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- Dec 30, 202450 min
S2 Ep12: Hope Is a Muscle, and So Is Creativity (w/ Sue Guiney)
In this episode, our former interns Rachel Wachman and Eva Phelps interview Sue, Writing Through’s CEO and Executive Director. On this, our 10th Anniversary, she takes time to reflect on the experiences, revelations, and hopes that have led her to grow the organization to what it is now. Sue tells us about the desire to help that has followed her from childhood to the present, and her use of writing as a tool to help herself and others navigate tragedies and difficult histories. She discusses...
- Nov 30, 202431 min
S2 Ep11: Art and Social Work in the Creative Zone (w/ Lux Mean)
In this episode, Kristin speaks with Mr Lux, the Executive Director of PEPY Empowering Youth: an organization that runs personal and professional development programs for students in Siem Reap and one of Writing Through’s partners. With Kristin, he discusses the importance of creativity to today’s youth and how to best foster it, his journey as a businessman-turned-photographer and social worker, and the similarities in his creative process while taking photographs and leading PEPY. Other top...
- Oct 31, 202432 min
S2 Ep10: The Joy and Process of being Creative for a Living (w/ Christie Pink)
This week’s episode features Christie Pink, a freelance graphic designer based in Cambodia and the founder of Creation Haus, an organization that offers graphic design services, classes, and workshops worldwide. Kristin invited Christie to the podcast after attending her stellar presentation on the importance of creativity, and together they discuss the importance of playfulness, curiosity, and letting the mind wander. You’ll also hear them talk about the effect of physical space on creative ...
- Sep 30, 202447 min
S2 Ep9: Poetry in Everyday Life (w/Carlos Andrés Gómez)
In this episode, Kristin speaks with Carlos Andrés Gómez, an award-winning Colombian American poet and public speaker. Carlos worked with Writing Through during our first Great Lake Poets Express workshop in Cambodia’s Prek Toal Floating Village back in February of this year, an experience he now considers one of the highlights of his life. On the podcast, they discuss the childhood difficulties that shaped his present creative approach to life, his life-changing encounter with poet Martín Es...
- Aug 31, 202429 min
S2 Ep8: Express Yourself (w/ Andrea McKenna Brankin)
In this week’s episode, Kristin sits down with Andrea McKenna Brankin, a multitalented writer-journalist and long-time Writing Through facilitator based in Singapore. As someone who has always expressed herself creatively through words, fashion, and tattoos, Andrea now works to teach students to do the same, be it in poetry workshops, rugby matches, or yoga sessions. They discuss the difference in rigid and creative teaching styles and their effect on students’ learning, writing about her exp...
- Jul 31, 202435 min
S2 Ep7: Creativity Takes Many Forms (w/ Eugénie Munakarmi)
In this episode, Sue speaks to Eugénie Munakarmi, the COO of Enfants du Mekong (Children of the Mekong), an incredible French organization established back in 1958, that helps children all over South-East Asia. EdM was one of our first partners, so Sue and Eugénie have been friends a long time. This is the first time we have had someone on the podcast who didn’t consider themselves a particularly creative person, and so the discussion around why Sue wanted to speak to her and how she views he...
- Jun 30, 202431 min
S2 Ep6: Rediscovering the Joy of Creative Writing (w/ Lucia Orellana)
In this week’s episode, Sue interviews Lucia Orellana, an Ecuadorian social and clinical psychologist-turned-poet and one of Writing Through’s long-term volunteers. They discuss how living in different cultures, places, and languages can change you, the differences between writing poetry in English and Spanish, and the challenges one may face when translating between both languages. Lucia explains how she rediscovered her first joy of writing later in life and the interesting ways in wh...
- May 31, 202433 min
S2 Ep5: Finding the Melody in Music and Medicine (w/ Dr Lisa Wong)
In this week’s episode, Sue is joined by her friend, Dr Lisa Wong, a pediatrician, musician, teacher and musical education advocate. She explains the fascinating links between how and why playing music makes someone a better physician and how the skills that children learn playing instruments can later be applied to the study and practice of medicine. They also discuss the power of giving people of all ages permission to be curious, creative and experimental and how physicians in America have...
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