As a self-identified artist, I want to believe I’m pretty in tune with my emotional intelligence. After all, art is what people turn to to make sense of their own feelings. My favorite music, film, literature, visual art, and even live performance usually derive from the emotional depths of personal experience, even if it’s deeply implicit. But a rather poignant little secret I’ve unearthed in my artist development research is that while creativity feeds off emotions, the a

2020 was indeed the year of clarity. It may not have been the clarity we wanted, but it kept coming, over and over again. It felt to me like an earthquake inside our collective consciousness. There was no formal warning, many people were less prepared than they realized, and the damage is still being measured. In fact, the aftershocks just keep coming… The COVID virus was only the incendiary. I found the response, or lack thereof, to the pandemic most troubling. As the crack

If you are experiencing discomfort in your life and career, it is likely your ego assigning judgement. Here are 10 tools to combat ego.

The creative process is something we all do in our daily lives, whether we recognize it or not. We collectively strive to build a better tomorrow in which to support our families, pursue our work, and enjoy our leisure activities. I consider the creative process synonymous with development, and yet there is a disconnect between the two that causes tremendous strife. Development gets a bad rap because people are always in a hurry to “arrive.” Those not in development are qu

I like planning.  My background is in producing, managing, and event curation so I like to strategically plan out my schedule to achieve the most productivity as efficiently as possible.  For the most part, this serves me well. Until it doesn't.  To quote Outkast, "You can plan a pretty picnic, but you can't predict the weather."  And it seems like more and more the weather falls out of favor with my meticulously organized plans.  But as disappointing as this is, every time i