Episodes

  • Surviving the Storm: How Slam Poetry Turns Darkness Into Light
    Mar 26 2025

    An inspiring look at the transformative power of slam poetry and how creativity helps middle school students process pain, find healing and a voice to share their story

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    40 mins
  • The Power of Art. The Power of Sport. The Value of a Dream. 3 Epiphanies That Will Rock Your World
    Feb 22 2025

    Some moments hit like lightning—changing the way we see the world forever. In this episode, Rik shares three powerful epiphanies about the transformative power of art, the resilience found in sport, and the undeniable value of chasing a dream.

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    33 mins
  • The Art of Connection: 3 Inspiring Stories of Creativity and Culture
    Nov 25 2024

    Connecting with a Dene elder at the edge of an Arctic waterfall, to jamming in a basement in Winnipeg to surviving whatever we're calling social media these days...join me in this weeks episode.

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    39 mins
  • The One Thing You Need To Be a Great Leader and Why Most People Suck At It
    Sep 18 2024

    Welcome to Being Creative! Today’s episode is about the one thing you need to be a great leader...and why most people suck at it.

    I've got 3 stories of leaders to share with you, a great leader, a terrible leader and one of my own…I’m glad you’re here

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    51 mins
  • The Good, The Bad & The Utterly Ridiculous Things I've Been Told & Why They Changed My Life
    Aug 5 2024

    Religious leaders, Arts Councils, social media influencers...I'm throwing everyone under the bus in this episode about the smartest and stupidest things I've been told, and how they changed my life, and why it matters to you.

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    8 mins
  • The Key to an Amazing Life (Can You Guess)
    May 8 2024

    This lil podcast episode is full of lofty ambition with the gumption to get up off it's tukis and inspire listeners to live amazing lives. Let me know if it succeeds.

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    37 mins
  • A Deceitful Christian Used Car Salesman, a Lesbian Folk Group & a Narcissist
    Feb 24 2024

    This episode features 3 stories that will surely entertain you.

    1. Dave the Deceptive Christian Used Car Salesman Who Seemed Heaven Sent (but turned out to be from the other place)

    2. Touring with Canada’s Most Successful Lesbian Folk Group - Why It Was the Worst Experience in the Moment AND the Most Life-Changing Moving Forward

    3. Being Creative with the most Narcissistic Narcissist who ever Narcissisted

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    59 mins
  • The Dead Internet, Rise of AI, and the Power of Asking Questions
    Feb 19 2024

    In this episode we dive down the rabbit hole into a warren of thoughts and ideas that may or may not be connected...from the dead internet theory, to computer gurus and the value of asking questions.

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    45 mins