How I Create Me
For many expressive folks, our productivity is divergent. It doesn’t fit a 9-5 routine or trendy coaching tips. And yet! Many of us find unique ways to produce–creatively–while also thriving in the commercial world. How I Create Me hosts conversations with these remarkable humans. We’re gonna chat about how we craft our personal and professional selves. How we build identities and skills. We think they deserve attention. We carry them through life, but sometimes, if we’re lucky, they also carry us. It can be discouraging to consume business-oriented content. It’s usually laden with pithy advice that doesn’t apply. And there’s a frustrating spectrum of opinions. We’re told to stay true to our idiosyncrasies, profits, and performance reviews be damned. We’re told to rein it in if consumers or corporations aren’t buying our personal brand. So, as we mitigate these tensions, instead of “one-size fits all” tips and tricks, we’ll be sharing: 👉 Distinct stories from our creative journeys 👉 Impediments we’ve overcome--or are still wrestling with today 👉 Insights we’ve gathered along the way There will be some quirky questions. And you’ll get to know us better as the remarkable humans we are… I hope you’ll join us. Together, we can find resonance in each others’ stories. We can find the courage to keep going--or the wisdom to try something different. So come get amongst it. Join the HICM Family at HowICreate.Me. Proudly sponsored by The Frame Brain at FrameBrain.co.
Episodes
From the island of Guam , Richard is an engineer/designer and now co-founder at Bettersum. He’s building the marketing tool Supercopy because he believes we should communicate to people in the manner they want to be communicated to.
Richard chatted with us about the mandate of creative outputs and how our quick-to-commercialize economy has perhaps skewed our engagement with the joy of learning and sharing as a community. As a seri...
Hello remarkable humans! Your host, Jessica, here, to share a quick show update. How I Create Me is wrapping Season 1 with Episode 17, and we’ll be back with Season 2 on January 12, 2023. For many businesses, Q4 can be an essential time of both intensive retrospective and ambitious planning. For many creatives, the changing seasons and slate of new year holidays can be an essential time of ritualized connection with Nature, communi...
Georgette Eva is a freelance writer, social media professional, and morning person who runs the appropriately named Morning Person Studio, where she helps brands shape and share their stories. A journalist by trade, Georgette’s excitement for social media happened by chance as she discovered how it combined her love of writing, community connection, visual design, and, yes, puns. Now with 10 years of experience, she’s had the oppor...
Lauren Merceron is an artist & teacher who currently lives in Atlanta, GA. Her work embraces the essence of human bonds and connectedness. Through the use of curved lines, texture and monochromatic color schemes, she represents the relationships that tie us together. Her most recent work focuses on the joy and emotion of motherhood. Lauren discusses the importance of not hiding behind your art, connecting with those who are dif...
Alex Spitzer is a choreographer and dancer who chatted with Jessica about how perseverance opened up new vistas of expression, embodied and virtual, leading to a 30-year career on stage and in various dance companies. As the first dancer in a wheelchair to receive a 4-year degree in dance, Alex shares his distinctive experience and inspiring story with Jessica in today’s episode.
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In this episode, Jessica Matthews sits down with her Executive Producer of How I Create Me Podcast to talk about the journey of launching and maintaining a podcast, lessons learned, and the opportunities it’s created to build deeper relationships within a community of influence.
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In today’s episode, Jessica sits down with Chris Appleton, Founder & CEO of Sewn Arts and the Art Pharmacy. You’ll hear how Chris and his team are creating a solution for care providers to prescribe and refer patients to health-improving arts & culture experiences, how they’re uniquely bringing together key stakeholders in the healthcare and arts communities, and how creatives can meet people where they are with their craft...
In today’s episode, Jessica chats with standup comedian, podcaster and creator, Damon Sumner, to learn more about his story of becoming a comedian, meeting the moment, taking chances, and fruits of persistence.
Fast forward twelve years, and Damon brings us practical advice on how to navigate the complexities of building your brand, taking chances, being persistent, and staying positive.
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In this episode, Jessica sits down with Miri Nadler to unpack her inspiring story of overcoming adversity and building her hugely successful cake business that now has over 100K combined followers on TikTok and Instagram… and growing!
Miri is originally from Los Angeles where she began her food blog in 2009 called “Miri in the Village.” She set out to teach herself how to bake, and in the process, perfect her re...
In this episode, Jessica sits down with Jeanette Gregory to unpack her creative superpowers around people-wrangling, event activation, overcoming challenges with alcohol early in her career (leading to her celebrating 12 years of sobriety), and how she’s embracing her abilities to shine in the worlds of film festivals as an organization guru.
Jeanette hails from Salt Lake then big risks she did take. First a Geology major, t...
In this episode, Jessica chats with Skyeris (she/they), who has been a sinistral, spitfire creatrix their entire life. Voice too loud, hair too unruly, spirit too wild—all of which they’re happy to claim.
A neurodivergent synesthete, she has always explored and dwelt in liminal spaces and borderlands, which are most natural to her innate curiosity and love of diversity. She has lived and traveled abroad for many ...
A lifelong lover of language and stories in all their forms, Tom Bell is co-founder of Rootstock, a thought leadership and brand growth consultancy, and of Chronicle, a brand narrative and content marketing firm. He is also the co-founder and founding program director of the AJC Decatur Book Festival and a 25-year veteran journalist in the arts.
Discovering a love for contemporary and aerial dance later in life, he has since...
Leo Falkenstein is the Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Consume Media in Atlanta, GA. From start to finish, Leo ensures their clients’ visions come to fruition. If he isn’t listening to the Grateful Dead, the Universe gets misaligned.
Leo has played hockey (basically) since birth and his life-long goal is bringing the Thrashers back to Atlanta.
Jessica chats with Leo about how far a “can-do&rdquo...
Ask 12 Italian grandmothers for their special tomato sauce recipe, and you will get thirteen different answers. They will all use tomatoes, olive oil, basil… but the quantities will vary, as will the one special ingredient everyone has. A business is the same: it is the combination of service, values, and culture that makes each one unique. Rebecca Brizi brings management consulting services to small businesses, examining ea...
This episode is me, myself, and I having a conversation about my story!
Here at How I Create Me, I request and invite a lot of vulnerability and openness from the guests who come on this show... and I really look forward to celebrating our stories and engaging with you all in a safe space of community.
It seemed really important to follow through on that for myself with you all and be willing to share my story with that same expe...
Born and raised in Houston, Texas during the oil boom years of the sixties and seventies, Bill Hawkins began working at age 12. Through his high school years, he worked as a machinist, painter, roofer, hardware store clerk, carpenter, sheet metal worker, and mechanic at a motorcycle salvage yard. He met interesting people, including drug dealers, bikers, a world-class physicist, a CIA field operative, a guy with a machete scar acro...
As Senior Program & Industry Relations Manager at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Shellie Schmals plays a lead role in selecting the nearly 800 films that are considered for each annual Festival. She has 25 years of experience in the non-profit universe, holds an MBA from Brenau University and EDM in Higher Education Administration from the University at Buffalo. As a talent wrangler and producer/emcee, Shellie has been involv...
A true explorer and creative, Atlanta artist Meredith Ochoa has been reinventing alternative and digital processes since 2007.
As part of her body of work, Meredith has developed a new portable scanning process in which the subject becomes the "negative" through digital degradation with a portable wand of light. The portable scanner describes the subject through a life-size depiction of the number of pixels the subject...
For many expressive folks, our productivity is divergent. It doesn’t fit a 9-5 routine or trendy coaching tips. And yet! Many of us find unique ways to produce–creatively–while also thriving in the commercial world. How I Create Me hosts conversations with these remarkable humans. We’re gonna chat about how we craft our personal and professional selves. How we build identities and skills.
We thi...
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