A Podcast for Creative People, hosted by writer Christopher Tallon, is exactly what it sounds like — a podcast for creative people. Whether you ’re a painter, writer, comedian, musician, business owner, or some other genre of creative, you can count on A Podcast for Creative People to bring you inspiration and information from creatives of all types to use on your creative journey. Go forth and be creative!
Episodes
Monday May 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
Jonathan Wayne Freeman is a funny funny man. He didn't find his niche until he was in his late 30s, but now he's posting funny stuff on IG daily, and getting paid to endorse cool stuff. He's an inspiration and always good for a giggle.
Go check out @jonathanwaynefreeman on Instagram and peruse the JWF online shop.
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Go to www.christophertallon.com if you don't have anything better to do right now.
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River Town Adventures, Baby Farm Soaps, Six Coast Soil, Fresh Coast Seed Co.
Buy me (Christopher Tallon) a coffee!
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
Kyd Kane is a poet, artist, and educator. She was the first spoken word artist to make the finals in ArtPrize. Recently she became Grand Rapids' first black, queer, female poet laureate. Since then she's made her it mission to elevate poetry (and poets) in the city, do something different with (for) the laureateship, and challenge privilege.
Check out Kyd Kane at www.kydsaidit.com
Check out the show at www.christophertallon.com
Buy the host a coffee at www.buymeacoffee.com/creativeops
Thanks folks!
-CT
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
As a young child of Jamaican immigrant parents, Vincent Mcintosh dreamed of being a businessman, owning 250 restaurants, and living life on his terms. Now in his mid-20s, he joined Creative Ops--online from the restaurant--to talk about his path on that journey.
At 17 he dropped out college to pursue entrepreneurship full time. At 19 he founded IRIE Kitchen (organic, Caribbean street food) restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Not only is it the first fully-organic restaurant in the area, Vince is also the youngest restauranteur in Grand Rapids history!
In 2019 he co-founded Irie Lemon, a media company with Liz (The Lemon Bowl) every week the give us tips on entrepreneurship and how to build the life you want. Together, they co-host Passion to Profit Podcast.
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Shout out to Baby Farm Soaps, River Town Adventures, Hey Guys Media, and IRIE's social media genius, Corinne Bass (on IG @corinnesconnections)!
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Thanks as always.
-CT
www.christophertallon.com
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Jennifer Soucy is an excruciatingly talented woman. In her novels, she has a darkly poetic style that delivers intense emotion while, at the same time, keeps an expert eye on the pace and flow of the action. She writes strong and complex female leads that guys and girls alike love to follow on their dark adventures. Jen highlights the best and worst of humanity in a way you can't help but pay attention and keep flipping pages.
She's truly a writers' writer.
Hear her thoughts on horror, books, movies (especially remakes...), the writing process, editing, publishing, promoting, and everything else an up-and-coming indie writer has to think about these days.
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JENNIFER SOUCY:
Twitter: @bansheetales
Facebook: @bansheetales
Insta: @therealjenwah
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Randi Ford is a phenomenal talent in the world of painting. Her nature landscapes are beautiful and have a sense of depth and movement unlike anything else I've seen. We talk about her style, influences, creative process, business, hiking, camping, life, and all kinds of fun stuff.
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Randi Ford:
website: www.randifordart.com
IG: @randi_ford_flow_paintings
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
As a drummer, I was excited to nerd out with my new buddy, Jake Bryan. Jake is the drummer for HEARTSICK, the Lansing-based band that's been playing loud music for 20 years.
I started following this band even before Jake joined. As you'll find out, he joined the band around the same time I left the Lansing area for good. Jake came from a musical family, where his passion for drumming was highly encouraged from a young age. In his teens, he found his passion as a traveling performer with the school band when they performed in Florida and New York City. Before joining Heartsick, he played drums in a Final Fantasy themed metal band--something I wasn't aware was a thing.
Follow all the fun stuff:
- Jake's IG
- Heartsick
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Peter Taras is an icon in the world of surf photography, starting in the profession at a young age. With his magazine days behind him, Peter continues to tell stories with his amazing pictures on Stellar Storytellers, and has fun with his wine reviews on his Instagram. He has collaborated with Jonathan Freeman on the Ultra Core Surf Hour. Hilarious. He's also part of the Kook of the Day series. Also hilarious. Go check him out!
Thanks everyone!
www.instagram.com/jonathanwaynefreeman/
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Auggie is a brilliant mind and great guy. In 2016, Auggie placed 5th world-wide in the Dyson Rethinkers Challenge. Then in 2018, Auggie won the Red Bull Mind Gamers Quantum Challenge. In 2019, his team placed 10th in the Red Bull Mind Gamers Escape Room World Championship. He's designed multiple rooms, including one in a hotel at the world championship for the competitors to play, that the hotel didn't even know about, haha! He also had a hand in the SYGNYL podcast that I talked about on Ep.17!
Check him out on social media @okapikid, and get in touch with him. He also has a website with a game built into it...www.okapikid.com.
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Jeff Hull joined me, via the magic of the internet, to discuss literature, culture, Nonchalance, and his latest project--a revolutionary podcast--SYGNYL.
Listen as we discuss past and present projects, how how created and implemented them, and how the lines between art and reality can blur to create something unintended, both in our art and, as we've seen recently, in our culture. That blurring, as Jeff puts it, "can lead us to chaos or meaning."
Join us and try to find the meaning in the chaos. If we can't find it, we'll make our own.
-CT
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Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Nate Williams is the co-founder of River Town Adventures, a proud sponsor of the show. After leaving RTA, he found a travel gig in Seward, Alaska, where he was a professional kayak guide, showing tourists glaciers, bears, and whales via kayak. Then he went to Europe on a work/stay program and explored a few countries for next to nothing!
While he waits for tourism to return, he spoke with us from his home in Lansing, MI, about what he's done, where he's been, and (hopefully) where he's going. It was a long chat with a good friend. I hope you enjoy it.
See pictures from Nate's trips in his Instagram.