Your Creative Mind

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.
Connect with GuruNischan
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
Www.alandamy.com/al.html
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
https://youtu.be/1eiP0S6Gsos
 
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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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Joey Williams, Grammy-Winning Guitarist of the Blind Boys of Alabama, Encore

Joey Williams (Encore episode)
Joey Williams is a grammy-award-winning vocalist and guitarist. Since the early 1990s, he’s been part of the legendary gospel band, the Blind Boys of Alabama. He’s also played in other bands along the way like with Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Additionally, he’s a sought after R&B session musician who plays with many of the world’s other great musicians.
 
And I was lucky enough to meet him and his lovely wife Monica at the inaugural show of the Sophisticated Psychos Experience. So, I’m honored to call him a new friend as well as one of the great guitarists it’s my pleasure to know.
 
Find Joey on Social Media
https://twitter.com/jwill6string
https://www.instagram.com/joewill17/

Paul Liberti – Voice Director, Actor, Vocal Coach, Puppeteer, and Dancer, Encore Presentation

Actor, Voice Director, Dancer, Paul Liberti (Encore_
The great Paul Liberti joins me on the show today. Paul currently teaches competitive classes in Los Angeles and New York City. He also teaches  Nationally for the SAG/AFTRA Foundation independently in Commercial Voiceover, Audio Book Narration, Video Game Character work, and Animation. Further, he teaches Accents for Actors – for Animation, Voice Actors, Film Actors, Broadway and London’s West End Theater, and Regional Theater with recent shows like Disney’s Frozen, USA Network – Falling Water, The National Theater’s – One Night in Miami, Greater Tuna, Anastasia, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon. Paul also teaches annually to graduating University students from across the nation – Memphis, Western Michigan University, Oakland University, and many others.
Paul has booked hundreds of voiceover spots and animated series including Pokémon, Blue’s Clues, Noggin’s, Pinky Dinky Doo, Saturday Night Live Cartoons, and Sesame Street. He is currently the voice of Curious George & the Man in the Yellow Hat www.curiousgeorge.com. He has narrated for Scholastic, Nickelodeon, Tavoli Entertainment and the Audie Award-winning series Goosebumps by R.L Stine. Mr. Liberti has also performed on Broadway, Broadway tours as well as film and TV, including The Daily Show, SNL TV’s Funhouse, Showtime’s Cartoon President, PBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime and more.
A quick note to any actor listening to this podcast: You will get a master class in acting from Paul’s thoughts on character creation, development, and performance. 
In addition to being my teacher, he is also my friend. A gifted actor, dancer, teacher, and musician, Paul was kind enough to showcase his talents. He also gave his thoughts and wisdom so generously that I can’t wait to have him on the show again as soon as possible!
If you listen to the very end, you’ll get a lovely surprise. It was glorious and fantastic as is the man himself!
Do not wait! Find Paul and follow him on social media. You’ll be so very glad you did.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Curious George
Michael Bennett and his musicals on Facebook 
Paul Liberti’s VO Community: Voiceover Tuneup
Paul’s Facebook page
 
As a special bonus, because we talked about Paul’s work and friendship with Jim Henson (and the Muppets), here’s a photo of the Jim Henson and Kermit statue at the University of Maryland, College Park campus.

Author, Entertainer Tee Morris

Tee Morris on Writing, Podcasting, Leadership, and Some of the Latest Social Media Platforms You Need to Know About.
Tee Morris has been writing science fiction, fantasy, horror, and non-fiction for over a decade. His first novel, MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana, became the first novel to be podcast in its entirety, ushering in a new age for authors — podcasting.
 
He went on with Evo Terra to write Podcasting for Dummies (as well as the following editions alongside Chuck Tomasi). In 2011, Tee returned to fiction with the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series, penned with his wife, Pip Ballantine. And somewhere in the middle of all this, Tee and Pip are releasing the second edition of Social Media for Writers.
 
Tee and Pip also host The Shared Desk, a podcast covering collaboration and other aspects of a writer’s lifestyle. He enjoys a writer’s life in Virginia alongside Pip, his daughter, and three cats. Explore the works of Tee Morris, and his occasional geek rants, at TeeMorris.com.
 
In addition to the above, Tee also wrote Twitch for Dummies and discord for Dummies.
Connect with Tee
http://www.twitch.tv/theteemonster
http://www.twitter.com/teemonster
http://www.instagram.com/theteemonster
http://www.facebook.com/AuthorTeeMorris
http://www.theshareddesk.com
http://www.happyhourfromthetower.com
http://ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com
http://www.teemorris.com

Marjorie Alexander, Podcaster, Environmentalist (Encore Presentation)

Marjorie Alexander (Enjoy this encore episode.)
Marjorie Alexander is a podcaster, coach, and budding social entrepreneur. She was first thrust into storytelling during her master’s degree when a lack of high-quality environmental podcasts sparked the launch of A Sustainable Mind, where she interviewed environmental changemakers across the globe as her thesis project.
 
Marjorie has recently embarked on her second podcast journey with Queer & Woo, a collection of personal stories and conversations with amazing queer individuals about mental health, self-care and personal development.
 
Marjorie has been named a Top 40 LGBT Under 40 by Business Equality Magazine and looks forward to working more one-on-one with people in the queer community.
 
Queer & Woo:
https://www.instagram.com/queerandwoo/
 
A Sustainable Mind:
https://www.instagram.com/asustainablemind/
https://twitter.com/SustainableMind
https://www.facebook.com/asustainablemind/
 
Personal:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marjorieralexander/
 
Website
marjoriealexander.com

Andrew Lippa, Award-Winning Composer and Lyricist on His Musicals, Creative Thinking, and Self-Awareness

Andrew Lippa
Award-winning composer of The Addams Family, Big Fish, The Wild Party, and many other musicals joins me for the podcast.
In addition to his incredible talent and many accomplishments, he was also the Oberon to my Titania, the Brack Weaver to my Jennie Parsons, and the Ralph Rackstraw to my Josephine. My high school leading man joins me to talk about arts education, creativity, and the work of the arts. Here’s more about Andrew. And really, go listen to the episode. It’s incredible!
About Andrew
Andrew Lippa’s “Unbreakable” had its world premiere with The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus on June 22nd and 23rd, 2018 with 300 artists onstage, including Mr. Lippa. It is now available for purchase and streaming. He conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a new production of his “A Little Princess” in concert in London at the Royal Festival Hall in May, 2018 to a sold-out crowd of nearly 3,000 people. His hit song “Evil Like Me” appears in Disney’s “Descendants”. Written for Kristin Chenoweth, that soundtrack hit #1 on the “Billboard 200” album chart, #1 on the iTunes and Billboard soundtrack charts. “Evil Like Me” was certified gold in 2017. His epic oratorio for men’s chorus, orchestra and soloists, I Am Harvey Milk has seen over 30 productions including Disney Hall and Lincoln Center.  Andrew’s new musical, The Man in the Ceiling, released a world premiere studio album in May of 2019.  
Broadway credits include: Music and lyrics for Big Fish directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman; the Tony-nominated music and lyrics for the Broadway musical The Addams Family (directed by Jerry Zaks) as well as the music for Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway play The Farnsworth Invention (directed by Des McAnuff). Other musicals include the Drama Desk award winning musical The Wild Party (book/music/lyrics); A Little Princess (music); john & jen (music/book); Asphalt Beach (music and lyrics); Life of the Party (a compendium of Mr. Lippa’s works); and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (additional music/lyrics and arrangements). 
Awards include Tony and Grammy nominations; shared Emmy for Nickelodeon’s “The Wonder Pets”; SFGMC Vanguard Award; The Drama Desk Award; The Outer Critics Circle Award. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Mr. Lippa serves as president of the board of The Dramatists Guild Foundation (dgf.org).andrewlippa.com 

Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Theater Historian, Broadway Producer (Encore)

Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Theater Historian, Broadway Producer on Creativity, History, and Innovative Productions (Encore Presentation)
Jennifer Ashley Tepper is the producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation, recent projects that are part of a decade-long collaboration with the group known as Joe Iconis & Family. She is also the Creative and Programming Director at Feinstein’s/54 Below, co-creator of the Bistro Award-winning concert series celebrating under-appreciated musicals If It Only Even Runs A Minute, and conceiver and director of The Jonathan Larson Project. Her other Broadway credits include [title of show], The Performers, Godspell, Macbeth, and The Parisian Woman. As a writer, Tepper has authored three volumes of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series.
What an inspiring and exciting conversation. Check it out. You’ll hear so much about theater, theater history, and what it takes to produce a show.
Find Jennifer
Jennifer’s website: http://www.jenniferashleytepper.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenashtep/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jenashtep
And check out: Broadway Bounty Hunter
Jennifer’s books about the Theaters of Broadway
Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 1
Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2
Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 3
Books Jennifer recommended
Not since Carrie
Everything was possible. The birth of the musical Follies
Underfoot in Show Business by Helaine Hunph