Your Creative Mind

Behind every book, play, and song is a person juggling self-doubt, deadlines, and the drive to create. On Your Creative Mind, Izolda Trakhtenberg talks with writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals about how they make their work and how they manage the stress and anxiety that often come with creating.

Through candid interviews and practical insights, you’ll learn storytelling techniques, mindfulness practices for creative professionals, and strategies for overcoming perfectionism in writing and art. Whether you’re searching for inspiration, tools to strengthen your resilience, or fresh ideas for balancing creativity and mental health, this podcast is your guide to creating with courage, clarity, and joy.

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Episodes

Tuesday Jan 18, 2022

Four Artists Tackle The Artist's Way
In this week, we cover your sense of artistic identity, skepticism, paying attention, and how to deal with crazymakers. (this ep has explicit language)
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.
The Multiverse Odyssey YouTube channel
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Connections
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Sergio on Facebook
Megan on Instagram
Izolda on Instagram
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Monday Jan 17, 2022

The Principal Players in Innovation Ecosystem Discuss Innovation, Collaboration, and How to Bring Companies and Organizations into a More Sustainable Future
Jenny Wilde
Jenny has over 15 years of hands-on experience as a senior manager in humanitarian response and an innovation expert. She has supported innovative organizations and initiatives in countries as diverse as the USA, South Sudan, and Nepal. She has pioneered initiatives that break from conventional innovation models and enable global scale.
 
Dan McClure
Dan specializes in complex systems innovation challenges and acts as a senior innovation strategist for commercial, non-profit, and governmental organizations.  He has decades of experience as a systems innovation strategist working with global firms in fields spanning international aid, environmental activism, government, finance, retail, media, education, energy, and health. 
Connect with Jenny and Dan
Website: innovationecosystem.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovation-ecosystem/people/
 
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Friday Jan 14, 2022

Physical and Emotional Balance - How to Use Them Build Mindfulness
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Thursday Jan 13, 2022

How to bring your authentic self (and just a little bit more) to every interaction.
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Chapter 8 of Speak From Within. Listen to the entire audiobook as it's recorded every Thursday until the book is done.
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Wednesday Jan 12, 2022

Ethical Innovation and How It Works
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Tuesday Jan 11, 2022

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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Megan on Instagram
Izolda on Instagram
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Monday Jan 10, 2022

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.
Book Cover
Connect with Avigail
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/avigail-gimpel-4a2a4bb9/
https://www.instagram.com/hyperhealing.adhd/hyperhealingmom
www.hyperhealing.org
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Friday Jan 07, 2022

An awareness of your emotions is the first step if you have the resources and energy to devote to it
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Thursday Jan 06, 2022

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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Wednesday Jan 05, 2022

How word choice affects our perception of ethics and compassion in our business practices
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