Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author & art historian Rick Sorenson. As the son of a pastor who has had a lifelong interest in art, Rick has taught classes about unleashing your creativity and has advised churches with art programs. And with his book "Art: The Church's Response," Rick presents a very intere...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with autor & motivation specialist Lorie Klener Eckert. As someone who has been in the industry for the past 30 years, Lorie has helped countless amounts of people to keep themselves inspired and moving forward toward their goal. Learn more about Lorie by clicking HERE . Excelsior...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author & editor Riley Ringer. From being featured in Intrepid Times to editing various poetry books and different anthologies to sharing her own voice and perspective on her Instagram and Substack pages, Riley continues to put the spotlight on other voices without sacrificing...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author & e-commerce store owner Kira Hartley Klinger. After being forced to take a brand new course in life, Kira tried novel writing, but didn't find her audience until after she discovered eBay and decided to try buying and selling for profit anything that she could find. Th...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Laura Van Wormer. Laura's journey goes way back to childhood when she would come up with stories to entertain herself and her mother. That love would lead her to joining the editorial team at Doubleday, where she would oversee behind-the-scenes books for Dynasty, Dallas, an...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois was supposed to bring you the first episode of the podcast with a live audience. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, that audio... does not exist. In its place, I hope you enjoy this look back at the day this episode was recorded and how author & entrepreneur Bob Baker, author &amp...

Five years ago, producer & host George Sirois released a five-part miniseries on this show, celebrating the 35th anniversary of TransFormers: The Movie. This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, George has re-launched the fifth and final part of the miniseries to celebrate the 40th anniversary and upcoming re-release of the film. "'Til All Are One" features Mark Maher and Evan B...

Five years ago, producer & host George Sirois released a five-part miniseries on this show, celebrating the 35th anniversary of TransFormers: The Movie. This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, George has re-launched the fourth part of the miniseries to celebrate the 40th anniversary and upcoming re-release of the film. "An Autobot Shall Rise from Our Ranks" features producer F...

Five years ago, producer & host George Sirois released a five-part miniseries on this show, celebrating the 35th anniversary of TransFormers: The Movie. This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, George has re-launched the third part of the miniseries to celebrate the 40th anniversary and upcoming re-release of the film. "Heaven Only Knows What You Might Find" features composer V...

Five years ago, producer & host George Sirois released a five-part miniseries on this show, celebrating the 35th anniversary of TransFormers: The Movie. This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, George has re-launched the second part of the miniseries to celebrate the 40th anniversary and upcoming re-release of the film. "It is the Year 2005" features five voice actors who are f...

Five years ago, producer & host George Sirois released a five-part miniseries on this show, celebrating the 35th anniversary of TransFormers: The Movie. This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, George has re-launched the first part of the miniseries to celebrate the 40th anniversary and upcoming re-release of the film. "Two Years in the Making" features the original screenwrite...

For the final episode of Season 12 of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with Laura Frost, an award-winning author who provides encouragement to up-and-coming authors as an industry judge and critic. As someone who is constantly reaching out a helping hand to those behind her while still moving herself forward with award-winning works like her p...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Mary Shotwell. As someone with many different stories to tell, Mary has taken advantage of the freedom that comes with working with publishers such as Roan & Weatherford. She is not tied to any one genre; she has enjoyed telling stories of small-town romance with her Wa...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author, editor, and podcaster Laura Buchwald. Based out of New York City, Laura started working on her first novel The Coat Check Girl back in 2009, , a journey that would take more than a decade to complete. It eventually found its home with Roan & Weatherford's Radiance impr...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Deborah Oswald. As a lover of history and historical fiction, Deborah has channeled her passion into a series of books featuring three generations of women from the fictional McKenna Family, which resides in Hudson Valley, New York. They were introduced to the world in the...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with bestselling author Kent McInnis. After graduating from Oklahoma State University, Kent served as an Air Force instructor pilot during the Vietnam War, then went into pharmaceutical sales for Westerners International, where he would eventually become chairman. And THEN, with storie...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with fellow author Michael Hilton. While the two have similarities in their respective paths to the same publisher, Michael talks about his debut novel "Bobby Robot" was launched in 2020... right before COVID shut down the world. During that time, Michael focused on expanding his unive...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with arts educator, speaker, and social dance advocate Rodney Eric Lopez. In addition to being the author of "The Generosity Solution" and the founder of the Currents RI Giving Circle, Rodney has channeled his experience - which is seen in full view in the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Betsy Randolph. After years of working in radio broadcasting, law enforcement, the US Army Reserves, the military police, and more, Betsy has taken all of her experience - as well as a rich family background and a love of research - and brought it all to Roan & Weatherf...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with fellow podcaster Carolyn Kiel, host & producer of Beyond 6 Seconds. Starting in 2018, Carolyn's podcast has put the spotlight on neurodivergent people of all ages, brought awareness to various afflictions, and resulted in well-deserved awards & recognitions from organizati...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Annie Atkin. With a love and passion for writing fast-paced stories focusing on women taking on the patriarchy in various eras, Annie has brought her debut novel Devil in the Daylight to bookstores through her new home, Roan & Weatherford Publishing Associates. Learn mo...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with producer Joslyn Vance. As the woman behind Soul Culture Films, Joslyn has worked on various film & television projects, and she has most recently brought her expertise to the film entitled "Bedridden." Starring Earthquake, Donnell Rawlings, and more, this dark comedy is now av...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with W. Michael Farmer, a multi-award-winning author of Western Historical Fiction. With his various series such as The Vanishing Trilogy, Legends of the Desert, The Life & Times of Yellow Boy, and The Apache Kid Chronicles, Michael - who is also a retired Ph. D. physicist - has po...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, producer and host George Sirois sits down with writer Matt Witten. After poetry gave him his first creative outlet, he was encouraged in high school to write his first play. That led to several other plays, which then led to Matt making the move to writing thriller novels and spending the next twenty years writing for television...

This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with documentary filmmaker Sara Alessandrini. She has spent several years producing her feature-length documentary - which then became a miniseries - about the fall of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, after various allegations forced his resignation and eventual decline from the political stage. You...