What's Your Bliss?

Thomas talks with Dr. Cyndi Burnett, Director of Possibilities for Creativity and Education.  Cyndi talks about her bliss of helping others live a more creative life, being an “idea doula” bringing others ideas to life, starting out as a professional actor in musical theater, teaching creativity for the last 20 years, our perception of ourselves limiting our creativity, how to infuse creativity into curriculum, engaging students in the skill of curiosity by encouraging them to formulate their own questions, how to find individuality and highlight strengths in everyone, building psychologically safe classrooms for all, how she has used these skills in parenting, and how others can find bliss through finding their creative strength.

Fueling Creativity Podcast can be found here: https://creativityandeducation.com/podcast/ 

Cyndi's website is https://creativityandeducation.com 

Thomas talks with Staci Bartley, host of the Love Shack podcast.  Staci talks about her bliss of helping people create a love for a lifetime, how love became the essence of her being and recognizing this at her father’s funeral, how she learned boundaries and asking for what she needed in relationships, what she learned as a teenage mother, how humans are terrified of navigating inevitable change, the realization of a multitude of perspectives creating the world we have, how a great relationship is defined by “it works for the people in it”, how she found lasting love with her husband (and co-host), how isolation prevents us from growth, not being able to keep ourselves safe all the time, and how others can find bliss through opening themselves up to love and taking a risk. 

Love Shack Live: https://www.podcastone.com/pd/Love-Shack-Live 

Thomas talks with Lauri Smith, CEO of Voice Matters.  Lauri talks about her bliss of building her life and helping others find their voice, presence beginning where primal and purpose meet, how she learned to take her voice and put it into the written word, society dictating that men are allowed to be angry but not being allowed to be tender and women not allowed to have emotions at all, being an empath and empaths being taught they are “too much” and learning to breathe through emotions and expand energy throughout the room, how to fuel transformation in others, fighting against the label of leader earlier in her life and leading reluctantly, reframing her intentions to find her true path, and how others can find their voice. 

Lauri’s compelling speaker program and website can be found here: www.voice-matters.com 

Thomas talks with Innovation Consultant, Helene Cahen.  Helene talks about her bliss of innovation and trying new ideas, trying to find creative and fulfilling work, Creative Problem Solving Institute changing her career path, looking at problems outside of the binary, understanding the impacts of every decision and who is affected, failure being critical to innovation and growth, innovating in a virtual and hybrid work world, trying to not see relationships as transactional, and how others can find bliss through innovation. 

Helene’s links:

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Thomas talks with Steve Klein.  Steve talks about his bliss of helping people get over the hump to achieve anything through persistence and relentlessness, building the ability of being relentless in himself, how to crystalize our thinking and hone in on specifics, attracting that which we think about, transitioning into sales and writing the book, “Sell When You See the Whites of Their Eyes”, being inspired by making sure he put down exactly how he was successful, how to go about visualizing and actualizing your goals, how to make that first move, working with the AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) program in schools, and how others can find bliss through relentless living.

Steve’s book, Sell When You See the Whites of Their Eyes,  can be found on amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Sell-When-Whites-Their-Eyes/dp/0971192804 

Steve’s podcast can be found at http://www.playmakerstalkshow.com 

Steve’s website is https://steveaklein.com and you can contact him about speaking engagements there. 

Thomas talks with The Omnipreneurial Psychologist ™ Hema Vyas.  Hema talks about her bliss of understanding purpose and finding connection in all things, her passionate curiosity, growing up very privileged in India, unlearning facts that are not actually facts, learning about healing and spirituality to connect us to each other, how to unite vs. divide, raising our collective and individual consciousness, how psychology helps us evolve, growing through flaws, embracing dynamic changes and bringing loved ones on the journey, and how others can find bliss through understanding purpose and finding truth.

Ways to connect with Hema

Website: https://www.hemavyas.com/

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

Instagram: @thehemavyas

Join Hema’s complimentary Heart Renaissance community

https://heart-renaissance.mn.co/

Thomas talks with Claudia Monacelli, host of the Pleasure Seeking podcast.  Claudia talks about her bliss of movement, specifically in dance, her first memory of dancing to The Twist by Chubby Checker, being a disco queen, the beauty of tango being a universal dance language, adjusting to a new routine through the pandemic, especially through the travel ban in Europe, energy attracting or repelling us, how to set energetic boundaries, consistent dreams, and how others can find bliss through movement.  As a bonus, Thomas shares his memories of creating a tango-disco fusion dance in high school.  

Thomas talks with Life Coach & Creative Consultant, Megan Johnson.  Megan talks about her bliss of learning to live well, how to focus on living well, how failure has shaped her mindset and pathway, living with integrity and matching the internal with external, finding work and building a business that provides the life she wants, our lives being filled with pivot points, fighting through fear, going through a deconstruction of her faith and how to build herself up with the help of a coach, reclamation and reconstruction leading her path, how values can be dynamic based on experience, remaining very spiritual because of her value of universal connection, who she wants to be in the world, and how others can find bliss in learning how to live well. 

Megan’s website can be found here: https://megscolleen.com 

Megan’s Business Accelerator as mentioned in the show can be found here: https://megscolleen.com/Reclaim-Your-Dreams

Thomas talks with Mari Reisberg, host of the Sustaining Creativity podcast and just might be the most interesting person in the world.  Mari talks about her bliss of creativity, how it fuels everything in her life, doing trapeze for 17 years, being raised in a “mini circus” with parents who supported performing arts, going from 11 people in her class to 2000, finding her outlet on stage, random people telling her their life story unprompted leading to her finding her career path, how to sustain creativity and avoid creative atrophy, how to push someone into the learning zone and out of the comfort zone, what has surprised her in the world of creativity, the role of community and support, and how others can find bliss through creativity. 

You can find the Sustaining Creativity Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and at apple podcasts here: 

Mari’s Website is www.sustainingcreativity.com

Find Mari on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @sustainingcreativity