Everyday Creative People

Everyday Creative People


Latest Episodes

Roger Nierenberg on music, conducting, and what it can teach us about leadership
July 30, 2019

“Being stuck is an important part of the creative process – every great creative advance has been preceded by being stuck. And it’s staying with that, and then suddenly you see it differently. You discover that… there are different fo

Kristin Richardson Jordan on choosing love
July 08, 2019

This week I got to interview a dear friend and a true renaissance soul, Kristin Richardson Jordan, about her work as a social justice poet and in particular her most recent book of poetry, Water and Light: Choose Love Now. Kristin is a book print

Kofi Oduro on finding creativity in unexpected places
June 11, 2019

Photo credit: Stéphan Ballard Kofi Oduro is a creative coder, creative engineer, thinker, poet, and performer living in Montreal, Quebec (my new hometown!). In this week’s episode, we take a dive into computer science and finding creative fu

Ben Falcon on painting bikes, playing with legos, and working in New York City
May 20, 2019

Ben Falcon paints custom bicycles, motorcycles, and more. Having felt constrained by the opportunities available to him as an architecture student, Ben sought out something that would enable him to do more hands-on work. He found it in custom paintin

Vessna Scheff, on following your heart
May 13, 2019

This week I caught up with Vessna Scheff, an emotive, abstract painter and musician living in Philadelphia. Vessna has the attitude of a perpetual student, and has jumped into her creative pursuits more than once with little to no formal training!

Stephanie Simpson on Creative Stress Management
April 29, 2019

This week I chatted with artist, educator, consultant and coach Stephanie Simpson about the interplay between stress and creativity, and how to nourish and draw on the power of our full human selves. Drawing on her background in movement, meditat

Todd Emaus on the role of play, connection, and belonging in business
April 16, 2019

“Leaning into a beginners mindset is really helpful for me. I have some [internal] stories that I need to be great at everything, and a lot of times that keeps me from leaning into creativity where I can just be curious about what I’m capable of.

Carving out time for art with Heather Kirtland and Marissa Huber
April 09, 2019

Heather Kirtland and Marissa Huber are two artists and mothers, who happen to be the dynamic duo behind the Instagram community Carve Out Time for Art and blog by the same name (COTFA for short). The goal of COTFA is to cultivate a positive and n

Claiming your creativity (and recovering from burnout) with Rosita Choy
April 04, 2019

“I never thought of myself as being creative. But at a certain point I needed to tell stories out loud on stage. And part of that was because some of the social justice work I was doing, I felt people needed to change something more than their lo

The Power of Play with Chloe Varelidi
March 26, 2019

“I’ve worked with kids all my life, but when I became a mother myself, I realized how babies, that’s the first thing they do before they even talk, you know, they just play and tinker. And that’s how they understand the world