Eager To Know

Life is a continual series of choices. Every day we are presented with options of what to do with our bodies, voices, and most importantly, our thoughts and beliefs.  I always find it inspiring when someone’s choices transform a not-so-great life experience into something positive and helpful to our world. My conversation with artist Frederick Nitsch.

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Explore Frederick's artwork https://fwnitsch.wixsite.com/home

 

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Mark Toland is an international award-winning mind reader. We spoke about how he got into such a unique and interesting career. I personally am fascinated with magic, mind reading and all that stuff, so I was thrilled to be able to hang out with him and get to know him better.

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Lori Felker is a filmmaker, teacher, and artist. I don’t know much about the film making process and I am very curious about it. I love movies and documentaries but It always seems very like it would be very complicated to create something in this media. Film uses so many different forms of art together: sound, imagery, composition, voice… Lori was nice enough to come on Eager To Know and talk with me. I am very glad she did.

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I met Pete Barker at the record store right around the corner from my home where he works. He shared with me the music that he writes and we spoke about his relationship with this music. He mentioned his experience with mental illness and how that related to creativity. I thought a discussion about this could be very helpful to people and he agreed to be a guest on Eager To Know.

Pete’s experience with depression, anxiety, and OCD have had an impact on living his life and his creative journey. He shared that he found that music was a way to refocus all of the hard work his mind was actively doing. I was curious about his story and I am very grateful that he sat down with me to talk about it.

 

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Many of the guests I have had on Eager to Know are people who are well established in their creative careers. Often times we talk about what it was like when they started out, the challenges, and how they got things moving. I decided to speak with people who are currently in the early stages of a creative journey. I wanted to speak to them about what they currently experiencing today. My guests on this episode are an Actor and a painter, who are starting out.

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For this episode, I brought back two of the very first guests I had on my then yet to be launched podcast. Alex Wolking and Paul Shultz join me to talk about many of the concepts that have kept showing up on the past 25 episodes of Eager to know.

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Jesús Emmanuel Villareal has been recognized for his artistic abilities since his early teen years in Miami, Florida, where he studied at the South Miami School of Arts while taking additional studio instruction with Abdon J. Romero. Recently his work can be found in the permanent collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and is currently showing at Forum Gallery in New York.

To see Jesús' work, visit @jesus_e_villarreal

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Driving to my studio every day, I pass a restaurant with a visible rooftop farm right in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. Every time I drive by it I think, “a rooftop farm, what an amazing thing!” When I finally visited Uncommon Ground, I realized there was even more.

Not only is it a successful restaurant with a rooftop farm, but it’s also a live music venue, an art space, and an organic brewery. There are just a lot of interesting things there.

My conversation with Helen Cameron, its founder, quickly revealed the character traits guiding the creation of these unique business elements; visualization, eagerness to try new things, willingness to take calculated risks. All of these traits have enabled them to grow ideas, into amazing things.

 

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It was suggested I check out Tony Rossi as a potential guest I found out he was both an actor and a coach, a mindset coach. I was very intrigued and curious to speak with him.

 

I found Tony to be very honest. His honesty enabled me to understand how the job of an actor is much different than I expected. Being a struggling actor activates the thoughts and feelings many people struggle with; self-doubt, not feeling enough, comparison to others. I found our conversation fun, refreshing and very inspiring.

Summerdale is a horror novel taking place in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago, where I just so happen to live. Once reading it, I was eager to speak with its author David Jay Collins.

I was excited to discuss the power of words that formulate a story, characters, and themes. But in speaking with David, I also learned about the power of another set of words; the ones we tell ourselves. And, how what we tell ourselves can hold us back, or move us forward.

David's story as an artist and author is about creativity, hard work, and sacrifice but I also think it’s about the impact of the story we all create in our mind about ourselves.

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