By Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien
Your one stop shop for creative ideas and inspiration. Each week on The Spark File podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien reach into their spark files and share stories, ideas and fascinations t
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Certainty or Creativity - which will you choose?
This week, Nathan Hill’s novel “Wellness” serves as a springboard for Laura’s spark.
The specific line that ignited our conversation? "You can choose to be certain or you can choose to be alive." We'll discuss how this notion impacts all our creative journeys and share wisdom from playwright Stephen Karam on the price of admission for love and artistry.
This episode marks the launch of Season 5 with a fresh approach—shorter, more frequent episodes designed to keep your creative sparks burning. Join us as we explore how the need for certainty can hold us back in love and creativity, and how embracing uncertainty can fuel growth and transformation.
And consider the scientifically proven placebo effect…just the belief in positive outcomes can lead to positive outcomes. What might happen if we approached our creative work with optimism, hope, and a belief in positive outcomes?
Jump back into The Spark File and discover how you can connect with us to turn your sparks of inspiration into a bonfire of creativity!
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
Holy Moly! Season 4 of The Spark File is coming to an end! In this episode, Susan + Laura reminisce on some of our favorite sparks from this season. .
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And with a bonus spark inspired by Milwaukee Bucks player, Giannis Antetokounmpo, who left us with this mini ted talk when asked if he believed this season was a failure because they didn’t win the playoffs. Just because you don’t win, do we count that as a fail?
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Season 4 of The Spark File is wrapping up, but don’t worry - there are 178 episodes of The Spark File for you to binge!
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
Ever wonder what's needed to take your creative project to the next level? Or wonder if maybe good is good enough? How do we know when to invest the additional time and energy it's going to take to go from Good to Great? If you're ready or when you're ready to level up your work, Susan and Laura discuss the difference between Good and Great, and some of the factors it takes to get there. Inspired by the book, Good to Great by Jim Collins, but seen through the lens of creativity.
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
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Is there anything better than a well-crafted personal story told with humor, authenticity and heart? Even better if its a TRUE story, right? Well, the folks at The Moth have boiled the art of storytelling down to a science. In this week's episode, Laura and Susan share how sparked they are by The Moth and their book How To Tell a Story. We all have one - tune in to learn how to tell YOUR story!
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
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Friends, trust us when we say it is valuable, meaningful, and potentially essential that you take the time to celebrate your creative wins - large and small! Join us this week as Susan and Laura discuss why it's so important that we take the time to acknowledge and reflect on the milestones and the conclusions, the hits and the misses.
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
Do you have a creative project that has never seen the light of day because you just don't think it's ready to share yet? Despite years of effort even? Do you have a creative project you've dreamt of making but you haven't even started yet? Because the thought of it not turning out great keeps you from even trying?
On this week's episode, Laura and Susan dig into the plight of the perfectionist. Thanks to researchers and authors like Brene Brown, we might just have a chance to prevail - IF we can embrace our imperfections and (shocker!) maybe even learn to enjoy them!
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
Have you gotten into the AI craze yet? Have you asked Chat GPT to write your next marketing plan or promotional copy? Have you asked it to write lines of dialogue, jokes for a stand up routine or a synopsis for your pitch? Have you asked it to write your resume? This week, Susan and Laura dive into what AI might be great for, where it's limitations are, and where it's headed. Do creatives have anything to worry about? Tune in to sort it all out.
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
Ever wonder what exactly is going on in your brain when you have an Ah-ha moment?
On this week's episode of The Spark File podcast, Susan + Laura discuss what is transpiring in your head when you get that spark of an idea - and the rush of excitement that goes with it!
Wouldn't it be great if we could understand it so that we can create conducive conditions to invite more and more Ah-ha moments to happen?!
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
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Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
Were there stashes of gold hidden around the country after the Civil War? Did leaders of the confederate south intend this money fund a second Civil War? Was the outlaw Jesse James responsible for hiding some of this treasure? And has it recently been found?
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Tune in this week to find out more about the Knights of the Golden Circle, their confederacy gold, and what role Jesse James may or may not have played in it.
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A fantastic article in Popular Mechanics by @davehoward99 has left us with so many questions...
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
This week, Laura and Susan discuss that tremor in the force you felt a few weeks ago when New York Magazine's The Cut handed us all The New Rules.
These 194 rules on how to exist in polite society, sparked conversations everywhere.
Listen in to get our take on their take on everything from dating apps to work slacks, texting friends and lovers or engaging with stangers and others... Are we all doing it wrong??
Doors are now open for our next ILLUME cohort. ILLUME is our 9 month mastermind in creativity focusing on completing your creative work while learning the skills you need to successfully launch your project into the world.
Book a free, no obligation call with us to find out if ILLUME is right for you.
Learn more here: https://programs.thesparkfile.com/illume2024-25
The podcast currently has 179 episodes available.
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