After graduating from RPI and starting to teach science in high school, John Cimino responded to another force within him that took him into a career in opera. At first dabbling but then introduced at the Metropolitan Opera and trained at the Manhattan School of Music and Julliard, he had a major break in winning a contest and performing with Pavarotti in the production of La Boheme at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. John went on to win some 20 national and international awards. But already he was thinking of how music could be used to inspire new perspectives. His first co-founding of a non-profit came in 1972 with Associated Solo Artists, then two decades later with Creative Leaps International, and finally much more recently in the Renaissance Center. John was mentored along the way by Vartan Gregorian who headed the Carnegie Corporation of New York at the end of his career. In this work, John likes to say that he wants to “set the heart and mind in curious, exploratory motion,” and that is the overlap with experiential education as examined generally in this podcast. Listen in or read the transcript to explore with us these concepts and parallels to getting people to be inspired.