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

Monday Dec 20, 2021

Brian Glow
Event Entertainer, International Illusionist, and Comedy Magician
This is an opportunity to hear and learn from the best. Since 1973 Brian Glow has performed his award-winning concert one-man Comedy Magic and Mindreading productions and his incredible full-scale Illusion Concerts, internationally for Casinos, Television, Film, Corporate Events and Extravagant Public Spectacles world-wide.
From a one-man show to one of the largest touring illusion concerts in North America, Brian Glow, International Illusionist and Comedy Magician, creates an unbelievable magical experience that is guaranteed to amaze and amuse. Brian has toured in over 45 different countries all over the world.
Brian is also a fierce advocate of bullying and suicide prevention. You’ll learn more about his incredible work in the communities in the far north of the USA, Canada and elsewhere.
If you’re a performer of any kind, this episode is also a master class in marketing and raising public awareness about your art. Listen to this one. You’ll be glad you did.
Follow Brian on social media.
Website: http://brianglow.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/illusionistbrianglow/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianglow/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brian.glow
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bglow1313
 
This is Brian at the Arctic Circle during one of his tours to educate and educate on suicide and bullying prevention.

Friday Dec 17, 2021

Increase mindfulness through study
Innovation is a mindset and also a practice. You must build skills that will help you innovate, but that doesn't occur in a vacuum. You have to apply mindfulness - the awareness that problems exist - and creative actions in order to innovate. That happens when you make a study of mindfulness.
In today's episode learn how study will improve the entire set of skills you need to change the world through innovation and creative actions.
The Mindful Creative Card for Study
 
 
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindsetIt's also brought to you by Gloria Chou's PR Starter Pack. If you want to get featured in the media, this is your best first step. I've used these techniques to get featured in magazines, newspapers, and podcasts. They work! https://izoldat.krtra.com/t/so6Aw0yCuva4* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.

Thursday Dec 16, 2021

Increase urgency and intensity with this surprising technique
Here's something we don't think about too often. If you want to get your audience to lean in and hang on your every word, don't shout at them.
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.
 

Wednesday Dec 15, 2021

Compassion starts with you but grows to encompass the whole world.
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindsetIt's also brought to you by Gloria Chou's PR Starter Pack. If you want to get featured in the media, this is your best first step. I've used these techniques to get featured in magazines, newspapers, and podcasts. They work! https://izoldat.krtra.com/t/so6Aw0yCuva4* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.

Tuesday Dec 14, 2021

We are all artists!
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset
Whew! That's a hard one to admit and accept even for me, especially for me. Listen in to get your super-secret instructions on how to access and bring forth your inner artist.* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.

Monday Dec 13, 2021

What two companies with radically corporate cultures do with respect to employee innovation
This is a case study from my own experience when trying to get from New York City to DC to officiate the memorial celebration of a dear friend of mine. It gets personal and somewhat scatological, so please be aware.
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.

Friday Dec 10, 2021

Today's Mindful Friday episode explores the idea of being resolute.
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset
 
When you're resolute, what happens to your ideas, doubts, and imposter syndrome?
* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.
 
 

Thursday Dec 09, 2021

Is it the volume of your voice that carries your message, or is it something else?
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset
In this episode, chapter 5 of my book Speak From Within I explore how to increase your volume without straining your voice. I give you some fun and simple missions and techniques to improve your authority and projection when speaking to audiences of any kind in rooms of any size.
Links 
Lea Michele's Don't Rain on My Parade
JAMA article on vocal folds* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.

Wednesday Dec 08, 2021

What does compassion do for your creative output? How does a lack of compassion stifle it? And what can you do about it?
Today's episode explores the notion of scoffing and how it can smother your or someone else's creativity.
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.  

Tuesday Dec 07, 2021

It doesn't take more than a minute to supercharge your creativity every morning.
This episode is brought to you by Brain.fm. I love and use brain.fm every day! It combines music and neuroscience to help me focus, meditate, and even sleep! Because you listen to this show, you can get a free trial.*URL: https://brain.fm/innovativemindsetIf you love it as much as I do, you can get 20% off with this exclusive coupon code: innovativemindset
Spend no more than a minute every morning, and you'll be amazed at how you improve your creative thinking and doing skills.
The App I'm using is Sketchbook (iPhone) - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook/id883738213
The Hashtag to use so we can support each other's creative growth: #dailydoodlesiwthIzoldaT
My doodle from this morning. (Remember, this should take no more than 1-2 minutes to create. It's just what you imagine and not a finished product. And remember to sign your work.
* I am a Brain.fm affiliate. If you purchase it through the above links and take the 20% off, I’ll get a small commission. I'm also a PR Starter Pack Affiliate. I use Gloria's methods to get featured in the media often. And please remember, I’ll never recommend a product or service I don’t absolutely love!** I'm also an Amazon affiliate so if you purchase a book or other product through the links on this page, I might get a small commission.

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