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The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering Creativity
Welcome to Syncreate, where we explore the intersections between creativity, psychology, and spirituality. Our goal is to demystify the creative process and expand the boundaries of what it means to be creative.
Creativity. It’s a word we throw around all the time, but what does it really mean? On the Syncreate Podcast, we share stories of the creative journey. We talk to changemakers, visionaries and everyday creatives working in a wide array of fields and disciplines. Our goal is to explore…
Episodes
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 130: Contemplative Music & Creativity with Harpist, Author & Episcopal Priest April Stace
The Rev. Dr. April Stace is Associate Professor of Practical Theology at The General Theological Seminary and serves as the rector of Church of the Epiphany in…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 129: Women's Sexual Energy and Healing with Kristen D'Amato, PhD
Kristen D’Amato, PhD, is an author, speaker, musician, educator, and conscious leader. She’s the author of We Choose Love, a heart-centered guide to…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 128: Creative Flow and Focus - Advice from a Hollywood Studio Pro with Sukha Founder Steven Puri
Following a successful career as a Hollywood visual effects designer and studio executive, Steven Puri pivoted to start The Sukha Company, a flow state…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 127: The Power of Silence with Olga Lehmann, PhD
In a world of constant overstimulation, noise, and speed, what is the value of silence and stillness? In this episode, we explore how silence can become a…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 126: Creative Spark Series - Compost & Cosmos with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this installment of our Creative Spark series, Charlotte shares several anecdotes, including the story of a man she met while picking up a load of compost…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 125: Figuring it Out with Film Producer & Creative Entrepreneur Marco De Molina
Marco De Molina is Grammy Nominated film producer who has received international acclaim throughout his career at prestigious film festivals worldwide…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 124: Creative Spark Series - Finding Your Story with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
Storytelling is a huge part of the creative process, and we all carry many stories within us. In this episode of our Creative Spark Series, we explore how to…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 123: The Surface Area of Serendipity with Tech Entrepreneur Charles Cadbury
What if you began each day outside, in nature, without technology, viewed your daily activities and connections as ways to increase the surface area of your…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 122: Creative Spark Series - Sharing Your Creative Self with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark Series, Melinda & Charlotte explore both the fears and the benefits of sharing our creative selves with family, friends…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 121: Emotions and Choice in the Creative Process with Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, PhD
What either allows or prevents us from taking action on our creative ideas and bringing them into being? According to our guest Zorana Ivcevic Pringle, PhD…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 120: Creative Spark Series - Putting Yourself Out There with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark Series, Melinda & Charlotte discuss both the fears and rewards of putting your creative work out into the world, sharing…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 119: Jazz Lessons from Musical Mathematician Lawrence Udeigwe
If music is a language of emotions, mathematics is a language of the nature of reality. In this episode, jazz musician and mathematician Lawrence Udeigwe…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 118: Creative Spark Series - The Power of Imagination with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark Series, Melinda & Charlotte explore the power of imagination, both as a driver of innovation and a pathway to liberation…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 117: Creativity, Anxiety & Authenticity with Amanda Beck, PhD
This episode explores the connections between anxiety, authenticity, and creativity, including the hidden gifts and messages of anxiety and their implications…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 116: Creative Spark Series - Creativity, Power & Agency with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark Series, Melinda & Charlotte explore questions of power and agency, and how they connect with creativity and creative…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 115: The Power of Play - Creativity, Play, and Embodiment with Dr. Tamara Russell
Dr. Tamara Russell is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, martial artist and mindfulness trainer. She works as an academic and clinician, exploring the…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 114: Creative Spark Series - The Role of the Artist in Society with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark Series, Charlotte and Melinda discuss the vital role that artists play in helping to envision and shape the future with…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 113: Music Mindfulness & Healing with Dr. AZA Allsop
Dr. AZA Allsop is an artist, neuroscientist, and psychiatrist who conducts research at the intersection of social cognition, music mindfulness, and…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 112: Creative Spark Series - Creativity for the Common Good with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
Building upon our recent Creative Spark episodes on creativity in communication (Episode 110) and self-empowerment (Episode 108), Charlotte and Melinda…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 111: Stories from the Podcast Studio with Record ATX Co-Founder Grant Davis
Grant Davis is the co-owner of Record ATX, a creative audio and video production studio in Austin, Texas, where we record The Syncreate Podcast.He’s also the…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 110: Creative Spark Series - Creativity in Communication with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
,In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we reflect on how we can bring our creativity into our communication and relationships with others, using the…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 109: Light and Shadow - The Art of Journaling with Keila Shaheen
Keila Shaheen is a Brazilian–Puerto Rican American scholar, international bestselling author, and musician. She is the creator of the Zenfulnote app and author…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 108: Creative Spark Series - Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Our Minds with Melinda Rothouse and Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we explore how our limiting beliefs and scarcity thinking can hold us back from personal, creative, and…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 107: Mindfulness in Life, Work & Creativity with Hannah C. Williams
Hannah Williams infuses the practice of mindfulness into all aspects of her life, from songwriting and performing to her work in real estate, and to her…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 106: Creative Spark Series - Creative Confessions with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In creativity, there’s no one “right” way to go about things; we all have our own unique creative habits and hacks. So, in this episode, Melinda and Charlotte…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 105: Why Creativity Matters with Melinda Rothouse and Marcus McQuirter
This episode is a co-release, originally recorded and released in August of 2025 on the podcast Intermission: Conversations with Theater People about anything…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 104: Creative Spark Series - Creativity Can Save Your Life with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
Have you ever used your creativity to navigate a difficult situation or make an important life decision? In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 103: Trauma, Creativity, and Mental Health with Tracy Sisk, LMHC
The experience of trauma, in whatever form, can block our creativity and hinder our full flourishing. Creativity can offer a potent pathway for healing and…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 102: Creative Spark Series - Creativity as a Path of Adventure with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda and Charlotte explore creativity as a path of adventure, sharing specific examples from their own lives…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 101: Artificial Intelligence and Creativity - The End or Just the Beginning? with Douglas Eck, PhD
With the introduction of so many new AI tools for image, video, and music generation, is this the end of creativity as we know it, or the beginning of a new…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 100: Creative Spark Series - Celebrating and Reflecting with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, to celebrate our 100th episode, Charlotte interviews Melinda about her own creative process of experience of…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 99: Working with Self-Doubt in Our Creativity with Dreux Carpenter, MFA
How do we work with self-doubt and mental health in our creative process? Dreux Carpenter is a multi creative and communications professional; he's a graphic…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 98: Creative Spark Series - Creativity and Humor
.In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we discuss the connections between humor, creativity, and health, specifically how we can use our creativity to…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 97: The Art of Jewelry Design with Geoffrey Good
Geoffrey Good is a renowned fine jewelry designer based in Hudson, New York, internationally recognized for his elegant, minimalist designs. With over 30 years…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 96: Creative Spark Series - Creativity Conference Reflections with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda shares insights and reflections from her recent experience attending and presenting at the Creativity…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 95: Poetry, Nature, and Beautiful Mistakes with Brian Kirven
Brian Kirven is a poet, traveler, and teacher living in Point Reyes Station in Northern California. He's the author of Shorelines: A Traveler Comes Home to the…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 94: Creative Spark Series - The Joy in Collaboration with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we explore the benefits of collaboration, including the synergy that arises when two or more people join together…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 93: Creativity and Collaboration in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Work with Alisa Carr, LCSW
How do we work with the multiple energies, drives, and desires, sometimes conflicting, inside ourselves? Internal Family Sytems (IFS) is a therapeutic modality…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 92: Creative Spark Series - Self-Mentoring and Creativity with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we discuss the inner mentor or inner coach as a counter-weight to the inner critic in our creativity, with…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 91: Envisioning the Possible with Vlad Glaveanu, PhD
How do we use our creativity to envision possibility and bring it into reality? Vlad Glăveanu, PhD, has spent his career exploring this question. He is the…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 90: Creative Spark Series - Creativity, Meaning, and Psychological Growth with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
,In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda shares insights from her new article in the academic journal Possibility Studies and Society on how we…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 89: The Joy of Awakening with Drupon Lama Dorje & Carolina Putnam
This episode features Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher Drupon Lama Dorje, and his assistant and translator Carolina Putnam, in an exploration of the…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 88: Creative Spark Series - Practicing Courage in Our Creativity with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we explore how practicing courage in our creative expression can build bravery in other areas of our lives, from…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 87: Dreams and Creativity with Musician, Poet & Psychotherapist Linus Streckfus
How do dreams and dreaming play a role in creativity? We explore this question with musician, poet, and psychotherapist Linus Streckfus, as Melinda and Linus…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 86 - Creative Spark Series: Receiving Difficult Feedback with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we share our own experience of receiving difficult feedback on one of our ideas, and how we dealt with it. It can…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 85: Living a Spiritual Life with Wisdom Pathways Co-Founders Jenny Fairbank & Steven Ross
What does it mean to walk a spiritual path, to live a spiritual life, in the midst of our busy lives, as householders, in these complex and challenging times?…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 84: Creative Spark Series - From Surviving to Thriving with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we reflect on how embracing creativity, community, and a bit of levity can help us move from surviving to…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 83: Proprioception with Poet and Professor C. Prudence Arceneaux
Poet C. Prudence Arceneaux is Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Austin Community College. Her work has appeared in various journals, including The…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 82: Creative Spark Series - Healing the Creative Wound with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, we explore what it means to heal the creative wound so we can fully embrace our creative selves. Many of us…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 81: Creativity and Innovation in Medicine with Drs. Behrooz Akbarnia, Greg Mundis, and Bahar Shahidi
This episode features three medical innovators working at the intersection of orthopedic surgery, medical technology, and orthopedic research at the San Diego…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 80: Creative Spark Series - Narrating the Syncreate Audiobook with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Charlotte and Melinda share the experience of narrating the audio version of our Syncreate book, including our…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 79: The Magic of Improvisation with Improv Teacher, Performer, and Author Jessica Arjet
As our guest, Jessica Arjet, describes in the episode, “one of the fundamental promises of improv is that you’re collaborating and working together to create…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 78: Creative Spark Series - The Art of Impermanence with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
In this episode of our Creative Spark series, Melinda shares insights from her recent Art of Impermanence Retreat, an annual contemplative arts retreats she…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 77: Collaborate, Innovate, Advocate with Beth Sundstrom, PhD
Beth Sundstrom, PhD, MPH, is a professor of health communication at the College of Charleston, where she is the Director of the Office of Undergraduate…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 76: Creative Spark Series - Developing a Consistent Creative Practice with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
Many of us aspire to a consistent, even daily, creative practice, but other life priorities and distractions make it difficult. So how can we commit to a…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 75: Asheville's Story Parlor with Erin Hallagan Clare
Erin Hallagan Clare is the Founder and Artistic Director of Story Parlor, a narrative arts space in Asheville, NC. Erin studied film and theatre at Temple…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 74: Creative Spark Series - Living a Creative Life with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
What does it mean to live a creative life? What meaningful steps can we take to infuse creativity into our day-to-day experience? We often tell ourselves…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 73: Theatre, Storytelling, and The Labor of Creativity with Marcus McQuirter, PhD
Marcus McQuirter, PhD, is the Chair of the Drama Department at Austin Community College, where he teaches Voice, Acting, and Introduction to Theater. A…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 72: Creative Spark Series - Creative Community with Melinda Rothouse & Charlotte Gullick
How do you cultivate a sense of creative community? We believe that community and connection are vital to the creative process, especially for those of us who…
The Syncreate Podcast: Empowering CreativityEpisode 71: Acting Out of Character with John Cane, PhD
How can acting and improvisation training improve your interpersonal and communication skills? We explore this question with John Cane, PhD, actor and…