Creativity + Business

In our last episode of the season, we go behind the scenes of Creativity+Business to share our work experiences, as well as the biggest lessons we've learned while trying to navigate creativity and business.

In this episode we help shine a light for women who have an idea who could turn it into an amazing business — but are intimidated from embracing entrepreneurship because they don’t know where to start turning that idea into reality. We talk with Priscilla and Lauren from the Forward Females we go over their journey on how do you take that first step for entrepreneurship and what are some important things to be aware of to have a successful long-term business.

Follow our guests Priscilla and Lauren:

• @forwardfemale

In this episode, we dive deep into the wonderful world yet mysterious world of WELLNESS, with that comes sustainability, science, mental health and a whole rabbit hole of terms. We’re going to be discussing this term from a multi-disciplinary point of view, from a macro urban planning level, to a micro interior space perspective, all while support by a science-based and medically-driven Doctor’s point of view. Let’s peel back the layers of what real “Wellness” looks like.

Our featured guests:

Cathy Zhang, MD - Physician, Investor, Innovator, Educator | ex-World Healthy Organization

Medically bilingual (EN & FR) Canadian board-certified Medical Doctor experienced in clinical and academic settings, in addition to health tech, healthcare management, health policies and social health programs, in Canada/USA and internationally

Vincent Racine, MPI  - Urban Planner, Project Manager at BC2

An urban planner that has designed mast-scale development for both Toronto and Montreal, with a keen interest and focused agenda on sustainability

In this episode we're joined by 2 time TEDx speaker and bestselling author Natalie Torres-Haddad and TD investment advisor Christopher Au to talk financial wellbeing. We discuss what it means to have a healthy relationship with money and how soon should you start talking money. Whether you're a creative, business owner or just living your best life, this is a must-listen episode!

Find our guests:

Natalie Torres-Haddad @ financiallysavvylatina | financiallysavvyin20minutes.com

Christopher Au @ auchristopher

In this episode we take a deep dive into the world of VC funding, but from the perspective of an underrepresented founder — typically people of color and women. We bring on Terell Sterling, founder of Go Paladin, a nonprofit organization that helps to empower underrepresented and underserved entrepreneurs to leverage the vast startup ecosystem, and Aman Bhandal, co-founders of Wallrau who is starting his journey in the startup life. 

Follow and learn more about our guests:

Terell Sterling @ gopaladin.org

Aman Bhandal @ abhandal

In honor of International Women’s Day, in this episode, we go over some of the challenges and experiences we’ve faced growing up as a Asian women, as well as share some of our favorite female role models and what we look forward to in the future for women empowerment.

Creativity is becoming more and more important as a driver of success to businesses. In this episode, we discuss how we define success for a creative — whether that’s video, copy, design or other traditional forms of creativity — and how do we measure that success. 

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Diya Varadaraj  @superbolt.agency | https://superbolt.agency

Gabriel Lobadia @gabrielobadia

In this episode we discuss with Beenish Saeed & Alisa Manjarrez what the immigrant mentality is, and how it can help immigrants and non-immigrants succeed in their careers and personal lives. 

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Beenish Saeed @lmftoront | https://www.lmfnetwork.com

Alisa Manjarrez  @alisa.coach | https://www.alisa.coach/ | https://thehappycactus.club/

Choosing the right price for your offerings when you're first starting your business can be really difficult. In this episode, we dive into pricing with Rodrigo Tasca, founder of Tasca Studios and Summer Y. L. founder of NuWa Marketing and Fyli NYC. Join us as we pick their brains on their pricing journey as well as the tips and tricks they've learned along the way. 

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Rodrigo Tasca @drigo_who | https://www.tascastudios.com/

Summery Y.L.  @summer_y_l | https://www.nuwamarketing.com/ | https://fylinyc.com/ 

In this episode, we open up and become vulnerable about lessons we learned in 2020 as well as talk about some of the emotional and mental challenges entrepreneurs face when starting new ventures. If you're thinking of starting a new venture but feel the struggle, know you're not alone and we're all doing the best we can!