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Last updated: August 31, 2025

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Creative Innovators Episodes

Music + India plus Ritnika Nayan

Music + India plus Ritnika Nayan

Question: How do you connect independent artists and music business in India as a young woman?Guest: Ritnika Nayan, Managing Director, Downtown India; Owner: Music Gets Me HighRitnika Nayan shares stories about her passion: helping indie artists succeed and make money...

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Building Campfires with Arturo O’Farrill

Building Campfires with Arturo O’Farrill

Question: How can you build campfires, mixing music and social activism? Guest: Arturo O'Farrill, Founder, Artistic Director, Afro Latin Jazz Alliance; Professor, Global Jazz Studies, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and...

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Ceremony and Story with Beatie Wolfe

Ceremony and Story with Beatie Wolfe

Question: What if you could pursue the creative projects that you already saw in the world? In this episode, Beatie Wolfe takes us through her creative journey to become the technologist and artist she is today. Back when she was 7 or 8, she began to imagine the...

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Pirates, Magicians, and Wizards with Megan Elliott

Pirates, Magicians, and Wizards with Megan Elliott

Megan Elliott shares her journey from Australia and indigenous cultural media to trade union representation in Ireland to traveling across Asia connecting leaders and cultures . . before she was found on LinkedIn to bring her superpowers to Nebraska. She tells of the...

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Innovation is Messy with Jack Conte

Innovation is Messy with Jack Conte

Jack Conte blends the worlds of music creation (Pomplamoose and the funk band Scary Pockets) and solving creators' problems with systems (crowdfunding and community with Patreon). He shares how he balances (or doesn't balance at times) creating music with running a...

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Everything Old is New Again with Ted Cohen

Everything Old is New Again with Ted Cohen

This week on the Creative Innovators with Gigi Johnson podcast, we are joined by Ted Cohen, who shared tales of doing things for the right reasons and seeing decades ago the dimensions of our current music streaming playlists and challenges. He talks about genuineness...

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Livestreaming and Live Connecting with Dmitri Vietze

Livestreaming and Live Connecting with Dmitri Vietze

A year ago, Dmitri Vietze launched a new thought leadership conference on music technology in Los Angeles and had to move it with one day's notice. This year, he has moved his whole thought leadership with Music Tectonics online with virtual conferences and community...

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