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Conversations that provide insight, empowerment and tools to help others live their best creative life! In each episode host G. Brian Benson strives to have an organic chat with authors, entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, and actors, sharing their inspirational stories, strategies and wisdom that helped propel them to their own unique version of creative success. Brian, an observer of life, loves to share his curiosity and love of learning by means of insightful discussions. The process of le ...
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S2 Ep205: The Creative Spark Ep. 205 with Guest Ben Orlando. Instagram Creative and Podcaster
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Episode 205 - Guest Ben Orlando Today's episode is a bit of a re-direct from most episodes. Usually, I am the one asking the questions and directing the flow with my guest. This time, I decided to share a chat I had with a really interesting fellow named Ben Orlando who reached out to me to chat about our shared love of baseball and some of the uni…
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S2 Ep204: Guest Brenda Adelman - Actor, Speaker, Author, and Coach
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Brenda Adelman is an award-winning actor, speaker, the recipient of a Hero of Forgiveness award from the Hawaii International Forgiveness Project & has been interviewed on over 200 media outlets including NPR, Fox TV & CBS. She runs Forgiveness and Freedom Coaching and is also the founder of Your Story Made Simple. She’s performed her critically ac…
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S2 Ep203: The Creative Spark Ep. 203 with Guest Diane Foy
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Episode 203 - Guest Diane Foy Ready to slide into the spotlight with the impact (and income) to match? Then you should know Diane Foy, the creator of the Superfan Attraction Method. During her 2 decades in arts and entertainment PR, Diane represented talents such as Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell, South Africa’s The Parlotones, and One Day at a T…
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S2 Ep202: The Creative Spark Ep. 202 with Guest Jeffrey Weissman
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Episode 202 - Jeffrey Weissman is an actor’s actor. He would have been going by horseback or wagon from town to town before the advent of film and television, reciting Shakespeare or performing plays in small towns all over the countryside. He acts, produces, writes, and directs, and has worked with legendary film actors such as Clint Eastwood and …
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S2 Ep201: The Creative Spark Ep. 201 with Guest Emily Otteson
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Ep. 201 - My guest this week is Emily Otteson, an incredibly talented artist, songwriter, and entertainer from Nashville, TN. Her voice is unique, almost angelic at times and her choice of melodic improvisations make her stand out and allow her to claim her own place in a town known for great singers. Her laugh is contagious and her personality shi…
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S1 Ep115: The Creative Spark Ep. 115 with Guest Mike "Smidi" Smith
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Ep. 115 -My guest this week is Mike "Smidi" Smith, an award-winning songwriter, musician, mixer, producer and record label owner who now has a media branch that is beginning to produced TV and Film projects. He is an Emmy, Clio and Addy Award winner who has written and produced songs that have sold over 14 million copies worldwide including multipl…
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S1 Ep114: The Creative Spark Ep. 114 with Guest Erin Gavin
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Ep. 114 -My guest this week is Erin Gavin, a Scottish actress, singer, entrepreneur and keynote speaker. As a child and teen actress, Erin had numerous roles in theater and in UK television series. After moving to Los Angeles, she continued to find success in films, theater and television. In 2014 Erin played for the first time, the role of Marilyn…
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S1 Ep113: The Creative Spark Ep. 113 with Guest Kevin Negandhi
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Episode 113 - If you are a big sports fan like myself, you will definitely recognize this week’s guest Kevin Negandhi. He is everywhere on ESPN. He’s an anchor on SportsCenter, he also covers ESPN College Football on ABC. He’s hosted Baseball Tonight, College Football Live and Outside the Lines. He has also been a fill-in anchor on NFL Live and Fir…
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S1 Ep112: The Creative Spark Ep. 112 with Guest Whitney Reynolds
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Episode 112. Growing up in Oklahoma, my next guest Whitney Reynolds always knew that she wanted to have her own television show. As a child, she started interviewing her friends with a makeshift microphone in her living room. During her adolescence, her family's difficult personal journey gave her the desire to share delicate stories that must be t…
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S1 Ep111: The Creative Spark Ep. 111 with Guest Samba Schutte
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Episode 111 - Samba Schutte is a Dutch-Mauritanian actor, comedian and writer who was born in the Sahara Desert and grew up in Ethiopia until the age of 18. He's currently starring in the HBO Max pirate comedy "Our Flag Means Death" alongside Taika Waititi, Fred Armisen and Rhys Darby. He starred as the first Ethiopian character on an American sitc…
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S1 Ep110: The Creative Spark Ep. 110 with Guest Nita Sweeney
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Episode 110. Guest Nita Sweeney is an award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. She is also a certified me…
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S1 Ep109: The Creative Spark Ep. 109 with Guest Matteo Esposito
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Episode 109 - Matteo Esposito is an autistic playwright and disability arts advocate from Oakville, Ontario. He has been wanting to write, produce and direct plays all his life. He got his start as a member of West End Studio Theatre in Oakville, working on props and was the assistant set designer for award-winning set designer Dr. Jane Coryell. An…
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S1 Ep108: The Creative Spark Ep. 108 with Guest Tanmaya Bingham
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Episode 108. Guest Tanmaya Bingham is an award-winning painter whose drawings and paintings are a direct reflection of her fascination with the human condition and have been exhibiting both nationally and internationally in places such as Santa Fe, New York City, Sydney, Hong Kong and Berlin and have been featured in publications such as Hi-Fructos…
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S1 Ep107: The Creative Spark Ep. 107 with Guest Blake Robbins
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Episode 107 -Blake Robbins is an award-winning actor, writer and director. In 2012, after years in front of the camera in such notable tv shows and movies as Oz, Sons of Anarchy, The Office, and Firefly, he stepped behind it to write, direct, produce and act in his feature film debut The Sublime and Beautiful, which world premiered at the 20th annu…
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S1 Ep106: The Creative Spark Ep. 106 with Guest Jamie Whitmore
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Episode 106 - Jamie Whitmore raced as a professional Xterra Athlete (swim, mtn. bike, run) for 7 years winning 37 races, 1 World Championship, 6 US Championships and 2 European Tour Titles! After being diagnosed with cancer in 2008 and a paralysis of most of her left leg, she began a second career as a US Paralympic Cyclist where she competed in bo…
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S1 Ep105: The Creative Spark Ep. 105 with Guest Michael Bentt
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Episode 105 -Michael Bentt is one of the most highly decorated amateur boxers in US history and in 1993 defeated Tommy Morrison with a first round knockout to win the WBO Heavyweight Boxing Championship. He also survived an abusive father, a suicidal experience and 4 days in a coma with swelling on his brain after his last fight. Post boxing, Micha…
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S1 Ep104: The Creative Spark Ep. 104 with Guest Derek Vanderhorst
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Episode 104 - Guest Derek Vanderhorst is a film and documentary supervising sound editor and Americana Music Artist. Derek has worked on some of the biggest films of the last two decades including No Country for Old Men and Hidden Figures, and Derek’s first solo album Wildflower launched this past November. In addition to being an incredibly creati…
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S1 Ep103: The Creative Spark Ep. 103 with Guest Gina Nemo
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Episode 103 - Guest Gina Nemo is an award-winning Producer, Director, Writer, Actress, and is the founder of Ventura Actors Studio and Gina Nemo Studios. She is producing and directing films, television shows, pilots and documentaries through her production and marketing company G Plan Media & Entertainment. Currently all of her films have won awar…
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S1 Ep102: The Creative Spark Ep. 102 with Guest Brian Fitzpatrick
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Episode 102. Guest Brian Fitzpatrick is an award-winning author, screenwriter, paranormal investigator and speaker. Imagine being just 7 years old and accidentally watching the horror classic, Night of the Living Dead. For Brian Fitzpatrick, that’s precisely what happened. It became the catalyst for a life-altering path forward. After a week of sle…
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S1 Ep101: The Creative Spark Ep. 101 with Guest G. Brian Benson
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The Creative Spark -Episode 101. With host/guest G. Brian Benson. Brian shares his backstory and goals for The Creative Spark as well as gives listeners an idea of what to expect with future guests. G. Brian Benson is an award-winning and #1 best-selling self-improvement and children’s book author, actor, filmmaker, project coach, podcast host and …
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