The Creative Superheroes Podcast

Lily Womble is an intersectional feminist dating coach and founder of Date Brazen. She has led thousands of badass, feminist women around the world to build dating lives that feel like self-care, that also lead to extraordinary love. Lily is the author of the book: Thank You, More Please: A Feminist Guide to Breaking Dumb Dating Rules and Finding Love. Her website is here: https://www.datebrazen.com/ You can get her book here: https://amzn.to/4dy4zdG    

Shantini Rajah is a writing and manifesting mentor and energy practitioner. She loves helping conscious entrepreneurs find their true voice and manifest a life and business they love.  Her brand new book is called Manifest Anything You Want: Six magical steps to creating an Extraordinary Life. You can find out more here: www.manifestanythingyouwantbook.com  

In The Good Eater, Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan) Nina Guilbeault, PhD vividly explores the movement's history and its present-day tensions by grappling with the most fundamental question of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat? What emerges is a fascinating portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates-and our planet.

James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR's Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont.  http://www.jamescrews.net

Jeff Hamaoui is Co-Founder and Chief Education and Innovation Officer of Modern Elder Academy, the first-ever ‘midlife wisdom school.' Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, Modern Elder Academy (MEA) supports students to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.  With prior roles at NASA, IKEA, and Nike before permanently landing in Baja at MEA in midlife, Hamaoui is a seasoned teacher and master facilitator with an entrepreneurial mind, teacher's heart, and seeker's soul.  Hamaoui is also the founder of Baja Sage, MEA's adjacent residential community. This new type of community utilizes regenerative principles to support flourishing and resiliency across the entire community.  

Jen Ripa is a grief guide, artist, and hope catalyst who supports women who have experienced the death of a significant person in their lives to create a path forward that is hopeful, joy filled,and meaningful. Creative Cocoon Community  www.creativecocoon.org

Ellen Fondiler is an award-winning entrepreneur and career coach. She is the co-host of the podcast, Chart Your Career, which brings weekly astrology and career advice to listeners. Ellen is a certified Designing Your Life coach and certified Wild Writing™ instructor. Typically, clients hire her when they want something really badly… but … they're feeling overwhelmed about how to make it happen. Ellen helps them set goals, get unstuck, and get things moving in the direction they want. She has worked as a death penalty attorney, launched four businesses, and has raised millions for charities and nonprofits. She's living proof that your career can evolve over time and you don't have to remain stuck doing “just one thing” for the rest of your life.   You can learn more about Ellen on her website or follow her on Substack or Instagram. Check out her private coaching offerings and her signature year-long program .   

Eric FitzMedrud is a therapist specializing in relationship and sexual issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. His specialty is helping men improve their sex lives by learning to regulate their emotions, removing sexual entitlement, and honing their sexual consent and negotiation skills. You can find out more about Eric's work here: https://www.drericfitz.com/

Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and the author of several best-selling journals, including Start Where You Are. She is also the author of How it Feels to Find Yourself: Navigating Life's Changes with Purpose, Clarity, and Heart, a book of illustrated essays. She creates work that encourages others to connect with themselves, one another, and the world around them. She lives with her family in Saint Louis, Missouri.    For more information, see MeeraLee.com  

Lisa Anderson Shaffer is a seasoned guide for creative professionals, empowering them to cultivate their genius, unlock unprecedented success, and find profound fulfillment through the transformative practices of Human Design and Energy Work.

If you want to find Dante's incredible work, you can find them here: https://www.instagram.com/radicalpsychicservices/

Juna Mustad is a somatic coach, an intuitive and a teacher of emotional intelligence. You can see her Ted Talk about mindful anger here: https://www.ted.com/talks/juna_mustad_anger_is_your_ally_a_mindful_approach_to_anger

Peggy Fitzsimmons holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University, and has worked in the fields of counseling and healing for over 25 years. Peggy counseled adolescents and adults with mental health and addiction issues in a variety of clinical settings, including private practice, wilderness therapy, psychiatric inpatient, and residential treatment. She expanded her clinical work to include holistic and mind-body approaches by training for several years in Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy, as well as Intuition Medicine®, a practice of intuitive energy healing.  Peggy also lived and worked at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York and was a consulting producer on Oprah Winfrey's Emmy-winning TV series Super Soul Sunday. In addition, she has utilized her expertise to help many people “get their houses in order” through intensive decluttering.  In her book Release: Create a Clutter Free and Soul Driven Life,Peggy shares her vast knowledge and practical insights about decluttering with readers who want to improve their lives— by freeing themselves from clutter and living in alignment with their true soul nature. 

Annie Wright is a licensed psychotherapist deeply committed to supporting the well-being of those who, while they didn't come from the best childhoods, long to finally create wonderful adulthoods for themselves. She's a national expert in relational trauma recovery, specifically supporting the adult children of the mood- and personality-disordered to help them explore, heal, and move forward from their pasts towards a future that feels whole and beautiful no matter where they started from. She owns and runs a boutique therapy center in Berkeley where she offers one-on-one therapy services and where she also oversees her staff of talented, trauma-informed clinicians. In addition to this, Annie is a published mental health author, and she produces digital content and online courses designed to support relational trauma recovery.  

Nina Badzin hosts the podcast, Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. A freelance writer and a writing group leader at ModernWell in Minneapolis, Nina has been writing about friendship since 2014, which she does currently on Substack at Dear Nina. 

Listen in to this great conversation about adult friendship with expert Kat Vellos! The Friendship Course starts Friday, May 26th. You can find out more details and register here.   Kat Vellos is a trusted expert on the power of cultivating meaningful friendships. She's a speaker and author of the book, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships. She's also the creator of the Better than Small Talk conversation cards and the Better Conversations Calendar. 

This is a preview of what you'll find in the The Friendship Course with Andrea Scher and Kelly Rae Roberts. Class starts May 26th, 2023! You can find out more here! http://www.andreascher.com/friendship-course/

Big news! Waaaaay back in 2008 @kellyraeroberts and I shared an art studio in Berkeley. We had only met a few weeks before at a gathering of women who had been blogging since the early days. There was a moment when a comment was made about me in the circle and it stung. I don't actually remember the comment and of course it doesn't matter anyway! What I do remember is that Kelly (who was seated next to me on the couch) reached over without saying a word and squeezed my hand. In that one gesture, she communicated so much to me. “I see you. I've got you.” And that's when we became friends. @kellyraeroberts and I have supported one another for all these years since - in creating online courses and workshops and just generally masterminding together in our creative businesses. We have launched dozens of offerings and led thousands of women through learning experiences online. We have always wanted to collaborate together, but nothing ever stuck - until now! https://www.andreascher.com/idea-to-done/ AND YOU ARE INVITED!

SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is a bestselling author, artist, inspirationalist and acclaimed teacher and mentor. Her purpose in life is to be an uplifter, transformer and laser beam of love- she offers that with love through her art, words and spirit.

Originally from New Jersey, Maggie Doyne has dedicated her life to educating children and empowering women. At age 19, Maggie used her life savings to build a home for orphaned children in war-ravaged Nepal. Maggie then created the BlinkNow Foundation to sustain, grow, and support Kopila Valley Children's Home and School in Nepal, and to serve as a vehicle to share her ideas with the world. She believes that in the blink of an eye, we can all make a difference. Her work was championed by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine. She has been recognized by  Elizabeth Gilbert, Katie Couric, and Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex. She shares her memoir in Between the Mountain and the Sky: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, Healing, and Hope.

Katy Sewall is a radio producer and host. When she moved to Rome, it was after 11 years at KUOW Public Radio, NPR Seattle, where she was Senior Producer (and occasional host) of Weekday with Steve Scher. She has interned with RadioLab and toured with A Prairie Home Companion. Her series The Radio Retrospective, about radio's Golden Age, has aired on radio stations all over the United States. She also a writer and a podcast consultant. Reach her at radiokaty at gmail.com.

Justin Talbot Zorn has served as both a policymaker and a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress. A Harvard- and Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of well-being, Justin has written for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He is cofounder of Astrea Strategies, a consultancy that bridges contemplation and action, helping leaders and teams envision and communicate solutions to complex challenges. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife and three children. Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, corporations, and federal agencies as well as a longtime student of pioneering researchers and practitioners of the ritualized use of psychedelic medicines in the West. In her professional work, she has led diverse initiatives, including a training program to promote an experimental mindset among teams at NASA and a decade-long cross-sector collaboration to reduce toxic chemicals in products, in partnership with Green Science Policy Institute, Harvard University, IKEA, Google, and Kaiser Permanente. She is the cofounder of Astrea Strategies. Leigh lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and daughter.

Darshana Avila is a somatic sex and intimacy coach and has created the Map of Erotic Wholeness as a path to personal liberation in service to our collective sexual liberation. Her unique style of somatic sex and intimacy coaching weaves together an integral approach drawing upon trauma-informed, nature-based, and a justice-oriented approach – all of which invites more presence, pleasure, and passion into the lives and relationships of those she guides. Website: darshanaavila.com Instagram: @EroticWholeness  Netflix: Sex, Love and Goop -- Watch the trailer here 

Katarina (Kato) Wittich has had the great privilege to act as a midwife for many other humans as they journey toward wholeness and self love. She is a certified Rosen Practitioner, Yuen Practitioner, and Family Constellations Facilitator. It is her joy to be a perpetual student of the mystery and beauty of humanness, of our experience of ourselves as separate, and yet woven together in ways we can barely comprehend but can directly experience through the group practice of Constellations.   Her work is featured in episode five of the Netflix series "Sex, Love & Goop", in which she leads constellations for a couple who wish to avoid repeating the inherited family patterns which have damaged their previous relationships. Kato is grateful to have had the opportunity to facilitate in the first mainstream television exposure for this profound and life changing work, in which you can witness the impossible wonder of our interconnectedness, unlimited by time or physicality.  For more information watch the episode on Netflix or go to RosenConstellations.com    In the rest of her life, she is a screenwriter, director, painter, dancer and general lover of all things creative, embodied and human.  

Kristin Condon is an actress, former ballet dancer and current inspirational mover of bodies on Openfit/Myx Fitness digital platform where she teaches Pilates and yoga, and how to treat your body and your mind with a little more grace, dignity and joy. To balance out all that movement, she also loves to get still in a soundproof booth to bring books to life through a microphone, which she has been doing for over seven years. She splits her time between Red Hook, Brooklyn and a little cabin in Milford, PA.   

Lea Redmond reveals the extraordinary hiding in the ordinary: a saltshaker, a penny, hand gestures, clouds. Lea creates books, toys, games and small adventures that invite humans of all ages to be curious, playful, and kind. Visit Lea's world of wonder at LeaRedmond.com.  

Jeffrey Davis is an author, team culture consultant, educator, and CEO of Tracking Wonder Consultancy. For over 25 years, he's inspired thousands of change-makers, leaders, and creatives to unlock their best ideas through the pursuit of curiosity, innovation, and wonder. He is the author of the books Tracking Wonder (Coming out with Sounds True in November, 2021), The Journey from the Center to the Page (Penguin; Monkfish Publishing) the poetry collections City Reservoir (BarnBurner Press) and Coat Thief (Saint Julian Press), and other books. Jeffrey believes in the power of wonder to transform lives, spark influence, and help human beings thrive creatively in times of rampant challenge and change. Ultimately, he challenges people not to give up on their ideals and dreams. He lives with his wife and two daughters in a farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of New York. To learn more, visit trackingwonder.com.

Andrea Scher is an author, artist and life coach whose work is driven by her belief in the transformative power of creativity for joy and wellbeing. For nearly two decades, through her award-winning blog Superhero Journal, her Creative Superheroes podcast, and her bestselling e-courses, Andrea has thrilled others with their own power to find magic all around them. Her new book, Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy (HarperCollins) straddles the world of creativity and mindfulness - playfully inspiring readers to live more vibrant lives full of presence, joy and connection.  You can learn more about Andrea on her website or follow her on Instagram!

Gavin Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, which has over 55,000 members in 120 countries. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Cloudspotter's Guide and Cloud Collector's Handbook as well as A Cloud A Day. 

Karen Walrond is a lawyer, leadership coach, activist, and senior director for global engagement for the Brené Brown Education and Research Group. A Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator, Walrond has helped thousands of people around the world find purpose and meaning in their work. As a photographer, she traveled throughout Africa with the ONE Campaign and serves on the board for the Houston Coalition Against Hate. Walrond and her work have been featured on PBS, Huffington Post, CNN.com, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her award-winning blog, Chookooloonks, is a lifestyle, inspiration, and photography destination. A sought-after speaker, Karen is the host of the highly rated podcast The Make Light Show, the author of The Beauty of Different, and a contributor to Disquiet Time and Expressive Photography. Karen, her husband, and their daughter live in Houston, Texas.

Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, award-winning author, executive producer, and host of one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world, Good Life Project®. We will be chatting today about his latest book, SPARKED: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive is both a rally cry and a field guide to reclaiming work as a source of meaning, joy, and possibility. 

Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of Party of Two, The Wedding Date, The Proposal, The Wedding Party, Royal Holiday, and Party of Two. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and Time. She lives in Oakland, California.

Meredith Arthur, a San Francisco-based writer and video producer, has experienced stress in all of its incarnations and lived to tell this tale. Currently a Content Lead at Pinterest, Meredith has worked at tech companies large and small. An early pioneer of “getting people to talk about mental health in a normal way,” Meredith created the website Beautiful Voyager in 2015 for overthinkers, perfectionists, and people pleasers.  And most recently, she just came out with her first book called: Get Out of My Head  Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious World.  

Chris Guillebeau [Gil-a-bow] is the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, Side Hustle, The Happiness of Pursuit, and other books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday.   His daily podcast, Side Hustle School, is downloaded more than two million times a month. He is also the founder of the World Domination Summit, an event for cultural creatives that attracts thousands of attendees to Portland, Oregon every summer. Chris's new book, THE MONEY TREE, is his first work of fiction.

Fritzi Horstman is the Founder and Executive Director of the Compassion Prison Project - an organization dedicated to bringing compassion, childhood trauma awareness and creative inspiration to all men and women living behind bars. She is currently directing “Step Inside the Circle,” a documentary about childhood trauma behind bars. The PSA created from some of the footage from the documentary has already received over 2 million views across all platforms. If you haven't seen it already, you can check it out here.

Tracy Verdugo is an inspiration instigator, prolific painter, bestselling author of Paint Mojo, smitten traveller and soaker up of all that is beauty-full. She teaches her Paint Mojo and other creative workshops all over the world and reminds her students of the wonder that already resides within them. 

Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including, Bring Your Whole Self to Work and We're All in This Together.  He delivers keynotes and seminars that empower people, leaders, teams, and organizations to be more successful, appreciative, and authentic. Prior to his current work, Mike played baseball at Stanford and then professionally with the Kansas City Royals.  After his athletic career was cut short by injuries, he worked in the tech world, before starting his consulting business in 2001.  His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Gap, Microsoft, and others.  www.Mike-Robbins.com  

Keri Smith is the author and illustrator of several bestselling books including “Wreck this Journal”, “This is not a Book”, “How to be an Explorer of the World”; and many more.  She spends her time making things out of discarded stuff she finds.  She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband Jefferson Pitcher and their two children.

Danny Gregory has written 12 internationally best-selling books on art and creativity. Including Everyday Matters, Art Before Breakfast +  his newest book How to Draw Without Talent. He is the co-founder of Sketchbook Skool with tens of thousands of students worldwide.  Through his books and in the large online communities he oversees, Danny has shown people how to ignite their inner artists, embrace their creativity and tell the stories of their lives.  

Flora Bowley is a painter, pioneer, gentle guide, and author of two popular books, Brave Intuitive Painting and Creative Revolution. She believes creativity holds the power to awaken, empower, heal, and transform, and she's here to remind us that all humans were born to create. If you're craving connection and creative inspiration, Flora Bowley is offering free virtual gatherings every Wednesday at 4 pm PT and Saturday at 10 am PT. Join Flora (virtually) in her Portland studio for Together Apart, a nourishing blend of movement, meditation, and intuitive painting. Paint along with Flora at home or simply enjoy watching a painting come to life. Beginners are welcome! All the links to the live-steams and archived replays can be found on Flora's website: florabowley.com/together-apart. 

Annie Wright, LMFT is the founder and clinical director of Evergreen Counseling - a therapy center located in Berkeley, California - as well a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in complex relational trauma. She's also a published writer with pieces and opinions appearing in Forbes, NBC, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Reader's Digest and more.   

Nick Onken is a world renowned photographer, creative entrepreneur devoted to inspiring the world to create their moments. Nick's current mission is to refine and explore the intersection of Creativity, Consciousness, and Culture. Lead by the belief that one should live a creative life in color.  

Lisa Congdon is a Portland, Oregon-based fine artist, illustrator and author known internationally for her colorful drawings and hand lettering. Her playful work is  recognized for its vibrant palettes, geometric patterns and uplifting messages. She is the author of eight books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist and her latest book Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic. 

Traci Ruble is a San Francisco based psychotherapist and founder / director of Sidewalk Talk, a global street listening non-profit. You can get involved with this awesome organization here!

Designer Amy Butler is a global ambassador of beauty. A prolific artist, storyteller, and creative visionary, Amy seeks to uplift people, to create products that enrich peoples' lives, and inspire others to seek out and grow their own creativity.   

Terry Grahl is the Founder, Visionary and CEO of Enchanted Makeovers. She leads teams of volunteers in helping to adorn shelters from women + families affected by domestic violence. And when I heard a wee bit about her story, I found it incredibly inspiring and wanted to share it with you.  

Dr. Shauna Shapiro is a clinical psychologist, author and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. She is a professor at Santa Clara University and has published over 150 papers and three critically acclaimed books, translated into 16 languages. Her most recent book Good Morning I Love you is what we will be chatting about today!  

Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles. She writes about spirituality in everyday life. Her books include: Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden,  Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life , and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood.

Peggy Orenstein is a New York Times best-selling author whose books include Don't Call Me Princess, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. Her latest, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent and Navigating the New Masculinity is out now.

Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy.  Karla is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the new Dynamic Emotional Integration Workbook® (2018).

Katherine Center is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire, as well as five others, including Happiness for Beginners and The Bright Side of Disaster. Her fourth novel, The Lost Husband, is soon to be a movie starring Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel. Katherine has been compared to both Nora Ephron and Jane Austen, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Katherine recently gave a TEDx talk on how stories teach us empathy, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, USA Today, InStyle, Redbook, People, The Atlantic, Real Simple, and others. Katherine lives in Houston with her husband and two sweet kids. Visit her online at www.katherinecenter.com!