In this episode, host Kate Shepherd interviews Wisconsin based Juliette Crane, a painter, writer, and creative educator, with international recognition and thousands of collectors, customers, and students. Juliette shares pivotal moments along her creative journey and the difficult circumstances that led her to rediscover and her passion for art. They discuss Juliette's creative journey, her connection to creativity, the themes in her artwork, and the importance of embracing creativity to...

In this episode of the Creative Genius Podcast, host Kate Shepherd has a captivating conversation with writer James Miller, the mastermind behind the immensely popular micro-fiction series, A Small Fiction. James shares his journey of starting the series, committing to daily writing for eight years, experiencing significant shifts, and ultimately gaining a massive readership and a publishing deal. The episode explores the profound connection between creativity and personal growth,...

In this captivating episode, we explore the profound power of creativity and the deep-seated pain caused by our disconnection from it. Join us as we challenge limiting beliefs around creativity, including the misconception that making a mess is not acceptable. Discover how the true magic we seek often lies on the other side of the chaos. Special guest, Kim Myers Smith, a renowned fine artist, shares invaluable insights on navigating the messy and uncertain stages of the creative process. We...

In this episode, the Kate reflects on her lifelong passion for art and her journey of self-discovery through various artistic mediums. From her childhood fascination with art supplies to her enrolment in a prestigious art school, Kate struggled with societal pressure to choose one artistic path. She shares her aversion to oil painting and her recent revelation that she suspects there might be deep healing available to her in exploring this medium. Exploring how facing our lifelong aversions...

In this episode of The Creative Genius Podcast, host Kate Shepherd interviews Jodi Ohl, a best-selling author, award-winning mixed media artist, and creative instructor. Jodi shares her remarkable journey from leaving her day job to pursuing her artistic career full time. Known for her distinctive texture, bold colour combinations, and motivational compositions, Jodi's work has been published in numerous international mixed media magazines and she has contributed to several mixed media books....

In this extraordinary episode celebrating 100k downloads of the Creative Genius Podcast, I bring you the culmination of 18 months of insightful conversations with the most brilliant creative minds and hearts of our time. When I first started this show, I set out to create something that would help people everywhere learn how to begin activating creativity and living as the truest versions of themselves. In reflecting back over the episodes so far, six transformative elements began to emerge,...

Get out your tissues and your journals and prepare your heart to grow at least a full size - this conversation with Le Cordon Bleu trained chef, clinical hypnotherapist and Author Carmen Spagnola in this powerfully beautiful episode. In this podcast episode, Kate Shepherd interviews Carmen Spagnola, a trauma recovery practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, Le Cordon Bleu trained chef and author of Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year. Carmen shares how her love for...

Amira Rahim, a successful commercial abstract artist who founded Better Than Art School™, shares her journey of finding her creative voice and creating a successful art business around it. Growing up in Newark, New Jersey, where other legendary talents like Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill also grew up, Amira felt the pressure to live up to the place's artistic standards. She overcame the two things that were stopping her from finding her voice, which she shares with us inside the episode, along...

Today's guest is Danielle LaPorte, author of The Fire Starter Sessions, White Hot Truth, The Desire Map. She has created dozens of meditation kits and online programs for spiritual support and is a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100. We talk about embracing and loving all parts of ourselves, surrender, creativity, and her intention behind her new book "How To Be Loving...when your heart is breaking open and the world is waking up."

Margaret “Mo” Smith is an adamant believer in human potential and is passionate about helping people build the lives and businesses of their dreams by supporting them to step into themselves as leaders. She believes that the magic is in our energy and that we can create lives where money flows with less effort. We chat about how to shift our energy and manifest our desires and she shares her personal experience and insights on the importance of surrender and creativity. Mo shares about what...

In this episode, host Kate Shepherd interviews Ange Miller, a prolific creator and teacher, about creativity and its importance in our lives. Ange and Kate share a deep conversation about the creative process, the things that hold us back, and the importance of reconnecting with nature, journaling, and meditating for activating what she calls the living treasure inside us.

Toni Nagy is a massively creative and incredibly intelligent, articulate content creator, stand up comedian, and writer. You have probably already seen one of her videos cross your social media feed - she interpretive dances her feelings, thoughts, and philosophies. She is also a filmmaker and the founder of CaveLight Productions. Her work is quasi–radical, somewhat-existential, and mostly funny.

Rachel Philips Co-founded  The Heart Institute of Whidbey, which hosts grown up summer camps, heart journaling events and other joyful art-based escapades in and around Whidbey island in Washington State. She makes and teaches HeART journaling which is something that extends far beyond what you might think ordinary journaling might be about - there is deep wisdom and medicine woven into her teachings. I can hardly wait for you to dive into this episode. 

Canadian Visual Artist Roxanne Willems was raised in a fundamentalist religious community that taught her her value in life was limited to serving her husband and children. She joins us today for a brave conversation about how with 4 young children, she found the courage to leave her family and community, how they ostracized her for it. She tells us about how she ended up falling into a violent second marriage on the heels of that and how she ultimately set herself free from the limiting...

Comedian, Philosopher, Joy Sparker & World's Worst Motivational Speaker Rodney Norman joins us to talk about comedy’s powerful role in the healing process, the many benefits of making a fool of yourself and how nobody is really paying that much attention to you anyway so you may as well go do the thing you love doing.

TV Writer, Producer, Assistant Director and Show-Runner Jill Girling, known for Cube (1997), Ride (2016), Queer as Folk (1999), Find Me in Paris and Spellbound joins us today for a very special heart to heart about how paralyzing the fear can be when we first come into contact with our creative gifts, how it can derail our loves and what we can do to find our way back to ourselves.

How to Stay Tethered to Yourself During the Holidays with Ange Miller & Special Guests The Holidays can be a beautiful and beautifully tough time. Ange Miller and I got together to talk about how we can begin to walk through difficult times with a bit more ease, and how to stay connected to our truest selves during this big time. This episode includes some concrete (and enjoyable) things you can do to begin to shift things that have not worked for you in the past over the holidays as...

Everyone has something of value to say in the massive conversation we call 'ART' that has been taking place since humans began. Sometimes though, our perceived flaws, prevent us from finding our voice to express what is inside us, stopping us from participating in this conversation. Being different/flawed is an asset. This is a powerful conversation about how to find our way to seeing our flaws for what they really are, our superpowers, so that we can bust out and be a part of this universal...

Willow Wolfe started off painting little wooden bowls with her grandmother and by 19 was teaching art in her own studio in Winnipeg, Canada. Today she is an award winning art teacher, the author of a library of internationally available books and the designer of best-selling paint brush lines. She joins us to talk about reprogramming our ideas around "I can" and "I can't", how creating art can connect us with the people we love, how to recognize and decipher the hidden messages in life's...

Kim Krans is a visionary artist, author, and creator of the New York Times BestsellerThe Wild Unknown Tarot.  She joins us to discuss the magic of tarot, the collapse of 'The Artist' archetype in current culture and society, and the importance of showing up to support our own inner artists as the most important thing we can do to heal the world. There is an incredible guided mediation at the end (in the homework section) and Kim does a tarot reading in the interview for everyone listening....

The most important thing you can do for creativity... is to let it out of you. Every single thing that has ever happened since the beginning of time, everything that's happening in this moment, and everything that ever will happen is happening for you. And that applies to everybody. That river is running for you to behold, that song was written for you to enjoy that leaf is opening for itself, obviously, but also for you to enjoy, and for the squirrel to eat! Everything that moves through...

Erin Oostra is a visual artist, graphic designer and the owner of Nuwavegallery in Ellensburg Washington. We talk about how to recognize how creativity wants to move through your system so that it can flow better, the importance of leaning into creative nudges, and importantly ‘mistakes’ in life and in the art studio. She shares her tips for how to conjure flow states and muses about how though many of us are put into boxes as children in terms of who we ‘are’ whether that’s athlete or artist...

2 time Juno Award Winning Canadian Singer/Songwriter Dan Mangan joins me to talk about the roles of vulnerability, honesty, determination and grit in bringing our art into the world. We talk about how he ‘made it’ as a musician in a landscape that is oversaturated with incredible talent no matter which way you look, how he deliberately created a vehicle to carry his work and reach as many people as he could, and he reflects on the approach he took to building his career (not waiting around...

This is one of those episodes that has the power to change the trajectory of your whole life if you happen to be ready for what it is trying to tell you. If you suspect that there is a different, more fulfilling life whispering to you and you are ready to do some reflection, pay close attention to the end of this episode because, I have some homework that will help you begin to tease all this apart and start down your own path of returning to your truest self. After wanting to be a...