Sustaining Creativity Podcast

Creativity through the lens of a comix maker and graphic novelist,

"Creativity is so much more than art. Being able to express that constant bubbling spirit within you."

Jennifer Hayden is a comix maker and graphic novelist based in New Jersey. She is
the creator of The Story of My Tits, a graphic memoir about her life and her experience
with breast cancer. Nominated for an Eisner Award and named one of the best graphic
novels of 2015 by GQ, Library Journal, and NPR, The Story of My Tits has been
translated into three languages.
Hayden’s first collection Underwire was excerpted in The Best American Comics 2013.
Her work has appeared in anthologies, online, and in several academic works. Her
comics have been exhibited in shows from Rome to Bologna and Madrid. She is a
frequent speaker to literary, comics, medical, and student audiences, as well as breast
cancer groups.
Currently Hayden is finishing her first work in color, a graphic anti-cookbook called
Where There’s Smoke There’s Dinner. She plans to use the proceeds to hire a
personal chef.

 jenniferhayden.com

Social media handles:

Twitter - JenhayGoddess

IG - jenhaygoddess

FB - jenniferhaydenauthor

Substack - Goddess Memos

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Creativity through the lens of the Co-Creator of The Paradox Process, psychotherapist and musician

"There's a place in you, kind of a knowing, kind of a flow, when you lock into that place, you take off and I've learned to trust that aspect of me."

Thomas M. Jones is a psychotherapist, author, musician, and founder of an
innovative technique, The Paradox Process, which employs negative
thoughts in order to produce a perception polarization... essentially how to
change your life by learning to direct your mind. In the world of
medicine his approach would be described as renegade, however the proof
is inarguable.
Jones has been highly successful in his work for the last 50 years with a clientele
that includes CEO’s, television journalists, Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award winning
performers, doctors, musicians, artists, health coaches, social workers, psychologists
and business professionals across the globe. Jones has shown them how to
strategize for success in every area of their lives from manifesting the career of
their dreams, to achieving intimate, loving, lasting relationships.

https://www.instagram.com/paradoxprocess/
https://www.healinganddiscovery.org/
https://courses.paradoxprocess.org/pages/about
Book - Love Games: The Hidden Rules of Relaptionships

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Creativity through the lens of a musician, creative coach, author and podcaster,

"Creativity to me is very human. It's not who I am, it's how I express who I am."

As a musician, creative coach, author and podcaster, I strive to help creatives in all walks of life to harness the essential tools to impact the world while living in harmony, abundance and in line with timeless principles.
I've built multiple brands and creative platforms, written 4 books and resources, and run a successful faith-centered creative platform, God and Gigs, while coaching others to do the same with their gifts.

https://www.allencpaul.com/
https://www.facebook.com/acpwrites
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allencpaul/
https://www.instagram.com/allencpaul/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpJdS9WR8Au6Bbg5CnrsEgQ
https://twitter.com/allencpaul

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Creativity through the lens of an author and life coach

"Creativity is that which needs to express through an individual person. The uniqueness that can be made by the unique person."

Kate Heartsong is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach and Reiki Master/Teacher. The deep wisdom Kate shares comes from her unique gift of receiving profound and uplifting wisdom while meditating, as well as the understanding she gained from successfully overcoming her childhood trauma.
This journey Kate has taken provides the expansive passion, dedication, authenticity, and compassion she has to empower her readers, clients and audiences in knowing their brilliance, helping them create the positive change they desire and living a more joyful life.
Since childhood she has dreamt of making the world a better place for all. It's not surprising she has received the inner guidance to create her empowering articles, workshops and books  Humanity’s Cry for Change and Deeply We Are one.
Kate has the heart of a true humanitarian. It’s her knowing that when we start with one person at a time, a ripple effect occurs supporting peace on a global level, because we are all interconnected. Kate's own inspirational quote says it best: "Peace within, peace on earth."
To hire Kate to speak at your event, offer empowering workshops, or to have a one-on-one coaching session with her, contact her at https://www.JoyfulRadiance.com. She believes it's such a joy and honor to be of service through helping you!

https://www.joyfulradiance.com

 https://www.facebook.com/kateheartsongjoyfulradiance/

 https://www.instagram.com/kate_heartsong_confidencecoach/

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/katesanksheartsong/

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Creativity through the lens of a mindset coach for leaders

"To be creative, is to be free of limitations."

Mary focused all of her energy into becoming a leader that brought out the best in others for more than 20 years. As she burnout, her superintendent told her that although she was doing the right things, she wasn’t getting the right results; figure it out or go.
With this nudge, Mary finally accepted the fact that she couldn’t compartmentalize the parts of her that hurt from the part of her that she wanted others to see. In order for her to be the leader she wanted to be, she had to stop relying on knowing and doing, and she had to get real with herself about who she was being.
Now, Mary is a mindset coach helping conscious business leaders be happier, healthier, wiser, and connected to unlimited possibilities. 

Links:

https://bluebambooleadership.com/connect-mary/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1968596060168548

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fully-alive/id1555311831

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Creativity through the lens of a playwrite and artistic director of New Normal Rep,

"It's a question of feeling an impulse to do something."

John Lawrence "Jack" Canfora is an Award-Winning American playwright, actor, musician and teacher. After receiving his dramatic training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he began his career as an actor in regional theater, working mostly in Shakespearean roles such as Mercutio and Macbeth. He’s been hailed by the Associated Press as “White-hot Entertainment” for his off-Broadway plays including Poetic License, Place Setting, and Jericho, a New York Times “Critics Pick.” He was nominated along with Edward Albee, Elaine May, and Teresa Rebeck for The Newark Star Ledger’s Best Play, 2007. Jack is the recipient of two Edgerton Playwriting Awards, for Jericho (2010) and The Source (2018). He won the 2016 Webby Award for Best Writing in a Web Series. Jack is also the Artistic Director of New Normal Rep.

Website:  https://www.newnormalrep.org/ & https://www.jackcanforawriter.com/

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/NormalRep
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063494893622 https://www.facebook.com/NewNormalRep
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jackcanfora/?hl=en 

https://www.instagram.com/newnormalrep/?hl=en

• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCODsy6KqG1hDk8LMcB-nL_A

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Creativity through the lens of Mrs. Colorado American 2023, Actor, Singer, Dancer and Owner of Namasté Works Vocal & Acting Studio

"I create a way that the desire of my heart is how I'm living through my life."

Natalie Oliver-Atherton, Mrs. Centennial & Mrs. Colorado American 2023, spent 20 years as Music Director & Conductor of the internationally known vocal ensemble S.T.A.R.S. (Singers Taking Action Reaching Souls)and has spent many years touring the world.
It's been said that she could sing before she could speak in cogent sentences.  And by the time she was thirteen she’d already tucked choral directing and conducting under her belt as her childhood church music director.  Professionally it began at age 17 as a soloist at Carnegie Hall and culminated years later in the French Riviera for the late Prince Rainier of Monaco.
As a singer/actress her performance credits include the roles of the Gypsy Acid Queen in two international tours of the Who's Tommy (Germany/Canada); Constance in David Merrick's Oh, Kay!; Andrea Devereaux in Once on This Island; A Brief History of White Music. She can be seen in the feature films: Mississippi Masala (opposite Oscar winner Denzel Washington) and Amazing Grace & Chuck (with Jamie Lee Curtis and Gregory Peck).  Regionally, she was Mary Magdalene  in Jesus Christ Superstar; Ronnette in Little Shop of Horrors, Annie in Porgy & Bess and Mayme in Intimate Apparel, for which she received a Denver Post Ovation Award nomination for best supporting actress in a musical. Most recently, after a 14 year hiatus, she starred in the new musical Trav’lin with Broadway veteran, Milton Craig Nealy.  She has also performed as the soprano soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert & Too Hot to Handel); and the Florida Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and Sinfonia Gulfcoast.
She has headlined at the former Stardust Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in their original production "Enter the Night".  Another highlight in her career was the honor of opening for poet laureate, Dr. Maya Angelou.  She has appeared as Mother Wisdom in a new opera about the life of Mary Magdalene (Woman of Light) and received a second Denver Post Ovation Award nomination as best supporting actress in a musical.   
Natalie currently resides just outside Denver, CO with her husband Jeffrey of 25 years and is the proud mother of three beautiful children (Justin 30, Rachael 25, and Serea 21).  She and her husband are instructor/coaches of their own private vocal and acting studio, the Namasté Works Vocal & Acting Studio. And she is the proud Executive Director of a new non-profit, The Namaste Works Foundation d/b/a The Namasté Works Arts Alliance whose mission is to identify and assist talented young adult performing artists to the next stage of their development while guiding them to become Ambassador’s for Humanity who will pay forward those gifts talents and abilities.

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/angelodiva60/
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1. Natalie Oliver- Atherton
2. Namaste Works Vocal & Acting Studio
3. The Namaste Works Arts Alliance

Websites -
namasteworks.net
TNWAA.org

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Creativity through the lens of the author of Brain Glue

"Art touches the heart, touches the mind and soul."

James I. Bond is one of America’s leading behavioral management and business marketing specialists - and is author of the multi-award-winning book, BRAIN GLUE - How to Sell Easier By Making Your Ideas "Sticky." For thirteen years, he ran one of Southern California’s leading behavioral management firms, working with a who’s who of American business.  Early in his career, he ran an advertising agency in Montreal, working with a wide range of Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He is a past workshop chairman and sold-out workshop leader for the resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration, has been a featured guest speaker at three Southern California universities, and has been a popular guest on a wide range of marketing and business podcasts. James resides in Thousand Oaks, California.

Website: https://cf.fasterbuyer.com/brain-glue

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesibond/

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Creativity through the lens of an author and activist

"I don't know what isn't creative!"

Sandy Stream is an author and activist whose work is built on the belief that everyone deserves and is capable of finding peace and warrior-like strength within themselves. After teaching law for 20 years, raising her two children, and facing a life full of adversities and lessons, she decided to turn her efforts towards facilitating workshops for young and experienced adults to encourage them to live in peace and power.

Website: TheCourageCircle.com

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Creativity through the lens of The Adulting Coach

"Being creative is something we are born to be."

As The Adulting Coach, Sara Deacon helps teens and young adults figure out for themselves who they want to be when they grow up so they can have the courage to suck at something new, confidently decide how they want to live their own life, and adult successfully.
With her unique blend of discipline and creativity, she provides a center of balance and space to untangle life's chaos. She believes that when you live your values, choose courage in the face of fear and develop authentic connection with inspiring people, #adultingisfun!
She will literally do karate in the garage with you if that's what it takes for you to light your inner fire and own your future like a boss!

My website: https://saradeacon.com
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@saradeaconcoach
Instagram: https://instagram.com/saradeaconcoach
Twitter: https://twitter.com/saradeaconcoach
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@saradeaconcoach
Facebook: https://facebook.com/saradeaconcoach

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/saradeacon

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