The Creativity Talks

Your natural urges are inherently creative, especially your desire to eat! Learn how to let go of shame and judgment around food cravings and welcome the creative wonder of understanding food as life.

Rene asks Crystal about her history with Ayurveda, and Crystal explains the origins of Ayurveda as a collective creative endeavor for becoming fully embodied, along with her personal experience learning yoga, Ayurveda, and related sciences throughout her life.

Crystal and Rene dive into the connection between creativity and wellness, and why true wellness is more than just inputs and outputs. We talk about channeling health as a vehicle to conscious embodiment as well as recognizing the body as nature.

Rene and Crystal chat with actor Justin Deeley about the actor's creative process, honesty in art, and exploring the darkness through your craft. ________________________________________________ For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the creative drive is at the forefront of everything they do, from self-care to songwriting to simply being huma...

Crystal chats with Fabeku Fatunmise, artist, writer, author, spiritual practitioner, community builder, and business consultant focusing on building businesses that work and feel like home. They discuss the idea of "cohering" and how it applies to the creative process and life.   website: https://fabeku.com/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ fabeku.fatunmise instagram: https://www.instagram...

Rene and Crystal talk with Allison Mondel, visionary teaching artist, voice and creativity coach, scholar in medieval music, and director of the award-winning women’s ensemble Eya Medieval Music.    https://www.allisonmondel.com performance of Hildegard’s “O viridissima virga”: https://youtu.be/LsL9H5tVPjw  http://www.chandarule.com/Jass bassist Ike Sturm https://www.ikesturm.com __...

Rene and Crystal chat with chat with screenwriter, voice teacher, and playwright Chandler Patton about the transpersonal nature of creativity.  ________________________________________________  For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the creative drive is at the forefront of everything they do, from self-care to songwriting to simply b...

In this episode, Rene and Crystal have an extremely special guest—gamer, tinkerer, builder, musician, and creativist Noah B. He shares his perspective on creativity and gaming, debunking the myth that video games turn your brain to mush.  ________________________________________________  For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the crea...

In this episode, Rene and Crystal have an extremely special guest—gamer, tinkerer, builder, musician, and creativist Noah B. He shares his perspective on creativity and gaming, debunking the myth that video games turn your brain to mush.  ________________________________________________  For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the crea...

In this episode, Rene and Crystal speak with Daniel Cape, author of "From Experience to Creativity: The Experiential Educator's Incomplete Guide to Creativity." Daniel shares about the power of personal as well as collective creativity.  Learn more by watching his TEDx Talk below.   Website & book: https://experiencetocreativity.com/ Interview: https://climerconsulting.com/episode-94...

In this episode, Rene and Crystal speak with Daniel Cape, author of "From Experience to Creativity: The Experiential Educator's Incomplete Guide to Creativity." Daniel shares about the power of personal as well as collective creativity. Learn more by watching his TEDx Talk below.   Website & book: https://experiencetocreativity.com/ Interview: https://climerconsulting.com/episode-94-four-...

We chat with Dr. Andrea Slominski, coach, speaker, and author on Creating Your Personal Mythology.   Andrea M. Slominski, Ph. D., is an author, speaker, and women's midlife coach. Dr. A. has spoken at conferences, published articles, and coached women to make the most of their emerging power years.  Guiding women 45+ through the triple transformations of midlife she uses tools that inclu...

We speak with lifelong artist, sculptor, writer, actor, and spiritual practitioner E Rydall, who lives for the creative life.   E. Rydall's bio:  I began painting large things in my childhood—my brother’s fish house, a demolition derby car, a huge water bin and the inside of my Mom’s dress shop.  These experiences were some of the most vivid of my early years because the impulse to...

In this episode of The Creativity Talks, Rene and Crystal interview artist, storyteller, and author Dominick Domingo about his creative process, his experience working as a Disney artist, and his upcoming book, The Seeker.  Dominick's bio: Dominick identifies as a Storyteller, having crossed genres and formats from gaming and filmed entertainment (both live action and animation) to the litera...

In this episode of The Creativity Talks, Rene and Crystal dive into the latter five of ten components of creativity, from process to connection. __________________________________________________  For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the creative drive is at the forefront of everything they do, from self-care to songwriting to simply bei...

In this episode of The Creativity Talks, Rene and Crystal dive into the first five of ten components of creativity. Creativity has an interior/exterior, is useful, novel, transformative, and transportive.  __________________________________________________  For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the creative drive is at the forefront...

What is the product of creativity, and how can product usurp the creative process itself?  __________________________________________________  For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the creative drive is at the forefront of everything they do, from self-care to songwriting to simply being human.  Take a deep dive into the researc...

We cover the final precept of creativity, the promise of purpose and how creativity feeds it. __________________________________________________  For Crystal and Rene, Creativity isn't just a quality. It's a religion. Tune in to learn why the creative drive is at the forefront of everything they do, from self-care to songwriting to simply being human.  Take a deep dive into the research...

In this episode of The Creativity Talks, Rene and Crystal dive into how different experts define creativity. What does it take to be creative? Who gets to be creative? (Spoiler: We say everyone!) Episode resources:   A Whole New Mind Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future - Daniel Pink: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert: https://www.g...

In this episode of The Creativity Talks, Rene and Crystal dive into the seventh precept of creativity, process, arguably the richest dimension of the creative life. Episode resources:  Maslow, Abraham H. Toward a Psychology of Being. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1968. (145) (6.1b)  Seltzer, Leon, PhD. "Feeling Understood Even More Important than Being Loved?" June 28, 2017. https:...

In this episode, Rene and Crystal discuss the origin of the creative drive. What propels us to create and why?   Episode resources:   Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future--today -  George T. Ainsworth-Land and Beth Jarman:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1386841 Breakpoint_And_BeyondLen Wilson - You Were Once a Creative Genius:  https://lenwilson.us/you-we...

Rene and Crystal discuss how creativity can be a spiritual practice for honoring why we're here.

Crystal and Rene discuss how creativity infuses itself into the mundane.

Rene and Crystal chat about the creative drive as a celebratory act and celebration as a creative act.

Crystal and Rene discuss how creativity is fueled by healthy self care and solid boundaries.