This series of shows celebrate the launch of Nellie's newest book Making Opportunity Knock, the first volume of her Mining Your Resources series. In this episode of "Making Opportunity Knock with Barbara Turner-Vesselago", our guest discusses how she made opportunity knock for herself, how she makes it knock for others - and she shares ways you, too, can make it happen. Barbara is an author, former journalist, academic and editor, who for more than twenty years has taught FreefallWriting® Workshops privately and through universities in Canada, the US, Europe, and Australia.  Her novel No News But Kindness was a finalist for the Chapters/Robertson Davies manuscript prize.  She has published 2 books, Skelton at Sixty (The Porcupine’s Quill) and Freefall: Writing Without a Parachute (The Writing Space), and numerous feature articles in The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and other publications.  She has taught at the University of Cambridge, Toronto, Jos, Washington and Western Australia, and worked as freelance editor for Oxford University Press, University of Ottawa Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and Holt Rinehart and Winston, and has a Ph.D. in modern literature from the University of Cambridge.  She is the 2010 winner of England’s Short Story Radio First Chapter Competitionz:  http://www.freefallwriting.com. To be interviewed for this series, pitch why you would make an excellent guest. To submit/ find out what is required of guests, follow the contact link on Nellie's website homepage: http://www.ignitingimagination.com.

Igniting Imagination with Nellie Jacobs

Episode #34-Making Opportunity Knock with Barbara Turner

This series of shows celebrate the launch of Nellie's newest book “Making Opportunity Knock”, the first volume of her Mining Your Resources series.  In this episode of "Making Opportunity Knock with Beverly R. Down", our guest discusses how she made opportunity knock for herself, how she makes it knock for others - and she shares ways you, too, can make it happen. Beverly is a visionary and trendsetter in the field of creativity coaching. Her work is helping to shift the currently held narrow definitions of what it means to be a creative person. Beverly passionately believes that today, more than ever, people have the opportunity to use their creative, right brain thinking for personal fulfillment, prosperity and worldwide service. She is a certified creativity coach, author, speaker, workshop developer and the CEO of the Creativity Coaching Association, an international group of professionally trained creativity coaches: http://www.creativitycoachingassociation If you would like to be interviewed for this series, pitch why you would make an excellent guest. To submit and find out what is required of guests, follow the contact link on Nellie's website homepage: http://www.ignitingimagination.com.

Episode #33 Making Opportunity Knock with Beverly Down

This series of shows celebrate the launch of Nellie's newest book Making Opportunity Knock, the first volume of her Mining Your Resources series.   In this episode of "Making Opportunity Knock with MartIn Gertler and Mechele Flaum, our guest, who are principals of marketing consultancy BoomerHead, discuss how they made opportunity knock for themselves, for others-and share ways you can make it happen. BoomerHead is a marketing consultancy that helps clients to understand the dynamics and relevance of the Baby Boomer market. Founder of The Gertler Group, Marty has helped B2B and B2C companies with positioning, marketing, messaging and corporate communications. Previously he spent nearly two decades at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in New York. Mechele was Chief FireStarter at Marketing Fire, where she worked with Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial clients. Previously, she served as president of Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve: http://boomerheadconsulting.coml.To be interviewed for this series, pitch why you would make an excellent guest. To submit and find out what is required of guests, follow the contact link on Nellie's website homepage: http://www.ignitingimagination.com.

Episode #32: Making Opportunity Knock w/Martin Gertler & Mechele Flaum

Celebrating the launch of Nellie's "Making Opportunity Knock", the first volume in her Mining Your Resources series of books and workshops, and in honour of World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 (now celebrated in more than 105 communities in 46 countries), award-winning, world-reknown creativity guru Marci Segal, co-founder of WCIW discusses how she has made opportunity knock and offers ways to make it happen: http://www.marcisegal.com.If you would like to be interviewed for this series, pitch why you would make an excellent guest. To submit and find out what is required of guests, follow the contact link on Nellie's website homepage: http://www.ignitingimagination.com. 

Episode #31: Making Opportunity Knock with Marci Segal

Calling all Creativity/Innovation Professionals, Coaches, Facilitators and Creative Business People. Do you work in a creative environment? Do you help people with creative ideas? Do you help people access their creativity? Are you a creativity coach? In honour of World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, now celebrated in 106 communities and 43 countries, Creativityland Inc. CEO and WCIW co-founder Marci Segal co-hosts two episodes. We invite you to share your specific solutions, experience and opinions for any of the following: 1. What is a creative environment? How do you define it? What do you need to be at your creative best? How do you/can we develop a creative environment to promote day-to-day creative-thinking and solutions at home, school and in business? (You can refer to physical space, attitudes, systems, beliefs, etc.) 2. What are the common obstacles and fears people commonly face when called to use their creativity? What solutions do you have? 3. What strategies are available for people to access their creativity? 4. In what ways are you creative? In what ways do you contribute to the creative process/outcomes for others? Each caller has 3-4 minutes to offer specific, useful details to our listeners; or, Send your responses in advance. Fill out the form on my website: http://bit.ly/blsk9z . Your contribution may be read on air. You and your story may be mentioned in my book-in-progress about mining creativity, with acknowledgement and reference to your contact information. Please forward to anyone in your network who might be interested in participating.

Episode #30: Creativity & Innovation in Our Homes, Schools & Workplaces.

Episode #29- Creativity & Innovation in Our Homes, Schools & Workplaces.

This is the third show with this special format. Current and future entrepreneurs participate in this special Broadcast!! Co-Host: Gail M. Kearns (To Press & Beyond). Entrepreneurs from all over North Americal and offshore share their stories in 3/4 minutes, tell the audience their name, what they do, what product(s) and/or service(s) they offer that developed as a result of their passion, how they came about to create it/them, their target market, how they market and their contact information/website. Future entrepreneurs call to ask questions re ideas or inspiration about creatively turning their passions into products or services. Nellie reads several of the scores of inspiring submissions she's received so far. If you haven't already done it, through Nellie's website send in your stories answering the questions above or making your request. Nellie might read them or contact you about appearing on future shows, or for permission to include you and your story, product/service in an upcoming book about mining creativity.

Episode 28-Starring YOU!! Turning Your Passion into Products & Services

This is the second show with this special format. Current and future entrepreneurs participate in this special Broadcast!! Co-Host: Derrick Hayes. Entrepreneurs from all over North Americal and offshore share their stories in 3/4 minutes, tell the audience their name, what they do, what product(s) and/or service(s) they offer that developed as a result of their passion, how they came about to create it/them, their target market, how they market and their contact information/website. Future entrepreneurs call to ask questions re ideas or inspiration about creatively turning their passions into products or services. Nellie reads several of the scores of inspiring submissions she's received so far. If you haven't already done it, through Nellie's website send in your stories answering the questions above or making your request. Nellie might read them or contact you about appearing on future shows, or for permission to include you and your story, product/service in an upcoming book about mining creativity.

Episode 27-Starring YOU!! Turning Your Passion into Products & Services

Current and future entrepreneurs participate in this special Broadcast!! Co-Host: Claire Sookman. Entrepreneurs from all over North Americal and offshore share their stories in 3/4 minutes, tell the audience their name, what they do, what product(s) and/or service(s) they offer that developed as a result of their passion, how they came about to create it/them, their target market, how they market and their contact information/website. Future entrepreneurs call to ask questions re ideas or inspiration about creatively turning their passions into products or services. Nellie reads several of the scores of inspiring submissions she's received so far. If you haven't already done it, through Nellie's website send in your stories answering the questions above or making your request. Nellie might read them or contact you about appearing on future shows, or for permission to include you and your story, product/service in an upcoming book about mining creativity.

Episode 26-Starring YOU!! Turning Your Passion into Products & Services

Nellie Jacobs chats with Jurgen Wolff. Movie & television scriptwriter. Author. NLP Practitioner. Hypnotist. Writing Coach. Television Consultant. Journalist. Teacher. In this interview, Jurgen offers 10 suggestions to achieve your creative potential. He frankly shares the road he travelled to become the prolific producer he is today with innumerable books, newspaper and magazine articles, movie screenplays and radio and television programs to his credit. Jurgen wrote scripts for such beloved television shows as Family Ties, Benson, Relic Hunter, The Ted Knight Show, The Love Boat, Too Close for Comfort, and many, many more. Among his broadcasts are drama and sitcom pilots such as Lukas, the animated comedy series Norman Normal, and The Secret life of Thomas B. His plays include "Waiting Tables" and the award-winning "Fire in the Factory".

Episode 25-Jurgen Wolff: Passion. Purpose. Practise. Product.

Best-selling author, award-winning artist ( former TV host and elementary teacher) Nellie Jacobs is Consultant to Creatives, inspiring individuals to Ignite their Imagination, Mine their Resources, and Make Opportunity Knock. Nellie interviews vibrant, imaginative personalities who entertain and educate. All shows are archived for your listening pleasure at your leisure. Each episode is numbered and themed. For true inspiration, listen to the entire series. JUST RELEASED: Inspirational, self-help book: "Making Opportunity Knock"! For full details, visit Nellie's website: http://www.nelliejacobs.com

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