Vision Boarding, Creativity, and Inclusive Empowerment

Janet Tanguay explores the journey of transforming dreams into action, weaving together vision boarding, inclusion, and the profound impact of authentic connection to inspire self-belief and meaningful change.

In this energising episode of The Inclusion Bites Podcast, Joanne Lockwood welcomes Janet Tanguay for an enlightening conversation on turning ‘Dreams Into Action.’ Joanne explores her own journey of self-employment and the shift from working in her business to working on it, whilst Janet explains how she helps clients clarify, visualise, and manifest their aspirations using inclusive visioning practices. The discussion traverses the emotional realities of leaving the safety of employment, breaking routine, and building entrepreneurial purpose through authenticity and resilience. They also consider the significance of vision boards and how powerful it is to crystallise hopes and dreams into visual, tangible representations, making the dream-building process accessible and inclusive to all, regardless of background or means.

Janet is a business strategist, creative catalyst, and self-described ‘super connector’ who takes pride in her Abenaki First Nation heritage. Based in upstate New York, she draws on her ancestral roots and wide-ranging experience in community building, entrepreneurship, and expressive arts to support others in manifesting their dreams. Her work spans diverse groups—from marginalised communities to high-net-worth individuals—focusing on inclusivity, cultural relevance, and creating spaces where authentic aspirations can take shape. Janet’s approach features vision board workshops that integrate everything from traditional collage making to AI technology, sound healing, and even music composition through platforms such as Suno, ensuring clients can see themselves in their dreams and express them in ways that feel meaningful and achievable.

Throughout their conversation, Joanne and Janet challenge listeners to recognise common blocks to pursuing dreams, such as cultural conditioning, self-doubt, and practical constraints, and offer practical strategies to move beyond them. The episode highlights the deep human need for belonging, purpose, and joy, and showcases how intentional inclusivity, creativity, and connection can help individuals and communities to thrive. A key takeaway from this episode is the invitation to actively visualise, articulate, and nurture your dreams—proving that real change begins with having the courage to imagine and the commitment to act. Listeners will be inspired to build their own vision boards and harness the power of community and creativity to turn dreams into reality.

Viral Topic: Creating a World of Inclusion

Viral Topic: Creating Inclusive Spaces in Business

Pursuing Your Dreams: “Well, my dream is to be in a hammock more often.”

Modern Vision Boarding: “We’re taking vision boards boarding now and using AI tools in them. We also bring in sound healers and improv actors and business, business model canvas. And it just depends on what the client wants.”

Neuroscience Behind Daily Visualization: “by looking at these pictures and words on a daily basis, it somehow wires your brain to be able to say, oh, this is coming to me.”

Dress Codes Gone Too Far: “But really what put me over the edge was they were going to make me wear a sweater vest with a white shirt for the rest of my life.”

Viral Topic: Understanding Audience Needs

Inclusive Creativity in Community Work: “One of the things that I bring into some of the places that I work with, instead of post award, I bring in cake boxes because not everyone wants to share their dreams with people so that people can show what they want to show through the clear top of the cake box and then not show whatever else. It’s also three dimensional, so they can put different, different things in there.”

Viral Topic Title: The Hidden Strengths of Foster Care Teens

Collaborative Creativity in Music Production: “It was so collaborative and I didn’t know all the players. So sometimes the engineer would recommend somebody in their network and we’d bring in a saxophonist and they weren’t quite understanding what I was Trying to do. And so the second one just got it right. And so, yeah, so it was really a creative process to get everybody on board to understand the. The vision of.”

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