Wake Up & Create

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For over 10 years, CreativeMornings Atlanta has been a gathering place for Atlanta’s creative community, featuring over 100 creative leaders and arts practitioners sharing their best practices, worst mistakes, and how failure and experimentation inspired their creative process. Each episode of Wake Up & Create features curated features excerpts from the CreativeMornings Atlanta speaker archives, diving into a short selection of the most powerful, insightful, and light-hearted stories from our speakers. Listen in for inspiration and a jumpstart to your day from Atlanta-based creatives, entrepreneurs, doers, and thinkers.

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June 3, 202430 min

Moving through creative anxiety, a meta episode (featuring Amena Brown)

In the final episode of this season of Wake Up & Create, Amena Brown gets together with Chantae Cann and Scotty Crowe to listen to a clip from her own CreativeMornings talk on anxiety. The three then share how they wrestle, work with, and use anxiety during the creative process and why it always seems to show up. For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 27, 202415 min

Bringing your story to where you live (featuring Marian Lou)

There are some places in a city that are unlike anywhere else. They offer a strong and entirely unique sense of place. One such locale in Atlanta is Buford Highway. Listen as We Love Buford Highway founder Marian Liou explains how Buford Highway can only exist in Atlanta but is simultaneously a place where one can find the stories of everyone living in the United States. For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 20, 202418 min

The constant decision to endure (featuring Samantha Ramirez-Herrera)

Samantha Ramirez-Herrera finds strength in enduring. In this roundtable episode, Chantae Cann Meagan Guite, and Dustin Pead listen to the Atlanta-based entrepreneur, storyteller, director, and founder of Off Tha Record as she examines the role endurance plays in her life. Then Chantae, Meagan, and Dustin discuss what it means to endure when working on a creative project.For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 13, 202413 min

Working with criticism (featuring Black Cat Tips)

Creating work on behalf of someone else exercises a few more muscles than when creating for ourselves. One of those muscles is taking feedback and returning to the work to incorporate requested changes. Muralist, painter, and poet Black Cat Tips talks with host Chantae Cann about how he handles criticism, how having kids changed…well, everything, and how he unlocks his creativity.  For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 6, 202411 min

Staying rooted in your work (featuring Lauren Tate Baeza)

Roots help define us and the objects we interact with. Listen in as the High Museum’s curator of African Art, Lauren Tate Baeza, shares how her roots have shaped her and why viewing a piece of art or historical object where it was created is so important. For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 29, 202419 min

Magic isn’t real…unless it is! (featuring Kevin Gillese)

Successful creative projects are inevitably the culmination of hours of hard work, frustration, and revision. By the time it reaches an audience, it may seem to them to have come together magically. In this roundtable discussion, Meagan Guite joins local creatives Dustin Pead and Chantae Cann to listen to writer and producer Kevin Gillese find magic in the creative process. The three then discuss how magic shows up in their work. For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 22, 202413 min

Dancing and designing (featuring Moksha Rao)

At first glance, the Venn diagram of “Product Designer” and “Indian Dancer-Contortionist” may not seem to have much overlap. But, as Moksha Rao shares with host Meagan Guite, she’s found the two pursuits complement each other in unexpected ways. For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 15, 202413 min

Overcoming the fear of failure (featuring Wade Thompson)

When creative director Wade Thompson thought about failure, it had become a kind of corporate buzzword and lost its meaning. That is, until he took a step back and reexamined his relationship with it.For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 8, 202427 min

Summoning the muse of courage (featuring Rohit Malhotra)

Where is the intersection of creativity and civic engagement? Rohit Malhotra, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Civic Innovation, found it while exploring the ancient Greek myth of Muses. In this roundtable episode, Amena Brown, singer/songwriter Chantae Cann and WABE’s own Scotty Crowe listen to Rohit’s premise and discuss how they can respond to challenges he presents.For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 1, 202421 min

Building community through poetry (featuring Theresa Davis)

When Theresa Davis isn’t writing poems, she’s writing books, teaching, and facilitating community through poetry slams and open mic-burlesque mashups. Listen as she talks with host Amena Brown about navigating pandemic shutdowns, fear of failure, and finding inspiration in Atlanta.For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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