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Hosted by Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 236 episodes
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Your one stop shop for creative ideas and inspiration. Sign up for our newsletter HERE . Each week on The Spark File podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien reach into their spark files and share stories, ideas and fascinations to ignite your imagination. Obsessed with creativity, Blackwell and Camien also talk with artists and makers, movers and shakers who have taken the spark of inspiration and fanned it into a flame. Hear from inspiring creatives like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Eric Stonestreet, Jonathan Groff, Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, Zachary Quinto, Leslie Odom Jr, Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Billy Eichner, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Karen Olivo, Sutton Foster, Michael R. Jackson and many more about their passions and their failures, their inspirations and their aspirations. Refill your creative fish pond with new ideas and fresh perspectives. Listen, then take it and make it! Learn more at <a href="h
Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien hosts The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien, a arts show with 236 episodes published.
Season 7 is officially in the books! In this season finale of The Spark File Podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien look back at some of their favorite sparks from the year — from Expansion Anxiety and Dopamine Reset,
Fear vs. Intuition: How Do You Know Which Voice to Trust? When you're facing a big decision, how do you know if you're listening to intuition... or fear? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan and Laura explore
What do a trad-wife time travel thriller, influencer culture, motherhood, nostalgia, and the deep human need to be seen have in common? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Laura shares a spark inspired by the best
What if one of the greatest creative gifts you could offer someone… was your attention? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien explore the transformative work of Nancy Kline and her g
Feeling stuck, numb, overwhelmed… or just weirdly “off”? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien explore the brain’s four major feel-good chemicals — dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, a
What if the people in our lives came with warning labels, gift receipts or invisible instruction manuals? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Laura and Susan explore the invisible “rule books” we all carry — the h
What if the muse isn’t something you wait for, but something you meet? In this episode, Susan and Laura explore the evolution of the creative muse — from ancient Greek mythology (yes, daughters of Zeus included) to moder
What if the reason you can’t stop obsessing over that one random thing… is actually because something in your life is going really right? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Laura and Susan dive into Expansion Anx
What’s the difference between a teacher who changes your life… and one who almost shuts you down for good? On this week’s episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan brings a spark from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — a story ab
What if the parts of yourself you’ve been hiding from yourself… are actually the key to your creative breakthroughs? In this episode, Laura takes us into the world of Carl Jung—by way of a late-night deep dive into Jungi
What if the thing your creativity needs most… isn’t more effort—but more delight? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, we’re diving into the deceptively simple, wildly powerful practice of The Artist Date — a conce
What is creativity… really? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, we dive headfirst into one of the most slippery — and surprisingly limiting — questions in the creative world: how do we define creativity in the fir
What happens after the big creative push? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan and Laura dive into the all-too-real experience of the creative hangover — that strange, tender, sometimes disorienting crash tha
What do we do with the grief that doesn’t come with a funeral, a clear ending, or even a name? In this tender and powerful episode of The Spark File Podcast, Laura shares a spark about “Ambiguous Grief” — the kind of los
What happens when the thing you reach for to soothe yourself starts quietly stealing your time, your attention, and your creative life force? In “Dopamine Reset”, this week’s episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan shar
Our latest episode of The Spark File Podcast, Flip the Script, is a dark spark with a bright creative payoff. When Laura has a vivid, unsettling dream she perceives as a warning about allowing strangers into her life, it
This episode of The Spark File Podcast, Creating Community is your reminder that creativity doesn’t thrive in a vacuum — it thrives in connection. This week, Susan and Laura talk about why community isn’t just “nice to h
What if creativity isn’t a lightning bolt… but a mashup? In this episode, Laura shares a Blue Man Group–born concept that can instantly dissolve the “I’m not original enough” spiral: Creation by Recombination—the idea th
In this week’s episode of The Spark File, “I Love You vs. Small Talk,” Laura opens up a BIG spark (100 pounds of topic in a five-pound bag): love—romantic love, friend love, family love, self-love, love of strangers, lov
In “Making for Minnesota,” we’re asking a question that feels both tender and urgently practical: when the world is loud and scary, what can you make? Susan shares what happened after our free workshop Be the Change, But
Stephen King
Productivity Commissioner · Productivity Commission of Australia
1 appearance on this show
Anne Lamott
author
1 appearance on this show
Elizabeth Gilbert
Product Data Scientist · Duo
1 appearance on this show
Anna Lembke
psychiatrist and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic · Stanford University School of Medicine
1 appearance on this show
Tyrese Haliburton
NBA player
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Dan Siegel
author of 'Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human' · UCLA School of Medicine
1 appearance on this show
Sara Bareilles
1 appearance on this show
Laura Benanti
Tony Award Winner, Actress and singer
1 appearance on this show
Griffin Newman
I Love Lily
1 appearance on this show
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Education of an Artist
1 appearance on this show
Lin Manuel Miranda
1 appearance on this show
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