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Creative Pep Talk #37: Leave Room to Be Wrong

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Why you might want to be open to the possibility of being wildly wrong (or even just slightly wrong) about everything from your new creative project to interpersonal dynamics. Sign up for my monthly Creative Check-In call here. Feeling stuck in your creative process? Or wondering how to start having a creative process at all? […]

Writing YA Fiction with Shanti Hershenson

Shanti Hershenson

When the Covid pandemic started, all of us had to find new ways to keep busy. Shanti Hershenson, who was 12 at the time, decided to start taking writing seriously. Now 14, Shanti has not only written a remarkable 15 books, she’s done the work to self-publish and get those books into several independent bookstores. […]

Creative Pep Talk #36: Start Where You Are

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AIf you’re not doing what you want to do because you think you’re not ready or don’t have what you need, might I very gently and lovingly suggest that you’re wrong? Sign up for my monthly Creative Check-In call here. Feeling stuck in your creative process? Or wondering how to start having a creative process […]

Colin Who? with Colin Spaull

Colin Spaull

My guest this week is actor Colin Spaull, who began acting as a child and is still going strong. His early appearances include the role of Pip in Great Expectations and Peter in Heidi, and since then he’s been in everything from Coronation Street to Doctor Who. Colin talks with me about acting school, why […]

Creative Pep Talk #35: Five Minutes

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What can you do in five minutes? A LOT more than you think. Don’t believe me? Let me explain–and then give it a try yourself! Sign up for my monthly Creative Check-In call here. Feeling stuck in your creative process? Or wondering how to start having a creative process at all? Check out my super-affordable […]

Meaning and Abundance with Kevin Roth

Kevin Roth

Kevin Roth began to play the dulcimer in 1972 at the old age of thirteen, and at sixteen recorded his first album for Folkways / Smithsonian Folkways Records, which immediately launched him into international fame. More recently, a cancer diagnosis he was not expected to survive caused him to reevaluate his life and choose to […]

Creative Pep Talk #34: Stop Ignoring Yourself

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Are you the last item on your own list? If so, you’re not alone—we all fall into this trap. Did you know it could be tamping down your joy and your creative process? Listen for the simple solution! Sign up for my monthly Creative Check-In call here. Feeling stuck in your creative process? Or wondering […]

Meaingfullfilled with Dieter Randolph

Dieter Randolph

Dieter Randolph started his career in the “family business” of ministry. He’s since left that field, and has taken on a wide variety of jobs, from car sales to working for Google. These days, he’s a writer, speaker, coach, teacher, and podcaster. Along the way, he’s refined his ideas of what it means to live […]

Creative Pep Talk #33: Laugh

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Following up from last time: how my nephew’s piano recital went, and what we can all learn from how he handled the unexpected. Sign up for my monthly Creative Check-In call here. Feeling stuck in your creative process? Or wondering how to start having a creative process at all? Check out my super-affordable Creative Tune-Up, […]

Creativity and Liberation with Desiree Adaway

Desiree Adaway

Desiree Adaway, founder and principal of the Adaway Group, is one of the nation’s preeminent diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant-facilitators with over 25 years of experience creating, leading, and managing international multicultural teams in 40 countries through major organizational change. She also leads the annual Whiteness at Work program, which I took in 2020. When […]