Creative Genius

Willow Wolfe started off painting little wooden bowls with her grandmother and by 19 was teaching art in her own studio in Winnipeg, Canada.  Today she is an award winning art teacher, the author of a library of internationally available books and the designer of best-selling brush lines for over twenty years. Her approachable style and step-by-step painting methods have taken her to events, semin...

Kim Krans is a visionary artist, author, and creator of The New York Times Bestseller The Wild Unknown Tarot.  S he joins us to discuss the magic of tarot, the collapse of 'The Artist' archetype in current culture and society, and the importance of showing up to support our own inner artists as  the  most important thing we can do to heal the world. There is an incredible guided mediation at the e...

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SHOW NOTES Erin Oostra is a visual artist, graphic designer and the owner of Nuwavegallery in Ellensburg Washington. Her work is bold and beautifully striking and is most often inspired by the mountains and waters of the pacific northwest. We talk about how to begin to recognize how creativity wants to move through your system so that it van flow better, the importance of leaning into creative nud...

2 time Juno Award Winning Canadian Singer/Songwriter Dan Mangan joins me to talk about the roles of vulnerability, honesty, determination and grit in bringing our art into the world.  We talk about how he ‘made it’ as a musician in a landscape that is oversaturated with incredible talent no matter which way you look, the importance of creating a vehicle to carry your work into the world and he ref...

From Hollywood Exec to Farmers Market Artisan - Walking away from a life that isn’t working Have you ever found yourself looking around at your life and thinking, on paper you have everything you ever wanted and worked hard for but something still doesn’t feel quite right?  Tracy Mazuer’s life is a powerful example of this - AND how we can begin to find our way back to our true calling - even in t...

Have you been wondering how to find your own artistic style? Whether you are an established artist with a good sense of your own artistic voice ready to take the next step in licensing your work, or you’re just getting into creating art, this episode has so many wonderful things in store for you -  not least of which is the FREE art class today’s guest Este Macleod has given all the listeners of T...

Episode 24 is the last episode of Season 1 of the Creative Genius Podcast ! It has been an incredible year and I am so glad you are here. We’re taking a bit of a break over August so that you can go back and listen to your favourites, while we work on some amazing things to kick off season two with a bang in September.  Our guest today is Autumn Skye - an incredible artist with a massive online fo...

In this episode I speak with Tracy Verdugo, Visual Artist, teacher and Author of the wildly popular book, “Paint Mojo”. For more than 22 years, Tracy has worked with thousands of people around the world - helping them to find their creative freedom. She shares the insights she’s gained over these years including the one main thing she has found, that she thinks is the key to creating amazing art a...

Dr Cheryl Arutt Clinical & Forensic Psychologist : The Brain Science of Creativity  EPISODE SUMMARY Have you ever wondered any of these: What the science is behind creativity? What causes creativity in the brain? What part of the brain is used in creativity? Or maybe even how to activate creativity in the brain?  In this episode Kate speaks with Dr. Cheryl Arutt a clinical and forensic psychologis...

We can learn a lot by paying attention to what doesn't work. In this mini episode I share a little story about how I steered a collaboration with my 7 year old wrong and what it taught me.

Sam Parton (The Be Good Tanyas)  "The Littlest Birds Sing The Prettiest Songs"    Episode Summary In this episode Kate speaks with Sam Parton , founding member of the wildly popular Canadian Alt Folk band The Be Good Tanyas . Their debut album Blue Horse was named 2002’s top 50 releases by Q Magazine (UK) and the band would go on to release more albums cherished by fans all over the world. Their a...

This episode is about creative blocks . This is a big topic, a lot of people really dread the idea of a creative block - when they happen the temptation can be to immediately try to fix it, or get past it  - to solve it, all to avoid what is actually a beautiful and inevitable part of the creative process . In this short, 15 minute mini episode , I'm going to give you three really tangible, action...

In this episode Kate speaks with Kimberly Grigg, a wildly successful Interior Designer from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina who had figured out how to hack her creativity so that it was always ON . While this allowed her to build an empire for herself, it also literally almost killed her . She shares how that happened and what specific things she has done and continues to do to make sure that she rem...

In this episode I talk about some of the challenges I lived for most of my life, not knowing I had a condition called Aphantasia; which is an inability to conjure visual imagery, or a mind's eye that is blind. And how when I accepted this, I came to see how this condition is what is actually responsible for what I now see and know are my greatest strengths.  Leaning into what makes us different is...

In this episode Kate speaks with New Zealand Visual Artist Phoebe Gander.  Phoebe shares how difficult it was to live most of her life with undiagnosed ADHD, how for years she believed there was something deeply faulty about her and how that was the root cause of self-hatred and years of depression. When her own young son was diagnosed with ADHD, it led her to her own diagnoses which set her on a...

In this mini episode Kate talks about the importance of the words we use when we talk about ourselves and our artwork because our inner Creative Genius is listening. She shares a simple daily practice we can incorporate into our lives that will help us notice when we are being unkind to ourselves so that we can stop doing that and be kind to our Creative Genius - otherwise they are unlikely to com...

Jeanne Oliver is an artist, author, teacher and art business consultant. She paints, teaches how to paint art journals and is deeply committed to the creativity in her. She created an online art school platform that hosts over 180 art and business workshops serving over 60,000 art students around the world. She has written a beautiful book called “The Painted Art Journal” aimed at helping people f...

This mini episode is for you if you have been looking for a practical way to increase your intuition, creativity and that feeling of being connected to your inner knowings. Kate offers some ideas for how we have become disconnected from these parts of ourselves and a practical (and very easy) exercise that anyone can do anytime to get back in connection with it.  Creative Genius Mini #2 is all abo...

Larry Hankin is perhaps the most recognized “that guy” character actor in Hollywood; having appeared in over 200 films and TV shows, you definitely know his face. His filmography reads like a who’s who of Hollywood he has had roles in Laverne & Shirley, Friends, Escape from Alcatraz, Billy Madison, Home Alone, Seinfeld, Breaking Bad. He's also a writer and short film director (one of his films eve...

The closer we can be to being comfortable with uncertainty, the closer we are to allowing something really magical to be expressed through us in our creativity. There's a certain amount of allowing that has to take place for something new to emerge. And when we resist uncertainty, we cut ourselves off from that... magic - because that really is what it is - it's magic. In this, the first of the “...

Lynn Whipple is a multi-media artist who paints with joy and passion, great and small flowers, all full of expression and life. She teaches art workshops and she has authored a book called “Expressive Flower Painting: Simple Mixed Media Techniques for Bold Beautiful Blooms” that really was part of my own unfolding and blossoming when I got back into painting. Lynn and her husband both formerly wor...

Lori Siebert is an artist, designer, teacher & businesswoman. She has worked with clients like Universal Studios and licensed her work for products that are used around the world and now is featured on BloomTV. She runs art retreats and you can often find her running super fun art challenges on Instagram. Today she sat down with me to share how after some difficult life events caused her to discon...

Despite being known as the non-artistic one in her family, Cat Rains would go on to become a professional artist not once but twice in her life, after a series of unfortunate life events derailed her art career the first time.  As you’ll hear, Cat had a chaotic & traumatic childhood. Rather than letting herself be a victim of it though, she chose to lean into her experiences and use them to make h...