Gestating Genius

Ever feel like your ideas are screaming to be born while your brain is still trying to find the epidural? 😱

In this week’s episode of Interested in Chaos?, we went full doula on the creative process and talked about what it really means to gestate genius — to let ideas marinate, evolve, and find their own rhythm before we start pushing them out into the world. We’re birthing some uncomfortable truths about creativity (and apparently a lot of rage):

✔ The Idea Pregnancy Timeline (Spoiler: Genius isn’t instant—it’s gestational)

✔ Printer Rage Therapy (It's a safe space)

✔ "Nobody can do what you do—not even you yet" (A love letter to your unfinished genius)

✔ Road Rage Enlightenment (How cursing at traffic might be your most spiritual practice)

What if your creative blocks aren’t failures—but contractions? 🤔 You don’t shove a baby out the minute you conceive. You gestate. You protect the space. You eat weird things. You ugly cry. And eventually, when the timing is right — you birth something real.

This episode left me chewing on three truths:

1. Ideas are babies, not bullet points. 🐣

   You wouldn’t ask a newborn to file taxes—so why demand your half-baked idea to be "market-ready" by Tuesday? Gestation isn’t procrastination. It’s respect for the process.

2. Printer rage is sacred. 😡That tantrum you threw at your scanner? It’s not about low toner. It’s about what you ca

   re enough to scream over. Channel it. (Just not at another human, please.)

3. Selfishness can be selfless.

   As I said: "Selfish with right intention is selfless." Your "idea baby" doesn’t need everyone’s approval—just your oxygen mask first. 

Your turn: What’s your current idea in gestation? Let me know—I’ll play doula. Also... fun fact! I trained to be a doula and was present for both my nephew's births. 🐣Creation truly is a magical thing.  

Stay fertile (creatively)