Own Your Creativity

FRED GRAHAM has 50 years of percussion experience in playing, teaching,and adjudicating competitions.  At the age of 14, he beganplaying the snare drum in the same Belfast accordion band as his father. It was this marching band that won the All-Ireland championship.   Fred’s love of percussion has found expression in manyways, including competing with Scottish Pipe bands in Ireland and here in Can...

Cheryl Svensson has been involved in the field of aging since she graduated from the first Masters in Gerontology program at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1977 and later completed her Ph. D. at the University of Lund, Sweden. Cheryl has worked closely with Dr. James Birren, founding Dean of the Davis School of Gerontology at USC, and is the Director of the Birren Center for Autobi...

Susan Stenson's work has appeared in several literary magazines, most recently, Fiddlehead, Geist, CV2 and sub-TERRAIN and anthologies including Threshold: six women six poets, Vintage '99 and 2000, and No Choice But to Trust. In 2004, she won first prize in the ARC Poem of the Year Contest, Lush Triumphant, sub-TERRAIN Magazine's Annual Writing Contest and the Rona Murray Prize for Poetry, sponso...

Meet Laurie Johnson After years of struggling with self-esteem, Laurie empowered herself through the use of Creativity. As a young child, she would spend hours dreaming and creating: thus providing her a means to express her emotions.   As she grew into a young woman, her creativity included words and poems, often writing poetry in her back yard amongst the trees, expressing her uneasiness with gr...

Hi, I'm Mikaël. I grew up in Paris, France. When I was 20, I decided to move to Montreal - kind of on a whim - because I needed a change of scenery. I got into a business school, and graduated from a bachelor in marketing. After that I worked for 3 years in an ad agency, and then one year as a brand strategist in a shoe company. I'd always wanted to not work in a big company, so after 4 years of d...

Flora Brown was an entrepreneur as early as 10 years old. She sold her handmade potholders to the patrons of her mother's beauty shop while they sat captive under the dryer or waited their turns. She became hooked on earning money from her creative endeavors, but it was her love of school that led her to embrace a teaching career. While teaching junior high through college levels and managing four...

Co-author of 5 books including a best-seller translated in 5 languages, Shiatsu therapist, acroyoga teacher, Living food chef and inspiring public speaker, entrepreneur of the year 2015 in Quebec Young Chamber of Commerce David his described by the word hyperactive. After Co-founding and managing Crudessence and Rise kombucha he is now embarking on a new circular economy project, LOOP. 

Joel spent the majority of 90’s in radio and TV business. He currently hosts the ReLaunch Show (#1 podcast on iTunes N&N). His #1 bestselling book “ Finding your Voice ” was featured on TV near 50 times.  Joel’s also a Huffington Post and Success.com Contributor. Because of his childhood trauma and life experience, Joel is passionate about helping people starting over with CONFIDENCE. Over the...

Devinder Paul Singh was born and raised in India. He has been dreaming of making films since the age of 17. He came to Canada to pursue his MBA at McGill University. For the past 11 years, he has been mostly living in Montreal where the artistic ambience, multiculturalism and unique identity inspired his work. Take Out was Devinder’s first short film which premiered at Cannes in 2011 and explored...

Lp is all about words that sing.    Take Me Dancin' is Lp Camozzi's 2nd adult single release.  It's the story of his married life and the planned title track of his first adult album. Some have commented that Take Me Dancin' has an old time country, live music feel brought to life with fiddle, harmonica, slide and acoustic guitars, bass and brush snare. All that's missing are the line dancers.  Wh...

Marnie Maguire is the co-author of Picture Perfect: The Story of Black's Photography published by the oldest independent publishing house in Canada, Goose Lane Editions. An independent spirit herself, she will soon unleash her latest work, A Lick of Fire, a novel in zine art form. Most of Marnie's own publications and zines are part magic realism/part poetic grunge; however, she also values all sh...

Geoff Hughes is founder and MD of madhouseMEDIA Publishing. He's a passionate advocate of indie eBook Publishing and also blogs regularly about writing, creativity and the business of independent publishing. You can check his blog out at www.madhousemedia.com.au Geoff is also host of the podcast  The eBook Revolution  where he regularly talks to writers, publishers and marketers about how to write...

Carmine Starnino most recent books are This Way Out (2009), nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and Lazy Bastardism: Reviews and Essays on Contemporary Poetry (2012). His fifth book of poetry, Leviathan, is due out from Gaspereau Press in Spring 2016

Shari D Teigman is a soul explorer, transformational coach and business spark maker.  What does that mean?  Shari help the Joes and Janes who are done being average ditch their Groundhog Day living and find their unique path and voice to a sparked up soul and lit up life. She believes every person has the ability to find their creativity, passion and drive within and light up their lives, relation...

Sylvie Filiatreault was born in Montreal (Quebec) in 1972.Raised by a single mother, who recognized at an early age, her daughter’spenchant for the arts. She nurtured Sylvie’s talent and interests with weeklytrips to the library and providing her with the tools needed to persevere inher passions for the arts and literature by attending seminars and conferencesat a very early age. ‘‘I remember goin...

Rob Levit, an acclaimed musician and artist, has created award- winning innovative "Life-Skills Through The Arts" programs for hundreds of at-risk youth and adults. He is currently Executive Director of Creating Communities and the first Artist-In-Residence at Hospice of the Chesapeake, where he created and infused healing activities for the well-being of staff, families and patients. Rob is a 201...

Candess M. Campbell, PhD is the author of the #1 Best-selling book 12 Weeks to Self-Healing: Transforming Pain through Energy Medicine and her more recent publication Live Intuitively: Journal the Wisdom of your Soul. She is an internationally known Author, Intuitive Coach and Mentor, Psychic Medium, Speaker and Workshop Facilitator. She specializes in assisting others to regain their own personal...

Adam Kelly Morton is an actor, writer and teacher in Montreal.

Mony is the international award-winning co-author of WALKING FOR PEACE, AN INNER JOURNEY, the memoir chronicling her 5000-km, 13-month journey of personal transformation across 13 countries. Her quest for a life with purpose began when she abandoned a lucrative career in the software industry and the successes her MBA afforded her, to adopt the life of a simple pilgrim. For over a year she walked,...

Bruce Langford is a mindfulness coach and an anti-bullying advocate. On today's episode, Bruce talks about how creativity manifests itself in his life and work. Something I admire about him is how he can find calm and mindfulness in surprising places or sources -- a puddle in his driveway, on the downhill ski slope and from his dog, Sadie.

Pat Flewwelling is an Oshawa, Ontario-based author of non-fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. When not working full-timefor a major telecomm, and not working part-time as an editor and ghostwriter,Pat is an avid blogger and reader, who also dabbles painting and playingguitar. Pat’s fifth book, Helix: Plague of Ghouls, is forthcoming in 2016.

Bill O'Hanlon, MS, LMFT, has authored or co-authored 36 books, the latest being Out of the Blue: Six Non-Medication Ways to Relieve Depression (W.W. Norton, April 2014). He has published over 60 articles or book chapters. His books have been translated into 16 languages. He has appeared on Oprah (with his book Do One Thing Different), The Today Show, and a variety of other television and radio pro...

A podcast to help you Own Your Creativity. Each week Elizabeth Johnston talks to people from diverse fields about how they incorporate creativity into their lives. To find out more about Elizabeth and what she does, go to www.ownyourcreativity.com

Rye Taylor is an audio storyteller and online entrepreneur. His desire to live beyond the scope of a normal "job" has led him to create  a daring life for himself and family. He currently operates Podcast Essentials, a company focused on launching podcasts with excellence and is about to start a new podcast himself called "Daring & Rye."