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Marketing and the Tree of Life
Do you long to THRIVE both CREATIVELY and FINANCIALLY? Check out Ann Rea’s course Making Art, Making Money Today. Marketing has been an essential and super-fun aspect of growing Creativity Matters. But it wasn’t always that way. There was a time, not so long ago, that I viewed marketing as a total drain, and something […]
NLP, Empowering Beliefs, and the 8 Minutes of Awesome Interview, Part 2 of 2
Part 2 of 2. Jennifer Lipski is a strong advocate of growth through community. Through her organization, My Meta World, she helps others find their inner wisdom in community, and builds community through her program “8 Minutes of Awesome: Must-Watch Videos with Awesome People” In March 2015, she interviewed me for her show. True to form, we failed […]
Trauma, Insight, and the 8 Minutes of Awesome Interview, Part 1 of 2
Part 1 of 2. Jennifer Lipski is a strong advocate of growth through community. Through her organization, My Meta World, she helps others find their inner wisdom in community, and builds community through her program “8 Minutes of Awesome: Must-Watch Videos with Awesome People” In March 2015, she interviewed me for her show. True to form, we failed […]
[Article] Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
Here’s an article I wrote for Common Ground Magazine’s May 2015 Creativity Issue. To check out the article as it appeared in the magazine, go here. It’s true the wind blows terribly here but moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house. —Izumi Shikibu What do the origins of Newton’s law of universal gravitation, the […]
Rock climbing, flow states, and Apple’s OS X Yosemite
Today marks my 45th birthday. Yesterday, 22 years ago, I found myself 3000 feet above Yosemite Valley, ascending the last 100 feet of El Capitan’s famous “big wall climb”, The Nose. My climbing partners, William Okin (my best friend from birth),Billy McCullough (well before he opened the famed Tahoe restaurant Dragonfly), and I had been living […]