Own Your Creativity

018 Saying Yes Isn't Selfish with Flora Brown, Author, Entrepreneur, Publishing Coach

Flora Brown was an entrepreneur as early as 10 years old. She sold her handmade potholders to the patrons of her mother's beauty shop while they sat captive under the dryer or waited their turns. She became hooked on earning money from her creative endeavors, but it was her love of school that led her to embrace a teaching career.

While teaching junior high through college levels and managing four children with her husband, Flora wove creative activities throughout their busy lives. In addition to the typical tasks of motherhood, for example, Flora wrote lyrics to Bach's Minuets to make it easier for her budding violinists to learn their pieces, even as she wrote articles for education and consumer publications, and completed her Ph.D.

When she retired as Professor Emeritus from Fullerton College, Flora became fascinated with blogging, internet radio, and encouraging readers to make choices that lead to fulfilling lives. In her book, Color Your Life Happy: Create Your Unique Path and Claim the Joy You Deserve, 2nd edition, she shares what she’s learned from ancient wisdom, her own experiences, and the highlights of positive psychology research. In her true fashion, she recently published a book of creative and relaxing activities in keeping with the coloring craze: Color Your Life Happy Coloring Book for Adults.

Flora continues to write, but also coaches aspiring authors and teaches guided autobiography classes for those who want to write their life stories as part of their legacy.

She loves theater, British murder mysteries, most types of music, singing, and hosting dinner parties. In her determination to visit every continent (except Antarctica) at least once, she has one continent to go.

Her philosophy is “nobody becomes somebody without the help of somebody else. “

She offers free downloads on her sites FloraBrown.com and ColorYourLifeHappy.com and invites listeners to follow her on social media.

017 Cooking is Dancing is Creativity with David Cote - Chef, Speaker, Entrepreneur

Co-author of 5 books including a best-seller translated in 5 languages, Shiatsu therapist, acroyoga teacher, Living food chef and inspiring public speaker, entrepreneur of the year 2015 in Quebec Young Chamber of Commerce David his described by the word hyperactive. After Co-founding and managing Crudessence and Rise kombucha he is now embarking on a new circular economy project, LOOP. 

016 Finding Your Voice with Joel Boggess, Relaunch Coach

Joel spent the majority of 90’s in radio and TV business. He currently hosts the ReLaunch Show (#1 podcast on iTunes N&N). His #1 bestselling book “Finding your Voice” was featured on TV near 50 times.  Joel’s also a Huffington Post and Success.com Contributor.

Because of his childhood trauma and life experience, Joel is passionate about helping people starting over with CONFIDENCE. Over the years he has helped hundreds of clients discover who they are, finding their passion and clarity of direction.

He is a “natural” with broadcasting, and he enjoys teaching podcast and radio show hosts on how to book great guests and have engaging interviews. Joel’s vision: by May 2017, after 3 years of “ReLaunch”, he would have helped 200,000 LISTENERS to LEARN TO BELIEVE THEMSELVES AGAIN.

www.relaunchshow.com

015 From Nothing to Something with Filmmaker Devinder Paul Singh

Devinder Paul Singh was born and raised in India. He has been dreaming of making films since the age of 17. He came to Canada to pursue his MBA at McGill University. For the past 11 years, he has been mostly living in Montreal where the artistic ambience, multiculturalism and unique identity inspired his work. Take Out was Devinder’s first short film which premiered at Cannes in 2011 and explored such diverse themes as multiculturalism and relationships in a postmodern society. It was also shown at couple of other European film festivals.

His second film, The Search, is a fantasy/thriller and takes a complete 180 degree turn from his first film in terms of exploring a different genre and style of filmmaking. The Search premiered at Cannes in 2013 and won the prestigious FAP grant from the National Film Board of Canada. The Search has till now played at five different International film festivals in Canada, US and Europe and is still doing the festival circuit. Devinder is influenced by such filmmakers as Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Michael Haneke, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen Brothers. He is currently working on developing his first feature film project.

014 I Saw A Purple Sky with Pat (LP) Camozzi, musician & children's author

Lp is all about words that sing. 

 

Take Me Dancin' is Lp Camozzi's 2nd adult single release.  It's the story of his married life and the planned title track of his first adult album. Some have commented that Take Me Dancin' has an old time country, live music feel brought to life with fiddle, harmonica, slide and acoustic guitars, bass and brush snare. All that's missing are the line dancers.  Who hasn't fallen in love on a dance floor?  

 

His first two CD's of original music for kids were entitled Even Kids Get the Blues and Even Kids Go Country. The third was supposed to be Even Kids Wanna Dance but the true dance stories in Lp's adult life evolve around women he'd danced with. So Take Me Dancin' will soon be followed by I Wish We Could Dance, On The Disco Floor and I Ain't Broke But I Sure Am Busted ...to name a few.  

 

Besides his voice, Lp's main instrument is blues harmonica, which he has played off and on for 40+ years.  He came to guitar late but plays a foot tapping rhythm acoustic guitar. And he's a mean spoons player.  

 

Lp loves bluegrass especially bluegrass singers.  Americana, folk and good old time country music fill his Lp record collection.  Admires and plays Springsteen, Neil Young, Hank Williams and Eagles covers.  

 

A father of three and grandfather of four, Lp is singing into his retirement career as a full time singer/songwriter and author.  He is also a published Tanka poet and author of three children's books.  Although born in the Kootenay Mountains of British Columbia, Lp currently lives in Montreal Canada with his French Canadian wife of 35 years.

 

Family, friends and a love of words. And Dancin'. That's Lp Camozzi.

 

Contact:

 

Lp Camozzi

Email:  lpcamozzi@gmail.com

Website:  lpcamozzi.com

013 Honesty, Authenticity & the Writing Life with Marnie Maguire

Marnie Maguire is the co-author of Picture Perfect: The Story of Black's Photography published by the oldest independent publishing house in Canada, Goose Lane Editions. An independent spirit herself, she will soon unleash her latest work, A Lick of Fire, a novel in zine art form. Most of Marnie's own publications and zines are part magic realism/part poetic grunge; however, she also values all she has learned from writing more conventional pieces on commission. She has combined her experience as a writer with her doctoral research on social change, memory & the creative process to provide truly meaningful workshops and memoir consultations for a broad spectrum of aspiring authors, including street youth, teen mothers, corporate professionals, seniors, college and university students to name quite a few. 

012 Murder, Museums and More with Geoff Hughes, ePublisher

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...

011 Stealing, Silence and Creativity with Carmine Starnino

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

010 From Darkness to Creative Spark with Shari D Teigman

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

009 Creativity is the Soul Breathing with Sylvie Filiatreault

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