the pull towards two different directions within yourself or that life is just too short or not big enough to allow all the parts of you to thrive, then this just might be the epis...

In this episode, we’ve come finally to the place we’ve been journeying towards all along… The Innermost Cave. The Centre of everything. The place where we meet ourselves and humanity and God and where...

Well, you’ve have arrived. You made it to the City Of Success and it feels glorious! …or does it? Is something missing?What is success anyway, and now that you are here, what does it look like to live...

Candace Smith is The Essence Photographer - a light seeking, photo ninja on a mission to help women come home to their bodies and see themselves as the perfectly imperfect, radiant, powerful beings th...

When was the last time you did not have to succeed? When was the last time you did not feel guilty for doing nothing? When did you last think about why you started this creative journey in the first p...

In this episode, Joel interviews author and Words and Nerds podcast host Dani Vee who gives us the inside view of what it’s like to live with anxiety and a wildly creative mind. Dani goes deep on how ...

This week on the podcast we launch the School For Creative Development! An online communal learning platform combining four different creative modules, over 50 hours of audio and video content, workbo...

As humans, almost all of us have woken up at some point in our lives feeling lost and aimless, unsure of which path to take or where the path even is. And for many of us - and especially in our creati...

In this episode we have begun the Creative Journey. We face into the wild unknown and the foreboding blankness of the empty page and take a few tentative steps forward. Perhaps feeling like an imposte...

Based in North Carolina, Stephen Roach is a musician, author, podcaster and founder of The Breath & The Clay - a creative arts community exploring the intersections of art, faith & culture. In this co...

In this episode we find ourselves at the “threshold” of our creative lives, and we have a choice to make. Will we stay within the boundaries of the familiar and comfortable that we know so well or wil...

In this episode we explore the Call to Adventure. The inciting incidents and patterns of synchronicity that have brought us to this place in our creative journeys, of leaving our comfort behind for th...

In this first episode of Season 3 Joel welcomes us to the Creative Journey inviting us for this whole season to step out on a new path.  In this episode he guides us in exploring where we are at in ou...

Back in 2019 at the GreenBelt festival in the UK Joel interviewed hip hop dancer, choreographer, activist and educator Amirah Sackett about the intersection of her dance and her Islamic faith. Check o...

This episode of the podcast is an interview with Laura Lindsay and covers things like the Royal Commission on Child Abuse in religious organisations, IVF and miscarriage and the role of creativity to ...

Joel interviews artist, actor and writer Sabrina Lloyd about how she sees creative success having moved from Hollywood stardom to travelling the world to living on an island and taking up painting. ww...

Joel interviews singer/songwriter Colleen O'Connell about creativity whilst parenting two toddlers and the intentionality it requires. All music in this episode by Colleen O'Connell-  https://colleeno...

The third in the HUMAN enneagram series, a poem for all the achievers out there. www.joelmckerrow.com/human Music by Colleen O'Connell- https://colleenoconnellmusic.com   ...

Are you a perfectionist, a critic, too harsh, on yourself, on others. Are you someone who sees what needs to be done, the details of it all, how it could come together if people would only... Are you ...

Joel interviews actor, writer, producer Eliza Charley about her Chronic Illness and her creativity and how she manages to live her creative life whilst facing sickness. _______________________________...

Todays episode is an Easter reflection, an excerpt taken from Joel McKerrow's book- WOVEN: A Faith for the Dissatisfied. Check it out at www.joelmckerrow.com All music on todays episode by David Andre...

In this episode Joel reflects on what happens when light strikes materiality and how that might help us in our self-knowing. This is the third of a new episode series for THE DEEP PLACE: Smaller episo...

Having worked on movies like Men In Black, The Mummy and Emma as well as an upcoming MARVEL movie Edwina James is a costume maker, artisan and Mastercraftswoman at the top of her game. In this episode...

In this episode Joel confronts his own frailties and false motivations. This is the second of a new episode series for THE DEEP PLACE: Smaller episodes reflecting on Life, Spirituality, the Self and C...

Joel talks with Kerryn Fields, the winner of the New Zealand Country Music' Song Writing Award. CHECK OUT Kerryn's work at https://www.kerrynfields.com All MUSIC on todays episode is by Kerryn Fields....

The first of a new episode series for THE DEEP PLACE: Smaller episodes reflecting on Life, Spirituality, the Self and Creativity.  _______________________ MUSIC by Taylor Leonhardt (https://www.taylor...

In this final episode of season one Joy and Joel talk through the power of Stories in our lives and how, for many of us, it is time to tell a different story about who we are. ________________________...

In this episode Joel interviews artist, activist and priest Alex Sangster. They talk through how these three life callings may indeed be based on the very same thing, that is, the art of Deep Listenin...

In this episode Joel interviews American Spoken Word Artist Carrie Rudzinski now living in New Zealand. Carrie shares about what she needs in her life to move herself forward as an artist and how poet...

In this episode Joy and Joel talk about the incredible legacy of Mary Oliver and what it means to listen to that still, small inner voice rather than loud voices of our lives. An episode about creativ...

In this episode Joel interviews the mother of an amazing family. The Dove Londons. She and her husband are raising two delightful boys who have had an incredibly rough start to their life. Both with C...

In this episode Joel talks to New Zealander, Suzie Lea Harris about her journey of recovery from severe mental health issues. The discussion revolves around how creativity, community and spirituality ...

In this episode Joel talks to Australian actor, writer and mother Anna McGahan, who is best known for her roles in the TV-shows Underbelly, House Husbands, Anzac girls, the Doctor Blake Mysteries and ...

In this episode Joy Prouty shares the heart behind her latest body of work exploring the way we may still find beauty in the midst of darkness. ___________________________ To check out the APERTURE OF...

When Gang of Youths frontman Dave Le’aupepe wrote the song Persevere, this is the man he wrote it for…David Andrew. He is the studio pianist for Gang of Youths as well as the pianist for Hillsong Chur...

In this episode Joy and Joel share the stories of their own creative journeys. From shut-down moments, to breakthroughs, to success, to failure, you are invited to reflect with them on the way that ou...

In this episode Joel and Joy talk through their own stuck-ness in their creativity and put forth that the stuck-ness in our lives may actually come from the same place within. ________________________...

WELCOME HOME to episode 1 of the Deep Place Podcast. Its great to have you here. This episode is all about the use of creativity as a mirror. How it may be used to reflect back to people the truth of ...