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Sustaining Creativity Podcast
Hosted by Mari Reisberg/Max Peterson · EN
Creativity is something we all use everyday whether we realize it or not. The Sustaining Creativity Podcast is an interview style podcast where different perspectives of creativity, tips, tools and creative experiences are shared, explored and digested.
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Creativity Management with Claire Giovino
4d ago00:34:19Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of the Co-Founder and CEO of 50hrs.com"Creativity is turning thought into reality."Claire Giovino is the Co-Founder and CEO of 50hrs.com, built around a simple belief: most leaders don’t need better productivity tools — they need to design their perfect day and remove the work that doesn’t belong in it.Early in her career, Claire noticed that email and administrative work weren’t simply time-consuming. They were low-energy, reactive tasks that fractured attention and quietly crowded out deeper work. Email felt necessary and productive, yet it often ended up setting priorities by default. Curious about what would change, Claire began experimenting with delegation and systems, first in her own work and then alongside other entrepreneurs, to see what happened when leaders stepped out of constant inbox triage.A pivotal moment came while working with online entrepreneur Yaro Starak. By redesigning how his inbox was filtered, handled, and responded to, Claire reduced his direct involvement with email to checking it just once a month. The shift wasn’t about efficiency alone; it changed how his days were structured and where his attention went. Claire saw the same pattern emerge again and again: as people become more successful, email multiplies, and without deliberate systems, it quietly reshapes how their days unfold.In 2017, Claire co-founded 50hrs.com to address this problem at scale. Instead of offering surface-level organization or software tools, 50hrs.com provides human executive assistants who manage inboxes and calendars end-to-end — replying to emails, handling follow-ups, and learning each client’s voice, priorities, and decision-making over time by becoming an integral part of their business. The model is built on trust, context, and redundancy, with AI used as a support layer rather than a substitute for human judgment.Today, Claire works with leaders across entrepreneurship, law, academia, real estate, and beyond who want their days to reflect how they think and work at their best. Her focus is helping them protect the limited hours when their attention is sharpest by removing low-leverage work that quietly drains energy and focus.https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairegiovino/ https://inboxdone.com/https://www.50hrs.com/https://playbook.50hrs.com/Send us Fan Mail
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Space for Creativity with Lauren Henkin
1w ago00:31:51Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of the founder of The Humane Space and artist"Creativity; it means exploring something new."Lauren Henkin is the founder of The Humane Space, a lifestyle company and first-of-its-kind app designed to help people find greater meaning in life through curiosity, wonder, and awe. A trained architect, award-winning visual artist, and branding expert with over two decades in luxury wellness and management, Lauren blends art, design, and humane technology to support mindful living in a distracted world. Her work has been featured in NPR, Architectural Digest, and leading museums—and is grounded in a mission to inspire wonder and deepen self-connection through intentional, curiosity-driven experiences.https://www.thehumane.space/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thehumanespaceInstagram https://www.instagram.com/thehumane.spaceLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehumanespaceYouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thehumanespaceSend us Fan Mail
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Creative Hope with Lisa Parda
2w ago00:42:04Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of a Real Estate Broker, Radio Host and Author "How we live our lives is an extension of our creativity."For more than twenty years, Lisa Parda has helped people buy, sell, and reimagine properties in New Hampshire. As the Owner of RealtyScape Brokerage, LLC, she doesn’t just work in residential real estate — she’s also an income-producing, value-add agent with experience fixing up and revitalizing commercial and multifamily properties. That passion for creating spaces that serve people and communities threads through all her work.Today, she’s just as likely to be found behind a microphone as she is at a closing table. As co-host of Lisa and Robyn on the Mic, a live weekly radio show, Lisa has spent the past two years hosting two-hour conversations that meander the way real life does. Listeners tune in for honesty, laughter, and the kind of exchanges that feel like pulling up a chair at the kitchen table.Food has become her latest way of exploring connection. Her forthcoming cookbook, My Love Language Is Food (Fall 2025), isn’t about flawless recipes — it’s about survival, joy, and the small rituals that keep people going. Lisa draws from her own seasons of struggle: long work hours, the ups and downs of body image, and the lessons of using food both as comfort and as medicine. She’s candid about nights when dinner comes from a box, but she also knows the pride of making one dish exactly the way you like it.At 53, Lisa is choosing to let her real estate career take a smaller footprint so she can make space for projects that leave her energized — conversations on radio, a cookbook rooted in lived experience, and opportunities to speak and travel. Her story is about pivoting in midlife without burning down the past, and about building sturdier foundations — whether in homes, meals, or communities.What drives Lisa is simple: connection. Whether through a property, a meal, or a two-hour conversation, she believes in meeting people where they are, without gloss. As a podcast guest, she brings humor, candor, and the kind of energy that makes audiences lean in and feel seen.https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-parda-a0125532b/https://www.youtube.com/@LisaandRobynOnthemichttps://www.instagram.com/lisaandrobynonthemic/#https://starsatnightpublishing.com/Send us Fan Mail
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Creativity Under Pressure with Lisa Pagotto
2w ago00:33:50Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of the founder of Crooked Compass & Key Note Speaker"Creativity means when things just flow naturally."Lisa Pagotto is the founder of Crooked Compass, an immersive travel company built around depth, cultural respect, and meaningful experiences. She grew the business into a multi-seven-figure venture featured on Shark Tank Australia. When global travel came to a standstill, Lisa rebuilt and expanded in unconventional ways — including earning clearance to land a light aircraft at Sydney Airport while commercial flights were grounded. Her work is shaped by firsthand experience navigating uncertainty, risk, and reinvention.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-pagotto/X: https://x.com/crookedcompassInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisapagotto_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crookedcompasstravel/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CrookedCompassWebsite: https://www.crooked-compass.com/Send us Fan Mail
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Honest Creativity with Lincoln Stoller
3w ago00:29:25Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of a physicist and psychotherapist "Creativity to me is making reality in some sense."Lincoln Stoller is a certified clinical counselor in British Columbia, Canada. He works with people worldwide to help them with the environments they have created, and their sense of self. He’s a volunteer counselor with the American Alpine Club’s Climbers Grief Fund.Lincoln’s experience includes theoretical physics, business software CEO, neurology-based brain training, psychedelics, and hypnotherapy, soar plane pilot, mountaineer, a father, a partner, and a cultural ambassador to communities in the Caribbean, Panama, and Mongolia.His work comes together under the heading of recreating one’s state of mind through experience, perception, reflection, relationships, trauma, and spirituality. He questions science and intellect and emphasizes relationships and spirit. He blogs on topics in learning, therapy, and social awareness at https://mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/His latest books, "Dream Fragments" and "Dreaming Yourself into Being," explore the psychology of dreams and were published in February 2026.https://www.mindstrengthbalance.comhttps://www.mindstrengthbooks.comhttps://www.facebook.com/lincolnstoller/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lincolnstoller/Send us Fan Mail
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Creative Empowerment with Ndzaba Mngomezulu
3w ago00:30:09Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of the founder of Art Creators Academy,"Creativity means you are at your most authentic self without overthinking. Walking by intuition."Ndzaba Mngomezulu is the founder of Art Creators Academy and believes that anyone can learn to draw—no matter where they're starting from.After nearly a decade away from art, he picked up a pencil again with zero formal training and committed to mastering the fundamentals. Within a year of studying at home and now under one of the industry's top illustrators, he progressed from basic to intermediate skills. That transformation revealed something powerful: the path back to creativity is shorter and easier than most artists think.Now he helps aspiring artists rediscover their love of drawing and use their art to shape the world around them. He lives with his wife and two daughters.Social Media HandlesYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NdzabaMngomezuluInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ndzaba.mngomezuluMy Products and ServicesDraw Again, Dream Again book: https://www.artcreatorsacademy.comArt Mastery Program application: https://www.artcreatorsacademy.com/artmasteryprogramSend us Fan Mail
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Honoring Your Creativity with Mary Marquiss
3w ago00:35:31Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of an Artist, Author and Art Teacher,"Nature has been my greatest art teacher."Marquiss has been a professional artist, art teacher and writer in Bend, Oregon, for 34 years, and the author of Behind the Painting – An Artist’s Memoir, published May 7, 2026.She developed her interest in art as a child, surrounded by the lush beauty of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Marquiss attended both the University of Oregon and UCLA, earning her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology. After graduating she became the Marketing Director for the first private psychiatric hospital in Reno, Nevada, and then a product manager for HCA in Nashville, TN.When her daughter was born, she left her corporate career and returned to her art and writing. “I focused primarily on watercolor because it can be surprising and has a beautiful transparency. Painting with watercolor also teaches about control – when to take it and when to let go –as in life,” she explains. “The abstract cruciform design followed - after years of painting large format florals.”Her recent memoir holds ten of her paintings and a personal story behind each one over a thirty year period. Over time, her paintings created a circular language between her art and her life.This book takes the reader on artistic adventures in Paris and Southern France, the process of finding her artistic style and through tough challenges she faced including divorce, family suicide, a stroke and cancer.As a character voice actor, her daughter Katherine Tole joined Marquiss on the audiobook edition.Her original art and book information can be seen at www.marymarquiss.com.Send us Fan Mail
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Brave Creativity with Dawn Stallwood
4w ago00:27:57Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of a commercial lawyer turned Leadership Counsel and a member of the Notery profession"Creativity is about bringing your whole self into the activity and not relying on tech or tools to the creative work you do."Dawn Stallwood is a corporate and commercial lawyer turned Leadership Counsel, Chief Integrity Officer, and one of only 770 Notaries Public in the UK. With nearly 30 years’ experience across private practice, in-house roles, partnership in a UK Top 100 law firm, and independent consultancy, she has advised boards, founders, and leadership teams through growth, deals, and crisis. Founder of Floodlight Business and author of Beautiful Leadership, Dawn champions human-centred, integrity-led leadership, reframing success as service, intention, and professional competence in an AI-driven age.LinksLinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/impactwithintegrity/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnastallwood/#YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DawnStallwoodBook: https://thebeautifulleader.com/Send us Fan Mail
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Natural Creativity with Mark Firehammer
4w ago00:38:12Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of a systems thinker and human being,"Creativity is a natural gift"Mark Firehammer (b. 1962) is a creative entrepreneur, author, and cultural systems thinker. He co-founded Fitstreams.club in 2020 and MyFeelness.com in 2024, offering a thoughtful alternative to conventional fitness focused on physical freedom and embodied well-being.After a career as a professional musician, Mark founded Attract More Clients in 2004 and continues to consult with Fitness Business Pros. He is the author of The Echo and the Voice, a novel exploring authenticity, creativity, and cultural healing, and is currently at work on The Lens That Changes Everything, a nonfiction project examining how perspective shapes human experience.As founder of the Creative Humanity Alliance, Mark’s work centers on reconnection—helping people rediscover their voices, their creativity, and one another. A believer in opportunities over obstacles, he’s passionate about living without limits—and he loves cats.Website: https://markfirehammer.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfirehammer/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markfirehammer/Send us Fan Mail
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Pushing Creative Limits with James Colistra
Jul 1000:34:28Tap to summarizeCreativity through the lens of the founder of Wonderfish"Creativity means: Pushing the limits to where you're not settling for the first idea."James Colistra spent nearly 20 years inside top business media brands, beginning at The Economist and later joining Forbes, where he became Executive Director of Integrated Marketing.Today, he’s the founder of Wonderfish, a done-for-you podcast guesting system that helps founders and expert-led businesses become visible authorities by leveraging content destinations their ideal customers already trust.Website: https://wonderfish.xyz/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescolistra/Substack: https://substack.com/@wonderfishlabsSend us Fan Mail
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