“All creative people want to do the unexpected.” Hedy Lamarr.
Creative At The Wheel…
What happens when we go off script and find ourselves taking the road less travelled?
What does it look like when we say yes to a crazy idea and find ourselves on a transformational journey where we are never the same again?
In this podcast, I talk with creative luminaries who share their personal and professional adventures of tuning into their own inner guidance system–whether it be serendipity, intuition or the wisdom of their ancestors–and what came next.
May your own desire for transformation and reinvention be strengthened by what they have to say.
The Episodes
How A Wasp From Texas Discovered Peruvian Shamanism with Barbara Snow
Barbara Snow was born and lived most of her life in the States; she now lives in Villa Banba, Ecuador with her dogs and is a writer of what her friends call "science faction", crafting stories...
From Zimbabwe to Scotland, Against All Odds, with Donald Hargrove.
Donald Hargrove's most recent collection of digital paintings "The Landscape of Origins" is an exquisite testimony to his connection to nature and the essence of life. From a young age, Donald...
My Surprising Life with Poetry with David Coleman
David has been a ski patroller, has skied 21,000 feet in the Andes, has travelled to Tibet, Peru and to other parts of the world, has been a full time potter, an inventor and more recently a school...
Gathering The Forces of Friendship and Art Making with Joan Logghe
Joan Logghe has lived a life of poetry in La Puebla, New Mexico. Santa Fe's poet laureate from 2010-2012, she is an exuberant story teller and well known around the world for her poetry and her art...
The Gospel of Thomas As My Workbook with Hannah Rappaport
Hannah Rappaport made a dramatic exit from her conventional life as housewife and mother and entered the world of Gnosticism at the age of forty. Always someone who experienced visions, she...
Decoupling My Identity From Work and Money with Danielle Cadhit
This transformational tale is a fairy tale for modern times—how the young successful consultant left it all and prioritized her love of life. After being successful as a corporate...
How A One Way Ticket To New Zealand Changed My Life with Susie Pan
Susie Pan was born in China, raised in Canada and has moved and travelled for much of her young life. She has now worked in seven countries and visited over 40 for startups and large...
I Could Have Been A VP But I Had To Dance with Sandi Scheuber
Sandi Scheuber has lived parallel lives, one as a systems engineer for a large organization and the other as a dancer and choreographer. She has experienced times of great courage putting...
Healing illness through a restoration of the feminine with Jill Ashley Hoffman
Jill Ashley Hoffman is a Healing Artist and Transformational Coach supporting women on their healing journey through her Unlock Your Radiance retreats and mastery coaching program. She helps women...
Following a love of theater and changing how we work with mental health with Amy McDonald
Amy McDonald lives in Glasgow Scotland and is the Founder and CEO of Headtorch, an organization dedicated to prioritizing mental health at work. Amy is a CEO but she is also an actress with a...
Creating My Nomad LIfe with Robin Finney
Robin Finney is an Intuitive & Authenticity guide for Soulo Experiences. She is also an Oracle card reader, Retreat Leader, author, world traveler, and founder of Wandering Aunt. ...
Exploring Identity with Millennial Healer and Artist Alex Stoller
Alex Stoller lives in Santa Fe New Mexico and is an artist, a healer and a millennial finding her own way in today's pandemic world. Here she talks with Julie about her "new archetype" card...
Creatively Emerging From The Dark Night With Lisa Baker
Lisa's life was changed from the inside out when she entered her 9 year journey through the dark night of her soul. Her relationship to "purpose" completely changed. As a life long...
A Spiritual Awakening That Changed Everything with Cathy Black
In 1998 Cathy Black was living in Taos New Mexico as a massage therapist when her spiritual life began to deepen and open up in a potent way. She then experienced a spiritual awakening that changed...
The Buddha That Transformed 11th Ave with Dan Stevenson
In 2009 11th Avenue and 19th Street in Oakland was an intersection that attracted garbage dumping, and gatherings of street people whose energy was dark and divisive. It was in this...
Guided By The Grandmothers with Andrea Menard
Metis speaker, singer, writer and actor Andrea Menard sees her life as a medicine wheel, her creativity emerging from the four elements of her essential being. She shares how she made a deal...
Humanity is Waking Up with SheEO Founder Vicki Saunders
Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change-makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the...
Thriving As A Social Entrepeneur With Madeleine Shaw
Madeleine Shaw new book, The Greater Good, as described on her website, is an inspiring, practical and deeply personal look at a growing movement of non-traditional entrepreneurs whose ventures are...
Reinventing How We Eat Fish with Skipper Otto’s Sonia Strobel
Sonia Strobel is cofounder and CEO of Skipper Otto, a community sustained fishery based in British Columbia, Canada. What was originally a personal response to help her father-in-law get a fair...
Cooking Up Change with Chef Pam Fanjoy
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Reiki Healing and a Life Reimagined With Michaela Daystar
Michaela Daystar is the founder of HeartScapes where she teaches embodiment and energy practices for healing and transformation.The center-point of her work is the system of Reiki, taught from the...
Dancing With The Goddess with Padma Menon
Padma Menon is a leading dancer in the Kuchipudi style of dance, which is an ancient Indian temple dance tradition. She has danced extensively in India, Australia and the Netherlands and developed...
How Meditation Changed Everything with Martin Stepek
Martin Stepek's free weekly mindfulness class in his hometown of Hamilton Scotland was the largest of its kind in Britain for years. During the CoVID shutdowns, Martin went online and for 15...
Following The Thread Of The Horse with Sara Stenson
Sara Stenson can't remember a time growing up when she wasn't riding horses—starting as a child on her family's ranch in Wyoming. Here she walks Julie through a serendipitous path of how...
The Story That Lives In Our Bodies with Johanna Walker
Johanna Walker performs and hosts poetry slams, has created solo theater pieces and has a career helping others find their voices. As a public speaking coach and trainer, Johanna has...
Finding Great Purpose In Making Art with Mixed Media Artist Sarah Bush
Sarah Bush is a mixed media and installation artist living in Taos, NM. She talks with Julie about how she transitioned from being a prolific and successful designer for twenty years to being...
I Could Dance Before I Walked with Susheela Ramachandran
Susheela Ramachandran awakens people through sound and play. She’s also an intuitive guide, multi-gifted artist, and the Co-host of the Global Table at Revolutionary Woman (TM). She currently...
Guided By The Grandmothers with Andrea Menard
Metis speaker, singer, writer and actor Andrea Menard sees her life as a medicine wheel, her creativity emerging from the four elements of her essential being. She shares how she made a deal...
Inspired by Trash: Recycled Materials and Creative Process with Sara Basehart
Sara Basehart shares how recycled materials and creative process make beautiful art and a successful retail business in Taos New Mexico. Sara Basehart is an artist whose medium is recycling....
What Improv Has Taught Me About Overcoming Fear with Lori Pearlstein
Lori uses the principles of improv to help people feel more comfortable with being uncomfortable, overcome their fear of judgement, and develop the confidence to face challenges. In this...
Born Into Art, A Taos, New Mexico Creative Ride– with Georgia Gersh
Georgia shares how her early childhood years growing up on a commune with her well known artist parents began her journey with living with art and artists in a remarkable way. After years of...
Leaving Engineering for Design: Finding Purpose and Passion Leading from Within with Jess Fan
Jess talks with Julie about her discovery of the world of user design while in college and what her journey has been since then. She shares how she continues to tend both her creative self...
The Evolving Path of a Visual Scribe with Reilly Dow
Reilly shares how her work as a visual scribe keeps evolving and is now primarily a place of deep listening and creative partnership. Her work has required she step into new contexts and...
Exploring How Human Centered Design is Changing Business with Arlene Mendoza
Arlene Mendoza shares how she is inspired by connecting dots and observing patterns at the intersection of technology and emerging business models with a direct emphasis on serving our...
On Writing with Renee Gregorio
Julie talks with her dear friend Renee Gregorio about the personal side of being a writer and how she approaches her writing and putting her writing out in the world....
The Impact of New Mexico’s Landscapes on Artistic Creation with Julie Wagner
Julie Wagner speaks of the impact of Northern New Mexico's wild landscape on her creative process. http://juliewagnerstudio.com/
Transforming through the decades; the impact of saying “yes” to new adventures–with Bill Page
Artist Bill Page shares his transformational journey over the last 5 decades and the way “yes” and creative adventures have been a leading force in his life. Bill talks with Julie from his studio in Abiquiu New Mexico.
Reclaiming our relationship to creativity for powerful leadership, with Mary Stacey
Mary Stacey of Context Consulting shares her experience of the value of bringing creativity experiences like painting, writing haiku and music into her global leadership work.
From psychotherapist to spiritual healer, a deep dive conversation with Wendy Havlir Cherry
Julie talks with Wendy Havlir Cherry about her transformation from being a psychotherapist living in the Southwest to being an author and spiritual healer now based in North Carolina. Wendy’s most recent book is titled The Mistress of Longing.
Koans and creative practice with Piper Leigh
Piper Leigh walks us through how the spiritual practice of koans has impacted her creative life. Her life as a poet, multi media artist and organizational creativity leader celebrate a sense of wandering, presence and spacious storytelling.
Coming through COVID shutdown as a singer with a new business with Zorea Rosewood
Being a Female Documentary Filmmaker with Jilann Spitzmiller
Jilann and Julie explore the ins and outs of what it takes to be a female documentary filmmaker. Jilann shares her experiences with Meow Wolf, and other great films.
Bringing Montessori and Creative Brand Strategy together with Nadia Payan
Nadia shares how her life as a Montessori teacher and a creative brand strategist share the same essential perspective on creativity, play and being who you truly are. Born from immigrant parents, Nadia has found her own unique way of combining hard work and being very good at self care and having joy in her life.
Committing to the Inner Artist w/ Fateme Banishoelb
Fateme was completely immersed in doing and achieving while working as a PhD Chemist & top-level strategist for a pharmaceutical company. Then her book of flow poetry came tumbling out. She...
Healing Grief and Addiction Through Creative Expression w/ Adriana Marchione
Adriana Marchione talks with Julie about how powerful it can be to use creative expression to move through grief and addiction by sharing her personal experience. Adriana is currently working on a...