Creative Happy Hour

What is a vision board? Have you ever made a vision board? How do vision boards work? People use them to manifest their dreams using the law of attraction as outlined in the Oprah approved book The Secret. How do you make a vision board that works? Your friends at Creative Happy Hour walk you through the process. Grab your glue sticks and make a vision board along with us. We will even show you how to interpret your vision board and make it work for you.

Vision boards help clarify, concentrate and maintain focus on a specific life goal. Your vision board should focus on how you want to feel, not just on things that you want. So grab a glass of wine and get ready to get drunk on the creative possibilities.

Event planning is an important skill for creatives. Events can bring your creative tribe together and help you to promote your creative product, whether the event is a book signing, a product launch, or an art show. Karena Akhavein and Micah Black, your Creative Happy Hour Podcast cohosts, drink Vinho Verde Punch, a great libation to serve at an event, and discuss why to throw an event, and how to do it in the most productive way. We invite guest star Gabrielle Chavigny, a celebrity event planner who has planned celebrity weddings, movie premieres, and other high end soirees. Chavigny explains how an event is not just a normal party, and how to makes sure you have the perfect invitation, guest list, vendors, and entertainment. She regales us with stories of events gone wrong, and sums up how to make sure your creative event goes off without a hitch. So whether you are planning a gallery opening, an open studio, a book signing, a film release, a product launch, or a conference, you will make sure to have a memorable event that will keep paying you back in customer loyalty and community outreach. Join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities.

Fear is the number one thing keeping us from achieving our goals, putting ourselves out there, and finding success. In this episode of the podcast, cohosts Karena Akhavein and Micah Black discuss what fear is, how it affects the body and the mind, what kind of fears affect creatives, and how to keep fear from ruining your life. And they do this while drinking Bushido Way of the Warrior Sake. Warriors aren't fearless: they do experience fear, but they go into battle despite the fear. It's time to kick fear's butt! Join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities.

In this episode of the podcast, cohosts Karena Akhavein and Micah Black discuss side hustles for creatives while drinking "rose colored glasses," a cocktail composed of pink sparkling wine and rose petals. What is a side hustle? These days, it's less about sticking to a single career until you retire, and more about following your passion and participating in the gig economy that makes it all possible.

Sober October is coming up!

What happens to two creative women whose podcast focuses on a cocktail of creativity and alcohol decide to quit drinking (for a day)? Watch this episode of Creative Happy Hour Podcast and see!

The #Sobercurious or Sober Curious movement is gaining traction. Bars specializing in non-alcoholic cocktails are springing out in hip and trendy locations all of the the country and the world. How does alcohol or sobriety affect your creativity? How about the common image of the artist as a drunk or as an addict? Which artists and creatives are sober, and how has it changed their life?

What can you do for happy hour if you're not drinking? We'll get creative!

Karena Akhavein and Micah Black do healthy wellness shots and discuss all of these issues and more. Also, as a bonus, they record their sober, non-hungover mornings just so you can see whether they survived.

Creative Happy Hour Ep. 31 In this special episode of the Creative Happy Hour Podcast, we drink Chardonnay and chat with gifted painter Linda Cosgrove, who is showing her work this month at Aberson Exhibits in Tulsa, Oklahoma. How did Linda start painting? What were her influences? How did she develop her unique Salvador Dali meets Caravaggio style? What does her creative life look like? What was life like when she arrived in San Francisco in 1976 and hung out with characters like Boz Scaggs and Hunter S. Thompson? How does she ask for her just value, and what does she think of the differences between male and female artists? What is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist? Join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities.

Creative Happy Hour Ep. 30 Are vampires real? Maybe the bloodsucking kind are not real, but energy vampires are. Creatives, who are more sensitive and vibrate on a higher frequency than most people, are very sensitive to the influence of energy vampires. In fact, the artist Pablo Picasso was considered by many of his contemporaries and even by his biographer to be an energy vampire, and some artists including the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, did not want to spend much time with him. In this episode of Creative Happy Hour, cohosts Micah Black and Karena Akhavein explore the concept of the energy vampire. What is an energy vampire, how do you identify one, how do you defend yourself against an energy vampire, and what do you do if you suspect that YOU many be the energy vampire? We discuss all this while sipping a cocktail we invented, The Energy Vampire. It's made with one part Campari to three parts Revive Hibiscus Kombucha, and it's delicious. So go ahead, join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities.

Creative Happy Hour Podcast Episode 29

In this episode of the Creative Happy Hour podcast, cohost Micah Black and Karena Akhavein discuss a sensitive issue: the relationship between beauty and success. In an era where Instagram and YouTube seem to dominate the artistic and creative landscape, it feels like not creative is immune from feeling like being attractive is a requirement for creative or artistic success.

We'll be drinking the Beautiful Cocktail, invited by Harry Cipriani, and discussing all of these issues, starting with Naomi Wolf's seminal and controversial book, The Beauty Myth, and then covering the 15 creative pursuits that make people seem more attractive, and those that make them seem less attractive. Spoiler alert: we don't always agree! We will also be giving a pep talk on why beauty and attractiveness are not the absolute prerequisites you may think they are and why you are better looking and more attractive than you think.

Join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities.

It's all about ego and creativity on this episode of the Creative Happy Hour Podcast. How does ego impact creativity? What is an alter ego and how can you create one that will further your artistic and creative success? And how to tell if your ego is out of control? Cohosts Micah Black and Karena Akhavein drink the Superman cocktail and discuss all of these pressing questions, and more. Join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities.

The starving artist myth is a harmful cliche for artists and creatives. Often, the starving artist trope can be a self-fulfilling prophecy that sets artists up for failure instead of success. In this episode of the Creative Happy Hour podcast, cohosts Karena Akhavein and Micah Black discuss how to be successful as a creative, and how to make money as an artist. They talk about the history of the starving artist trope and how it came about ,and show some historical examples where artists were extremely successful. What are the success secrets of these wealthy artists and creatives? You're about to find out. Join us and get drunk on the creative possibilities. We'll be drinking the Poor Richard cocktail because it's a drink that is economical and lower in alcohol, so you can keep a clear head while we discuss the economics of creativity.