Tapping Creativity

Where does creativity and fatherhood meet? Isn't a father far different from a creative?

Our guest for this week had a epiphany that the road to being a good father is akin to the hero's/ creative's …

How do you define a hero? For me, it's someone who not only transforms the lemons that life throws at them into lemonade, but they actually also become the lemonade fix in and of themselves. They not…

How does it feel to have an award winning best seller at 22? What does it take to do it again SEVEN more times in different genres?

Our guest for this week has answers to this and many other questions…

Self-focus is too often confused with selfishness and self indulgence. Yet it is not so. Say, when there's an emergency, airline personnel always advise that you put on your own oxygen mask before yo…

Hello from Nairobi!

This week's episode was recorded in Kenya. In the course of my trip here a snow storm got us stuck in Turkey for a couple of days.  How do you approach such unexpected situations?

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Will Nevins-Alderfer is a renown jeweler and metal smith. He is mostly known for his mokume gane jewellery.  You can view these here: https://www.wrmetalarts.com

On today's episode, Will tells us what…

Justin Nchini is a Cameroonian filmmaker. His debut feature, Hidden Dreams, is Cameroon's entry for Best International Feature at this year's Oscar Awards. You can watch the trailer here.

On this epis…

How many of your new year resolutions have you kept so far? And how impactful were the ones you did last year?

On this episode, I talk about my new year resolution practice and how I handle relapses. …

What’s the secret to having a fulfilling career in Hollywood? Nay, a fulfilling life anywhere?

I asked my friend, the actor Iman Nazemzadeh, and his response was unequivocally: serve others. Over goo…

To start us off with the new year,  the actor Iman Nazemzadeh, alias, Ethan Rains hosted me for a virtual tea ceremony.

In this part of the podcast recording, we explored several questions such as: Wh…

Are there ever any guarantees that a work of art will be completed? Or that it'll be received with critical acclaim? Or even at the very least, just perceived how you conceived it in your mind? NO! N…

The assumptions, or hypothesis, that we approach any project with affect the outcomes. Mostly negatively. It's our willingness to alter these perceptions and relationships we have with the subject of…

Do you want your work to resonate with your audience? Stay authentic. Write in your own voice. Break stereotypes with your pictures. But then, what if your publisher/ producer/ curator believes it wo…

Perspective is everything sometimes. When it comes to creativity, especially, your point of view matters more than your level of expertise. This is because once knowledge crystalizes, it may rob us o…

Where do your stories come from? Who do you write for? Is it important to know your audience? What's your creative process like? How's the life of a novelist like?

I had so many questions for this wee…

How can the greatest psychologists living now help us achieve creative success? This week, lets briefly discuss Victor Frankl's 'Man's Search for Meaning' and Marshall Rosenberg's 'Nonviolent Communi…

Pivoting is usually a term used in business to mean abandoning an original business plan or product, and taking up another and moving in a new direction. But what exactly is 'Pivot' in creative work?…

This week we have a guest interviewer. My friend Neil Daud from High Vibrations Movement had interviewed me for a podcast he had in the pipelines last year, but since he changed his mind about the sh…

On this episode,  Training Day composer  Adrian Lee  talks about his journey as a musician (he started playing the piano at 4!)  and what he looks for in collaborators before he commits to a project …