Your Creative Mind

Your Creative Mind

By Izolda TrakhtenbergBusinessEntrepreneurshipArtsPerforming Arts
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Your Creative Mind episodes

  • Overheard this week
    In this week's Friday Feature, I relate life lessons from two short interactions. These two brought me some great knowledge. People drop wisdom in their everyday conversation that they don't even realize.
    Today's lessons come from two frenemies and a six-year-old.
    Listen to get the shameless eavesdropping scoop.
    9 min
  • Your Whole Brain and what to do with it
    How can you use integrated thinking to build the life of your dreams? Most people think about the right and left brain hemispheres. They know the left side is analytical and the right is more creative. But they don't take into account the other parts of the brain.  In today's episode, I break down the four major parts of the brain that need to work on building your best life (and there are even more that I'll discuss in future episodes). 
    Listen to the show to get started using SPIT (Strategic Planning and Integrated Thinking). You can start changing your life right now.
    11 min
  • Which is better? To do your thing or to give the people what they want?
    In today's episode, I ask this super important question. Which is the better path to success? To create your thing and keep doing it until you find your audience? Or to pay close attention to what people want and then give that to them?
    For more thoughts on this, check out
    Seth Godin's Unleashing the Idea Virus.
    Guy Kawasaki on being an evangelist.
    Kevin Kelly's 1000 True Fans.
    Gary Vaynerchuk on his Instagram success strategy.
    13 min
  • How to get your dream job if you didn't major in the field
    You want to work doing something you love, right? But what if you didn't major in that field in college? How do you break into a new field? What trees do you have to shake?
    If you want to switch careers or get your dream job, listen to this episode. 
    Know someone who is struggling with changing jobs? Share this with them.
    15 min
  • Do This to Add the Value Your Potential Clients, Customers, or Bosses Really Want
    Are you posting all day every day on social media to try and reach your potential clients, customers or employers? And are you hearing nothing but crickets? Sometimes, even though we post a ton of content, we're not reaching, really reaching, our audience.
    In this episode, I detail an effective technique to figure out what to post and how, so you make the connections and build the relationships to succeed.
    You want to be authentic, and you want to be useful. But what if you aren't sure exactly how to bring that across. Listen to the episode and you'll learn two techniques to do it.
    Share this out if you know someone who's frustrated by their lack of connection to their intended audience. It will help them connect in an authentic and more importantly, valuable way. Particularly, if you're a creative or an artist, this episode will guide you towards better interactions.
    11 min

About Your Creative Mind

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Behind every book, play, and song is a person juggling self-doubt, deadlines, and the drive to create. On Your Creative Mind, Izolda Trakhtenberg talks with writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals about how they create and how they manage the stress and anxiety that often come with creating. Izolda and her guests explore the unexplained mechanisms and personal experiences that shape creative artists, writers, and others.