Moving through creative anxiety, a meta episode (featuring Amena Brown)

In the final episode of this season of Wake Up & Create, Amena Brown gets together with Chantae Cann and Scotty Crowe to listen to a clip from her own CreativeMornings talk on anxiety. The three then share how they wrestle, work with, and use anxiety during the creative process and why it always se…

Bringing your story to where you live (featuring Marian Lou)

There are some places in a city that are unlike anywhere else. They offer a strong and entirely unique sense of place. One such locale in Atlanta is Buford Highway. Listen as We Love Buford Highway founder Marian Liou explains how Buford Highway can only exist in Atlanta but is simultaneously a pla…

The constant decision to endure (featuring Samantha Ramirez-Herrera)

Samantha Ramirez-Herrera finds strength in enduring. In this roundtable episode, Chantae Cann Meagan Guite, and Dustin Pead listen to the Atlanta-based entrepreneur, storyteller, director, and founder of Off Tha Record as she examines the role endurance plays in her life. Then Chantae, Meagan, and …

Working with criticism (featuring Black Cat Tips)

Creating work on behalf of someone else exercises a few more muscles than when creating for ourselves. One of those muscles is taking feedback and returning to the work to incorporate requested changes. Muralist, painter, and poet Black Cat Tips talks with host Chantae Cann about how he handles cri…

Staying rooted in your work (featuring Lauren Tate Baeza)

Roots help define us and the objects we interact with. Listen in as the High Museum’s curator of African Art, Lauren Tate Baeza, shares how her roots have shaped her and why viewing a piece of art or historical object where it was created is so important.   For more episodes, visit: https://www.w…

Magic isn’t real…unless it is! (featuring Kevin Gillese)

Successful creative projects are inevitably the culmination of hours of hard work, frustration, and revision. By the time it reaches an audience, it may seem to them to have come together magically. In this roundtable discussion, Meagan Guite joins local creatives Dustin Pead and Chantae Cann to li…

Dancing and designing (featuring Moksha Rao)

At first glance, the Venn diagram of “Product Designer” and “Indian Dancer-Contortionist” may not seem to have much overlap. But, as Moksha Rao shares with host Meagan Guite, she’s found the two pursuits complement each other in unexpected ways.   For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/po…

Overcoming the fear of failure (featuring Wade Thompson)

When creative director Wade Thompson thought about failure, it had become a kind of corporate buzzword and lost its meaning. That is, until he took a step back and reexamined his relationship with it. For more episodes, visit: https://www.wabe.org/podcasts/wakeupandcreate/ For more info on Cre…

Summoning the muse of courage (featuring Rohit Malhotra)

Where is the intersection of creativity and civic engagement? Rohit Malhotra, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Civic Innovation, found it while exploring the ancient Greek myth of Muses. In this roundtable episode, Amena Brown, singer/songwriter Chantae Cann and WABE’s own Scotty Cr…

Building community through poetry (featuring Theresa Davis)

When Theresa Davis isn’t writing poems, she’s writing books, teaching, and facilitating community through poetry slams and open mic-burlesque mashups. Listen as she talks with host Amena Brown about navigating pandemic shutdowns, fear of failure, and finding inspiration in Atlanta. For more epi…