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English
United States
29 episodes
since Dec. 5, 2023
episodic

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In this episode, Ollie Page Linden, nonbinary cartoonist and maker talks about how they use art to navigate the arghs and ahhhs of existing. Ollie shares about how mediums including diary comics help them with self expression, navigating queerness, and coping with our increasingly fascist country (…

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In this episode, Lou Gervais—artist, writer, and traveler—shares about how creativity has affected their life. Lou gives examples of how they use their creativity to spark joy in their community. They reflect on how they worked through perfectionism around art. They also share how they’ve used art …
Adelia C. Schleusz, founder of What If LAB, LLC, a next-gen creative consultancy, is a licensed and registered interior designer whose 25-year career spans commercial design, arts, research, behavioral psychology, and sensory design. Her work is rooted in curiosity—asking “what if?” as a way of sha…
What if creativity isn’t about waiting for inspiration, but about learning to see the world in new ways? In this episode, I sit down with Keith Sawyer—psychologist, jazz pianist, and author of Learning to See: Inside the World’s Leading Art and Design Schools—to explore how improvisation, iteration…
This episode of Creative Life explores the profound impact of dehumanizing language and its alarming potential to escalate from words to violence. Dehumanizing language, often dismissed as harmless, serves as a precursor to conflict and division, laying the groundwork for systemic harm. Historica…
This episode is all about the healing power of nature, the lessons we can learn from it, and many ways both big and small that we can bring more nature into our lives. ***Edit: The EPA study showed the air is 2-5 times more polluted inside than outside (for the pollutants they tested for), not 2-…
In this episode, poet and psychologist Fred Gerhard shares how poetry has positively affected his life, from helping him process emotions to building community and more. Check out fredgerhard.com to get his book and read about his upcoming events such as his book launch events for Drifting to "He…
This episode is all about the transformative power of art, specifically in relation to perfectionism. All art is simultaneously perfect and imperfect. Exploring feelings around allowing your art to be imperfect is a kind of exposure therapy. The more you lean into the discomfort of it, the easier i…
Listen to this episode on Lionel Cole's moving philosophy about healing the world through music and much more! Check out Lionel at lionelandtheswingersclub.com and his new record Small Town Volume 1 that just dropped May 1st at lionelcolemusic.com. You can see him live at 54 Below in NYC on May 1…
This episode is all about the transformative power of singing for both physical and mental well-being. Activities like singing activate the vagus nerve, a nerve that regulates our stress and relaxation responses. From enhancing mood regulation to strengthening heart and lung function (and much more…
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