Your Creative Chord Podcast

“Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - part 4” featuring Creator Kristen Baum: Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman. LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently collaborates on diverse film and live theater projects. Her creative works range from composing and orchestrating film scores, art songs, poetry, and fantasy fiction....

Part one of “Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel,” features Creator Kristen Baum: Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman. LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently collaborates on diverse film and live theater projects. Her creative works range from composing and orchestrating film scores, art songs, poetry, and fantasy ficti...

“Using Variety & Gumption As Creative Fuel - Pt 2” features Creator Kristen Baum, a Role Model As An Impeccable Creative Woman. LA-based composer, writer and poet, Kristen Baum is a (Composers Lab) Sundance Fellow who frequently collaborates on diverse film and live theater projects. Her creative works range from composing and orchestrating film scores, art songs, poetry, and fantasy fiction....

In " How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 2 " pyrography Artist Amanda Packard, aka, The Phoenix Quill dives more personally and universally into how the artist's creativity began, what led her to create, and what inspires her art. We cover the issue of women empower-ment through creativity, how Packard's personal journey became the catalyst for her femin...

Episode 13, " How To Inspire & Drive An Artist's Creativity Part 1 " features Pyrography Artist Amanda Packard, aka, The Phoenix Quill. Our dialogue takes us through a step-by-step of the artist's creative process, the tools essential for her pyrography works, and how her unusually repressed background became a catalyst for creativity. Packard's artworks are an exquisi...

In Episode 12, " It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU" Part 2 features more from my conversation with Maine-born composer Trace Callahan. Callahan and I discuss her video game music composing process, the tools necessary for implementing game music, and how she created and plans to launch her first original musical, "Better Than Fine." In "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU" Pa...

Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 11, "It's ALL OK - Just Do YOU ," features my conversation with Maine-born composer Trace Callahan. Our dialogue runs the gamut of Callahan's upcoming original musical to her involvement as a video game music composer and sound designer, to how being female relates to creative opportunities, and how she incorporates both suffering and joy wit...

Your Creative Chord Podcast episode 10 , How To Live A Life of Joyful Creativity Part 2 , features a deeper dialogue on successful approaches to and benefits of committing to the creative life.  Part 2 of my interview with University of Kentucky Department of Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Ryan Hargrove. Hargrove teaches creative thinking through a variety of projects, trips, interview...

Today’s Creativity episode features Part I of my interview with University of Kentucky Department of Landscape Architecture Associate Professor Ryan Hargrove. Hargrove teaches creative thinking through a variety of projects, trips, interviews with professional creatives, and a class at University of Kentucky called “Living on the Right Side of the Brain.”  Part 1 of our interview explores an overv...

Episode 8 offers 5 Ways To Use Music & Nature For Self-Care .  ✨ Free Resources Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use. Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnout RESET Guide — simple steps you can use right away. Got thoughts or fee...

Episode 7, Landing on the Hopeful,  is about the power of the arts as demonstrated by Lexington Ballet Company’s therapeutic performances. ✨ Free Resources Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use. Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnou...

Episode 6 explains Why Taking Care of Yourself Is Best For Others . ✨ Free Resources Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use. Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnout RESET Guide — simple steps you can use right away. Got thoughts or fe...

5 Ways to Master Caregiver Learning Curve offers a few practical tips (from a caregiver) for caregivers.  ✨ Free Resources Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use. Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnout RESET Guide — simple steps you...

Episode 4, How To Deflect Negativity, offers insights into handling difficulties and negative self-talk.  ✨ Free Resources Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use. Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my short, reflective Burnout RESET Guide — simple steps you...

Learning to be Creative summarizes my Creative Exploration Formula , a practical approach to help you nurture your creativity. These strategies are part of my Inspirational Bookmark Trio and form the foundation for my free Creative Empowerment Sampler , my interactive workbook (CEW), my full online course (CEC), and my coaching program (CECP)—all designed to help you rebuild trust in your creative...

Episode 2, Winning Against The Lower Worlds, is my poetic essay about how the inner battle to defeat negativity results in visible positive changes in our world.  ✨ Free Resources Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Creative Empowerment Sampler — a gentle, actionable guide anyone can use. Reset your energy and support recovery from burnout with my...

Your Creative Chord Podcast Episode 1 , The Storm Is Worth It is about Jenny Leigh Hodgins' view as a caregiver of her aging mother's journey. The story reveals why traveling through severe storm weather to attend an event was so significant to both. Sometimes, the storm is worth it! ✨ Free Resources Explore practical ways to nurture your creative energy and maintain wellness with my Cr...