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How to Have a Compassionate Holiday Season

How to Have a Compassionate Holiday Season
[Note: Construction workers are doing their thing right outside my studio. So, I'll be recording many of my solo episodes on the elements of innovation in my car. Sorry if the sounds of New York City make you wince and even sorrier if they make you envious. :) ]
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How to Successfully Lead Creative Groups

What to do to lead groups of creatives
[Note: This episode was recorded in my car because construction folks are running jackhammers right outside my recording studio.]
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
What are the things you must be aware of in order to lead and manage creative groups? Is it different than leading other types of groups? I detail the steps and processes in this episode. Stay tuned for next week's Creative Tuesday for an episode on how to do it in a business setting.
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What Movies and Shows That Bomb Teach Us About the Culture of Innovation

What We Can Learn About Success From Movies and Shows That Bomb and Hit
We can learn many lessons about how a movie production is run. It is often a well-oiled machine? But what happens when it isn't? Or worse, what happens when the powers that be lose their vision? What should leaders do to course-correct? What should people lower in the hierarchy do?
This week's innovation-focused episode explores the answers to these questions.
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Books, Movies, and Shows I mention in the episode
Dune (the 1980s movie), Dune (the books)
The Expanse (the TV series), The Expanse (the book series)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (movie) and the Graphic Novel
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (book), (movie)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (book), BBC Series
Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code
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How to Improve Your Ability to Be Practical By Being Mindful

How to Improve Your Ability to Be Practical By Being Mindful
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Speak From Within Audiobook, Chapter 2 part 2 - Fear

Keep learning about how to deal with your fear of standing up in front of people and speaking to convince, inspire, and motivate.
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
Find the auxiliary exercises so you can make even more progress here: https://IzoldaT.com/speak-book.
* 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.

How This Compassionate Practice Will Help You and Your Loved Ones Shine

How This Compassionate Practice Will Help You and Your Loved Ones Shine
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Books I mention
Speak From Within**
* 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.
 

Musician and Admin Pro Valerie Higgs on Balancing Being a Creative with a Day Job

Valerie Higgs on how to balance your creative side and your business side to grow and succeed
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Valerie A. Higgs is an Administrative Professional by day and a pianist and music director by night. Currently based in the Washington, DC metro area, she has music directed productions at theaters such as the Ritz Theatre Company in South Jersey, the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and the TADA! Youth Theater Company in New York.
Valerie teaches piano online; accompanies for area auditions and competitions; regularly MDs at Ovations Theatre in Rockville, MD, and is a member of the DC Tango Orchestra, the Da Capo Tango Quintet, the Tango Reo ensemble, and sings with the Philosopher’s Tones.
Connect with Valerie
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PianoWithValerie/
Twitter: @vahiggs
Instagram: @vahiggs
Main website: vahiggs.com
For lessons: higgspianostudio.com
* 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.

Petra Mayer 2

Petra Mayer, NPR Books Editor, and my good friend. Encore Episode.
Petra died suddenly and tragically on November 13th. In tribute to her, this is an encore of the interview she did with me back when the show was called the Creative Mindset Podcast. If you want to know this wonderful, creative, talented, generous, and kind person, listen to this show. You will also learn a ton about writing, publishing, and being creative.
--Original show notes--
NPR Books Editor, Petra Mayer 
Petra Mayer is an editor (and the resident nerd) at NPR Books, focusing on fiction, and particularly genre fiction. She brings to the job passion, speed-reading skills, and a truly impressive collection of Doctor Who doodads. You can also hear her on the air and on the occasional episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour.
Previously, she was an associate producer and director for All Things Considered on the weekends. She handled all of the show's books coverage, and she was also the person to ask if you wanted to know how much snow falls outside NPR's Washington headquarters on a Saturday, how to belly dance, or what pro wrestling looks like up close and personal.
Mayer originally came to NPR as an engineering assistant in 1994, while still attending Amherst College. After three years of spending summers honing her soldering skills in the maintenance shop, she made the jump to Boston's WBUR as a newswriter in 1997. Mayer returned to NPR in 2000 after a roundabout journey that included a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a two-year stint as an audio archivist and producer at the Prague headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. She still knows how to solder.
Useful Links 
The most recent Concierge, which links to all the past years:  
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2019
A couple of summer polls: 
https://www.npr.org/series/729710522/summer-reader-poll-2019-funny-books and 
https://www.npr.org/series/617220176/summer-reader-poll-2018-horror
Life Kit/How To Write A Book: 
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/845797464/if-youve-always-wanted-to-write-a-book-here-s-how
Reading the Game: https://www.npr.org/series/510664099/reading-the-game
NK Jemisin on worldbuilding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xyFQhbsjQ or find the PDF here: http://nkjemisin.com/2015/08/worldbuilding-101/
 

How to use transformation as an element of innovation

Mindful Friday - Transformation
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* 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 above, I might get a small commission.

Dealing With The Fear - Speak From Within Audiobook, Chapter 2 - Fear

Learn how to deal with your fear of speaking to people to convince, inspire, and motivate.
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
Find the auxiliary exercises so you can make even more progress here: https://IzoldaT.com/speak-book.
* 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.