For many expressive folks, our productivity is divergent. It doesn’t fit a 9-5 routine or trendy coaching tips. And yet! Many of us find unique ways to produce–creatively–while also thriving in the commercial world. How I Create Me hosts conversations with these remarkable humans. We’re gonna chat about how we craft our personal and professional selves. How we build identities and skills. We think they deserve attention. We carry them through life, but sometimes, if we’re lucky, they also ca ...
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17. Why Training Your Creativity Muscle Pays Off
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From the island of Guam , Richard is an engineer/designer and now co-founder at Bettersum. He’s building the marketing tool Supercopy because he believes we should communicate to people in the manner they want to be communicated to. Richard chatted with us about the mandate of creative outputs and how our quick-to-commercialize economy has perhaps …
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How I Create Me - Season 2 Announcement
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Hello remarkable humans! Your host, Jessica, here, to share a quick show update. How I Create Me is wrapping Season 1 with Episode 17, and we’ll be back with Season 2 on January 12, 2023. For many businesses, Q4 can be an essential time of both intensive retrospective and ambitious planning. For many creatives, the changing seasons and slate of new…
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16. How People and Businesses Can Use Social Media as a Force for Good
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Georgette Eva is a freelance writer, social media professional, and morning person who runs the appropriately named Morning Person Studio, where she helps brands shape and share their stories. A journalist by trade, Georgette’s excitement for social media happened by chance as she discovered how it combined her love of writing, community connection…
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15. The Intersection of Education + Art: Self-Worth
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Lauren Merceron is an artist & teacher who currently lives in Atlanta, GA. Her work embraces the essence of human bonds and connectedness. Through the use of curved lines, texture and monochromatic color schemes, she represents the relationships that tie us together. Her most recent work focuses on the joy and emotion of motherhood. Lauren discusse…
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Alex Spitzer is a choreographer and dancer who chatted with Jessica about how perseverance opened up new vistas of expression, embodied and virtual, leading to a 30-year career on stage and in various dance companies. As the first dancer in a wheelchair to receive a 4-year degree in dance, Alex shares his distinctive experience and inspiring story …
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13. The Power Of Podcasting In Building Community
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In this episode, Jessica Matthews sits down with her Executive Producer of How I Create Me Podcast to talk about the journey of launching and maintaining a podcast, lessons learned, and the opportunities it’s created to build deeper relationships within a community of influence. RESOURCES RELATED TO THIS EPISODE This playbook will help you make imp…
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12. Art as Medicine Gets a New Opportunity to Make an Impact
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In today’s episode, Jessica sits down with Chris Appleton, Founder & CEO of Sewn Arts and the Art Pharmacy. You’ll hear how Chris and his team are creating a solution for care providers to prescribe and refer patients to health-improving arts & culture experiences, how they’re uniquely bringing together key stakeholders in the healthcare and arts c…
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11. The Importance Of Shooting Your Shots
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In today’s episode, Jessica chats with standup comedian, podcaster and creator, Damon Sumner, to learn more about his story of becoming a comedian, meeting the moment, taking chances, and fruits of persistence. Fast forward twelve years, and Damon brings us practical advice on how to navigate the complexities of building your brand, taking chances,…
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10. Building A Bespoke Buttercream Cake Business To 100K+ Followers Combined On TikTok And Instagram
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In this episode, Jessica sits down with Miri Nadler to unpack her inspiring story of overcoming adversity and building her hugely successful cake business that now has over 100K combined followers on TikTok and Instagram… and growing! Miri is originally from Los Angeles where she began her food blog in 2009 called “Miri in the Village.” She set out…
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09. The Art of Tech as People / Self Management
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In this episode, Jessica sits down with Jeanette Gregory to unpack her creative superpowers around people-wrangling, event activation, overcoming challenges with alcohol early in her career (leading to her celebrating 12 years of sobriety), and how she’s embracing her abilities to shine in the worlds of film festivals as an organization guru. Jeane…
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08. When Permission to Dis-Able Helps Our Full Self Show Up
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In this episode, Jessica chats with Skyeris (she/they), who has been a sinistral, spitfire creatrix their entire life. Voice too loud, hair too unruly, spirit too wild—all of which they’re happy to claim. A neurodivergent synesthete, she has always explored and dwelt in liminal spaces and borderlands, which are most natural to her innate curiosity …
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07. When Silence Gives You More To Say
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A lifelong lover of language and stories in all their forms, Tom Bell is co-founder of Rootstock, a thought leadership and brand growth consultancy, and of Chronicle, a brand narrative and content marketing firm. He is also the co-founder and founding program director of the AJC Decatur Book Festival and a 25-year veteran journalist in the arts. Di…
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06. It Takes the Whole Brain to Make a Whole Person
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Leo Falkenstein is the Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Consume Media in Atlanta, GA. From start to finish, Leo ensures their clients’ visions come to fruition. If he isn’t listening to the Grateful Dead, the Universe gets misaligned. Leo has played hockey (basically) since birth and his life-long goal is bringing the Thrashers back to Atlanta.…
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05. Debunking The Myths Around Who's Creative And Who's Not
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Ask 12 Italian grandmothers for their special tomato sauce recipe, and you will get thirteen different answers. They will all use tomatoes, olive oil, basil… but the quantities will vary, as will the one special ingredient everyone has. A business is the same: it is the combination of service, values, and culture that makes each one unique. Rebecca…
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This episode is me, myself, and I having a conversation about my story! Here at How I Create Me, I request and invite a lot of vulnerability and openness from the guests who come on this show... and I really look forward to celebrating our stories and engaging with you all in a safe space of community. It seemed really important to follow through o…
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03. When Knowing Your Value And Setting Limits Helps You Think Differently
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Born and raised in Houston, Texas during the oil boom years of the sixties and seventies, Bill Hawkins began working at age 12. Through his high school years, he worked as a machinist, painter, roofer, hardware store clerk, carpenter, sheet metal worker, and mechanic at a motorcycle salvage yard. He met interesting people, including drug dealers, b…
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02. Taking Chances And Exploring Multiple Paths Of Professional Creativity
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As Senior Program & Industry Relations Manager at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Shellie Schmals plays a lead role in selecting the nearly 800 films that are considered for each annual Festival. She has 25 years of experience in the non-profit universe, holds an MBA from Brenau University and EDM in Higher Education Administration from the Univer…
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01. When Saying Yes To 9-5 Makes MORE Room For Your Creativity
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A true explorer and creative, Atlanta artist Meredith Ochoa has been reinventing alternative and digital processes since 2007. As part of her body of work, Meredith has developed a new portable scanning process in which the subject becomes the "negative" through digital degradation with a portable wand of light. The portable scanner describes the s…
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For many expressive folks, our productivity is divergent. It doesn’t fit a 9-5 routine or trendy coaching tips. And yet! Many of us find unique ways to produce–creatively–while also thriving in the commercial world. How I Create Me hosts conversations with these remarkable humans. We’re gonna chat about how we craft our personal and professional se…
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