CL026: Joshua Walters on creativity, improv comedy, jazz and digital fasting
Joshua Walters is a performer and coach who explores language, creativity, beatboxing and mental health. He is a regular contributor to Snap Judgement, a weekly storytelling radio show on NPR with TV broadcasts on PBS. Joshua is perhaps best known for his TED Talk entitled ‘On Being Crazy Enough’, which explores the links between the […]
CL025: Dave Pomeroy on Don Williams and the Nashville music scene
Dave Pomeroy is a bassist, writer and producer who has played on hundreds of albums with artists such as Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Sting, Alison Krauss, Peter Frampton and Don Williams. Born in Naples, Italy he lived around the world before becoming a mainstay in the Nashville music scene. Over the past 20 years, he […]
CL024: Nora Germain on jazz and writing your first book
Nora Germain is a Los Angeles based jazz violinist and a fast-rising star on the international scene. After studying music at Idyllwild Arts Academy and the Thornton School of Music she has gone on to work with some incredible names including film composer John Altman, YouTube sensations Jacob Collier and Casey Abrams, pop star Sam […]
CL023: Julie Burstein on TED Talks, podcasts, storytelling and how creativity works
Julie Burstein is an award-winning producer, best-selling author, TED speaker, coach and consultant who has spent her working life in conversation with highly creative people. In her book: Spark: How Creativity Works, Julie maps out some of the coordinates and dimensions of creativity. She is also the host of Spark Talks at The Metropolitan Museum […]
CL022: Maya Azucena on advocating for art as power
Maya Azucena is an award-winning singer, songwriter and social activist. Brooklyn based Maya describes herself as sounding like “The Roots if fronted by a singer with 4-octaves” or a “female Bruno Mars” and Billboard, The Washington Post and the Village Voice have all praised her mesmerizing stage shows. As a music artist she has collaborated […]