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Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#24 Lessons in Creativity Season 1 ReflectionsSeason 1 is officially coming to a close! Listen to hear my five biggest take-aways from the 20+ interviews I conducted in Season 1. In this episode, I reflection on themes of the show including identity, perfectionism, vulnerability, creativity & AI, creativity & practicality, and creative practice. I hope you enjoyed this season as much as I did. Please reach out to let me know what you thought of it on instagram @lessons_in_creativity. or on substack. What would you like to see in Season 2? Reach out on Instagram or Substack to let me know!2024-10-0907 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#23 Joy Batra | Embracing a Path with Equal Parts Corporate and CreativeMy latest podcast episode is out and my guest is Joy Batra! Joy’s journey has caused her to embrace an identity with equal parts corporate and creative. She graduated from Harvard Business School with a JD/MBA when her life took an unexpected turn. Instead of practicing law, she wound up pursuing a Bollywood acting contract and started freelancing on the side to finance her dream. This experience caused her to write and publish the book, the Freelance Mindset. In the episode, Joy talks about about her interest in creativity across many disciplines and especially how her learnings ha...2024-09-1846 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#22 Labyrxnth with Christina Ducruet | Creating a Company Focused on Spiritual GrowthIn this episode I spoke with Christina Ducruet. Christina is the founder of Labryxnth, a modern haven for spiritual growth. After experiencing a significant loss at a pivotal moment in her life, Christina decided to pivot her career to focus on spirituality, which ultimately gave way to the founding of Labyrxnth. In the episode, she talks about her relationship with creativity throughout her life, how it has fueled founder journey in the last year, and its connection to spirituality. Hope you enjoy the episode.To learn more about Labyrxnth and for details about joining their Autumn 2024 virtual...2024-08-2849 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#21 David Nebinski | Committing to Creativity through 6 Years of Podcasting and Community BuildingIn this episode I spoke with David Nebinski. David is the host of the 300+ episode Portfolio Career Podcast, the Community Manager for the Chief of Staff network, and a community builder for community builders in NYC. In the episode, David talks about how his personal project of consistently publishing a weekly podcast episode over the last 6 years has transformed his life and allowed him the creativity to evolve formats and experiment with in person events in NYC like podcast mixers and mini-conferences. David is a great example and resource to anyone looking to re-imagine or intentionally design a life...2024-08-2047 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#20 Sasha Schechter | Creativity as a TV Producer and Balancing Creative and Business GoalsIn this episode I spoke with Sasha Schechter, an Emmy award winning TV producer. Sasha talks about how her early interests in writing, music, and storytelling contributed to her career as a TV producer. She pivoted into the business world a few years ago and shares perspectives about the importance of awareness and appreciation for both creative and business goals. I hope you enjoy the episode!2024-08-1249 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#19 Charlie Brigitte Hair | Opening and Running a Small Family Business In this episode I spoke with Brigitte Iaciofano and Carrie Lawless, two sisters who run CharlieBrigitte Hair, a boutique, personalized and luxury small experience, in Morristown, NJ. After Brigitte graduated from college, she decided to pursue a path in beauty school with a dream of one day opening up her own salon. In this episode you’ll hear Brigitte’s story of pursing beauty school, working at some of the best salons in NYC and then ultimately teaming up with her sisters to open up the salon!Check them out here: https://www.charliebrigittehair.com/2024-07-3149 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#18 Noah Frank | Personal Expression through Singing, Songwriting, and Shared Musical MomentsIn this episode I spoke with Noah Frank. Noah is a singer-songwriter, drummer, innovation consultant, and overall creative. He has busked all around the country, grown his own music business, and released his music under his alter ego artist name, Pharr. Noah grew up as an extrovert with a stutter and in this episode, you’ll hear Noah tell his story of finding singing and music as a means to express himself when he couldn’t through words. To learn more about Noah, check out his website (https://www.noahsfrank.com/) and you can find his music on m...2024-07-2359 min
Professional Life Crisis36. Making Room for Creativity in Your Corporate Career with Jenna MasiThis episode of Professional Life Crisis features my friend and fellow podcaster, Jenna Masi. Jenna is an ex-KPMG consultant, ex-Chief of Staff and currently exploring themes around creativity in her career, and the career journeys of others. In this episode:
We delve into Jenna's experience in consulting (which, hint: was far better and cooler than mine!) and how the Innovation Lab at KPMG laid the foundation for her interest in startups. (You too can find startup-y experiences in consulting if you’re looking in the right places!)
Finding the right fit after leaving the innovation lab- a...2024-07-1944 minProfessional Life Crisis36. Making Room for Creativity in Your Corporate Career with Jenna MasiThis episode of Professional Life Crisis features my friend and fellow podcaster, Jenna Masi. Jenna is an ex-KPMG consultant, ex-Chief of Staff and currently exploring themes around creativity in her career, and the career journeys of others. In this episode:
We delve into Jenna's experience in consulting (which, hint: was far better and cooler than mine!) and how the Innovation Lab at KPMG laid the foundation for her interest in startups. (You too can find startup-y experiences in consulting if you’re looking in the right places!)
Finding the right fit after leaving the innovation la...2024-07-1744 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#17 Amanda Branson | Starting a Personal Project: The Professional Life Crisis PodcastIn this episode I spoke with Amanda Branson. Amanda started her career in management consulting and then worked as a Chief of Staff in a startup. More recently though, she has taken on her own marketing freelancing and started a podcast called Professional Life Crisis. Think of Amanda as a career big sister for 20 somethings navigating through their early career years. Amanda and I have been on similar journeys of starting our podcasts around the same time and it was wonderful to talk with her about her process of starting this podcast and what she has learned from this...2024-07-1641 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#16 Ali Geramian | Creativity and Innovation within the Startup and Venture Ecosystem In this episode I spoke with Ali Geramian. Ali’s career has ranged from working as a chemical engineer, a DJ and producer, an innovation consultant to his current role as a partner in venture capital within the fintech industry. In this episode, Ali talks about his creativity in building his own career path, how he sees creativity show up with early stage founders, and the evolution of the venture landscape and its role in innovation. Hope you enjoy our conversation.2024-07-0948 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#15 Esther Jang | Using Creativity and Empathy to Build Brands from ScratchIn this episode I spoke with Esther Jang. Esther is brand and product marketer who was an early employee at Venmo and helped shape the brand from the beginning. Since then, she has worked with many fintech startups building the brand from scratch. Esther talks about brand evolution, the bravery needed to launch a brand, allowing space for crazy ideas, and more! I hope you enjoy our conversation!Three take-aways I had from this conversation –Brands evolve over time. Esther talks about the early brand at Venmo and how the team worked to grow and mature th...2024-06-2539 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#15 Esther Jang | Using Creativity and Empathy to Build Brands from Scratch In this episode I spoke with Esther Jang. Esther is brand and product marketer who was an early employee at Venmo and helped shape the brand from the beginning. Since then, she has worked with many fintech startups building the brand from scratch. Esther talks about brand evolution, the bravery needed to launch a brand, allowing space for crazy ideas, and more! I hope you enjoy our conversation!Three take-aways I had from this conversation –Brands evolve over time. Esther talks about the early brand at Venmo and how the team worked to grow and mature th...2024-06-2139 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#14 Jeff Metzler | From Broadway to Business: Navigating the Spectrum from Creative to PracticalThis episode is with Jeff Metzler! Jeff started his career as a Broadway performer, appearing in two Tony winning shows, three award winning national tours, and on live television. He eventually transitioned from being a performer to working on the business side of Broadway and eventually into the world of consulting. Jeff talks about the opportunities and challenges across worlds of creativity and business in this episode and shares some insights about how to foster a creative culture in the corporate world.3 of the main lessons from Jeff: Excellence: Details matter, repetition matters, and creating a...2024-06-1843 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#13 Adi Surendran | Creative Constraints as a Tool for Comedy Writing and LifeAdi Surendran is a comedy writer who grew up in NJ after his parents moved from India. Adi started his career as a lawyer but events in his personal life, along with his love of comedy, caused him to slowly work at developing his comedy writing in the form of mundane short stories. After going to open mics and joining writers groups for several years, Adi published a book called CheeseDosa: The Legend-Dairy Tales of a Suburban Dork, a collection of short comedy stories. In this episode he shares about his journey, his writing process, his views on creative...2024-06-1152 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#13 Adi Surdendran | Creative Constraints as a Tool for Comedy Writing and LifeAdi is a comedy writer who grew up in NJ after his parents moved from India. Adi started his career as a lawyer but events in his personal life, along with his love of comedy, caused him to slowly work at developing his comedy writing in the form of mundane short stories. After going to open mics and joining writers groups for several years, Adi published a book called CheeseDosa: The Legend-Dairy Tales of a Suburban Dork, a collection of short comedy stories. In this episode he shares about his journey, his writing process, his views on creative identity...2024-06-1152 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#12 Allie Moss | Songwriting, Community, and Overcoming Creative BlocksAllie Moss is a singer-songwriter (check out her music on Spotify) whose songs have been featured on TV shows like Bones, Pretty Little Liars, and Parenthood. She has released several albums and EPs and toured the country for her own music and as a member of the Ingrid Michaelson band. In this episode, you’ll hear Allie talk about how she got interested in songwriting, how she turned her own struggle with writer’s block into creating the Thinking Outside the Blocks (TOTB) community with Bess Rogers, and the behind the scenes of several of her songs and creative proc...2024-06-0453 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#11 Lauren Ducrey | Poetry as a Tool for Connection with Ourselves and OthersIn my most recent episode I spoke with, poet, Lauren Ducrey. Lauren studied literature and grew up with the belief that you’re either born creative or you’re not. Events in her own life caused her to shift from analyzing works of art to creating them and just earlier this year, she left her job at Google to pursue poetry full time. She now leads creativity & poetry events in NYC for companies, individuals, and groups to help people find well-being through poetry. Listen to hear her talk about her journey and process, embracing her identity as a poet, AI a...2024-05-2157 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#10 Rob Lawless: Robs10kFriends | Committing to an 8+ Year Project to Infuse More Empathy into the WorldMy next episode is out!In this episode I spoke with Rob Lawless. Rob started his career off in consulting but very quickly realized he missed the close connections he had felt while in college at Penn State. He designed a project for himself called Robs10kFriends where he is on a mission to meet 10,000 people, each for one hour, to see what can come of connection with no specific agenda. He has been working on this for the past 8 years and has been covered by the Kelly Clarkson Show, the TODAY show, and Ryan Seacrest. Listen...2024-05-1450 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#9 Saba Ahmed | Exploring Social Wellness EntrepreneurshipIn this episode I spoke with Saba Ahmed, previous Chief of Staff of the Skimm and current social wellness entrepreneur. In our conversation, I got the chance to hear from someone who is right in the middle of her creative process - Saba is currently intentionally exploring the social wellness space in an effort to help people connect in person with their local communities. She also is the host of Friends of Friends, a social dance party designed for intentional connection. You’ll hear Saba share what she has learned about community architecture, how she is approaching this time in...2024-05-0742 minLessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#8 Ana De Matos | Defining Well-being within the Workplace and Lessons Learned as a Knicks City DancerIn this episode I spoke with Ana De Matos. Early in her consulting career, Ana’s passion for dance drove her to audition for the NY Knicks dance team. She was ultimately accepted and chose to pursue this dream while balancing her career in consulting. This experience of balancing both taught her the value of bringing her whole self to work and sparked a passion for and interesting in the concept of well-being. In our conversation, you’ll hear her talk about the experiments she is now running with well-being individually, with her teams, in the workplace, and in othe...2024-04-3052 min
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#7 Aaron Berger | Starting a Public Relations ConsultancyIn this episode, I spoke with Aaron Berger, a Public Relations specialist and entrepreneur focused on the fintech space. Aaron tells his story of getting started in the PR industry, deciding to move to freelancing, and evolving his freelance business into his current PR consultancy with a business partner. You’ll also hear him talk about how he approaches his work with founders to craft their narratives and how the PR industry has changed. Hope you enjoy!Here were some of my main take-aways from the conversation:The current environment yields strong partnership opportunities: Aaron noticed ch...2024-04-2339 min
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#6 Scott Wolfson | Creative WorkCraftingIn this episode I spoke with Scott Wolfson. Scott’s career has ranged all the way from being a street performer, video producer, radio broadcaster, to working at KPMG and BCG in innovation consulting. Today, Scott, self identifies as a curious human and is on a personal mission to help people love to learn changing their minds. In this episode, You’ll hear Scott talk about his views on creativity, detachment to identity, how he approaches learning in this age of AI, and his newest cohort-based bootcamp, Workcrafting - which he co-created with his business partner Kes Sampanthar to help...2024-04-161h 00
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#5 Amanda Pena | Starting and Pivoting as a Content CreatorAmanda Pena has been writing and creating content most of her life. Her most recent project was a social media account called the Rules of 30, aimed at personal development for women in their 30s which gained 150k followers on instagram. In this episode, you’ll hear Amanda talk about starting personal projects, honing her ability to listen to her gut, and making a decision to pivot. Here are some of the main take-aways from her story: Skills compound over time from practice: Amanda developed a fast following for her most recent instagram account, but much of th...2024-04-0946 min
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#4 Rachel Saslaw | Experience Design and Storytelling as ArtIn this episode I talked with Rachel Saslaw, the founder of Storytell NYC, a storytelling open mic experience. Rachel turned a desire to connect deeply with others and share meaningful moments into an immersive, connected experience. I recently attended my first StoryTell and was touched by how an experience could be both deeply personal and deeply connected at the same time. Here are some of my main take-aways from our conversation: Identity comes from a practice: Consistent actions or rituals can help us feel more comfort taking on a creative title. Leading with the heart over...2024-04-0246 min
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#3 Cara Sullivan | Creativity in Engineering: Balancing the Creative and Practical Cara Sullivan is a technical leader within biomedical engineering. In our conversation together, Cara dispelled myths of creativity within engineering and highlighted the necessary linkage between structure and creativity. Cara is a huge proponent of women in engineering and highlights the diverse creativity of thought that they bring to the field!Here are some of my main take-aways from our conversation:Structure and creativity are linked, not in conflict: Cara often “doesn’t have the luxury of conflict” between creativity and structure. Instead, she works to bring a creative flare even to the most practical of tasks...2024-03-2538 min
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#2 Kelli Bruno | Creative Songwriting: Every Artist was an Amateur FirstKelli Bruno is a multi-instrumental singer-songwriter. She has been playing instruments since she was a child and recently released her second album. She has a love for songwriting, creative works, singing in harmony, and seeing an album through. Her latest album, Company explores different types of personal connection and company in this stage of her life. Here are some of my main take-aways from our conversation:Every artist was an amateur first! This is such a freeing reminder to move through perfectionist tendencies in early projects.Creative expression is essential to our humanity: Even with the...2024-03-2554 min
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi#1 Dr. Alaina Puff | Unleashing Intuition to Unblock Creativity For my very first episode, I interviewed Dr. Alaina Puff., founder of Flow State Coaching and Consulting and PhD in Child Psychology. Alaina was on a path towards becoming a child therapist when unexpected events caused her to change course. She wound up starting her own coaching business helping children and adults tap into their intuitive gifts to live a fuller life. Her journey is a fascinating and brave story in embracing life’s twists and turns, learning how to tune into your true inner voice, and creating your own path.Here are some of my main ta...2024-03-2548 min
Lessons in Creativity with Jenna MasiSeason 1 Trailer | Lessons in Creativity with Jenna Masi Are you curious about how the creative process works? Do you hope to bring more creativity into your own life and career? This podcast is for you. In Lessons in Creativity, we will explore the creative process across multiple disciplines and learn how to harness this natural part of our human experience. We will hear from songwriters, entrepreneurs, creators, innovators, psychologists, writers, and more about their creative processes in the hopes of helping you better access your creativity. Follow along with me to learn from experts and beginners at all stages of the creative process!2024-03-1603 min
Record DeepRecord Deep #204 (22-05-2022)01. Dave Summit - Pullin Up
02. Nadia - Telling Me
03. Lo'99, Taiki Nulight - Records U Play
04. Tom & Collins, Cato Anaya - Brisas Del Mar
05. Jeremy Bass, Angelo Scalici - Just Another Groove
06. Black V Neck, Dipzy - Si Tu Sabe
07. Maickel Telussa - Feel It
08. Jerome Robins, Carl Hanaghan - Strings Of Life
09. Kevin Mackay Lovra - Lets Freak
10. Joe Diem, Kokks - My Lovers
11. Djowl, Alessandro Pacifico - What I Made You Do
12. Luk Follin, Laura Poldvere - Prayers To You
13. No Hopes, Tom Forester - Zola
14. Sammy Porter, Jess Bays - Devotion
15. Dani Masi, Daniel Aguayo - I...2022-05-2200 min