Are you feeling stuck, burned out, or just going through the motions? Do you want a life that feels present, alive, and joyful? Your Creative Mind is here to spark your imagination, awaken your spirit, and help you build the life and career you’ll love. Hosted by Izolda Trakhtenberg—an expert in creativity, communication, and mindfulness—this podcast dives deep into how we can use creativity to solve life’s biggest challenges. Whether you’re writing your first novel, sketching your next masterpiece, or tackling global issues like the climate crisis, creativity holds the key to transformative solutions. Episodes feature intimate and inspiring conversations with Grammy and Tony winners, bestselling authors, acclaimed actors, and innovative leaders. They share their secrets on staying motivated, inspired, and productive, offering practical tools and fresh perspectives to supercharge your creative drive, mindfulness, and communication skills. Other episodes will give you actionable steps you can take today to infuse your life with the juice and sizzle of creativity. Discover answers to profound questions that even our guests have never considered, and gain actionable insights to unlock your own creative potential. From tech CEOs to Broadway producers, conservationists to comedians, our guests span industries and disciplines, bringing you cutting-edge ideas and timeless wisdom. Your Creative Mind is more than a podcast; it’s a guide to living fully, thinking boldly, and creating with purpose. Subscribe now and start transforming your world one creative solution at a time.
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Thursday Jun 30, 2022
How to Handle Huge Communication Failures with Ease and Grace
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
What to do when there's no communication common ground
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, communication fails. For example, the person you're trying to communicate with devolves into screaming within the first sentence. When this happens, when they threaten to turn violent, you have to realize, normal techniques of communication won't work. In those cases, you have have the presence of mind to remove yourself gracefully from the situation and then take care of yourself. What can you do to do that?
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
This fun and effective technique will improve your communication skills a bunch
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
A fun, light-hearted and unexpected technique will make you a person people want to talk to.
Every time I use this technique I surprise and delight people. It works. It'll people want to talk with you far longer than before because you'll be taking about something unusual that they already love.
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Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
How to Handle the Fear of Speaking Up
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
What are the causes of the fear of using your voice?
How can you handle those fears?
Join me as I explore the topic and give you ideas and techniques on how to release your fears of speaking up. And remember if you'd like to work with me to boost your confidence in communicating or creativity, book a complimentary discovery call below.
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Monday Jun 27, 2022
Mindfulness as Innovation with Artist Mind Owner Bill Small
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Bill Small Says Small Business Owners Need Mindfulness Too
Bill Small is the owner of Artist Mind. For over 20 years, he’s been helping people become the best versions of themselves. Bill draws on his experience as a musician, entrepreneur, business coach, and co-host of The Subtle Art of Yelling.
In 2016 Bill created Artist Mind Inc. to make coaching available to small business owners. In 2018 he was asked to join the consulting team at VIP Medical Consultants, and became a partner in healthcare start-up Advanced Clinical Management.
Taking a break from touring and live music performance during the 2020 pandemic shut down, Bill created and launched the Awareness Advantage Workshop, a group training course in mindfulness. In 2021, it’s back to performing and launching a new podcast, The Subtle Art of Not Yelling with co-host Miles Hanson.
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Friday Jun 24, 2022
How to Start Conversations Like A Pro
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Friday Jun 24, 2022
Four Conversation Starter Techniques You Need to Know
In this episode, I give you some sure-fire ways to connect, interact, and converse with people successfully. You'll feel better and more confident as you start substantive, fun, and exciting chats.
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Thursday Jun 23, 2022
A Good Technique To Reconnect and Have Better Human Interactions
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Post Pandemic, We Need to Learn to Connect Again
This might sound prescriptive, and I mean that only a little because this isn't personal. It's professional. It's not individual. It's societal.
How do we come back into the social professional networking and interactive world and leave behind some of our pandemic-derived behaviors.
Here's one that will surely make a difference in improving our interactions.
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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
A Crucial Communication Tip to Build Real Connections With People
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Even Dale Carnegie backs me up on this one.
Learn this critical technique and the methods to employ to build better relationships with new friends and colleagues.
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
How to Have a Great Conversation With Anyone
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Are you shy? Socially awkward? Want to know a great and easy technique on how to start and have terrific conversations in almost any situation?
Here's the technique that's worked for me for decades.
I'm shy and used to have a public speaking phobia until I figured out some secrets. I'll be sharing them with you today and in future episodes.
Contact me if you have questions or if you want in-depth coaching on how to break out of your shell and live your best, juiciest, and most creative life.
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Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Dr. Shoshana Levin Fox breaks down the mistakes we've been making with kids on the autism spectrum.
This is a fascinating conversation about psychology, autism, and the power of play to reach kids where they are.
Shoshana Levin Fox, EdD, is a Jerusalem-based child psychologist, play therapist and autism specialist. At the world-renowned Feuerstein Institute between 1992 and 2017, she found that conventional autism assessment methods overlooked underlying causes and disregarded the children’s strengths. Inspired by the work of Professor Feuerstein and DIRFloortime originators, Drs. Wieder and Greenspan, she decided to apply creative, interactive methods of assessing and treating children considered autistic, The dramatically positive results of this unconventional clinical approach impelled her to write the recently- published An Autism Casebook for Parents and Practitioners: The Child Behind the Symptoms. Shoshana has received many academic awards, including a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She has shared her wealth of experience in autism in numerous publications and conference presentations worldwide.
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A Review of An Autism Casebook
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Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Need, Want, Acceptable, and Dealbreakers
This technique works! Ask yourself a few key questions and then generate a list of needs, wants, acceptable levels, and dealbreakers. And then ask yourself the key question of all - what would success look like in this? It will revolutionize how you solve problems creatively.
Here's the link to the Little Sun rechargeable lamp. The lamp was created by artist Olafur Eliasson.
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