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Creative at the Wheel

by Julie Claire

Artists and creative professionals thrive in unconventionality. They reinvent themselves and find their way through impossible situations. In these interviews, we explore the grit and grace of their journey and discover what they hope to experience next!

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  1. How A Wasp From Texas Discovered Peruvian Shamanism with Barbara Snow

    Barbara Snow was born and lived most of her life in the States; she now lives in Villa Banba, Ecuador with her dogs and is a writer of what her friends call "science faction", crafting stories of process that enlighten and entertain. She has written and published around 20 books. Her biggest...

  2. From Zimbabwe To Scotland Against All Odds, Making and Teaching Art with Donald Hargrove

    Donald Hargrove's most recent collection of digital paintings "The Landscape of Origins" is an exquisite testimony to his connection to nature and the essence of life. From a young age, Donald Hargrove knew he wanted to be an artist. Born and raised in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia then), Donald's life was...

  3. My Surprising Life With Poetry with David Coleman

    David has been a ski patroller, has skied 21,000 feet in the Andes, has travelled to Tibet, Peru and to other parts of the world, has been a full time potter, an inventor and more recently a school bus driver. Through all of his different iterations, poetry has come with him, and has given him a...

  4. Gathering The Forces of Friends and Art Making with Poet Joan Logghe.

    Joan Logghe has lived a life of poetry in La Puebla, New Mexico. Santa Fe's poet laureate from 2010-2012, she is an exuberant story teller and well known around the world for her poetry and her art classes. In this conversation with Julie, she shares her experience of dealing with the harshest of...

  5. The Gospel of Thomas As My Workbook with Hannah Rappaport

    Hannah Rappaport made a dramatic exit from her conventional life as housewife and mother and entered the world of Gnosticism at the age of forty. Always someone who experienced visions, she experienced this initiation as her entrance into what she knew was her life's work, living true to her…

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  6. Decoupling My Identity From Work And Money with Danielle Cadhit

    This transformational tale is a fairy tale for modern times—how the young successful consultant found her way back to her love of life. After being successful as a corporate consultant to big pharma, Danielle Cadhit experienced burnout and went on a sabbatical where she prioritized her gut...

  7. How A One Way Ticket To New Zealand Changed My Life with Susie Pan

    Susie Pan was born in China, raised in Canada and has moved and travelled for much of her young life. She has now worked in seven countries and visited over 40 for startups and large corporations. In 2020, After 5 years working in Toronto, Susie quit her job, packed her life into 2 backpacks, and...

  8. I Could Have Been A VP But I Had To Dance with Sandi Scheuber

    Sandi Scheuber has lived parallel lives, one as a systems engineer for a large organization and the other as a dancer and choreographer. She has experienced times of great courage putting dance first along with many years of dance being after hours only. Here she shares with Julie the value of...

  9. Healing Illness Through a Restoration of the Feminine with Jill Ashley Hoffman

    Jill Ashley Hoffman is a Healing Artist and Transformational Coach supporting women on their healing journey through her Unlock Your Radiance retreats and mastery coaching program. She helps women discover their own inner healer. In 2012 Jill was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue and hypothyroidism....

  10. Following A Love of Theater and Changing How We work with Mental Health with Amy McDonald

    Amy McDonald lives in Glasgow Scotland and is the Founder and CEO of Headtorch, an organization dedicated to prioritizing mental health at work. Amy is a CEO but she is also an actress with a background in interactive theatre and has experience as a mediator and a coach. She has found a way to...

  11. Creating My Nomad Life with Robin Finney

    Robin Finney is an Intuitive & Authenticity guide for "Soulo" Experiences. She is also an Oracle card reader, Retreat Leader, author, world traveler, and founder of Wandering Aunt. But Robin didn't always live a bold, unconventional life. In 2015 she was working in a corporate job and confronting...

  12. Creatively Emerging From The Dark Night with Lisa Baker

    Lisa's life was changed from the inside out when she entered her 9 year journey through the dark night of her soul. Her relationship to "purpose" completely changed. As a life-long painter, she was surprised when she began to see animals and archetypal wisdom appearing in her paintings, returning...

  13. A Spiritual Awakening That Changed Everything with Cathy Black

    In 1998 Cathy Black was living in Taos New Mexico as a massage therapist when her inner life began to deepen and open up in a potent way. She then had a spiritual awakening experience that changed everything. Today, she continues to integrate her awakening into all that she does in the world.…

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  14. The Buddha That Transformed 11th Ave with Dan Stevenson

    In 2009 11th Avenue and 19th Street in Oakland was an intersection that attracted garbage dumping, and gatherings of street people whose energy was dark and divisive. It was in this environment that Dan and Lu Stevenson, living in the neighborhood, got the creative idea to install a Buddha statue...

  15. Guided By The Grandmothers with Andrea Menard

    Metis speaker, singer, writer and actor Andrea Menard sees her life as a medicine wheel, her creativity emerging from the four elements of her essential being. She shares how she made a deal with life early on—she would be courageous and have a voice as long as she was guided by wisdom and her...

  16. Humanity is Waking Up with SheEO Founder Vicki Saunders

    Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change-makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. Vicki is Founder of #radical generosity and SheEO, a global community of radically generous...

  17. Thriving As A Social Entrepreneur With Madeleine Shaw

    "We are living in a linear world and yet we are cyclical beings…We are in an override mode with our nervous systems and our minds…Yes we want solutions that work for the planet AND we need to not drive ourselves crazy or burn ourselves out as we approach those goals." Madeleine Shaw Madeleine...

  18. Reinventing How We Eat Fish with Skipper Otto‘s Sonia Strobel

    Sonia Strobel is cofounder and CEO of Skipper Otto, a community sustained fishery based in British Columbia, Canada. What was originally a personal response to help her father-in-law get a fair price for his (fishing) catch is now an international movement to revolutionize the seafood industry…

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  19. Cooking Up Change with Chef Pam Fanjoy

    Pam Fanjoy is a Canadian chef and a clinical social worker with a highly successful career working with children, adolescents and families for over 25 years. She now wisks in her culinary passions to her therapeutic work offering a completely innovative approach to well being. Pam and her team...

  20. Reiki Healing And A Life Reimagined With Michaela Daystar

    Michaela Daystar is the founder of HeartScapes where she teaches embodiment and energy practices for healing and transformation. The centerpoint of her work is the system of Reiki, taught from the perspective of its Japanese origins, and the intuitive arts practice SoulCollage™. Here Michaela…

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  21. Dancing With The Goddess with Padma Menon

    Padma Menon is a leading dancer in the Kuchipudi style of dance, which is an ancient Indian temple dance tradition. She has danced extensively in India, Australia and the Netherlands and developed one of the first professional non-western dance companies that had a national and international...

  22. How Meditation Changed Everything with Martin Stepek

    Martin Stepek's free weekly mindfulness class in his hometown of Hamilton Scotland was the largest of its kind in Britain for years. During the CoVID shutdowns, Martin went online and for 15 months he hosted a daily mindfulness experience on FaceBook live with as many as 3000 people attending at...

  23. Following The Thread Of The Horse with Sara Stenson

    Sara Stenson can't remember a time growing up when she wasn't riding horses—starting as a child on her family's ranch in Wyoming. Here she walks Julie through a serendipitous path of how working with horses became her livelihood and her calling in life. She started as a young massage therapist,...

  24. The Stories That Live In Our Bodies with Johanna Walker

    Johanna Walker performs and hosts poetry slams, has created solo theater pieces and has a career helping others find their voices. As a public speaking coach and trainer, Johanna has worked with adolescent girls, incarcerated women, senior adults, corporate CEOs, fledgling entrepreneurs, TEDx...

  25. Finding Great Purpose In Making Art with Mixed Media Artist Sarah Bush

    Sarah Bush is a mixed media and installation artist living in Taos, NM. She talks with Julie about how she transitioned from being a prolific and successful designer for twenty years to being a full-time artist. Making sense of her life through her artmaking, Sarah shares the impact of her mother...

  26. I Could Dance Before I Walked with Intuitive Guide Susheela Ramachandran

    Susheela Ramachandran awakens people through sound and play. She’s also an intuitive guide, multi-gifted artist, and the Co-host of the Global Table at Revolutionary Woman™. Here she talks with Julie about how her life’s work has emerged directly from her spiritual experiences and finding her way...

  27. Guided By The Grandmothers with Andrea Menard

    Metis speaker, singer, writer and actor Andrea Menard sees her life as a medicine wheel, her creativity emerging from the four elements of her essential being. She shares how she made a deal with life early on—she would be courageous and have a voice as long as she was guided by wisdom and her...

  28. Inspired by Trash: Recycled Materials and Creative Process with Sara Basehart

    Sara Basehart shares how recycled materials and creative process make beautiful art and a successful retail business in Taos New Mexico. Sara Basehart is an artist whose medium is recycling. After building an earth-ship with her husband in the high desert of Taos New Mexico, Sara became immersed…

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  29. What Improv Has Taught Me About Overcoming Fear with Lori Pearlstein

    Lori uses the principles of improv to help people feel more comfortable with being uncomfortable, overcome their fear of judgement, and develop the confidence to face challenges. In this conversation Julie and Lori trace how Lori’s professional journey required her to face her own fears and make...

  30. Born Into Art, A Taos, New Mexico Creative Ride-- with Georgia Gersh.

    Georgia shares how her early childhood years growing up on a commune with her well known artist parents began her journey with living with art and artists in a remarkable way. After years of engaging in theater and making art on her own, Georgia returned to Taos years later to open up a...

  31. Leaving Engineering For Design: Finding Purpose and Passion Leading from Within --with Jess Fan

    Jess talks with Julie about her discovery of the world of user design while in college and what her journey has been since then. She shares how she continues to tend both her creative self and her passion in re-imagining the future of global systems in her work as a systems change consultant.…

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  32. The Evolving Path of a Visual Scribe with Reilly Dow

    Reilly shares how her work as a visual scribe keeps evolving and is now primarily a place of deep listening and creative partnership. Her work has required she step into new contexts and collaborations and challenges her to stay open and curious about what might be possible. Reilly shows up to...

  33. Exploring How Human Centered Design is Changing Business with Arlene Mendoza

    Arlene Mendoza shares how she is inspired by connecting dots and observing patterns at the intersection of technology and emerging business models with a direct emphasis on serving our marginalized communities. The method of human centered design challenges the historical process of product...

  34. On Writing w/ Renee Gregorio

    Julie talks with her dear friend Renee Gregorio about the personal side of being a writer and how she approaches her writing and putting her writing out in the world. https://www.reneegregorio.com/ _____ Contact Julie: [email protected] www.PaintBigLiveBig.com

  35. The Impact of New Mexico's Landscapes on Artistic Creation w/ Julie Wagner

    Julie Wagner speaks of the impact of Northern New Mexico's wild landscape on her creative process. http://juliewagnerstudio.com/ _____ Contact Julie: [email protected] www.PaintBigLiveBig.com

  36. The Impact of Saying Yes to New Adventures w/ Bill Page

    Artist Bill Page shares his transformational journey over the last 5 decades and the ways in which creative adventures and saying “yes” have been a leading force in his life. Bill talks with Julie from his studio in Abiquiu New Mexico. _____ Contact Julie: [email protected]...

  37. Reclaiming Powerful Leadership Through Creativity w/ Mary Stacey

    Mary Stacey of Context Consulting shares her experience of the value of bringing creativity experiences like painting, writing haiku and music into her global leadership work. https://contextconsulting.com/context-mary-stacey/ _____ Contact Julie: [email protected] www.PaintBigLiveBig.com

  38. From Psychotherapist to Spiritual Healer w/ Wendy Havlir Cherry

    Julie talks with Wendy Havlir Cherry about her transformation from being a psychotherapist living in the Southwest to being an author and spiritual healer now based in North Carolina. Wendy’s most recent book is titled The Mistress of Longing. https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/about _____ Contact...

  39. Koans and Creative Practice w/ Piper Leigh

    Piper Leigh walks us through how the spiritual practice of koans has impacted her creative life. Her life as a poet, multi media artist and organizational creativity leader celebrate a sense of wandering, presence and spacious storytelling. http://piperleigh.us/ _____ Contact Julie:...

  40. Coming Through COVID as a Singer with a New Business w/ Zorea Rosewood

    Zorea Rosewood used to sing in the shower and work three jobs: the pandemic shut-downs stopped all that. Finding strength in what she has lived through as an immune compromised, African American, queer woman, Zorea has started a new business singing to elders and those who might be ready for more...

  41. Being a Female Documentary Filmmaker w/ Jilann Spitzmiller

    Jilann and Julie explore the ins and outs of what it takes to be a female documentary filmmaker. Jilann shares her experiences with Meow Wolf, and other great films. http://www.jilannspitzmiller.com/ _____ Contact Julie: [email protected] www.PaintBigLiveBig.com

  42. Bringing Montessori and Creative Brand Strategy Together w/ Nadia Payan

    Nadia shares how her jobs as a Montessori teacher and a creative brand strategist share the same essential perspective on creativity, play, and being who you truly are. Born from immigrant parents, Nadia has found her own unique way of combining hard work and being very good at self-care with...

  43. Committing to the Inner Artist w/ Fateme Banishoelb

    Fateme was completely immersed in doing and achieving while working as a PhD Chemist & top-level strategist for a pharmaceutical company. Then her book of flow poetry came tumbling out. She experienced writing The Whisper as a remembering. She remembered herself as a young girl who wanted to be 3...

  44. Healing Grief and Addiction Through Creative Expression w/ Adriana Marchione

    Adriana Marchione talks with Julie about how powerful it can be to use creative expression to move through grief and addiction by sharing her personal experience. Adriana is currently working on a film project called The Creative High which inquires into the lives of artists who have faced...

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Artists and creative professionals thrive in unconventionality. They reinvent themselves and find their way through impossible situations. In these interviews, we explore the grit and grace of their journey and discover what they hope to experience next!

HOSTED BY

Julie Claire

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Artists and creative professionals thrive in unconventionality. They reinvent themselves and find their way through impossible situations. In these interviews, we explore the grit and grace of their journey and discover what they hope to experience next!

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