Creative and Resilient Voices
Creative & Resilient Voices hosted by Dr. Kenya Nyota Lee, multi-hyphenate leader and creative
Where soulful storytelling meets bold strategy.
Each episode invites listeners into honest, heart-centered conversations about transformation, leadership, and defining joy and success on your own terms.
Through reflective solo episodes and rich dialogues with changemakers, artists, visionaries and everyday women navigating their own becoming, Creative & Resilient Voices celebrates the stories of those daring to remember who they are. It’s for the woman on the edge of change. The artist inside the strategist. The leader who longs to exhale. The dreamer who is done waiting for permission.
Themes include:
• Creativity in all its forms as an act of resilience
• Leadership and transformation in evolving times
• Navigating change, reclaiming authenticity, and redefining what it means to live with purpose.
• Healing, reinvention, and the stories that shape us
Join the Creative & Resilient community every other week for real conversations, soulful insight, and practical wisdom to help you design a life rooted in creativity, purpose, and joy.
In navigating challenges, new seasons of life, uncertainty, and the small quiet wins—we discover just how creative and resilient we really are.
Creative and Resilient Voices
We Are Born To Do Many Things (with Guest Photographer Priyanca Rao)
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In this episode of Creative & Resilient Voices, photographer Priyanca Rao reflects on sustaining a creative identity through the many chapters, roles, and pivots that shape a life. From artist to entrepreneur, mother, and partner, Priyanca shares how she is learning to define these roles for herself, leaving room for fluidity, grace, and adaptability rather than conforming to inherited or societal definitions.
Priyanca Rao is an internationally acclaimed portrait photographer based in New York City, celebrated for her creative use of light and evocative, story-driven imagery. Named Best Photographer in NYC by Photographer USA Magazine, she is a Top Fearless Wedding Photographer worldwide and a Wed Award and Weddison Award winner. Trained in fashion design at the London College of Fashion, Priyanca has worked across photography and fashion since 2003 and was ranked among the Top 50 Photographers in the World by Fearless Photographers in 2023. Beyond portraits, she documents women’s stories through street and documentary photography. She is also a mentor and educator, passionate about supporting photographers in refining their artistic voice.
Contact Priyanca Rao:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyancarao/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/priyancarao/
Website: https://priyanca.com
Substack: https://priyancarao.substack.com
Where you can find Dr. Kenya Nytoa Lee, host of Creative and Resilient Voices:
Substack: https://creativeandresilient.substack.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenyanyotalee/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenya_the_pathfinder/#
About Dr. Kenya Nyota Lee
Dr. Kenya Nyota Lee is a storyteller, leader, and strategist whose work explores creativity, resilience, leadership, and the deeply human process of becoming. Through essays, conversations, and community gatherings, she creates spaces where women can reflect on their journeys, recognize themselves in one another’s stories, and step forward with greater clarity and courage.
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Your story matters. Your creativity in all its forms is sacred. Your resilience is your superpower.