Keep the Flow
Keep the Flow is the weekly podcast that looks under the hood of the creative process to keep your creative engine humming.
Hosted by Scott McLemore, a drummer and composer living way up north in Iceland. He has been involved in various creative pursuits including working in graphic design and writing about creativity. In this podcast he to shares what he has learned along the way.
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 51
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
How to Tap into the Power of Pure Imagination
Pure imagination ain't just for Willie Wonka. In this episode we look at how we can use this powerful tool to inspire new ideas.
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Don't Get Mad. Get Creative.
In this episode we get into the things that get in our way, that completely derail us, or even that just annoy us or make us angry - and how we can turn them to our advantage and use them to power ou…
Get Lost Creatively Without Feeling Lost
Be more like Penny, my dog. Instead of panicking when we are in unfamiliar territory - take a big long sniff.
In this episode we get into how to embrace the chance to explore something new and how to …
How to Keep Showing Up while Avoiding Burnout
How do we keep showing up even when we don't feel like it? And how do we know when we actually need a break - as opposed to just being lazy?
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6 Ways to Create Engaging Work with Ambiguity
In this episode we'll look at the role of meaning in art, and 6 ways to harness ambiguity to create engaging work that allows for multiple interpretations.
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The art of listening, intention and sitting beautifully with Emre Kartari.
For the first of hopefully many interviews on Keep the Flow, I'm joined by drummer and composer Emre Kartari. Topic range from his journey from Ankara, Turkey to his creative process to how he draws …
Creative refueling & how to trust your feelings over external indicators
Creative decision making: How to trust your feelings over external indicators
Here's a story of when I first started driving to illustrate how we can sometimes put too much stock in external indicator…
Tips for Making a Creative Living
In this episode I offer some tips for making a living with our creative abilities and fill you in on some of my back story. Like dropping out of high school to go on the road with a rock band and wor…
5 tips to supercharge your creative work with productivity
Productivity and creativity are like yin and yang. We need both to do our work. This episode looks at 5 ways to use productivity to supercharge our creative workflows.
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6 ways to reclaim our curiosity to fuel our creative engines
Curiosity is the crucial instinct which drives us to explore, combine, reconfigure, refigure, refine and reflect.
In this episode we look at how to reclaim our curiosity for the purposes of finding m…
How to get a handle on our fears and get on with creativity
When it comes to creativity, fear is a major obstacle. Maybe the biggest obstacle.
Embarrassment. Failure. Rejection.
For the debut episode of Keep the Flow it makes sense to go through these fears and…