It's that time of year, time for everyone to opine on the best music of the year. This year is extra special because I'm joined by 3 music savvy people who are very knowledgeable and entertaining. Hosted by myself, graphic designer and illustrator Cliff Washington. My guests are Elliott Ashby is a video producer at HOT97, content creator, personality and host of Eye of Elliott. Bex Francois who is a video producer, content creator and co-host of the Black Girl Podcast, and Lyric who is a personality and creative. We dive into The Creator's Life top 5 hip hop and top 5 R&B albums. What impact these artists and albums had and how they make us feel. This is the last podcast episode for season 1, and we'll be on hiatus till March 2019. Thanks for listening! It's been an amazing season 1.

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Lyric

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We're back, in this episode The Creator's Life founder Cliff Washington sits down with Cuban visual artist Paola Martinez. They discuss creative confidence or lack thereof, something that afflicts a lot artists and creative people. But within her journey she's found and built up her creative confidence, and taken her work to new heights. They also discuss the strong feminist streak in her art.

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In this episode we review Marvel Studio's Black Panther. We discuss the hoopla leading up, why it's taken so long to get the first big budget black super hero movie, people of color in comics and our general thoughts of the movie. Hosting this episode is graphic designer and illustrator @knocliff, with guests Olga Encarnacion, a video producer at Complex Media and Josh Thomas a Network Engineer at Time Inc. Please like share and follow, cheers.

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In the second part of our music talk we dive into Jay-Z's 444 and @knocliff 's top hip hip albums of 2017. We also discuss the best R&B of 2017, if afro-beat and afro-house will take over America, if Cardi B is the real thing, and what music we're looking forward to in 2018. DJ Tara and music journalist Timmhotep help us break this all down. You can find the social handles of the guests and host below!

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DJ Tara

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Timmhotep

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https://open.spotify.com/user/12122332805

In episode 5 part 2 we explore Paolo Martinez's experience on the cuban art scene and bucking societal norms, as well as what she does to keep her confidence up as a professional photographer. Nichole Washington talks about finding her self-expression in the male dominated photo industry. Hosted by writer Rayna Martinez and co-hosted by illustrator and digital designer Cliff Washington, also featuring writer Tracy Sayre.

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Nichole Washington

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Tracy Sayre

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Paola Martinez

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This episode we welcome four talented women in the arts to sit down and have a conversation about their careers. We chat about their inspirations, if they've felt pressure to appeal to a male audience, their thoughts on the TV show Insecure and more. Writer Rayna White guest hosts and Cliff Washington co-hosts. Featuring guests Nichole Washington (no relation to Cliff Washington) a visual artist, writer Tracy Sayre and photographer Paola Martinez. Please excuse the pipe knocking at the place we recorded in.

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Nichole Washington

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Tracy Sayre

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Paola Martinez

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We continue our conversation on 21st century thinking for creatives. We dive deep into networking in this episode and discuss why it's crucial in our fields. Singer Songwriter Eni https://soundcloud.com/iamenii joins the conversation towards the later part of the episode to drop knowledge on intentional networking. Gems.

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Ení

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Tim Grae:

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Started by Illustrator and graphic designer Cliff Washington, The Creator's Life podcast is about sharing the stories of creative professionals to inspire and inform. In the first episode, host Cliff Washington has a conversation about Creativity, Branding and Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century with Marvel Entertainment graphic designer Cameron T. Moore, singer songwriter Ení, creative entrepreneur Tim Grae and writer Rayna White. This is Part 1 of the talk.

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Ení

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Tim Grae:

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