The Creative Superheroes Podcast: Recent Episodes
Andrea Scher
The Creative Superheroes podcast is a place to gather inspiration and learn from a wide range of Creative Superheroes. These are brilliant authors, artists, coaches and teachers who can help us cultivate more courage, more aliveness and more joy. Your host, Andrea Scher, is passionate about the sweet spot where creativity and personal growth intersect.
Lily Womble is an intersectional feminist dating coach and founder of Date Brazen. She has led thousands of badass, feminist women around the world to build dating lives that feel like self-care, that also lead to extraordinary love. Lily is the author of the book: Thank You, More Please: A Feminist Guide to Breaking Dumb Dating Rules and Finding Love.
Her website is here: https://www.datebrazen.com/
You can get her book here: https://amzn.to/4dy4zdG
Shantini Rajah is a writing and manifesting mentor and energy practitioner. She loves helping conscious entrepreneurs find their true voice and manifest a life and business they love.
Her brand new book is called Manifest Anything You Want: Six magical steps to creating an Extraordinary Life. You can find out more here: www.manifestanythingyouwantbook.com
In The Good Eater, Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan) Nina Guilbeault, PhD vividly explores the movement's history and its present-day tensions by grappling with the most fundamental question of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat? What emerges is a fascinating portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates-and our planet.
James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont.
http://www.jamescrews.net
Jeff Hamaoui is Co-Founder and Chief Education and Innovation Officer of Modern Elder Academy, the first-ever ‘midlife wisdom school.’ Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, Modern Elder Academy (MEA) supports students to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
With prior roles at NASA, IKEA, and Nike before permanently landing in Baja at MEA in midlife, Hamaoui is a seasoned teacher and master facilitator with an entrepreneurial mind, teacher’s heart, and seeker’s soul.
Hamaoui is also the founder of Baja Sage, MEA’s adjacent residential community. This new type of community utilizes regenerative principles to support flourishing and resiliency across the entire community.
Jen Ripa is a grief guide, artist, and hope catalyst who supports women who have experienced the death of a significant person in their lives to create a path forward that is hopeful, joy filled,and meaningful.
Creative Cocoon Community www.creativecocoon.org
Ellen Fondiler is an award-winning entrepreneur and career coach. She is the co-host of the podcast, Chart Your Career, which brings weekly astrology and career advice to listeners. Ellen is a certified Designing Your Life coach and certified Wild Writing™ instructor. Typically, clients hire her when they want something really badly… but … they’re feeling overwhelmed about how to make it happen. Ellen helps them set goals, get unstuck, and get things moving in the direction they want. She has worked as a death penalty attorney, launched four businesses, and has raised millions for charities and nonprofits. She’s living proof that your career can evolve over time and you don’t have to remain stuck doing “just one thing” for the rest of your life.
You can learn more about Ellen on her website or follow her on Substack or Instagram. Check out her private coaching offerings and her signature year-long program .
Eric FitzMedrud is a therapist specializing in relationship and sexual issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. His specialty is helping men improve their sex lives by learning to regulate their emotions, removing sexual entitlement, and honing their sexual consent and negotiation skills. You can find out more about Eric's work here: https://www.drericfitz.com/
Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and the author of several best-selling
journals, including Start Where You Are. She is also the author of How it Feels
to Find Yourself: Navigating Life’s Changes with Purpose, Clarity, and Heart, a
book of illustrated essays. She creates work that encourages others to
connect with themselves, one another, and the world around them. She lives
with her family in Saint Louis, Missouri.
For more information, see MeeraLee.com
Lisa Anderson Shaffer is a seasoned guide for creative professionals, empowering them to cultivate their genius, unlock unprecedented success, and find profound fulfillment through the transformative practices of Human Design and Energy Work.
If you want to find Dante's incredible work, you can find them here: https://www.instagram.com/radicalpsychicservices/
Juna Mustad is a somatic coach, an intuitive and a teacher of emotional intelligence. You can see her Ted Talk about mindful anger here: https://www.ted.com/talks/juna_mustad_anger_is_your_ally_a_mindful_approach_to_anger
Peggy Fitzsimmons holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University, and has worked in the fields of counseling and healing for over 25 years. Peggy counseled adolescents and adults with mental health and addiction issues in a variety of clinical settings, including private practice, wilderness therapy, psychiatric inpatient, and residential treatment. She expanded her clinical work to include holistic and mind-body approaches by training for several years in Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy, as well as Intuition Medicine®, a practice of intuitive energy healing.
Peggy also lived and worked at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York and was a consulting producer on Oprah Winfrey's Emmy-winning TV series Super Soul Sunday. In addition, she has utilized her expertise to help many people “get their houses in order” through intensive decluttering.
In her book Release: Create a Clutter Free and Soul Driven Life,Peggy shares her vast knowledge and practical insights about decluttering with readers who want to improve their lives— by freeing themselves from clutter and living in alignment with their true soul nature.
Annie Wright is a licensed psychotherapist deeply committed to supporting the well-being of those who, while they didn’t come from the best childhoods, long to finally create wonderful adulthoods for themselves.
She’s a national expert in relational trauma recovery, specifically supporting the adult children of the mood- and personality-disordered to help them explore, heal, and move forward from their pasts towards a future that feels whole and beautiful no matter where they started from.
She owns and runs a boutique therapy center in Berkeley where she offers one-on-one therapy services and where she also oversees her staff of talented, trauma-informed clinicians. In addition to this, Annie is a published mental health author, and she produces digital content and online courses designed to support relational trauma recovery.
Nina Badzin hosts the podcast, Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. A freelance writer and a writing group leader at ModernWell in Minneapolis, Nina has been writing about friendship since 2014, which she does currently on Substack at Dear Nina.
Listen in to this great conversation about adult friendship with expert Kat Vellos!
The Friendship Course starts Friday, May 26th. You can find out more details and register here.
Kat Vellos is a trusted expert on the power of cultivating meaningful friendships. She’s a speaker and author of the book, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships. She’s also the creator of the Better than Small Talk conversation cards and the Better Conversations Calendar.
Big news! Waaaaay back in 2008 @kellyraeroberts and I shared an art studio in Berkeley. We had only met a few weeks before at a gathering of women who had been blogging since the early days. There was a moment when a comment was made about me in the circle and it stung. I don’t actually remember the comment and of course it doesn’t matter anyway! What I do remember is that Kelly (who was seated next to me on the couch) reached over without saying a word and squeezed my hand.
In that one gesture, she communicated so much to me. “I see you. I’ve got you.”
And that’s when we became friends.
@kellyraeroberts and I have supported one another for all these years since - in creating online courses and workshops and just generally masterminding together in our creative businesses. We have launched dozens of offerings and led thousands of women through learning experiences online. We have always wanted to collaborate together, but nothing ever stuck - until now!
https://www.andreascher.com/idea-to-done/
AND YOU ARE INVITED! 💕
To spend 8 weeks with us planning, creating and launching YOUR online offering. We call it Idea to Done because we are focused on helping you bring your project to completion. Not just a cool idea, but something you put out in the world.
Have you ever wanted to offer an e-course? A membership community? A coaching circle? Some mini-classes on your website?
https://www.andreascher.com/idea-to-done/
SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is a bestselling author, artist, inspirationalist and acclaimed teacher and mentor. Her purpose in life is to be an uplifter, transformer and laser beam of love- she offers that with love through her art, words and spirit.
Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book. Since then, she’s written seven additional books on well-being and whole living, including The Woman’ s Retreat Book and The Life Organizer, and her newest and most personal book Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next is available wherever you get books.
Justin Talbot Zorn has served as both a policymaker and a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress. A Harvard- and Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of well-being, Justin has written for the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He is cofounder of Astrea Strategies, a consultancy that bridges contemplation and action, helping leaders and teams envision and communicate solutions to complex challenges. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife and three children.
Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, corporations, and federal agencies as well as a longtime student of pioneering researchers and practitioners of the ritualized use of psychedelic medicines in the West. In her professional work, she has led diverse initiatives, including a training program to promote an experimental mindset among teams at NASA and a decade-long cross-sector collaboration to reduce toxic chemicals in products, in partnership with Green Science Policy Institute, Harvard University, IKEA, Google, and Kaiser Permanente. She is the cofounder of Astrea Strategies. Leigh lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and daughter.
Darshana Avila is a somatic sex and intimacy coach and has created the Map of Erotic Wholeness as a path to personal liberation in service to our collective sexual liberation.
Her unique style of somatic sex and intimacy coaching weaves together an integral approach drawing upon trauma-informed, nature-based, and a justice-oriented approach – all of which invites more presence, pleasure, and passion into the lives and relationships of those she guides.
- Website:darshanaavila.com
- Instagram:@EroticWholeness
- Netflix: Sex, Love and Goop -- Watch the trailerhere
Katarina (Kato) Wittich has had the great privilege to act as a midwife for many other humans as they journey toward wholeness and self love. She is a certified Rosen Practitioner, Yuen Practitioner, and Family Constellations Facilitator. It is her joy to be a perpetual student of the mystery and beauty of humanness, of our experience of ourselves as separate, and yet woven together in ways we can barely comprehend but can directly experience through the group practice of Constellations. Her work is featured in episode five of the Netflix series "Sex, Love & Goop", in which she leads constellations for a couple who wish to avoid repeating the inherited family patterns which have damaged their previous relationships. Kato is grateful to have had the opportunity to facilitate in the first mainstream television exposure for this profound and life changing work, in which you can witness the impossible wonder of our interconnectedness, unlimited by time or physicality. For more information watch the episode on Netflix or go to RosenConstellations.com In the rest of her life, she is a screenwriter, director, painter, dancer and general lover of all things creative, embodied and human.
Kristin Condon is an actress, former ballet dancer and current inspirational mover of bodies on Openfit/Myx Fitness digital platform where she teaches Pilates and yoga, and how to treat your body and your mind with a little more grace, dignity and joy. To balance out all that movement, she also loves to get still in a soundproof booth to bring books to life through a microphone, which she has been doing for over seven years. She splits her time between Red Hook, Brooklyn and a little cabin in Milford, PA.
Lea Redmond reveals the extraordinary hiding in the ordinary: a saltshaker, a penny, hand gestures, clouds. Lea creates books, toys, games and small adventures that invite humans of all ages to be curious, playful, and kind. Visit Lea’s world of wonder at LeaRedmond.com.
Jeffrey Davis is an author, team culture consultant, educator, and CEO of Tracking Wonder Consultancy. For over 25 years, he's inspired thousands of change-makers, leaders, and creatives to unlock their best ideas through the pursuit of curiosity, innovation, and wonder. He is the author of the books Tracking Wonder (Coming out with Sounds True in November, 2021), The Journey from the Center to the Page (Penguin; Monkfish Publishing) the poetry collections City Reservoir (BarnBurner Press) and Coat Thief (Saint Julian Press), and other books. Jeffrey believes in the power of wonder to transform lives, spark influence, and help human beings thrive creatively in times of rampant challenge and change. Ultimately, he challenges people not to give up on their ideals and dreams. He lives with his wife and two daughters in a farmhouse in the Hudson Valley of New York. To learn more, visit trackingwonder.com.
Andrea Scher is an author, artist and life coach whose work is driven by her belief in the transformative power of creativity for joy and wellbeing. For nearly two decades, through her award-winning blog Superhero Journal, her Creative Superheroes podcast, and her bestselling e-courses, Andrea has thrilled others with their own power to find magic all around them.
Her new book, Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy (HarperCollins) straddles the world of creativity and mindfulness - playfully inspiring readers to live more vibrant lives full of presence, joy and connection.
You can learn more about Andrea on her website or follow her on Instagram!
Gavin Pretor-Pinney is founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, which has over 55,000 members in 120 countries. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Cloudspotter’s Guide and Cloud Collector’s Handbook as well as A Cloud A Day.
Karen Walrond is a lawyer, leadership coach, activist, and senior director for global engagement for the Brené Brown Education and Research Group. A Certified Dare To Lead™ Facilitator, Walrond has helped thousands of people around the world find purpose and meaning in their work. As a photographer, she traveled throughout Africa with the ONE Campaign and serves on the board for the Houston Coalition Against Hate. Walrond and her work have been featured on PBS, Huffington Post, CNN.com, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her award-winning blog, Chookooloonks, is a lifestyle, inspiration, and photography destination. A sought-after speaker, Karen is the host of the highly rated podcast The Make Light Show, the author of The Beauty of Different, and a contributor to Disquiet Timeand Expressive Photography. Karen, her husband, and their daughter live in Houston, Texas.
Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, award-winning author, executive producer, and host of one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world, Good Life Project®. We will be chatting today about his latest book, SPARKED: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive is both a rally cry and a field guide to reclaiming work as a source of meaning, joy, and possibility.
Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of Party of Two, The Wedding Date, The Proposal, The Wedding Party, Royal Holiday,and Party of Two. Her work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, and Time. She lives in Oakland, California.
Meredith Arthur, a San Francisco-based writer and video producer, has experienced stress in all of its incarnations and lived to tell this tale. Currently a Content Lead at Pinterest, Meredith has worked at tech companies large and small. An early pioneer of “getting people to talk about mental health in a normal way,” Meredith created the website Beautiful Voyager in 2015 for overthinkers, perfectionists, and people pleasers.
And most recently, she just came out with her first book called: Get Out of My Head Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious World.
Chris Guillebeau [Gil-a-bow] is the New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup, Side Hustle, The Happiness of Pursuit, and other books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. During a lifetime of self-employment that included a four-year commitment as a volunteer executive in West Africa, he visited every country in the world (193 in total) before his 35th birthday.
His daily podcast, Side Hustle School, is downloaded more than two million times a month. He is also the founder of the World Domination Summit, an event for cultural creatives that attracts thousands of attendees to Portland, Oregon every summer.
Chris’s new book, THE MONEY TREE, is his first work of fiction.
Fritzi Horstman is the Founder and Executive Director of the Compassion Prison Project - an organization dedicated to bringing compassion, childhood trauma awareness and creative inspiration to all men and women living behind bars.
She is currently directing “Step Inside the Circle,” a documentary about childhood trauma behind bars. The PSA created from some of the footage from the documentary has already received over 2 million views across all platforms. If you haven't seen it already, you can check it out here.
Tracy Verdugo is an inspiration instigator, prolific painter, bestselling author of Paint Mojo, smitten traveller and soaker up of all that is beauty-full. She teaches her Paint Mojo and other creative workshops all over the world and reminds her students of the wonder that already resides within them.
Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including, Bring Your Whole Self to Work and We’re All in This Together. He delivers keynotes and seminars that empower people, leaders, teams, and organizations to be more successful, appreciative, and authentic.
Prior to his current work, Mike played baseball at Stanford and then professionally with the Kansas City Royals. After his athletic career was cut short by injuries, he worked in the tech world, before starting his consulting business in 2001. His clients include Google, Wells Fargo, eBay, Gap, Microsoft, and others. www.Mike-Robbins.com
Keri Smith is the author and illustrator of several bestselling books including “Wreck this Journal”, “This is not a Book”, “How to be an Explorer of the World”; and many more. She spends her time making things out of discarded stuff she finds. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband Jefferson Pitcher and their two children.
Danny Gregory has written 12 internationally best-selling books on art and creativity. Including Everyday Matters, Art Before Breakfast + his newest book How to Draw Without Talent.
He is the co-founder of Sketchbook Skool with tens of thousands of students worldwide.
Through his books and in the large online communities he oversees, Danny has shown people how to ignite their inner artists, embrace their creativity and tell the stories of their lives.
Flora Bowley is a painter, pioneer, gentle guide, and author of two popular books, Brave Intuitive Painting and Creative Revolution. She believes creativity holds the power to awaken, empower, heal, and transform, and she’s here to remind us that all humans were born to create.
If you're craving connection and creative inspiration, Flora Bowley is offering free virtual gatherings every Wednesday at 4 pm PT and Saturday at 10 am PT. Join Flora (virtually) in her Portland studio for Together Apart, a nourishing blend of movement, meditation, and intuitive painting. Paint along with Flora at home or simply enjoy watching a painting come to life. Beginners are welcome!
All the links to the live-steams and archived replays can be found on Flora's website: florabowley.com/together-apart.
Annie Wright, LMFT is the founder and clinical director of Evergreen Counseling - a therapy center located in Berkeley, California - as well a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in complex relational trauma. She's also a published writer with pieces and opinions appearing in Forbes, NBC, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Reader's Digest and more.
Nick Onken is a world renowned photographer, creative entrepreneur devoted to inspiring the world to create their moments. Nick’s current mission is to refine and explore the intersection of Creativity, Consciousness, and Culture. Lead by the belief that one should live a creative life in color.
Lisa Congdon is a Portland, Oregon-based fine artist, illustrator and author known internationally for her colorful drawings and hand lettering. Her playful work is recognized for its vibrant palettes, geometric patterns and uplifting messages. She is the author of eight books, including the starving-artist-myth-smashing Art Inc: The Essential Guide to Building Your Career as an Artist and her latest book Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic.
Traci Ruble is a San Francisco based psychotherapist and founder / director of Sidewalk Talk, a global street listening non-profit.
You can get involved with this awesome organization here!
Designer Amy Butler is a global ambassador of beauty. A prolific artist, storyteller, and creative visionary, Amy seeks to uplift people, to create products that enrich peoples’ lives, and inspire others to seek out and grow their own creativity.
Terry Grahl is the Founder, Visionary and CEO of Enchanted Makeovers. She leads teams of volunteers in helping to adorn shelters from women + families affected by domestic violence. And when I heard a wee bit about her story, I found it incredibly inspiring and wanted to share it with you.
Dr. Shauna Shapiro is a clinical psychologist, author and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. She is a professor at Santa Clara University and has published over 150 papers and three critically acclaimed books, translated into 16 languages. Her most recent book Good Morning I Love you is what we will be chatting about today!
Karen Maezen Miller is a wife and mother as well as a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles.
She writes about spirituality in everyday life. Her books include: Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life , and Momma Zen: Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood.
Peggy Orenstein is a New York Times best-selling author whose books include Don’t Call Me Princess, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. Her latest, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent and Navigating the New Masculinity is out now.
Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy.
Karla is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the new Dynamic Emotional Integration Workbook® (2018).
Katherine Center is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk AwayandThings You Save in a Fire,as well as five others, includingHappiness for BeginnersandThe Bright Side of Disaster. Her fourth novel, The Lost Husband, is soon to be a movie starring Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel. Katherine has been compared to both Nora Ephron and Jane Austen, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.” Katherine recently gave a TEDx talk on how stories teach us empathy, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, USA Today, InStyle, Redbook, People, The Atlantic, Real Simple, and others. Katherine lives in Houston with her husband and two sweet kids. Visit her online at www.katherinecenter.com!
CYNTHIA LI, MD, received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She has practiced as an internist in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic serving the homeless. After an autoimmune illness left her housebound for 2 years, she dove into the root causes of her illness, and returned to medicine as a very different doctor. Currently, she has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine, and serves on the faculty of the Healer’s Art program at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. She lives in Berkeley, CA, with her husband and their two daughters.
Amanda Stern is the author of the novel The Long Haul, the memoir Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life, and eleven children’s books written under pseudonyms. She founded the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading Series in 2003, which had its final show at Joe’s Pub in June 2018. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter Busy, who just happens to be a dog.
Azizi Birkeland travels the world with her life-learning family comprised of her husband and two young daughters. Her passion to dismantle one self-limiting belief at a time led her to create two new business ventures.
The first is Stone Soup Family Pop Up Communities, which provide 1-3 month opportunities for families on extended travel to come together as a community, to create powerful experiences. The other is In Her Wild, an online sanctuary to guide women to embrace their femininity without the need to protect it, compete or feel the need to “do it like a man.”
She promotes using "The Art of Self Prioritization", a playful way to explore yourself and bring out what lies beneath waiting to be revealed so that you can live unleashed, unapologetic and unafraid.
Alejandra Siroka M.A. has devoted her life to the study of language and communication. She is a truth seeker who is dedicated to discovering and sharing methods which allow people to live with integrity. Inspired by her belief that developing conscious communication skills is essential in the path of transformation. She founded Language Alchemy -a transformative process which allows individuals and groups to develop thriving relationships and fulfilling lives by speaking their truth with power and compassion.
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
If your intuition is pulling you toward Superhero School, I'd love to have you! This 4-month small coaching program begins Monday, February 4th, 2019. Lots more info + opportunity to register here.
Just 20 spots this time. I hope it's you!
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
If your intuition is pulling you toward Superhero School, I'd love to have you! This 4-month small coaching program begins Monday, February 4th, 2019. Lots more info + opportunity to register here.
Just 25 spots this time. I hope it's you!
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
If your intuition is pulling you toward Superhero School, I'd love to have you! This 4-month small coaching program begins Monday, February 4th, 2019. Lots more info + opportunity to register here.
Just 25 spots this time. I hope it's you!
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
She is passionate about the sweet spot where creativity and personal growth intersect. She is also the co-author of the book, Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters Guide to Shooting from the Heart.
Andrea Scher, CPCC is an artist, an online workshop teacher and a big believer in the transformative power of creativity. Through her e-courses - Mondo Beyondo, Superhero Photo, Cultivating Wonder and more - Andrea inspires people to live authentic, colorful, and creative lives. She is best known for the award winning blog - Superhero Life.
She is passionate about the sweet spot where creativity and personal growth intersect. She is also the co-author of the book, Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters Guide to Shooting from the Heart.
Kristine Carlson, New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned speaker, is passionate about spreading her message of living with joy and gratitude.
Kris’ life mission expands upon the phenomenal success of she and her late husband Dr. Richard Carlson’s work in the (“Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” series). She continues his legacy of peaceful and mindful living through her own bestselling books, including the most recent, From Heartbreak to Wholeness, The Hero’s Journey to Joy.
Virginia Bell is a full-time astrologer and writer based in New York City. She’s written astrology columns for Refinery 29, TV Guide, US Weekly, and the Huffington Post. Virginia is also the the author of Midlife Is Not A Crisis: Using Astrology To Thrive In The Second Half Of Life.
Juna Mustad is a Life and Relationship coach, an Intuitive, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner focused on helping people create healthy relationships, expand emotional awareness, and embrace their full potential. She combines her visionary gifts with body-centered therapy to help both individuals and couples, as well as organizations around the world.
You can find her at JunaMustad.com
Elizabeth Rosner's newest book Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, published in 2017, was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. Her third novel Electric City was named among the best books of 2014 by NPR, and her previous novels Blue Nude and The Speed Of Light were both highly acclaimed national bestsellers, translated into multiple languages.
The Speed of Light was shortlisted for the prestigious Prix Femina in 2002. Along with writing poetry and essays, Rosner is a frequent book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in Berkeley.
Beth Kempton describes herself as a wanderer, an adventurer and a seeker of beauty.
Together with her husband, she runs three different businesses – Do What You Love , Make Art That Sells and Make It In Design all of which offer tools, resources and online courses for living an inspired life. She also co-lead an online membership for soulful women entrepreneurs called Hello Soul Hello Business with Kelly Rae Roberts.
Her first book Freedom Seeker: Live more. Worry less. Do what you love was published in 2017. Her newest book (hot off the press!) is Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life which we will be discussing today!
Melanie DewBerry, has worked in the business of spirituality and consciousness for over twenty six years. Her passion community and soul work is nurtured by her Native American elders and her walk on traditional “Red Road” ceremonial way of life. Melanie is passionate about supporting people in their spiritual evolution. She is the author of The Power of Naming, The Journey toward Your Soul’s Indigenous Nature (Hay House, 2017). A professional speaker, She has spoken around the world, including two TEDx talks in Austria and Canada. She co-found the first coaching magazine, choice, and wrote the Soul of Coaching column for five years. Melanie was a Senior Leader with Coaches Training Institute for ten years. Today she creates personal ceremonies and rituals for individuals and business’ crossing those imperative thresholds of soul transformation and growth. You can catch her sipping espresso, laughing and kicking up dirt in her cowboy boots. She knew at the age of nine that she would be hired to rep. The Great Mystery; and so she does.
Dr. Gary D. Salyer is a master transformational relationship coach who helps people re-write the rules for love in their brains. This allows amazing shifts to happen in a very short period of time so that people can have the extraordinary relationship they deserve. Dr. Salyer speaks to a national audience as a featured expert and various celebrity TV and radio shows such as Hay House Radio. His life purpose is to change ‘a generation’s fate with love.’
Dr. Gary is the creator of the Safe to Love Again™ Workshop and the Extraordinary Couples™ Retreat. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Safe to Love Again: How to Release the Pain of Past Relationships and Create the Love You Deserve. Dr. Gary offers a unique blend of NLP, Bert Hellinger's "Family Systems" approach and Attachment Theory, the science of relationships. For more information, go to www.garysalyer.com.
Shanda Catrice is a fiercely compassionate truth-teller and visionary who uses raw authenticity to guide women through inner transformation. She is a Certified Reiki Energy Healing Practitioner, Spiritual Intuitive, Gifted Empath and Shadow Guide. She has over 10 years of experience supporting women in their Soul Work and has facilitated workshops, healing circles, guided meditations, and coaching retreats that have helped women create deeper connection to themselves, to their purpose and to love.
From heartbreak after heartbreak to becoming a first-time bride after 40, Macy Matarazzo has discovered the sweet spot of attracting LOVE. She leverages a combination of her leadership corporate change management expertise, creative exploration, Intuitive/Energy Healing, Kundalini yoga/meditation and other radical proven technologies for transformation. She shares a powerful and FUN path to help women experience positive change in their lives and has been working with these tools for over 10 years.
Show notes:
-The Conscious Girl's Dating Circle with Andrea Scher starts Monday, April 9th! http://www.superherolife.com/e-courses/the-conscious-girls-dating-circle/
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books are available in 26 languages and include Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture. He edits the Wise Brain Bulletin and has numerous audio programs. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA and founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, he’s been an invited speaker at NASA, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, and other major universities, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. His work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, and NPR, and he offers the free Just One Thing newsletter with over 120,000 subscribers, plus the online Foundations of Well-Being program in positive neuroplasticity that anyone with financial need can do for free.
Andrea Owen is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and choosing courage and confidence instead. She has helped thousands of women manage their inner-critic to create loving connections and live their most kick-ass life.
She is the proud author of 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, (Adams Media/Simon & Schuster) and How To Stop Feeling Like Shit: 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back From Happiness (Seal Press/Hachette Books).
Ruby Warrington, the influential force behind The Numinous, the high-style, high-vibe online magazine about spirituality for modern women, has always had her finger on the pulse of what's trending. Her new book MATERIAL GIRL, MYSTICAL WORLD: The Now Age Guide to a High-Vibe Life traces Ruby’s fabulous adventures as she grows disenchanted with her dream-job as Features Editor for the UK’s Sunday Times Style magazine and leaves it all behind—fashion closet perks and all—to take a spiritual leap of faith to become an online entrepreneur and collector of like-minded seekers in bohemian Brooklyn, New York.
Alexandra Franzen is a writer, consultant, and entrepreneur based in Portland, Oregon. Her writing has been featured on websites like Time, Forbes, and Newsweek, and she’s been mentioned in places like The New York Times Small Business Blog, The Atlantic, and Inc. Alexandra's newest book is called You're Going to Survive. It's a book about how to deal with discouraging situations in your career, and how to build more resilience and keep marching towards your goals. The book has been called "uplifting and encouraging" and "your new best friend on a bad day."
Whitney Freya's North Star is "Life is the canvas of your soul." She is passionate about guiding you into a Personal Painting Practice that is your own self-energy work, meditation, prayer and healing. Her third book has just been published and is titled RISE ABOVE, Free Your Mind One Brush Stroke at a Time! It is full color magic! She began her creative career 21 years ago as a wanna-be artist, with no formal art training. She opened an art center in an old home in Nashville, TN and she spiraled out from there! ...
Leah Lamb, studied with many masters of story in theater, film, as well as Neighborhood playhouse school of theater and received a masters in social work. She has produced documentaries, PSA's and interactive theater events. Her work focuses on strengthening communities, and creates unique gatherings where participants can explore the mythic forms while exploring their consciousness. Leah created the storytelling ceremony, a place where complex social issues are addressed such as The Story of The Witch, and She Rises, A New Creation Story for a New Paradigm. Lamb is committing to using story to meet the moment of the times we are living in, and views stories as the vehicle to explore the world we are living in.
For seven years she worked as a wilderness guide with youth with youth at risk. Her storytelling has taken on several mediums, including launching the Green Channel at the Emmy award winning television network, Current TV, and has written about the environment for National Geographic News Watch, Planet Green, Huffington Post Spirituality & Health Magazine and Fast Company. Lamb is a graduate of the 13 Moon Mystery School, and is a scholar at the Orphan Wisdom School, and is the creator of Soul Stories, a form of mystical storytelling that allows for people to explore their archetypal structure and examine their lives through the metaphors presented in the mythic landscape from a one of a kind story created just for them.
Cass McCrory is a Mom of 3, wife to one amazing guy, Business Strategist and owner of Capra Strategy, creator of Subtraction Project a passion project about how we can get such full lives to “add-up.” In all things she looks to enjoy the journey, find the adventure and learn.
From heartbreak after heartbreak to becoming a first-time bride after 40, Macy Matarazzo has discovered the sweet spot of attracting LOVE. She leverages a combination of her leadership corporate change management expertise, creative exploration, Intuitive/Energy Healing, Kundalini yoga/meditation and other radical proven technologies for transformation. She shares a powerful and FUN path to help women experience positive change in their lives and has been working with these tools for over 10 years.
2:40 Macy's personal struggle around relationships.
8:30 Declaring her year to find her beloved.
10:17 Emerging and allowing our real selves to be seen, playing into love.
15:30 How we are always trying to be better versions of ourselves.
18:14 No-rules dating strategy
21:49 Growing our intuition so that we attracting people with real resonance.
23:45 Macy coaches Andrea about a weird dating situation.
29:59 Communicating with your future beloved's higher self.
36:00 On self-love and being "needy"
Kate Swoboda (aka, “Kate Courageous”) is Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification and creator of YourCourageousLife.com, where she teaches people how to change old patterns of self-doubt and create courageous habits (and courageous lives) using the neuropsychology of habit-formation. She helps individuals who feel stuck start connecting to their most courageous selves, and she helps companies to create more innovative office cultures where teams at every level feel valued for their contribution to the whole.
Kate was deemed one of the top 50 bloggers in health, fitness and happiness by Greatist. She has contributed to Entrepreneur, USA Today, Forbes, Lifetime Moms, The Intelligent Optimist, MindBodyGreen, Business Insider, and more. She has been a consultant for teams within businesses, and she’s spoken at conferences and seminars on the topic of courage as it relates to personal development, releasing overwhelm, business and marketing, money mindset, wellness, increasing emotional resilience, and healthy goal-setting using habit-formation techniques.
Her first book, The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life (New Harbinger Publications) will be on shelves in spring 2018.
Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first best-selling book The Woman’s Comfort Book. She’s the author of 6 additional books on well-being and whole living: The Couple’s Comfort Book, The Pregnant Woman’s Comfort Book, The Woman’s Retreat Book, Comfort Secrets for Busy Women (The Comfort Queen’s Guide to Life in hardcover), The Life Organizer, and A Year of Daily Joy. There are about a million copies of her books in print in 9 languages.
Danielle LaPorte is an invited member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100, a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.”
She is author of White Hot Truth: Clarity for keeping it real on your spiritual path—from one seeker to another. The Fire Starter Sessions, and The Desire Map: A Guide To Creating Goals With Soul**—the book that has been translated into 8 languages, evolved into a yearly day planner system, a top 10 iTunes app, and an international workshop program with licensed facilitators in 15 countries.
Named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes, millions of visitors go to DanielleLaPorte.com every month for her daily #Truthbombs and what’s been called “the best place online for kickass spirituality.”
A speaker, a poet, a painter, and a former business strategist and Washington-DC think tank exec, Entrepreneur Magazine calls Danielle, “equal parts poet and entrepreneurial badass…edgy, contrarian…loving and inspired.” Her charities of choice are Eve Ensler’s VDay: a global movement to end violence against women and girls, and charity: water, setting out to bring safe drinking water to everyone in the world. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her favourite philosopher, her son.
You can find her @daniellelaporte and just about everywhere on social media.
Pixie Lighthorse mothers the nurture-deficient world by teaching Earth Medicine theory and skills. Her educational programs are used by helpers and healers to advance in their fields of study, as well as by individuals in the self-healing process.
She is the author of the Prayers of Honoring series, written to restore the bonds between people and nature while healing spiritual trauma. In 2017, she completed her third book, Boundaries & Protection: Honoring Self, Honoring Others.
She has created and taught over forty online educational courses applying integrative shamanism, animal and plant studies, and the Medicine Wheel. She also developed a shamanic painting course entitled Visual Quest for online and live audiences.
She defines Earth Medicine is the accumulated learnings modeled by nature: the creatures, plants and geology which make up our world.
Busy pursuing a career in Acting in Vancouver, life took a massive turn when Sarah became pregnant with her first son. Her spirit called her- rather forced- her into nature. Upon submersion into solitude and the quiet country life she discovered her authentic writing voice and began creating the podcast series ‘Live Awake’ (August 2015-current). Her teachings and meditations have been requested for use in prisons in the United States as well as recovery and wellness programs, and have been translated into several different languages. She has since given birth to her second son and attributes much of her creativity and insights to becoming and being mother.
Make music with the love of your life. (The Weepies) Sell a million records. Tour the world. Have 3 kids. Get Stage 3 breast cancer. Survive.
Now what?
“I had to make this record, for me,” says Deb Talan, best known as the girl from the folk pop duo The Weepies. “Marriage, children, being in a band – if you do any of that, at some point you start to wonder what part is still you. And then I got cancer, with a brutal treatment and surgery, and then full recovery. And as lucky as I am with all of that, I just felt lost. This project has been a way to reclaim a part of myself.”
The 13 gorgeous songs that make up Deb Talan’s new record LUCKY GIRL, released this year on Nettwerk Records, are an exploration featuring Deb’s pop sensibility, her signature confessional writing, and of course her unmistakable voice.
Rachel Cole is a certified life coach, celebrated teacher, and women’s empowerment expert. She has spent ten years guiding women to identify, understand and feed their truest hungers – at and away from the table. As an eating disorder survivor herself, Rachel speaks with great wisdom, sensitivity, and authority about what it takes to live as a well-fed woman in the modern world. She has traveled across the United States and internationally speaking and teaching to sold-out gatherings of women on how they too can find ease and fulfillment in their lives simply by honoring their own hungers. Rachel holds a Masters Degree in Holistic Health Education and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach.
Laurel Bleadon-Maffei is a Spiritual Teacher and Mentor who specializes in helping people connect with their divine team of angels and guides. Laurel brings a grounded vibe to the business of "woo" and loves to encourage her clients and audience to shine their light, share their gifts and walk the earth with love. Each week her inspirational messages are read by hundreds of thousands of people on her Illuminating Souls Facebook page.
Find out more about Laurel on her web site: Illuminating Souls
Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. The core of his work is creating pathways to reclaiming our indigenous soul, what psychologist Carl Jung called the “unforgotten wisdom” that resides in the heart of the psyche. To further this work, he founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from traditional cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western cultures.
Clare Barry is a writer from London. She writes about creativity and human connection in a digital world and London in the real one. She is the founder of Urban Curiosity - a creativity and wellness company that helps busy people slow down through retreats, events and e-courses. She leads Reviving Retreats all over Europe and Urban Curiosity Walkshops in her hometown; these two-hour sessions are are part digital detox, part creativity class - on foot.
An internationally respected Buddhist teacher, Frank Ostaseski is the visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and Metta Institute. He has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. He has trained countless clinicians and caregivers in the art of mindful and compassionate care. In The Five Invitations, he distills the lessons gleaned over decades of selfless service offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation.
The Five Invitations:
- Don’t Wait
- Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing
- Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience
- Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things
- Cultivate Don’t Know Mind
The Five Invitations are mutually supportive principles, permeated with love that are reliable guides for being with dying. And, as it turns out, they have a relevance for all of us in living a life of integrity, meaning and purpose. They can be understood as best practices for anyone navigating a life transition, coping with loss or serious illness or a personal crisis. They guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. The Five Invitations is a powerful and inspiring exploration of the essential wisdom dying has to show about waking up fully to our lives.
Listen in as Kelly Rae Roberts and I talk about secret missions of kindness... and the ways that creativity, magic and kindness intersect.
Kelly Rae Roberts is an author, an artist and a possibilitarian. You can find her gorgeous art prints, her book and so much more inspiration on her website.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal is a person who likes to make things.
She is a contributor to the TED conference and NPR.
According to The New York Times, Amy's award-winning children's books "radiate fun the way tulips radiate spring: they are elegant and spirit-lifting." Her 30+ books for children include Little Pea, Uni the Unicorn, I Wish You More, Exclamation Mark, Spoon, Chopsticks, Duck! Rabbit!, Yes Day, The OK Book, The Wonder Book, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, Plant a Kiss, and Wumbers.
As for her adult work, Amazon named Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life one of the top 10 memoirs of the decade. A guided journal based on this book was recently released, titled Encyclopedia of Me: My Life from A-Z. Some of her other bestselling guided journals include The Belly Book, The Bride-to-be-Book, My Birthday Book and The Big Sibling Book.
Her viral videos include The Beckoning of Lovely, The Money Tree, The Kindness Thought Bubble, and Life is a Marathon.
Amy lives with her family on a tree-lined street in Chicago and online at whoisamy.com.
SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy) is a bestselling author and artist. Her books have sold over two million copies. She is the founder and creative fountain of Planet SARK, a thriving business that creates fabulous products and services to support empowered living. She lives gladly in San Francisco.
Juna Mustad is a Life & Relationship Coach, as well as an Intuitive. She supports and guides her clients into gaining greater clarity and confidence as they step forward into the new life they are creating. She uses a skillful combination of intuition, the Hendricks Institute's brilliant whole-body coaching techniques, and somatic therapy.
Flora Bowley is an internationally celebrated painter, workshop facilitator, author, visionary, and inspirationalist. Her soulful and transformational approach to painting has inspired thousands of people across the globe to “let go, be bold, and unfold” as they move through fear and welcome joyful spontaneous expression back into the creative process. Combining twenty years of professional painting experience with her background as a yoga instructor, massage therapist, and lifelong truth seeker, Flora infuses her teaching and painting style with a deep connection to body, mind, and spirit. This unique fusion offers up a truly transformational experience – one that honors intuition, self-discovery, and the perfect, ever-changing present moment.
Bari Tessler Linden, M.A., is a Financial Therapist, Mentor Coach, Mama-preneur, and the Founder of The Art of Money. She has guided thousands of people to new, empowered, and refreshingly honest relationships with money through her nurturing, body-centered approach.
Bari earned a Masters in Somatic Psychology from Naropa University and worked in body-centered therapy for over a decade before unexpectedly falling in love with bookkeeping systems and money work. Her unique methodology integrates these two worlds into deep money healing that honors all the facets of our money relationships: body to spirit, lineage to career, smart practices to deep visioning, and much more.
Oh my goodness friends. I am beyond excited to bring you the very first episode of the Creative Superheroes podcast! Anna Guest-Jelley is the perfect person to kick things off… She is wise and grounded and full of insight about self-compassion and self-love.
Listen in as we talk about how Anna created Curvy Yoga, what body acceptance actually looks like and feels like + how deep transformation often comes through our bodies.