Own Your Creativity

Creativity Makes Us Whole. Ellen Koronet. Chief Fun Officer. 38

Ellen Koronet, Principal and Chief Fun Officer

ellenkoronet@LNKcreative.com

 

As Principal & Chief Fun Officer of LNK Creative, Ellen designs and hosts interactive personality quizzes and assessments to expand reach, generate warm leads, and interact with customers. An Anthropologist by training, she spent over three decades as a focus group moderator and marketing research executive, serving Fortune 500 corporations. At conferences and venues such as Florida Creativity Weekend, MD Business Women, QRCA, On Purpose Women, a Robotics Team, and Communication Central (an editor/freelancer conference), she applies deep insight to business and personal conundrums, often based on her signature system of Inner Muse & Mentor archetypes.

 

You can find her in person at

·      2016 On Purpose Woman Conference on October 21-22, 2016 in Baltimore MD www.OnPurposeWomanConference.com

·      Florida Creativity Weekend Conference in March 24-26, 2017 in Sarasota FL www.FLcreativity.com (Last year’s speakers are still available here: www.nonage.org/client/flcw2016b/)

 

Creativity is Bringing Things to Life. Scott Wilhite. Social Entrepreneur. 37

Scott Wilhite  is an award-winning commercial filmmaker turned social entrepreneur. As a writer, producer, and director he was enjoying a promising creative career without actually enjoying it. During ten of his most productive years he found them to also be ten of his darkest, most unsatisfying years. He felt directionless and that his life was missing purpose and meaning. 

This all changed when a friend introduced him to the world of positive psychology and showed him the difference that comes from deliberately, consciously choosing what he mentally focuses on. With his personal transformation, he wanted to make the education easily accessible to others. He created the Feed Your Happy app as a mobile mindset conditioning tool, founded nCOURAGE.LIFE, produced a 40-part video series called 2 min to HAPPY, and authored the soon-to-be-released book The 7 Core Skills of Everyday Happiness: Scientifically Proven Skills For a Happier, More Meaningful Life. 

“I had no idea happiness was a skill. I thought I was just a ‘tortured artist,’ and that that’s the kind of life I should expect being in the creative field,” he says. Now he uses all of his creative talents to package mindset skill training for others so they can spiral up and live with intention. 

Scott has a beautiful wife who teaches high school, four kids who don’t fight, and lives high up in the Rocky Mountains. 

More on nCOURAGE can be found at: nCOURAGE.LIFE

More on Scott’s films can be found at: BigSherpa.tv/films

Creativity is a Muscle. Filip Valica. Mechanical Engineer. 36

Filip Valica has been a mechanical engineer and engineering manager for over 12 years, designing, testing, and building products from cradle to grave. He has worked for a broad range of companies – from mom-and-pop small businesses to some of the largest corporations in the US. His hands-on point of view resonates with other action-oriented small business owners and entrepreneurs. 

Filip is also the founder of The Product Startup, a site that provides a step-by-step blueprint to aspiring product creators wanting to bring their ideas to market.  Through interviews with successful small business owners, inventors, and Shark Tank winners, he explores the intersection of his interests and experience: DIY Product Development.

theproductstartup.com

Creativity: The Essence of Life - Marc Hurwitz, Entrepreneur, Neuroscientist, Author #35

Marc is co-founder and Chief Insight Officer of FliPskills. He holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, an MBA and Masters in Physics and Math, and combines that with many years of corporate, executive and entrepreneurial experience in diverse areas from Marketing to HR to Actuarial. He is on faculty at Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre at the University of Waterloo. He has been recognized with numerous awards for teaching, academic achievement, speaking, professional training, acting and poetry.

Marc is known for being engaging, interesting, super insightful and not a woolly-headed academic!

http://flipskills.com/

Fast-Track Your Creativity with Elizabeth Johnston, Author, Professor, Podcaster - #34

In today's episode: Is it possible to fast-track your creativity? What if it were possible to get all the tools you need in just one day. What a difference a day could make in realizing your writing dreams? Learn more about Elizabeth Johnston's seminars in screenwriting and memoir.

Find out more at www.ownyourcreativity.com

033 Angels and Your Creativity with Soul Success Mentor Jen Gilchrist

Jen Gilchrist – Soul Success Mentor + Speaker

An Entrepreneur for 17 years, and a Spiritual Mentor for 6 years, Jen Gilchrist has gone from Struggling Single Mom to a 6-figure Business Owner –making money doing what she loves and empowering others to do the same. Jen is the creator of the Blissful Bride Program and Enlightened Entrepreneur Program.   She supports  coaches, authors, messengers and speakers create more visibility and freedom of time, money and travel in their purpose driven business so they can make a big impact  in the the world. Jen is deeply inspired and passionate about empowering  others to be the leader in their life and business.

For a free gift from Jen Gilchrist to help you live a more blissful life, go to http://empoweredwomansleadership.com/free-gift/

032 Demystifying Screenplay Structure with Elizabeth Johnston, Author, Professor & Writing Coach

031 Creativity Really IS For Everybody with Kathryn Haydon, Creativity Consultant

Kathryn P. Haydon writes, speaks, and consults to support an educational paradigm based on student strengths and creative thinking. She is a keynote speaker and specialist for families, schools, and educational organizations nationwide.  Kathryn co-authored Creativity for Everybody (2015) and Discovering and Developing Talents in Spanish-Speaking Students (2012); writes for publications on education, creativity, and parenting highly creative and gifted children; and is a published poet.  As a former teacher, Kathryn founded Sparkitivity to engage “square peg” students and to support the parents and educators who want them to succeed. She holds a Master of Science in Creativity, Creative Problem Solving, and Change Leadership from the International Center for Studies in Creativity at State University of New York, and a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University. Learn more and find resources at http://www.sparkitivity.com or @sparkitivity

030 Memories, Memoirs & You with Elizabeth Johnston, Author, Professor, Podcaster

My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a writing coach for wonderful writers like you who don’t want to waste any more time. Through my coaching programs, I give you the tools, support and guidance you need to turn your idea into reality whether it’s a memoir or a screenplay.

Who Am I?

I didn’t know I was a writer. I had always written creatively, but it wasn’t until I went to university that the doors of my imagination were blown wide open.

I had found my calling!

I went on to take two degrees in writing then taught in the arts for over 20 years. Helping others own their creativity was (and is) very rewarding.

But over the years things began to change.

Even though while teaching I still wrote and published on a regular basis, I started feeling stressed at work and that eventually spilled over into my personal life. I was so caught up in the daily routine of teaching that I forgot about the importance of nurturing my creativity.

So, in 2013, I vowed to make my creativity a priority.

No longer would it be something I squeezed in here and there. The result? Not only did I accomplish more, I was less stressed at work and had an overall sense of well-being that had eluded me for years.

It was the best decision I had ever made.

From that moment on, I pledged to do all I could to help others own their creativity so they could lead happy, fulfilled lives and know, in their bones, that it truly is never too late to be who you were meant to be.

029 Sticking Your Neck Out with Kristen Joy, Author, Publisher, Book Ninja

Kristen Joy decided she was “unemployable” at the tender age of six when she started her first business making and selling pet rocks. She’s never been able to “hold down a real job…” ever. A serial entrepreneur, in 2003 she turned her life-long love of reading and writing into a full-time career she LOVES, teaching authors and entrepreneurs how to create books that bring them business and turning authors into successful authorpreneurs.

After discovering how to thrive through chronic illness, Kristen went on to write and publish 18 Kindle books in 18 weeks, start over 50 publishing companies for others, publish over 200 books and e-books, teach hundreds of webinars, coach thousands of authors from idea to published, build a livelihood from negative $300-a-month to a multi six-figure business, study martial arts, get her conceal-carry license and eat way too much chocolate.

She currently changes lives through her students… one published message at a time, encourages authors through free articles and videos at TheBookNinja.com, teaches a ton of courses and still studies martial arts, working toward her black belt in MMA karate… while maintaining a healthy daily dose of chocolate.

Besides on her website, she can also be found online at her second home in Facebookland and occasionally aimlessly roaming the Star Wars and pet supply aisles with her man at Target hunting down toys for themselves and their cat.