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The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 88: Creative Spark Series - Practicing Courage in Our Creativity with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, we explore how practicing courage in our creative expression can build bravery in other areas of our lives, from speaking our truth to public speaking and performing. Honoring our creativity also honors our authenticity, so we can embrace who we truly are. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we encourage you to build your courage muscle by doing something brave...2025-05-0812 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 86 - Creative Spark Series: Receiving Difficult Feedback with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, we share our own experience of receiving difficult feedback on one of our ideas, and how we dealt with it. It can be really vulnerable to receive critical or constructive feedback on our creative work, but if we can assume positive intent and digest it accordingly, it can result in a better quality final product. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip2025-04-2411 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 84: Creative Spark Series - From Surviving to Thriving with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, we reflect on how embracing creativity, community, and a bit of levity can help us move from surviving to thriving, especially in difficult times. Sometimes we think of creativity as a luxury, but what if it’s actually a necessity for getting through life and keeping our spirits up? Maybe it’s as simple as a quick reframe. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Cr...2025-04-1011 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 82: Creative Spark Series - Healing the Creative Wound with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, we explore what it means to heal the creative wound so we can fully embrace our creative selves. Many of us received messages in our youth that we weren’t creative or artistic, and we’ve internalized these messages in a way that stifle our creative expression. It’s important to recognize that these stories we tell ourselves may not be accurate, and that we can create new, more empowering and inspiring stories about our creative capacities. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Sync...2025-03-2711 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 80: Creative Spark Series - Narrating the Syncreate Audiobook with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, Charlotte and Melinda share the experience of narrating the audio version of our Syncreate book, including our flubs, insecurities, and humorous moments, the highs and the lows, warts and all. We think it’s important to share our own process, and how we all inevitably stumble along the way to a finished creative product. So if you’ve ever wanted to peer behind the veil of the creative process, this episode is for you. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guid...2025-03-1312 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 78: Creative Spark Series - The Art of Impermanence with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda shares insights from her recent Art of Impermanence Retreat, an annual contemplative arts retreats she leads each January in Patzcuaro, Mexico with her colleague Jake Lorfing. The Art of Impermanence explores the Buddhist teachings on impermanence, and their relationship to creativity and the arts. Essentially, it’s a mindful approach to creativity, grounded in present-moment experience. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Cr...2025-02-2714 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 76: Creative Spark Series - Developing a Consistent Creative Practice with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickMany of us aspire to a consistent, even daily, creative practice, but other life priorities and distractions make it difficult. So how can we commit to a regular practice in a way that feels sustainable and fun? We can begin by setting longer-term goals and then breaking them down into monthly, weekly, and daily tasks to make consistent progress over time. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we...2025-02-1311 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 74: Creative Spark Series - Living a Creative Life with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickWhat does it mean to live a creative life? What meaningful steps can we take to infuse creativity into our day-to-day experience? We often tell ourselves stories about how we’re not creative, but the reality is that we’re all using our creativity on a daily basis just to get through life, whether that takes the form of “art,” or simply cooking a beautiful meal, tending a garden, or decorating our homes. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Comm...2025-01-3009 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 72: Creative Spark Series - Creative Community with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickHow do you cultivate a sense of creative community? We believe that community and connection are vital to the creative process, especially for those of us who tend to create in solitude. For the new year, our Creative Spark series focuses on setting creative intentions and bolstering our creative habits so we can move toward our goals with greater clarity and flow. This mini episode focuses on the power of community to nurture our creative selves, especially in challenging times. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to...2025-01-1609 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 70: Creative Spark Series - New Year's Creative Intentions with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickHappy 2025, Everyone! To kick off the new year, we encourage you to consider your creative intentions and aspirations for the next 12 months. We focus on three main areas, including your creative practice, process, and products. Creative practice encompasses your creative routines and daily habits, while the creative process includes how you go about making work and bringing your ideas to life. Finally, creative products are the finished works that you may wish to release, publish, perform and otherwise share with the world. Focusing on these three areas helps to clarify not only your yearly creative goals, but also how...2025-01-0211 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 69: Creative Spark Series - Reflecting on the Year with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, as we approach the new year, we discuss the benefits of taking time to reflect on our creative lives over the last year. It’s helpful to review the events of the year and projects we’ve engaged with, including highlights and accomplishments, as well as how we might want to approach things differently in the coming year. It’s a great way to consider where we’ve been creatively, how far we’ve come, and where we want to go next. Then we can begin to set our creative intentions for the ye...2024-12-2610 min
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 67: Creative Spark Series - Moving Through the World with a Creative Eye with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we discuss what it means to move through the world with a creative eye, to be a creative traveler, as it were, and how this approach can help us stay connected to our creativity in every moment. It can also help us find the humor, the beauty, and the story in everyday situations, including the good, the bad, the ugly, and the bizarre, like when we got shaken down in the bayous of Louisiana while rescuing Melinda’s mom and her cat after a hurricane. This episode, like the mini-episodes that pr...2024-12-1912 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativitySyncreate Podcast Episode 65: Creative Spark Series - Creative Flow with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, Charlotte interviews Melinda about her creative habits and daily practices, including meditation and journaling. Melinda is a musician, writer, and photographer, as well as a leadership and creativity coach, and a professor of creativity, innovation, and leadership. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we encourage you to exercise your creativity every single day in whatever ways you can. Even 5 minutes...2024-11-2812 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 63: Creative Spark Series - The Writing Life with Charlotte Gullick & Melinda RothouseIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, Melinda interviews Charlotte about her writing life, creative practices, and how creativity has made her a better person. Charlotte is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a professor, Program Manager at Vassar College, and former Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Austin Community College. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, also includes insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we encourage you to adopt...2024-11-1409 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 61: Creative Spark Series - Isolation vs. Solitude with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we explore how isolation and solitude can show up in our creative process, how to distinguish between the two, and how to work with both. When we feel isolated, it’s important to reach out and connect with our communities. But sometimes we need to cultivate solitude in order to dig deep into our creative work. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Cr...2024-10-3111 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 59: Creative Spark Series - How Creativity Opens Doors with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we discuss how creativity opens doors, and how saying yes to our creativity also helps to build connection and community. We each share our own experiences of creative connection, and how expressing our creativity has led to new experiences and relationships. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we encourage you to reflect on how creativity has opened doors in...2024-10-1712 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 57: Creative Spark Series - Accountability Partnerships with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we share our insights and best practices on accountability partnerships for our creative work. Accountability partners help us move more quickly and effectively toward our goals. We can form accountability partnerships with creative collaborators, peers, co-workers, coaches, family, friends, and so on. These are people with whom we can share our goals and milestones, and check in with on a regular basis about our progress. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals...2024-10-0312 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 55: Creative Spark Series - Experimenting Across Media with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we explore the possibilities that can emerge from experimenting across media in our creative work. For example, if we’re writing a poem, what if we expressed it as a dance? Or if we’re composing a song, how would it translate into a painting? Exploring our ideas across media can open up new possibilities, which can inform and deepen our primary project. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Comm...2024-09-1909 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 53: Creative Spark Series - Preparation vs. Spontaneity with Melinda Rothouse and Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we explore the delicate balance between preparation and spontaneity in our creative work. How do we invite structure and planning into our process, while also allowing for freshness, mystery, surprise, and improvisation? Maybe the thought of public speaking terrifies us, so we want to prepare meticulously. But no one wants to hear someone simply read from a prepared paper or script, so how do we prepare fully and then let go? This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to...2024-09-0511 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 51: Creative Spark Series - Curiosity & Exploration with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we discuss the role of curiosity, exploration, openness to experience, and the spirit of adventure in the creative process. Following our curiosity opens up new ideas, connections, and inspirations, which then enhance our creative work. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we challenge you to go out and do something different, outside of your normal routine, maybe even something...2024-08-2210 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 49: Creative Spark Series - Creativity in Challenging Times with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, Charlotte and Melinda discuss the importance of exercising our creativity in challenging times, not only for personal fulfillment and joy, but also to build community and be of benefit to the world. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we encourage you to inventory your joy, and think about how creativity can contribute to your general happiness. Then, take intentional...2024-08-0810 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 47: Creative Spark Series - Creativity & Meaning Making with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark series, Melinda shares the connection between creativity and meaning making. We can use our creativity in service of healing, integration and wholeness. This may involve paying attention to our dreams, and to messages from our unconscious, and then conveying them through a variety of creative media. This episode includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we encourage you to start keeping a journal or picking up some other kind...2024-07-2510 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 45: Creative Spark Series - Giving and Receiving Feedback with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we discuss the art of giving and receiving feedback in the context of our creative work. It’s so important to ask for and receive feedback to polish our work into its final form. But sometimes this feedback can be hard to receive in the moment, or we may need to take some time to digest it before we can incorporate the feedback. Similarly, when giving feedback to others, it’s important to be constructive and productive. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book...2024-07-1115 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 43: Creative Spark Series - Time Management & Prioritizing Your Work with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark mini-episodes, we emphasize the importance of time management and prioritizing our creative work. Though we have a vision for a project, we may struggle with how to begin, or it may feel overwhelming. But if we break the process down into manageable goals, milestones, and tasks, we can move from start to finish with more ease. We may also have trouble prioritizing our work, but this is so important for completion and our sense of creative efficacy. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, 2024-06-2708 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 41: Creative Spark Series - Creative Practice, Process & Product with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark series of bite-size, mini-episodes, Melinda & Charlotte explore the distinctions between our creative practice, process, and products, and how this can help us in bringing our creative work into the world. When working with clients, we find it helpful to look at our creative work through each of these lenses. Our creative practice includes our workspace, the time we put into our creative work, and our habits and routines around it. Our creative process is how we go about bringing our ideas into concrete form, and our creative products are our creations themselves...2024-06-1308 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 39: Creative Spark Series - The Vulnerability of Sharing Works in Progress with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark series of bite-size, mini-episodes, Melinda & Charlotte discuss the vulnerability of sharing work we know is not finished, but for which we need feedback in order to improve it. Sharing work before it feels complete can be a little scary, so it’s important to consider who we can trust for feedback to get the work where it needs to be. Then we can feel confident sharing it with the wider world. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Cr...2024-05-3008 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 37: Creative Spark Series - Giving Back to the Community with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this installment of our Creative Spark series of bite-size, mini-episodes, Melinda & Charlotte discuss the importance of giving back to our creative communities. This could take the form of mentoring or guiding others, or just simply lending a helping hand with someone’s creative work or process. Helping others can also help us out of our own creative ruts. We might not think we have anything insightful to share, but we probably have more wisdom than we realize; what might seem obvious or second-nature to us, could actually be a revelation to someone else. This episode, like the mini-episodes th...2024-05-1607 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 35: Creative Spark Series - Navigating the Creative Wilderness with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, we explore the creative call to adventure and subsequent journey through the wilderness. We often start our creative projects with a sense of inspiration and excitement, only to flounder along the way, or plunge into self-doubt. Never fear - this is actually part of the process, and if we can learn to navigate this wilderness, our work can actually benefit from it. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.2024-05-0213 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 33: Creative Spark Series - Incubation & Time Away with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte emphasize the importance of creative incubation, and of stepping away from our work at key moments in order to gain the perspective to move forward in a productive way. This is not the same as procrastination or avoidance; it is a strategic move in the creative process that allows us to return to the work with fresh eyes. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.F...2024-04-1808 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 31: Creative Spark Series - The Power of Collaboration with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte discuss the power of collaboration. It’s in our name, Syncreate: synergy and co-creation. We can accomplish so much more through collaboration than we can on our own. We describe own experiences of collaboration, and how you can harness the power of collaboration in your own creative work. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we encourage you to go...2024-04-0410 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 29: Creative Spark Series - Iteration with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte describe the process of iteration, where we revise, refine, rehearse, and otherwise fine-tune and polish up our creative work to bring it to completion. Sometimes iteration requires radical cutting, editing, and reworking. We liken this process to pruning, which actually allows a tree or bush to grow and thrive more fully. It can be painful, but it’s often necessary to bring a piece of work to its final form. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to...2024-03-2110 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 26: Creative Spark Series - Produce! with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte describe the final phase of the creative process: Produce. In this phase, according to our Syncreate model, we move toward completion of our creative work. This is where we refine, iterate, polish, get feedback, and ultimately share our creative efforts with the world. It’s also where we celebrate and give back to our creative communities. This episode, like the mini-episodes that preceded it, includes insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our ...2024-02-2912 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 24: Creative Spark Series - Creative Planning with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte describe the Plan, or organizational, phase of the creative process. The word “plan” might not immediately come to mind when we think about creativity, but planning and organization are actually vital to bringing a creative idea to the world. We discuss how convergent and divergent thinking figure into the creative process, as well as the importance of setting creative goals and milestones. We also share personal examples of how planning allows us to move forward with our creative work in a productive way, along with insights and prompts from...2024-02-1513 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 22 - Creative Spark Series: Creative Play with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte describe the Play, or ideation, phase of the creative process. In our view of the creative process, we begin with play. This is where we dream, fantasize, imagine, and envision the work we want to create. It’s where we play with ideas, build our skills, and experiment with different ways of bringing our ideas to life. We share insights and prompts from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities.For our Creativity Pro-Tip, we focus on...2024-02-0108 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 20: Creative Spark Series - The Syncreate Model of Play, Plan & Produce with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte GullickIn this episode of our new Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte give an overview of the Syncreate model of Play, Plan & Produce to help you move from ideation to completion with your creative work. Do you have an idea for a creative project but can’t seem to move it forward? Or maybe you’ve stalled out along the way, or can’t figure out how to bring it to completion? We share insights from our book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Communities to help you move through the creative process with g...2024-01-1813 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 18: Creative Spark Series - 2024 Creative Intentions with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick For our very first episode of the new year, we’re doing something new! A couple of things, actually. We’re moving to a weekly release schedule, and introducing a new series we’re calling Creative Sparks to help stimulate your creativity. Every other week, Syncreate Co-Founders Melinda and Charlotte will co-host a mini-episode focusing on a specific aspect of the creative process to help stimulate your creativity. As with our longer episodes, we’ll end with a Creativity Pro-Tip that you can immediately put to use to enhance your creative work. For this first Creative Spark episode an...2024-01-0410 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 17: Creative Collaboration - The Joy and The Pain with Syncreate Podcast Producer Mike OsborneIn our final episode of 2023, Melinda and Mike reflect on our collaboration in developing and producing The Syncreate Podcast over the last year, from its ideation phase to the present. We talk about Melinda’s inspiration for the show, some of the myths and stereotypes she wants to dispel about creativity, and (now that we can laugh about it) our creative friction in bringing the show to life. We’ve landed in a good place, so it’s all good. But collaboration isn’t always easy, and this episode offers a view behind the curtain into our own creative process...2023-12-2834 min
Unconditioning: Discovering the Voice WithinEpisode Sixty-Six. Melinda Rothouse, PhD: Syncreating with Mindfulness, Exercising Creativity & Expanding BoundariesMelinda Rothouse is a professional creativity, leadership, and mindfulness coach / consultant focusing on organizational culture, innovation and change management.She is also an educator, facilitator, and public speaker based in Austin, Texas, and creator and host of the new podcast Syncreate: Empowering Creativity, exploring the intersections of creativity, psychology, and spirituality, and expanding the boundaries of what it means to be creative.
Her bestselling book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations, co-authored with Charlotte Gullick, was released in November of 2021 from Mandorla Books and won a Silver Nautilus Award for...2023-10-2646 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 11: Leadership, Values, and Criminal Justice Reform with Dylan HayreDylan Hayre is a leader in criminal justice reform focusing on supervision in probation and parole. We connected through his work and leadership, and from the start I was struck by his passion and drive, not only for criminal justice work, but in his striving for self-cultivation in leading from his core values and principles. Dylan is a highly creative thinker, bringing an innovative approach to solving the problems of a complex and highly entrenched institutional system. Our conversation in this episode focuses on the creativity in Dylan’s work, as well as the values and principles he brings to...2023-10-0526 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 9: Music and Psychology - "The Pocket" Experience with Dr. Jeff MimsDr. Jeff Mims is a psychologist, creativity expert, musician, and researcher. His work focuses on the relationships between music, health and well-being. He holds a doctorate in humanistic psychology with a specialization in creativity studies, as well as a master's in rehabilitation counseling, and a bachelor's in film and cinema studies. Currently he’s the operations lead at the Music and Expressive Arts Center of Oklahoma. For his doctoral research, Jeff focused on the musical experience of “the pocket.” This term comes out of the jazz world, when a group of musicians performing together come into a collective flow state...2023-09-0726 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 8: Grief, Healing, and the Artist’s Life with Anne Myers ClearyAnne Myers Cleary is a visual artist, as well as a writer and musician, based in Indianapolis. Anne majored in art at Kenyon College, and studied vocal performance and opera at Longy School of Music in Boston and the Jacob's School of Music at Indiana University. Her work has been featured as part of the Encore Sotheby’s Visiting Artist Series, The Harrison Center for the Arts, Kuaba Gallery, the Carmel Clay Library, and the St. Margaret’s Guild Decorator’s Showhouse. Anne shares in her Artist’s Statement: I believe in the importance of imagination, make believe...2023-08-2424 minThe Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 7: The Syncreate Story with Syncreate Co-Founder Charlotte GullickOne of our primary areas of focus at Syncreate involves honoring the power of collaboration and community in the creative process. So I’m thrilled to bring you my conversation with Charlotte Gullick, my Syncreate Co-Founder. Charlotte is an author, novelist, memoirist, and educator. Her first novel, By Way of Water, was chosen by Jayne Anne Phillips as the Grand Prize winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Program. Her nonfiction has appeared in a number of prestigious literary journals, including The Rumpus, The Best of Brevity, The Los Angeles Review, and Hippocampus. Charlotte and Mel...2023-08-1026 min