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Your Creative Push

Your Creative Push

The podcast that pushes you to create that thing you've been thinking about.

137: Do the thing that you CAN’T NOT DO! (w/ Paul Ollinger)

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Paul OllingerPaul Ollinger is a graduate of Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. He was one of the first 250 employees of Facebook where he served as VP of Sales for the Western United States. In between he spent two years performing stand-up comedy full-time in Los Angeles, CA, opening for some of the biggest names in the business.

Today Paul writes, performs comedy and speaks widely on work, wealth and purpose. Specifically, he uses humor to help others with their work lives and sales quotas. His first book, You Should Totally Get an MBA: A Comedian’s Guide to Top U.S. Business Schools

When he’s not working, Paul is playing golf, binge watching Netflix or checking Who’s Viewed Your Profile on LinkedIn. He lives in Atlanta, GA with his beautiful wife, two wonderful children and French bulldog, Colonel Tom Parker.

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136: The Endless Grid (w/ J.A.W. Cooper)

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j-a-w-cooperJ.A.W. Cooper is a talented artist who was born in England but was raised all over the globe in countries such as Ireland, Sweden and Kenya.  She currently lives in Los Angeles, California where she creates her fine art and works as a freelance Art Director for Print/Motion/Advertising companies, a print designer for fashion companies, and an illustrator for advertising.

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135: TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS! (w/ Steve Ferrera)

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postcard_frontSteve Ferrera is a sculptor from Berkeley California whose work crosses many disciplines including film, television, stop motion animation, children’s books, and collectible toys. Often inspired by mythology, religion, cartoons, and make believe, his curious and absurd creatures exist in their own cosmic events, lurking on the fringes of fairy tale and folklore.

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134: Don’t let “conventional life” smother your creativity (w/ John P. Weiss)

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Image 5-30-16 at 9.23 AMJohn P. Weiss is an artist, cartoonist, and writer.  He writes a weekly column for Fine Art Views, an online art and marketing site.  He studied landscape painting extensively with Scott L. Christensen, and he was a staff editorial cartoonist at three newspapers.  His cartoons have appeared in several volumes of Charles Brook’s “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year.”  He is also a police chief with over 26 years of law enforcement experience.

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133: Remember your intuition; Forget your mean teachers (w/ Youngman Brown)

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Youngman BrownYoungman Brown is angry.  Angry enough to go solo in this episode to try to get you to forget those negative comments you received about your creative outlet that have kept you from really pursuing it with confidence.  This episode is all about remembering your unique taste and forgetting any harsh criticisms that you might still be holding onto.

 

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132: An artist needs only THREE THINGS (w/ Brendan O’Connell)

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Brendan OConnellBrendan O’Connell paints everyday America at this moment of transition. Dubbed by the media as the Walmart Warhol, he paints the everyday through retail, focusing on interior architecture, people, and brands.  Brendan has been profiled in the New Yorker and on Sunday morning CBS, a guest on the Colbert Report, and featured in Time magazine. His work is in the permanent collection of the High Museum in Atlanta and the Ga Museum in Athens.

He has recently begun another series which captures America’s transition through its people and their private spaces. He is using Airbnb and couchsurfing the country, interviewing the people he stays with and painting their portrait to accompany the dialogue.

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131: Discover your unique YOU-NESS! (w/ Christina Bothwell)

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Christina-Bothwell-ArtistChristina Bothwell is a sculptor who studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before teaching herself how to work with ceramics, and then cast glass. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of her work since 2006 and her sculptures are in public collections around the country and around the world.  She is drawn to the processes of birth, death, and renewal, and she is fascinated by what lies below the surface as she tries to capture the qualities of the “unseen.”

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130: Make a CONSCIOUS PLAN OF ACTION (w/ Stephanie Law)

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Steph3-smallStephanie Law is a watercolor painter whose work is an exploration of mythology mixed with her personal symbolism.  Her art journeys through surreal otherworlds, populated by dreamlike figures, masked creatures, and winged shadows.

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129: Art has NO RULES! (w/ Laura Baumeister)

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61D645A2B41087463760827973632_252d41813c1.0.3Laura Baumeister aka “thatsjustlaura” is a talented 16-year-old artist from Germany who has nearly six-digit followers on Instagram, in which she shares her art, mostly geared towards fashion.  She also has a YouTube channel in which she shares art-related videos and tutorials.

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128: Keep trying until you find your GOLD! (w/ Laurita Mazapán)

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27adf38562131.565ca79b2be25Laurita Mazapán is a body artist and photographer who paints her body and the body of others to create an inner portrait of people where feelings and emotions are represented.  She uses body painting to represent the person within the body and to represent a moment that will disappear tomorrow.

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