
How can we use creativity to come up with the critical solutions we need in the world? Whether you’re trying to start your first novel, draw a picture, or solve the climate crisis, you need to approach the problem creatively. You have to think outside the norm, come up with ideas, and then act on them to solve the big problems we’re facing. In addition to practical guidance on how to access and use your creative brain, speaker, author, and artist, Izolda Trakhtenberg, brings you interviews with peak performing innovators in the creative, social impact, and vegan spaces so that you can learn how to supercharge your ingenuity. You deserve to build the purposeful work and life you want, and this show will help you get there. Izolda is a creative. She’s a singer, writer, and intuitive life coach. Yet, she also brings a NASA Master Trainer’s skill set and strategies as she explores creations and innovations of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Discover the methods to start and grow your creative practice so you can sharpen your ingenuity and innovative problem-solving abilities. Learn techniques that boost your communication skills so you can collaborate and forge meaningful partnerships with friends, coworkers, and family. Get the roadmap to begin a lifelong mindfulness practice so that you can be more peaceful, compassionate, and joyful. Last, unleash your unique creative genius so that you can be wild and original in your work and life. Hit subscribe and get ready to change your world. World-changing Creatives and Ethical Innovators Share Their Secrets Interviews with Peak Performers in the Creative, Social Impact, environmental, conservation, and Vegan Space. In this show, get the wisdom of peak-performing ethical innovators. On Mondays, I interview innovative peak performers in the creative, social impact, and Earth conservation spaces. We explore how they innovate, solve problems creatively, and pursue their visions for a better world. Guests have included bestselling authors, artists, marketing and pr pros, leadership experts, tech CEOs, technology futurists, professional speakers, communication coaches, public speakers, award-winning broadway producers, musicians, lyricists, standup comedians, actors, performers, singers, writers, conservationists, non-profit executive directors, and many others. Tuesday through Friday listen to shorter episodes on the components of innovation: creativity/curiosity, compassion, collaboration, and mindfulness. These shorter episodes explore personal development and professional development as well as self-improvement, mindfulness, meditation, a creative mindset, developing your ingenuity, and methods for time and stress management. Creativity, Curiosity, Compassion, and Collaboration Can Change The World If we live and work by these principles, we can relieve crushing stress, avert ecological disaster, and truly belong with the rest of the living beings on our planet. The show’s ultimate goal is to help people discover their unique creative genius and ingenuity, provide guidance on how to become ethical innovators, and usher in the era of creative thinkers and doers.
Episodes

2 days ago
2 days ago
Communicating with friends and companies on the veganization of non-vegan food - a vegan life solutions episode
In today's episode, I explore the veganization of non-vegan foods, why it's happening, and what it might mean for the future of food.
Once you know it, can you unknow it?
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6 days ago
Change Your Words. Change Your Life.
6 days ago
6 days ago
This one small switch can change it all in your day-to-day work and life.
The words we use matter. Specifically, the words we use on ourselves matter. If you're constantly berating yourself, you're going to feel it in your bones. The same goes if you always feel like you're under the gun with your to-do list. But if there were another way? What if you could change all your "must-get-done" and "have-to" to something that felt good and allowed you to transform how you deal with your tasks, chores, and obligations?
In today's episode, I detail a method I've embraced, and it's helped me a ton!
Download the Transform Your Overwhelm sheet and get started on your own to-do-list transformation.
This episode is brought to you by my book, "Get Your Stuff Done." Review what's inside and purchase it at https://IzoldaT.com/getyourstuffdone
This episode is also brought to you by Brain.fm*, and Podbean*.
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This episode is brought to you by my book, Speak From Within. Review what’s inside and purchase at https://IzoldaT.com/speak-book.

This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
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Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
When Customer Service Becomes a Controversial Topic! (the second part is a separate review of Cloudy Donut Co.)
This is a special episode. In it, I explore the philosophy of veganism from a customer service standpoint.
Can we expect better treatment from vegans? Should we? I delve into a controversial topic.
Plus a review of Vegan Donut shop, Cloudy Donut Co.
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Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Elizabeth Elfenbein BONUS Episode
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Get Under the Sisterhood's Elizabeth Elfenbein's favorites and recommendations in this fun bonus episode.
This episode is brought to you by my book, Speak From Within (learn more at How to Make Starting Conversations a Breeze), Brain.fm*, and Podbean*.
Connect with Elizabeth
https://www.underthesisterhood.com/
https://www.underthesisterhoodpodcast.com/
https://www.instagram.com/underthesisterhood/
https://www.facebook.com/underthesisterhood/
https://twitter.com/UnderSisterhood
https://www.linkedin.com/in/underthesisterhood/
This episode is brought to you by my, Speak From Within, Work In Harmony (learn more at https://IzoldaT.com/wih), Brain.fm*, and Podbean.
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This episode is brought to you by my book, Speak From Within. Review what’s inside and purchase at https://IzoldaT.com/speak-book.

This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
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It’s also brought to you by my podcast host, Podbean! I love how simple Podbean is to use. If you’ve been thinking of starting your own podcast, Podbean is the way to go!**
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Monday Mar 20, 2023
Creating Space For Women’s Stories with Elizabeth Elfenbein
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Under the Sisterhood is changing the way women tell their stories
This episode is brought to you by my book, Speak From Within (learn more at How to Make Starting Conversations a Breeze), Brain.fm*, and Podbean*.
Elizabeth Elfenbein is a changemaker, an award-winning storyteller, and creative leader who is passionate about recognizing unmet needs.
She's been recognized as an ELITE Disruptor by PM360, Creative Online All-Star by OMMA, and a Sweet 16 Brand Marketer by Min Online.
Now, Elizabeth has launched Under the Sisterhood. Elizabeth craved sisterhood, to share her story and hear the depth and variety of other women’s stories. Elizabeth imagined a space for women of all cultures, ages, and backgrounds to share, grieve and celebrate. Under the Sisterhood was born from a vision to honor and hold space for women across the spectrum of our experiences.
Connect with Elizabeth
https://www.underthesisterhood.com/
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https://www.instagram.com/underthesisterhood/
https://www.facebook.com/underthesisterhood/
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This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
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It’s also brought to you by my podcast host, Podbean! I love how simple Podbean is to use. If you’ve been thinking of starting your own podcast, Podbean is the way to go!**
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Friday Mar 17, 2023
A Vegan Life Solution: What to do when you’ve got a heckler
Friday Mar 17, 2023
Friday Mar 17, 2023
What do you do when you have a fundamental disagreement with someone who is deliberately argumentative? Can you have a substantive discussion? What are some techniques you might employ to engage or disengage successfully?
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This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
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Monday Mar 13, 2023
Book Release Party Debrief - what went right and what went wrong
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Planning an event takes time and energy. You try to anticipate all the possibilities. You know some things will go wrong, and you hope to minimize them. However, sometimes the curveball is way out of the norm.
In this episode, I detail what went wrong, how it could have been much worse, and what our whole team did to address the challenge.
I send huge thanks to my cohorts, Alan Fessenden, Megan Vasiles, and Sergio Giovanni for their generosity.
This episode is brought to you by my workshop, Communicating Quality. Learn more about how you and your cohort can become stellar communicators.
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This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
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It’s also brought to you by my podcast host, Podbean! I love how simple Podbean is to use. If you’ve been thinking of starting your own podcast, Podbean is the way to go!**
Latest Books
Elevate your creative brain by accessing one of its crucial components – your intuition! Get the Functional Tarot. Get a taste of my creativity with this fun, sexy mystery, Die by the Sword, the first in the Cassie Belmont Tarot Reader Mysteries series. Grab some micro-fiction morsels from the Vegan Writers of NYC in In a New York Minute (coming soon).

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Friday Mar 10, 2023
How the Words We Use Change Our Brains and Potentially Everything Else
Friday Mar 10, 2023
Friday Mar 10, 2023
How do you refer to the food you eat?
A Vegan Life Solution Episode
This episode is brought to you by my book, Speak From Within. Review what's inside and purchase it at https://Izoldat.com/speak-book.
In this episode, I explore the language we use toward other beings and ourselves and how it affects how we live and what we eat.
We all grew up hearing slogans like, "where's the beef?" and "got milk?" But what do they really mean? What are they talking about? Beef refers to a dead cow. Milk, in the case of the commercials, refers to a cow's mammary secretions.
I grew up hearing the slogans and words, and I used them too. That created a barrier between me and what I was eating and drinking. It's easier to think of beef as food than it is to think of dead cows as food. How we refer to what we put in and on our bodies matters. Our brains take the information in and either agree with it or turn away from it. The extra bit of distance between our brains and a dead cow or pig makes it a lot easier for many of us to keep eating dead animals.
Idiomatic expressions also play a role here. I detail a few of the ones I've modified to make them cruelty-free.
Think about, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." When you stop and analyze it, it's disgusting and horribly cruel. But what if you can come up with a different saying that means the same but isn't inherently cruel? I came up with, "There's more than one way to bake a cake," (or pie). What other sayings can we change to make them less violent and cruel? I detail a few in the episode. Feel free to adopt them and use them to your heart's content.
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This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
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Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Cyndi Recker Bonus Episode Get Her Recommendations
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
If you liked what Cyndi Recker had to say, get her recommendations for more!
In Honor of Women's History Month, the guests this month are powerful, world-changing women.
Connect with Cyndi
www.linkedin.com/in/cyndirecker
www.thecleanerplanetplaybook.com
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Answering a Question? I’d love to hear from you!
Leave Me A Voicemail (and yours might get picked to be in an episode)

This episode is brought to you by my book, Speak From Within. Review what's inside and purchase it at https://IzoldaT.com/speak-book.

This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindset
It’s also brought to you by my podcast host, Podbean! I love how simple Podbean is to use. If you’ve been thinking of starting your own podcast, Podbean is the way to go!**
An Ingenious Idea!
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Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Cyndi Recker, A System Engineer, Author, and Eco Warrior, joins the podcast this week.
In Honor of Women's History Month, the guests this month are powerful, world-changing women.
Cyndi Recker advocates for wellness through a healthy diet, physical fitness, and a natural lifestyle. As a System Engineer, Cyndi loves the challenge of a good problem and innovates through different techniques to find a problem solution. In this book, she shows how to use patterns to break down complex topics and find simple steps that build together toward a healthier diet, body, home, and lifestyle.
Her intention is to live the best life she can and hopefully inspire others to live theirs while treading lightly on the planet.
Connect with Cyndi
www.linkedin.com/in/cyndirecker
www.thecleanerplanetplaybook.com
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This episode is brought to you by my workshop, Work In Harmony. Spark team unity and ingenuity through music. Learn how you and your cohort can coalesce and create together at https://izoldat.com/wih/.
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial and 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset .*
URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindset
It’s also brought to you by my podcast host, Podbean! I love how simple Podbean is to use. If you’ve been thinking of starting your own podcast, Podbean is the way to go!**
An Ingenious Idea!
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