“Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - part 4” featuring Creator Kristen Baum: Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman.

LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently collaborates on diverse film and live theater projects. Her creative works range from composing and orchestrating film scores, art songs, poetry, and fantasy fiction. 

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Part one of “Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel,” features Creator Kristen Baum: Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman.

LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently collaborates on diverse film and live theater projects. Her creative works range from composing and orchestrating film scores, art songs, poetry, and fantasy fiction. 

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Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use.

Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnout RESET Guide — simple steps you can use right away.

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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“Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - Pt 2” features Creator Kristen Baum, a Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman.

LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently collaborates on diverse film and live theater projects. Her creative works range from composing and orchestrating film scores, art songs, poetry, and fantasy fiction.  

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Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use.

Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnout RESET Guide — simple steps you can use right away.

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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In "How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 2" pyrography Artist Amanda Packard, aka, The Phoenix Quill dives more personally and universally into how the artist's creativity began, what led her to create, and what inspires her art. We cover the issue of women empower-ment through creativity, how Packard's personal journey became the catalyst for her feminine, free women-based characters in her art, the emotional benefits of being in touch with the artist within, and Packard's percolating interest in aligning her art to help domestic violence victims.  

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
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• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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Episode 13, "How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 1" features Pyrography Artist Amanda Packard, aka, The Phoenix Quill. Our dialogue takes us through a step-by-step of the artist's creative process, the tools essential for her pyrography works, and how her unusually repressed background became a catalyst for creativity. Packard's artworks are an exquisite visual feast of beautiful craftsmanship and imaginatively story-like inspiration. We also chat about the fortune and impact of positive mentors, and how those experiences become life-long memories to form the tapestry of an artist's vision. 

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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In Episode 12, "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU" Part 2 features more from my conversation with Maine-born composer Trace Callahan. Callahan and I discuss her video game music composing process, the tools necessary for implementing game music, and how she created and plans to launch her first original musical, "Better Than Fine."

In "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU" Part 1, we discuss Callahan's upcoming original musical, her involvement as a video game music composer and sound designer, how being female relates to creative opportunities, and how she incorporates both suffering and joy within her creative works. Callahan talks openly about her personal struggle with mental illness and how her journey with deep darkness enables her to incorporate both suffering and joy into the creative process.

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 11, "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU," features my conversation with Maine-born composer Trace Callahan. Our dialogue runs the gamut of Callahan's upcoming original musical to her involvement as a video game music composer and sound designer, to how being female relates to creative opportunities, and how she incorporates both suffering and joy within her creative works. Callahan talks openly about her personal struggle with mental illness and how her journey with deep darkness enables her to incorporate both suffering and joy into the creative process. 

In "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU," Part 2, Trace and I discuss her video game music composing process, the tools necessary for implementing game music, and how she created and plans to launch her first original musical, "Better Than Fine."

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 10, How To Live A Life of Joyful Creativity Part 2, features a deeper dialogue on successful approaches to and benefits of committing to the creative life. 

Part 2 of my interview with University of Kentucky Department of Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Ryan Hargrove. Hargrove teaches creative thinking through a variety of projects, trips, interviews with professional creatives, and a class at University of Kentucky called “Living on the Right Side of the Brain.” 

Part 1 of our interview explores an overview of Hargrove's training and interest in metacognition and his approach to teaching the creative process. Checkout Part 1 on Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 9!

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• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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Today’s Creativity episode features Part I of my interview with University of Kentucky Department of Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Ryan Hargrove. Hargrove teaches creative thinking through a variety of projects, trips, interviews with professional creatives, and a class at University of Kentucky called “Living on the Right Side of the Brain.” 

Part 1 of our interview explores an overview of Hargrove's training and interest in metacognition and his approach to teaching the creative process. 

Part 2 delves into a deeper dialogue on successful approaches to and benefits of committing to the creative life. Check out Part 2 in Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 10!

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Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use.

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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Episode 8 offers 5 Ways To Use Music & Nature For Self-Care. 

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• Beat blocks. Find flow. Start creating: Creative Empowerment Sampler
• Restore energy & balance: Burnout RESET Guide
• Nurture YOUR creative life: Creative Empowerment Coaching
• Get inspired with a book: 🌻 Kaleidoscope Of The Heart: A Poetry and Lyrics Collection or 🎹 Start Piano: What You Need For Successful Learning!

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