ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Be. Make. Do. podcast is a contemplative exploration of artistic vocation in a time of cultural confusion and rapid change. It invites artists to think less about visibility and more about formation; less about success and more about faithfulness; less about result and more about responsibility.
These episodes are not tips or tactics. They are reflections on what it means to create responsibly, to live attentively, and to bear witness through our work to a deeper story—one shaped by hope, wholeness, and the renewal of all things.
Together we explore what it takes to become who you were created to be, make what you were created to make, and do what you were created to do.
What is soul|makers? https://soulmakers.org
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 18 days
Average audio length:
31 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
58 episodes
since July 28, 2023
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
“I don't use Christ to confirm the world I already see. I allow Christ to teach me how to see.”
What is your life—and your creative imagination—actually organized around?
Drawing from theologian Alan Jones's book Soul Making, Lisa explores the idea that we don't simply choose a worldview or paradig…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Faithfulness as a Christian in the arts isn't primarily about what you add to the work; it's about the person and imaginative world the work emerges from. Too often, we focus on the surface. But there’s always a world behind the work: our beliefs, experiences, fears, desires, and the stories shapin…
In the first episode of Season 6, Lisa and Dan begin with a question many artists quietly wrestle with: Why does making art matter when there are so many serious problems in the world?
Lisa and Dan examine some of the assumptions that shape the way we answer that question: production culture, measu…
Before diving into a new season of Be. Make. Do., Lisa and Dan have some catching up to do—from a sabbatical in the New Mexico desert to a spontaneous trip to the Cannes Film Festival. They talk about rest, risk, creative identity, failure, and what can happen when we make enough space to ask: What…
Season 6 of Be. Make. Do. a soul|makers podcast explores what it means to be an artist at a moment of cultural fragmentation, technological acceleration, and spiritual longing. How do we carry that responsibility with courage, integrity, and hope? Together we’ll explore what it takes to become who …
Maybe escaping the Vocation Traps isn’t just about personal creative fulfillment or private spiritual formation. What if it’s about cultural responsibility?
Finding Freedom In Your True Calling
This conversation reframes calling as a way of life rooted in prayerful listening and faithful action—the…
“The anxiety around uncertainty is caused by the belief that we need certainty to act."
Episode 9: Certainty Not RequiredEmbracing Uncertainty, Setbacks, and Serendipity in the Creative Life
What if the need for certainty is actually the thing keeping you stuck?
In this episode of Be. Make. Do., Li…
“What feels like the wrong job or the wrong place may actually be your training ground.”
Beyond Ability: Welcome to the Training Ground
In the last episode of the Vocation Traps series, Lisa and Dan explored how our natural abilities are tools for vocation—not the same thing as our calling. In this…
“Ability is not vocation. Abilities are tools for vocation.”
Ability Is Not Vocation
What if ability is simply a tool—one that God shapes, deepens, stretches, and even redirects over a lifetime? If you’ve ever felt pressured to “stay in your lane,” doubted whether you’re on the right path, or confu…
Episode Summary:
"You don’t have to monetize every gift. Creativity is something you steward, not something you have to prove.” -Steve Brock
In this special episode, host Lisa Smith talks with Steve Brock, the author of "Brand Something Beautiful: A Branding Workbook for Artists, Writers, and Other…
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