The Creativity Roots Podcast

Creativity Roots - Episode 20 by Ronald Paredes 

I first met Yolanda through a social media art group when she was making a call for volunteers to …

Creativity Roots - Episode 19 by Ronald Paredes 

Note: For those listeners located in mainland China the podcast is accessible by using a VPN connection. 

At the moment of recording this podcast, we are celebrating …

Creativity Roots - Episode 18 by Ronald Paredes 

After a year that closed with struggles that prevented me from producing the podcast regularly, The …

Creativity Roots - Episode 17 - hosted by Ronald Paredes
I was in search of somebody who could give me a perspective from the position of a student …

Creativity Roots - Episode 16 by Ronald Paredes
After all the tragic events that keep happening under our noses I can’t help to think that we have failed to ourselves, we have fallen victims of our own ignorance, our …

Creativity Roots - Episode 15 by Ronald Paredes
In this episode I reflect on my own experience teaching to a group of highly unmotivated and …

Creativity Roots - Episode 14 by Ronald Paredes
Like money, fame should never be the purpose for doing anything in life, since the arrival of the …

Creativity Roots - Episode 13 by Ronald Paredes
Have you ever being so afraid of being judged or criticized?
Criticism is one of the biggest inhibitors that creators and pretty much everybody face, every single person in …

Creativity Roots - Episode 12 by Ronald Paredes
Today is September 30th, and we are celebrating #InternationalPodcastDay. It is a good day to think about the reasons why we started podcasting, obviously we all have …

Creativity Roots - Episode 11 by Ronald Paredes
Chef Nino at the Pacific Restaurant at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing is without a question one of the most interesting people I have met in all my years in China, his …

Creativity Roots - Episode 10 by Ronald Paredes
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Given the importance of developing a sense of identity I feel is …

Creativity Roots - Episode 9 by Ronald Paredes
Conversation with Benj Kinenga Mushila, Congolese visual artist and painter
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Creativity Roots - Episode 8 by Ronald Paredes
Identity is probably the most important aspect of an individual, it is what helps us identify ourselves with the different social groups we interact with, giving us a sense …

Creativity Roots - Episode 7 by Ronald Paredes
Conversation with Sabine Ichikawa Ph.D., researcher, conference speaker, developer of programs in luxury and creative industries in Europe & Asia, currently living and …

Creativity Roots Summary Episode 1-5 by Ronald Paredes
After reaching the episode number 5 I wanted to make a summary of the topic we touched in the previous episodes to remind ourselves of those things that we know so …

Creativity Roots - Episode 5 - hosted by Ronald Paredes

Success is one of the most difficult and challenging aspects of our life. There are external …

Failure can be either a perception or an attitude and it only happens in our brain and later it manifest in our life.
We must understand how failure was first implanted in our mind as a concept at a very early age, how …

Creativity Roots - Episode 3 - hosted by Ronald Paredes
I closed the previous episode with the claim that creativity makes us better human beings, which sounds a lot like self-help voodoo, since that’s not what we are …

I can not think of a better way to start making the case of creativity being not only an essential part of our existence but in fact a human need, than talking about Maslow and his pyramid of human needs.
The American …

The Creativity Roots Podcast hosted by Ronald Paredes - Episode 1

I wanted to start by giving a brief introduction about who I am, what I have been doing as a professional creative and my motivations behind hosting a …