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Updates from the Creativity Found podcast: real-life stories of finding or returning to creativity in adulthood.
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Tunes, Tradition and Teamwork with Tara Connaghan (opens the original)
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‘I realized I was playing what I thought was expected of me, rather than playing music because I loved it.’Irish traditional folk musician Tara Connaghan shares how inheriting her late sister’s fiddle sparked her musical path, how a blunt wake-up call from her teacher cured her ‘lazy practicing’ habits, and how a semester abroad in Finland reminded her never to let her repertoire slip.We explore the social rules and unspoken courtesies of traditional Irish music sessions, the fear of embarrassme
When you stop keeping your creative ideas stuck in your head and actually start bringing them to life, everything shifts (opens the original)
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In Performance, Processing and Pepli with Sharon Pierre-Louis, the latest episode of the Creativity Found podcast, Sharon talks about how building Pepli – a digital platform where creatives can collaborate, connect and share their artistic process without bottomless feeds or the pressure to please the algorithm – opened up new opportunities and brought back pure joy, deep listening, and genuine soul expression.Listen to the full episode right here in Substack.<p c
Performance, Processing and Pepli with Sharon Pierre-Louis (opens the original)
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'Actors are emotional athletes. Taking on all this emotion and processing it in a safe container is like an emotional shower for the soul.'Actress and American Sign Language interpreter Sharon Pierre-Louis (Django Unchained, Switched at Birth) joins Claire to discuss her journey through the performing arts, from church plays in her Haitian-American upbringing to Hollywood sets and Deaf theater. Sharon shares how a sixth-grade crush initially led her to the stage, how learning ASL to communicate
From Banking to Broadway with Norman Calvo (opens the original)
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A single moment in the 7th grade convinced Norman Calvo that he couldn’t sing. So, he put on a business suit and spent 44 years in mortgage banking.But, at 63, he finally decided to fight back against that old choir-room rejection. In episode 150 of the Creativity Found podcast, hear how Norman reclaimed his voice, joined a Broadway cabaret troupe, and proved that a childhood ‘no’ doesn’t define your adult creative joy.Listen to the full episode here.
From Banking to Broadway with Norman Calvo (opens the original)
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A conservative New York mortgage banker turns his hand to performing cabaret solos and tap-dancing in Manhattan's Times Square. In this episode, Norman Calvo shares how a devastating childhood choir audition silenced his voice for decades, and how an unexpected encounter with an opera singer client in his 60s allowed him to find his voice once more.We explore the power of starting from scratch as an adult, the vulnerability of freezing during your first public solo, and how embracing a creative
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