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  Episode 21-Fran Schwartz: Creative Innovation

  Igniting Imagination

  Date / Time: 4/23/2009 2:00 PM UTC

  Category: Self Help

  
  

  Creativity Consultant Nellie Jacobs chats with Fran Schwartz, Pianist, Lecturer, Teacher, Cruise Enrichment Speaker, Arts Volunteer. Theme-Creative Innovation. By the age of four, she could identify each musical note and had perfect pitch. She was a child protégé who loved her piano lessons. When she abruptly quit as a teen, her music teacher cried. In this interview, Fran shares details of growing up with music, why she stopped playing, what she's done in the years since and the circuitous road she took to return to music and a musical career. (Here's a hint: she kept in touch with her extraordinary piano teacher until the woman died recently at the age of 102.) Fran discusses her views about the downside of exposing children to too many extra curricular activities, the quality of education and learning today, the epiphany that led her to leave a very brief fulltime public school teaching career and how she creatively forged an innovative thriving career combining elements of her education, experiences, interests and talents. We also have the added pleasure of listening to excerpts of Fran's piano-playing taken from her CD Encore: Favorite Classics. Fran is currently Vice President and Program Chair of a Philadelphia Orchestra volunteer committee, serves on the Boards of two chapters of PA Music Teachers Association and for a considerable period of time was active in a group called Art Goes to School that brings art into elementary schools.

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  Original Air Date: 12/11/2008 3:00 PM UTC

  Episode 8-Sandy Naiman: The Power of Possibility

  Nellie Jacobs interviews Sandy Naiman. Within moments of conversation with Sandy, it's very evident that she loves what she does. When Sandy takes on a job, she flies with it. She's a well-known journalist (with awards too numerous to mention), crusading mental health advocate (also award-winning), in-demand inspirational speaker and now, enthusiastic community college professor pioneering her own courses. In spite of her shocking personal experience with a mental illness, Sandy is an upbeat messenger who sometimes considers herself both 'writer' and 'righter.' You get a sense of Sandy's wry humour in the quote by Groucho Marx ending her emails: "Blessed be the cracked for they are the ones who let the light in." Sandy is, however, completely serious about her purpose: from her teens until 1988, she was hospitalized twenty times for mania. She has endured chronic repercussions caused by a prescribed, yet badly monitored medication. Tune in to hear Sandy speak frankly about her personal and professional history. Highly intelligent and piercingly perceptive, she is happy to express her fresh viewpoints and carefully-considered opinions. She offers a dozen ways to unleash the power of possibility. You are guaranteed to leave this interview reeling with plenty of ideas to consider. From 1977-2007, Sandy was a reporter, feature writer and columnist at The Toronto Sun. She's served as commentator on CBC radio and woman's editor on CHFI radio. She's a part-time professor — Leadership in Society, Women in Canada and Success Strategies for College at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto. Her latest freelance article appears in the Field Notes section of The Walrus magazine, January 2009 issue.Read Sandy's bi-weekly blog "Coming Out Crazy" for The Toronto Star at http://thestar.blogs.com/mentalhealth.
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• Original Air Date: 12/4/2008 3:00 PM UTC

  Episode 7-Kevin Loberg: Putting "It" Out There

  Nellie Jacobs interviews Kevin Loberg. Kevin began selling real estate in 1980, eventually rising to the top 1% of Toronto's Agents. In 2003, he became a broker and started his own brokerage firm. In 2007, he did a joint venture with 2 other top agents and Coldwell Banker Terrequity. Now, he's helping others through his real estate business and the two mastermind groups he co-founded. He is the creator of Project Trampoline. As successful as he is today, the road Kevin travelled to this point in his life was not an easy or direct one. Born to an affluent family and raised in northern British Columbia, he was a restless, unhappy youth who got into serious trouble, including car theft and drugs plus numerous trips to the police station and courts. In this interview, Kevin shares some 'secrets' to his survival; life-changing epiphanies he's experienced; how and why his attitude changed; his strategies for success; his support systems; the new purpose to his life; Project Trampoline; his far-reaching humanistic goals; the massive shift he believes is happening amongst people worldwide; what he means by "putting 'it' out there"; and ten of his insights. Whew!Tune in as we discuss how you can also "put 'it' out there," creating your own Project Trampoline.
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