Your World of Creativity

Michael Lee, a South African creativity trainer, coach, and author.

He is also a Silicon Valley advisor, a TV screenwriter, and a film producer who has worked in Prague, Nigeria & South Africa.

His training is called "innotivity" (creativity and Innovation) 

Michael believes that creativity is a trait that we are all inherently born with. 

• The best way to start being creative is to go ahead and just be creative. Creativity is a muscle that has to be exercised so as to get it going. A simple way to practice is freewriting.
• Creativity is the process of confronting the problem and then solving the problem.in order to do that, you have to first think about the problem that's creativity, and then you have to take action that's innovation. 

Visit his website: www.innotidityinstitute.com. 

And read a rough transcript of our entire interview attached here.

During today’s episode, we are speaking to Bruce Honig.

Bruce is the chief executive facilitator (CEF) of Honig IdeaGuides, which focuses on boosting leaders to facilitate meetings that are productive, engaging, and inspiring to teams both on- and off-site and virtually. 

With 24 years of experience, Bruce was the creativity guru way before it became a thing. He is a cultivated facilitator and trainer, author of a good number of books on creativity,  a creator of board and card games around the same topic, a workshop facilitator, as well as a featured speaker in the Playful Creative Summit. 

 Meeting up virtually in the sunny Bay Area, Bruce tells me how we can get out of our rut and into a more creative thinking process. Bruce has come up with 4 stages in the creativity process known as B.E.T.A.

He compares these creative stages to an individual’s fingerprint. As an individual, you must be aware of what’s unique to you, what generic stage you’re in, and what kind of environment harnesses your creativity. For Bruce, that awareness of his creativity helps him and others he is working with.

How does Bruce use BETA to unlock the creativity process?   

B- Blocked; Be aware of any internal and external factors blocking your fate. Internal factors would be assumptions you have of the world.

E- Exercise; The only way to be creative is to go right ahead and just be creative! Exercise being creative by doing something you haven’t done before.

T - Tools; For ideation to occur you need tools for Brainstorming, Focusing, and Decision- making.

A - Awareness; Be aware of your generic creativity. Just like a toddler, walking is something that they are inherently born with the knowledge to do.

 When it comes to facilitating a group, ensure you’re not the one coming up with the new ideas, but you are steering your team to generate these ideas. A good facilitator will ensure the team has all the materials needed, and all resources that are there, and instructions on how to do it.

 Group creativity sessions follow the BETA process but you move beyond focusing and defining the problem to exploring ideas and solutions together.

Embracing technology using tools like the breakout rooms in zoom, Mural for collaboration, is key to facilitating virtually.

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

Bruce’s Idea guides website

Downloadable tools and resources

LinkedIn Bruce the CEF

Summary

Overall. Bruce teaches us how to use the BETA steps in cultivating the creativity that is inherently within us and as a facilitator how to achieve the same results in a group setting, moving beyond ideation to problem-solving. 

Listen in to hear the full interview and hear what else Bruce has planned.

If you’d like to contact Bruce, you can reach Bruce on LinkedIn here, check out his facilitation processes on his website while you can download tools and resources which are available.

My guest is Mutita Panmook, a business operation strategist, host of GetUNSTUCK radio, and the CEO of Extraordinarily By Mutita

She helps service-based entrepreneurs and business owners around the world to systemize, automate, and delegate their business operations to get back at least 10 hours a week without sacrificing their lifestyle.

She believes that time is the number one commodity in the world that you can’t get back once it’s gone. Because of that, Mutita helps small business owners and entrepreneurs build and design efficient business that supports their lifestyle with the Get UNSTUCK Method.

Mutita’s mission is to help business owners and entrepreneurs getting unstuck from working in the hamster wheel. The goal is to reclaim their time to be with their families, do what they love with joy, or even travel the world, whenever they want, wherever they want, with whomever they want and letting their business work for them.

She is also a host of GetUNSTUCK Podcast that helps entrepreneurs get unstuck in their journey through the guest experts’ experiences. Mutita’s joy is when her clients keep making positive impact on the world and become unstuckable.

Connect at https://www.getunstuckmethod.com/resources/

Find her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mutitapanmook/

In today's episode, we talk with David Cummins, Ph.D. about overcoming blocks to our creativity.

David says, "Since learning Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT), helping people has become much more effective, quick, and significantly more fun for me and the people I have helped.  I appreciate RRT because I can help people move their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to where they want them -- without dragging them through the mud of the past. What I have found is that by helping the person get to an open relaxed state, their minds become much more responsive to moving in the direction the person wishes. Clients regularly report that the process was interesting, easy, and left them feeling lighter and clearer."

He adds, "The process uses many painless techniques that naturally moves the person where they want to be going. What I find is that these shifts tend to be effortless and long-lasting because the changes are in the person’s best interest and it happens on multiple levels at the same time. RRT has shown to be effective in helping to clear depression, anxiety, PTSD, grief, guilt, and most other mental health issues."

Feel free to contact David if you have any questions about the process. You may also visit the RRT website for more information.

In addition, David says, "Because of the effectiveness of RRT online, I provide online therapy sessions for those who may need this service."

Meet Lisa David Olsen, a business humorist and creative coach.

So many fun ideas in this episode, and so many ways to connect with Lisa to learn more.

http://lisadavidolson.com/

https://instagram.com/lisadavidolson?igshid=1or8swbebxh74

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stranger-connections/id1516167809

http://linkedin.com/in/lisa-david-olson-80376612

https://www.facebook.com/lisa.olson.improv.buddy

She also has a Facebook group called Counter Clockwise, with nearly 3 thousand members in 4 months.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1732205906/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_4NE3GYAJSPW31J0RA305

Lisa

LisaDavidOlson.com

Todd Giannattasio is a veteran marketing expert who has been featured by Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Huffington Post for his proven systems to grow brands, generate leads, and increase sales in our constantly evolving, digital world. His combination of fundamental principles and modern marketing strategies are what create a force multiplier for businesses.

He is certified in sales and marketing from DigitalMarketer.com, Hubspot, and the Jordan Belfort Straight Line Sales and Persuasion System. He has been a featured speaker at the Propelify Innovation Festival, presenting to a combined audience of 24,000 attendees.

Todd has been working in digital communications and marketing since 2003. Over that time, he’s worked with some of the biggest companies in the world from Universal Records to BASF, and with growing startups and small businesses.

He is currently the founder of The Growth Suite and Tresnic Media and cofounder, CMO of Ziotag.

[email protected]

http://www.tresnicmedia.com/

http://twitter.com/tresnicmedia

www.linkedin.com/in/toddgiannattasio/

Morry Zelcovitch 

The World's First And Only Brainwave Entrainment Engineer 

Morry says:

Quantum Brainwave Entrainment started when I was a child. I had many problems. I heard thousands of voices in my head, and I had severe depression. I was always getting into trouble and was unbelievably accident-prone. I have dislocated my shoulders alone over 150 times. I won’t even get into the myriad of broken bones, shredded tendons, and ligaments, concussions, etc.

Something inside me made me start looking into the brainwave entrainment field...

And I began to observe that sometimes, time would seem to move faster and more pleasantly than at other times.

I eventually made the connection that when time seemed to move quicker, the sounds I was hearing were more rhythmic in nature. And when time seemed to be at a painful standstill, the surrounding sounds were far more disjointed in nature".

This experience was the beginning of a 20-year odyssey of deep study and research into the field of quantum brainwave entrainment.

After many years of using other people’s products, with some limited success, I was determined to figure out why these recordings seemed to work only in a minor way when all of the research I read suggested the effects should be more dominant than what I was experiencing.

I decided that my best route to understanding was learning at the feet of an expert in the field. So I contacted the world's foremost expert in the field of brainwave entrainment, David Siever C.E.T. and discovered some invaluable secrets that I just could not get anywhere else.

After several years of learning from David Siever I’m now one of the few in the world who actually can claim to be a "certified Brainwave Entrainment Engineer/Specialist" and have the education to back it up!

Now I’ve conquered those extra voices in my head and severe depression. It's become my mission in life to help others improve their quality of life without the use of dangerous and habit-forming drugs. 

www.themorrymethod.com 

Twitter - @themorrymethod 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/morryzelcovitch 

This is a fantastic high-energy interview with The BizBros -- my friends, Luis and Fonzi.

So good that I've included an entire transcript!

Hear the highlights including:

• the publishing pyramid
• minimal viable content
• consistency and accountability
• the power of LIVE!

I saved this one for our milestone episode 75!!!

In this episode of Unlocking your World of Creativity, Mark talks to the Bizbros. They are Luis and Fonzi, a couple of brothers from Venezuela who started their entrepreneurship in the US, and now they have a company dedicated to providing marketing and content services for all types of contacts.

Even though Luis and Fonzi are brothers, they have vastly different personalities and that also means getting two unique takes on the same project. So Luis takes care of the operational side of things whereas Fonzi focuses on the creative side of things. 

Throughout their childhood, Luis and Fonzi were not like other kids. For starters, they lived in Venezuela where entrepreneurship was not common. But they started as kids, they were creative and resourceful. Their parents always made them work to get what they wanted and this made them very aware of much thought and work that went into getting the things they wished for. 

Eventually, this mentality came to them as adults where they devised a way to transform their ideas into a business together. 

Luis and Fonzi offer only one service in their agency. However, this is not a weakness for them. The focus in being the best there is in their field. The Bizbros grab long-form content and turn it into a ton of amazing assets for whatever objective organic paid media and what that comes at. So it's basically leveraging your platform. So we offer that as a service for other people inside of that, there are different phases. There are about seven phases that we've been able to develop, with our team to do that. They essentially leverage your platform and are looking to boost up the visits to their site.

They started printing t-shirts in Florida to now have a full agency of social media marketing. They built some brick-and-mortar campaigns, diversified the service aspect, and also hired a coach to help them with the business. From there, it was a smoother sail. 

Basically, their approach to content is to make it evergreen, useful and that the content is a bridge to create more customer relationships that help to grow the numbers. Is not about just delivering any content, is about looking at who the reader is, what they need, and how to connect with them in an organic way that produces content that is leveraging relationships for strategic partnerships.

So what is their 45 Live challenge? Is a challenge they took in which they would daily "live" on their Facebook for 45 days. What is interesting is that they have not been able to finish this challenge as being constant does give results: each time they engage in this challenge they have to leave it because they gain a new client to work with! So basically, the brothers believe that determination and being constant is also another way to generate genuine engagement with the clients. 

Right now they actually doing this challenge again, at around 5:00 PM they have their welcome class before starting the actual challenge. The point is to measure their consistency and hold each other accountable. As they go to post live for 45 days, they're actually doing it too, and there might be some surprises along the way that prepared for everybody to make it a fun experience.

So, to recap: the brothers have a publishing agency where they offer amazing content and guide and the most recent 45 live challenge. 

For those interested in joining the challenge just go to 45.live, and you’ll be added to the Facebook group and you’ll be ready to go! 

We love to bring you this podcast of not only inspirational and creative thinking but these tools and methods and models, like the ones the Bizbros have talked us about. Furthermore,  they've offered us connections, opportunities; thus connecting you to the people that you need to build your team and community. Remove the friction, remove the judgment, remove this sort of self-imposed restrictions that you put on yourself, and get your creative work, whatever that is. From a podcast to a photography exhibit, to a book, to a record, whatever it is you're making, let's get it out into the world. And that's our goal here at this podcast.

Connect with them at https://www.contentisprofit.com/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BIZBROSCO/

Today’s guest is Kyle Kruger. Kyle has a profound gift for bringing the right people together, at the right time to create some powerful momentum in the world. He started his professional career, after earning his bachelor’s degree, in the Aviation Industry as an Air Traffic Controller. He has his private pilot’s license, is an accredited investor, and owns and operates four small businesses.

Kyle is the founder and community builder of “The P.A.C.K Mastermind”. Now, you’re going to love this, this is a virtual mastermind for entrepreneurs and small business owners to develop new business opportunities, innovate with diverse industry experts, and develop lifelong relationships with like-minded people. The mission of the mastermind is for its members to achieve their personal, professional, and financial goals more efficiently and faster than tackling those goals on their own.

He’s a family and businessman with a big heart, and on a massive mission to help people just like you and me to build our dream business by leveraging the power of community.

I’m honored to have Kyle Kruger on the show!

Here is a direct link just for listeners of this podcast:

stinson.thepackmastermind.com

Meet Laurel Mintz, the principal of Elevate My Brand.

https://www.elevatemybrand.com/

Inspired by the innovative consulting work she executed early in her career with prestigious brands like Public House Restaurant Group, Bassett Furniture, and Julie Hewett Cosmetics, Laurel knew she wanted to play bigger. Over a decade later, Laurel has created an agency family serving both startups and blue-chip global brands like Facebook, Verizon Digital Media Services, PAW Patrol, and Zendesk.

Laurel’s favorite saying is FIOGID. Figure it out, get it done.

And that’s exactly what’s brought the agency top talent and accolades since 2009. Laurel sits on the Board of Directors for NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship), the Women Founders Network, and the UCLA Restaurant Conference. She is a mentor for The Women’s Global Leaders Initiative and advises LAVA (Los Angeles Venture Association).

Laurel and the agency have recently won the W3 Silver Award for the PAW Patrol Road Patrol Campaign, the Patrick Soon-Shiong Innovation Award, the LABJ Women in Business Award, Comerica and LA Lakers’ Women’s Business Award, among others.