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

Wally Green

Monday May 03, 2021

Monday May 03, 2021

Wally Green on Table Tennis, Business, and Ping Pong Diplomacy
Wally Green, celebrity table tennis pro and entertainer, grew up in a housing Project in Brooklyn where gangs and violence, were a huge part of his life. Today his life, completely changed by the sport of table tennis and he has represented the US in numerous International competitions across the globe. The most recent being North Korea, where he was the only westerner who dared to participate! His “Ping Pong Diplomacy!” “I will make them love me!” He has also appeared in numerous media outlets from talk shows to tv spots to numerous newspapers and magazines. He also co-founded SPiN New York. New York’s premier social ping pong club, bar, and restaurant.
Connect with Wally
https://www.whoiswallygreen.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wallygreennyc/
Clubhouse: @wallygreennyc
SPiN: https://wearespin.com/location/new-york/
 
 

Monday Apr 26, 2021

Olympic Athlete, Stephen Heidenreich Overcame a Traumatic Brain Injury to Succeed - Here's His Story
Stephen Heidenreich is an Olympic athlete, a sub-4-minute miler - only one of 1,400 men in history to achieve this. While training for the USA Olympic team, a near-fatal hit and run accident changed his life forever. His neurosurgeon gave him a five percent chance to live. Despite a traumatic brain injury and these unfavorable odds, Stephen completed a Master of Business Administration at the prestigious Indiana University Kelley School of Business and a Master’s in Education specializing in Special Education. In the face of tremendous physical and mental challenges, Stephen trained for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.   
Connect with Stephen
Website: https://www.stephenheidenreich.com/
 
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Monday Apr 19, 2021

Lauren V. Davis Believes We Each Have a Real Personal Brand. Here's How to Discover Yours
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 Real Personal Branding Podcast.
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. 
Connect With Lauren
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ldaviscreative
Website: https://www.laurendaviscreative.com
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/understandsocialmedia
 
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Monday Apr 12, 2021

Chloë Drimal, Founder and CEO of Yoni Circle on the Importance of Telling Our Stories.
Yoni Circle was founded by Chloë Drimal. She is passionate about storytelling, believing that telling one's story heals oneself and listening to others' creates bridges between people who may have thought they had nothing in common.
Chloë is a Yale University alumni who started her career at Snapchat in 2013 as the fourteenth employee, where she was integral in the creation of the Our Story Product. During her 4.5 years there, she grew and led a team of 80 employees that curated hundreds of unique and culturally relevant stories for the Snapchat community around the world. She also helped create the internal women’s group for Snapchat, which quickly became her passion and led to her interest in creating Yoni Circle.
Connect with Chloë
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chaoticklowy/?hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloedrimal/
 
Yoni Circle:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yoni_circle/
https://www.facebook.com/yonicircle/?ref=py_c
 
Website:
https://www.yonicircle.com/
 
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Yoni Circle App

Monday Apr 05, 2021

Teresa Funke Wants To Help You To Find Your Inner Artist
Teresa Funke believes there’s an artist in everyone. She’s published seven inspiring books for adults and children based on true stories from World War II, including Dancing in Combat Boots and War on a Sunday Morning. Her newest book, Bursts of Brilliance for a Creative
 Life, takes readers in a new direction, encouraging them to ignite their creative spirits in order to bring better ideas into our world. It’s based on her popular blog of the same name.
Teresa is a community catalyst, speaking widely and running programs that support history education, literacy, writing, the arts, and personal development.
Connect with Teresa
Social Media Handles for Bursts of Brilliance®
FB: burstsofbrilliance
Twitter: BOBrilliance
Inst: bursts.of.brilliance
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/burstsbrilliance
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BOBrilliance
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bursts.of.brilliance/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/Bobrilliance
 
Social Media Handles for Teresa Funke (Teresa Funke & Company)
FB: teresafunkeandcompany
Twitter: teresafunke
Inst: teresa.r.funke
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teresafunkeandcompany
Twitter: https://twitter.com/teresafunke
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teresa.r.funke/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/teresafunke/

Monday Mar 29, 2021

Josh Kline, Founder and CEO of the Social Impact App, HaveNeed, Aims to Transform Access and Bartering All Over the World
Josh Kline is a multiple startup founder who has led social impact startup have|need since 2017 with the goal of leveling the playing field for people in need around the globe. Josh spent the prior 20 years working in media technology before segueing into the social impact space. 
Josh started his career in film and TV production before co-founding production tech startup Sample Digital, where he developed Digital Dailies which revolutionized the review and approval process in the production industry, and for which he was awarded a 2013 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award. 
From April 2014 to March 2017 Josh served as Head of Media & Entertainment at Box.com. Josh lives in Los Angeles with his wife and teenage son.
Connect with Josh.
Twitter: @WeAllHaveNeed | https://twitter.com/WeAllHaveNeed
Facebook: @weallhaveneed | https://www.facebook.com/weallhaveneed
Instagram: @weallhaveneed | https://www.instagram.com/weallhaveneed/
LinkedIn: haveneed | https://www.linkedin.com/company/haveneed/
https://haveneed.org
 
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Monday Mar 22, 2021

 
John Lee Dumas On Discovering Your Zone of Fire and His Upcoming Book The Common Path to Uncommon Success
 
John Lee Dumas is the founder and host of the award-winning podcast, Entrepreneurs On Fire. With over 1 million monthly listens and 7-figures of annual revenue, JLD is spreading Entrepreneurial FIRE on a global scale. His first traditionally published book, The Common Path to Uncommon Success is available for pre-order now at UncommonSuccessBook.com.
 
Connect with John
Website: https://www.eofire.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnleedumas/

Monday Mar 15, 2021

Tom Peters, Author, Speaker, Leadership Expert, Extreme Humanist
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. Many 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 previous book 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 this week he’s releasing his latest book and course called Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism.
Connect with Tom
https://tompeters.com/
https://twitter.com/tom_peters
 
 

Monday Mar 08, 2021

Lisa Zawrotny, Founder of the Positively Productive System, On Making Space To Breathe and Create
Lisa Zawrotny is the founder of Positively Productive Systems and the host of the Positively Living Podcast. As a Certified Stress Management & Productivity Coach she shares the powerful healing of simplicity, self-care, and structure with multi-passionate entrepreneurs and multi-tasking caregivers.
Lisa became a coach and speaker after a deeply overwhelming time in her own life juggling multiple roles as a caregiver, wife, mother, and business owner. She is now on a mission to help her overwhelmed audience make space for what matters in their lives by teaching value-based decluttering and customized systems and habits design.
Lisa holds certifications in stress and time management, life coaching, and meditation and is a member of the American Institute of Stress and the National Association of Productivity & Organizing Professionals.
Connect with Lisa
www.facebook.com/positivelyproductive
www.instagram.com/positively_lisa
www.linkedin.com/in/positivelyproductive
www.twitter.com/positively_lisa
www.positivelyproductive.com
 

Monday Mar 01, 2021

Business Growth Consultant, Jim Adams, Breaks Down The Numbers For Us
Jim Adams is a speaker, online educator and financial management consultant for small and family owned businesses. Nowadays, you’ll find him travelling the country in his RV, speaking at Virtual events, and looking for the muddiest, scariest obstacle course race he can find, all while serving his clients and facilitating his ProfitSpeak online interactive workshop. 
Jim  left his job as a full-time 100% travel consultant to get his life back while better serving small business owners. His goal is to help you get your business unstuck by helping you to be able to better DRIVE your business using YOUR numbers. You can start now by downloading his free Back of the Envelope Business Model at www.JimAdamsConsulting.com. 
Connect with Jim
Website www.JimAdamsConsulting.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.adams.7311
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-adams-03416b14/

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