New Podcast, Who Dis?

Quick Notes and Links:

Check in: I miss streaming. A lot. Shout out to silver, jokes, devilspidey, alex, mafia, octavia, rafie, nicole, chara, mandy, artie, chocoboninja/ninjahappenings — everybody who participated. You all make me so happy.

But, podcasting is something I’ve really wanted to jump into. Michael Porter is an academic and business strategist who said, “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” I am reading a book about him called, Understanding Michael Porter, The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy. It goes into detail about businesses and how they can strategize their endeavors. In my case, streaming on Twitch was something I needed to stop doing (for now, not forever) so that I can focus on developing the other parts of Creative4evr that have priority.

Main Show: An About Me - Giving you some insight into who I am, what my background in creativity is. My hope is that you can connect with something I share about myself and that we can start to get to know one another. I would love to hear about your artsy younger self, what you have been doing to stay creative over the years when you’re not at work. Anything you want to tell me. Send an email to [e-mail], or reach out Twitter or Insta @Creative4evr.

Don’t forget to be creative this week. Even if you just think about it. Later.

Full Show Notes:

Hey, hi and hello! Welcome to Creative4evr. The podcast dedicated to keeping you forever inspired, forever motivated, forever creative, and forever YOU.  I am your host, Janet, a.k.a. Jai//Em, a.k.a. the voice inside your head, a.k.a. your biggest fan, and together we’re going to get some creative shit done.

First up! A quick check-in.

So the check in this week is that I miss streaming. A lot. So a little about that… I started live streaming on Twitch, which is a platform that allows people to hook their computers, or cameras, or mics up to the Twitch website in order to live broadcast whatever they are doing. I started doing this over a year ago. There is a section that allows anyone watching to send text messages that everyone can see, and the streamer can respond to those messages in real time. It’s fucking awesome. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, you won’t ever be on, or near Twitch so don’t even worry about it. But I really enjoy doing it. People use the site to broadcast video games as they play them, and right now the Just Chatting section is blowing up, meaning that people are signing on and just talking to whoever shows up in chat about whatever they want.

I used Twitch to talk about being creative— shocker! I would live stream my writing and share art. I started out live editing my book, then started working on the fantasy book I am currently writing, and we always had sharing time where I read other peoples stories. So they would send to me and I’d pull it up for everyone to see. I’d read it out loud, then give a little feedback. It was awesome because it allowed me to read what other people were developing and it gave the writer a chance to hear their work out loud, to get feedback from me or other people in chat. Honestly it’s one of the coolest creative things I’ve ever been a part of. It’s everything I believe in— meeting other creatives, building relationships with them, sharing work and ideas, motivating each other, laughing and listening to music, hanging out with people that get your jokes. I love it so much and have been lucky enoug