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The Creative Innovators Podcast, hosted by Dr. Gigi Johnson, explored how creative leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers reinvent their work and careers. Across more than 40 episodes, we captured candid conversations on nonlinear careers, creative pivots, music innovation, entrepreneurship, and resilience.
This archive preserves those conversations for new audiences, students, and partners who want to learn from real-world stories of adaptation and reinvention. You can enjoy the show on your favorite podcast players or at Acast.
Archive of Creative Innovators from around the world
- Full transcripts of all 49 episodes.
- Thematic hubs on nonlinear careers, music & innovation, and creative entrepreneurship.
- Searchable access by guest, topic, or industry.
Launching Adventure Guide to a Nonlinear Life
The ideas sparked in this series now continue in Adventure Guide to a Nonlinear Life at Rethink Next. There, you’ll find new episodes, interactive tools, and guided activities to map your own zigzags.
Start with the Nonlinear Careers Hub and see how these stories connect to your own path.
Your Host: Dr. Gigi Johnson
Dr. Gigi Johnson designs futures programs that help creators and organizations navigate AI-driven change. Through Rethink Next, she builds experiences and labs that blend systems thinking, creative practice, and agentic AI. She ran the UCLA Center for Music Innovation and co-founded the global virtual conference series Amplify Music. Earlier, she produced media foresight programs while teaching MBAs and executives at UCLA Anderson, after financing media-sector M&A at Bank of America.
