This week we are in the studio with DP Paul Duck! https://www.pauljamesduck.com/ Paul tells us about the high-pressure world of documentaries, and how he prepares for it. We talk about frustrations, how they help us grow, and how he's still chasing the same feeling he got as a teenager when he started shooting skateboard videos. Great chat! Also, it's our 100th episode. And we have a new creativity exercise with Krista Kankula https://www.instagram.com/kristakankula/ Music by Jobii and sarah the...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Exercise #5 Design a failure resume from creative projects/pieces you’ve created Use inspiration from the Book the rise and explore how you reframed or transformed each failure into another creation, into a meaningful experience. Talking about the challenges of failure and what comes after it. Normalizing failure as part of the creative process. Find out more at: https://kristakankula.com/creativejuice/ www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
Jul 23, 2022•6 min
This week I'm talking with Jim Han - a B-Boy, Hip Hop Dance Teacher, and owner of the 519 School of HipHop! Jim tells me about discovering Hip-Hop Culture as a kid in South Korea and how it gave his life direction in college. We talk dance battles, passing on what you learn, and the history/scope of Hip-Hop. Great chat. schoolofhiphop.ca www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
May 30, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week on the podcast, Ryan is chatting with Toronto-based photographer Kate Dockeray. https://www.instagram.com/katedockeray/ Kate talks about her time in school and how she puts herself in the position to be lucky. We talk Harry Styles and Creative Clowns. Good chat. Do it up www.creativepeople-podcast.com
May 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This week we're chatting with director Brea Grant about her new Blumhouse film Torn Hearts, starring Katey Sagal. We talk about her years as an actor and how the creative process led her to direct. How she treats her creative work as a job and the difference between being creative and being desperate. Great chat. https://www.instagram.com/breagran https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15053518/ Brea's Podcast - Reading Glasses https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/reading-glasses New creative exercise with Kri...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Back at it, buds! Season 3 kicks off with Abbie Darling! Abby creates custom crystal and brass jewelry. She came downtown to the studio, Tim Hortons in hand. We had such a good time chatting... she's one of those people that just make the rest of your day better. Check out Abbie online: abbiedarlingcustoms.com https://www.instagram.com/sidetrackedwithabbieandjonpod/ New creative exercise with Krista Kankula Learn more about Creative Coaching kristakankula.com Program: 0:00 -3:00 - Intro 3:00 - 7...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 3Ep. 1
I've put together a remixed buffet of some of the best guests and conversations from the most popular episodes this season. Featuring: - Stephanie Scott (EP:88) on the Creative Path 2:15 - 10:25 - Densil McFarlane (EP:75) of the OBGM's on being Strong Creatively 11:23 - 18:31 - Isabel Carreńo (EP:85) on "Not Taking it Too Seriously" 19:47 - 26:18 - Kim-A-Tron (EP:84) - "T here is No Proper Way to be an Artist" 27:14 -3 5:32 - The High Road Design (Jon Kutt) (EP:89) on Creative Bitterness 36:36 -...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Have you ever had a brilliant idea just occur to you? Those are rare and they are the ones to follow says today's guest, filmmaker Kyle Sawyer. Kyle is one part of the duo Digital Sabbath and ones responsible for the Business Unual film series. A series of films highlighting how local businesses are coping with all the struggles brought on by the pandemic. Kyle talks to me about the energy of film, how he uses his "ideas that occur to him" as guiding lights through the process of putting togethe...
Jan 24, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 32
This week we are getting into the thick of it with the writer of The Creativity Gene, Rose Gabler. Rose tells me about her grandfather and how a cancer scare led him to dedicate his life to art and how that has rippled through generations of her family. She talks about her own journey of writer her book and has the most perfect analogy for creativity. Great chat, do it up. https://www.thecreativitygene.com/ https://rosegabler.com/ Episode Sponsored by Him and Her Music by DustyDecks www.creative...
Dec 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week I am talking with fashion designer Christina Harmer. Christina is the woman behind KHAZ, a fashion brand out of Toronto. Christina tells me about the afternoon at the One of a Kind Show that changed her whole life. We connected about the frustrations of creativity and the peace of being in the zone. She tells me about remixing the classics and the work no one notices. Great chat. https://www.khazdesigns.com/ www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week on the podcast I'm talking with Broadway Musical Director and Conductor, David Loud. David tells me about his 34 years on Broadway, the magic of theatre and music "in the room" with someone. He talks to me about working with some of the best, including Stephen Sondheim. And how rewarding the teaching he's doing now is. David tells me about the energy of being in the middle of everything while conducting on Broadway, and how the best collaborating happens when everyone makes the same sh...
Nov 29, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week on the podcast I'm talking to DJ, experimental artist, and fellow millennial Sonja (https://www.instagram.com/sonja_online/) She talks to me about bleeding through your eyeballs for your dreams, doing things that scare her (like relocating to South Korea), and why she doesn't want to live in North America. ever again. Sonja means business and her approach to her work is infectious and no-nonsense. She tells me that in her minds-eye her creativity is a plant and has some extremely insig...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 28
Disappointment I'm starting to realize that I'm going to have to accept disappointment - because it doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere - and it’s everywhere. For one - It's part of the process for our work. Getting better at our craft is a road through disappointment. Often, the things we create are not what we see in our heads and it takes time and practice to get it to where those two things match. And then you challenge yourself again, and the cycle starts over. More disappointment ahead! ...
Nov 17, 2021•4 min
This week I'm chatting and having some laughs with local illustrator and graphic designer Jon Kutt (The High Road Design) - Jon may draw from his adolescence for his art, but his approach is wise and mature. Jon has learned some things and he tells me about how at 46 he came back to drawing, leaving bitterness behind and embracing "Titface" as his Mona Lisa. It's a really fantastic chat https://www.instagram.com/the_high_road_design/ Music by BAEGEL www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
Nov 15, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week on the podcast we're back in the studio with artist, Stephanie Scott - Stephanie is a mural artist and graphic designer. We talk about the winding path of creativity and how she found her way through the false starts. She tells me about how she approaches designing spaces in big buildings and how her dream mural is inspired by Ren and Stimpy - great chat, do it up. https://www.stephaniescott.design/ Music by peerless www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Collections, why do people collect stuff? What are the stories behind these collections? And more importantly, who are the people? Samantha Mashburn and the team behind the Mothball Prophecies aim to uncover these questions. This week I'm talking to Sam about how her background in hair styling, love for family stories, and passion for antiques led the creation of her podcast. She tells me about the things she's learned and her hopes for the distant, distant future! Great one. Do it up. Check out...
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 25
A creative exercise to help us reframe our perspective and get back to making work that matters. *Correction: misspoke when I said Andrew Lloyd Wright meant Andrew Lloyd Webber. www.creativepeople-podcast.com
Oct 27, 2021•4 min
CelebritySprayPaint, Dimitri Dimka joins me on the podcast this week. Love this guy's art! Appreciated his story and straightforward approach. Dimitri tells me about moving to Canada from Russia and finding his art again, later in life. Great one! https://www.instagram.com/celebrityspraypaint/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/2MGL4XU2LCJC47c7VvSwuE www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
Oct 25, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 24
This week on the podcast we continue our European convos with Isabel Carreńo, an illustrator from Spain. Isabel's work captures the essence of the french cinema, rockstars, and icons like Audrey Hepburn with just a few perfect lines. Her illustrations and pretty and classic, I love them. Isabel tells me how she was drawn to her type of illustrations from an early age, why she loves to draw women, and how she grew out of some of her snobbiness. We connect over our love of pop-culture and how it c...
Oct 05, 2021•57 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This week we are chatting with UK artist, Kim-A-Tron! Kim Thompson is an artist out of Nottingham, England and it was my pleasure to be able to connect and talk about creativity with someone on the other side of the world. Spoiler: Creatives in the UK deal with the same stuff that you and I do. I love Kim's work, it's bold and colourful with reclaimed heroic themes. She's paints moments that represent power reversals and that suggest a whole epic story. Make sure you check out Kim-A-Tron's Insta...
Sep 14, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Back at it and in video with Marketer Elaine Decleir! Elaine humanizes marketing and teaches me a few things along the way. I really enjoyed Elaine's sincere intensity and it was great to hear about her creative and business partnership with previous podcast guest, Robin Lindner. The duo makes up Robin and Elaine and it was nice to get a peek into how these two work through creative challenges. Elaine is great! It's a great time, do it up! Elaine on Instagram Robin and Elaine Music by Sarah, The...
Sep 01, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Ideas. Aren’t they the best? Is there a sentence as full of possibility as “I have an idea."? They are the beginning of everything. For us creative people, ideas are the name of the game. It’s what we work in. Creative living is having an idea, make an idea happen, over and over again. But things get messy. It’s not as simple as that in reality. Because ideas are like badly labeled seeds. You don’t always get what you’re expecting, or when you’re expecting it. It’s part of the fun. It’s also a m...
Aug 14, 2021•7 min
BLOG + is a companion to the creativepeople-blog.com Every creative has been there, deep in the ruins of an idea we were once excited about. We’re might be embarrassed, we’re certainly confused and it could lead to us questioning ourselves as creatives. It’s painful and one of the worst parts of creative life, but what if it’s supposed to be this way? I recently went out on my own, job-wise. I’m Full-Time Creative It’s something I had been planning on, dreaming about, and on July 1st, I did it. ...
Aug 05, 2021•5 min•Ep. 1
This week, the wonderfully contagious Isabelle Poirier is on the podcast - Izzy is a creator and founder of the Ottawa Design Club - She sent me a copy of the beautiful semi-annual zine they produce, and... it is like a present from a friend with perfect taste! The two of us talk about how cool it is that we get to create with other people, how her team made their zine through the pandemic, and of course - pantones/kerning. Great one, do it up. Episode links: IP Design Ottawa Design Club Music b...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 20
What is the formula for creativity? Is there one? This week's guest, photographer Taylor Jones tells me about his formula for creativity and how it led him to create Dear Photograph. He tells me about his grandfather's 10 Rules for Life and we take a left turn into the world of sports. Back in the studio this week for my excellent chat with Taylor. Do it up! Links: Taylor Jones on Instagram Dear Photograph Music by Dylan Sitts Creative People Design Services www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This week the podcast is #kwfamous with brand designer Robin Lindner. Robin is one-half of Robin + Elaine (Elaine, you must be on the podcast sometime!), and she is the owner of the most adorable puppy you will ever see. We have a great, giggly time talking Kitchener, what she learned early about failure and her ideal design community. Great one! Find Robin on Instagram Music by Smartface www.creativepeople-podcast.com...
Jun 16, 2021•53 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Sometimes I wonder if this entire podcast is just me getting people together to overthink creativity. Because I love how today's creative person, Allison Poprocks, approaches her work, she doesn’t worry about it. I really enjoy it when people like Allison are on the pod – balance all this overthinking out. Allison is a Kitchener Artist currently residing in her home away from home, Dawson City, Yukon. I love Allison's artwork. For me, it captures the proverbial forest and the beauty of the prove...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 17
When Mel Milton talks about his love for art, he means the love you have for your family. They can piss you off, but you love them, and you're in this thing together. This week's creative person is illustrator Mel Milton - He is an illustrator from Utah who has worked for Disney and Marvel and 2 volumes of his own "dooks" (listen to find out what that means... haha) Mel and I had a fantastic evening chatting about his long journey to liking himself and how that was the key to finding his artisti...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 16
This week's creative people, Dharma & Mikayla come from the world of theatre. An industry that has been on pause longer than almost every other. So where did these two turn for creative expression? To the strange comforts of smutty books and podcasting. Not Your Mother's Bookclub is a sexy book podcast made by Dharma & Mikayla, and these two are a blast together. Their podcast is like overhearing a hilarious and oddly insightful, inappropriate conversation. Delightful. We had the best ti...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 15
I had an idea a couple of months ago, I was listening to the book “The Practice” by Seth Godin, and I thought - talking about this book with a fellow creative would make for some fantastic conversation. About that same time, today’s creative person, Krista Kankula was on my radar. She is an artist and creativity coach. The exact kind of person that you’d want to get into a deep conversation about creativity with. I pitched the idea to Krista and we set it up. Today on the podcast Krista and I ar...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 14
