Episodes

  • Moving through creative anxiety, a meta episode (featuring Amena Brown)
    Jun 3 2024

    In the final episode of this season of Wake Up & Create, Amena Brown gets together with Chantae Cann and Scotty Crowe to listen to a clip from her own CreativeMornings talk on anxiety. The three then share how they wrestle, work with, and use anxiety during the creative process and why it always seems to show up.

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    31 mins
  • Bringing your story to where you live (featuring Marian Lou)
    May 27 2024

    There are some places in a city that are unlike anywhere else. They offer a strong and entirely unique sense of place. One such locale in Atlanta is Buford Highway. Listen as We Love Buford Highway founder Marian Liou explains how Buford Highway can only exist in Atlanta but is simultaneously a place where one can find the stories of everyone living in the United States.

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    For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atl

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    15 mins
  • The constant decision to endure (featuring Samantha Ramirez-Herrera)
    May 20 2024

    Samantha Ramirez-Herrera finds strength in enduring. In this roundtable episode, Chantae Cann Meagan Guite, and Dustin Pead listen to the Atlanta-based entrepreneur, storyteller, director, and founder of Off Tha Record as she examines the role endurance plays in her life. Then Chantae, Meagan, and Dustin discuss what it means to endure when working on a creative project.


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    18 mins
  • Working with criticism (featuring Black Cat Tips)
    May 13 2024

    Creating work on behalf of someone else exercises a few more muscles than when creating for ourselves. One of those muscles is taking feedback and returning to the work to incorporate requested changes. Muralist, painter, and poet Black Cat Tips talks with host Chantae Cann about how he handles criticism, how having kids changed…well, everything, and how he unlocks his creativity.

    For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/

    For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atl

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    13 mins
  • Staying rooted in your work (featuring Lauren Tate Baeza)
    May 6 2024

    Roots help define us and the objects we interact with. Listen in as the High Museum’s curator of African Art, Lauren Tate Baeza, shares how her roots have shaped her and why viewing a piece of art or historical object where it was created is so important.

    For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/

    For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atl

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    12 mins
  • Magic isn’t real…unless it is! (featuring Kevin Gillese)
    Apr 29 2024

    Successful creative projects are inevitably the culmination of hours of hard work, frustration, and revision. By the time it reaches an audience, it may seem to them to have come together magically. In this roundtable discussion, Meagan Guite joins local creatives Dustin Pead and Chantae Cann to listen to writer and producer Kevin Gillese find magic in the creative process. The three then discuss how magic shows up in their work.

    For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/

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    19 mins
  • Dancing and designing (featuring Moksha Rao)
    Apr 22 2024

    At first glance, the Venn diagram of “Product Designer” and “Indian Dancer-Contortionist” may not seem to have much overlap. But, as Moksha Rao shares with host Meagan Guite, she’s found the two pursuits complement each other in unexpected ways.

    For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/

    For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atl

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    13 mins
  • Overcoming the fear of failure (featuring Wade Thompson)
    Apr 15 2024

    When creative director Wade Thompson thought about failure, it had become a kind of corporate buzzword and lost its meaning. That is, until he took a step back and reexamined his relationship with it.


    For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/

    For more info on CreativeMornings Atlanta, visit: http://creativemornings.com/atl

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    14 mins