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The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienS6E6 - Laura Benanti / The Town Hall Spark SessionsThis week on The Town Hall Spark Sessions, we welcome luminary actress and singer Laura Benanti. Best known for her revolutionary performance in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Benanti made her broadway debut at 18 playing Maria in the Sound of Music on Broadway. She has also starred in television and films, including ABC’s Nashville, NBC’s Supergirl, and HBO’s The Gilded Age. Join us as we discuss her upcoming appearance at the Town Hall, in John Cassavetes' Opening Night, the first musical with m...2025-07-0222 min

The Town Hall Spark SessionsS1E6 - Laura BenantiThis week on The Town Hall Spark Sessions, we welcome luminary actress and singer Laura Benanti. Best known for her revolutionary performance in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Benanti made her broadway debut at 18 playing Maria in the Sound of Music on Broadway. She has also starred in television and films, including ABC’s Nashville, NBC’s Supergirl, and HBO’s The Gilded Age. Join us as we discuss her upcoming appearance at the Town Hall, in John Cassavetes' Opening Night, the first musical with m...2025-07-0222 min

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienIntroducing The Town Hall Spark SessionsThe Town Hall, New York City’s landmark cultural venue, is teams up with The Spark File, the acclaimed creativity podcast hosted by Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien, in this brand-new podcast series: The Town Hall Spark Sessions. The Town Hall Spark Sessions will spotlight creatives, musicians, comedians, artists, advocates, cultural creators and conversation makers who have graced—or are about to grace—the legendary Town Hall stage. Each episode features fun and fulfilling questions that dive deep into how these inspiring individuals are using their creativity not only to entertain, but to spark change, connection...2025-05-0704 min

I Do and UpdosS1 Ep 9- Laura & Katie chat to Didi Vernon Miller from Blackwell Grange.DONT PANIC! The start of this episode starts a little different... the girls finally settle the big debate from Episode 2… "was it a double or triple pie combo?!" 🤔🍰In this episode, Laura and Katie sit down with Didi from @blackwellgrange to talk all things Blackwell Grange, from it's rich history, to sustainability, Blackwell's one-of-a-kind photo spots, their exciting plans for 2025, the story behind 1604 and much more. The girls covered a lot of ground in this episode, and Didi’s passion for Blackwell Grange truly shines through. You can really tell their heart is in every inch of the venue...2025-03-171h 01

The Resilient Teacher Podcast134. How Student Social Media Habits Are Driving Teacher Burnout—and How to Fix It with Special Guest Laura TierneySocial media's impact on students and teachers goes far beyond just distraction. For many teachers, social media, managing digital distractions in the classroom, and keeping up with the latest tech trends are fueling their stress and burnout. In this episode I am joined by Laura Tierney to chat about the impact of social media on teacher burnout and what we can do about it.Laura Tierney is the founder and CEO of The Social Institute and creator of the peer to peer learning platform, #WinAtSocial. We're chatting about the role social media plays in education and in...2025-02-1827 min

DIVINE CEO Conversations with Laura Topper - because the rest of your life is the BEST OF YOUR LIFE.134 Divine CEO Show in conversation with Rev. Dr. Lynita Mitchell-BlackwellWelcome to the DIVINE CEO Show with today's super guest Rev. Dr. Lynita Mitchell Blackwell. Rev. Dr. Lynita is feature woman in this month's Divine CEO Magazine. You can subscribe to the magazine here.. https://www.lauratopper.com/divineceomagazine 2024-11-0150 min

Big Law Life#30: The Ultimate In-House Training Program: Insights from Husch Blackwell's Joe GlyniasIn today’s episode, I am joined by Joe Glynias, chair of Husch Blackwell. He is based in St. Louis and focuses his practice on employment law. As a former Executive Board member, Joe helped modernize the firm’s evaluation metrics and became Husch Blackwell's chair on April 1, 2024. He co-led the launch of HB In-House, a unique career development program designed to help lawyers transition to in-house roles and enhance client service. We discuss how law firm lawyers can better understand in-house roles to enhance client service and prepare for potential transitions to in-house positions. Joe shares insi...2024-07-2435 min

¿Qué es la vaina? PodcastEp. 7 - ¿Qué es la vaina con Elizabeth Blackwell?En mi retorno al podcast te cuento un poco sobre qué he hecho los últimos meses y, más importante, la historia de Elizabeth Blackwell. La primera mujer en recibir el título de doctora en Estados Unidos.2024-06-0923 min

Please Make ThisStone Cold Traveler (w/ Kelsey Blackwell)An icy, doomed world. A woman searching for something across the vast tundra. A rugged hunter, a friendly robot, a monstrous creation. A world without hope gets very cold. Join The Traveler as she makes her journey across the ice, and find out if this world can be saved by the same people who ruined it... Scripts start at 1:07:42StarringKelsey BlackwellLaura PetroHobert ThompsonLuis BadilloAnd Cassie Middlemist as The Traveler 2024-05-032h 08

Big Law Life#16: Working Full-Time Remote in BigLaw with Jessica BrownIn today’s episode, we discuss remote work, career transitions, and strategic moves with Jessica Brown, a labor and employment lawyer with Husch Blackwell who is part of The Link, Husch’s virtual office. Part of her journey in the law has included taking time away from practice to be a stay-at-home mom when her children were younger, along with a relocation that took her family from Washington, D.C. to Arizona. She has since returned to full-time legal practice, has sought to intentionally develop a career that is aligned with her strengths and values, and now work...2024-04-1730 min

Tales from the TrunkEpisode 59: Laura Blackwell – "Poor Prisoners"This time around, it’s my pleasure to welcome longtime friend of the show Laura Blackwell! Laura reads to us from her very very trunked story, “Poor Prisoners,” which leads us into a wide-ranging discussion of things we wish we’d learned sooner, writers whose work we admire, and kindness to our past selves. Things we mention in this episode: Story Hour LiveJournal Dreamwidth Macey’s Murderboard episode All Our Yesterdays, by Hilary B. Bisenieks Quaker Spec Fic issue AO3 O...2024-03-151h 21

Be Bold, Make Waves with Laura KåmarkCreating a Life Full of Peace, Joy, and Fulfillment with Lynita Mitchell-BlackwellMeet Lynita: Lynita Mitchell-Blackwell is the Intuitive Business Coach™ who leads her clients to Live Life on FIRE for the Ultimate Successful Life with peace, joy, and fulfillment! Lynita has built an award winning law firm and publishing house, is a #1 Bestselling Author, CPA, an ordained New Thought Minister, and recognized nationally as an outstanding community leader. Based on her latest book, Lynita loves sharing the formula to the Ultimate Successful Life with Peace, Joy, and Fulfillment!Links & Resources:WebsiteBookMoney CourseInstagramFacebookLinkedInReady for a website you...2023-11-2936 min

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienCreativity Sparks: ChangeWhy is it so hard for us to break patterns that are keeping us from our goals? In this episode, Susan and Laura discuss and discover the ways in which we as humans and artists can navigate lasting positive change. They dive into the powerful process and book “Immunity to Change,” by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, which unravels the concept of change and specifically how to close the gap between aspiration/good intention and actual behavior shifts. Susan and Laura discover that when experimenting with our own paths to change, remaining open and curious, not jumping to prob...2023-02-011h 03

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienCreativity Sparks: Toni MorrisonWords and language have real power. In this episode, Susan and Laura explore the amazing works and incredible life of someone who managed to harness that power to the benefit of so many: Toni Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As they pull back the curtain to look at her work and creative process, Susan and Laura discuss Toni’s ability to center her own world in her writing, the ways in which her philosophies apply directly to their creative work, and exactly how carrot cake fits into it all....2023-01-181h 04

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienCreativity Sparks: Making Marketing Part of Your Creative Process: The Blue Man Group EditionSusan and Laura have found that when they bring up the idea of promoting one’s own work with their creative clients, the idea is almost always met with a sense of dread. So, how can creators combat this feeling? By making marketing part of the creative process. In this episode, Laura and Susan explore the methodologies and philosophies of the innovative Blue Man Group and how this unique approach to marketing, (which Cams was deeply involved with), helped build their global brand and, more importantly, stay true to themselves in the process. Learn mor...2022-12-281h 14

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienCreativity Sparks: Write Like Your Parents Are Dead AgainMany people have the desire to spin their lived experience into their creative self-expression, Susan and Laura included. This desire can present a conundrum as these creations can feature people other than the creator, or have ideas in them that might make a loved one uncomfortable, or are about a topic that some close to us might consider to be taboo. So how do we create with freedom and without fear? In this episode, Susan and Laura turn to the works of Banksy, Anne Lamott, David Sedaris, David Wellington, and more while discovering one approach to creating without fear...2022-12-2156 min

NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)Laura Blackwell | What the Dead Birds Taught MeThe first time I saw him, I was crouched in a ditch by the highway, lancet poised, holding a crumbly-paged book open to the words to reanimate a dead owl. Anne leaned against our dad’s old car on the shoulder, just a few feet past the impromptu memorial some of Mom and Dad’s students had put up. The flowers were wilting and the photos were fading, just like our parents’ ghosts in the ditch where they’d died. I walked all up and down it, grasses itching at my legs despite my jeans. | Copyright 2022 by Laura Blackwell. Narrated by Judy...2022-07-2036 min

What to Read Next Podcast l Book Recommendation Show#480 Author Interview: The Paris Showroom by Juliet BlackwellToday I am chatting with Juliet Blackwell. Juliet’s latest book The Paris Showroom is a WW2 historical fiction set in Occupied France. In this interview, we chat about Juliet’s writing career, and how she started writing cozy mysteries and then start dabbling in other genres. Tune in to listen to Juliet’s book recommendations. SHOWNOTES AND BOOK LINKShttp://WhattoReadNextBlog.comMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/sunnyLicense code: 0RDRBKGH6NGQCAXRBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/what-to-read-next-podcast-l-book-recommendation-show--5263998/suppor...2022-04-1821 min

Midlife & Beyond with Jo BlackwellMothers and Daughters with Laura DavisI had the great pleasure of interviewing author, Laura Davis, on the publication of her searing memoir, The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story.In this wide ranging conversation, we talk about mother-daughter relationships, healing, caring for an elderly relative and childhood sexual abuse, an experience that led Laura to co-author the ground breaking book on recovered memory with Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal.Laura’s new memoir, The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story is the riveting story of her embattled relationship with her mother Temme, their determination to love on...2022-04-0737 min

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienCreativity Sparks: Beauty + SorrowThis week, after experiencing unexpected loss, Laura and Susan discuss the role of grief and friendship, and the bittersweet and inevitable intermixing of joy and heartbreak along this journey we call life. Inspired by the genius of Brene Brown, Karen Walrond and Susan Cain, Laura and Susan agree with the conclusion that our broken hearts connect us all. And as creators all we can hope to do is make works of profound sadness and beauty. Break our hearts. Use all of the pain. Like Marcus Aurelius said, “A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of e...2022-03-301h 04

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienCreativity Sparks: What If...?This week, Laura and Susan explore the inexplicable craving to consume pandemic-related entertainment during a pandemic - not entertainment about the current state of the world, no, we prefer imaginary pandemics dreamed up in the minds of fiction writers and TV writers like Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The End of October by Lawrence Wright, The Walking Dead and more. These are some of the works imagined by creative minds at a time when an actual pandemic was a scary but far-fetched idea…Listen in to hear how Laura made her way through a tunnel of im...2021-12-0159 min

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienMakers: Laura Benanti + Venus Fischer: HBO Max's Homeschool MusicalRecorded LIVE from The Spark File New Year 2021 Creativity KickOff, Susan and Laura have a lively conversation with the one and only TONY Award winner Laura Benanti! Laura took some big leaps during the quarantine, and shares how an idea from the heart spilled onto instagram and grew into an HBO Max special -- Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020. Plus... one of the stars of that very show, Venus Fischer, joins in on the fun, sharing her experiences on the show, and how her creativity has evolved over the course of this year. L...2021-01-181h 03

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienCreativity Sparks: Fatigue Fatigue + Creative CyclesIn the Season One finale, Susan and Laura discuss the various ways the world is exhausting us right now -- Zoom fatigue, Compassion fatigue, Caution fatigue and more. Plus, how knowing where you are in the Creative Cycle can help determine where your Hero goes from here. (hint: picture a Phoenix rising from the ashes). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2020-06-221h 25

The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura CamienMakers: Michael R. Jackson: Tyler Perry, Truth Telling + the Pulitzer PrizeThis week, Susan and Laura sit down with the Pulitzer Prize winning truth teller, Michael R. Jackson who will blow your hair back with his authenticity. His metaﬁctional musical, A Strange Loop explores the transformational story of an artist confronting issues of sexuality, race and identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2020-06-1854 min