Podcasts about creativemornings charlotte

You've likely heard this one before: Charlotte IS Creative. Just look around and you'll see artists, musicians, chefs, actors, muralists, sculptors, poets, and more that prove the point.  And there folks working in front of and behind the scenes to help those artists connect, be seen -- and more importantly – make a living. Matt Olin is one of those people.  Matt is Co-Founder of Charlotte Is Creative; Co-Publisher of The Biscuit newsletter; Host of CreativeMornings Charlotte, “musical director” of OneBand, TV news host, husband, father, and all-around man about town… and today he's our guest on the BrandBuilders Podcast.

At our first CreativeMornings/Charlotte event of 2023, we met three people committed to helping others find their Sanctuary: Liliana Jaramillo (Mexico), Yeferline Gomez (Dominican Republic), and Sadaf Alemi (Afghanistan). They all work at ourBRIDGE for Kids, a local nonprofit whose mission is to foster the education, acculturation, and resilience of newly arrived and first generation children and their families.    In this episode of the Charlotte Is Creative Podcast, Matt and Tim sit down with Liliana, Yeferline and Sadaf to learn more about their own journeys to sanctuary and the vital roles they are playing in leading others to safety and security.

“Everyone is creative. Everyone is welcome.” Long-time friends and Charlotteans Matt Olin and Tim Miner are the co-founders of Charlotte is Creative, a not for profit organization that develops programs and initiatives designed to break the Charlotte mold and re-make it with creativity—into a city that draws people in, excites them, and inspires them to invest their financial, social, and creative capital. Learn about some of the unique ways Matt and Tim foster a culture of creativity in Charlotte, such as hosting CreativeMornings/Charlotte, H.U.G. Micro-grants, the Queen City Quiz Show, and their multimedia site The Biscuit. Listen to this episode and “don't wait, create!”  @cltiscreative @cm_clt @mattolincreates @afewminertweaks @SherpaPod @TheBenReport - A Sherpa's Guide to Innovation is a proud member of the Health Podcast Network @HealthPodNet - Support the show (https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

Matt Olin is host of CreativeMornings Charlotte (a local chapter of a global non-profit), co-founder of Charlotte is Creative (a local non-profit) and also a writer and speaker with his own business Matt Olin Creative. In this episode we talk about creative risking and branding. A few highlights we talk about are:  Mindsets that inhibit creative risk taking and mindsets that make creative risk taking easier Creative risk taking when working with someone else’s brand, inside of a new brand and your own brand The role of play and failure Taking risks and building an authentic brand is a great tool to weed people out – and draw in the right people Creativity is a point of connection You can learn more about Matt’s many creative ventures: CreativeMornings Charlotte Charlotte is Creative Matt Olin Creative If you enjoyed the Branding BFF podcast, please rate us and give us a review on iTunes to help more people will discover us! This podcast is brought to you by Speer Creative Edge, a strategic branding business.  

Matt Olin is a writer and creativity consultant for organizations & events, as well as the host of CreativeMornings/Charlotte, a popular monthly breakfast lecture series celebrating the creative spirit of Charlotte and its citizens. Matt spent the first 20 years of his career creating and producing theater in Charlotte and New York – productions garnering such honors as 14 Tony Awards, 50 Tony nominations, Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and more. Matt is also the co-creator of Queen City Quiz Show (winner of a 2016 Knight Cities Challenge Grant), a contributing columnist for the Charlotte Observer Editorial Board, and the co-founder of an emerging nonprofit organization called Charlotte Is Creative. https://www.mattolincreative.com https://creativemornings.com/cities/clt https://www.charlotteiscreative.com  

Infectious enthusiasm for creativity abounds in this episode of 1K with Charlotte’s own Renaissance Man, Matt Olin. We’re not just blowing smoke. As a professional theater producer, the Broadway productions he had his hands in earned serious recognition at the Tony Awards (14 wins, 50 noms). He’s toured the country playing keyboard in a rock band. He does right-brained thinking for left-brained people, writing jingles, commercial scripts, and other creative copy. And for the past two and a half years, he’s hosted the monthly speaker series CreativeMornings/Charlotte. His CreativeMornings role—one he volunteers for—is what first brought him on our radar. In this podcast, Matt tells us more about that role. If you couldn’t tell from his varied background, he’s a man overflowing with and driven by curiosity. It’s that curiosity that helps him and his team find compelling speakers, whether it’s a pizza-obsessed baker or a former inmate turned Washington Post journalist. Other episode highlights include elevating the creative class in a city known for banking, Matt’s secret super power for spotting creative talent, how being an identical twin steeped him in the art of differentiation from an early age, and listening to binaural sounds to get the brain juices flowing. 1K is affiliated with the 100 Words Film Festival and powered by OrthoCarolina. 1K is hosted by Scott Galloway. Produced and edited by Jordan Snyder. Music composed by Jason Hausman. Recorded at Concentrix Music and Sound Design.

Matt Olin creates moments of human brilliance. He is the owner of Matt Olin Creative, a copywriting, branding and creative consultancy. He is the host of CreativeMornings Charlotte, a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. He is also co-host of Queen City Quiz Show, a series of live games shows designed to help neighborhoods and communities shape the future of the city. Over a 20-year career in theater production in New York and Charlotte, Matt developed and produced over 60 projects for the stage exploring the human condition and our higher purposes. He was a member of the Dodger Theatrical's Broadway Producing team, which received 14 Tony Awards during his tenure. He was Managing Director and Producer of Charlotte Repertory Theater. For many years he was the keyboardist for Shadowflag, a rock touring band. Matt earned an undergraduate degree at UNC Chapel Hill and a MFA from Columbia University.  This episode is perfect for anyone interested in the power and purposes of creativity and a passion-filled life. IN THIS EPISODE Matt explains what Creative Mornings is and what happens at CM gatherings. He shares what Creative Mornings means to him. He talks about the philosophy that guides production of Creative Morning gatherings and reflects on what he hopes it might become. Matt reveals what you would see if you saw him writing and what makes for good copy. He answers what he understand creativity to be and what role he is fulfilling in this moment in his city. He considers if we are innovating what we need to innovate. Matt shares a childhood memory that reveals how he feels about accomplishment and recognition. He reflects on his time in college and how his career ambitions took its course.  He explains a time in his life he calls The Thrash and how it led to the work he is doing now. He talks about the influence of his wife Sarah Olin and the essential qualities of his marriage. Matt reveals who is seeks to become and how he hopes to be remembered. After the conversation, host Mark Peres adds a personal word that begins this way, "When I hear Matt Olin talk about bringing people together to enrich the creativity of the city, I'm reminded of a book entitled Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive..."   To learn more, visit On Life and Meaning

This is Episode 7 of the Date Night with Jake & Page podcast, where each month we double-date over mics and drinks with a prominent Queen City couple. In this episode you hear from Matt and Sarah Olin! Matt (@mattolincreative) is everywhere in Charlotte these days, but he's probably best known for his work as the host/organizer of CreativeMornings Charlotte and the Queen City Quiz Show. His wife, Sarah (@lusciousmother), meanwhile, is essentially the most interesting woman in the world as a former/current actor, bartender, life/business/mom coach and yogi. Together, the duo is dynamic as it gets. I wish I could say that we kept recording after the episode wrapped, because we stayed in the studio for another hour laughing and telling stories. Charlotteans, if you haven't made it to a CreativeMornings, DO IT. Moms, if you need a motivator in your life, look up Luscious Mother. Neither will disappoint. We can't thank Matt and Sarah for joining us on this episode, and as always, big thanks to Garrett Tichy, Hygge and Richard Brooke for having us as a member of their inaugural Hygge Podcast Residency! Please subscribe, share and comment on this episode. Past shows can be found on jakeandpage.com, iTunes and wherever you get your podcasts. We live stream each episode on Facebook (Page Crawford Fox 46) and the videos are posted to youtube.com/jakefehling. Please keep the conversation going on social media using the hashtag #datenightclt. Thanks for listening!