If you’re looking for creative inspiration and mindfulness skill building, you’ve come to the right place. This show brings you interviews with creative peak performers whether they’re bestselling authors, artists, entertainers, game designers, athletes, scientists, or entrepreneurs. You’ll get their insights on how and why they do what they do. You’ll learn their techniques and secrets, so you can do it too. In Izolda’s solo episodes, you’ll get techniques to infuse your life with mindfulness, creativity, and reap all the benefits of living in a state of possibility and imagination. 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. 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.
Episodes
Monday Apr 29, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Enjoy this encore episode that will help you plan and prepare for your busy season at work and in life.
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Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Listen to this encore micro-episode to get techniques on how to rid yourself of self-judgment.
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
In this micro-episode recorded at the Panera, I describe funneling. This fantastic and simple technique will increase how much you get done. And it will transform what you focus on into the specific thing you need to do to succeed.
As part of the process, you'll need my free template for the Show Up Journal. You can get it here.
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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
When your tech goes wrong, and you need it for your projects, you need a plan in place to handle it and get back on track.
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Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Today's encore micro-episode takes you through steps to break through blocks and to keep them from happening to begin with.
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Friday Apr 19, 2019
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
In order to free your creative spirit, you need to prep the mundane parts of your life. Flaubert said, "Be regular and orderly in your life so you may be wild and original in your work."
Listen to this micro-episode for tips on how to do just that.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
If you're like me, tax season makes you want to tear your hair out. I know many creative entrepreneurs who go bonkers trying to sort everything and be ready to do taxes on time and correctly.
Every year, I promise to do better about sorting and preparing everything to do my taxes, and every year I fall behind and stress out at tax time.* But not this year. This year I've started a ritual that made taxes easy and mostly stress-free.
Listen to the episode to learn what I did to make taxes easy and not mind-numbingly stressful.
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Show Notes:
after:2019/4/7 before:2019/4/15
Self-Employed Estimated Taxes IRS website.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/estimated-taxes
How to find get the estimated taxes that you paid for this year (or whatever year you need).
Call 800 829 1040 to get the amount verbally. You’ll want to choose all the options that let you talk to an agent. When you get a live person, ask them for the dates and amounts of your estimated tax payments for the year you want. Then, order a transcript for later so you have written proof of how much you paid in estimated taxes.
* NOTE: I'm not a tax professional. This is just what I am doing to sort my receipts to make doing my taxes easier.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
How do we judge a piece of art as worthy? Who decides the truth worth? Does art have intrinsic value or everything about it subjective? Listen to this micro-episode for ideas on this complicated topic.