Everyday Creative People
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Everyday Creative People is a series of conversations and interviews exploring what it means to live a life driven by curiosity, creativity, and love, over fear. Through sharing our own journeys, we hope to inspire listeners to (re)discover their inner leader, tap into their creative potential, and welcome the challenging moments of learning and transition in the pursuit of a well-lived life. If you're seeking to live and lead more powerfully, we invite you to listen in as we reflect on our own experiences, explore new resources, and chat with artists, leaders, and entrepreneurs who are findi
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Everyday Creative People is a series of conversations and interviews exploring what it means to live a life driven by curiosity, creativity, and love, over fear. Through sharing our own journeys, we hope to inspire listeners to (re)discover their inner leader, tap into their creative potential, and welcome the challenging moments of learning and transition in the pursuit of a well-lived life. If you're seeking to live and lead more powerfully, we invite you to listen in as we reflect on our own experiences, explore new resources, and chat with artists, leaders, and entrepreneurs who are findi
Language:
English
Website:
https://denaadriance.com
Episodes
Roger Nierenberg on music, conducting, and what it can teach us about leadership
7/30/2019
“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 forces at play here than what I thought, and there are different barriers, and some of the barriers that I was fighting against, they don’t even exist! They’re just a construct.”
Roger Nierenberg is a conductor who has enjoyed long tenures as...
Duration:00:40:05
Kristin Richardson Jordan on choosing love
7/8/2019
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 printing poet, writer, teaching artist, whose work is driven by an activist spirit. She grew up in the historically black neighborhood of Harlem, New York, and draws a great source of inspiration from the deep roots of activism, community,...
Duration:01:16:14
Kofi Oduro on finding creativity in unexpected places
6/11/2019
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 fulfillment when you’re also a math geek. Kofi fills me in on the intersections of live coding, video, AI, spoken word poetry, music, and “algoraves,” an event where people dance to music created by algorithms. Turns out, math is at the...
Duration:00:44:31
Ben Falcon on painting bikes, playing with legos, and working in New York City
5/20/2019
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 painting.
In this week’s episode, Ben and I discuss how he stumbled upon this niche career, what he would do if he weren’t doing custom painting, and what it’s like to run a custom paint business in New York City.
Ben has worked...
Duration:00:33:51
Vessna Scheff, on following your heart
5/13/2019
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!
In this episode, Vessna shares her incredible journey to becoming a working artist, and the attitudes, approaches, and beautiful moments of magic that got her there.
Vessna combines sounds, movement and color to create...
Duration:00:25:11
Stephanie Simpson on Creative Stress Management
4/29/2019
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, meditation, and psychology, Stephanie guides people to achieve their greatest potential by nurturing the connection between the mind, body, and spirit.
With a focus on helping people find their true balance and align with their...
Duration:00:39:20
Todd Emaus on the role of play, connection, and belonging in business
4/16/2019
“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.
Not only in seeing what that first version is and almost how bad it is – because I do have a sense of taste, and can tell like, wow what I just made really isn’t great – but also being able to say, ‘If I practice this, if I...
Duration:00:38:37
Carving out time for art with Heather Kirtland and Marissa Huber
4/9/2019
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 nurturing community for creatives who want to find time to satisfy this part of their identity – a perfect match for Everyday Creative People! Some of the things we talked about included:
* The power of self talk and the...
Duration:01:35:08
Claiming your creativity (and recovering from burnout) with Rosita Choy
4/4/2019
“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 logic about things. You know, racism is illogical, but I felt like we had to get beyond that, that you couldn’t rationalize it. And also that emotionally, some people just feel different things along those lines.
And so my...
Duration:00:49:00
The Power of Play with Chloe Varelidi
3/26/2019
“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 and how they learn.
And then as, we grow older, play is our favorite way of coming up with new ideas, and… play often becomes social. So you start playing with others. And it’s a key way, actually, for us to develop empathy, and connect with the people...
Duration:00:32:25
Lifting up community through creativity, with Steve Lucin
3/19/2019
Steve Lucin is a creative entrepreneur who helps passionate visionaries bring in more cash to their businesses through creativity.
Lucin pulls his technical design, motion graphics, and entrepreneurial skills from running his own entertainment and nightlife creative business, Halucinated Design, Inc.
He was the VRFX supervisor at Michael Bay’s 451 Media, where he oversaw the creation of VR/360 (Virtual Reality) content from creative to post-production. He also animated...
Duration:01:25:31
Curiosity, Courage, and Taking Big Leaps with Katie Visco
2/26/2019
Katie Visco, who has been called a “bubbly and offbeat running, biking, soup-making, people-loving, community-building exclamation mark,” loves peoples’ stories, healthy and delicious food, traveling, and human-powered adventures.
In 2009, promoting the importance of a bold and passion-driven life, Katie ran solo across America, from Boston to San Diego, and became the 2nd youngest and 13th woman overall to make the crossing. During, and the year after her transAmerican...
Duration:00:39:56
When Creativity is Hard with Rebecca Davis
2/19/2019
“I believe that as we’re being creative, sometimes we really have to practice creativity, as opposed to wait for creativity. And I found that that’s such a powerful practice for me when I’m working with young people, because part of my job is to hear terrible things all the time. And to make those things playable.
And it’s really, really hard. It’s really hard and scary to play with things that you don’t think you can play with. And in drama therapy, and in developmental...
Duration:00:46:02
Leadership and Innovation with Saleema Vellani
2/11/2019
“Creativity goes hand in hand with emotional intelligence. The more self aware we are, the more we practice self awareness and empathy and all these things, the more we’re able to be resilient, the more we’re able to unleash that creativity inside of us. A lot of times in our workshops, we get people that say, oh, we’re not creative, or, you know, I’m just not a creative person, and they have a lot of what we call limiting beliefs about themselves. And oftentimes, after going through...
Duration:00:39:39
Welcome back for Season 2!
2/6/2019
At long last, Everyday Creative People has returned for a second season! Here’s my brief introduction to set the stage for what’s to come.
Stay tuned for the first interview, coming next Monday!
Duration:00:07:01
The Magic of Glasswork with Anita Merina
6/5/2018
“I literally spend hours just staring at my glasswork or my worktable, and think: ‘Ok I’m gonna give it up.’ And then my husband always says, ‘Just go down there and work, go and try this, get in there and immerse yourself.’
You know, I struggle all the time. That’s part of it: it’s pain and pleasure. Pain, pleasure, and definitely passion. And sometimes the pain is worse than the pleasure is, or sometimes the pleasure of something coming out… is wonderful. And, you know, I think that they...
Duration:00:42:33
The power of joy, creativity and healing through movement with Tatiana Zamir
5/28/2018
“The more that I show up for myself and therefore am able to show up for others, it just, gets me into my purpose, and why I’m here. I think that when we do that, we’re able to feel more joy, and when we feel more joy, we’re able to reap the benefits of that joy. And when we’re in our happiness and our joy, we’re able to just think more clearly, and we’re more inspired, and we’re more open to the possibilities of life and recreating ourselves…
I feel like I’ve opened this door of limitless...
Duration:00:33:58
Alexandra Zsigmond – On creative recovery
5/23/2018
Alexandra Zsigmond spent 7 years doing art direction for the New York Times’ Opinion section before deciding to refocus her energy on personal creative pursuits. In this week’s conversation we chat about her “dream job” as an Art Director and her current process of creative recovery.
Alexandra is an award-winning art director and visual thinker working at the intersection of fine art, illustration and editorial design. Her core interest lies in the use of metaphor and symbolism in visual...
Duration:00:34:45
Natalia Zamparini on loss, overcoming fear, and defining career on your own terms
5/14/2018
“I am of an immigrant family. So this is what we were taught: ‘This is, you know, America is the land of opportunity, and this is what you must do in order to become successful.’ So, if this is what has been taught to each one of us, then me pursuing art was something very risky, and in that risk, and I think even behind the scenes, you know behind the Instagram photo that I would put up, there was a lot of that sacrifice, and struggle… My family and close friends saw that most.
So I did...
Duration:00:37:58
The essential integration of arts, advocacy, and community life, with Rebecca Kelly-Golfman
5/7/2018
“The idea that the arts need to be something separate from your socially engaged life, or your community-based life, its really been created by institutions and it isn’t true. Every community… has been using the arts and creativity to thrive, since forever.”
Rebecca Kelly-Golfman is a facilitator, entrepreneur, theatre artist, and activist. She has spent her entire career figuring out how to integrate the arts and advocacy/activism work, and helping others to learn how to do this too....
Duration:00:33:57