Own Your Creativity

Own Your Creativity

By Elizabeth Johnston ~ Author, Professor, Creativity ConsultantBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Own Your Creativity episodes

  • 023 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


    33 min
  • 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).

    24 min
  • 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/


    30 min
  • 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/

    23 min
  • 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


    25 min
  • 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.

    28 min
  • 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.






    28 min
  • 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.
    29 min
  • 016 Finding Your Voice with Joel Boggess, Relaunch Coach

    Joel spent the majority of 90’s in radio and TV business.

    He currently hosts the ReLaunch Show (#1 podcast on iTunes N&N). His
    #1 bestselling book “Finding your Voice” was featured on TV near 50 times.  Joel’s also a Huffington Post and Success.com Contributor.

    Because of his childhood trauma and life experience, Joel is passionate about helping people starting over with CONFIDENCE. Over the years he has helped hundreds of clients discover who they are, finding their passion and clarity of direction.

    He is a “natural” with broadcasting, and he enjoys teaching podcast
    and radio show hosts on how to book great guests and have engaging
    interviews. Joel’s vision: by May 2017, after 3 years of “ReLaunch”, he
    would have helped 200,000 LISTENERS to LEARN TO BELIEVE THEMSELVES AGAIN.


    www.relaunchshow.com

    42 min
  • 015 From Nothing to Something with Filmmaker Devinder Paul Singh
    Devinder Paul Singh was born and raised in India. He
    has been dreaming of making films since the age of 17.
    He came to Canada to pursue his MBA at McGill University. For the past
    11 years, he has been mostly living in Montreal where the artistic
    ambience, multiculturalism and unique identity inspired his work.
    Take Out was Devinder’s first short film which premiered at Cannes in
    2011 and explored such diverse themes as multiculturalism and
    relationships in a postmodern society. It was also shown at couple of
    other European film festivals.


    His second film, The Search, is a fantasy/thriller and takes a complete
    180 degree turn from his first film in terms of exploring a different
    genre and style of filmmaking. The Search premiered at Cannes in 2013
    and won the prestigious FAP grant from the National Film Board of
    Canada. The Search has till now played at five different International
    film festivals in Canada, US and Europe and is still doing the festival
    circuit.
    Devinder is influenced by such filmmakers as Stanley Kubrick, Woody
    Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Michael Haneke, Jim Jarmusch and
    the Coen Brothers. He is currently working on developing his first
    feature film project.
    30 min

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