Your Creative Mind

How to Recover a Sense of Safety - The Artist’s Way Project

What it takes to recover a sense of safety to be an artist
Join Alan Fessenden, Megan Vasiles, Sergio Giovanni, and yours truly as we work our way through Julia Cameron's seminal book. This week is Week 1 of the 12-week process. We discuss our challenges and victories, struggles, and realizations as we discuss the points in the book and our responses to them.
If you want to join in, it's not too late. Grab a copy of the book wherever you buy books (or check it out from your local library) and go through your own process of creative recovery.
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Sergio on Facebook
Megan on Instagram
Izolda on Instagram
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Avigail Gimpel, educator and author on raising a healthy child with ADHD symptoms

Avigail Gimpel, author of "Hyperhealing: The empowered parents' complete guide to raising a healthy child with ADHD symptoms" on how to do just that
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Avigail Gimpel had six children in eleven years. She discovered that her children were struggling. She realized that her children were struggling and healthy and she didn’t understand why.
So, she embarked on a journey of discovery that she detailed in her book, “Hyperhealing, The empowered parents' complete guide to raising a healthy child with ADHD symptoms.”
She kept asking questions like Why are seemingly healthy children doing so poorly socially, academically and emotionally? Why are very bright children failing? The books she read either pathologized children or suggested one specific cause of ADHD symptoms and offered helpful yet incomplete advice. She was left with a choice, rely on pharmaceutical interventions, pay for expensive coaching or educational assistance, or develop a program of her own. So, as a teacher, college lecturer, and, by now, a weathered mom, she set out to write the manual. She now teaches at Hertzog College, has a private practice to treat people struggling with ADHD symptoms, and runs seminars and lectures to help teachers and principals learn about how to work with and address these issues. She, her husband Daniel, and their six children live in Israel.
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Connect with Avigail
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtLqv5e5yQ2LeQ6qdYQ4DyQ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/avigail-gimpel-4a2a4bb9/
https://www.instagram.com/hyperhealing.adhd/hyperhealingmom
www.hyperhealing.org
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How a Mindfulness Practices Can Help Process Heartache

An awareness of your emotions is the first step if you have the resources and energy to devote to it
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How to be Pitch Perfect in your presentations and communication

Speak from Within, Chapter 7, Pitch Perfect?
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Listen to chapter 7 of the book to learn how to modulate and use the highs and lows of your voice to communicate more effectively.
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How to Clarify Your Message To Reach Your Audience More Ethically

How word choice affects our perception of ethics and compassion in our business practices
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Supercharge Your Creativity With Us - Four artists tackle The Artist’s Way

Four Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Podcasters embark on a process of creative discovery. Join them.
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Every Tuesday, for the next 12 weeks join artists Alan Fessenden, Megan Vasiles, Sergio Giovanni, and yours truly, Izolda Trakhtenberg on a creative journey. Together, we are working our way through the tasks, exercises, and ideas in Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way**. If you want to join us and go through the book, buy your copy (or get it from the library), and embark on the voyage of discovery.
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Megan on Facebook
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Soul Provocateur, GuruNischan on How to Heal Burnout and Live an Integrated Life

GuruNischan on How to Rewire Your Brain and Body for Pleasure, Happiness, and Peak Productivity with a Lot Less Stress
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Known as a "Soul Provocateur", GuruNischan helps people rewire their brains and bodies for increased pleasure and happiness, peak productivity, and much less stress. With a degree in Community Building and a background in Youth Work, Yoga and Meditation, and Nutrition Consulting, GuruNischan has a broad range of wellness and business experience to draw from.
An entrepreneur and philanthropist, GuruNischan built an international business with over half a million dollars in annual sales by 27. An unexpected turn of events created an opportunity for her to heal acute Burnout and Endocrine distress from a decade of overworking and repeating unconscious patterns from a very religious childhood. Nearly a decade later, she has led hundreds of trainings on building the capacity of our nervous systems to heal burnout, break free from indoctrination and live an integrated life. GuruNischan has been a featured keynote speaker and facilitator for Make A Wish Foundation, TransUnion, Walgreens, Rotary International, European Yoga Festival, and more.
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Instagram: @gurunischan
LinkedIn: @gurunischankhalsa
Website: GuruNischan.com
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Al Petteway, Grammy-Award-Winning Guitarist, Encore

Al Petteway
A Grammy Award-winning recording artist and performer, Al Petteway has played nearly every type of popular, folk, and classical music. Though his primary instrument has always been the guitar, he has also studied lute, string bass, percussion and music composition.
His compositions for acoustic fingerstyle guitar are strongly influenced by his love of Celtic music and his own roots in folk, rock, and blues. His recordings, music books, and instructional videos have helped to win him international acclaim and appearances on National Radio and Television Programs.
Al’s music has also been used in soundtracks for independent films including the Ken Burns’ documentaries “Mark Twain”, the Emmy Award-winning  “The National Parks – America’s Greatest Idea” , “Baseball – The Tenth Inning,” “The Dust Bowl,” and most recently”The Roosevelts.” 
Al was awarded FORTY FIVE “Wammies” by the Washington Area Music Association including the top honors of “ARTIST OF THE YEAR” and “MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR“. He was the recipient of two Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards for Music Composition and has performed at the Vice President’s House and The White House.
His playing is featured on more than sixty recordings by some of the World’s best-known Folk and Celtic musicians. In 2005, he was voted one of the Top Fifty Acoustic Guitarists of all Time by the readers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine, and in 2008 he won Silver and Bronze medals in the magazine’s Player’s Choice Awards.  His CD “Caledon Wood” was voted one of the “Essential Albums of the Past Twenty Years” in Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s 20th-anniversary issue and his 2012 release “It’s Only the Blues” was included on two of the Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s Editor’s “Top Ten Essential Albums of 2012″ lists. In 2014 and 2015, he released two more solo albums “Mountain Guitar” and “Dream Guitars, Vol. II.” His most recent album “The Collector’s Passion” was recorded in two sessions and includes more of his solo guitar compositions than any previous release.
In addition to the numerous music camps, guitar festivals, concerts, and workshops he works with, Al records acoustic projects and teaches private lessons in his home studio in Fairview, NC.
Social Media
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https://www.instagram.com/alpetteway/
Amy White’s Critter Cams: YouTube.com/FairviewCritterCams
Hammock Bears
HAMMOCK BEARS VIDEO 1https://youtu.be/puXdsdJUOk0
BEAR CUBS CLIMB THE WISTERIA ARBOR
https://youtu.be/eLMWwSHXYSA
 
BIG BUTT MOMMA BEAR at the SALAD BAR and the Runaway Cubs
https://youtu.be/BPfeP4iJITo
 
BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME:
THE TALE OF TURKEY TOM and the ELUSIVE HENS
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Talking Science and the Best Ways to Spend Time at Home Right Now with Beth Mund, Encore

Beth Mund: Writer, Speaker, Communication Expert, and Space Geek.
What an honor to have Beth Mund on the show again. A former NASA Communications Officer for the International Space Station, Beth is an avowed space geek. She’s also a professional keynote speaker, writer, and baker (you’ll learn how she’s using baking to stay safe at home in the episode).
Beth also hosts her own podcast called, Casual Space where she speaks about all things space and interviews some of the top thinkers, movers, and shakers in the industry.
Beth is also fun, generous, and a fantastic speaker. Listen as she takes us on a journey to the stars and to her kitchen.
Find Beth on social media.
Website: BethMund.com
Podcast: CasualSpacePodcast.com
Instagram: CasualSpacePodcast
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Beth-Mund-Speaker-Writer-Space-Geek-166477633860479/
Email: ask@casualspacepodcast.com
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Tom Peters, Leadership Expert, Author, and People and Community-first Advocate, Encore

Tom Peters Breaks It All Down For Us
Tom Peters is co-author of In Search of Excellence—the book that changed the way the world does business and often tagged as the best business book ever. Seventeen books and thirty-five years later, Tom is still at the forefront of the “management guru industry” he single-handedly invented.
What’s new? A lot. As CNN said, “While most business gurus milk the same mantra for all it’s worth, the one-man brand called Tom Peters is still reinventing himself.” His most recent effort is The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last. Tom’s bedrock belief is: “Execution is strategy—it’s all about the people and the doing, not the talking and the theory.” In November 2017, Tom received the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award. And it looks like he’s nowhere near done.
This was a tremendous conversation. If you’re a leader, or you hope to be one someday, you will learn a lot from Tom.
Tom’s books (not all of them)
Connect with Tom
Website: https://tompeters.com/ (you can find an extensive list of Tom’s videos on his website.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tom_peters
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