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This actually works! Some high-stress stuff happened this weekend. And I kept it at bay.

Listen to hear how I did it.

This week’s card is challenging. If someone’s taking advantage of your time and energy, this card will help you deal with them. It also addresses the evil that is anxiety. 

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What you need to know today. Choose your Real World Tarot card here.

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What if asking better questions could strengthen your creative voice, solve stubborn creative problems, and help you tell stories people can’t forget?

In this episode of Your Creative Mind, award-winning mystery novelist Kellye Garrett shares practical lessons from her journey through Hollywood, television, and bestselling fiction. You’ll learn how curiosity, observation, resilience, and creative problem-solving can help you overcome self-doubt, develop stronger ideas, and express your unique perspective with greater confidence.

Photo credit: Carucha L. Meuse

If you’re a writer, performer, artist, creative entrepreneur, or simply looking for meaningful ways to strengthen your creative expression, this conversation offers ideas you can put to work immediately.

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What you need to know today. Choose your Functional Tarot card here.

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A Birthday tale that has changed how I look at … well … everything.

This week’s card is: The Four of Cups

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Moving into my 7th Decade and the Lessons I’m Learning 

Enjoy this episode. I think you’ll get some good stuff out of it.

This week’s card: Process

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I’m reading a fantastic book by Anne Bogart called A Director Prepares. In it she explores a decision-making concept that has blown my mind on the molecular and galactic level.

Listen in as I explore something that is sure to change the way you view and act on every single decision you make.

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Why the Four of Swords may be exactly what you need when pushing harder isn’t helping your creative process

A practical tarot-inspired creativity exercise for writers, performers, musicians, and anyone feeling stuck in their creative work

What if the thing blocking your creativity isn’t that you need to work harder—but that you need to stop? In this episode of Your Creative Mind, Izolda Trakhtenberg tests that idea in her own life, from taking her first jazz dance class to putting her long-in-the-works musical through a playwriting workshop. You’ll learn why deliberately stepping outside your comfort zone can strengthen creative confidence, how slowing down can help unexpected ideas surface, and why leaving “breadcrumbs” for your future self can make writing easier. Izolda also draws the Four of Swords and offers a simple creative practice: stop, breathe, listen, and let inspiration find you. If you’re a writer, musician, actor, or artist looking for practical ways to move past creative blocks, this episode gives you a fresh way forward.

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What you need to know today. Choose your Real World Tarot card here.

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A powerful conversation with neuroscientist and surgeon, Dr. Charles Limb, about music, creativity, authenticity, and what helps people thrive together 

In this fascinating conversation, Izolda Trakhtenberg sits down with neuroscientist, surgeon, and musician Dr. Charles Limb to explore the powerful connection between music, creativity, and the human brain. You’ll learn how creative expression fosters empathy, why improvisation can expand creative thinking, what neuroscience reveals about inspiration, and how practice, play, and even mistakes help artists grow. Whether you’re a writer, musician, actor, or creative entrepreneur, this episode offers fresh insights into creative confidence, artistic authenticity, and the science behind meaningful creative work. Tune in and come away with new ways to nurture your creativity, curiosity, and connection through the arts.

A Harvard graduate who earned his medical degree from Yale, Dr. Limb spent years at Johns Hopkins before bringing his groundbreaking work to the University of California, San Francisco. His research has helped us better understand how musical play, improvisation, and listening can spark creativity, strengthen connection, and even change the way we think. In this conversation, you’ll gain fresh insights into why creative expression matters, what science reveals about those moments of inspiration, and how music can help you access more possibility in your everyday life. If you’ve ever wondered where creativity comes from, and how to nurture more of it, this episode is for you.

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What you need to know today. Choose your Functional Tarot card here.

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Ever tried to “relax” and found your mind got louder, not quieter? This episode explores a different path to presence, not less engagement, but more: activities demanding enough focus that anxiety and self-consciousness simply run out of room. We break down the three ingredients that make an activity presence-inducing (immediate feedback, real difficulty, a body anchor), and explore a wide range of them. From yoga poses at your edge to making earrings to approaching a skill you already have with a fresh beginner’s mind, you’ll learn how to quiet your mind without needing to sit in meditation for hours. Includes practical exercises to find this state on purpose, without chasing mastery or worrying about outcome

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What you need to know today. Choose your Functional Tarot card here.

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A Look at How the Empress Card Can Help You Create the Art and Life You Want.

This is the first of the creative intuition episodes using the Real World Tarot.

In it, I explore the macrocosm and the nanocosm, bounty, abundance, and how to ask for things like you deserve them.

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What you need to know today. Choose your Real World Tarot card here.

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The best creative lives are built on bold choices. Jaclyn Goldis proves it one book at a time.

What does it actually take to build a creative life that feels as thrilling as the stories you tell? Bestselling thriller writer Jaclyn Goldis is back on Your Creative Mind, and this conversation is packed with exactly what you need. In this episode, you’ll walk away with concrete strategies for sustaining a bold creative practice, finding the story only you can tell, and crafting narratives that keep readers gripped from the first sentence to the last. Izolda Trakhtenberg, author, coach, and creativity catalyst helping entrepreneurs and artists live with deeper curiosity and unstoppable confidence, chats with  Jaclyn to pull back the curtain on The Last Time We Saw Her and the creative courage that powers every page. This one stays with you.

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What you need to know today. Choose your Functional Tarot card here.

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New Feature. Every Other Week: Learn about my one of my great passions, The Real World Tarot. It’s the method I use to get real clarity on everything from writing to career and life decisions. I created this deck, and I’ll be exploring its application in creativity, decision-making, and life-planning. If you find yourself at a crossroads, these episodes will give you ideas on how to make decisions and rise to challenges.

The Hierophant

Stone columns. A scroll. A figure who won’t let you skip the reading assignment. That’s The Hierophant. It’s the card of authority, knowledge, and the discipline of knowing before you act.

In this episode, you’ll hear a real reading where a skeptical husband’s cards pointed straight to a health issue he’d already been warned about — and why the information he needed had been sitting in front of him all along. You’ll learn why today isn’t the day to leap, and what it actually takes to stop rationalizing and start listening to what you already know.

This deck isn’t available anywhere else. It’s exclusively mine. If today’s episode has you wanting to work with The Hierophant and the rest of the Real World Tarot deck in your own hands, reach out. I’d love to set you up with a deck of your own, or book you in for a reading.

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What you need to know today. Choose your Real World Tarot card here.

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Thanks for being here. I’m integrating this show into the Your Creative Mind Podcast because I’m done juggling quite so many balls.

The next episode is the Hierophant. You can find it the Your Creative Mind Podcast. Every other week, I’ll be doing a Real World Tarot episode of the Your Creative Mind podcast.

I hope you had over there and then stick around.

Love you bunches!

Izolda

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Tom Mullen and Maria Messias Mendes co-wrote One Night at the Blackbird which Goes Up in August 2026, at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival.

What does it take to start a playwriting career at fifty-nine or co-write a play with someone whose life experience looks nothing like your own? Meet Tom Mullen and Maria Messias Mendes, co-writers of One Night at the Blackbird, premiering this August at the Broadway Bound Play Festival in Manhattan’s Theater District.

In this conversation, they open up about reinventing a creative life later in life, building trust with a co-writer, and pulling true New Orleans jazz history into a story about a banished angel who’s tired of the music. If you’re weighing a late-in-life creative reinvention or a bold new collaboration of your own, this episode offers real, usable proof it’s possible, and seats for this festival run are limited. For more on building a confident creative life at any age, find Izolda’s coaching work at https://IzoldaT.com.

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How WWII historical mystery novels and 1970s NYC thriller writing connect past and present through emotional truth and creative intention with author, filmmaker, and NYU professor, Rosanne Limoncelli

What if the way you write, or create anything, could actually change how you see people?

In this episode, author, filmmaker, and NYU Tisch professor, Rosanne Limoncelli shares how historical fiction writing becomes a practice of attention, empathy, and creative awareness. From WWII mysteries to 1970s NYC thrillers, her work shows you how story can shape the way you understand life itself.

You’ll hear how a consistent creative writing practice builds emotional clarity, strengthens imagination, and helps you stay connected to your voice and your inner storyteller, even on the busiest days.

If you’re a creative entrepreneur, performer, or someone rebuilding your creative rhythm, this conversation will meet you where you are.

Listen and notice what shifts in how you approach your next creative moment.

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LinkedIn

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Rosanne C Limoncelli (Jun 28, 2026, 11:25 AM)

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What you need to know today. Choose your Functional Tarot card here.

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What happens when clown, comedy, and philosophy come together? A masterclass in creative thinking, audience connection, and artistic courage with Rich Potter.

What if asking one better question could change the way you think about creativity, purpose, and possibility? In this episode of Your Creative Mind, I sit down with clown, variety entertainer, storyteller, creator of God! The One-Man Show, and my husband, Rich Potter, to talk about turning childhood curiosity into meaningful creative work. Together, we explore overcoming creative procrastination, rewriting with confidence, collaborating as creative partners, and using humor to examine life’s biggest questions. Whether you’re a writer, performer, entrepreneur, or simply looking to build a more consistent creative practice, you’ll come away with practical ideas for strengthening creativity, cultivating curiosity, and finding confidence in your own artistic voice one thoughtful question at a time.

If you want to know more about God the One-Man Show, head to https://godtheonemanshow.com for information on the New York City performances July 17th and 18th, 2026. Or if you’ll be at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, you’ll get your chance to catch God as he creates the universe in August.

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https://godtheonemanshow.com/

https://www.instagram.com/awfulcute/ 

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What you need to know today. Choose your Functional Tarot card here.

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