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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Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
What if you decide to go it alone and work without booking agents?
How would you do it? What do you need to think about and take care of that an agent would normally do for you? How do you charge clients without the agent's 25%? How do you build your reputation so clients will want to work with you without the benefit of an agent's vetting?
Enjoy this last bonus episode of Agents in the Gig Economy.
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Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Do This When You Speak, and You'll Build Incredible Rapport With Any Audience
Building a relationship with your audience is crucial in ever communication opportunity. Gratitude plays a big role in that process.
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Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
How did the ancient Greeks figure out the Earth was round? They innovated!
They used innovative yet straightforward experiments, and they changed the world forever—shout-out to Eratosthenes who's credited for doing it first.
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Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Alan Fessenden, Megan Vasiles, Sergio Giovanni, and Izolda T Complete The Artist's Way.
In Our Final Week of the Artist's Way Project, We Discuss Faith, Creative Allies, and What it Means to Achieve Artistic Escape Velocity.
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Bill Fitzhugh, author, and playwright on the rerelease of his book catalog and his latest play
Bill Fitzhugh is the award-winning author of many comic and satiric crime novels. His debut, Pest Control, was translated into half a dozen languages, the film rights sold to Warner Brothers, it was produced as a popular radio show in Germany, and as a stage musical in Los Angeles.
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Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
What to do to prepare your body, mind, and spirit before speaking
Chapter 19 answers questions of preparation. What do you need to do to prep for a meeting, interview, or speech?
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Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
What choices can you make if the things you say don't land well?
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
How to Recover Your Sense of Autonomy as an Artist
Megan, Alan, Sergio, and Izolda discuss week 11 Of Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way.
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Tamsen Webster, author of Find Your Red Thread on how to make your idea compelling whether you're a founder, innovator, or creative.
Tamsen Webster has spent the last twenty years helping experts drive action from their ideas. Part message strategist, part storyteller, part English-to-English translator, her work focuses on how to find and build the stories partners, investors, clients, and customers will tell themselves—and others. Tamsen honed her trademark Red Thread approach in and for major organizations like Harvard Medical School and Intel, as well as with hundreds of individual founders, academics, and thought leaders. She's a former TEDx Executive Producer and current Idea Strategist. She's also the author of Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible.
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Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
How do you navigate setting up and using booking sites like GigSalad and the Bash?
Learn some tips on how to make using these sites easier and some pitfalls you'll want to avoid.
I send special thanks to magician and friend extraordinaire, Eric Henning (book him for gigs. He's fantastic! https://www.capitolconjuror.com/), for his invaluable help on this episode. Any errors are mine and not his.
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