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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
What I learned from helping my 9-year-old nephew learn “Hey Jude” for his piano recital—both from the process of working with him, and from the song itself. 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 guest today is John Noltner, a writer and photographer whose project, A Peace of My Mind, has produced three books, the latest of which is Portraits of Peace: Searching for Hope in a Divided America. John’s freelance photography career took him all over the world for a variety of national magazines, but the 2008 […]
Small and crappy can be the key to creative success. In this episode, I tell you why *and* give you a fun exercise to give it a try. Sign up for the monthly Creative Check-In call here. Feeling stuck in your creative process? Or wondering how to start having a creative process at all? Check […]
Actor, photographer, and filmmaker Jon Davey has appeared in 50 episodes of Doctor Who since its revival in 2005, as a variety of monsters including Cybermen, Daleks, Ood, and Judoon. He’s also done behind-the-camera work on a variety of projects, including quite a few music videos for Radiohead. He joins me today to talk about […]
If you’ve never thought of quitting as a valid creative/problem-solving technique, this week’s topic may sound controversial. I hope you’ll give me a chance to change your mind, because quitting might be exactly what your project needs. What was I taught about quitting that makes it hard for me to walk away? How could I […]