Sustaining Creativity Podcast

Creativity through the lens of a Meditation Coach

"Creativity means to transform. Everything we do is up for change."

Wendy Nash is a Meditation Coach. The company name says it all: Kindly Cut The Crap. Wendy teaches startup founders and CEOs the art of introspection to navigate the emotionally, physically and financially taxing process of building a business. She believes the CEO is the foundation of whether a company does well and her observation is that whatever the CEO isn't owning within themselves is what gets played out at work. The more blind spots a person has, the less productive the workforce. To see behind blind spots, you need to make courageous inquiry, but do it kindly.
Wendy has a 4-year somatic psychotherapy diploma, her Bachelor of Psychology Honors thesis studied the effects of loving-kindness meditation on prosocial behavior and she’s been practicing loving-kindness and other meditations for almost 20 years. She is currently studying a 2-year diploma of Mindfulness & Compassion at the Insight Meditation Institute. She dropped out school having failed academically spectacularly over successive years. Leaving school early was one of the best things she did. For the first time, she was able to take charge of her life and take things in a new direction, away from family expectations. After 5 years of shopwork, she did a 1-year business admin course to ensure an income while living abroad. 
In London, she worked for a Swedish law firm to improve her Swedish where she met a Frenchman, moved to the French countryside and worked for Microsoft in Paris. There she worked as a receptionist to learn French on the job. She was employed because her Swedish was so good. 
Wendy returned to Australia with her then husband and looked for a new career volunteering. Nothing gelled. When the marriage fell apart, she took this as an opportunity to rethink everything and begin a new path. She did years of personal work and learnt to introspect with focus and determination to understand herself and others well. 
She’s now armed with a psychology degree, a psychotherapy diploma, a deep meditation practice focused on loving-kindness and has studied business culture from the bottom of the food chain in diverse European and Australian organizations. She works with entrepreneurs to foster successful workplace cultures. Wendy wants them to be the great leaders of the future and not sacrifice themselves along the way. 
Her clients have achieved financially strong businesses despite cofounder conflict, funding rejections, staff underperformance, almost burning out, investor negotiations, constant fear of failure and pivoting new directions in work and life. In other words, she focuses on turning negatives into supercharged positives. 

www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-nash
www.kindlycutthecrap.com

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Creativity through the lens of a Mindful Art Teacher

"I can have permission to be curious and experiment and perhaps stretch just beyond where my comfort zones are and try something new and see what happens."

Cynthia Hauk, MFA, is passionate about sharing simple Mindfulness and Art activities to help busy people de-stress and express themselves creatively. Whether you're someone who struggles to meditate, is overly critical about your art making, feel creatively blocked, or don't feel you're artistic at all, Cynthia's simple and accessible activities have helped students in more than 50 countries tap into their creativity and feel less stressed. Her online school, at mindfulcreativemuse.com, offers courses, retreats, and accredited teacher training programs for busy people, creatives, artists, yogis, teachers, therapists, and more.

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Creativity through the lens of a painter

"Our brains are wired that way. We are creativity machines, it doesn't separate between the fine art and the mundane art."

Lauren G. Levine is a painter and twenty-five-year resident of Jamaica Plain (Boston) who now lives and works in Needham, Massachusetts. Through intuitive and responsive mark-making, her paintings are tangible manifestations of her visual impressions and interior resonances. Levine attended Massachusetts College of Art; School at the Museum of Fine Arts; and Fuller Art Museum. Her work has been exhibited at The Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT; The Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA; Hallspace Gallery, Boston, MA; and UForge Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA. Interviews and features include: Phillip J. Mellen’s Podcast, Ahtcast; Boston Voyager Magazine, “Art and Life”; The Weekly Dig; Paul Behnke’s Online Project Space, Monklike Habits; Randace Rauscher’s, 52 in 52; and Groundwork “Meet the Artist.”
Levine’s work can be viewed on her website at https://www.laurenglevineart.com/ and on Instagram at @laurenglevineart

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Over the past few years of hosting this podcast I have come to realize how challenging it can be to expand someone's understanding of creativity who doesn’t believe they are creativite or who struggles to see how creativity might support them in their everyday life. 

Once a month I will be choosing a topic I find fascinating, interesting or exciting and combining it with creativity to share with you just how much creativity permeates all aspects of our lives.

In today’s episode I’m going to be talking about creativity and boredom.

So sit back, relax and let’s dive into today’s solo episode of Sustaining Creativity Podcast

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Creativity through the lens of a musician and healer

"Creativity is everything to me!"

Bran Katanec is a personal empowerment expert and the host of BEnergyAware Podcast. With his meditation-based approach and a background in the healing arts, Bran is here to help people get empowered.
He supports people around trusting and using their intuition and around creating the life that they deserve.
Bran is also a musician who creates and produces his own original music.
Throughout his life he has faced a lot adversity and used creativity to overcome it.

Link: https://www.benergyaware.com/


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Creativity through the lens of The Dark Horse Entrepreneure

"Creativity is being able to create something out of nothing."

From hitting the rock bottom of drugs, divorce, bankruptcy and even the death of an 18 month old daughter. To running the planning & marketing departments of some of corporate America’s finest companies to his own company helping driven entrepreneurs, scale their businesses, by crystalizing and monetizing their passions, and now hosting his podcast focused on Driven Dark Horse Entrepreneurs. Tracy Brinkmann, is a business coach, success coach, podcast host & product creator that realizes life isn’t fair and participation awards do not feed your family (or your drive to succeed)… This Driven Dark Horse Entrepreneur is looking to share all that he has learned and is still learning about starting, restarting, kick starting and stepping up your entrepreneurial game all while not ignoring that amazing tool between your ears!

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkhorseschooling/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracybrinkmann/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRU0742-2cSnjQIiT_uygzw


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Creativity through the lens of an interior designer, life design coach and speaker

"Creativity is about understanding the juxtaposition between things."

Shana Francesca is a  speaker, writer and entrepreneur.  As the Founder and Lead Designer at Concinnate, a multi-discipline interior design and life design firm working with clients around the country. She was born into a difficult family life and refused to allow that to define her, instead she uses her voice to guide people toward their own empathy, resilience, and curiosity about what is possible through life design. She lives her life leaning into Empathy, Curiosity and Intention and through her design work, conversations and talks, she invites people to do the same. 

Shana believes our present and future are transformed when we take ownership for designing our lives. We write our life's story. We do that with the level of intention we infuse into the many small decisions we make every day. This is the core of her work.
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Links:
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https://www.concinnate.world/shana-francesca


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Creativity through the lens of an ordinary guy, podcast host and owner of a marketing firm

"Creativity isn't something you did, it's something you do."

I’m Ben Albert; regular name, regular guy, irregular vision. LET’S COLLABORATE!

I started Balbert Marketing LLC amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Let’s not beat around the bush, Coronavirus has pushed us to all evaluate our careers in one way or another. We all feel some level of fear, pain, or worry about friends, family, and the effects on our amazing nation.

For me, I had to make a decision. Do I pick up binge eating, get lazy, and get used to staring at the wall? Or do I develop a business STRONGER than any company I’ve worked for in the past?

That’s why I’m here. I am committed to overachieve in my role and do things right. I provide whatever is necessary to help your business GROW!

Martin Luther King Jr once said, “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”

I decided to take 5 steps forward to begin building one of Rochester’s best young companies!

I urge you to take that leap of faith forward, and continue to build your empire!

Ben is also the curator of The “Real Business Connections Network.” He hosts 5 podcasts, “Rochester Business Connections,” “Learn Speak Teach,” “Ben’s Bites,” “Five Minute Fridays,” and “Real Hits.”

All my main links can be found here: https://balbertmarketing.com/alllinks/

Please connect with me on Linkedin!  https://www.linkedin.com/in/balbertmarketing/

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Creativity through the lens of a podcast strategist, voice coach and voice-over artist

"Creativity is about creative thinking. You don't have to produce an item to be creative."

Mary Chan is a Podcast Strategist, Voice Coach, and Voice-Over Artist who believes in empowering you with the self-confidence to find your voice. During her 20-year career in radio, coaching hundreds of radio announcers and small business owners on how to read a script and bring it alive off the page, she’s heard first hand how your voice is the key to connect emotion to emotion with your listeners to build awareness, credibility, and influence. In 2018, Mary founded Organized Sound Productions, a podcast production and consulting company and today, you can find her on her own podcast “The Podcaster’s Guide to a Visible Voice” where you will empower yourself to amplify your voice to speak with courage and spirit.

• website https://www.organizedsound.ca/
•  podcast "The Podcaster's Guide to a Visible Voice" http://www.VisibleVoicePodcast.com/
• IG https://www.instagram.com/organizedsoundproductions/
• Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/marychan-organizedsound/

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Creativity through the lens of a Serial Entrepreneur

"Creativity is something everyone out there has. It's about taking your idea and getting it to connect to things that are going to have emotions."

John C. Morley started his first company just about 30 years ago and as a passionate serial entrepreneur, he didn't stop there.  He later went on to build his own marketing and full print publication production center. Today he gets people more quality connections on LinkedIn by telling their stories in a unique way.

John is a serial entrepreneur, engineer and marketing expert. His diverse experience from serving small business to enterprise environments make him someone that just doesn't understand technology but lives it. Two of our world's largest international banks have chosen John's company because they know that he is the mastermind of the company's operations.

Since the inception of John's tech company, he had one of NY's largest marketing and advertiser companies working for him. Several years ago he realized they were not making the progress they should. So he decided to fire them; John knew that no-one would know his company as well as he did. He researched the concept of starting his own full in-house digital and print production company. The first few years John made lots of mistakes but quickly realized how to reach his clients and the right way to do so. Later on, he concluded that there was a void in the market place and that he knew how to market companies to get their message out to the world. Thus John trademarked the phrase "We Give your Business a Voice"™.

https://linktr.ee/johncmorleyserialentrepreneur


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