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The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.
Just a few thoughts on why we need to feed our creative confidence with positive memories.
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Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker who teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford.
She is the author of thirteen books, including the novels Ark and She Never Told Me About the Ocean, the memoir-in-essays Awake with Asashoryu, and the guidebook Edit Your Life—which was inspired by her 2019 TEDxBoise talk.
She co-edited the anthology What Doesn’t Kill Her: Women’s Stories of Resilience, which Gloria Steinem described as stories that “will help each of us to trust and tell our own.”
Elisabeth’s work with myth and memoir, the focus of her doctorate, has been spotlighted in Harvard Magazine.
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In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about how to adapt myths and fairy tales to reclaim your own life story.
Just a few thoughts on why we need to find our writing tribe.
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Jeanne Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her first two novels, The Nine (released in 2019) and Eden (released in 2017), were both award winners, and the third in that trilogy, Daughter of a Promise, was just released this past April.
A Smith College graduate, Jeanne was named a Southampton Writer’s Conference BookEnds Fellow in April 2021. She is both a teacher of writing and a lifetime learner and co-chairs the board of the Boston Book Festival and serves on the Executive Committee of GrubStreet, one of the country’s preeminent creative writing centers.
Jeanne also reviews contemporary fiction for the New York Journal of Books. When not in New England, she splits her time between Park City, UT, and growing organic vegetables in Verona, WI.
For more about Jeanne, visit her website and follow her on Facebook, Substack and Instagram.
In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about the intersection of her life stage and her occupation as a farmer with her life as a writer.
Just a few thoughts on how midlife can be our most creative stage—if we are open to it.
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Just a few thoughts on how I realized that I needed to "unpack" my brain from one book project before I started another.
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Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter, essayist, and playwright. Her novels include the New York Times bestseller Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life that came out in 2022, Siracusa, and The Lion Is In, several essay collections, and books for children and young adults.
Her movie credits include You've Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, This is My Life, Michael, and Hanging Up. Her play, "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," written with her sister Nora Ephron (based on the book by Ilene Beckerman), ran for two years off Broadway and has been performed internationally.
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In this conversation, we’ll discuss the intersection of life and the creative process: how one can affect, influence and impact the other.
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Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse “I’ve never done it” with “I can’t do it.”
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Jonathan Lewis writes microfiction travelogues which he shares freely at his website. Each 500-word story follows an international traveler as he explores the world and tries to better understand his place in it.
Now retired, Jonathan has had an eclectic career: California State Senate legislative staffer; art gallery owner; founder/CEO of a global social enterprise financing small businesses owned by low-income women; real estate developer; visiting professor at NYU and UC Berkeley. He has written one nonfiction book on social entrepreneurship. Jonathan is also an assemblage artist working with recycled materials.
For more about Jonathan, visit his website or follow him on Threads and Instagram.
In this conversation, we’ll discuss how travel can inspire creativity.
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Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse creative dormancy with creative death.
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The podcast currently has 99 episodes available.