Frank Meo has been inspiring photographers and creatives for decades. Helping people find their passion, and then teaching them to drill down and get really clear, is Frank’s own passion. Using logic, planning and strategy Frank gives photographers real tools to create an action plan that helps move their careers in the right direction.
Read MoreWinzday Love uses music to help people open up and reconnect to themselves. The way she sees it, it’s easy to open people’s hearts and minds when your music is authentic and comes from a place of love. For Winzday, music is magic, it’s the glue that holds everything together and is an amazing conduit for release.
Read More“Much of the brain we don’t use — or at least we don’t completely understand how it is used. “
Dr. David Simpson, a Professor of Neurology at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a researcher and a scientist working to advance the knowledge of medicine, both in terms of understanding disease and treating disease. Dr. Simpson is doing ground-breaking work using Botox to treat musicians and others suffering from movement disorders, such as focal dystonia.
Read More"I want to be like Matisse - cutting up paper when he was blind. He wasn't telling someone else to do it. You read about artists with such bad arthritis that they tape the brush to their hand so they can still paint. It's the act of it that's very important. It's ephemeral, what drives me. It's something that defies words. It just is.
Read MoreI think that as humans we’re meant to be in strong tribe-like groups. Technology has led us towards isolation. I think in most people there is a desire and a need to be around people that accept us for who we are. I want to help build a community who creates together, dreams together and is able to make positive changes together.
Read More“Coding is about taking structure and ideas and expressing patterns in a way that is both efficient and easy to understand.”
Daniel Panzer cut his coding teeth while working for Jonsar Studios, creating the apps that make our company run. Daniel’s analytical mind helped create the systems of display and delivery that are integral to the immersive photographic experiences Jonsar Studios creates at events.
Read More“There’s an art to making someone feel comfortable enough to open up, and then deeply understanding the problem they face and how to solve it.”
Spencer Shulem is the CEO at WeDo - and creator of a wellness and productivity app that tracks the micro-decisions people make in their lives so that individuals can make better decisions and improve their behavior.
Read More"Becoming a chef is like being in the military. There are levels that you have to go through. You have to move up through the ranks. You actually have to work your ass off and grind it out, put in time, get burned, get cut, get yelled at, get beaten up."
Read More"I believe the spark that gets the artist moving is the same spark that gets the scientist moving. I want to discover. I want to know more. In improv, it's listening to the last thing that was just said. You step out onto an empty stage and you know nothing. You don't know how it's going to go. I feel like there's a lot of similarity with how scientists go about things and improv. If it doesn't, we go sideways and make something else and build on it. They are kindred spirits. I'm fascinated by finding areas that science and comedy intersect."
Read More"Act 1 for me was churning through some introspective and creative stuff with the opera singing. Act 2 for me has to be figuring out how to take my skill set and make it meaningful... Now I need to reflect the world. I need to figure out how to take my ability to find other people's art and heart. And figure out a way to turn that into something relevant. I'm not sure how to do that yet. But what would I really like to do? What are my hopes and dreams? Well, I'd like to change the world. It's important to start with the why of what you do and then you figure out the how."
Read More"Everyone has their own view on what art is. For me, art is the concept of re-creation. The universe is the ultimate creation. We as humans have been gifted the power of creativity which is the power to re-create ourselves, to become creators. This is what I call art - to recreate the world through your work."
Read MoreI believe that we all have a deeper muse inside of us; a deeper resource. When we get out of our normal mind frame and consciousness and relax we literally come from a different reference point. It's then that this other stream of data comes through, this other author, this co-author comes through. To me the co-author is a deeper part of ourselves that we don't access on a day-to-day basis necessarily, unless we're receptive to that. My sense is that we have our normal every day thinking in the way that we see the world, but there are moments when that pauses or relaxes and allows for a deeper intelligence to come through.
Read More"I create art because I want to. I don't want to have a show. I don't see myself being the center of attention. I create art so I can let go. My canvas is my project - Makú, in Colombia. That's my art. That's what I have to put my intention and belief in. And that's what I'm looking forward to spending the rest of my life doing. I picture myself helping others and helping myself to grow and be a better person."
Read MoreJohn C. Bogle - Conversation with a Legend
John Bogle’s legacy is rooted in the concept that investing should be conducted solely in the interest of shareholders and investors. Bogle’s single-mindedness on fiduciary stewardship finds its meaning in the company he founded, the (low cost and simple) product strategies and corporate governance reforms he champions, and the nine books he wrote.
Read More"There’s no end to one’s evolution, and that’s the first lesson. There’s no end, so don’t look for it. Just enjoy the journey, because it’s just a journey."
Read More"I create a way for people to take their fear and visualize it in their own way so they can defeat it. The mind can be the greatest creator of positivity but also can create negative representations as well. The ultimate goal is for people to turn their negativity into positivity.”
Read More" Life is certainly changed by art, changed by music, it's changed by the depictions and the context of self-representation that we allow to happen. But at the same time we are normalized by the world, we are normalized by language, by family. Art is the interruption of the context of that normalization. So I don't really know what it would be like if everyone was an artist. I don't really know what art is for. I just know that the way it works, now, in my own experience and in the experience of my students with whom I share my doubts, is that it changes the world.”
Read More"I get very worked up and eager to do something when I hear horrifying things on the news. I want to do something, I want to help. I want to bring attention to that subject, and to also give solutions. It's really important in my opinion - to not just highlight the horror but to present ideas of what we can do about it."
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