Innovation and Creativity Institute
Entrepreneurial coaching and programs designed to transform you from being invisible to your market to in-demand through inspired creativity.
The Stockdale Paradox teaches us how to take the next step forward—just the next one, starting from where you are right now. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose —with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they…
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“Everything is energy. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” ~ Albert Einstein Last week, I happened to stumble upon a replay of a Facebook Live that was hosted by the founder &…
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“Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.” ~ Dolly Parton Lynda Barry was on a mission. She stood in front of us at Saturday’s Box Sessions workshop held at the 1440 Multiversity campus. She said she was going to “work us like mules at the Erie Canal.” In rapid-fire fashion, she had…
“How wild it was, to let it be.”― Cheryl Strayed,Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail The invasion of the body snatchers began during my seventh month of pregnancy. I stood behind my husband as he sat in a chair in the living room. To his right was a small table upon…
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Creative environments can inspire your best work. “The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.”“California is always in my mind.”~ David Hockney I never used to put much stock in Virginia Woolf’s concept that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” The…
Creative blocks are often rooted in shame. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein I was 6 years old and was happily lost—buoyant—in creative flow. It was a rainy, summer day, and I sat at a long table…
