About

Dr. Leslie Carr is the host and creator of The Nature of Nurture podcast and a lifelong artist whose work explores what happens when we free ourselves from who we were taught to be.

Before becoming a podcast host, Leslie spent years expressing herself through different creative forms—as a singer-songwriter, painter, photographer, potter, writer, and more. Along the way, she came to understand that creativity isn’t really about the medium. It’s about making contact with something authentic inside ourselves and allowing it to take form.

Finding her voice

After growing up in a family system that taught her to suppress her own voice, Leslie has spent much of her adult life undoing that conditioning.

Creating The Nature of Nurture became part of that process: not simply a new career or creative project, but an experiment in becoming visible, trusting her instincts, and saying what she actually wanted to say.

Creativity is a birthright

Today, Leslie’s work is centered on a larger idea: that creativity is a human birthright.

She believes we are all inherently creative, whether or not we consider ourselves to be artists, and that our deepest work is often one of unlearning—peeling away the expectations, defenses, and inherited stories that separate us from who we actually are.

For Leslie, finding your voice is both literal and metaphorical. It means learning to inhabit your own experience—to become present enough to hear yourself, connected enough to your senses to know what feels alive, and courageous enough to let what is inside you move outward into the world.

From that perspective, a painting, a conversation, a business, a relationship, a podcast, or an entire life can become a creative act.

Becoming who you are

After a lifetime of moving between mediums, Leslie is less interested in teaching people how to “be creative” than in helping them recognize that they already are.

The question is: What becomes possible when we stop performing the person we learned to be and begin expressing the person we actually are?

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Leslie is currently creating a series of workshops, retreats, and experiences that are designed to ignite your senses and to help you feel fully alive, so that your authentic self-expression can shine through. When those are available, or when space comes up for one-one-one client work, those announcements will be made to our subscriber list. Thank you!