Friends, trust us when we say it is valuable, meaningful, and potentially essential that you take the time to celebrate your creative wins - large and small! Join us this week as Susan and Laura discuss why it's so important that we take the time to acknowledge and reflect on the milestones and the conclusions, the hits and the misses. Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

Do you have a creative project that has never seen the light of day because you just don't think it's ready to share yet? Despite years of effort even? Do you have a creative project you've dreamt of making but you haven't even started yet? Because the thought of it not turning out great keeps you from even trying? On this week's episode, Laura and Susan dig into the plight of the perfectionist.  Thanks to researchers and authors like Brene Brown, we might just have a chance to prevail - IF we can embrace our imperfections and (shocker!) maybe even learn to enjoy them!Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

Have you gotten into the AI craze yet? Have you asked Chat GPT to write your next marketing plan or promotional copy? Have you asked it to write lines of dialogue, jokes for a stand up routine or a synopsis for your pitch? Have you asked it to write your resume? This week, Susan and Laura dive into what AI might be great for,  where it's limitations are, and where it's headed. Do creatives have anything to worry about? Tune in to sort it all out.Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

Ever wonder what exactly is going on in your brain when you have an Ah-ha moment? On this week's episode of The Spark File podcast, Susan + Laura discuss what is transpiring in your head when you get that spark of an idea - and the rush of excitement that goes with it!Wouldn't it be great if we could understand it so that we can create conducive conditions to invite more and more Ah-ha moments to happen?!Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

Were there stashes of gold hidden around the country after the Civil War? Did leaders of the confederate south intend this money fund a second Civil War? Was the outlaw Jesse James responsible for hiding some of this treasure? And has it recently been found?⁠💥 ⁠Tune in this week to find out more about the Knights of the Golden Circle, their confederacy gold, and what role Jesse James may or may not have played in it. ⁠💥 ⁠A fantastic article in Popular Mechanics by @davehoward99 has left us with so many questions...⁠Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

This week, Laura and Susan discuss that tremor in the force you felt a few weeks ago when New York Magazine's The Cut handed us all The New Rules.These 194 rules on how to exist in polite society, sparked conversations everywhere. Listen in to get our take on their take on everything from dating apps to work slacks, texting friends and lovers or engaging with stangers and others... Are we all doing it wrong??Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

You know at The Spark File, we are not afraid to contemplate our own mortality, especially if doing so enhances our lives and our creativity. According to the author, Michael Hebb, “Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death—and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered.”On this week’s episode of The Spark File podcast, Susan and Laura dig into these critical conversations, aided by Hebb’s book, “Let’s Talk about Death over Dinner.”Pull up a chair and we’ll serve you up a delicious and substantial dialogue that will increase your end-of-life awareness and just might magnify your celebration of LIFE!Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

This week, Laura and Susan get sparked by a corporate apology that was so authentic it made the news. Discovering the components necessary for an apology to be sincere, this episode explores the painful blocks that keep good people from being able to apologize, AND the creative ways artists have used apologies (or the absence of apologies) to inspire their creative work. Sites like SorryWatch.com share incredible sparks of apology and introduced us to an artist named Jennifer Dalton and her work titled, "Mistakes Were Made." Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

Ever wonder what you can accomplish in an 8 minute phone call?Turns out... A LOT! In this week's episode of The Spark File podcast, Susan + Laura dig into the The New York Times feature "The 7 Day Happiness Challenge" and explore the little things that can make a BIG difference in our relationships and our lives. Take a listen, then ask yourself, "who you gonna call?"...Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE

Do you feel that people value you only for your output, so you put work above all else, even above getting a good night’s sleep? Or have you ever been so busy that you've uttered the dreaded humble brag “I’ll sleep when I’m dead?” In this episode, Laura and Susan discuss what going without sleep can do to your life and your creativity, the normalization of grind culture, some positive steps we all can take to rest and rejuvenate, and what, exactly, Warren Zevon has to do with any of it.Feeling the urge to use your creativity to make a difference? Join us for a FREE WORKSHOP on January 15, 2025 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET.  You are a Creative Catalyst, using your creativity to make change It's totally free, we just need you to RSVP PLUS! Doors are open for our transformational 6 month program, BLAZE. Get all the information you need HERE