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Everyday Creative People
by Dena Adriance
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
Episodes
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Roger Nierenberg on music, conducting, and what it can teach us about leadership
“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...
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Kristin Richardson Jordan on choosing love
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...
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Kofi Oduro on finding creativity in unexpected places
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...
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Ben Falcon on painting bikes, playing with legos, and working in New York City
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…
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Vessna Scheff, on following your heart
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...
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Stephanie Simpson on Creative Stress Management
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...
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Todd Emaus on the role of play, connection, and belonging in business
“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...
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Carving out time for art with Heather Kirtland and Marissa Huber
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...
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Claiming your creativity (and recovering from burnout) with Rosita Choy
“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…
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The Power of Play with Chloe Varelidi
“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…
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Lifting up community through creativity, with Steve Lucin
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,...
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Curiosity, Courage, and Taking Big Leaps with Katie Visco
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…
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When Creativity is Hard with Rebecca Davis
“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…
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Leadership and Innovation with Saleema Vellani
“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...
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Welcome back for Season 2!
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!
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The Magic of Glasswork with Anita Merina
“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...
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The power of joy, creativity and healing through movement with Tatiana Zamir
“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…
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Alexandra Zsigmond – On creative recovery
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...
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Natalia Zamparini on loss, overcoming fear, and defining career on your own terms
“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…
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The essential integration of arts, advocacy, and community life, with Rebecca Kelly-Golfman
“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…
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Freelancing, side hustles, social media, and acting, with Hilary Sutton
“I’m at the point where a gig is not just a gig anymore. I have to ask myself, am I getting so caught up in the ‘paying the bills’ jobs, or am I making time for what really energizes me? It’s a constant tight rope.” Hilary Sutton is a writer, speaker, consultant, coach, and sometimes actor. She...
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“If you’re gonna go, go all the way” with Tomislav Benzon
Tomislav “Tom” Benzon taught himself how to play guitar in high school, winning his first band competition only two weeks after forming the band, at a time when Tom himself knew only a few chords. The audacity and sheer determination behind this win is a theme seen over and over again, throughout...
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Miriam Castillo on tapping into creative capacity and being a multi-focused professional
What does it look like to have a healthy creative career that brings together a wide variety of different mediums and practices under one umbrella? I think Miriam Castillo gives us a pretty good picture of success with a portfolio of careers. As a visual designer and illustrator who also teaches...
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Majella Mark – Data Storyteller, Social Justice Creative, Womanist
What is your reason for creating? Majella Mark was raised by artist-activist parents who instilled a strong sense of social justice in her from a young age, and this has been a clear driving force behind her own creative ventures. By day, Majella is an analytics professional in New York City,...
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Erica Soultanian on entrepreneurship, fear of failure, and when to take the leap
This week’s guest is practicing creativity in a slightly different way from many of the folks on this podcast so far. Erica Soultanian is a co-founder of Mission Collaborative, a DC-based organization that helps professionals design careers they love through workshops and immersive programming....
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Caroline Watters – Being the Magic Behind the Curtain
“It’s a very weird job because you do all this work, and your whole life is engulfed in the show that you’re working on and every bit of attention to detail, and most of the people who come to the show have no idea that you exist… Most people know there’s carpenters, or there’s lighting people –...
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Ballet, choreography, and finding your place in the world with Claudia Schreier
“Once I left college, I was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do. And I think for a lot of “former dancers” that becomes an issue, because when you’ve put every fibre of your being into your art form since whenever you started – at 3, 5, 13, or whatever – ballet is all-encompassing in a...
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Natasha May Platt on the Fashion, Embroidery, Muraling, and Persistence
“It’s kind of like falling in love, you know? it’s like, oh my god this is the person! And then you go through all the difficult moments and you remember that first moment and you’re like, ok, this is worth working on because I felt very strongly about this at one point. And it’s kind of the same...
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Ben Blum on “humble food”, constraints, and giving it your all
“When you look at Thai cuisine and even Taiwanese cuisine, the use of things like the offcuts of meat and stuff like that, it’s like ok, this is literally something that most of the world will throw away. How do you make it delicious? And how do you make it so that you can sustain not only…
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Clare McNamara on redefining failure and managing Imposter Syndrome
“I needed to know that it wasn’t going to somehow be a failure if I tried this thing where there was no guarantee of success… if simply the attempt to do something would be seen as enough of a good thing, whether it led to any future in that subject or not. I knew that I would regret it one day…
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Anousheh on illness, overnight success, and creative blocks – Ep. 009
Join me as I chat with Grammy-nominated songwriter Anousheh about what happens when a major illness upends your life, evolving expectations after a big success, day jobs that capitalize on your creative strengths, and much more. Anousheh has captivated audiences both overseas and in her hometown…
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JM – Ep. 008
This week’s guest is J.M., a fellow theatre kid from my college years. Today, J.M. is a physicist and the author of the political webcomic Doomed To Repeat it. They have always enjoyed drawing and cartooning and harbors a deep love of political and historical analysis. This is not J.M.’s first…
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Eric Harper – Ep. 007
At the age of 7, Eric Harper was struck dumb by a piece of music he heard playing on the radio – and he immediately knew that he would do anything if he could figure out how to give people that same feeling. In today’s episode, Eric gets real about the sacrifices he has made and lessons he’s...
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Lisa Hanash – Ep. 006
This week I spoke with creative catalyst and painter Lisa Hanash, about embracing your artist self and becoming ok with imperfection. From a young age, Lisa has always appreciated the beauty around her. From her trip to Europe in 2012 to the bottom of her street in the Lachine neighborhood of...
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Justin Sky – Ep. 005
Multi-dimensional LA-based artist, writer, composer, and performer Justin Sky, is not afraid to try his hand at whatever new creative medium will best serve his purpose. In my conversation with Justin I found him to be deeply spiritual – we talked a lot about opening yourself up to the creator...
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Michael Burgos – Ep. 004
Michael Burgos is an internationally acclaimed writer and performer. His one-person show, The Eulogy, is a six-time internationally award-winning comedic play and has been performed nearly 150 times in 25 cities worldwide. He holds a Diplôme from École Philippe Gaulier and a B.A. in Theater from...
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Cat Francis – Ep. 003
Cat Francis is a singer/songwriter and musician from Brooklyn, New York. At a very young age she expressed a passion for poetry writing, arts, religion, and philosophy – publishing her first poem at age 11. Her love for writing led her to learn how to play the acoustic guitar, and piano. In 2015...
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Anaïs Maranda – Ep. 002
Anaïs Maranda is a musician from Quebec City who has been living in Montreal for 10 years. She loves to contemplate the why and how of creating, and to understand a little better techniques to achieve these projects. She hosts the Podcast Muse, teaches singing, works on her music, and works as a...
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Awais Javed – Ep. 001
Awais Javed is a neurobiologist studying the development of the retina for his PhD. He is a first-generation Saudi-born Pakistani who has been fortunate enough to live and travel to the U.K and Canada for his studies. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, Awais had zero exposure to the act of artistic...
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Welcome to Everyday Creative People! – Ep. 000
I’m so psyched to announce the launch of my brand new podcast, Everyday Creative People! I created this podcast because I think there are a lot of misconceptions out there about what it means to be a creator, and who gets to be put up on a pedestal and given the label of “artist.” I believe that...
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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
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Dena Adriance
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