Creativity Cultivator Podcast - Turning Your Business, Your Team And You Into A Creativity Cultivator

Thomas Dolby's “She Blinded Me with Science” was a major hit, and he just headlined a festival called FUTVRE LANDS, hosted exclusively on VR platform High Fidelity. They re-created a virtual version of him for the conference! He also co-developed the audio software Nokia used to create its iconic ringtone and is currently a professor at The Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University where he is working with students on music composition for non-linear VR uses. Go to justinkbrady.com/podcast for more info.

Soulaima Gourani helps people and companies unleash their big potential and aid them in finding talent, purpose, and passion and is a Ted Talk mentor. Her difficult journey includes being ostracized be her community and being fired from her job while pregnant and expecting her first child back in 2007.

Maestro Roger Nierenberg has discovered a creative leadership model. His methodology takes leadership to a whole new neurological and psychological level. The Music Paradigm literally surrounds leaders with a real live symphony orchestra, and this is when the unexpected happens.

We get a first impression of someone in under 30 seconds, so what are the implications for your brand through screens, retail stores or press articles? Kevin Lund, author of Conversation Marketing and CEO of T3 Custom goes beyond lame sound bites and lays out specifics. Like a face-to-face encounter, each of your channels is a potential handshake moment, but you're lucky if you get 3 seconds. I ask Kevin to simplify how we can break through with content and what "human" content looks like. For 18 years, companies like TD Ameritrade, HSBC, Forbes, Nasdaq, and BlackRock have used Kevin to develop content-marketing solutions to reach people in a way that resonates. And that's what his book is all about. We discuss how to be relevant and engage customers by speaking human. Competing on price is for suckers. We discuss why being vulnerable makes your brand human and how to meet customers where they are by being authentic and transparent. No surprise to listeners, listening is key and Lund breaks down some great st

After serving as an Army Ranger, Nick Starling protected Diplomats in Iraq as a contracted Counter-Assassination Specialist for the U.S. Department of State and now he's the world’s leading vertical farming economist and founder of Skyscraper Farm.

Scott Belsky is CPO of Adobe, founder of Behance, and author of "The Messy Middle" and he knows exactly why successful leaders don't want you to look to close. It's because, as successful as they are, they don't want you to see the messy middle.

Khe Hy was a young high-profile Wall Street guy making a lot of money, but he was miserable so he did a complete career re-start. Terrified he may lose his identity, he set out to try new things and today he is the contributing editor of Quartz, The "Oprah for millennials" according to CNN.

It's always fun to talk to Birss and this podcast is no different. We discuss four major themes, creativity itself and how idiotic the label is, why creativity needs a good system in place, how individuals can be more creative, and how businesses can be more creative. Learn more at www.creativitycultivator.com

Nate Regier knows how to take conflict, which can derail positive discussions and turn it into positive energy. Disagreements, tension and varying strong opinions, if dealt with properly can drive discussion forward. Learn more at www.creativitycultivator.com

US businesses are in the midst of a dangerous crisis...truly. Just last week I was talking with an individual that believed customers would rather shop online and when customers stop buying, you're screwed. Period. There is nothing left to do. But that is very wrong according to Martyn R. Lewis. Learn more at www.creativitycultivator.com

Nathan Forster is a force to be reckoned with. He is a serial entrepreneur and is the founder of Neo U Fitness, recently crowned the "Amazon for Fitness" in the New York Post. The concept has been designed for top fitness instructors and brands to create and stream content that can be shared globally on a subscription basis. Learn more at www.creativitycultivator.com

If you’ve ever been pumped up at a conference and then lost all motivation and drive, accomplishing absolutely nothing, you’ve experienced the chasm between goal setting and goal achieving. But John Assaraf, says we can overcome that gap. This is why I welcomed world renowened behavior expert John Assaraf onto the podcast. Assaraf is the CEO of NeuroGym and a New York Times bestselling author. He wrote Having It All andThe Answer, with his new book out now called Innercise: The New Science to Unlock Your Brain’s Hidden Power. Learn more at www.creativitycultivator.com

We work hard, devise the perfect solution, create the perfect business model and then we find resistance to change, or the organization changes and you’re at the beginning again. Radin explains exactly why this happens and how to overcome. As a former Fortune 100 Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Innovation Officers, advisor, investor and board member, Amy Radin has spent time at American Express, AXA and E*Trade, she has proven strategies over years of trial and experience and a real play-book to tackle innovation and change.

Erica Keswin is author of Bring Your Human To Work, on sale September 25. She has spent over 20 years as a workplace strategist and has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Read more at www.creativitycultivator.com

Olga Pancenko is the Chief Operating Officer at the renowned PERRIN PARIS. This episode is all about discomfort collisions, lack of resources and difficult lessons. Ms. Pancenko believes creativity rarely grows in a perfect environment, it's often blooming around conflict, disagreement and hardship. That is why people need to learn about creativity, the benefits of it and the way to stimulate others to be creative.

Melinda F. Emerson, known as SmallBizLady, is America’s #1 Small Business Expert and author of Fix Your Business: 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Remove Chaos From Your Business. She is an internationally known keynote speaker and an expert on small business start up, business development, and social media marketing.

Courtney Reum is the co-founder of M13, a brand development and investment company accelerating businesses at the nexus of consumer products, technology, and media. Courtney has been featured on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list, the Inc “500 fastest growing private companies in America,” Richard Branson’s best-selling book “Screw Business as Usual,” and most recently the Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.

Stormy began as a temp without a college degree and grew to become the President of Overstock.com When she joined in 2001, revenue was less than $20M and the company had under 100 employees and it became a top 25 e-tailer by traffic and grew to nearly $2B in revenue. In July 2016, Stormy stepped down as president of Overstock.com to pursue a career in the burgeoning cannabis industry. Her team helps conduct workshops on how to get a grassroots movement going and how to build a business out of nothing – they are dedicated to education and awareness.

Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School, has Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. His writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. His first book, Global Dexterity (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), received the Axiom Award (Silver Medal) for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and his new book Reach was published with Penguin Random House in January 2017.

Cortney McDermott is author of Change Starts Within You and we spoke about STRESS! Right now in America, stress-levels are breaking records—and high-achieving millennial women make up a huge portion the burned-out bunch. According to Cortney McDermott—former executive at Vanity Fair—millennial women have become “miserably successful.”