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, 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...

This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with visual effects producer Taylor Rockwell. A lover of the performing arts since childhood, Taylor spent years behind the scenes as a stage manager for multiple theatrical productions, and eventually took the opportunity to transition from theatre to film. Her first film was Evan Almighty, and sh...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Cheryl Pena. Ever since the age of three, Cheryl has wanted to write and pursue as many different creative endeavors as possible. While others took center stage for various times, writing always stayed back, ready for its time. And now, with various novellas published follo...

This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with Michael Wendroff, author of the critically acclaimed thriller novel "What Goes Around." This was a particularly enlightening conversation since a lot of the focus was on how Michael set himself up in New York City as soon as he arrived there for college. It's a truly inspiring story that is a...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with children's book author Maryanne Wood. Having started her journey as an author as recently as 2025, Maryanne knew right away that it wasn't enough to bring her books to schools. She had to bring an experience with her, and that has been accomplished through the various supplemental...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with Kyle Merrick, a well versed creative strategist who is presenting his program called "Anarchy for a Day." This program allows you to take a look at life, see what works, and give it a tweak to see what works best for you. Find out more about Kyle's program, and schedule your free...

This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with prolific author and musician Ryan McGinnis. Growing up on frequent visits to the library and feeding his mind with a steady diet of thrillers, science-fiction, and horror, Ryan's creativity flourished and manifested itself in a series of thriller short stories, musical performances, and his fi...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with an old friend from the days of writing together on 411Mania.com: author / critic / film analyst Bryan Kristopowitz. A member of the deep roster of prolific writers on 411Mania since 2005, Bryan immediately set himself up as a champion for the ultimate cinematic underdogs: the B-mo...

On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author & musician Christopher Kaufman. With a lifelong love of music and the fantasy genre, Christopher has combined his many talents into a fully immersive original story called Tales of The Ocean City, complete with a symphonic score that captures the listener's imagination...

PRODUCER'S NOTE: Thank you for your patience while the show took a week off to clear up some technical difficulties. The computer is running much better now and I look forward to getting caught up with presenting some great conversations. On this week's episode of Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Lanie Mores. In addition to writing...

This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Lindsey Goldstein. After going from veterinary medicine to working in the film industry, Lindsey pivoted toward writing and got hers out into the world in the form of essays, articles, and short stories published by the New York Times, Princeton Alumni Weekly, The Chicago Story Press, a...

This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author Julie Rowe. After accepting a dare to get her work out into the world, Julie went on to follow her published prose with her own writing workshops and her own hand-crafted swag items. Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity exists primarily as a platform for creatives of all kinds (au...

Proud Member of the Podmatch Podcast Network This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with author & marketing specialist Adele Royce. From working in various adveritising and public relations companies to owning her own marketing consultant firm, Adele is not only an ideal guest due to her journey to help others to get to where she is...

This podcast is a proud member of the Podmatch Podcast Network . This week on Excelsior Journeys: The Road to Creativity, host & producer George Sirois sits down with business owner & business manager Ramae Allen. With years of experience as a business owner and manager of other people's businesses, she has seen too many people lean on their New Year's Resolutions and talk about how they'r...