Creative, Inspired, ALIVE

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.creativeinspiredalive.com Hello Protagonists! In this post, you’ll find: 🎥 The video replay of our October meeting 📚 Your invitation + discussion questions for Winter Hours , our Holiday Party Book Club Pick 💛 RSVP & Zoom link (below the paywall) 💕 Joanna The “Reading with Wonder” Book Club is for our community members who want...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest today is Jasmine Guillory, a bestselling author of nine adult romance novels, including the Reese’s Book Club pick, The Proposal . This fall, she is trying something new, making her young adult debut with a Dirty Dancing-inspired...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.creativeinspiredalive.com Hello Protagonists! In this post, you’ll find: 🎥 The video replay of our September meeting 📚 Your invitation + discussion questions for The Everlasting , our next Book Pick 🗓️ Upcoming Book Club Picks 💛 RSVP & Zoom link (below the paywall) 💕 Joanna The “Reading with Wonder” Book Club is for our communit...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest today, Helen Scheuerer, is the Sunday Times bestselling romantasy author praised for their strong, flawed heroines and action-packed plots. Helen built her career as an indie author, and her new trilogy is published with Penguin...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest today is Jodi Picoult, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of thirty novels, with over 63 million books in print and translations in forty languages. She has written everything from her breakout novel, My Sister’s Keeper , t...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, CHLOE BENJAMIN, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists and The Anatomy of Dreams . The Immortalists was a #1 Indie Next pick and was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Entertainment...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, Evelyn Skye , is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of our very own Creative, Inspired, ALIVE community. She has written eleven novels, including collaborations with Netflix and Disney, spanning young adult fantasy...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Amie McNee, is a writer, teacher, speaker, and incredible advocate for creativity. Her mission is to dismantle the limiting narrative surrounding creatives so that we may each become the Artists the world needs us to be. Sh...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Catherine Cho, is the acclaimed author of The Devoted and the memoir Inferno . She was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2020 and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Catherine also runs her own literar...

Hello Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, Mara Brock Akil , is an award-winning writer, producer, director, and showrunner. At the age of 30, she became the youngest African American showrunner on broadcast network television with her sitcom Girlfriends . She created BE...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, Jessica Goldstein, is a style, arts, and humor writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Marie Claire , Vulture , and the humor site McSweeney’s Internet Tendency . Her debut novel, Retro , pub...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, Sarah MacLean, is a New York Times , Washington Post & USA Today bestselling author. Vulture Magazine writes - “MacLean is a master at weaving passion and vulnerability equally in her characters. When it comes to historical rom...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Donna Jackson Nakazawa , is an award-winning science journalist and an internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neurobiology and human emotion. Her book, Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Da...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Laurie Frankel , is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author known for emotional, character-driven fiction exploring modern family dynamics, including This Is How It Always Is , One Two Three , and Family Famil...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guests are three amazing book publicists from Lavender PR–Carla Bruce, Brittani Hilles, and Amelia Possanza. This team has over three decades of combined experience at publishers like HarperCollins, Little, Brown, Riverhead Press...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Stacey Lee , is a NYT and Indie bestselling author of historical and contemporary YA and middle grade fiction, including The Downstairs Girl , a Reese’s Book Club pick, Kill Her Twice , a school Library Journal best book o...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Rebecca Serle , is the New York Times bestselling author of Once and Again , Expiration Dates , One Italian Summer , In Five Years , and The Dinner List , to name a few. Serle also developed the hit TV adaptation Famous in...

This spring, I’m going to try a small experiment: a live studio for writers actively building a novel, where I’ll read your opening pages and we’ll work on them together, live. ____ Atelier Skye: The Studio for Serious Novelists Here’s what this will look like: Twelve novelists. Six Saturdays. Live sessions. Direct developmental critique. No recordings. No passive consumption. A working studio. Th...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guest, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling novels The Nest (named a best book of the year by People, the Washington Post, and NPR) and Good Company (a Read with Jenna selection). Her w...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our next guests, Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegmund-Broka , are a married Romance writing team! They met and fell in love in high school. Austin went on to graduate from Harvard, while Emily graduated from Princeton. Together, they are t...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative. Inspired. ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, TARA MOHR, is an internationally renowned coach and educator on women’s leadership and well-being. She is also the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead , which empowers women...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative. Inspired. ALIVE podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. Our guest, Deepa Anappara , won the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line . Anappara is also the co-editor of Letters to a Writer of Colour , a...

Hello, Protagonists! Welcome to another episode of the Creative, Inspired, Alive podcast—where we go behind the scenes with the storytellers shaping our culture. New Year, New Name! - Creative. Inspired. Happy is now Creative, Inspired, ALIVE! Our guest today is Roshani Chokshi, New York Times Bestselling author . Her books have been translated into over two dozen languages, and one of them was ev...

Happy New Year, Protagonists! Welcome to our (slightly) new name and logo. In this Letters from the Creative Life post, you can read about what this new name means to us, and what you can look forward to here in the upcoming year. xo, Joanna & Evelyn What does ALIVE mean? Finding my Tentacle and Showing Up All the Way to Life Last year, Evelyn invited me to bring some elements of my creativity coa...

(This is the audio version of our latest Substack .) In this post, you’ll find our 2026 preview, including: 🎉 Our (Slightly) New Name 📚 Book Club Picks for the first months of 2026 🫶🏼 Mini Creativity Coaching sessions coming next year 📖 January Book Club invite + Discussion Questions More details in our Substack HERE ! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscri...