Hi, I’m Nicola.
It’s so lovely to meet you!

I’m a Creative Business Coach, Award-Winning Artist & Mentor for Creative Hearts who want to Flourish, Flow & Prosper.

If you’re looking for more joy, inspiration, fulfilment, profits, clarity and support, you’ve come to the right place.

Let’s pour a cuppa and get to know one another, shall we? :)

 

Welcome!

I’m founder of the Creative Hearts Community, creator of the global year-long creativity school, Flourish: The Art of Creative Living and mentor and coach for Creative Hearts.

My passion is supporting Creative Hearts to build loving relationships with themselves, express their creativity, trust their inner wisdom and carve out a life that’s personally meaningful and fulfilling to them.

I offer multiple resources for educating, inspiring, and supporting Creative Hearts. You are invited to take the free Creative Archetype Quiz, get my free Creative Living mini-course, sign up for my Inspiration Letters and nurture your creativity through my courses, programs and retreats.

My creative business coaching is tailored to support sensitive, heart-led creatives to develop, grow, and expand their creative offerings, follow their heart and find fulfilment in their creative work and life.

NicolaNewman.com
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Who Am I?

As a creative mentor & coach, I bring my experience from over twenty-three years in business to help my clients bring to life what they long to create in the world.

Do you want to birth your next creative project, pivot direction or begin a new business from scratch? Together, we’ll shortcut your learning curve and bridge the gap between where you are now, with where you want to be. I’ll provide the support, resources and encouragement to make building your heart-centred and creative business or life more fulfilling, profitable and even fun!

Whether it’s in your creative life or work, I will support you to cultivate more playfulness, creativity, gentleness and flow — all while honouring your values and being gentle with yourself along the way. I’ll help you to tune into your heart’s desires, create offerings and creative projects that serve you and your clients, and overcome any fears and mindsets that may have been holding you back thus far.

I currently live between a 35-foot sailing boat and a 1940s Queenslander home with my husband Andrew and our Cavoodle puppy Lacey Jane, as we explore the east coast of Australia, and renovate our home. I have a degree in Fine Art and a love of business and have been running my own creative business for twenty-two years. When I’m not working with my awesome clients, you’ll find me reading, sketching in my sketchbook, listening to podcasts, sailing to a new harbour, watching for dolphins or playing in the sand with soldier crabs.

I love supporting my clients to nurture their self-belief, be brave, follow their hearts and create more…

More creativity. More freedom. More joy. More prosperity. More fulfilment. More dream clients. More rest. More simplicity. More flow.

Who I work with

My clients are typically keen to find confidence and clarity in bringing their creative dreams to life and want someone to guide them, offer mentorship, and a safe place to process their ideas, dreams and challenges.

My coaching & mentoring style is nurturing, practical and insightful 

I’ll support you to follow your heart, rather than your fears, and give you tools to develop a more compassionate, supportive relationship with yourself. My approach is often described by clients as inspiring, thoughtful, transformative, encouraging, practical, & gentle.

The way I work is I offer resources, tools, practices, feedback and shared experiences, however, I don’t follow a set blueprint. I believe there are many ways to build a successful, sustainable and fulfilling business and creative life, and I will help you to uncover the processes and paths that work best for you. 

I will listen to you, validate your experience and feelings, and help you to see the bigger picture of where you are on your journey, while also offering resources to help you with the smaller details and practical actions you’ll need to take along the way.

I value evidence-based tools and draw on philosophies from mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindful self-compassion, somatic therapy and neuroscience. Some of the authors I enjoy are listed here.

You can see some of my artwork online

My painting practice is something that grounds me and brings tremendous fulfilment. It’s a form of mediation I’ve practised for over twenty years. I’ve held over 17 solo exhibitions around Australia and been commissioned by The Star, The Great Barrier Reef Research Foundation, Mirvac, Toyota Finance and private collectors. My artwork has been featured in Country Style and The Sunday Mail, among others. You can view and collect my artwork here. 

My books

I find writing is a way of exploring my rich inner world and a form of self-expression that often results in inspiring others to follow their hearts. I’ve written four books and I’m looking forward to continuing to write more during this next decade. I’ve written both practical guides and inspiring stories about creative living & business. You can learn more about my books here.

What people say

Read what people say about working with me here.

Interested to work together?

My Mission is to Support Creative Hearts

…to dissolve creative blocks, develop a loving relationship with themselves, nurture their creativity and reframe the beliefs and patterns that keep them from following their heart and making the creative contribution they would love to make in the world.

My approach is to embrace gentleness, playfulness and self-care to navigate self-doubt and instead cultivate deep self-trust so you can truly enjoy the creative process, bring together your body of work, make money doing what you love and leave a creative legacy you’re proud of.

My Guiding Values…

Be Gentle with Yourself

When we are gentle with ourselves, we give ourselves a sense of safety and from that place, we can be brave to step into the unknown and follow our heart. Being gentle with ourselves is a powerful antidote to fear and self-doubt. 

Follow Your Heart

The world is full of messages telling us how to live. Yet, you have the answers within. When you follow your heart, you can live and work in ways that suit your personal rhythms, deepest values and unique personality. 

Make Space

Making space to follow our curiosities, express our creativity, and listen to our hearts, allows us to intentionally discover and focus on what is truly meaningful to us.

Prioritise Your Creative Work

Focusing on our most important work, putting our heart into what we do, and serving others is a pathway to a deeply fulfilling life.

Define Success on Your Own Terms

When we know what success means for us, it frees us to live unconventionally. We can be brave, follow our heart and create a life that is true to ourselves.

Live in Seasons

We need to cultivate seasons of rest, playfulness and curiosity, as well as seasons of focus, action and momentum. Giving ourselves permission to create AND to reflect, rest and process is paramount.

Surround Yourself with Support

Once you have an inkling of what your heart desires, surround yourself with support – communities and people who will lift you up along the way. 

Nurture Your Curiosity

Nurturing your curiosities and following your bliss leads to inspiration. Instead of striving to feel motivated, when we nurture our curiosity, we overflow with inspiration that naturally pulls us forward.

Here is What I Do

I Support Heart-centred Entrepreneurs & Creatives to…

Follow their heart's desires

While working alongside your unique personality, values, creativity and personal rhythms in the process.

Prioritise their most important work

By helping you listen to yourself and uncover what matters most to you.

Find focus, direction and clarity

By holding space and asking powerful questions to help you find your path.

Dissolve mindsets that have held them back so far

By sharing insights and new possibilities, so you can move forward and flourish.

Define success on their own terms

By encouraging you to tune into your own wisdom and come back home to yourself.

Be gentle with themselves

By helping you slow down, trust, create, reflect and rest along the way.

Nurture their curiosity & creativity

By sharing practical tools, painting practices and creative exercises to tap into your flow.

Cultivate their self-belief and be gentle with their fears

So you can create the business and life your heart desires.

I believe we don’t have to follow the crowd.
We can choose to create our own business & life,
full of what delights us & brings us alive.

Now you’ve discovered a little more about me, you are welcome to:

Here’s to flourishing in your creative life and embracing the incredible opportunities life has to offer. 

I’m truly delighted to virtually ‘meet’ you. 

With with warmest wishes,

Nicola xo 

PS. As well as being passionate about creative living, I have formal qualifications too:

  • Bachelor of Fine Art (Queensland College of Art, Griffith University)

  • Diploma of Visual Art

  • Diploma of Business: Frontline Management for Artsworkers

  • Certificate IV Workplace Training & Assessment

Twenty years from now
You will be more disappointed
By the things you didn’t do
Than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.

~ Mark Twain

 Professional Bio

Nicola Newman is a creative business coach, award-winning artist, writer, painting teacher and retreat host. Through her year-long creativity school, Flourish: The Art of Creative Living, Nicola has helped Creative Hearts around the globe prioritise, nurture and express their creativity and explore the world with curiosity and playfulness.

Nicola has held over 17 solo exhibitions, been commissioned by Lendlease, Mirvac and The Star, produced a series of documentaries on contemporary Australian artists, created four online programs and spent three years cruising the east-coast of Australia aboard her 35 foot sailing yacht.

In her twenties, she bought a small acreage to grow her own organic food to help heal her gut health, and later spent many months of the year travelling the country in her van. A few years ago, she and her husband Andrew sold everything, bought a sailboat and sailed from Pittwater, NSW to Magnetic Island, in North Queensland.

She works with heart-centred creatives and entrepreneurs to bring their creative projects and businesses to life – while embracing gentleness, rest and playfulness along the way. 

Through her courses, programs, podcast, books, coaching, and blog, she supports Creative Hearts who are devoted to listening to their heart’s desires to do great things in the world and want to dissolve creative blocks, stop worrying what other people think and create their own version of a flourishing creative life.

Her artwork is represented in public and corporate collections including the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery and she was commissioned to paint a 3 x 12-meter painting for the foyer of The Star, on the Gold Coast. She has been featured in magazines including Country Style, ABC Organic Gardener, GQ, Salt, Profile and Green Living and been interviewed on multiple podcasts including League of Extraordinary Introverts, The Mojo Radio Show and more. She has spoken at workshops and events around Australia and hosts her own workshops and painting retreats.

Nicola has a Bachelor of Fine Art, a Diploma of Business, a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, and has been running her own successful creative business for over two decades. When she’s not working with her incredible clients, you’ll find her reading, listening to podcasts, sailing to a new harbour, watching for dolphins or playing in the sand with soldier crabs.

More than anything, she is passionate about supporting her clients to nurture their self-belief, be brave, follow their hearts and create more… More clarity. More creative projects. More joy. More prosperity. More freedom. More profits. More dream clients. More rest. More simplicity. More flow. More fulfilment.

Meet Nicola and get ready to create more freedom, creativity and playfulness in your life and business at www.nicolanewman.com.com