Arts Episodes

“At the same time in which, he kind of like crushed my dream a little bit. He gave me permission to dream a new one, a different one, which in the end, looking back five, six years later, I appreciate.” – Regina Linke

“Even if it doesn't mean anything to you, it means something to the person that you're writing for, and it means something to the person who's reading the story.” – Dr. Rhonda M. Lawson

“If you have a very empty but very conscious mind…then anything can happen in that mind.” – Stan Lai, PhD.

“I'm not afraid of the beast. I am the beast.” – Bria Rose

“Living is a progressive art.” – Dr. Candy Campbell

“Life is short, and I spent 11 years of my life doing something that I found interesting, like software development and project management. And this is all wonderful and interesting, but there is an opportunity cost to that. These are 11 years that I didn't write my books, and I don't want that to happen to me again.” – Katerina Stoykova

“I don't know if it's time, but what I do know is I know where the road to nowhere goes, and it goes to nowhere. And I want to take the road to somewhere. Somewhere has road signs like, you can do this, you accomplish this, you're going to feel good about yourself.” – Mike Burkhard

“There’s something really beautiful about sharing your stories with people, because universally we're all connected through love and pain.” – Kelli Kassoff

“I had different ideas for what I thought the book would be, and that's actually what got in my way of writing in the beginning.” – Pia Mailhot-Leichter

“Happy people focus on what they have, and unhappy people focus on what's missing.” – Andrew Byrnes Matthews

“If you're going to create, open yourself up to different things that might come in that are outside of your design, because that's where the gifts come. And if you're not open to that, it's a lot tougher to create.” – Gregory Copploe

“Anything that you're forcing is not going to be as good as what's coming naturally out of your heart and soul.” – Megan Michelle, PhD.

“Refine your game and make sure you know what you want going forward.” – Nadja Sayej

“Writing is a wonderful way to process your life.” – Dr. Sheila K. Collins

“No matter how difficult your life is, to know that you are resilient enough. Your spirit, your soul, you will make it.” – Christine Sadry

“It's just so wonderful to know that I can give joy to people and they can return it back.” – Gwen Tolios

“We live in such a fast-tracked consumerism sort of society where we have to have the next best thing immediately. And I think a lot of writing can suffer if we think about producing books that way.” – Mina Brower

“When I heard that statistic, I realized I was easily part of the 99% who never write their book. I decided to become the 1% and just do it.” – Dr. Albert Bramante

“You never know how your career is going to zig and zag and develop. And I think the tale here is that you just be open to anything because you just don't know.” – Jean Burgess, PhD

“If I wanted to pick up and move, I pick up and move, and then I would just fall into whatever job I could find. And even though it was scary, I still did it because I was like, this could be a story, there could be a story in this.” – Nkrumah Mensah

“The more you can understand and connect with yourself, the more you can understand and connect with other people.” – Dr. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller

“One thing I love about playing with art, as part of working with people who are going through big life transitions, is it starts to create space and perspective. And that's where you really get growth and you start to say, what is going to be important ten months from now, and where should I put today's focus?” – Susan Hensley

“Having someone just hear you out is so healing. And then when that person has some kind of impact as a result, their life is impacted in some way, then we heal even further because now whatever we're sharing is doing good in the lives of others." – Marcy Pusey

“I've never been happier professionally, and it's all because of my grandson stomping on anthills in the backyard one day.” – Ron Kinscherf