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Casually Creative is a series of honest conversations with unexpectedly creative people. From poets to police officers, designers to developers, and artists to engineers, we’ll unpack how creativity is often evident in places we overlook. Co-hosts Byron Sanders and J. Damany Daniel talk to the people who embrace their creativity everyday and learn the things that make them “nerd out” along the way. www.casuallycreative.co
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For as long as Anthony Robinson can remember, he's loved being outside. No, like really loved it. While other parents may have had to encourage, cajole, or even threaten their kids into outside hanging compliance, Anthony was always in the creek bed looking for animals, picking plants, and just generally exploring the natural world around him. Afte…
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Keisha Whaley got tired of waiting. A veritable wunderkind in the marketing and advertising world, Keisha looked around the room at pitch meeting after pitch meeting and knew something wasn't right. Sitting in chairs ringing the room were bright, young, eager, and talented creative professionals...who were doing nothing but taking up space. As a yo…
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Imani Daniel is one of those rare and amazing creative souls who can live comfortably in many worlds. As a trained dancer and choreographer, she spent much of her young life deeply immersed in the art and culture of performance, while simultaneously falling in love with the expressions available to people through fashion and traditional art forms. …
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Tynesia Boyea-Robinson is brilliant- full stop. Byron says that she's one of the top 5 smartest people he knows...and that's saying something. An alumnus of both Duke and Harvard, her ability to make intellect approachable and complex concepts understood is a small part of what has enabled her to serve as counselor, adviser, and change maker for gl…
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MacKenzie Green's story has been many things, but boring is NOT one of them. This Ivy League-educated, would-be Olympian, Miss USA top contender, marketing maven, sports (and Marvel) aficionado, daughter to an icon, and icon in the living's story has been full of side steps and, "eh, why not" moments that have led her on an amazing journey and expo…
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Chequan Lewis is funny. But he's funny in the low-key kind of way where his humor is infused with extremely poignant bits of wisdom that if you're laughing too hard, you'll completely miss. As the CEO of Pizza Hut (Chief Equity Officer- don't get him in trouble), Chequan stands as the founding leader in this position, responsible for navigating how…
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Google "Sasha Souza" and prepare to head down a rabbit hole of some of the nation's most beautiful weddings and events. Sasha stands at the top of her craft and has built a several decades career out of her signature style, impeccable design taste, and attention to extreme detail (ask her about "Sasha Souza Straight" some time). Sasha's story is an…
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About a month ago, Damany came to David Rodriguez (AKA Dr Gorilla) with an idea- to create a pop-up, drive-through, holiday arts experience that married massive murals, technology, large scale sculptural installations, and live entertainment and presented it in a massively public, but completely safe and "Pandemic Friendly" way. What was born out o…
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Amanda Austin's story is proof that class clowns do get ahead (yes, you can tell your mom you told her so). As a child, Amanda had the unique combination of both natural born entrepreneur and innate entertainer- starting her first business by the age of 11. Over the years, her love of connecting with people and a study of comedy led her to found th…
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Michael Thomas sees things that other people don't (or won't) see. No, he's not clairvoyant and doesn't speak to unseen forces or anything like that. Michael sees things that other people don't see because he's dedicated his life to seeing the people that other people won't. Michael's work with developmentally disabled adults at My Possibilities is…
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This week, we're taking a look back at some of the dopest Black women we've had the privilege of talking to since we started. These world-changing, boundary-pushing, genre-destroying women have inspired us, challenged our perceptions, and made us believe in, and push towards a better and more beautiful future. Mercedes Fulbright: @Mercedes.Fulbrigh…
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A dynamic national speaker, community connector, and founder of the Hey Chica! movement, Veronica Torres has consistently been at the forefront of championing for the community of Latinx women who don't have access to the same opportunities that she saw available to so many others. After navigating unimaginable grief at the loss of her newborn son,…
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Molly Rasmussen is a bit of a Unicorn. She's one of those rare people who, since high school, has known exactly what she wanted to do and is, you know...actually doing it. Her passion and skill for bringing people together through their most celebrated moments has been a cornerstone of her entire career and what has propelled her to create experien…
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Renée Diresta spends most of her life looking online for conspiracies. Within the half-truths and outright lies online, she and her associates at Stanford Internet Observatory are on a mission to investigate and understand "the spread of malign narratives across social networks." In an increasingly polarizing political climate, where no one is sure…
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Jessica Burnham is and has been many things in her storied career- college professor, executive director, graphic designer, and above all, full-time advocate of the power of design to impact and change communities. After an unexpected series of encounters with and through design, Jessica realized that design thinking can do more than make things pr…
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Mike Baughman kept getting fired. Let's be more precise- Rev. Mike Baughman kept getting fired from the churches he was leading. He never quite fit in and never felt like he really got how other people "did church." An ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, he saw past the walls of the chapel and saw a community of people who were margin…
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After over 25 episodes (or as we like to say- "a quarter hundo"), Byron and Damany sat down to reflect on Damany's journey from an awkward Brooklyn Black boy to an awkward Dallas Black man (some things don't change) Damany's journey has led him to more fully celebrate his "awkward" approach to creativity, embrace his love of random knowledge, and u…
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Erica Felicella has always felt called to the acts of creation and discovery. As a child, you'd find her building life-sized "log" cabins out of the sticks she could gather, or cutting down trees with nothing more than a pocketknife just to see if she could. Her fascination with understanding the "why" of a thing led her down a path of artistic dis…
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Brittany Barnett's effortless wisdom comes from years of sitting at fishing holes and on front porches with her granddad and her father. These early and formative moments communicated to her a way to view the world that left her open to its possibilities, while acutely recognizing its challenges. Motivated early on to pursue excellence and not give…
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Sam Lao and Jeremy Biggers are precisely what you think of when you hear the word "creative." Endlessly inquisitive, aggressively competitive (with each other and themselves), and seemingly unwilling or unable to believe that "good enough" is actually enough, their work has been showcased around the world and celebrated during some of the country's…
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Michelle Williams goes beyond defying the odds and has, at every stage of her life, defined them. Her passion for economic and entrepreneurial equity comes from years working alongside business owners, CEOs, and non-profit leaders to push them towards a true understanding of their value, and how they can (and do) impact the world and community arou…
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Every now and then you stumble into a conversation that holds your attention in such a way that you look up and don't realize how much time has passed. That's what happened the entire time we sat down to chat with Chike Aguh. A Harvard Fellow, Wharton Alumni, and Presidential Leadership Scholar, Chike history has seen him navigating the halls of Ha…
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Jennifer Burns' creative approach to problem-solving, question asking, and collaborating has been a large part of what has elevated her to being one of the top event production professionals in her industry. Her commitment to "never say no" to a client while still guiding them towards the decisions and outcomes that are best for their experiences h…
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Sitting down with Jerry Hawkins is like getting a master class in, well...everything. Equal parts storytelling historian and unapologetic activist, Jerry deftly weaves in and out of narrative and policy discussions with a skill that speaks to the many hours he's spent understanding, unpacking, and most importantly, reading. An avid bibliophile, Jer…
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Luxury wedding planner, design guru, podcaster, instructor, semi-serial entrepreneur, professional dancer (ret), and multiple URL owner (you can catch your breath now) Kimberly Rhodes has been focused on creating beautiful experiences for clients for almost two decades and still finds joy in every one. From her days planning corporate meetings and …
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Tanner Hockensmith is somewhat of an enigma. This show choir singing, deer hunting, karate-kicking (ok, it's Jiu-Jitsu, but the alliteration was too good to pass up), nonprofit leading husband and father has been a part of the building and transformation of a number of organizations throughout his career. From starting an arts-based cultural center…
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Raised from an early age to appreciate, interpret, and engage with a variety of musical and creative expressions, Ben Hall spent most of his life educating and inspiring young people to connect with music in their own unique ways. When suddenly faced with the opportunity to shift careers, Ben found himself in seemingly unfamiliar territory but quic…
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You've heard of multi-instrumentalists before, right? You know, those musical types who can pick up just about any instrument and play it with the skill of a virtuoso. Well, Mike Arreaga is like a multi-creativist (yes, that's a made-up word you can now use- you're welcome). An accomplished painter, printer, designer, welder, carpenter, furniture a…
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Narrative and story have always been a powerful part of Paul Wizikowski's life. Since discovering in elementary school theatre how people can be transported and connected through impactful moments, he has made it his mission to create, capture, and share those tales. Currently, in his position as Video Production Advisor to the NASA Administrator, …
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Dr. HaeSung Han has dedicated her life to empowering girls and young women to lift themselves out of situations historically destined to destroy them. Refusing to allow the young women she serves to be defined by the worst moments of their lives, she and the team at Poetic have built a community that has empowered and uplifted them to amazing heigh…
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Yasaman Hadjibashi is one of the most powerful global women in technology, and has a bunch of awards to prove it (we think it might be all the awards, but who's counting). A brilliant conversationalist, her innate ability to make complex financial or technological concepts make sense for a variety of audiences is one of the things that sets her apa…
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Dr. Michael Sorrell has been hailed by Forbes Magazine as one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders, and when you meet him, you instantly understand why. With a commanding yet approachable presence, it seems as if nuggets of wisdom just live in every sentence he speaks. Dr. Sorrell began his tenure as the President of Paul Quinn College, a historicall…
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Eddy is not what you'd expect when you imagine the CEO of an urban farming company. Mild-mannered (yes, you can TOTALLY think of him as Clark Kent), brilliantly insightful, and a veteran of both the advertising and marketing world and global foreign affairs, Eddy's career has been varied to say the least. From his time working in the federal govern…
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What exactly is "privilege" and what is our responsibility if we have any? In this audio essay, Damany unpacks privilege and how those that have it are duty-bound to change their world and build their communities through their usage of it. Episode Music: TRIPPIN COFFEE by Audionautix | http://audionautix.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock…
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In the wake of the worldwide cry for justice and the call to see black and brown bodies through the lens of equality, Byron and Damany share their thoughts on where we stand as a nation and how healing and justice must go hand in hand. In this bonus episode, Byron shares his thoughts on how America's history of violence is showing up now, and how t…
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Chris McSwain's devotion to uncovering and understanding people and their stories has led her to discover a series of intersecting narratives that have informed her creative outlook and approach to the pursuit of life. Her fascination with the ways in which those stories are told has placed her behind the successful communications efforts of some o…
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As the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for one of the largest school districts in the country, Justin Henry already had a daunting task. When faced with the challenges of COVID-19, and the sudden closing of all public schools, he and his team were suddenly tasked with delivering more than education- they needed to deliver for those suffering with…
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Din Tolbert stands at an impressive 6'8" and though towering over any and everyone he comes into contact with, is one of the most soft-spoken and gentle people you'll ever come into contact with. As a lifelong communicator and lover of stories, Din's love first was alighted when he was introduced to the Marvel Universe through comic books. From the…
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Jordan Swim, in addition to having one of the coolest names out there, had one of the coolest jobs. He and his company, Vestals Catering, got to wake up every day and cook great food for some of life's most fantastic celebrations. When COVID-19 began to sweep its way through the country, he saw all that come to a screeching halt. With dozens of emp…
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For Mercedes, community organizing is about more than making changes in government. Community organizing is about creating a better and more verdant world where any and everyone can find their place. From her time in college becoming more prominently aware of social injustice, to her time on the frontlines pushing towards the world she envisions bu…
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Byron and Damany sat down to discuss the vision behind Casually Creative and how a chance conversation led to a decision to connect with visionaries and those the world over who embrace creativity in their everyday- whatever that may be. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/casuallycrtve/message…
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Creativity is often best discovered within confines and constraints, and we wanted to take a step back and celebrate and cheer on those who, in the midst of a moment that has caused the world to stand still, are still actively moving forward. Those whose decision to pivot their businesses has led to new innovations, entrepreneurial ventures, and so…
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*Just a quick note- friends sitting around a table sometimes use more colorful language when they're comfortable with each other. If you're listening to this episode around kids, you may want to throw in some earbuds- we promise it will be just as good.* John LaRue is one of those guys who you meet and instantly want to spend hours talking to. Soft…
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