Jeff Leisawitz is a musician, artist, and writer whose mission to to help everyone be more creative. His focus is on teaching the power of using creativity as a tool to be seen, expressed, and healed. What You’ll Learn * How he accidentally wrote a book * The impact of creativity on the world * Jeff’s advice on getting more creative About Jeff Leisawitz Jeff Leisawitz burns with a mission—to inspire writers, artists, musicians and everyone else to amp up their creativity, heal their hearts, and shine in the world. Jeff is an award-winning musician/producer, a critically acclaimed author and internationally distributed filmmaker who has devoted his life to the art of creativity. As the guy behind Electron Love Theory, Jeff fused interviews with Seattle’s WTO demonstrators into electronic music, garnering more than a quarter million downloads worldwide. Jeff has released five studio albums and has landed more than 5,000 music placements in film, TV and multimedia— including clients like HBO, MTV, Discovery, Microsoft, NBC and many others. As the founding writer for Seattle’s taste-making alternative rock station 107.7 The End, he chronicled the alternative grunge scene in the 90s. After training as a Life Coach and practicing NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Re-Patterning) Jeff landed a gig as an adjunct faculty member at Pacific Lutheran University— teaching college students to rock. Seriously. When creative businesses and organizations like King County Library System, Brown Paper Tickets, Tacoma School of the Arts, Northwest Film Forum, Gage Academy, The Writers Store and others need an Awesome Infusion, Jeff leads workshops and events to fire up the creative spirit and empower people to tap into their true potential. Not F*ing Around— The No Bullsh*t Guide for Getting Your Creative Dreams Off the Ground is Jeff’s first book. Resources * Jeff Leisawitz’s website * Book: Not F*ing Around: The No Bullsh*t Guide for Getting Your Creative Dreams Off the Ground * Camp Log-n-Twig (now closed) * The Deliberate Creative on C-suite Radio * Leave a review on iTunes Weekly Challenge Create a new habit! What would serve you well – writing 10 minutes a day, a drawing a day, a poem a day, look for more beauty in the world? Make that small change and reap the tremendous benefits. Transcript Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free transcript or read it below. Enjoy! Transcript for Episode #089: Creativity as a Tool to be Seen, Expressed, and Healed with Jeff Leisawitz Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 89. Today’s episode, I am interviewing Jeff Leisawitz. Jeff is a man of many talents. He is a writer, a poet, a musician, a filmmaker and photographer. Throughout his career, Jeff has really tapped into his creativity and brought it forward in many different ways. In that process, he has developed this philosophy around creativity as a tool to be seen, expressed and healed. He recently wrote a book. It is really like an advice book if you want to be more cr...