Own Your Creativity

Janice Francisco, Innovation Catalyst, MSc Creativity and Change Leadership Janice Francisco operates at the intersections of change, learning, creativity and innovation.  She helps managers and their teams solve the mystery of what it means to be innovative and teaches them how to use creativity to achieve innovation, grow and transform. She is the inventor of the Think Up Innovation Framework, a...

Creating soulful music to lift your vibe Claudia Carawan is an award-winning singer/songwriter and speaker whose music runs deep. Her voice has been described as “goose-bump inducing” and her original songs feature buoyant melodies fused with feel-good lyrics. At the heart of Carawan’s music and mission is a belief that music is transformative. She has independently released 5 CDs: Out of the Blue...

Bryan Demchinsky is a Montreal freelance editor and writer, the author or co-author of five books. Among them are Soup to Self-Sufficiency: Montreal’s Old Brewery Mission, with Alan Hustak (2014); After Auschwitz: One Man's Story, an as-told-to biography of Hermann Gruenwald (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006); and Storied Streets: Montreal in the Literary Imagination, with Elaine Kalman Naves...

Sofia Wren helps writers and creatives ready to get themselves out there in a bigger way, who want to make faster progress and reach more people. She guides them to get comfortable being seen for who they truly are and to expose their work and message to more people.  Sofia Wren provides writers and creatives with intuitive, practical support to help them reach their creative goals. She has been w...

About Dr. Paul Summary I am a psychologist.  I started into school thinking that I would become an engineer, in fact I was a chemical engineering major when I started at BYU way back in 1984.  I figured I could make some money using all of those sweet math and science skills that came pretty easily to me.  I chose to become a psychologist when I realized that I have a passion for assisting others...

Ann Douglas sparks conversations that matter about parenting and mental health. She is a bestselling parenting author (her most recent book is Parenting Through the Storm) and the weekend parenting columnist for CBC Radio. A passionate and inspiring speaker, Ann delivers keynote addresses and leads small-group workshops at health, parenting, and education conferences across the country. __________...

Rob Dial believes that leaders are not born, they are groomed. From the time Rob started working with Dean, he has inspired the vision that leaders must first develop a clear purpose and align their behaviors with that purpose to create a worthy future. Today, Rob and Dean inspire a massive amount of people through podcasting, blogging and book writing that teach people to lead by example in every...

Luis Congdon is on a mission to help others find their freedom through creating podcasts that help you get your message heard, grow an audience and make money. He has gone from homeless to running a six figure business in less than two years, and interviews experts & celebrities all around the world to enlighten, inspire & inform his listeners on how to improve their personal and professio...

Ellen Koronet, Principal and Chief Fun Officer ellenkoronet@LNKcreative.com   As Principal & Chief Fun Officer of LNK Creative, Ellen designs and hosts interactive personality quizzes and assessments to expand reach, generate warm leads, and interact with customers. An Anthropologist by training, she spent over three decades as a focus group moderator and marketing research executive, serving...

Scott Wilhite  is an award-winning commercial filmmaker turned social entrepreneur. As a writer, producer, and director he was enjoying a promising creative career without actually enjoying it. During ten of his most productive years he found them to also be ten of his darkest, most unsatisfying years. He felt directionless and that his life was missing purpose and meaning.  This all changed when...

Filip Valica has been a mechanical engineer and engineering manager for over 12 years, designing, testing, and building products from cradle to grave. He has worked for a broad range of companies – from mom-and-pop small businesses to some of the largest corporations in the US. His hands-on point of view resonates with other action-oriented small business owners and entrepreneurs.  Filip is also t...

Marc is co-founder and Chief Insight Officer of FliPskills. He holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, an MBA and Masters in Physics and Math, and combines that with many years of corporate, executive and entrepreneurial experience in diverse areas from Marketing to HR to Actuarial. He is on faculty at Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre at the University of Waterloo. He has bee...

In today's episode: Is it possible to fast-track your creativity? What if it were possible to get all the tools you need in just one day. What a difference a day could make in realizing your writing dreams? Learn more about Elizabeth Johnston's seminars in screenwriting and memoir. Find out more at www.ownyourcreativity.com

Jen Gilchrist – Soul Success Mentor + Speaker An Entrepreneur for 17 years, and a Spiritual Mentor for 6 years, Jen Gilchrist has gone from Struggling Single Mom to a 6-figure Business Owner –making money doing what she loves and empowering others to do the same. Jen is the creator of the Blissful Bride Program and Enlightened Entrepreneur Program.   She supports  coaches, authors, messengers and...

Kathryn P. Haydon writes, speaks, and consults to support an educational paradigm based on student strengths and creative thinking. She is a keynote speaker and specialist for families, schools, and educational organizations nationwide.  Kathryn co-authored Creativity for Everybody (2015) and Discovering and Developing Talents in Spanish-Speaking Students (2012); writes for publications on educati...

My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a writing coach for wonderful writers like you who don’t want to waste any more time. Through my coaching programs, I give you the tools, support and guidance you need to turn your idea into reality whether it’s a memoir or a screenplay. Who Am I? I didn’t know I was a writer. I had always written creatively, but it wasn’t until I went to university that the doors of...

Kristen Joy decided she was “unemployable” at the tender age of six when she started her first business making and selling pet rocks. She’s never been able to “hold down a real job…” ever. A serial entrepreneur, in 2003 she turned her life-long love of reading and writing into a full-time career she LOVES, teaching authors and entrepreneurs how to create books that bring them business and turning...

Hello Everybody, and welcome to today’s show. I’m really excited to announce a new direction for the Own Your Creativity Podcast. Starting today, I’ll be alternating between solo episodes and interview episodes. Why am I doing this? Because there are a lot of things I want to share with you about creative writing, how to do it, why to do it, the science behind it, and how it can enrich your life a...

Elizabeth Bryan-Jacobs was born in Rockland County, New York. She is passionate about communicating the relationship of the human body and spirit to nature and the earth. She pioneered the field of Creative Behaviorism, a proprietary methodology that awakens the creative process in artists and non-artists alike in order to maximize their human and spiritual potential.  To apply these principles wi...

Amanda Bernardo is the local author of the children’s book Little Voice, a story that encourages children and adults alike to be confident, creative and inspired to chase their dreams. While working full-time as a Policy Analyst with the Government of Canada, Amanda has taken her dream of publishing her own book and transformed it into a movement that has now made its way into thousands of homes a...

Biography- Amar Vyas I am a husband, Co-Founder of Kamakshi Media, host of MyKitaab Podcast, the creator of Baalgatha- Podcast of Classic Childrens’ stories, and author of the Amol Dixit series of books. I have lived in fifteen cities over the past twenty years, including the two years spent at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as a graduate student. In 2010, I spent an year at the In...

Fred Rosenzveig, Business Coach President of Mind Range in Montreal www.mindrange.com