Podcasts about creative quest

In the ever-evolving landscape of art and technology, the fusion of creativity and artificial intelligence is opening new horizons for artists worldwide. In a recent episode of Creative Genius, host Kate Shepherd engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Troy Plota, the visionary behind Plotaverse, exploring how AI can serve as a powerful ally in the creative process.The Intersection of Art and Technology:Troy Plota's journey from a seasoned photographer to the founder of a groundbreaking digital platform exemplifies the transformative potential of embracing technological advancements. Plotaverse, his innovative app, brought motion to still images, captivating audiences and achieving remarkable success with over 10 million downloads. Democratizing Creativity:A central theme in the discussion is the democratization of art through AI. Troy emphasizes that AI tools can empower individuals with creative visions but limited resources, enabling them to bring their ideas to life without the need for substantial budgets or technical expertise.Spiritual Insights and Creative Inspiration:Beyond technology, the conversation delves into the spiritual dimensions of creativity. Troy shares a profound personal experience where he was inspired by a dream, awakening with a complete screenplay in mind. This narrative underscores the mysterious and often transcendent nature of artistic inspiration.Building Creative Communities:The episode also highlights the importance of community and service in the artistic journey. Troy discusses how platforms like Plotaverse can foster connections among artists, creating supportive environments that nurture creativity and innovation.The dialogue between Kate Shepherd and Troy Plota offers valuable insights into how embracing AI can enhance, rather than hinder, human creativity. By viewing technology as a collaborative partner, artists can unlock new realms of expression and contribute to a vibrant, inclusive creative landscape.To explore more about Troy Plota's work, visit PlotaverseKey Topics:The inception and impact of PlotaverseAI as a tool for creative empowermentBalancing technology with human artistrySpiritual insights and their influence on creativityBuilding communities through shared artistic endeavorsNotable Quotes:"Creativity is a universal calling.""AI can enhance creativity rather than replace it.""Community and service to others can help combat fear and anxiety."Resources:Plotaverse Official WebsiteTroy Plota's Personal SiteDor Brothers Video MentionedGuest Bio:Troy Plota is a seasoned photographer and digital artist with over 30 years of experience. He is the founder of Plotaverse, a platform that revolutionized digital art by animating still images, garnering over 10 million downloads and reaching #1 in the App Store. Troy's work has been featured in prominent publications like Vanity Fair, GQ, and Rolling Stone. Episode Highlights:Discussion on the role of AI in democratizing creativityInsights into the development and success of PlotaverseExploration of spiritual experiences influencing artistic endeavorsEmphasis on building supportive creative communitiesSubscribe to Creative Genius, leave a review, and support us on Patreon at patreon.com/creativegeniuspodcast.

This episode features an in-depth conversation with Oscar Yaquian, a potter known for his monster-themed pottery. Oscar discusses his journey from sculpting in childhood to embracing ceramics in high school, and how various techniques keep his work exciting. He shares insights on starting with a basic form before adding details, utilizing social media for promotion, and the transition to becoming a full-time potter. Oscar emphasizes the importance of enjoying the process, constantly creating, and finding a unique style. The discussion covers technical advice on pottery, leveraging social media for business growth, and personal reflections on finding one's voice in art. You can learn more about Oscar by checking out his instagram here https://www.instagram.com/oscaryaquian/ Join The Shaping Your Pottery Newsletter To Dive Deeper Into New Pottery Techniques By Clicking This Link Here

Join us on a riveting journey with Caitlin Henning, a visionary voice actor and Creative Director whose talents stretch from the lively streets of Benoni, South Africa, to the innovative forefront of AI, VR, and tech. In this episode, Caitlin opens up about her award-winning path in video editing, her passion for breathing life into characters with her voice, and the creativity behind her acclaimed short films.Discover how a girl from Benoni became a sought-after editor in Dubai, earning accolades at international film festivals. Immerse yourself in the stories of her dynamic vocal abilities, and get personal as Caitlin shares her love for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, her flair for crafting authentic pasta dishes, and the joys of tending to her garden.Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a film buff, or simply someone who appreciates the dedication to craft, this episode is your passport to the world of a creator who lives to innovate and inspire.Caitlin Henning, Voice Actor, Creative Director, AI, VR, Tech, Video Editing, Short Films, Dubai, American Golden Picture Film Festival, Orlando, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Gardening, Authentic Pasta, Benoni, South Africa#CaitlinHenning #CreativeDirector #VoiceActing #TechInnovation #FilmEditing #AIandVR #SouthAfricanTalent #BenoniToTheWorld #GardeningLife #BJJLifestyle #PastaConnoisseur #FilmFestivalWinner #StoryBehindTheVoice #NJPodcastDon't forget to subscribe and follow us to catch every episode. Connect with Caitlin on Instagram @caitewhispers to see more of her incredible work and daily adventures.

Today I expand on a recent TikTok I created about overcoming creative resistance. The idea of resistance is based on Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art. If you are an insecure creative like me — terrified of bringing your ideas to life because of self-doubt, perfectionism, avoidance, anxiety, how can you overcome your creative resistance? By leaning on forces much greater than you, such as spirituality, serving the collective, and becoming a student of nature.

I'm reading two books on the topic of creativity, Creative Quest, by Questlove, and The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida. Creative Quest is a fairly recent release and it's a personal exploration of his creative process as a musician, a creator, a DJ, and other roles the Roots drummer plays. The Rise of the Creative Class has an updated second edition that was released within the past few years. It's more about the segment of our economy and labor market that is made up of creative people. Both books have opinions on definitions of creativity, and like all books on the subject, there is more to the mystery of the thing than words can capture or articulate. It brought to mind the difference between learning about creativity and actually having creative experiences. I have some friends who have taken university-level classes on creativity, and their own creative output didn't seem to benefit from the education. I haven't found the book on creativity yet that has actually enhanced my experience of creativity, or made it more enjoyable or effective. And every time I've tried to improve my creative process, I've ended up falling back on my old familiar ways of doing things that never stopped working. Picking up the implements and trying stuff until I recognize something worth playing with remains the most reliable way to get into a creative flow. I also question the idea of creativity on demand because, more times than not, my process hasn't resulted in something I want to finish. I mentioned the Iris Dement song, Let the Mystery Be in another video about God and faith the other day, but I think the same thing goes here. When it comes to creativity, "no one knows for certain... I just choose to let the mystery be." All that said, I am enjoying both books for what they are - insights into personal creativity and its contribution to our culture, economy, and way of life. Want to check them out? Help a guy out by using these affiliate links. Thanks! The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida https://amzn.to/3Q0hxa9 Creative Quest, by Questlove https://amzn.to/3PN7pkJ #creativity #creativebusiness #creativeclass --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/franklin-taggart9/message

We've talked about how important sustainable creativity is for the production music composer, but what happens when you got nothing or a deadline hangs over you like the sword of Damocles? On this week's episode, I'm going to give you 4 ways that I jumpstart my own creative process when time is short or energy is low.Plus I'll be joined by Jeff Hargrove  (https://soundcloud.com/user-195099370) whose cue, “No Place for Merry Gentlemen,” was voted as the winning submission for our July 52 Cues Production Derby challenge where participants had just 48 hours to write an epic hip-hop Christmas cue!Watch this episode on YouTube!https://youtu.be/9f6b5mIJCiE00:00 - Intro & Welcome02:40 - Overview04:20 - 1. Recycle Sounds from a Previous Cue15:04 - 2. Referencing (and Modeling)23:55 - 3. Clear Your Head27:46 - 4. Just. Play!34:12 - Join the 52 Cues Community!35:25 - No Place for Merry Gentlemen" by Jeff Hargrove01:11:54 - Outro & How You Can Support 52 Cues!"The Creative Quest" by Questlove - https://amzn.to/3xs45U6Join the 52 Cues Community for FREE! – Post your own cues for feedback from the community, network with other composers, participate in community discussions, provide feedback on other composers' cues, and ask questions about the industry! – https://52cues.comBecome a 52 Cues FRIEND – Join in on Monthly Interactive Zoom Workshops featuring a range of topics and guests from around the music industry, and you'll have access to the Weekly Music Production Livestreams! – https://my.52cues.com/plans/202568?bundle_token=b037583a957a0bb48afafd3b1cae414eBecome a 52 Cues FAMILY Member – Get all the benefits listed above, plus catch up with Dave during weekly live Zoom Office Hours, and have your cues reviewed each week during the live Weekly Interactive Feedback and Critique Sessions – https://my.52cues.com/plans/195865?bundle_token=c974232cc2996186825ad469af103969Or you can support the channel on Patreon and get access to my weekly music production live streams. – https://www.patreon.com/davekropfLessons, critiques, and 1-on-1 coaching are available! – http://52cues.com/coaching.#productionmusic #podcastNote: Links posted here may be affiliate links which help us out by generating a small commission at no extra cost to you!Join our 12-week Mastermind with built-in private lessons, small group accountability and feedback sessions that give you focused, personalized mentorship. So If you're seriously ready to supercharge you career in production music, then head over to 52cues.com/mastermind22 and sign up today! Registration ends September 29, and seats are limited!Support the show

Sam is the Founder & Quest Leader at Channel Twelve. We talk about creativity, life as a work of art, the space-in-between, our shared dislike for the word Hobby and much more...

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Episode 044 with California Beatmaker Big Daddy Chop. We talked his signature moniker, musical upbringings/inspirations, Creative Quest, Stretch and Bobbitto Documentary, 9th Wonder's Rhythm Roulette).  Exposure to 1 of 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop (Deejayin & Emceein), his Beatmaker/Music Producer Superheros (Traxsamillion, DJ Fresh, J. Dilla, 9th Wonder), Youtube Channel, Machine MKIII, FL Studio, Roland SP404 MKII, and much more. #beatculture Intro Music by: "Smack" off Soul Vibrations beat-tape by @thxk_uFeatured Music: Curated Beat Set by BigDaddyCh0pSocial Media: @BigDaddyCh0pWebsite: BigDaddyChop WebsiteConsider Becoming Subscriber Member at www.gldnmndofficial.com to support the podcast.Support the show

Physical traits, like brown skin or blue eyes, are inherited by the transmission of genes. Emotional and mental experiences are also carried from one generation to the next. Two exhibits explore that idea. The creators of ‘Continuous Line,' and ‘Creative Quest: Art from the Holocaust's Second Generation,' draw on their respective ancestral histories. Artists Miriam Mörsel Nathan and Ernest Shaw discuss why and how they create their work. And curator Kirk Shannon-Butz explains what he calls ‘a Baltimore Movement' … and curator Toby Brookes looks at art as a way to wrestle with the past: “We are not survivors and we're not historians or sociologists, but artists carry with them their parents' legacy, and they express it purely from their hearts and souls.”  Links: Continuous Line, Creative Quest opening reception, Ernest Shaw, Miriam Mörsel Nathan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Face to Face with don Miguel Ruiz Jr.Live on OMTimes Radio Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 10:30 PST / 1:30 PM ESTWatch the Livestream on the No BS Spiritual Book Club on Facebook, OMTimes Radio & TV Facebook, or OMTimesTV Youtube This week on the No BS Spiritual Book Club's Face to Face With… Video series we're restreaming a fascinating episode in which Toltec Master of Transformation, speaker, teacher, and author don Miguel Ruiz Jr shares the 10 books that impacted him the most on his spiritual journey. From his father's famed The Four Agreements, to Temple Grandin's ground breaking book The Autistic Brain and Born to Run, to Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats to Carl Sagan's The Variety of Scientific Experience: A Personal View on the Search for God, and Creative Quest by QuestLove and more, don Miguel Jr's 10 best list comprises a delightfully eclectic mix of books worth reading. Toltec Master of Transformation, speaker, teacher, and author, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr.A direct descendant of the Toltecs of the Eagle Knight lineage don Miguel Jr ‘s best selling books include The Five Levels of Attachment, The Mastery of Self, The 7 Secrets to Healthy Happy Relationships, and several more highly popular books besides. And this interview provides a sweet and wholly authentic glimpse of don Miguel's journey and experiences through life. So fascinating in fact that we over-ran our allotted time and had to divide the interview in two parts!Connect with don Miguel Ruiz Jr. at http://www.miguelruizjr.comhttps://www.facebook.com/sandiesedgbeer | https://www.facebook.com/groups/nobsspiritualbookclubhttps://www.thenobsspiritualbookclub.comVisit the NO BS Spiritual Book Club Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/the-no-bs-spiritual-book-club/Join the No BS Spiritual Book Club mailing list https://forms.aweber.com/form/93/758545393.htmConnect with Sandie Sedgbeer at https://www.sedgbeer.com #donMiguelRuizJr #SandieSedgbeer #NoBSSpiritualBookClub Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

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We celebrate our 100th episode with a virtual road trip and draft to share more of our favorite road trip audiobooks. Episode 43: Road Trip Audiobook Draft (201) Round 1: Gilbert: Into the Wild [7:03] (Written by: Jon Krakauer / Narrated by: Philip Franklin) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Shachi: Black Buck [11:12] (Written by: Mateo Askaripour / Narrated by: Zeno Robinson)  [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Mark: How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems [6:15] (Written by: Randall Munroe / Narrated by: Wil Wheaton) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 48] Scott: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race [10:47] (Written by: Margot Lee Shetterly / Narrated by: Robin Miles) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Round 2: Gilbert: Into Thin Air [9:09] (Written by: Jon Krakauer / Narrated by: Philip Franklin) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Shachi: Leave the World Behind [7:26] (Written by: Rumaan Alam / Narrated by: Marin Ireland)  [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby Mark: Turtles All the Way Down [7:12] (Written by: John Green / Narrated by: Kate Rudd) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Scott: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet [14:23] (Written by: Becky Chambers / Narrated by: Rachel Delude) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]  / [Episode 45: Wayfarers] / [Episode 97: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within with Author Becky Chambers] Round 3: Gilbert: The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits [13:26] (Written by: Tommy Caldwell / Narrated by: Johnathan McClain) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Shachi: Klara and the Sun [10:16] (Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro / Narrated by: Sura Siu) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Mark: Stardust [6:24] (Written and Narrated by: Neil Gaiman) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 6] Scott: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail [9:43] (Written by: Bill Bryson / Narrated by: Rob McQuay) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Additional Picks: Gilbert: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life [8:51], Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life [6:18], Creative Quest [8:44] Shachi: Vampires in the Lemon Grove [9:15], Wandering in Strange Lands [8:03] [Episode 78], Concrete Rose [8:17] [Episode 98], Sh

What qualities of focus are required to be a creative and effective person? How do dancers attend to the space within and around them, using focus to direct the viewer's attention and to give shape to their environment? Being able to direct or manipulate our focus and that of others enables us to understand, connect, express, create, and accomplish. Though related as elements of dance, working with the quality of focus as a spatial effort is distinct from shapes and shaping that move through dimensions and pathways in space (though I have lots more resources about that!), it is distinct from detailed and specific traditions of meditative practice (though I do have yoga, pranayama, visualization and meditation content about that and it will continue to be fertile ground for future exploration), and it is different from the element of time: flow, management productivity, and organization (though I love all that, too!). Rather, I specifically want to explore here our ability to direct our focus and therefore form space in particular ways and how we are able to develop facility in doing so with precision and effectiveness for practical and expressive purposes in dance and in life. Focus, or directing attention in the ways the Laban Movement Analysis system refers to as the Space Effort, has to do with translating our intent into action. In the book Making Connections, Peggy Hackney clarifies: “The Space Effort deals with how you give attention, not the place in space. Both Direct and Indirect approaches to paying attention are active. Indirectness is not the same as being ‘spaced out' or out of space; it is giving active attention to more than one thing at once. Both types of Space Effort relate to thinking.” (emphasis mine) As Questlove explains in the book Creative Quest, certain approaches to focus serve the creative process best: “Creative things happen to creative people, especially when they let themselves go to the Zen of the moment, when they don't allow themselves to be paralyzed either by overthinking or by laziness. They have to be in the sweet spot between the two. [...]There's lots of noise all around, and as a creative person, you're being asked to find the signal. But to truly find it, you need some sort of internal check or monitor. You need moments of silence where you can hear yourself.” In Living Your Best Life, Laura Berman Fortgang asserts that "Nothing is a better partner to taking action than being still. Stillness allows the most effective action to emerge, helping to settle the chaos and uncover the action and direction that will do the most good." When we are present to our purpose and priorities or that which deserves our focus, we are freed to act in ways that serve us, our communities, and the planet. What is the quality of your focus? What states of focus and approaches to space will enhance your dancing, creativity, and life experience? Stay tuned on my YouTube Channel and Blog for more! Blythe Stephens, MFA she/her or they/them A Blythe Coach: move through life with balance, grace, & power

New London native Scott Sherratt was producer and director of Rachel Maddow's audio book Blowout, which won the 2020 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album. Sherratt talks about recording with Questlove, Will Patton, Scott Shepherd and the Beastie Boys, as well as an angry voicemail from Gene Simmons. Included audio: Creative Quest, read by Questlove. Clip courtesy of Harper Audio. The Son by Phillip Meyer, read by Will Patton. Clip courtesy of Harper Audio. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, read by Scott Shepherd.

'Creative Quest' is the book written by Questlove where he 'questions' (no pun intended) what it means to be creative. Questlove is known as "a man of many hats." His career began as the drummer for the rap band 'The Roots,' a unique anomaly at the time, celebrated for its 'real' musicianship which was considered missing during the sample heavy 90s. Questlove is a person who is everywhere and his reach has transcended hip hop in recent years. This episode Isabella asks what is creativity, specifically during spring. Everything is changing around us but we are still in strict lockdowns throughout Europe (a remix of a familiar sound, if you will).

Toltec Master of Transformation, speaker, teacher, and author of The Five Levels of Attachment, The Mastery of Self, The 7 Secrets to Healthy Happy Relationships, and several more books besides, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr is a direct descendant of the Toltecs of the Eagle Knight lineage and the son of don Miguel Ruiz Snr, author of the worldwide bestseller The Four Agreements. In this episode of the No BS Spiritual Book Club's Face to Face With... video series, don Miguel Jr shares the 10 books that impacted him the most on his spiritual journey. From his father's famed The Four Agreements, to Temple Grandin's groundbreaking book The Autistic Brain and Born to Run, to Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats to Carl Sagan's The Variety of Scientific Experience: A Personal View on the Search for God, and Creative Quest by QuestLove and more, don Miguel Jr's 10 best list comprises a fascinating and delightfully eclectic mix of books worth reading. And this interview provides a sweet and wholly authentic glimpse of don Miguel's journey and experiences through life. So fascinating in fact that we over-ran our allotted time and had to divide the interview into two parts! Enjoy part 2! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sandie-sedgbeer/support

Toltec Master of Transformation, speaker, teacher, and author of The Five Levels of Attachment, The Mastery of Self, The 7 Secrets to Healthy Happy Relationships, and several more books besides, Don Miguel Ruiz Jr is a direct descendant of the Toltecs of the Eagle Knight lineage and the son of don Miguel Ruiz Snr, author of the worldwide bestseller The Four Agreements. In this episode of the No BS Spiritual Book Club's Face to Face With... video series, don Miguel Jr shares the 10 books that impacted him the most on his spiritual journey. From his father's famed The Four Agreements, to Temple Grandin's groundbreaking book The Autistic Brain and Born to Run, to Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats to Carl Sagan's The Variety of Scientific Experience: A Personal View on the Search for God, and Creative Quest by QuestLove and more, don Miguel Jr's 10 best list comprises a fascinating and delightfully eclectic mix of books worth reading. And this interview provides a sweet and wholly authentic glimpse of don Miguel's journey and experiences through life. So fascinating in fact that we over-ran our allotted time and had to divide the interview into two parts! Enjoy part 1! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sandie-sedgbeer/support

In this episode, we mention Questlove's book Creative Quest and Sasquatch talk about Neil Gaiman AGAIN.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling author Kerry Anne King to the studio. ABOUT KERRY ANNE KING: Kerry Anne King is the sidekick, alter ego, and touchier-feelier doppelgänger of fantasy and paranormal thriller writer, Kerry Schafer. She is the author of Whisper Me This, a Washington post and Amazon charts bestseller. Kerry Anne is the proud possessor of a tugboat, a Viking, and forty acres of rocks and trees in the middle of rural northeastern Washington. In addition to writing novels, she is an RN and licensed mental health counselor, a writing coach and a serious coffee snob. She is kept in line by three cats, a dog, and the aforementioned Viking. Kerry also hosts Creative Quest podcast. ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU ARE: One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey’s hands, his musical career, and his family. Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic daze, and with only fragmented memories of his past, Braden wants desperately to escape the darkness of the last eleven years. When his ex-wife and son are killed in a car accident, Braden returns home, hoping to forge a relationship with his troubled seventeen-year-old daughter, Allie. But how can he hope to rescue her from the curse that seems to shadow his family? Ophelia “Phee” MacPhee, granddaughter of the eccentric old man who sold Braden his cello, believes the curse is real. She swore an oath to her dying grandfather that she would ensure Braden plays the cello as long as he lives. But he can’t play, and as the shadows deepen and Phee finds herself falling for Braden, she’ll do anything to save him. It will take a miracle of forgiveness and love to bring all three of them back to the healing power of music. @coyrighted. Please find this podcast on soundcloud.com/authorsontheair or your favorite podcast app

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling author Kerry Anne King to the studio. ABOUT KERRY ANNE KING: Kerry Anne King is the sidekick, alter ego, and touchier-feelier doppelgänger of fantasy and paranormal thriller writer, Kerry Schafer. She is the author of Whisper Me This, a Washington post and Amazon charts bestseller. Kerry Anne is the proud possessor of a tugboat, a Viking, and forty acres of rocks and trees in the middle of rural northeastern Washington. In addition to writing novels, she is an RN and licensed mental health counselor, a writing coach and a serious coffee snob. She is kept in line by three cats, a dog, and the aforementioned Viking. Kerry also hosts Creative Quest podcast. ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU ARE: One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey’s hands, his musical career, and his family. Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic daze, and with only fragmented memories of his past, Braden wants desperately to escape the darkness of the last eleven years. When his ex-wife and son are killed in a car accident, Braden returns home, hoping to forge a relationship with his troubled seventeen-year-old daughter, Allie. But how can he hope to rescue her from the curse that seems to shadow his family? Ophelia “Phee” MacPhee, granddaughter of the eccentric old man who sold Braden his cello, believes the curse is real. She swore an oath to her dying grandfather that she would ensure Braden plays the cello as long as he lives. But he can’t play, and as the shadows deepen and Phee finds herself falling for Braden, she’ll do anything to save him. It will take a miracle of forgiveness and love to bring all three of them back to the healing power of music. @coyrighted. Please find this podcast on soundcloud.com/authorsontheair or your favorite podcast app

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling author Kerry Anne King to the studio.   ABOUT KERRY ANNE KING: Kerry Anne King is the sidekick, alter ego, and touchier-feelier doppelgänger of fantasy and paranormal thriller writer, Kerry Schafer. She is the author of Whisper Me This, a Washington post and Amazon charts bestseller. Kerry Anne is the proud possessor of a tugboat, a Viking, and forty acres of rocks and trees in the middle of rural northeastern Washington. In addition to writing novels, she is an RN and licensed mental health counselor, a writing coach and a serious coffee snob. She is kept in line by three cats, a dog, and the aforementioned Viking. Kerry also hosts Creative Quest podcast. ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU ARE:   One tragic twist of fate destroyed Braden Healey’s hands, his musical career, and his family. Now, unable to play, adrift in an alcoholic daze, and with only fragmented memories of his past, Braden wants desperately to escape the darkness of the last eleven years. When his ex-wife and son are killed in a car accident, Braden returns home, hoping to forge a relationship with his troubled seventeen-year-old daughter, Allie. But how can he hope to rescue her from the curse that seems to shadow his family? Ophelia “Phee” MacPhee, granddaughter of the eccentric old man who sold Braden his cello, believes the curse is real. She swore an oath to her dying grandfather that she would ensure Braden plays the cello as long as he lives. But he can’t play, and as the shadows deepen and Phee finds herself falling for Braden, she’ll do anything to save him. It will take a miracle of forgiveness and love to bring all three of them back to the healing power of music. @coyrighted. Please find this podcast on soundcloud.com/authorsontheair or your favorite podcast app    

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Laura Gogia, MD, Ph.D. designs, researches, and engages in faculty development for digital learner experiences in higher education and continuing education settings. Before she became the Senior Design Strategist at iDesign and a freelance instructional design consultant, Dr. Gogia was an obstetrician and gynecologist for a rural Virginian community. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Research and Evaluation and her MD, both from Virginia Commonwealth University.Laura Gogia, MD, Ph.D. designs, researches, and engages in faculty development for digital learner experiences in higher education and continuing education settings. In #InVinoFab episode #33: Laura shares about her “high career thrillist” path as she moves from medical school, to practicing surgical gynecologist, to fusion-style chef's catering, non-profit coursework, trying out adult education, and engaging in research in evaluation for learning design. We talk about how we learn and figure out how to evolve with our careers, gain new skills, and find our way with community and kinship. I'm grateful that Laura shared how it gets real when you're trying to transition to a new professional path and you have to interpret how your talents and experiences are transferable. We discuss this shift and what it means to be employable in a job market that is outside of your domain of practice or area of expertise. I'm grateful for how shared her concerns, fears, expectations, and disappointments with finding a job that would be a good fit with her career goals and professional interests. Finally, Laura leaves us with a wealth of learning design resources and considerations from her current role and experiences.“I was trying to find that community out there to help me with my learning. To make sure I was actually learning what I needed to do. To set my curriculum, to recommend articles, to talk about articles with, to bounce research ideas off of, perhaps do research with them... I was finding my classroom or my personal learning community.” ~How Learning is for Laura GogiaHere are a few resources/ links to we shared during our chat:--Historic Jamestowne historicjamestowne.org/--Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking www.saltfatacidheat.com/--What is an Alt-Ac or Alternative Academic? guides.lib.unc.edu/altac--The Instructional Designer & the OPM Conversation www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technol…-conversation--"Instructional Designer" vs. "Learning Designer" www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technol…ning-designer--The iDEA Book via iDesign: idesignedu.org/idea-book/--Job Crafting jobcrafting.com/--Shout outs to: @WhitneyKilgore & @BonStewart--#et4online conference throwback reflection: techknowtools.com/2015/04/28/et4on…ions-and-review/--The Student Development Transit System by @paulgordonbrown paulgordonbrown.com/2015/01/27/the-…sit-system-map/1. Stay in the game: be determined as you re-focus.2. Figure out what you do well and what you need to learn to enhance your skills/talents.3. Make connections and find your community of support.4. Show up: online, in-person, and where you want to be!#InVinoFab recommendations:-Braving the Wilderness: brenebrown.com/braving-the-wilderness/-Creative Quest www.harpercollins.com/9780062670557/…reative-quest/-One-Track Mind:www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/…e-track-mind-The Designer's Dictionary of Colors www.abramsbooks.com/product/designe…_9781419723919/-E-Learning and the Science of Instruction 4th Ed.  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26703873-e-learning-and-the-science-of-instruction -Roku Gin: www.suntory.co.jp/wnb/rokugin/entrance.htmlInterested in connecting with Laura Gogia to find out about her work in the field of learning design? Connect here:twitter.com/googleguacamolelauragogia.com/Stay connected to the #InVinoFab Podcast: Hosts: Patrice (@profpatrice) & Laura (@laurapasquini); pronouns: she/her Twitter: https://twitter.com/invinofab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/invinofab/ 

Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guest: Genadi Samokovarov In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Genadi Samokovarov who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at GitHub and his mixes on SoundCloud. Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.new case in Ruby. If you are interested in his work experience, check out his resume here. Send Genadi an email or follow his social links. Show Topics: 0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:30 – Chuck: Introduce yourself please. 1:39 – The guest talks about his background and the company he works for. 2:03 – Chuck: Did you build the web console or something else? 2:05 – Guest. 3:20 – Chuck: How do you run Ruby on the web console? 3:40 – Guest answers Chuck’s question. 4:13 – Chuck: The other question is about security concerns – you don’t want to run in production? 4:25 – Guest: No, you don’t want to do that.  4:31 – Chuck: Use at home - don’t use it on your work server. 5:15 – Panel: It’s one of those features that people overlook on Rails. You have to proactively add in a pack to launch in a web console in that particular view. A lot of times people will either throw away rays (ERB) and they are able to get the same thing but you can interact with the page w/o full rendering of the application. What I just mentioned what does a web console has a space for? 6:18 – Guest. 7:23 – Panel: What would happen – if I put a debugging code in my application and it got committed and shipped – what would happen? 7:46 – Guest answers. 8:24 – Chuck: When you deploy a production I don’t even know what this tag is? 8:33 – Guest. 9:10 – Chuck: Can I run it on Sinatra...or the other ones? 9:20 – Guest: If you make a bit of effort... 9:42 – Chuck: How does it pass things to the backend? 9:52 – Guest. 11:22 – Chuck: Let’s say you set this up and you would include the gem in the Rails app – I guess it comes by default. 11:36 – Guest. 11:58 – Panel: And if you want to embed it in a view in Rails? 12:05 – Guest. 12:06 – Chuck: That’s nice. 12:08 – Guest. 12:43 – Panel: I would think that would be the most exciting things. I know the views and how it’s included there is a little bit of a black box for me. I don’t know quite what is going on and that’s after many years of use. Being able to open the web console and see what’s going on and see what I was thinking. Sometimes when I have hard times with my code it’s because I didn’t understand the Rails way and how they organize things. So for me to take a look it dawns on me. 13:33 – Guest. 13:41 – Panel: I learned Rails on a laptop. I went to terminal mode only and I learned it really, really well. 14:21 – Guest. 14:27 – Panel: Can web console do a separate JavaScript app and then you have a Ruby API backend – can you use console any plugin to integrate with that? 15:00 – Guest. 16:20 – Panel: That’s really cool, and good note. When people are developing a gem they keep one type of Ruby or whatever. They don’t take into account that Ruby or the MRI or whatever they are using it’s cool that you are proactive keeping into account the different interpreters and it works across the platform. 16:56 – Guest: It’s a tricky business. 18:39 – Panel: So is this under active development or...? 18:45 – Guest. 18:53 – Chuck: What was the hardest part to put this together? 19:00 – Guest: Getting it to work! 19:09 – Chuck: Nope...just getting it to work. 19:15 – Guest. 20:43 – Panel: That’s something where I have been in situations where it has given back the Rails spec trace. Not the actual application – I have no idea how to debug it. Then I dig in deeper and find it’s in my application part. It is important to have that. 21:13 – Guest. 21:51 – Get A Coder Job! 22:15 – Chuck: Anything else or should we talk about the conference for a minute? 22:30 – Guest. 24:09 – Panel: So you are getting these conferences going – is there a healthy/strong Ruby following in Bulgaria, generally? 24:25 – Guest: We do Meetups. It’s pretty active and a healthy community. It’s not as strong as the States, but it’s strong. 25:26 – Panel: Nice. I find that it’s interesting – I was around with Ruby in 2004, and people have been using Ruby for a while and Rails was new. It’s fun to build an organization around that and empower people to do great things. It’s great to do work that are learning Ruby. 26:08 – Guest. 26:25 – Panel: So that’s one of my coworkers and got him using VS code and show people the light to make the switch. 26:50 – Chuck: I’ve already switched. 27:01 – Panel: We like our tools. 27:17 – Guest: I guess my people like VS code b/c it’s easier to maintain. 27:35 – Panel: Maybe my mind is so feeble-minded. 27:45 – Chuck: I turned on the EMAX for along time and turned on my EMAX in my KS code. I get the nice extras. I don’t feel like there are 10 zillion things to worry about. 28:12 – Guest. 28:21 – Panel: I think the key is the expressiveness – get it the ways I want 28:38 – Chuck: I just want to think of the fact that I am using code – and that’s a good thing. 28:54 – Guest. 29:04 – Panel: How many attendees did you have? 29:08 – Guest. 29:22 – Chuck: The conferences that I like to attend that have an attendance of 150, I like b/c it’s intimate. The larger conferences I feel lost in the crowd. It’s just different for me. 30:17 – Panel: It makes it easy to break into groups if the conference is small. 30:30 – Panel: There are so many things that the experts can teach and show to the beginners. They could teach me something that I didn’t know. It’s powerful b/c you’re talking about projects and get to know each other. 31:39 – Guest. 32:16 – Panel: One thing I like is that the attendees make a Slack channel, and the speaker can address that during the talk. Sometimes they get answered, but just in case. 32:40 – Chuck: Anything you’re working on now? 32:43 – Guest. 32:52 – Panel: Nice. 33:00 – Guest. 33:37 – Chuck: How can people find out about these different conferences? 33:50 – Guest: We have a Twitter account. 33:04 – Chuck: Let’s go to picks! 34:12 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 41:31 – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Ruby Issue Tracking System Libraries.io Balkan Ruby Partial Conf Chaos Group Genadi Samokovarov’s Twitter Genadi Samokovarov’s GitHub Genadi Samokovarov’s Website Sponsors: Sentry Get a Coder Job Course Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: David Creative Quest by Quest Love The Rhythm in Everything Dave Dewalt Clamps Action Text Charles The Diabetes Code Keto Diet Endorsed Local Providers via Dave Ramsey Genadi Long Walk Freedom

Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guest: Genadi Samokovarov In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Genadi Samokovarov who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at GitHub and his mixes on SoundCloud. Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.new case in Ruby. If you are interested in his work experience, check out his resume here. Send Genadi an email or follow his social links. Show Topics: 0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:30 – Chuck: Introduce yourself please. 1:39 – The guest talks about his background and the company he works for. 2:03 – Chuck: Did you build the web console or something else? 2:05 – Guest. 3:20 – Chuck: How do you run Ruby on the web console? 3:40 – Guest answers Chuck’s question. 4:13 – Chuck: The other question is about security concerns – you don’t want to run in production? 4:25 – Guest: No, you don’t want to do that.  4:31 – Chuck: Use at home - don’t use it on your work server. 5:15 – Panel: It’s one of those features that people overlook on Rails. You have to proactively add in a pack to launch in a web console in that particular view. A lot of times people will either throw away rays (ERB) and they are able to get the same thing but you can interact with the page w/o full rendering of the application. What I just mentioned what does a web console has a space for? 6:18 – Guest. 7:23 – Panel: What would happen – if I put a debugging code in my application and it got committed and shipped – what would happen? 7:46 – Guest answers. 8:24 – Chuck: When you deploy a production I don’t even know what this tag is? 8:33 – Guest. 9:10 – Chuck: Can I run it on Sinatra...or the other ones? 9:20 – Guest: If you make a bit of effort... 9:42 – Chuck: How does it pass things to the backend? 9:52 – Guest. 11:22 – Chuck: Let’s say you set this up and you would include the gem in the Rails app – I guess it comes by default. 11:36 – Guest. 11:58 – Panel: And if you want to embed it in a view in Rails? 12:05 – Guest. 12:06 – Chuck: That’s nice. 12:08 – Guest. 12:43 – Panel: I would think that would be the most exciting things. I know the views and how it’s included there is a little bit of a black box for me. I don’t know quite what is going on and that’s after many years of use. Being able to open the web console and see what’s going on and see what I was thinking. Sometimes when I have hard times with my code it’s because I didn’t understand the Rails way and how they organize things. So for me to take a look it dawns on me. 13:33 – Guest. 13:41 – Panel: I learned Rails on a laptop. I went to terminal mode only and I learned it really, really well. 14:21 – Guest. 14:27 – Panel: Can web console do a separate JavaScript app and then you have a Ruby API backend – can you use console any plugin to integrate with that? 15:00 – Guest. 16:20 – Panel: That’s really cool, and good note. When people are developing a gem they keep one type of Ruby or whatever. They don’t take into account that Ruby or the MRI or whatever they are using it’s cool that you are proactive keeping into account the different interpreters and it works across the platform. 16:56 – Guest: It’s a tricky business. 18:39 – Panel: So is this under active development or...? 18:45 – Guest. 18:53 – Chuck: What was the hardest part to put this together? 19:00 – Guest: Getting it to work! 19:09 – Chuck: Nope...just getting it to work. 19:15 – Guest. 20:43 – Panel: That’s something where I have been in situations where it has given back the Rails spec trace. Not the actual application – I have no idea how to debug it. Then I dig in deeper and find it’s in my application part. It is important to have that. 21:13 – Guest. 21:51 – Get A Coder Job! 22:15 – Chuck: Anything else or should we talk about the conference for a minute? 22:30 – Guest. 24:09 – Panel: So you are getting these conferences going – is there a healthy/strong Ruby following in Bulgaria, generally? 24:25 – Guest: We do Meetups. It’s pretty active and a healthy community. It’s not as strong as the States, but it’s strong. 25:26 – Panel: Nice. I find that it’s interesting – I was around with Ruby in 2004, and people have been using Ruby for a while and Rails was new. It’s fun to build an organization around that and empower people to do great things. It’s great to do work that are learning Ruby. 26:08 – Guest. 26:25 – Panel: So that’s one of my coworkers and got him using VS code and show people the light to make the switch. 26:50 – Chuck: I’ve already switched. 27:01 – Panel: We like our tools. 27:17 – Guest: I guess my people like VS code b/c it’s easier to maintain. 27:35 – Panel: Maybe my mind is so feeble-minded. 27:45 – Chuck: I turned on the EMAX for along time and turned on my EMAX in my KS code. I get the nice extras. I don’t feel like there are 10 zillion things to worry about. 28:12 – Guest. 28:21 – Panel: I think the key is the expressiveness – get it the ways I want 28:38 – Chuck: I just want to think of the fact that I am using code – and that’s a good thing. 28:54 – Guest. 29:04 – Panel: How many attendees did you have? 29:08 – Guest. 29:22 – Chuck: The conferences that I like to attend that have an attendance of 150, I like b/c it’s intimate. The larger conferences I feel lost in the crowd. It’s just different for me. 30:17 – Panel: It makes it easy to break into groups if the conference is small. 30:30 – Panel: There are so many things that the experts can teach and show to the beginners. They could teach me something that I didn’t know. It’s powerful b/c you’re talking about projects and get to know each other. 31:39 – Guest. 32:16 – Panel: One thing I like is that the attendees make a Slack channel, and the speaker can address that during the talk. Sometimes they get answered, but just in case. 32:40 – Chuck: Anything you’re working on now? 32:43 – Guest. 32:52 – Panel: Nice. 33:00 – Guest. 33:37 – Chuck: How can people find out about these different conferences? 33:50 – Guest: We have a Twitter account. 33:04 – Chuck: Let’s go to picks! 34:12 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 41:31 – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Ruby Issue Tracking System Libraries.io Balkan Ruby Partial Conf Chaos Group Genadi Samokovarov’s Twitter Genadi Samokovarov’s GitHub Genadi Samokovarov’s Website Sponsors: Sentry Get a Coder Job Course Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: David Creative Quest by Quest Love The Rhythm in Everything Dave Dewalt Clamps Action Text Charles The Diabetes Code Keto Diet Endorsed Local Providers via Dave Ramsey Genadi Long Walk Freedom

Panel: Dave Kimura Charles Max Wood David Richards Special Guest: Genadi Samokovarov In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panel talks with Genadi Samokovarov who is a software developer and loves using Ruby. Genadi also likes dance music. You can check out his code at GitHub and his mixes on SoundCloud. Finally, he blogs about technology that he cares about. Check-out his post about a curious Proc.new case in Ruby. If you are interested in his work experience, check out his resume here. Send Genadi an email or follow his social links. Show Topics: 0:00 – Sentry.IO – Advertisement! 1:30 – Chuck: Introduce yourself please. 1:39 – The guest talks about his background and the company he works for. 2:03 – Chuck: Did you build the web console or something else? 2:05 – Guest. 3:20 – Chuck: How do you run Ruby on the web console? 3:40 – Guest answers Chuck’s question. 4:13 – Chuck: The other question is about security concerns – you don’t want to run in production? 4:25 – Guest: No, you don’t want to do that.  4:31 – Chuck: Use at home - don’t use it on your work server. 5:15 – Panel: It’s one of those features that people overlook on Rails. You have to proactively add in a pack to launch in a web console in that particular view. A lot of times people will either throw away rays (ERB) and they are able to get the same thing but you can interact with the page w/o full rendering of the application. What I just mentioned what does a web console has a space for? 6:18 – Guest. 7:23 – Panel: What would happen – if I put a debugging code in my application and it got committed and shipped – what would happen? 7:46 – Guest answers. 8:24 – Chuck: When you deploy a production I don’t even know what this tag is? 8:33 – Guest. 9:10 – Chuck: Can I run it on Sinatra...or the other ones? 9:20 – Guest: If you make a bit of effort... 9:42 – Chuck: How does it pass things to the backend? 9:52 – Guest. 11:22 – Chuck: Let’s say you set this up and you would include the gem in the Rails app – I guess it comes by default. 11:36 – Guest. 11:58 – Panel: And if you want to embed it in a view in Rails? 12:05 – Guest. 12:06 – Chuck: That’s nice. 12:08 – Guest. 12:43 – Panel: I would think that would be the most exciting things. I know the views and how it’s included there is a little bit of a black box for me. I don’t know quite what is going on and that’s after many years of use. Being able to open the web console and see what’s going on and see what I was thinking. Sometimes when I have hard times with my code it’s because I didn’t understand the Rails way and how they organize things. So for me to take a look it dawns on me. 13:33 – Guest. 13:41 – Panel: I learned Rails on a laptop. I went to terminal mode only and I learned it really, really well. 14:21 – Guest. 14:27 – Panel: Can web console do a separate JavaScript app and then you have a Ruby API backend – can you use console any plugin to integrate with that? 15:00 – Guest. 16:20 – Panel: That’s really cool, and good note. When people are developing a gem they keep one type of Ruby or whatever. They don’t take into account that Ruby or the MRI or whatever they are using it’s cool that you are proactive keeping into account the different interpreters and it works across the platform. 16:56 – Guest: It’s a tricky business. 18:39 – Panel: So is this under active development or...? 18:45 – Guest. 18:53 – Chuck: What was the hardest part to put this together? 19:00 – Guest: Getting it to work! 19:09 – Chuck: Nope...just getting it to work. 19:15 – Guest. 20:43 – Panel: That’s something where I have been in situations where it has given back the Rails spec trace. Not the actual application – I have no idea how to debug it. Then I dig in deeper and find it’s in my application part. It is important to have that. 21:13 – Guest. 21:51 – Get A Coder Job! 22:15 – Chuck: Anything else or should we talk about the conference for a minute? 22:30 – Guest. 24:09 – Panel: So you are getting these conferences going – is there a healthy/strong Ruby following in Bulgaria, generally? 24:25 – Guest: We do Meetups. It’s pretty active and a healthy community. It’s not as strong as the States, but it’s strong. 25:26 – Panel: Nice. I find that it’s interesting – I was around with Ruby in 2004, and people have been using Ruby for a while and Rails was new. It’s fun to build an organization around that and empower people to do great things. It’s great to do work that are learning Ruby. 26:08 – Guest. 26:25 – Panel: So that’s one of my coworkers and got him using VS code and show people the light to make the switch. 26:50 – Chuck: I’ve already switched. 27:01 – Panel: We like our tools. 27:17 – Guest: I guess my people like VS code b/c it’s easier to maintain. 27:35 – Panel: Maybe my mind is so feeble-minded. 27:45 – Chuck: I turned on the EMAX for along time and turned on my EMAX in my KS code. I get the nice extras. I don’t feel like there are 10 zillion things to worry about. 28:12 – Guest. 28:21 – Panel: I think the key is the expressiveness – get it the ways I want 28:38 – Chuck: I just want to think of the fact that I am using code – and that’s a good thing. 28:54 – Guest. 29:04 – Panel: How many attendees did you have? 29:08 – Guest. 29:22 – Chuck: The conferences that I like to attend that have an attendance of 150, I like b/c it’s intimate. The larger conferences I feel lost in the crowd. It’s just different for me. 30:17 – Panel: It makes it easy to break into groups if the conference is small. 30:30 – Panel: There are so many things that the experts can teach and show to the beginners. They could teach me something that I didn’t know. It’s powerful b/c you’re talking about projects and get to know each other. 31:39 – Guest. 32:16 – Panel: One thing I like is that the attendees make a Slack channel, and the speaker can address that during the talk. Sometimes they get answered, but just in case. 32:40 – Chuck: Anything you’re working on now? 32:43 – Guest. 32:52 – Panel: Nice. 33:00 – Guest. 33:37 – Chuck: How can people find out about these different conferences? 33:50 – Guest: We have a Twitter account. 33:04 – Chuck: Let’s go to picks! 34:12 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 41:31 – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course Ruby Ruby Motion Ruby on Rails Angular Ruby Issue Tracking System Libraries.io Balkan Ruby Partial Conf Chaos Group Genadi Samokovarov’s Twitter Genadi Samokovarov’s GitHub Genadi Samokovarov’s Website Sponsors: Sentry Get a Coder Job Course Fresh Books Cache Fly Picks: David Creative Quest by Quest Love The Rhythm in Everything Dave Dewalt Clamps Action Text Charles The Diabetes Code Keto Diet Endorsed Local Providers via Dave Ramsey Genadi Long Walk Freedom

Ahmir Thompson, better known as Questlove, has been known to music lovers for years as the drummer and co-leader of The Roots, and since 2014 to millions more since the Roots became the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He's also the author of multiple bestselling books including an unconventional memoir Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove, Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation, and Something To Food About: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs. He joins Jim Mustich on this episode to the podcast to talk about his latest book,Creative Quest, and the intersection between life, listening, and making of art.

We really put ourselves out there when we share creative ideas and our creative work. The topic of creativity can often times feel heady and wishy washy, because everyone has their own definition of creativity. In this episode we talk through the more tangible aspects of creativity like what to do when you're in a rut or uninspired, the literal tricks for how to keep fresh eyes and change things up, plus unique ways to look at, and deal with, success and failure. Bryan Danielson and I review the book “Creative Quest” By Questlove. It was this month's pick for the Why Not Now? Read A Book Club. If you haven't read “Creative Quest”, no sweat. You actually don't need to have because Brian and I share all of the highlights and key takeaways, so consider this your cliff notes.

Yesterday, the rain didn’t want to stop and when it did a gray humidity stuck around to remind you that it wasn’t a day to be outside enjoying the world. Most of my day was spent reading and finishing Creative Quest. A must-read for anyone who knows in their bones that they are creative. We had the rug in our living room cleaned so that isolated us to our sunroom and my office. Pausing, I looked around my office. The dog beds were in here, so Jaz was fast asleep on hers. I laughed as I composed the photo and still am not sure how she sleeps this way. The photo switched me into observer mode. The variety of books, photography and outdoor gear, my choice of art on the wall and the randomness of the souvenirs that could be seen. A friend from college on Facebook mentioned that all of these things had been part of my life as long as she had known me. That made me smile, but also made me realize how right she is. Looking around the rest of my office, on my desk around my fingers as I type this and in any backpack, I have with me on any given day there is the same variety. Books – They feed my soul. My Kindle has a never-ending library of books that I want to read. Having that library with me at all times makes me feel good. The stack of books to read and ones available to flip though make me happy. I’ve had friends who decided to get rid of all their books because of the space they take up, and that baffles me. While I appreciate downsizing and the minimalism lifestyle it isn’t for me. Any time I need a jolt, I can slide a book off the shelf and get what I need. There are photography books, travel memoirs, cookbooks and a few comic books. When I need a reminder that I am creating things of value, I only need look at my shelf of the books I’ve written that have been translated to other languages and it helps balance my mood back out. Gear – My name is C.C., and I’m a gear lover. It doesn’t matter if it is for camping, photography, video or anything else. I love gear. I’m always trying to find the best gear to use in every situation. That is why you’ll see a GORUCK GR1 sitting next to my Evergoods CP24L and my Eagle Creek suitcase still sitting here from my recent trip to London. My Canon camera is laying next to an old Samsung one and a Google Pixel. My Benchmade folder is laying next to my Serepick kit. To put down my coffee cup this morning, I had to relocate the new microphones that arrived last week from Shure and R0DE to test out and review. There is an endless sea of cables and connectors. No matter how much I prune down and focus in on the best gear for me, there will always be plenty around me to choose from. Art – Hanging on my office walls are a couple of Chank Diesels and a bunch of Hugh MacLeods. There are also a few of my photographs, my prized signed Dogma poster and a poem my Great-Grandfather wrote. Part of me thinks I should change out the art from time to time, but each was hung for a reason, so it keeps me from changing them. But, I need to have creativity hanging around me to help inspire me. It adds a layer of comfort and a blanket of inspiration. Walk through our house, and you’ll find a different variety of art. Paintings from Laura’s Great-Grandfather, a painting we bought on a trip to New Orleans and a couple of special photographs from friends. Everyone has different tastes and styles, but art is something to be appreciated, and I’m always interested in looking at more. Souvenirs – These are not the shot glasses and t-shirts you find in every airport, but more personal mementos from my travels over the years. The crystal Coke bottle from one of my favorite client projects, a hand-turned mug from Fargo, the challenge coin given to me by a loving fan, the rug I bought in Istanbul and my iron buffalo from speaking in South Dakota. While they all may appear random and without thought, each of them is on display for a particular reason, and I can tell you the story behind every one of them. Sure, they get dusty and take up space, but they also give me an instant smile. One look at the top of my desk and I’m instantly transported back to Ghana, Amsterdam or my fifth-grade performance of The Lorax. Why do I tell you these things? Why not? I write to get the words out of my head and into the soul of a few that might read them. Perhaps a bit of it is because as I looked around, I realized how badly I need to clean my office, and while I know this has to be done, I know that piles of new things will appear in the coming weeks and months. Having a home office and studio is a true blessing for me. It empowers me to do the work I need to do in an environment that benefits my soul. Being surrounded by that which makes me happy is the icing on the cake. What do you surround yourself with? Take a few minutes to think about it. If nothing else, I hope it makes you smile. no

The answer to the question will always be no because there are endless new mountains to climb and paths to walk. Creative Quest is inspiring my mind, Luke Cage: Season 2 opening my eyes and Post Traumatic thumping my ears. Yesterday, my team of Wheaton students finished up their classroom time and next week we roll down to MassChallenge with a drive and purpose. They’ve come together and I hope I’ve prepared them appropriately. Is the proof always in the pudding? The days begin to get shorter today and as the sun sets and the moon rises I’m faced with the question of what am I doing. I’m teaching and parenting. Living and loving. All of it is soul satisfying and yet the urge to do more is always scratching at the edges looking for a loose thread to play with. I watched in awe last week as the guys from Studio Fresh Boston took my photographs and incorporated them into beautiful pieces of art. I had hoped to be able to hang this one at home, but there were other plans for them. I’m ok with where they are headed. Knowing something I created is a piece of something that will be seen every day makes me smile. The gates are open for me and yet I let the ugly doubt monsters roar in my ear when I know they are wrong and only there to challenge me to push past. The idea book is overflowing. The creation bucket is suffering a drought. Never expected Quest Love to be the human who would give me the kick I needed, but I’m thankful he did. Let’s do this! noC.C. Chapmanmarketing,public,relations,management,pr,media,new,media,business,cgc,consumer,second,life

Share | Follow | SubscribeThis week on Opinions Are Mine, Questlove new book called Creative Quest gives some inspiring tips to creative people. What everyone is missing is that creativity is not a job is a way of thinking and good business leaders should praise creative employees. Creative people in Ghana are the less protected and it’s time for creative people to start a cultural movement and take charge. Music, fashion and visual arts can produce wealth for this country. Stories from Daniks Peters and Threaded Tribes and support for Josie Ngminvielu for an important work on the LGBT community coming up. Song Credit : Special thanks to Robin-Huws for use of his song, Dear Diary. Find more of his work hereSend me your comments, thoughts & reactions about this episode on: (+233)20 757 5272

The Roots' Questlove, author of the new book Creative Quest, breaks down a dazzling list of musical influences, from Michael Jackson to Meg White, in a wide-ranging interview with host Brian Hiatt