My first-ever podcast interview is now available for your listening pleasure!

Talking points include:

• Encouraging the expression of your inner genius, whether it's through writing, sculpting, drawing, or creating new concoctions in the kitchen.

• How creativity is power and why it's imperative you embrace it. The embrace is a natural container, a riverbank within which the chaos of creativity may flow.

• Why creative power is more deeply felt when expressed and aligned with your purpose.

• Why the inner and outer critics (self-doubt, worry, fear, your family, coworkers, even strangers) in your life only want to protect you and keep you in your place.

• If you have an idea that may rock the boat and you fear the consequences of writing it, then it's time to step up and lead.

• Your idea chose you to express itself. If you don't know why, ask why you are choosing to bring it into your life.

• Stifling creativity is a bad move, as the creative idea inside you will express itself in other, potentially harmful ways to get your attention.

• How my daughter shows me, reminds me, the playful side of creativity.

• How I'm not your ordinary book editor.

• My Grounded Writer methodology, which was inspired by so many disparate facets in my life—some I named and some I didn't—which notably include the many years I did not fully express myself, Kurt Vonnegut's story shapes, Buddhism, insight meditation, Gateless Writing, David Neagle, Wildman, The Fearless Man, Create Powerful, Own Your Power, my friend Sammy Vanek and his Path to Magic program, and more. To all, I am grateful.

• Entrepreneurs, thought leaders, coaches, health professionals, and nonfiction authors who aim to inspire and instigate positive change in the world are my ideal clients because they are usually heart-centered and purpose-driven, and it gives me joy to help get behind a mission.

Listen to it here.