The Creative Sandbox Way Podcast: Recent Episodes
Melissa Dinwiddie
Life is too short to not express the innate creativity inside of you. Host Melissa Dinwiddie features individuals and organizations who are approaching life and work creatively, playfully, and innovatively — making a difference, or living life "in full color”— in other words, living the principles of her book The Creative Sandbox Way™. Along the way, Melissa shares practical tips on creativity, productivity, innovation, and leadership.
Melissa Dinwiddie is author of The Creative Sandbox Way™; founder and CEO of Creative Sandbox Solutions™, a creative consultancy that helps organizations build cultures of creativity through the strategic use of play; and founder of the Creative Sandbox Community, a lab for women's leadership through creative expression
Play Episode The post 196: Why I’m Putting the Podcast on Hiatus appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 195: Art Is Connection for Mike Brennan appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 194: David Koff and the Life-Changing Power of Improv appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 193: How to Stand Up for Yourself Without Being a Jerk with Amy E. Smith appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 192: Nicole Lewis-Keeber On Creating an Intentional Relationship with Your Business appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 191: Whole-Body Creating with Pieter Van Winkle appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 190: The Playful Path to Love and Dating Over 40 with Macy Matarazzo appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 189: Neen James & the Costs of Not Paying Attention appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 188: Rythea Lee Uses Humor to Help Us Heal Self-Hatred appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 187: Queen of Stories: Daphne Cohn Asks Questions for a Living appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 186: Getting Out of the Comfort Zone with Ania Archer appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 185: Jenni Heffernan Brown Is the Quintessential Type A Creative appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 184: Listener Spotlight: Jumping All In with Anne Marie Rowley appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 183: Asking for What You Need appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 182: Meet VP of Fun Jeffrey Harry appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 181: On Building Communities with Emmy McCarthy & Naomi Hattaway appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 180: Finding the Underlying Goal appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 179: How Gary Ware Uses Play to Create Magic appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 178: Hiring vs. Cultivating Creativity appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 177: A Chat with Culture Expert Mike Ganino appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 176: Accept and Build appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 175: Johanna Walker Is a Fear-Blasting Storytelling Maven appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post From the Archive: The Dance of “Want To” and “Have To” appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post From the Archive: The Frustration of the Flail appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post From the Archive: Eat the Frog appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 174: Behind the Curtain with Melissa On The Creativity Habit – Part 2 appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 173: Behind the Curtain with Melissa On The Creativity Habit – Part 1 appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 171: My Painful Wake-Up Call appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 170: Mess, Clutter & Creativity appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 169: Courage and Crickets appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 168: The Obstacle Nobody Talks About appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 167: A Business Where Kids Build Cities Out of LEGO® appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 166: What Stories Do You Need to Rewrite? appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 165: Julia Linsteadt Has Creativity In the Box appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 164: Rethinking Everything appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 163: Being Who You Are Not… Yet With Cathy Salit appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 162: Show Me the **** Picture appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 161: Diane Bleck Doodles for Dollars appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 160: Brainstorm Better with the Question Burst appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 159: Turning Envy Into Inspiration with Amber Rae appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 158: What Are Your One-Pound Weights? appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 157: Gary Hirsch Wants You to Steal His Idea appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 156: Failures and Successes from My Calligraphy Workshop appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 155: The Dance of “Want To” and “Have To” appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 154: Paul McCarthy Is the British Ninja appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 153: Motion Is Lotion appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 152: Listener Spotlight: Confident Vulnerability with Joni Lynn Nelson appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 151: Separating Feelings from Reality appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 150: From the Archive: How to Decide What to Say No To appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 149: Paradigm Shift: What I’ve andlt;emandgt;Actuallyandlt;/emandgt; Been Doing All These Years appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 148: Panel of Visual Communicators appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 147: The Frustration of the Flail appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 146: Mike Bonifer, Quantum Storyteller appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 145: From the Archives: My Top 10 Tips to Get Past Any Creative Block: Creative Sandbox Rules appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 144: Anna Botelho Gets People Dancing appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 143: Eat the Frog appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 142: A Look Down the 2017 Staircase appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 141: Deliberate Creativity with Amy Climer appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post 140: Ch-ch-ch-changes! appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 139: Lisa Cummings Helps People Find Their “Easy Buttons” appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 138: Lower Your Standards appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 137: How to Be a Successful Creative Even with Multiple Passions – with Mia Scharphie appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 136: LEGO® Learnings In My Living Room appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 135: Kat Koppett – “Improv is the Gym for Life” appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 134: Forget FOMO - Try COMO appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 133: The Spectacular Angela Ferrari appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 132: A Gentle Reminder that Falling Off the Wagon Is Not the Problem appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 131: Your Highest Value Offering appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 130: Van Lai-Dumone Brings Art to Business appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 129: My Yom Kippur Screwup (Or How to Make a Not-So-Awesome Experience Awesome) appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 128: Jacquie Lloyd Smith Plays with LEGO® for a Living appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 127: Don’t Worry About the Feelings appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 126: Insomnia, Kryptonite, Retreat! appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 125: Noah Scott Talks Film in a Freezer appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 124: There’s No Competition & You’re Not Selling Snake Oil appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 123: Listener Spotlight--Janet Fowlow’s “Tiny and Daily” as a Therapeutic Life-Saver appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 122: The Naked Money Project appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 121: Geary Street Moments and the Great CD Disaster of 2009 appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 120: What’s the Difference Between a Pity Party, Beating Yourself Up, & Just Crying? appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 119: Listener Spotlight--Anna Goldsworthy is the Possibility Detective appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 118: Intentional Imperfectionism appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 117: Listener Spotlight: Gretta Lamosa, LCN Binger appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
My Golden Formula is: Self-awareness + self-compassion = the key to everything good. Here's how that works in practice. Play Episode The post LCN 116: Forgiving Myself for Being Human appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
[REPLAY] Do you struggle with how to juggle all your passions and interests? In this episode I share how I learned to embrace my passion pluralite nature, AND how to effectively manage it, using my Stovetop Model of Life Design. Play Episode The post LCN 115: [REPLAY] How to Juggle Multiple Passions & Interests: My Stovetop Model of Life Design for Multi-passionates appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 114: Cathy Chiba’s Productivity for Inaction Heroes appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 113: Punched In the Stomach appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 112: Lisa Manterfield’s Novel that Wouldn’t Let Go appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 111: Sometimes the Solution Really IS Shopping appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 110: Sharon Wildwind: Mystery Writer & More appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Existential questions from the perfect storm of open studio + kitchen renovation + a rare client commission. Play Episode The post LCN 109: Art + Commerce + Boundaries, and the Ultimate Question appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 108: Christine Yablonski: From Community Chorus to Good Morning America appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 107: Pricing Pandemonium? Melissa Goes on a Rant appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 106: Laureen Marchand: An Artist Finds Her Flow Again appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 105: You’re Ready When You’re Ready appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 104: Living the Nomadic Life with Ellen Bard appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 103: Embarrassing Confessions (or How Not to Become a Prolific Creator) appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Play Episode The post LCN 102: Tamara Bailie on Owning Your Own Voice appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Of all the practices you engage in, the most important practice of all is just getting back on the wagon. Play Episode The post LCN 101: The Most Important Practice appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Fear and creativity. Fear OF creativity. "Do you feel fear when you create?" she asked. Piling bricks of fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. Play Episode The post LCN 100: Piling Bricks of Fear (Fear and Creativity) appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.
Creativity is not about "giftedness"--every human on the planet is a unique container for creative possibility. This is my Manifesto of Creative Entitlement. Play Episode The post LCN 099: Manifesto of Creative Entitlement appeared first on Living A Creative Life with Melissa Dinwiddie.