hyperactive imagination

In 2016, Raj Bandyopadhyay was living the dream as a data scientist with a cushy life in the heart of San Francisco. Then his partner, his then-wife of eight years, came out as transgender.

Seeing the joy his partner found in his transition inspired Raj to ask himself: "What do I need to change in my life to feel true to myself?"

His answer? A new career in photography. 📸

This episode is for anyone considering REINVENTION.

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About the host
Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Medium.

Credits

• Show concept, creative direction, branding, and cover art by Anita Stubenrauch
• Producers: Julie Fink, Megan Pintus, Norberto Mentana
• Original Theme Music by Landon Sears (made possible by Songfinch)

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A while back, I did a tarot reading where I felt a profound shift in relationship to a very potent symbol: Death. ☠️

🎶 Dun, dun, dun! 🎻

Most of my life, I’ve encountered the concept of Death as something unwelcome. But in this reading, somehow, Death became a friend.

Death showed up to encounter all the ways that I thought things had to be done. (Maybe even to encounter the idea that I had to do them?)

For the first time, I experienced Death as a question: what needs to die so that we can truly live?

View enhanced show notes (including transcript and any extras) here.✨

Featured content

• “Descent” by M. Rako Fabionar
• The Wild Unknown tarot deck by Kim Krans

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About the host
Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Want to ask Anita a question or get ongoing creative support? Check out her offers on Volley.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Medium.

Credits

• Show concept, creative direction, branding, and cover art by Anita Stubenrauch
• Producers: Julie Fink, Megan Pintus, Norberto Mentana
• Original Theme Music by Landon Sears (made possible by Songfinch)

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
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What does a psychologist look like? What is their gender, gender identity, age range, race, ethnicity? Do they have tattoos or body modifications? What about their hair? How do they dress?

The image is Dr. Diem Mooney in his normal work attire. And the text above was part of his post that went viral on LinkedIn back in 2020. I’ve been following him ever since.

Diem has overcome homelessness, discrimination, domestic violence, and disability.

He was nonverbal until the age of 5. He dropped out of college 3 times before he understood his strengths and limitations and formulated a strategy to succeed.

He was 22 when he went back for college try #4, but this time, after advocating for his needs and accommodations, he earned 5 degrees in less than 6 years. By age 26, he was Dr. Diem!

Nowadays, he’s running a successful consulting practice, supporting his wife’s professional ambitions, raising a family, and formulating a strategy to grow into his optimized version 3.0: “Boring Diem, Sr.”

Want to learn from Diem’s brilliant strategic mind? Listen for the 5 questions that brought his #drdiem dreams into reality, and see if they can oxygenate yours.

This episode is for anyone interested in their own personal GROWTH.

✨ 👉 View enhanced show notes (including transcript, guest bio and links, and any extras) here. 👈✨

Featured content

• Verb Manifesto

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About the host
Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Medium.

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review.
• Share episodes with friends. 
• Post on social media. Tag @anitavisions and use our hashtags: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #h!five #thunderstory
• Contribute your poem, short story, or thoughts. Record a message on our PodInbox hotline.
• Give what you can to financially support our show. 

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
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If you imagine ideas as visitors knocking at your door, it's not too hard to also imagine that same idea might be knocking at thousands, millions of doors at the same time...

How do you know which ideas are for you and which are for someone else?

✨ 👉 View enhanced show notes (including transcript, links, and any extras) here. 👈✨

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Promo(s)
Join a Build-a-Bio cohort. Get $50 off with code: HYPERACTIVE BIO.

About the host
Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook,  TikTok, and Medium.

Credits

• Show concept, creative direction, branding, and cover art by Anita Stubenrauch
• Producers: Julie Fink, Megan Pintus, Norberto Mentana
• Original Theme Music by Landon Sears (made possible by Songfinch)

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
• Contribute your poem, short story, or thoughts — record a message on our PodInbox hotline
• Give what you can to financially support our show

From going to jail for someone else’s crime at 22, to winning best podcast of the year in 2022, Melissa Monte has lived pretty dramatically across the spectrum of power… From being completely at the mercy of someone else's, to bit-by-bit regaining control of her own, to now — living in such an empowered state that she's able to recharge others via her podcast Mind love. 

This episode is for anyone interested in their own personal evolution.

✨ 👉 View enhanced show notes (including transcript, guest bio and links, and any extras) here. 👈✨

Featured content

• The Desire Project Manifesto, written by Anita Stubenrauch
• A Question Marks the Spot, written by Anita Stubenrauch

Promo(s)

• Join a Build-a-Bio cohort. Get $50 off with code: HYPERACTIVE BIO.

About the host

Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Medium.

Credits

• Show concept, creative direction, branding, and cover art by Anita Stubenrauch
• Producers: Julie Fink, Megan Pintus, Norberto Mentana
• Original Theme Music by Landon Sears (made possible by Songfinch)

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
• Contribute your poem, short story, or thoughts — record a message on our PodInbox hotline
• Give what you can to financially support our show

Magic and magical experiences are all around us. This is the story of one such experience that profoundly shook my sense of self — in the best possible way. 

Have you had a magical experience? Share your story on our PodInbox hotline and we may feature it in an upcoming episode.

Share your feedback
We want creative community to be at the heart of Hyperactive Imagination. Help us build a community you’d want to be a part of! Complete our Typeform survey.

Check out our enhanced show notes (including transcript) here. 👈✨ 

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
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Our conversation with Ian Mackay is the second installment in our Thunder Stories mini series.

On June 4, 2008, Ian was biking home from college at UC Santa Cruz when he hit some sand in the bike path, lost control of his bike, and went head-first into a tree.

Suddenly, Ian found himself having to adapt to life with a spinal cord injury.

Quadriplegia took Ian to some very dark places. It also taught Ian how to find rays of light and share them with others.

This episode is for anyone who needs an infusion of HOPE.

✨ 👉 View enhanced show notes (including transcript, guest bio(s) and links, and any extras) here. 👈✨

Listener contribution(s)

• Martyn Sibley

Promo(s)

• Join a Build-a-Bio cohort. Get $50 off with code: HYPERACTIVE BIO.

About the host

Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.

Credits

• Show concept, creative direction, branding, and cover art by Anita Stubenrauch
• Producers: Julie Fink, Megan Pintus, Norberto Mentana
• Original Theme Music by Landon Sears (made possible by Songfinch)

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
• Contribute your poem, short story, or thoughts — record a message on our PodInbox hotline
• Give what you can to financially support our show

What is hyperactive imagination? Besides being the eponymous title of our show, hyperactive imagination is a concept of deep, expansive collaboration that yields results beyond our wildest imaginings. It’s something that comes to life through and between us. It’s something that needs your energy, your oxygen, and your participation to exist. And that's what our show is all about. 

This episode contains our very first listener contributions. You can be part of what we’re building, too. Find the link to our PodInbox hotline below. We can't wait to hear from you. 🤗💛✨

Transcript
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Listener contribution(s)

• “Haint Blue” by Alicia Chester
• “In Darkness All Things Are Possible” by Atena Danner

Promo(s)
Join a Build-a-Bio cohort. Get $50 off with code: HYPERACTIVE BIO.

About the host
Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.

Credits

• Show concept, creative direction, branding, and cover art by Anita Stubenrauch
• Producers: Julie Fink, Megan Pintus, Norberto Mentana
• Original Theme Music by Landon Sears (made possible by Songfinch)

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
• Contribute your poem, short story, or thoughts — record a message on our PodInbox hotline
• Give what you can to financially support our show

Welcome to our first mini-series: Thunder Stories. 🌩

These are stories of transformation from high-voltage humans who eventually found ways to be in their power. ⚡️

Episode one features our host, Anita Stubenrauch, and contains content from a speech given at her alma mater, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, back in 2019. Learn about Anita’s journey from Kansas to art school to Apple and beyond… Plus, get to hear her perform Apple’s Credo and a never-before published original poem called “Spark.” ✨

Transcript
📝 View this episode's transcript here.

About the host
Anita Stubenrauch is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running a brand-vision writing agency that helps purpose-driven leaders and organizations rally hearts and minds around what fuels their soul—Cause:Effect Creative. She’s also building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space for audacious ideas and their people. And she's hosting this podcast, Hyperactive Imagination, a high-voltage channel for creativity.

To learn more about what Anita’s up to, and to join her mailing list, visit the Anitaverse.

Social? Follow @anitavisions on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok.

Credits

• Show concept, creative direction, branding, and cover art by Anita Stubenrauch
• Producers: Julie Fink, Megan Pintus, Norberto Mentana
• Original Theme Music by Landon Sears (made possible by Songfinch)

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
• Contribute your poem, short story, or thoughts — record a message on our PodInbox hotline
• Give what you can to financially support our show

HYPERACTIVE IMAGINATION is a high-voltage channel for creativity hosted by Anita Stubenrauch.

High voltage energy can be illuminating. It can be dangerous. And sometimes it can inexplicably go to ground. Together, we'll explore these extremes and everything in between as we pursue what it means to live, work, and thrive as creative beings.
 
Expect a hyperactive mix of interviews, practical tools, playful prompts, poetic reflections, and the unexpected.

About the Host
Anita is an ex-Apple creative veteran who worked her way from retail store employee to executive speechwriter over a 13-year career, designing presentations given to Steve Jobs, authoring Apple’s Credo, and speechwriting for Angela Ahrendts along the way.

In 2018, Anita left Apple to reconnect with meaning and purpose and joy, and found herself called to help others do the same. Today she’s running Cause:Effect Creative, an agency that helps brands express visionary ideas with poetic power. And she’s building The Land of Make+Believe, a fourteen-acre event and retreat space dedicated to audacious ideas and their people.

You can find Anita (@anitavisions) on LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Medium.

Support the show

• Subscribe, rate, and review
• Share episodes with friends
• Post on social media: #hyperactiveimagination #anitavisions #anitaverse #highfive #thunderstory and tag @anitavisions
• Contribute your poem, short story, or thoughts — record a message on our PodInbox hotline
• Give what you can to financially support our show