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.
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Your Creative Midlife
Yes, You Can Learn to Play the Violin as an Adult
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Do you wish you had taken (or stuck with) music lessons as a kid? Or maybe you didn’t have the opportunity for lessons and now wonder if it is too late. In this episode, I talk with Elle Littlefield, an entrepreneur and classical music lover. Elle Littlefield grew up playing violin through the Suzuki method. But like so many of us, she put music aside for other things. Now she is returning to the instrument as an adult, playing alongside her kids. Elle and I sit down to talk about her relearning classical music as an adult, music and brain health, and so much more.
About the guest:
Elle Littlefield is the founder of CareerWell, a company that teaches job seekers how to master their job search to promote career growth and reduce career stress. She holds a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Columbia University. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Columbia Alumni Association, the university-wide association across all 18 schools, where she also chairs the Mentorship and Networking Committee. Elle is a lifelong lover of violin, which she has returned to playing in adulthood.
Music in this episode: La Campanella by Paganini.
Links:
International Suzuki Association: https://internationalsuzuki.org/method
Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Saves Lives by Daisy Fancourt: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250364531/artcure/
Interview with John-Morgan Bush, Dean of Juilliard Extension School: https://youtu.be/m-6R15awqJM?si=lrpF_E3wzqyOf15X
Columbia School of General Studies: https://www.gs.columbia.edu/
Learn more about Elle Littlefield https://mycareerwell.com/about
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