Own Your Creativity

Geoff Hughes is founder and MD of madhouseMEDIA Publishing. He's a passionate advocate of indie eBook Publishing and also blogs regularly about writing, creativity and the business of independent publishing. You can check his blog out at www.madhousemedia.com.au

Geoff is also host of the podcast The eBook Revolution where he regularly talks to writers, publishers and marketers about how to write, get published and make a difference. You can find his podcast on iTunes and Stitcher, and on www.madhousemedia.com.au but I've got him in the studio right now...

Carmine Starnino most recent books are This Way Out (2009), nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and Lazy Bastardism: Reviews and Essays on Contemporary Poetry (2012). His fifth book of poetry, Leviathan, is due out from Gaspereau Press in Spring 2016

Shari D Teigman is a soul explorer, transformational coach and business spark maker. 

What does that mean? 

Shari help the Joes and Janes who are done being average ditch their Groundhog Day living and find their unique path and voice to a sparked up soul and lit up life. She believes every person has the ability to find their creativity, passion and drive within and light up their lives, relationships, careers and most importantly, their connection to themselves.

On that creative crusade, Shari also work with entrepreneurs and everyday rock stars to verbalize their soul and vision through copy and creative packaging and igniting their businesses to grow and flourish as their calling, not just a J.O.B. they go to everyday. 

When you connect to your community through the right words and emotion, you create lifelong fans – and who doesn’t want that?!

Her podcast, The Creative Soul Lab, is a variety show of Shari musings and interviews with entrepreneurs, thought leaders and everyday success rock stars pulling the curtain back on how their creative spark, passion and individuality fuels success and fulfillment in life and business. 

The Creative Soul Lab can be found in iTunes and Stitcher. 

Shari D Teigman 

soul explorer. transformational coach. sparkle maker 

www.shariteigman.com

Sylvie Filiatreault was born in Montreal (Quebec) in 1972.Raised by a single mother, who recognized at an early age, her daughter’spenchant for the arts. She nurtured Sylvie’s talent and interests with weeklytrips to the library and providing her with the tools needed to persevere inher passions for the arts and literature by attending seminars and conferencesat a very early age. ‘‘I remember going to those events and sitting on abooster seat to the surprise of all who were present.’’

 

She is a graduate of Concordia University inFine Arts and Art History; two disciplines that married her deepest passions:stories told in images. “I have alwaysbeen fascinated with the paintings ofcenturies past as they hold the many secrets of the times in which they werecreated.  Every work of art, every pieceof architecture, every word ever written is a time machine in itself”. 

 

In 1998, after graduating from her Bachelors degree, Sylviewas well on her way to starting her Masters Degree in Art Therapy but left herstudies to care for her ailing mother. She persevered through many “dead end”jobs. Thankfully, many of her stories were given birth during these cubicleyears. They were difficult times but she found refuge in her writing whilstdealing with the pain of a parent’s illness. 

 

Sylvie’s curious personality left her dissatisfied withonly reading about historical events and places. She wished to experience themfirst hand therefore with her mother’s blessing, she sold all her worldlybelongings, donned a back-pack and traveled to Scotland, England, France,eventually settling in Ireland, reveling in the history, culture and mythology.

 

Sylvie presently lives in Brossard (Québec) and is acolumnist for a monthly Community News paper. She is currently working on atrilogy (fiction) spanning over centuries about power and manipulation of womenin the name of Christianity. Sylvie has also illustrated a children’s bookentitled: ‘‘A Poppy for Pappy’’ that is presently being sold in TheCanadian War Museum of Ottawa, to raise funds for Canadian’s Veterans.Thus ensuring that our next generation never forgets those who sacrificed somuch for our freedom.

 

Her favorite inspiring quote for living her life is byJulius Caesar, ‘‘I came, I saw, I conquered’’. Dreams are only events that wehave yet to set in motion for ourselves. All it takes is for us to put the fearof failure aside and take that first step.

 

 

Sylvie Filiatreault

www.sylviefiliatreault.com

Rob Levit, an acclaimed musician and artist, has created award- winning innovative "Life-Skills Through The Arts" programs for hundreds of at-risk youth and adults. He is currently Executive Director of Creating Communities and the first Artist-In-Residence at Hospice of the Chesapeake, where he created and infused healing activities for the well-being of staff, families and patients.

Rob is a 2013 Innovator of the Year from the Maryland Daily Record, 2012 Mentor of the Year for Anne Arundel County, 2011 recipient of the Martin Luther King Peacemaker Award, 2010 Rotary Club Service Above Self Award and was recently a Top 5 national finalist for the Energizer Keep Going Hall of Fame for community service.

In 2006, he was a Fellow at UCLA's Center for Intercultural Performance working and collaborating with artists from around the world. Levit has also completed an acclaimed CD, Songs of Healing, for Hospice of the Chesapeake designed to give comfort to patients, workers and family in hospice care and it has since been distributed to over 1500 people.

Candess M. Campbell, PhD is the author of the #1 Best-selling book 12 Weeks to Self-Healing: Transforming Pain through Energy Medicine and her more recent publication Live Intuitively: Journal the Wisdom of your Soul.

She is an internationally known Author, Intuitive Coach and Mentor, Psychic Medium, Speaker and Workshop Facilitator. She specializes in assisting others to regain their own personal power and live a life of abundance, happiness, and joy.

At the core of her business, Vesta Enterprises, Inc., is the belief that all healing is self-healing and that becoming conscious and making positive changes increases one’s personal power and enjoyment of life. Firmly maintaining that people grow and benefit from feeling safe and receiving, her life’s work is in bridging spirituality and mainstream beliefs to promote and foster healing at all levels.

Adam Kelly Morton is an actor, writer and teacher in Montreal.

Mony is the international award-winning co-author of WALKING FOR PEACE, AN INNER JOURNEY, the memoir chronicling her 5000-km, 13-month journey of personal transformation across 13 countries.

Her quest for a life with purpose began when she abandoned a lucrative career in the software industry and the successes her MBA afforded her, to adopt the life of a simple pilgrim. For over a year she walked, her belongings in a backpack, trusting her intuition and the path she was walking. With no fixed plans or goals, every day was a journey into the unknown and the marvels, and fears, that awaited her.

Those experiences and life lessons form the foundation of her popular presentations, and publications. With her pilgrim husband, she creates and publishes books and artwork that transform. She is the Host and Producer of Ottawa Experts on Rogers TV, and works privately with individuals seeking to walk through life with purpose and confidence.   

Bruce Langford is a mindfulness coach and an anti-bullying advocate. On today's episode, Bruce talks about how creativity manifests itself in his life and work. Something I admire about him is how he can find calm and mindfulness in surprising places or sources -- a puddle in his driveway, on the downhill ski slope and from his dog, Sadie.

Pat Flewwelling is an Oshawa, Ontario-based author of non-fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. When not working full-timefor a major telecomm, and not working part-time as an editor and ghostwriter,Pat is an avid blogger and reader, who also dabbles painting and playingguitar. Pat’s fifth book, Helix: Plague of Ghouls, is forthcoming in 2016.