Creativity as a working method, one guest at a time.
Host Mari Reisberg, who combined degrees in acting and somatic psychology into her sustaining creativity techniques, interviews one guest per episode on the premise that everyone is creative. Guests include a dyslexic coach, a TEDx speaker, and several company founders, and the talk runs to goal-setting, business storytelling, and vulnerability.
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The Sustaining Creativity Podcast is an interview series with a fixed premise and a deep archive. Host Mari Reisberg opens each episode with the same short statement of purpose: she combined degrees in acting and somatic psychology into sustaining creativity techniques, first for performers, and now wants a bigger audience to hear them. Her working belief is that everyone is creative. The guests in this window come mostly from coaching and business. Willie Blake is introduced as a dyslexic coach, girl dad, and podcast host. Paul Pape is Santa for Nerds, a TEDx speaker, and the owner of Gamify Business. Bernie Youngblood is CEO and founder of Think Partners, James Warren founder and CEO of Share More Stories, Adelia Schleusz founder and creative director of What If Lab, and Naomi Vladeck a transformational life coach, speaker, and award-winning author. Episode titles pair one quality with one guest, as in 'Creative Resourcing', 'Creative Humanity', 'Creative Agility', and 'Creative Vulnerability', alongside 'The Magic of Creativity' and 'The Gifts of Creativity'. What the guests bring is method. Blake describes solving the maze on a kids' menu by picturing the route from the finish, then applies the same reversal to a client whose goal was a girlfriend, stepping down from the goal to dates, to friendship, to simply being where that circle of friends meets. Pape cites a claim from a book that a lesson learned through a game needs a small fraction of the usual repetitions, and argues that business should be told as story rather than bullet points, since nobody around a fire pit ever discussed return on investment. Youngblood, on how he overcomes challenges, answers love and time, and insists the enemy in question can be a person, a company, or a new idea. Warren recalls work across education, travel and tourism, and employee experience, and picks out a pandemic-era project on the squeeze between needing a job to afford child care and needing child care to hold a job. Schleusz, asked whether creativity was always accessible to her or a muscle flexed over time, traces it back to an elementary-school science fair. Vladeck describes a practice in three moves, notice, listen, and play, where noticing means checking in with the body and its felt senses and play means small steps. Reisberg is an affirming interviewer. She answers with 'I love that', thanks guests for breaking things down, and in the Vladeck conversation folds the point back into her own language of body awareness and trust. The question of how a guest navigates challenges and roadblocks surfaces in more than one conversation. Every episode closes the same way, with social handles, a pointer to a website offering creativity coaching, a promise of the next episode on Tuesdays, and the sign-off that with creativity, anything's possible. A listener who wants the somatic method first should start with 'Creative Vulnerability with Naomi Vladeck'; one who wants the business case should start with 'The Magic of Creativity with Paul Pape'.
Made for: Suits a listener who treats creativity as a working skill rather than a studio pursuit and wants goal-setting, business storytelling, and body-based check-ins from one feed. Less suited to anyone after technical craft talk; the guests here are coaches and founders talking method.
What sets it apart: Reisberg's stated grounding in acting and somatic psychology gives the interviews a body-first angle, and her guest list treats creativity as a coaching and business tool, so an episode can move from a kids-menu maze to a client's dating goal without changing subject.
Creativity is something we all use everyday whether we realize it or not. The Sustaining Creativity Podcast is an interview style podcast where different perspectives of creativity, tips, tools and creative experiences are shared, explored and digested.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Paul Pape makes a practical case for games, stories, and letting creative work move beyond its maker.
Paul Pape brings a memorable title, Santa for Nerds, and a grounded view of creativity shaped by years spent designing and fabricating custom collectibles.
Creativity, patience, and the next honest step.
Artists, process, and the work behind the work.
Art talk from the unfinished middle.
Craft talk from a Denver couch, detours included.
Letters, lists, crows and orchids from Illustrated Life, read aloud.
Writing friends talking craft, community and the occasional scary movie
Host interviews podcast coach Roy Calling about creativity in podcasting and coaching.
Willie Blake describes how first-grade dyslexia testing and years of extra academic support led him to coach dyslexic entrepreneurs and professionals.
Host Mari Reisberg interviews Paul Pape, a Nebraska-based designer and fabricator who built a 20-year career creating over 1,100 custom collectibles under the brand Paul Pape Designs.
Mari Reisberg interviews Bernie Youngblood, CEO and founder of Think Partners, about creativity, entrepreneurship, and discovering gifts that can be shared with the world.
James Warren, founder and CEO of Share More Stories, explains how personal storytelling and AI technology help organizations understand employee, customer, and community experiences.
Adelia Schlois, founder and creative director of What If Lab, explains how multidisciplinary teams use future foresight to rethink products, spaces, and experiences.
Coach and author Naomi Vladeck tells Mari Reisberg that she defines creativity as how she navigates uncertainty, not as artistry.
Shane Fozard, a Melbourne-raised hypnotherapist, says a weekend hypnosis course in his early 30s let him quit smoking and drinking in two days, which he calls a "Neo from the Matrix moment." He defines creativity as a "mindset of possibility" and says a course he spent three months building, which no one wanted, was "a system flaw," not a personal one.