Podcast Episodes — Thought Row

  Episode 52: Farhan Niaz - Human Side of Customer Experience Rod and Inci start the show with a great quote from Walt Disney that everyone can relate to. They discuss the Power of Now and the book by Eckhardt Tolle and how you can adopt this strategy to help you maintain some sanity in these unusual times. Rod & Inci share some information related to customer experience and how it can greatly benefit every creative person in their endeavors, sales, and audience. This episode's guest knows what Customer Experience - CX is all about and how everyone is affected...

Episode 50: Debbie Dekleva - Saving the Monarch Butterfly Naturally Our guest Debbie Dekleva shares her life-long mission to save the Monarch Butterfly habitat.  You will learn what you can do to help save one of nature's most beautiful gifts when it comes to the butterfly. She is a strong advocate of cultivating milkweed, which is a natural resource with many beneficial uses. But it also just happens to be the place where Monarch Butterflies like to dine.  She talks about her organization Sustainable Monarch, discussing her passion for helping the Monarch Butterflies. Debbie shares with us her 30-year long...

  Episode 49: Deenagh Miller - Art, Creativity & the Creative Process In our conversations with the artist Deenagh Miller, we explore her career as a full-time artist. We also discuss with her what she learned as an art teacher about representational and non-representational art, art galleries, and the future of art. She also talks about her creative life in Italy. She explains her pen and ink drawings. She shares her philosophical views on being creative and has some advice for people that want to be more creative.   Deenagh says, " Images affect and influence our mood and state of mind whether...

Episode 48: Nisha Gupta Psychology of Creative Genius Is there such a thing as a creative genius? You'll be surprised what you'll hear in this in-depth discussion from a psychologist/professor that teaches creativity. Our guest Nisha Gupta discusses being a Liberation Psychologist, and an Arts-based Phenoma-logical Researcher. She shares with us her unique way of approaching creativity and thoughts on how art and creativity can facilitate healing in response to societal oppression. Nisha also discusses her dedication to understanding society's impact, on the individual and trying to cultivate societal or collective healing. Nisha, who is also a very talented artist,...

 Episode 47: Ken Bagnis - Former Rock Star, Turns Author & Psychotherapist Our guest Ken Bagnis discusses his former life as a rock star, and how his life took him down the path of becoming a psychotherapist, and then as a best selling author of novels for young adults. He shares his journey into his musical beginnings as a rock-n-roll singer to how his life evolved into a series of serendipities that led him into becoming an author. Ken Bagnis is an accomplished musician and practicing psychotherapist. He has been crafting stories and singing for rock-n-roll bands since his early...