This special episode was recorded live, front and center at the Podcast Movement event in Anaheim, CA. Learn why, as a creator or consumer, you do not want to miss out on this podcast movement.

Enjoy my interview with five other dynamic podcasters. Then follow your curiosity and check them out!

Who are these fantastic podcasters?

Bigg UU and Riffa are hosts of the hip hop podcast, Truth Be Told

Regina Revazova is the host of the NPR-affiliated short-form podcast, Open Conversations

Mitch Todd is a co-founder of Podcast Movement and is the host of Sci-Fi Maker podcast for science fiction filmmakers and screenwriters

Joanne McCall is a publicist and the Media Polisher representing non-fiction authors and podcasters.

What will you learn?

You'll certainly want to listen to podcasts. You might just want to take it further by becoming a podcaster. There's a lot of great people who will help you.

A sneak peek at three very different podcasts. So much curiosity-seeking!

Why do old school hip hop and new school hip hop dislike each other?

Why Regina's childhood smelled like snow.

Curious questions.

What's something that you believe that most people think is crazy?

Why do people reveal so much to strangers?

What goes into creating a huge podcast event? What has changed over the last 4 years?

Are there common elements that make a great sci-fi film?

 

Shout out and huge thanks to Shure for providing microphones, Steve Stewart for arranging and producing this live event, and to Talk Shoe for sponsoring this special episode.

Links and resources:

Truth Be Told

Sci Fi Maker

Open Conversations

Talk Shoe 

Shure

Joanne McCall

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How can you take a leap and make a huge career change into a creative field...even later in life and with a mortgage and a family?

This week we get an insider's peek into filmmaking with screenwriter Mike Rich.

Who is Mike Rich?

Screenwriter: Finding Forrester, The Rookie, Radio, Miracle, Invincible, The Nativity Story, Secretariat, Cars 3

Ex-Radio Host and News Director

Recipient of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Academy of Motion Pictures

What will you learn?

How to start a mid-life film career (when you have a great job and 3 young kids)

How to adopt a creative process...that sticks

The anatomy of a screenplay (how to write one)

Curious questions.

What does the film industry fear the most?

What do you put in your smoothie?

What will matter most to future screenwriters?

Links and resources:

Eminent Domaine Pinot Noir

The Last RoundUp by Ken Kesey

Mike's Inkshares page

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Special thanks to Mike for joining me this week. Until next time!

How can you really tell who has a mental health disorder and who's just...different?

This week we take a peek inside the brain, debunk myths of mental illness, and tackle coping strategies with expert Julie A. Fast.

Who is Julie A. Fast?

After living with untreated bipolar disorder for over 15 challenging and chaotic years, Julie was diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder at the age of thirty-one. In 1998, after trying over a dozen different medications, she found herself at a life-or-death crossroads: The medications were not enough and the quality of her life was spiraling downward due to the drugs’ intolerable side effects.

World leading mental health expert on the topics of bipolar disorder, depression and mood disorder management.

Best selling author of four of the top selling books on mental health.

Award-winning columnist and winner of Mental Health America Journal Award for best mental health column in the US, and Mental Health America Excellence in Mental Health award.

Original consultant to Claire Danes for her role in Homeland. Go-to mental health specialist during times of mental health crises in the news (e.g., Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook mass shootings). Owner of one of the top mental health sites, BipolarHappens.com

International speaker, consultant, and coach.

What will you learn?

How to define and understand the different types of mental illness - mood disorders, personality disorders, and psychotic disorders are not the same.

How to identify patterns that hide clues to mental illness.

How you can (or help loved ones) manage mental illness.

How many of us are mentally ill and how policy has gone wildly wrong.

How to understand suicide in a completely new way.

Stuff about mental illness that will blow your mind.

Curious questions.

WTF is mental illness anyway?

Should mentally ill people be banned from owning guns?

Aren't we all mentally ill?

Links and resources:

BipolarHappens.com

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder: Understanding and Helping Your Partner by Julie Fast

Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder by Julie Fast

Bipolar Happens! 35 Tips and Tricks to Manage Bipolar Disorder by Julie Fast

Get It Done When You're Depressed by Julie Fast

The Murphy Bill

No, Really We Want You to Laugh by Dave Mowry

Diagnostic Statistical Manual 5

13 Reasons Why

Julie's article on Chris Cornell's suicide

Better, Smarter, Richer by Jackie B. Peterson

WRAP Program

This is the podcast for the relentlessly curious.

This is Applied Curiosity Lab Radio.

In each episode Becki Saltzman interviews unconventional people – from filmmakers and scientists to S&M dungeon masters and alien abduction experts, and everyone in between – to give you a peek inside worlds that may be new to you...maybe even outside your comfort zone. Elevate curiosity.

Why? To see things others miss. To bust out of your silo of sameness. To extract insights, wisdom, and actionable bits that you can apply to your own life. Oh, and to fuel your love of learning a little about a lot.

In our increasingly divisive world where we are trapped in our echo chambers and silos of sameness, Applied Curiosity Lab Radio will provide you with the tools to flex your curiosity muscle and the wisdom to break down barriers. Let's revolutionize the way we think.

See things that others miss. Escape the boundaries of ordinary.

 

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