Your Creative Mind

Four Simple Ways to Spark Your Innovative Spirit on Halloween

If you want to spark that innovative spirit, you have to nourish it. Here are four simple ways to do just that and to connect with your clients and customers while you're at it. Halloween gives you ample opportunity to be creative. And being creative leads right into innovation in your life and in your work.
 
Plus, there's a bonus right in the middle of the show. You'll only get it if you listen.
 
Enjoy and BOO!

Andrew Byrne

Andrew Byrne
Singing Coach, Creator of The Singing Athlete on Presence, Voice, and How to Thrive Through Brain-based Science
Andrew Byrne is the founder of The Singing Athlete, a training program that brings sports performance and neuroscience into the voice studio. He is based in New York City, and his students have appeared in leading roles in over seventy-five Broadway shows. In 2016, Andrew was the first arts envoy appointed by the U.S. State Department to the nation of Belarus.
Twice named NYC's favorite vocal coach in Backstage's Reader Choice Awards, Andrew travels the world to bring his brand of brain-focused training to singers across the globe. In 2016, he was appointed by the U.S. State Department as the first Arts Envoy to the nation of Belarus, where he led the inaugural Russian-language production of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Next to Normal. Other international teaching assignments have taken him to Singapore, Switzerland, Denmark, France, China, and four times to Australia. In North America, Andrew has enjoyed four teaching residencies in Canada (including The Banff Centre) and served as guest faculty for the prestigious University of Michigan musical theatre department. 
Andrew is also on a mission to support singers with the PSA Project. PSA stands for the Professional Singing Athlete (in addition to the usual Public Service Announcement). His intention is to remind his students and the public that singing is a profession and that singers deserve to be paid for their work. Go here to learn more.
 
Connect with Andrew
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrewbyrnestudio
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingathlete/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQmj9A0sY_bA8YqqQKqUn2A
Websites: andrewbyrne.com thesingingathlete.com
 

John Watkis

John Watkis, Speaker, Speaking Coach, First Canadian-born Actor to Portray Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King
John Watkis is a professional speaker, speaking performance coach, award-winning performer, and author of Speaking Notes: The Eight Essential Elements to Make Your Speech Music to Their Ears.
John coaches leaders who have to develop and deliver high-stakes speeches, pitches, and presentations that capture and keep the attention of audiences and decision-makers.
He is also a salsa dancing champion and was the first Canadian-born actor to play Mufasa in the Disney musical, The Lion King.
Connect with John
https://www.instagram.com/johnwatkis/
https://www.facebook.com/speakperformancecoach
https://twitter.com/johnwatkis

Tim David

Tim David: Speaker, Author, Magician
Tim David dropped out of college to become a traveling magician. Now he shares the secrets of human connection and influence with busy professionals in an entertaining way - both on the stage and on the page, having authored three books.
He is the author of Magic Words – The Science and Secrets Behind Seven Words that Motivate, Engage, and Influence and FLIP - The Four Levels of Influencing People, and his latest, The Seven-Day Digital Diet.
Connect with Tim
LinkedIn
Facebook
 

Mike Kim

Mike Kim on How You Can Use Personal Branding, Storytelling, and Marketing to Grow Your Brand and Your Business
Mike Kim is a speaker and marketing strategist who specializes in brand strategy and copywriting. He’s been hired by some of today’s most influential thought leader brands including John Maxwell, Donald Miller, Suzanne Evans, and Catalyst.
For years, he was the Chief Marketing Officer of a successful multi-million dollar company near New York City. Nowadays you’ll find him speaking at conferences, looking for the next great place to scuba dive, or sipping a glass of Macallan 15 — all while teaching everything he knows about branding, entrepreneurship, and life through his hit podcast, Brand You.
Connect with Mike
YouTube
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Website

Tom Peters

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
 
 

Lauren V. Davis, Marketing Coach

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
 

Portia Badham, Actor, Entrepreneur, Runner

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
Instagram: imsoportia
Twitter: pradgal

Attorney Girija Patel

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.
Follow Girija
Instagram: @gbplaw 
Facebook: GBPLaw 
Website: www.gbplaw.com

Mark West, Exeuctive Director, House of Mark West Center for the Arts

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.
 
Important Links
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instagram.com/houseofmarkwest
facebook.com/houseofmarkwest
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