What a gift! This talk! Wow! Last Friday, the remarkable Jad Abumrad unwrapped a gift on stage, in talk from, in front of our CreativeMornigns/NYC community. It’s a talk about wandering and won...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2024/01/jad-abumrad-at-creativemornings-nyc.html
The conversation starts at 16:47 We closed out our CreativeMornings/NYC year with a conversation between two design legends, Debbie Millman and Stefan Sagmeister. I love Stefan’s orientation to...
Last Friday’s CreativeMornings/NYC was deeply moving. (And almost didn’t happen as our 1,000 people venue fell through the night before because of technical issues.) Thank you Deb Bubb, Keith...
I am EXCITED for this Friday’s CreativeMornings/NYC, happening on September 22nd at 8:30am. (Fun fact: It will be the largest CreativeMornings in history, hosted at the stunning 1026 seat City ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/09/life-as-a-creative-act.html
I just learned that the remarkable Debbie Millman is interviewing radio pioneer Jad Abumard this coming Monday, September 18th in Brooklyn. We can all sit in and listen, live! Jad created one of ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2023/09/debbie-millman-interviewing-jad-abumrad.html
Not a new talk. Amanda Palmer is a force. Worth rewatching.
How does OK Go come up with their unique ideas for their music videos? (via Tobias Günther in Dense Discovery)
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/11/how-to-find-a-wonderful-idea.html
CreativeMornings is doing something a bit wild this Thursday/Friday (9/22-23) in collaboration with the remarkable London based organization called StreetWisdom. We are celebrating 24h of w...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/09/the-world-wide-wander-2.html
Mark your calendars! Next Thursday, September 22, at 8:30AM ET, CreativeMornings/NYC is shooting the starting gun of a 24-hour global wander marathon! Time travel with us for a moment. Last Novem...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2022/09/the-world-wide-wander.html
I enjoyed this talk. In her first book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, multi-disciplinary artist and writer Jenny Odell argues that taking control of our attention from the c...
Always coming back to this one.
CreativeMornings/NYC is hosting a super special free event this Friday: David Pearl from London will guide us through an experience he calls Street Wisdom. I did one. It changed me. David is PURE...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/11/street-wisdom-this-friday.html
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2021/09/how-to-stop-languishing-and-start-finding-flow.html
Adam Robinson shares some wonderful nuggets of wisdom in this DO Lectures talk from 2017. My favorite: “In any interaction, create fun and delight for the other person with enthusiasm!” And t...
In this beautiful CreativeMornings/Ottawa talk singer-songwriter Kellylee Evans talks about the importance of exercising courage in everyday life.
This digital conference called Where are the Black Designers, which happened two days ago, is nothing short of incredibly impressive. Huge congrats to Mitzi Oku, the organizer.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/06/where-are-the-black-designers.html
Loving this talk by former Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler. With a simple four-square grid Yancey shifted his entire perspective on decision-making, his sense of self, and his relationship to th...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2020/06/yancey-strickler-a-framework-for-your-ultimate-self.html
Exactly a year ago I gave my most personal talk, sharing my spiritual journey as an entrepreneur and as a mom. I writing this from the DO Lectures 2019. I came back to this magical place, to just...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/07/my-do-lectures-talk-from-2018.html
I need no convincing to sleep.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/07/sleep-is-your-superpower.html
SO MUCH YES! This talk by Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya resonates so deeply.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/05/the-anti-ceo-playbook.html
New York Times digital editor Amy Padnani talked about Overlooked, a series telling the stories of remarkable people who never received an obit in their publication.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/05/amy-padnani-overlooked-obituaries.html
I keep coming back to this brief talk by Larry Legend. Reminding me that People > Craft.
This talk by Tiffany Watt Smith is a beautiful insight into the history of human emotions.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/04/the-history-of-human-emotions.html
This vulnerable talk by Grace Bonney hit me in the heart. In it she speaks on the last 15 years of running Design*Sponge and why 2019 will be her final year. She unpacks the noteworthy lessons sh...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/04/people-matter-real-life-matters.html
Beautiful talk by poet and author Cleo Wade.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/04/being-an-advocate-for-love.html
A few months back, the remarkable Oliver Jeffers spoke at CreativeMornings/NYC, telling us about his new book, why he became more political in his art, and why we need to take care of this world....
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/03/oliver-jeffers-speaking-at-creativemornings.html
Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert is my all-time favorite. It’s my go to when I need grounding and centering. I had *no* idea what happened leading up to the concert. As he arrived at the concert...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2019/02/how-frustration-can-make-us-more-creative.html
Tina Roth-Eisenberg – new title from The Do Lectures on Vimeo. This summer, attending the Do Lectures in Wales, I gave the most personal talk of my life. I talk about my divorce and my spiritua...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/12/my-most-personal-talk-to-date.html
I was lucky enough to experience this talk here in NYC, a few weeks ago, at a TED Salon. I walked away completely mesmerized by this glimpse into a world I didn’t even know existed. Thank you A...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/12/the-perplexing-world-of-puzzle-hunts.html
I got to experience this talk live, this past summer at the wonderful Do Lectures. Thank you internet for letting me watch it again. Duke is a wonderful human. Such a beautiful concept of embraci...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/12/the-beauty-of-not-knowing.html
I have seen James Sills do his choir leading magic multiple times. It’s utterly heart opening. And now I want to start a choir with heart-forward humans in Brooklyn.
Last month’s CreativeMornings theme was Chaos and we had the honor to have Shannon Lee fly in from Los Angeles and share her story. In her open talk, Shannon Lee shares how she dealt with chaos...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/10/shannon-lee-speaking-at-creativemornings-nyc.html
“Send one scary email today. A scary email is sending an email to someone who has no reason to say yes to what I’m asking or who will certainly reject me. If you got one, send it. Start and s...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/08/send-one-scary-email.html
The Art of Community by Charles Vogl is the first book to distill principles from 3,000 years of spiritual traditions for leaders to create belonging in any organization, field or movement. It is...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/07/seven-principles-for-belonging.html
David Hieatt, co-founder of The Do Lectures, spoke at their daughter’s Teen Do Conference in 2017. Love his message to this room of teenagers: Stop Caring What Other People Think.
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/07/tips-for-a-creative-life.html
Millions of baby boomers are moving into their senior years with empty pockets and declining choices to earn a living. And right behind them is a younger generation facing the same challenges. In...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/07/an-honest-look-at-the-personal-finance-crisis.html
A few weeks ago I gave my second 99u talk, at their 10th anniversary conference here in NYC. And I am happy to see they just made it public for everyone to watch. In fact, they released all of th...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/07/my-recent-99u-talk-on-leading-with-joy.html
Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adult...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/06/understanding-the-teenage-brain.html
In this CreativeMornings talk, Liz Jackson, founder of The Disabled List, talks about the misconceptions around disability and shares practical tips on how to design with disability, not for it. ...
https://www.swiss-miss.com/2018/06/the-original-lifehackers.html
“One confetto — which happens to be the singular of confetti, in case you were wondering –isn’t very joyful, but multiply it, and you have a handful of one of the most joyful substances o...