Creativity through the lens of Founder and CEO of Share More Stories

"Creativity is a fundamental aspect of self expression."

James Warren is the Founder and CEO of Share More Stories, a human experience insights company. The company’s primary offering is the SEEQ Platform, which helps organizations and brands uncover the emotional drivers behind employee and customer experiences. James is a researcher, strategist, writer and facilitator who blends storytelling, AI, and insights to help companies better understand themselves, their customers, and their communities. With nearly 30 years of experience in marketing, insights, strategy, and innovation, he is passionate about the intersections of humanity, technology, brands, communities, and culture. An active community leader, he volunteers on several boards. He studied economics and literature at Princeton, and creative writing at Columbia. Originally from New York, James now calls Richmond home.

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Creativity through the Founder and Creative Director of What If LAB

"There is simply being human.....innate creativity. And then we have to keep exercising the brain."

Adelia C. Schleusz has always been a curious and creative to the core, with her eyes always on the horizon. This passion fueled her ‘curated’ career journey, and years of professional experience in commercial design, arts, research, behavioral psychology and sensory design. Schleusz is the Founder of What If LAB, LLC and is a licensed and registered interior designer which provides creative consultancy and future foresight at the intersection of interior environments and experiences, strategy, and science.

Schleusz is industry recognized as a highly creative leader delivering exceptional and award-winning commercial interior design and has received numerous accolades, including the Interior Design 2023 HiP award, celebrating the “most innovative people in the commercial design industry” and recently awarded the IIDA 2025 Kimball International Makers of a Better Future Fund.

She leads creative direction and strategy at multiple scales of thinking. Her positive, energetic, and humble spirit is infectious creating a culture of curiosity, empowerment, and creative agility. She sees critical value of bringing together multifaceted thinkers, expertise, and multidimensional team members to be the engines of innovation.

The ‘what if’ has always fascinated her throughout her life and career journey. This question provides fuel to her approach as she continues to break down silos and assumptions with systems and futures thinking in the design process.

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Creativity through the lens of a Transformational Life Coach, Speaker and Award Winning Author

"For me creativity is really about how to navigate uncertainty."

Naomi Vladeck is the award-winning author of Braving Creativity, Artists Who Turn the Scary, Thrilling, Messy Path of Change into Courageous Transformation. She is a certified creativity & life coach with a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU. She is a lifelong non-profit professional dedicated to championing independent artists and women ready to harness their courage to make choices that reflect what they want to experience next in their creative career and life!

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Creativity through the lens of a Creative Hypnotic Entrepreneur

"Being creative to me is having a growth mindset. A mindset of possibilities."

For more than 15 years, Shane Fozard has taught hypnotherapy, NLP, and advanced communication through the Australian Success Academy, training over 10,000 people across 18 countries, change habits, build businesses, and develop stronger leadership. His work centres on creating the mental states where learning and growth become lasting, rather than fleeting.

That expertise grew out of a personal turning point. In his early thirties, Shane was working in corporate sales and operations, drinking and smoking heavily, and wondering why nothing felt right. He signed up for a hypnosis course with low expectations and walked out without his addictions, carrying what felt like the instruction manual for his own mind. From there, he built a hypnotherapy practice and went on to train others, travelling the country with his partner to teach rooms of people how to apply the tools of personal change in their lives and work.

Booknotic grew out of that same curiosity. While reading Cal Newport’s Deep Work, Shane began wondering what would happen if he did “deep work” on the book itself, distilling the key ideas, then recording them into a short hypnosis track. Friends he shared it with asked for more. Over time, those experiments became Booknotic: 20-minute hypnotic audio sessions based on bestselling books. Each one is built from Shane’s own highlighted pages and turned into hypnotic metaphors and memory cues, designed not just to skim information but to absorb it.

Unlike summary apps, Booknotic was born out of real practice; handwritten notes, spoken word, and the disciplines of hypnosis and neuroscience. Today, Shane uses it to explore how people can learn in ways that fit into real lives, whether that means a professional who hasn’t opened a book in a year, or a parent listening in the quiet half-hour before the family wakes.

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Creativity through the lens of the managing director of Truth Fitness

"Creativity is about being nimble enough and creative enough to pivot"

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Sustaining Creativity Podcast 2025 Wrap-Up

I'm wrapping up the 2025 year in this solo podcast episode.

I have had the honor to chat with so many amazing individuals about creativity from around the world. So many wonderful stories and creativity experiences to wrap-up. I learned a lot about rhythm, the rhythm of effort and rest. The rhythm of community, and the rhythm of kindness. Not only has the rhythm of creativity been a gift to me this year it has truly shown me how to fully embrace my own creative rhythm in my life.

I hope you enjoy the 2025 Wrap-Up Episode!

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Creativity through the lens of a visibility coach and podcast host,

"I equate creativity to life energy."

Anna Holtzman is a therapist-turned-visibility coach who helps sensitive creatives, healers, and entrepreneurs overcome the fear of being seen so they can share their voice and sustain their creative work—without burning out.

Before coaching, Anna spent 15 years behind the scenes in publishing and reality TV editing, where she learned firsthand how easy it is to hide from visibility and how painful it feels when creative momentum fizzles. Chronic migraines and burnout eventually led her to mind-body medicine and the nervous system tools that helped her reclaim her own creative voice and start showing up consistently.

Today, Anna draws on her background in both media and mental health to guide others through visibility wounds, imposter syndrome, and the nervous system blocks that keep them stuck. She is also the host of the podcast How to Trust Yourself, where she shares stories and tools for nervous-system-safe visibility. Anna lives in Queens, NY with her husband, stepdaughter, and three orange cats.

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Creativity through the lens of a songwriter, recording artist and author

"Creativity is creating something out of nothing."

If songwriter/recording artist/author Dennis Welch could wave a wand over how the world will remember him, he would choose just one word:

Storyteller.

Over 500 songs. Two books. Concerts far and wide. It’s what he is meant to do here in this world. Tell stories and create a place to go to find yourself or answers, or maybe just a good laugh. One thing for sure. You’ll always find love there. He has been privileged to write with some of the great songwriters: Allen Shamblin. Monte Warden. Michael Peterson. Fletch Wiley. Will Callery. He has learned from each writing partner along the way and he continues to grow. After more than two decades away from the recording studio, Dennis recorded and released What Love Makes Us Do, his fifth studio album in 2021. It was produced by long-time Little River Band Guitarist, Rich Herring and released on Herring’s Wurld Records. It was on the first Grammy ballot in five categories. Dennis believed at the time that it was his best work. But he always strives to do even better. In July of 2023, he released If I Live to Be a Hundred. He and Rich have recently completed mixing and mastering the next album, due out in mid-July. Title: Strong.

Why? Because there’s always another story to be told.

The next one.

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