Own Your Creativity

By Elizabeth Johnston ~ Author, Professor, Creativity Consultant

Story Vision by Elizabeth Johnston of Own Your Creativity is a weekly interview show about how entrepreneurs use story in their business and life.... more

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The podcast currently has 189 episodes available.

Own Your Creativity episodes:

July 13, 2016 025 Creativity is the Simple Solution to a Complex Problem with Author Amar Vyas
Biography- Amar Vyas

I am a husband, Co-Founder of Kamakshi Media, host of MyKitaab Podcast, the
creator of Baalgatha- Podcast of Classic Childrens’ stories, and author of the
Amol Dixit series of books. I have lived in fifteen cities over the past twenty years,
including the two years spent at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
as a graduate student. In 2010, I spent an year at the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad for my MBA. These days I live in Bengaluru
(Bangalore) in India.In my spare time, I like exploring offbeat places, learning
Gujarati from my wife,and spending time with my dog, Buddy.

You can find more about me at www.amarvyas.in or about MyKitaab, THE

Podcast on Book Publishing in India at www.mykitaab.in

My Book NRI:Now, Returned to India is at www.smarturl.it/nrithebook

I am on Twitter @amarauthor @Mykitaabcast and on Instagram @Mykitaabcast
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July 08, 2016 024 Creativity is Contagious with Business Coach Fred Rosensveig
Fred Rosenzveig, Business Coach

President of Mind Range in Montreal

www.mindrange.com

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June 29, 2016023 Creativity Is A Need with Fred Graham, Drummer & Percussionst with The Irish Rovers
FRED GRAHAM has 50 years of percussion experience in playing, teaching,and adjudicating competitions. At the age of 14, he beganplaying the snare drum in the same Belfast accordion band as his father.It was this marching band that won the All-Ireland championship.

Fred’s love of percussion has found expression in manyways, including
competing with Scottish Pipe bands in Ireland and here in Canada,
playing in a Montreal Jazz band, a Scots ceilidh band, and being a percussionist with traditional Quebec folk dance troupes.

Currently, Fred Graham is touring and playing with "The Irish Rovers" band as their drummer and percussionist.

Fred has also appeared in the feature film, Brooklyn. He had a bit part wherehe played a drummer in a band during the dance hall scene.

Website: www.ardglen-bodhrans.com
Email: [email protected]
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June 22, 2016 022 The Freedom to Make Mistakes with Cheryl Svensson, author, educator & professor
Cheryl Svensson has been
involved in the field of aging since she graduated from the first Masters in
Gerontology program at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1977 and
later completed her Ph.D. at the University of Lund, Sweden. Cheryl has worked
closely with Dr. James Birren, founding Dean of the Davis School of Gerontology
at USC, and is the Director of the Birren Center for Autobiographical Studies (www.guidedautobiography.com). This is an organization dedicated to research and developing programs
to help for older adults to write their life stories. She currently lives in
southern California, teaches at USC and has taught Guided Autobiography at UCLA
and several universities, libraries, and senior and assisted living centers. Since
2009 she has taught a live, interactive Internet webinar training course to
teach students worldwide how to become Guided Autobiography instructors. She is
the co-author with Richard Campbell of the book, Writing Your Legacy: The
step-by-step guide to crafting your life story (2015).
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June 15, 2016 021 Embracing the Not Knowing with Poet Susan Stenson
Susan Stenson's work has
appeared in several literary magazines, most recently, Fiddlehead,
Geist, CV2 and sub-TERRAIN and anthologies including
Threshold: six women six poets, Vintage '99 and 2000, and
No Choice But to Trust. In 2004, she won first prize in the
ARC Poem of the Year Contest, Lush Triumphant, sub-TERRAIN
Magazine's Annual Writing Contest and the Rona Murray Prize for Poetry,
sponsored by the Victoria Arts Council. She also won first prize
in the Great Canadian Literary Hunt, This Magazine's Poetry
Contest 2000, the League of Canadian Poets National Contest in 1999
and the Hawthorne Chapbook Award in 1997 for her manuscript,
A Little Less Swing, A Little More Sway.

Her poems have been short listed
several times for the CBC literary prize and
are also featured on buses throughout British Columbia in the
Poetry in Transit program. As a participant in the national
literacy Random Acts of Poetry Weeks, 2004 and 2006, Susan has
read poems to politicians, police officers, principals and pupils.
Her work has also been commissioned for CBC radio's Out Front Program.
Sono Nis Press published her first book of poems, Could Love a Man,
spring 2001, to rave reviews in several magazines including Arc,
Malahat Review, Boulevard, Monday, and
Prairie Fire. She lives ecstatically in Victoria with
her family where she co-publishes The Claremont Review,
a literary magazine for writers aged 13 to 19 which was
Write Magazine's choice for magazine of the year, 2001.
Susan teaches English and creative writing to high school
students in Saanich School District, has taught at Kamhlaba
United World College in Mbabane, Swaziland and for The Victoria
School of Writing. She is a regular on the roster of literary
festivals, most recently for Poetry Africa in Durban, South
Africa, Words Aloud 3, in Durham, Ontario, and for Forest
Fest, in Port Alberi, British Columbia.

http://bodytalkvictoria.com/susan-stenson/

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May 25, 2016 020 Invest In Your Creativity with Laurie Johnson, Health & Wellness Coach
Meet Laurie Johnson

After years of struggling with self-esteem, Laurie empowered herself through the use of Creativity.
As a young child, she would spend hours dreaming and creating: thus providing her a means to express her emotions.
As
she grew into a young woman, her creativity included words and poems,
often writing poetry in her back yard amongst the trees, expressing her
uneasiness with growing up and the challenges she faced with her own
self-worth.
Laurie
believes Art and Creativity is a voice for those who feel silenced, a
tool for healing pain and sadness, and has personally experienced how
creativity develops the mind, and empowers the soul.
Laurie
adds that without the regular engagement of artistic expression we
deprive humans of a basic need: Art nurtures the body, soul and mind and
can be a wonderful catalyst for growth, change and possibilities...'

For more about Laurie and her services: http://www.creyaytive.com/

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23min
May 18, 2016 019 The Art of Meaningful Connections with Photographer Mikael Theimer
Hi, I'm Mikaël.
I grew up in Paris, France.
When I was 20, I decided to move to Montreal - kind of on a whim -
because I needed a change of scenery. I got into a business school,
and graduated from a bachelor in marketing.
After that I worked for 3 years in an ad agency, and then one year as
a brand strategist in a shoe company. I'd always wanted to not work in a
big company, so after 4 years of doing exactly that, I finally grew the
courage / reached my frustration limit and quit with no other plan in
mind but to 'Try and figure out what I really want to do with my life.'
I bought myself a camera because I'd been a fan of humans of NY for a
while, and figured hey, while I figure out what I'm gonna do, why don't
I create a Montreal version of the page? With a couple of friends,
we started the page. It didn't take long before we had 20K likes on
Facebook, were featured on a few newspapers, and got invited on various
tv shows.
So we continued, and I invested 100% of my energy into
photography because it was making me happier than anything else I'd done
before. It's not so much the photography, it's the things I'm
photographing, the people my camera allows me to meet, the places it
takes me, the situations it puts me in, the stories it uncovers. It
connects with the world and its inhabitants. And I love it for it.
This is how I officially became a photographer. It wasn't my plan, it just sort of happened.
If you want to get in touch, shoot me an email at mikaeltheim [at] gmail [dot] com.
MKLhttp://www.mikaeltheimer.com

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25min
May 11, 2016 018 Saying Yes Isn't Selfish with Flora Brown, Author, Entrepreneur, Publishing Coach
Flora Brown was an entrepreneur as early as 10 years old. She sold her handmade potholders to the
patrons of her mother's beauty shop while they sat captive under the dryer or waited their turns. She
became hooked on earning money from her creative endeavors, but it was her love of school that led her
to embrace a teaching career.

While teaching junior high through college levels and managing four children with her husband, Flora
wove creative activities throughout their busy lives. In addition to the typical tasks of motherhood, for
example, Flora wrote lyrics to Bach's Minuets to make it easier for her budding violinists to learn their
pieces, even as she wrote articles for education and consumer publications, and completed her Ph.D.

When she retired as Professor Emeritus from Fullerton College, Flora became fascinated with blogging,
internet radio, and encouraging readers to make choices that lead to fulfilling lives. In her book, Color
Your Life Happy: Create Your Unique Path and Claim the Joy You Deserve, 2nd edition, she shares what
she’s learned from ancient wisdom, her own experiences, and the highlights of positive psychology
research. In her true fashion, she recently published a book of creative and relaxing activities in keeping
with the coloring craze: Color Your Life Happy Coloring Book for Adults.

Flora continues to write, but also coaches aspiring authors and teaches guided autobiography classes for
those who want to write their life stories as part of their legacy.

She loves theater, British murder mysteries, most types of music, singing, and hosting dinner parties. In
her determination to visit every continent (except Antarctica) at least once, she has one continent to go.

Her philosophy is “nobody becomes somebody without the help of somebody else. “

She offers free downloads on her sites FloraBrown.com and ColorYourLifeHappy.com and invites
listeners to follow her on social media.
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May 11, 2016 018 Saying Yes Isn’t Selfish with Flora Brown, Author, Entrepreneur, Publishing Coach

Flora Brown was an entrepreneur as early as 10 years old. She sold her handmade potholders to the
patrons of her mother's beauty shop while they sat captive under the dryer or waited their turns. She
became hooked on earning money from her creative endeavors, but it was her love of school that led her
to embrace a teaching career.

While teaching junior high through college levels and managing four children with her husband, Flora
wove creative activities throughout their busy lives. In addition to the typical tasks of motherhood, for
example, Flora wrote lyrics to Bach's Minuets to make it easier for her budding violinists to learn their
pieces, even as she wrote articles for education and consumer publications, and completed her Ph.D.

When she retired as Professor Emeritus from Fullerton College, Flora became fascinated with blogging,
internet radio, and encouraging readers to make choices that lead to fulfilling lives. In her book, Color
Your Life Happy: Create Your Unique Path and Claim the Joy You Deserve, 2nd edition, she shares what
she’s learned from ancient wisdom, her own experiences, and the highlights of positive psychology
research. In her true fashion, she recently published a book of creative and relaxing activities in keeping
with the coloring craze: Color Your Life Happy Coloring Book for Adults.

Flora continues to write, but also coaches aspiring authors and teaches guided autobiography classes for
those who want to write their life stories as part of their legacy.

She loves theater, British murder mysteries, most types of music, singing, and hosting dinner parties. In
her determination to visit every continent (except Antarctica) at least once, she has one continent to go.

Her philosophy is “nobody becomes somebody without the help of somebody else. “

She offers free downloads on her sites FloraBrown.com and ColorYourLifeHappy.com and invites
listeners to follow her on social media.

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28min
May 04, 2016 017 Cooking is Dancing is Creativity with David Cote - Chef, Speaker, Entrepreneur
Co-author of 5
books including a best-seller translated in 5 languages, Shiatsu
therapist, acroyoga teacher, Living food chef and inspiring public
speaker, entrepreneur of the year 2015 in Quebec Young Chamber of
Commerce David his described by the word hyperactive. After Co-founding
and managing Crudessence and Rise kombucha he is now embarking on a new
circular economy project, LOOP.
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29min

FAQs about Own Your Creativity:

How many episodes does Own Your Creativity have?

The podcast currently has 189 episodes available.