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The Creative Superheroes podcast is a place to gather inspiration and learn from a wide range of Creative Superheroes. These are brilliant authors, artists, coaches and teachers who can help us cultivate more courage, more aliveness and more joy. Your host, Andrea Scher, is passionate about the sweet spot where creativity and personal growth intersect.

The School of Wonder Andrea Scher

    • Arts
    • 4.8 • 56 Ratings

The Creative Superheroes podcast is a place to gather inspiration and learn from a wide range of Creative Superheroes. These are brilliant authors, artists, coaches and teachers who can help us cultivate more courage, more aliveness and more joy. Your host, Andrea Scher, is passionate about the sweet spot where creativity and personal growth intersect.

    The medicine of poetry with James Crews

    The medicine of poetry with James Crews

    James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont. 
    http://www.jamescrews.net

    • 42 min
    Jeff Hamaoui on creating the first mid-life wisdom school - The Modern Elder Academy

    Jeff Hamaoui on creating the first mid-life wisdom school - The Modern Elder Academy

    Jeff Hamaoui is Co-Founder and Chief Education and Innovation Officer of Modern Elder Academy, the first-ever ‘midlife wisdom school.’ Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, Modern Elder Academy (MEA) supports students to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility. 
    With prior roles at NASA, IKEA, and Nike before permanently landing in Baja at MEA in midlife, Hamaoui is a seasoned teacher and master facilitator with an entrepreneurial mind, teacher’s heart, and seeker’s soul. 
    Hamaoui is also the founder of Baja Sage, MEA’s adjacent residential community. This new type of community utilizes regenerative principles to support flourishing and resiliency across the entire community.
     

    • 46 min
    Being with our deepest grief (& other's) with grief guide + artist Jen Ripa

    Being with our deepest grief (& other's) with grief guide + artist Jen Ripa

    Jen Ripa is a grief guide, artist, and hope catalyst who supports women who have experienced the death of a significant person in their lives to create a path forward that is hopeful, joy filled,and meaningful.
    Creative Cocoon Community  www.creativecocoon.org

    • 42 min
    Re-inventing ourselves + Designing our Lives with Career Coach Ellen Fondiler

    Re-inventing ourselves + Designing our Lives with Career Coach Ellen Fondiler

    Ellen Fondiler is an award-winning entrepreneur and career coach. She is the co-host of the podcast, Chart Your Career, which brings weekly astrology and career advice to listeners. Ellen is a certified Designing Your Life coach and certified Wild Writing™ instructor. Typically, clients hire her when they want something really badly… but … they’re feeling overwhelmed about how to make it happen. Ellen helps them set goals, get unstuck, and get things moving in the direction they want. She has worked as a death penalty attorney, launched four businesses, and has raised millions for charities and nonprofits. She’s living proof that your career can evolve over time and you don’t have to remain stuck doing “just one thing” for the rest of your life.
     
    You can learn more about Ellen on her website or follow her on Substack or Instagram. Check out her private coaching offerings and her signature year-long program . 
     

    • 46 min
    The Better Man with Eric FitzMedrud

    The Better Man with Eric FitzMedrud

    Eric FitzMedrud is a therapist specializing in relationship and sexual issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. His specialty is helping men improve their sex lives by learning to regulate their emotions, removing sexual entitlement, and honing their sexual consent and negotiation skills. You can find out more about Eric's work here: https://www.drericfitz.com/

    • 57 min
    Confidence, creativity and courage with Meera Lee Patel

    Confidence, creativity and courage with Meera Lee Patel

    Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist and the author of several best-selling
    journals, including Start Where You Are. She is also the author of How it Feels
    to Find Yourself: Navigating Life’s Changes with Purpose, Clarity, and Heart, a
    book of illustrated essays. She creates work that encourages others to
    connect with themselves, one another, and the world around them. She lives
    with her family in Saint Louis, Missouri. 
     
    For more information, see MeeraLee.com
     

    • 49 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
56 Ratings

56 Ratings

KaleidoKristina ,

A Fave Rave!

The minute I found out about this podcast, I immediately added it to my faves! It has everything—insight, inspiration, fun, and authenticity! Andrea is my “SuperShero” who truly stoked my creative energy!

Rev LL ,

Always inspiring

I love these interviews and Andrea!!!! So many phenomenal people and really important, helpful, smart and uplifting talks. It’s definitely one I know is going to be good every time I listen!

obacker19 ,

Empowering, insightful and actionable! 🔥

Whether you’re well established as someone who can translate creative energy into the impact you want to have on the world, or just getting started as a catalyst for change - this is a must-listen podcast for you! Andrea does an incredible job leading conversations that cover a huge breadth of topics related to the ins and outs of actualizing a life you can be proud of - from leaders who’ve actually walked the path. Highly recommend listening and subscribing!

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