On Her Terms® with Nikki Elledge Brown

🥤 how to suck the fun out of your creative projects [OHT 104]

For when you keep “meaning” to do the thing you said you wanted to do… and then continue not doing it. 🙃 NOTES FROM THE FIELD. We talk overcorrecting, overcomplicating, mistaking pressure for support, and figuring out what actually makes a creative practice easier to return to. (Hint: it’s very #onherterms.) Related episodes referenced in this one: lof-fi podcasting (imperfection is a feature, not a flaw) [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lo-fi-podcasting-when-imperfection-is-a-feature-not/id1644949846?i=1000606392493] krispy kreme® inspired "hot now" content creation [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hot-now-krispy-kreme-content-creation-oht-041/id1644949846?i=1000602420618] AKA inspired expression on creating less than your best - the oomph of average [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-creating-less-than-your-best-the-oomph-of-average-oht-042/id1644949846?i=1000606368080] the cute but too conditional plan [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-new-creative-practice-for-2026-oht-101/id1644949846?i=1000743755496] the OHT-style carousel of progress concept [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-carousel-of-progress-oht-099/id1644949846?i=1000743174601] another ep on making it easier to start [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-trick-to-get-unstuck-do-the-thing-oht-089/id1644949846?i=1000699677382] 📮 Thoughts, Qs, topics you’d love to hear more about? Share here >> onherterms.com/convo [https://onherterms.com/convo] ❤️ If this episode resonates, share it with a friend (or three). The more the merrier. 📱 Come say hi on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown [https://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown] and tag me if you're listening. Love seeing OHT in the wild! 👑 Want my eyes, brain, and strategic support on your specific situation? Click here and tell me what you're working on. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MrjBf17r6ATTwxE4XPSCQeQdfX2qL5dQbIS68JXCqdk/preview] 🎧 This private pod magic is made possible by Hello Audio. (I'm obsessed. And an affiliate. >> nikkielledgebrown.com/helloaudio [https://helloaudio.fm/?fpr=nikki64]. 10/10 recommend.)

🔍 life leaves clues: how success reveals itself [OHT 103]

Reflecting on why the phrase “success leaves clues” has always felt incomplete to me. And how looking at **your own life** tells a much truer story. Join me to noodle on: * Self-defined, context-dependent definitions of success (of course) * Presence, inhabitation (fave word of late), and feeling alive as core measures of success * Using memory and imagination as tools for grounding in the present * Time as feedback, not pressure * How past experience and future desire can inform this moment (without getting stuck in either) A philosophical yet practical take on paying attention to the clues your life's leaving AND letting that guide how you show up today. 📮 Thoughts, Qs, topics you’d love to hear more about? Share here >> onherterms.com/convo [https://onherterms.com/convo] ❤️ If this episode resonates, share it with a friend (or three). The more the merrier. 📱 Come say hi on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown [https://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown] and tag me if you're listening. Love seeing OHT in the wild! 👑 Want my eyes, brain, and strategic support on your specific situation? Click here and tell me what you're working on. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MrjBf17r6ATTwxE4XPSCQeQdfX2qL5dQbIS68JXCqdk/preview] 🎧 This private pod magic is made possible by Hello Audio. (I'm obsessed. And an affiliate. >> nikkielledgebrown.com/helloaudio [https://helloaudio.fm/?fpr=nikki64]. 10/10 recommend.)

💫 defining spirituality on her terms [OHT 102]

In case you're allergic to religion and/or language that leans woo: When I say "spirit" - I mean that non-physical life force that animates us. The undeniable breath and energy that leaves the physical building on our last day in this form. Spirituality, then, is defined as what brings us to life. What gives us the truest most powerful energy. In other words: our highest values. Our telos. THE thing that matters most to you. (That we uncover and refine every quarter in our What Matters Workshops.) We define spirituality in this way because it's grounded, personal, and usable. More in the episode, and those to come. ✨ 📮 Thoughts, Qs, topics you’d love to hear more about? Share here >> onherterms.com/convo [https://onherterms.com/convo] ❤️ If this episode resonates, share it with a friend (or three). The more the merrier. 📱 Come say hi on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown [https://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown] and tag me if you're listening. Love seeing OHT in the wild! 👑 Want my eyes, brain, and strategic support on your specific situation? Click here and tell me what you're working on. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MrjBf17r6ATTwxE4XPSCQeQdfX2qL5dQbIS68JXCqdk/preview] 🎧 This private pod magic is made possible by Hello Audio. (I'm obsessed. And an affiliate. >> nikkielledgebrown.com/helloaudio [https://helloaudio.fm/?fpr=nikki64]. 10/10 recommend.)

📆 a new creative practice for 2026 [OHT 101]

UPDATE: This started as a publish-weekly experiment, but it didn’t take long for that to feel unnecessarily pressured and performative, which is precisely *not the point. I’m going to keep recording these themed mini-collections and will share when they’re ready. If you were actually looking forward to the more regular rhythm, feel free to let me know that! Otherwise, consider these eps (like the rest) to be a living archive in progress. I’ll be back. ❤️ — PRACTICE. My word for 2026. The aim / curriculum: see what happens as / when I record ~52 episodes in 2026, organized around the 12 monthly themes I already work with behind the scenes. Lofi field notes with a topical twist. My filter: if I could only share 4–5 notes on a topic, what would they be? (In theory I'll lather, rinse, repeat, and continue to expand the living library year after year till I run out of breath or things to say, whichever comes first ;)) Letting this feed continue to serve as evidence of my humanity and evolution of thought. An audio archive / semi-public notebook where I keep track of useful reframes and insights for you and for future me. In the ep I share more about my "ideal" recording conditions and how today was exactly not that, which turned out to be pretty perfect anyway. First theme: SPIRIT. Meet you there. 📮 Thoughts, Qs, topics you’d love to hear more about? Share here >> onherterms.com/convo [https://onherterms.com/convo] ❤️ If this episode resonates, share it with a friend (or three). The more the merrier. 📱 Come say hi on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown [https://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown] and tag me if you're listening. Love seeing OHT in the wild! 👑 Want my eyes, brain, and strategic support on your specific situation? Click here and tell me what you're working on. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MrjBf17r6ATTwxE4XPSCQeQdfX2qL5dQbIS68JXCqdk/preview] 🎧 This private pod magic is made possible by Hello Audio. (I'm obsessed. And an affiliate. >> nikkielledgebrown.com/helloaudio [https://helloaudio.fm/?fpr=nikki64]. 10/10 recommend.)

🎁 the NYE wrap party [OHT 100]

We made it to episode 100! 🎉 All those extra zeroes before episodes 0–99 were officially worth it. In this episode, I revisit the year-in-review practice I created last New Year’s Eve, and how this year taught me the value of returning to it far more often than once every 365 days. Taking time to reflect on what has mattered most to us -- what we lived, learned, and still feel sparky revisiting-- is never wasted time. Especially when we use that insight to inform what happens next. Why wait until the end of our days—or our 100th birthday parties—to look back and take stock of what a life well spent actually looks like? I’m learning to shorten the feedback loop while I still have the chance to make shifts, course-correct, and choose more deliberately. Minimizing regret and maximizing enjoyment in this lifetime - the #onherterms way. Join me. 📮 Thoughts, Qs, topics you’d love to hear more about? Share here >> onherterms.com/convo [https://onherterms.com/convo] ❤️ If this episode resonates, share it with a friend (or three). The more the merrier. 📱 Come say hi on Instagram @nikkielledgebrown [https://instagram.com/nikkielledgebrown] and tag me if you're listening. Love seeing OHT in the wild! 👑 Want my eyes, brain, and strategic support on your specific situation? Click here and tell me what you're working on. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MrjBf17r6ATTwxE4XPSCQeQdfX2qL5dQbIS68JXCqdk/preview] 🎧 This private pod magic is made possible by Hello Audio. (I'm obsessed. And an affiliate. >> nikkielledgebrown.com/helloaudio [https://helloaudio.fm/?fpr=nikki64]. 10/10 recommend.)