That Creative Thing with Sonia Rossi

07/03/2022

Your life is a great big canvas!
Throw on it all the paint you can!
♥️🤍💜💙💚💛🖌️🎨

Happy Monday ☕
Stay safe in this rainy weather in Sydney! ☔

23/02/2022

Looking forward to chatting to my friend & workmate Lucas, a very talented and creative Brasilian living in Sydney! 🇧🇷🥳
A musician, singer, model and actor, Lucas is a powerhouse and a wonderful human! 🥁🎤📷🎬

Tune in to hear his story,
LIVE on Instagram 📸 so_thatcreativething & lucas_nadin
Thursday 24th February at 5 pm, Sydney time ⏰🇦🇺

14/02/2022

"I feel there is nothing more artistic than loving people" - Vincent Van Gogh ❤️🎨
This appeared in a letter dated September 18,1888 written by Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo to thank him for his kind financial support.
"Tu es bon pour les painters et saches le bien que plus j'y réfléchis plus je sens qu'il n'y a rien de plus réellement artistique que d'aimer les gens". 🤲

✉️Do you like writing letters or cards to express your feelings or gratitude to someone you care about? ✍️
I used to write so many cards & letters. I still try to, though the post is so unreliable these days .... 😄

Happy Love day: whether it be romantic, family, friendships, Love is Love ❤️
Happy Saint Valentine's
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

09/02/2022

Ep. 10 with jewelry maker Claudia in Bologna, Italy
EP in ITALIAN

Claudia è una ragazza romana che crea gioielli usando le pagine dei libri! 📖
Un attività che durante la pandemia da hobby si è trasformato in un progetto lavorativo che le da molta felicità.
Usa delle techniche particolari e con le pagine di fumetti, libri vecchi, note musicali, mappe , crea collane, orecchini e altro!
Ci ha mostrato delle anteprime, raccontandoci cos'è la creativita' per lei, dando anche consigli a chi volesse partire con un progetto artistico in modo professionale:
✨Non scoraggiatevi...
✨Siate sicuri di voi...
✨Fate tante prove, sperimentate..
Proprio ieri ha lanciato il suo sito
👉www.jekiart.com 👈
dove potete trovare le sue creazioni e non solo, anche un blog dove parlare della passione della lettura! 📚 📖
Potete trovarla anche su Etsy.
Vi invito a seguirla su Instagram a !!
Per scoprire il suo magico mondo creativo! 📖✨
Grazie ancora a Claudia per il suo tempo e la sua disponibilità a raccontare la sua storia!

ENGLISH:

Claudia is an Italian girl who originally from Rome, now lives in Bologna and creates jewelry from pages of books! 📖✨It was a hobby that she decided to turn into a profession during the pandemic. Claudia uses various techniques and uses comic strips, poems, stories, maps and also musical notes! With these she makes earrings, necklaces, bracelets..
She showed us some of her creations, talking about what creativity means to her and how happy this has made her! She also gives advice to people who are thinking of starting their own creative business.
✨Don't give up!
✨Believe in yourself!
✨Try, experiment!
Claudia has launched her own website👉 www.jekiart.com 👈where you can find her creations and place an order! You can also find her on Etsy.
You can contact Claudia on Instagram👉
I invite you all to check out her page and take a peek at her magical creative world made of books and jewelry! 📖✨

29/01/2022

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZS3tPdhDBl/?utm_medium=copy_link

28/01/2022

EP. 9 That Creative Thing! with Guest Nick from Sydney!

Nick is an Australian friend of mine from Sydney, with many interests and exciting life experiences! 🤗 An avid "Sports events nomad", with a strong love for sports, 🎿 he has worked and volunteered at many Olympics and Paralympic events around the world (Summer and Winter events) including Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012; meeting people, learning languages (French, Spanish, Italian and some German!) and getting to know athletes. We also met at the Winter Olympics in Turin, in 2006! ❄️ 🎿

Keen traveller, he has visited lots of fascinating countries around the world including Canada, Russia, Germany, Austria, and China. 🌍 🌎 ✈️
He also recently wrote a song called "Inspire"🎶 which you can find on Spotify and Itunes under the name of Nicko. This song was a reflection on his experience at the Paralympics.
Last but not least, Nick also talks about his acting experience on the set of the Australian tv show "Home and Away" and the magic of the set! 🎥
Being creative means trying different things, "having a go", exploring different paths and seeing what you enjoy doing ...
So... as us Aussies would say ... just "HAVE A GO"!! 💪🏻😄 🇦🇺
Thank you Nick for your time and energy!
Grazie Nick! 😎🤗

15/01/2022

✨1st live of 2022 coming up this Wednesday 19th!!! ✨
⏰ 9 pm Sydney 🇦🇺
Join me as I chat to Nick !

01/12/2021

EP 8 🌱"That Creative Thing"🌱 with Deborah Rosolin from Italy

A fun chat with Deb, a nutritionist, yoga teacher based on the Central Coast (NSW) Deb manages an incredible IG profile focussed on tips for a healthy lifestyle!
She tells us how motherhood changed her lifestyle and she became more focussed on being fit and healthy.
Deb has a great sense of humour ! & gives some of her tips and tricks on how to build a following on IG in a creative and fun way.
💪🏻🏃🤸🧘🏄
Check out her page! 😎🇮🇹🇦🇺
Thank you Deb! Grazie ❤️🇮🇹

Episode recorded on 1/11/2021

27/11/2021

It isn't as easy as it seems, right?🤭😆
Can you relate? 🤣

24/11/2021

EP 7 With Ersilia Festa! 🌱 🇮🇹

Ersilia Festa is a creative Italian businesswoman living in Perth, Australia.
She recently opened a small Italian deli in the heart of Freemantle, a place which not only offers delicious Italian food, 🥩🍽🍾🍷🍝but provides a warm and creative, colorful Italian atmosphere! Ersilia is a strong woman, she has become strong and determined to pursue her destiny thanks to the creation of an "alter ego", known as "La Tigrata" which is also the name of her Instagram profile. La Tigrata is a woman who has no fear, is strong and powerful, independant.
This persona has helped Ersilia through many difficulties and obstacles in her life experience as a migrant in Australia. Ersilia encourages everyone to listen to their creative fire and passion inside, to free yourself from the "mental cages" that limit you... to go for your dreams and to believe in your ability to conquer your destiny!
Thank you Ersilia for your powerful and inspiring story!
You can find Ersilia on Instagram with these profiles:
la_tigrata and her business profile: italiana_themediterraneandeli

Descrizione in italiano: 🇮🇹
Ersilia Festa e' una creativa intraprenditrice italiana che vive a Perth, in Australia. Di recente ha aperto una piccola bottega italiana nel cuore di Freemantle, 🥩🍽🍾🍷🍝un posto che non solo offre delizioso cibo italiano, ma anche un accogliente, creativa e colorata atmosfera italiana! Ersilia Festa e' una donna forte e determinata ad inseguire il suo destino, grazie anche alla creazione di un suo "alter ego", conosciuto come "La Tigrata" che e' anche il nome del suo profilo Instagram.
Chi e' la tigrata? E' una donna che non ha paure, e' forte, potente, indipendente. Questa donna ha aiutato Ersilia a superare molte difficolta' e ostacoli nella sua experienza di vita da migrante in Australia.
Ersilia incoraggia tutti ad ascoltare il loro fuoco interiore, la loro passione creativa, ed uscire dalle "gabbie mentali" che ci creamo... per conquistare i nostri sogni e destino!
Grazie Ersilia per la tua storia potente e d'ispirazione!
Puoi trovare Ersilia su Instagram sotto questi profili:
personale: la_tigrata
professionale: italiana_themediterraneandeli

Episode recorded in August 2021

22/11/2021

What would life be if we had no goals to reach for?
Happy Monday ☕️ and a happy week ahead, everyone! 🙋

20/11/2021

In 1981, Roger Sperry won the Nobel Prize for his work on the right-brain vs. left-brain theory. Sperry theorized that the right side was responsible for controlling emotions, motivation and creativity, while the left side controlled functions such as language, reasoning and logic.

Which side do you relate to more? 🎨🎯🗣🕵️‍♂️

13/11/2021

Benefits of Creativity!!

11/11/2021

EP. 6 That Creative Thing! 🌱with Krystle in Canada 🇨🇦

Krystle is a Reiki master and crystal healer, based in Hamilton Canada.
A mother of 3, Krystle found her passion in Reiki a few years ago and was blown away by how good she felt after her first treatment, so she decided to study it. She is now a trained master and also does Reiki for children and pets! Reiki helps with physical issues and energy, stress levels, depression.
It works with energy blockages and emotional traumas.
She also knows all about crystals and uses them in her Reiki sessions.
Krystle is bubbly, fun and loves all things... creative and colourful!
Her instagram page undertherainbowreiki is a burst of fun and good, vibrant energy!
Thank you Krystle for your time and positivity!
You can contact her on Instagram and she also has a website: www.undertherainbowreiki.com 🌈

(Live chat recorded in July, 2021)

09/11/2021

EP 5. That Creative Thing !🌱 with Italian designer Cristiana Numico
Kinkymuffindesign in Italy! 🇮🇹
Live Chat on Instagram in English/Italian.

Cristian and her magical world of "Kinky Muffin Design",
made of gnomes, fairies, cupcakes, mini sushi, made with plasticine and felt!!
🍣 🧁 🐢🧚
With a background in animation, she rediscovered her love for creative things in 2020 and hasn't stopped since!... She is currently working on a short stop animation film, in which the main character is a pastry chef gnome.
She shows us the wonderful set she has been making. 😍✨

Italian:

Cristiana che ha un background in animazione, durante il 2020 ha riscoperto la sua passione per la creatività e non si è più fermata! ... creando piccoli oggetti, torte in miniature, sushi, animali, con il fimo e il feltro 🍣 🧁 🐢🧚
Attualmente sta lavorando ad un grande progetto per un corto di stop animation: protagonista uno gnomo pasticcere! ✨😍 Ci svela l'anteprima del meraviglioso set... tutto creato da lei!!

Grazie Cri per il tuo tempo e questa anteprima nel tuo meraviglioso mondo creativo!
Thank you Cri for your time and for revealing your magical creative world!
❤️💜💙💚💛💗

(Live Chat recorded in May, 2021)

09/11/2021

EP 4. That Creative Thing! 🌱with Dino Serrao📸 🇳🇴🇮🇹

A brilliant conversation with Italian photographer .serrao live from Norway, about how he started photography, his time in Australia, his "obsession" for people's unique facial features & how his project "Street Portraits"📸 was born on the streets of Sydney in 2020.
Dino is passionate, energetic & inspiring.✨
He believes in the beauty of strangers, everyone is beautiful in different ways, through his portraits he brings out the magic & light in everyone. Esperiencing their joy in his photos is priceless!

His advice for creatives all over the world....FIND your passion❤️ how? Follow that feeling inside, like a BLAST 💥 of happiness in your heart...that hits you! that means whatever you're doing in that moment: that is your purpose, your calling. 🏃
Believe in YOURSELF first of all,(do you really believe in yourself??) and always. Be CONSISTENT 🗝️Surround yourself with people who love and SUPPORT you🤗
✨🌏🌍 💥💯📸
Thank you so much Dino for your time & energy!! 🙌
📸 ☺️✨
(Live Instagram chat recorded in April, 2021)

09/11/2021

EP. 3 That Creative Thing! 🌱 with Italian artisan Elisabetta in Italy 🇮🇹
Live Chat in Italian on Instagram U.MoreLab

Eli, una ragazza milanese, ha ripreso una passione di gioventu': il cucito. 🧶🧵
Iniziando nei primi tempi della pandemia a creare mascherine, necessarie per il momento, ma dando un suo tocco di colore ad allegria! 🌼🌸
La sua passione è cresciuta, ed ha incominciato a creare copri libri, copri tazze, copri agende, portapenne e astucci, pochette oltre ad oggetti per bambini.
Amante del mondo della lettura,📚 e scrittura 🖊️🖋️ ama le penne colorate, il glitter e le parole✨

Collabora con un gruppo di persone in quest'attività artigianale, dando emozioni a chi riceve questi regali creati ad hoc! ✨
✨ Personalizzati e fatti con tanta cura ed amore, Eli ha progetti di sviluppare il mondo del "cucito creativo" per continuare a regalare momenti allegri, emozionanti e colorati!! ✨
❤️🧡💛💚💙

Vi invito a seguirla sul suo profilo IG 📸 .morelab per entrare nel suo mondo meraviglioso!! 🧶🧵e perche' no, farvi un regalo o regalare un emozione ai vostri amici! 💌🎁
Grazie ad Eli per la sua disponibilità e simpatia! 🤗🇮🇹
(Live chat recorded in April, 2021)

07/03/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqTVQ6TQKW4&t=1s

EP. 2 That Creative Thing! 🌱
Ep in Italian - A wonderful chat with Max and Chephren in Italy! 🇮🇹

They have started an Instagram channel called "Good Vibration Cafe" ☕️ where Max interviews all types of people from around Italy, to get to know different cultural worlds: from artists, to musicians to athletes. It's like "a window on the world". Especially during isolation and covid times, a way of connecting with people! 🤝

Chepren interviews women on Sunday nights on her channel called "le domenike" - These two young Italians are so creative!
They are helping people to share their story. 👏

Their message is if you have a creative idea or a project, throw yourself into it! It's your idea, your project and it could be so useful and fun also for other people! What's the worst that can happen? Be curious...
You can find them on Instagram:
goodvibrationcafe and le_domenike
Thank you so much for your time and creative project!!!

Una bella chiacchierata con Max e Chephren, live dall'Italia! 🇮🇹
Che squadra creativa!
Hanno creato un progetto "Good Vibration Cafe'" live chat su Instagram, con persone dal background vario: dai musicisti agli atleti, alle falegname, per creare un dialogo, una "finestra sul mondo", per parlare di cultura e fare conoscere realtà.
Chephren con 'Le _domenike' parla con il mondo femminile affrontando tematiche interessanti!!

Il loro messaggio è di "buttarsi" con la vostra idea, il vostro progetto creativo, potete conoscere molte nuove persone ed imparare... Siate curiosi...
🤗👏
Vi invito a seguirli !
Grazie ragazzi per la vostra disponibilità e simpatia!🇮🇹☕️👏

Episode in Italian - Ep 2 Live Instagram A wonderful chat with Max and Chephren in Italy!They have started an Instagram channel called "Good Vibration Cafe" ...

11/02/2021

Series n.2 That Creative Thing! 🌱
Episode 1 with Rosana Benatti in Holland!
🎧

Rosana Benatti is a lovely Brazilian ex student of mine who is now living in Amsterdam, Holland.
After living in Sydney for two years and then Lisbon, Portugal, she is now based in the NL, where she has started her own English teaching online,(Business English) for Portuguese speakers.
You can get in touch with her at .coach.
Her Instagram posts are mini lessons! She creates all her social media content using various apps, including Canva.
Her short but creative, meaningful posts & videos are very effective!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA38yLbYgpk&t=1s

Series 2 Live Instagram interviews with Sonia Rossi"That Creative Thing! Episode n. 1 with Rosana Benatti in the Netherlands.Rosana is from Brazil and has sp...

06/02/2021

....New year, new topic and new series!!!
Excited to say that I've launched "That creative thing" with my first episode tonight!
A wonderful conversation with Rosana in Holland, 🇱🇺an ex student of mine.
Rosana talked about her English teaching business and about being digitally creative, how social media can help you learn another language.
I'll post the video soon.
🎤📸🎧

26/01/2021

https://youtu.be/yvYesmnA3Qo Episode 10 is out!

A brilliant chat with Josh who lives in Trinidad and Tobago! 🌴🌊☀
Josh, a young marine biology student who loves basketball, talks about how he coped during strict lock downs in 2020, why he started his own podcast "Life Keys" and how doing what you LOVE can keep you grounded during isolating times. We are all on a journey! 🤲
Thank you Josh for your time and energy.
You can find Josh on Instagram @ the_brodiee_

A brilliant chat with Josh who lives in Trinidad and Tobago! Josh, a young marine biology student who loves basketball, talks about how he coped during stric...

21/01/2021

Sunday 24th at 10 am (Sydney, Australia)
Saturday 23rd at 7 pm (Trinidad and Tobago GMT-4)

Live on my Instagram page: so_aussie 📸
Join me as I connect with Josh, living in the Caribbean
🌴🌞😎🌞🌊
🦋🐠🦎

18/01/2021

No travelling allowed? Dreaming of a holiday in the Caribbean? No worries! Join me live on Sunday morning Sydney time to have a chat with a guest connecting live from Trinidad and Tobago! 🌴🌞☀️😎

28/12/2020

Episode 9
Thank you Ashley for an absolutely brilliant and fun conversation about 2020 !!! 🤗
Lots of food for thought in this chat.

Ashley based in Florida, 🇺🇸 is very inspiring, she has a YouTube Channel "The Breakup diaries" and is on Instagram and Tik Tok as well.
We talk about this crazy year and how she's been managing, living with her mother throughout the pandemic, coping with a breakup & staying active by following a good morning routine: smile, meditation, workout! 😊🌞
Also, reflecting on what does it mean to be an adult? and how adults behave and what are people really thinking?
How she has been connecting with people on Instagram and YT and learning lots!! and the world is really a big place !!!
You can find her on and on Youtube The Break up Diaries - Ashley Collins!

Have a safe and happy new year, everyone!

28/12/2020

Episode 8
Farhina based near Manchester 🇬🇧 talks about how 2020 has been, with some ups and downs but also what she has learnt during this strange year.
"Don't be afraid to reach out and trust people, even if you've only known them for 5 minutes!"
The friendships she has formed have been essential for her.
Connecting with people who are strongly driven and have a positive mindset.
Farhina launched her floral (with a twist!) business by the fascinating name "Cursanthemum" during this pandemic!!!
💐🌸🌹🌺
You can find her on on Instagram.

15/12/2020

Double episodes in December to close this crazy 2020 on a high note!!!
Very excited to speak to Ashley in the US - The aunt of dragons 🐉
just after Christmas 🥳

Stay tuned !!!🎥🎙📸🇺🇸

10/12/2020

Looking forward to chatting to Farhina in the UK, who recently opened a business by the intriguing name "Cursanthemum" .... Little clue: 🌸🌼🌻🏵️🌻🌹are involved.. 😊
Stay tuned! 🤗

07/12/2020

Next guest will be in the UK! Stay tuned for another exciting episode coming soon

11/11/2020

Episode 7 with Owen, in Paris France 🇫🇷

A live Instagram chat with Owen from Malta, currently living in beautiful Paris, France!
Owen talks about how he has connected with people around the world thanks to his cooking collaborations, how he has broken barriers and how food really does unite us all! 🥗🥘🍜🍣☕️🍷🍻
His advice: Take the time to appreciate yourself, take the leap and try something new! Enjoy a good glass of wine!🍷😊

https://youtu.be/SLak8oH-pUY

A live Instagram chat with Owen from Malta, currently living in beautiful Paris, France! Owen talks about how he has connected with people around the world t...

23/10/2020

Excited to chat to Owen, a French chef, about how life has been for him in Paris 🥐🇫🇷
Join us on Instagram for the live chat!

Edit: 9 pm Sydney time

22/10/2020

Exciting news! Another episode coming soon! This time I will be speaking to a guest in Paris, France!
More info soon

15/09/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQFfQC7jjEo&feature=youtu.be

A Conversation in Isolation - Episode 6 with Guest: Lina from Rome, Italy ( First episode in Italian)

Lina, a physiotherapist and shiatsu therapist, based in Rome talks about isolation and lockdown in Italy, and how she coped with it. She kept moving, working with her patients virtually, starting a Youtube channel and even doing lives on Instagram about shiatsu and pilates with a friend! She also shows us some self shiatsu exercises we can do from home.
Thank you Lina!

Lina, fisioterapista e shiatsuka che vive a Roma, ci racconta del periodo dell'isolamento vissuto in Italia e del modo positivo in cui ha affrontato tutto questo. Si è tenuta in movimento, lavorando virtualmente con i suoi pazienti, aprendo un canale YouTube, e persino dei live Instagram con esercizi di shiatsu, pilates con un amica!
Ci mostra anche degli esercizi di auto shiatsu da fare a casa.
Grazie Lina!

Lina, a physiotherapist and shiatsu therapist based in Rome, talks about isolation and lockdown in Italy, and how she coped with it. She kept moving, working...

09/09/2020

Excited to say I'll be speaking to my good friend Lina this Sunday, live from Italy & first episode all in Italian!
Lina is a physiotherapist and shiatsu therapist, living near Rome. 🇮🇹 🇦🇺🎤🗺️
Live on Instagram (so_aussie)
10:30 pm Sydney time.
2:30 pm Italian time.

03/09/2020

Another episode coming up next week! An Italian guest! 🇮🇹♥️
The person who inspired my project!

27/08/2020

"Sequestered away from most people in our lives, I found people were seeking intimacies and connection wherever they could."

Yes! So true! Hence the idea of connecting people through my podcast.

A stranger is just a friend you don't know yet, right?

🌍🌎🌏
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/27/2020-made-me-open-up-to-strangers-but-apocalyptic-small-talk-is-wearing-thin

A shared crisis has changed the rules of polite interaction, but sometimes deflection has its uses

23/08/2020

Thrilled to chat to Simon today!
Simon is a keen photographer living in West Virginia, USA.🇺🇸
We talk about how his lifestyle has changed since March, from spending more time in nature to photography and cooking!

Thank you Simon for your time and energy!

To watch my episodes live on Instagram: so_aussie

22/08/2020

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/16/from-giving-up-gambling-and-getting-fit-to-coping-with-grief-how-our-lives-changed-in-lockdown

This year’s isolation has been painful, but in some cases it has also provided a valuable chance to pause, reflect and take decisions that seemed unthinkable before. Here, six readers describe how lockdown inspired them to turn their lives around

19/08/2020

Always on the lookout for new guests for my podcast. 😊
If you're interested in having a chat about how life has been for you during recent lockdowns and Covid times, feel free to send me a message!

🙋‍♀️Let's connect! Let's chat! 🔜👏😎🌎🌍🌏