Creative Innovators with Gigi Johnson

Creative Innovators with Gigi Johnson


Latest Episodes

Tidbit Tuesday - What is a Creative Career?
February 23, 2021

Today starts the first segment of Tidbit Tuesday, which brings in parts of the Redesigning Your Creative Career program from NextCareer.me. What is a Creative Career? What are we talking about when we throw around the term “creative career”? This could be

Ceremony and Story . . . with Beatie Wolfe
February 18, 2021

Question: What if you could pursue the creative projects that you already saw in the world? Guest: Beatie Wolfe, Singer, Songwriter, Technologist (Photo: Ross Harris) In this episode, Beatie Wolfe takes us through her creative journey to become the te

Welcome to Tuesday Creative Career Sessions
February 17, 2021

Starting next Tuesday, we'll be sharing parts of the NextCareer.me career exploration programs to tie in with the non-linear career stories from each of these podcast interviews. We'll be sharing each week on Tuesdays a bit of the programs we

Finance, Story, and The Storm . . . with Christopher Zyda
February 11, 2021

Question: What if you need to leave creative work to deal with crisis? How can you bring your creativity to other fields? Guest: Christopher Zyda, Author; CEO, Mozaic LLC In this episode, Christopher Zyda shares his journey through the 1980s AIDS pan

Combining All Your Loves Together . . . with Laura Escudé
January 13, 2021

In this episode, Laura Escudé takes us on her journey from violinist to adventures in Los Angeles as a seat filler for TV shows from Craig’s list to market research to other one-off jobs. . . until she becomes a tech support staffer at M-Audio because of

Seeing Solutions - A Blessing and a Curse . . . with Dae Bogan
January 04, 2021

Dae Bogan shares how he sees solutions and “warps” them into business ideas -- which is both a blessing and a curse. He began with selling cakes in middle school and organizing bus tours in high school from Cleveland, OH to New York. From his early histor

This is our Future: Saving the Planet . . . with Bas den Braber and Jenna Seiden
December 10, 2020

In this episode, we hear how Bas Den Brader and Jenna Seiden are following their purpose with Zambezi Partners, a benefits corporation with a mission to eradicate African wildlife poaching during our lifetime. They both worked in large company business-t

Wearing a Cape This Whole Time . . . with Tania Katan
November 26, 2020

Gigi played fangirl in this episode! Tania Katan shares her wit and wisdom about how to use creativity to challenge with playfulness our rigid organizational cultures. She works with large and small companies, helping them find new alignment around thei

Pirates, Magicians, and Wizards . . . with Megan Elliott
November 17, 2020

Megan Elliott shares her journey from Australia and indigenous cultural media to trade union representation in Ireland to traveling across Asia connecting leaders and cultures . . before she was found on LinkedIn to bring her superpowers to Nebraska. She

An Incredible Experiment. . . with Mark "Frosty" McNeill and Ale Cohen
November 11, 2020

Ale Cohen and Mark "Frosty" McNeill share their journey through “experimenting with sound” and community in building the Internet radio collective DUBLAB over the past two decades. They share what inspired and drove them to build this institution and how