Your Creative Midlife
Your Creative Midlife. With host Betsy Bush.
I’m talking to people who are exploring the creative life post-career or as empty nesters: painting, writing, making music, theater, and film making. What about you? Is this the time to write that book? Return to arts you enjoyed as a kid or teen? Curious to try something new?
Here’s the thing: It’s never too late to bring a creative practice into your life. My guests talk about the satisfaction they find as they develop their new skills. They also share the uncertainty and fear they felt when they started and the confidence they gained as they kept at it and their skills developed. Even better: their definition of success is their own. Where do you want to go? Dare to follow your muse.
Have a creative journey to share? Please get in touch via our website contact page, www.yourcreativemidlife.com
Episodes
21 episodes
Did a Family Ghost Lure Me to Nantucket? A Special Episode with Betsy Bush
For the last Nantucket edition of the year, I’m sharing a personal story that kind of fits with the spooky season of Halloween. It’s the story of my first visit to Nantucket, only five years ago during COVID, when the island was shut down...
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Enjoy this Replay with Astrologer and Tarot Reader Suzanne Keating!
Enjoy this Replay with Astrologer and Tarot Reader Suzanne Keating!Summer can offer us time to contemplate the future and imagine life changes. If you are on Nantucket, you might consider consulting Suzanne Keating. She's an astrologer w...
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Supporting Midlife Creativity in a Judgement Free Zone: Nantucket Island School of Design and Art
Is there a connection between the relaxed vibe of Nantucket Island School of Design and Art (NISDA) and its way of inspiring creativity in midlife? This farm-turned-art workshop, with its silos and outbuildings on Wauwinet Road, feels lik...
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Writing with Purpose and the Magic of Nantucket: How Nancy Thayer Published 35 Bestsellers
Why is Nantucket such a powerful setting for novels about renewal and reinvention? The island seems to be a place where life can change in the course of a summer, especially for those in midlife facing an empty nest or a change in a relationshi...
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50 Years of Nantucket Arts and Creativity with Charley Walters
Charley Walters proves that you don’t have to create art to be immersed in it. Over the 50 years he has lived on Nantucket, Charley has become a guiding presence in the island’s evolving arts scene.In this episode, he recounts his ...
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The Joys of Rock Music in Midlife: The Story of Cranberry Alarm Clock, Beatles Cover Band
How many of you out there have dreams of forming a rock group with your pals playing the music you love? In this episode, members of the Nantucket-based Beatles cover band, Cranberry Alarm Clock, discuss their recent experience traveling to Liv...
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Write Your Memoir So That Others Will Read It with Sarah Saffian
“What an interesting life you’ve led. You should write a book.” Has anyone ever told you that? Or maybe you’ve thought this about your own life? There are many reasons to write a memoir. You may find it cathartic ...
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Your Midlife Is Vibrant – Write About It! with Stella Fosse
Stella Fosse retired from her biotech career ten years ago and started writing. Her work encompasses a surprising range, from blogs to novels to non-fiction guides for midlife women who want to write their own stories filled with love and...
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Blending Business and Art with John Kneapler, Painter
Discovering your creative outlet can be beneficial on many levels. Just ask John Kneapler, who found that painting helped him through the death of both parents. Then the impact of COVID on his graphic design business led him to move...
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A Different Way of Knowing with Astrologer Suzanne Keating
Summer can offer us time to contemplate the future and imagine life changes. If you are on Nantucket, you might consider consulting Suzanne Keating. She's an astrologer with a longstanding practice on the island. With interest in astrolog...
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No Rules, Endless Possibilities: Collage Artist Lela Goldstein
Sometimes the first step in your midlife creative journey is to look back at the things you loved as a kid. For Lela Goldstein, it was building on her love of paper, images, colors and patterns that led her to explore the world of collage. As s...
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Reliving Nantucket’s nautical past with the Shanty Singers
The popular Shanty Cruise offers a unique experience for visitors and locals alike—evoking the spirit of long-ago ship crews who sang these working songs as they hoisted sails and weighed anchor. For anyone exploring creative pursuits in mid...
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Finding Joy in the Creative Process with Photographer Lynn Savarese
Lynn Savarese, a Harvard-trained lawyer, discovered her love of photography when she took a beginner's photography class at Manhattan’s 92nd Street Y. Soon after, she volunteered to photograph taxidermied birds at the American Natural History M...
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On the Isle Community Theater with Kathi Loughlin
Your Creative Midlife – Nantucket EditionYour Creative Midlife is visiting Nantucket for special episodes this summer. Nantucket is a beautiful wedge of sand 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. Just 14 miles long and 7 miles wide,...
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From Lawyer to Playwright: How Dan Moretti Got His Plays Produced
Dan Moretti is a lawyer in New York City who is finding success as a playwright. During COVID, Dan started writing one-act plays, which have since been produced by New York theater workshop groups with professional actors. His plays...
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Share your passion for art: how a retired dentist became a docent at the Met with Deborah Pilla, DDS
After a 33-year career as a pediatric dentist, Manhattan-based Dr. Deborah Pilla took on a challenge that rewards her love of art and of learning: becoming a docent and a school programs guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her wor...
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35:16
Revive Your Theater Career: One couple shares how in their 60’s they are landing parts and directing plays. With Steve Taylor and Kathleen Mahan. Ep.4
They met in tap dancing class in NYC as young theater hopefuls. Marriage, babies and a move to the suburbs followed. But they never lost their love of theater. Now, post retirement, they are finding their way back to the st...
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36:38
Pick up your childhood violin again – seriously! Join the “late starters” finding joy in making music with Elena Rahona Ep.3
For anyone who regrets quitting their music lessons when they were little and assumes it’s too late to go back, please listen to Elena Rahona talk about founding the New York Late Starters Orchestra, modeled on a similar one in London. “L...
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27:48
Graham Broyd (Extended Version), the unexpected author: How youthful adventures caught a publisher’s eye and turned a banker into a writer
Extended Version of Episode 2Graham Broyd thought he’d write down the stories of his adventures as a 20-year-old from the UK hitchhiking across the United States, stories he’d been telling friends for decades. Through a series of i...
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Graham Broyd, the unexpected author: How youthful adventures caught a publisher’s eye and turned a banker into a writer
Graham Broyd thought he’d write down the stories of his adventures as a 20-year-old from the UK hitchhiking across the United States, stories he’d been telling friends for decades. Through a series of improbable events, Forbes publishing ...
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Cherie Corso: Getting out there with her artwork—and selling successfully
After many turns as a marketing and media entrepreneur, Cherie Corso turned her energy and talent to abstract painting, with great results. Just two years in, she’s exhibiting her canvases, making sales, and even donating a few to charities for...
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