How can we use creativity to come up with the critical solutions we need in the world? Whether you’re trying to start your first novel, draw a picture, or solve the climate crisis, you need to approach the problem creatively. You have to think outside the norm, come up with ideas, and then act on them to solve the big problems we’re facing. Are you depressed, burned-out, or just going through the motions? We’ve got the solution for you, and it’s a creative one. Hear Interviews with Grammy and Tony winners and nominees, bestselling authors, actors, and creative leaders on how they stay motivated, inspired, and productive. Together, we explore their internal, uncharted waters about what inspires them to grow, achieve, and succeed. Get their up to the minute insights as we tease out answers to questions they’ve never pondered before. Remember, you can use creativity and mindfulness to build the life and career you’ll love. You’ll also learn how to supercharge your own creative drive, mindfulness, and communication skills. Guests have included bestselling authors, artists, marketing and pr pros, leadership experts, tech CEOs, technology futurists, professional speakers, communication coaches, public speakers, award-winning Broadway producers, musicians, lyricists, standup comedians, actors, performers, singers, writers, conservationists, non-profit executive directors, and many others.
Episodes
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Marketing Coach, Lauren V. Davis, on Building Your Personal Brand
Many people are intimidated and frustrated by trying to bring their personal brand to life through Social Media, Live Events, and Public Relations.
Lauren Davis lives in Rockford Illinois and works with people over the world to overcome their personal branding discontent and grow their presence so that they can focus on sales, exposure, leadership, and community impact through her marketing consultancy Lauren Davis Creative and her podcast, the Business Event Playbook.
When she is not running her two businesses in Rockford Illinois, (the other––a brick & mortar vinyl record store) she is traveling the globe learning and networking at conferences and workshops to better serve her clients with that knowledge.
Lauren's natural and undying passion revolves around seeing people and organizations that "do-good" succeed.
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Connect with Lauren
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ldaviscreative
Website: https://www.laurendaviscreative.com
Facebook Group: Understanding Social Media Marketing For Entrepreneurs
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Actor and Entrepreneur, Portia Badham
Portia Badham has worked as a print model and commercial actor since 2005, having appeared in campaigns for Cologuard, Fidelis Healthcare, Emblem Health, MetLife, American Express, Sprint, Fuji Film, Fidelis Healthcare, Emblem Health, Lipitor, Oxygen cable channel, and Comcast. In addition to her acting credentials, she also works as a casting assistant at Donnas Grossman Casting agency in Manhattan.
Outside of the talent industry, Portia spent more than 20 years as a PR and marketing consultant providing communications counsel to a variety of clients including Higher Purpose Productions/Orchestra Moderne NYC, Smartypants Pictures, Children’s National Medical Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, NAMIC, Comcast, Time Warner, AMC, Oxygen, the Harlem Y and UNCF. And, she has held senior communications roles in healthcare and the advertising industry.
A resident of Union, New Jersey, Portia is an avid runner and devotes much of her time running to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through its Team in Training program. She has participated in several half marathons around the country and completed her first full marathon in Prague, Czech Republic in May 2017. As a lymphoma survivor, she is a regular speaker at LLS events to share her personal journey through cancer to inspire and lend support to patients and their families and to encourage others to support cancer research.
Find Portia on social media
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Attorney Girija Patel on What Every Business Owner and Creative Needs to Know
Girija started her legal career in 2006 as a prosecutor and soon after, she realized that while she loved litigating in court, she had other passions she wanted to explore. So, she tapped into her creative side and started a thriving social media platform called CityTattler. It was there that she was introduced to an inspiring group of creative entrepreneurs.
She quickly fell in love with this new creative community but realized a real deficit of legal help. Any time she mentioned her background in business law, she’d see eyes glaze over and walls immediately go up.
She realized that, to her, business law is just a fact of life. But to her creative entrepreneur friends, it can be scary and overwhelming. So, now her goal is to make legal a line item and not a panic attack! Check out Girija's brand new podcast, Law Chat, that drops on 9/10/2020.
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Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Mark West, Executive Director of the Mark West Center for the Arts
Mark West is an artist and the Executive Director of the Mark West Center for the Arts (MWCA). MWCA, also known as House of Mark West, is a non-profit community organization, gallery and creative hub for artists in the South Bronx. They are black-owned and cater primarily to Black, Brown, LGBTQ, disabled, and young (k-12) artists and creatives. They are a gallery and artist collective that hosts monthly art exhibitions, free grant-writing workshops, open mic competitions, art classes, and town hall meetings.
As one of the only black-owned and queer-owned galleries in NYC, MWCA's mission is to provide exposure and advocacy for underrepresented artists from all backgrounds.
This far-ranging and provocative conversation will leave a last effect on you.
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Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Marjorie Alexander
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.
As a special bonus, you can get a free Podcast with Purpose or Personal Empowerment (for queer or questioning individuals only) coaching session with Marjorie. Head here to claim yours.
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Queer & Woo:
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Personal:
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Website
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
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.happyhourfromthetower.com
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Joey Williams
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
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Christina Helena - TEDx Speaker, Coach, Writer and Performer on How to Thrive, Shine, and Fall in Love Your Scars
Christina Helena is a speaker, writer/performer and life coach based in New York City. As one of the youngest pancreatic cancer survivors with a thirteen-inch scar across her abdomen, she is redefining and modernizing the stigma behind trauma and pain with one simple thought: My Scar is Sexy®. Christina’s story is currently in development as an off-Broadway, autobiographical solo show entitled SCAR. Most recently, Goalcast featured Christina’s talk about self-love and self-responsibility. Her TEDx talk is about the perceived fear of mortality humans have as a substitution for self-responsibility for resolution of one’s pain. Her bi-weekly blog My Scar is Sexy®, is about the human experience. Christina is a lover of scuba diving and white water rafting around the world.
Find Christina
Website: www.ChristinaHelena.com
Instagram: @iamchristinahelena - https://www.instagram.com/iamchristinahelena/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christinahelena/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/christinahelena/
Christina's TEDx talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c4iavIeKp4&feature=emb_logo
Life Coaching.
"My Scar is Sexy" was featured on Goalcast. https://www.facebook.com/goalcast/videos/2309810302432260/
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
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
https://www.instagram.com/alpetteway/
Amy White's Critter Cams: YouTube.com/FairviewCritterCams
Hammock Bears
HAMMOCK BEARS VIDEO 1
https://youtu.be/puXdsdJUOk0
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author, JC Andrijeski.
Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author, JC Andrijeski. She is the author of many books (and numerous short stories) in the science fiction, paranormal, cyberpunk-like and urban fantasy genres. Many of her books are parts of series like the Quentin Black psychic detective books or the latest Nick Tanaka Vampire detective books. Her books are sexy, gritty, romantic, and often dystopian. In a word, I find her books page-turners. You want to know what happens next and the sex and romance sizzle.
JC's website: https://www.jcandrijeski.com/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150834498264133/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jcandrijeski/