The Brainwave Podcast with Gail Hulnick
Creativity. What happens in that charmed moment when a genius song, painting, book or film is born? On The Brainwave Podcast, Gail Hulnick interviews writers, composers, artists, designers, entrepreneurs, and others about how, when, where, and why they fell in love with an idea.
Subscribers to The Brainwave Premium Content "After the Idea" will hear creativity tips, advice on nurturing the muse, and practical, actionable suggestions for encouraging the creative flow.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 47
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Photographer Janet Sternburg Looks at Mexico
Accomplished photographer, author, poet, philosopher Janet Sternburg now makes her home in Mexico and she has turned her observant, artistic photographer's eye to objects and scenes she…
Photographer Janet Sternburg and her new book Looking at Mexico Mexico Looks Back
Award-winning photographer, writer, poet, and philosopher Janet Sternburg has released a new book of photographs of her life and observation in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Titled Loo…
Visual artist and guide Alexander Inchbald with thoughts on how to see, making a masterpiece, and climate change
Imagine you've scaled a mountain, carrying your paints and easel, only to have a blizzard move in, foiling your plan to make a masterpiece. In this episode of the Brainwave Podcast, vis…
Painter Alexander Inchbald and journeys to help you unleash the artist within
In this episode I talk with visual artist Alexander Inchbald who leads retreats around the world for people who want to work on their masterpiece. I also update you on podcasting news a…
Episode 100. Solo. The origin story of the Grammy Awards for outstanding achievement in the music industry
The 66th Grammy Awards were handed out last week. In this solo episode of the Brainwave Podcast, I talk about the show and the origin of the awards.
The Brainwave Podcast is produced and…
Precision Choreography with gymnastics coach and judge Nicole Langevin
Today, we have details on the new Blue Norther Bookstore, hosted by WindWord Group Publishing & Media to sell print books, ebooks, and audiobooks from Gail Hulnick, Devin Audrah, and Da…
Gymnastics choreographer Nicole Langevin, the mix of sport and art, and the fine points of judging
Today, we have details on the new Blue Norther Bookstore, hosted by WindWord Group Publishing & Media to sell print books, ebooks, and audiobooks from Gail Hulnick, Devin Audrah, and Da…
Landscape designer Steve Griggs and a swimming pool on a mountainside
You'll hear an update on the WindWord Group's progress toward opening an author-direct store and an interview with New York's premiere landscape designer Steve Griggs. Where do the insp…
Landscape Designer Steve Griggs: Drawing, design, and intention
You'll hear an update on the WindWord Group's progress toward opening an author-direct store and an interview with New York's premiere landscape designer Steve Griggs. Where do the insp…
Ep. 94. The Boylan Sisters and female-driven filmmaking
This time I talk with filmmaking team The Boylan Sisters, Andrea and Alexandra, about their movies Catching Faith, Catching Faith 2, Identity Crisis, Wish for Christmas, The Greatest In…
Ep.93.Filmmakers The Boylan Sisters and female-driven movies
In 2022, 24% of the 250 top-grossing films in Hollywood were female-driven, with women writers, directors, producers, executive producers, editors or cinematographers. In 2023, that num…
Ep.92 Debut novelist Tyler Schwanke and Breaking In
Do you love a good heist movie? I do. How about a novel about a heist movie that is stolen? Novelist Tyler Schwanke is the author of Breaking In, the story of a student filmmaker who go…
Ep. 91. Debut Novelist Tyler Schwanke and Breaking In
Do you love a good heist movie? I do. How about a novel about a heist movie that is stolen? Wheels within wheels. Novelist Tyler Schwanke is the author of Breaking In, the story of a st…
Poet/Podcaster James Navé on writing after cancer, performing poetry, and the Imaginative Storm writing method
The Imaginative Storm writing method urges you to Write What You Don't Know and I was intrigued by this piece of advice which runs counter to the opposite tip, more commonly given.
Po…
Author / editor / teacher Allegra Huston. Co-founder of the writing method "The Imaginative Storm"
"Write what you know." That's one of the most familiar and common pieces of writing advice -- I probably heard it a hundred times when I was first starting out as a novelist.
There is a…
Ep.85. Solo episode. Talking about the Academy Awards and their beginnings
In Hollywood today, they're buzzing with anticipation for the biggest event of the year, creatively and commercially. The Academy Awards will be given out and for the thousands of peopl…
Ep.84. Crime Fiction Author Frank Zafiro, pen names, and writing advice
This week on The Brainwave Podcast, my guest is author Frank Scalise, who has dozens of crime fiction novels in print as Frank Zafiro.
We talk about the origin of his pen names, the ways…
Ep. 83. Novelists Hejsa and Alie Christensen, on Stealing John Hancock, their debut thriller
This time on The Brainwave Podcast, my guests are Hejsa and Alie Christensen, a mother-daughter writing duo who had their first novel published last year. Stealing John Hancock is publi…
Ep.70. Bonus episode. Gail guests on the Florida Writer Podcast
Gail was a guest on the Florida Writer Podcast and talked with host Alison Nissen about winning two of the Royal Palm Literary Awards the Florida Writers Association gives out, about th…
Ep.69. Filmmaker David Kirschner, Hocus Pocus, and Halloween
David Kirschner has produced, written or executive-produced some of the most famous family movies to come out of Hollywood in the past three decades. The most recent is Hocus Pocus 2, w…