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Some of the most interesting and inspiring stories I’ve heard are about people’s creative journeys and what they’ve learned along the way. The world needs to hear more of those stories, and now you can hear them on the Follow Your Curiosity podcast. Twice a month, you’ll hear a new interview where we delve into one person’s creative journey. Some of these folks will be better known than others, but they’ll all hold up a mirror to the importance of creative endeavor in every life. In the alternating weeks, you’ll hear short Creative Pep Talk episodes where I feature a creativity tool or tip to help you keep your creative energy flowing. You’ll find something you can use in every episode of Follow Your Curiosity!
Episodes
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
When the Covid pandemic started, all of us had to find new ways to keep busy. Shanti Hershenson, who was 12 at the time, decided to start taking writing seriously. Now 14, Shanti has not only written a remarkable 15 books, she’s done the work to self-publish and get those books into several independent bookstores. Shanti talks with me about why she didn’t tell anyone she had started writing, how her friends and family reacted, and how the young adult dystopian genre has shaped how young people see the world. She also shares her experiences using TikTok as a way to promote her work and help others start their own writing projects.
Check out the show notes at fycuriosity.com, and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! I also post pretty regularly on TikTok, and you can also listen on YouTube. And if you're feeling stuck in your own creative process, I made the Creative Tune-Up just for you!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register here.
Sign up for my monthly Gratitude and Wonder session here.
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
If you're not doing what you want to do because you think you're not ready or don't have what you need, might I very gently and lovingly suggest that you're wrong?
Please leave a review and in it, let us know what YOU are starting, from right where you are!
Want more tips? Check out this playlist with all my previous Creative Pep Talks!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register 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, which is full of my favorite coaching tools to help you get moving TODAY.
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
My guest this week is actor Colin Spaull, who began acting as a child and is still going strong. His early appearances include the role of Pip in Great Expectations and Peter in Heidi, and since then he’s been in everything from Coronation Street to Doctor Who. Colin talks with me about acting school, why he prefers theatre to television, his experience on The Murder Game, which had no script, and what it’s like to encounter the Cybermen close up on Doctor Who—and a lot more.
One correction: While Colin was the first actor to be in both classic Doctor Who and the new series, he's no longer the only one.
Check out the show notes at fycuriosity.com, and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! I also post pretty regularly on TikTok, and you can also listen on YouTube. And if you're feeling stuck in your own creative process, I made the Creative Tune-Up just for you!
Leave a review (and in it, tell us about your favorite actor)!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register here.
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
What can you do in five minutes? A LOT more than you think. Don't believe me? Let me explain--and then give it a try yourself!
Want more tips? Check out this playlist with all my previous Creative Pep Talks!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register here.
Join us for my monthly Gratitude and Wonder call (also free!) 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, which is full of my favorite coaching tools to help you get moving TODAY.
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
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 survive and thrive. Kevin now teaches the techniques he used to make big changes in his life to others as a life coach who has also developed a form of dulcimer-based meditation. We talk about what happens to us on the search for happiness, why we seem to get stuck so easily despite that quest, and how to focus on what feels good and let it inform the dreams we want to pursue. Kevin also treats us to some dulcimer-playing.
Check out the show notes at fycuriosity.com, and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! I also post pretty regularly on TikTok, and you can also listen on YouTube. And if you're feeling stuck in your own creative process, I made the Creative Tune-Up just for you!
Leave a review (and in it, tell us how music has moved you)!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register here.
Sign up for email notifications of coming events.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
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!
Want more tips? Check out this playlist with all my previous Creative Pep Talks!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register 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, which is full of my favorite coaching tools to help you get moving TODAY.
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
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 a meaningful life, including what leads us in the direction of meaning and how we get thrown off course. Those ideas also are the basis of his book, “Meaningfullfilled.” Dieter talks with me about everything from a concept of something bigger than ourselves to how our resistance to boredom can choke our creativity, and the importance of seeing each other as inherently worthy, valid human beings and listening to each other’s stories.
Check out the full show notes at fycuriosity.com, and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! I also post pretty regularly on TikTok, and you can also listen on YouTube. And if you're feeling stuck in your own creative process, I made the Creative Tune-Up just for you!
Leave a review (and in it, tell us about a meaningful moment in your life)!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register here.
Sign up for email notifications of coming events.
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Following up from last time: how my nephew's piano recital went, and what we can all learn from how he handled the unexpected.
As always, I love to hear your thoughts about what you've heard. Leave a review and tell me about a time when laughter saved you.
Want more tips? Check out this playlist with all my previous Creative Pep Talks!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register 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, which is full of my favorite coaching tools to help you get moving TODAY.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
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 she sent an email a few months ago about the intersection of creativity, and was leading a journaling workshop, I immediately wanted to know more about how she sees that intersection, so I invited her to the podcast.
As you’ll hear, we delve deep into the ways equity work and creativity are similar, which may surprise you—from perfectionism to self-judgment to how to use journaling as a tool for your own freedom as well as the collective good, you’ll find a lot to think on and explore.
I hope you’ll leave a review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts—but in that review, please tell us about the just, equitable world YOU want to build.
Check out the show notes at fycuriosity.com, and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! I also post pretty regularly on TikTok, and you can also listen on YouTube. And if you're feeling stuck in your own creative process, I made the Creative Tune-Up just for you!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register here.
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
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.
If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review! But in it, share your favorite Beatles lyrics with us so we can all check them out. (Your favorite song will do, too, if that's easier!)
Want more tips? Check out this playlist with all my previous Creative Pep Talks!
Get stuff DONE at my free Creative Check-In/Parallel Universe Time session. Register 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, which is full of my favorite coaching tools to help you get moving TODAY.