Happy to your most original thinking, organize your ideas, and create the opportunities to launch your creative work.

Unlocking your world of creativity, with best-selling author and brand innovator, Mark Stinson.

Welcome back friends to our podcast, unlocking your world of creativity.

And as we approach our episode number 200 of the podcast and over 100,000 downloads, we've just been so fortunate to travel around the world talking to creatives about how they get inspired and how they organize their ideas and most of all how they gain the confidence and connections that launch their work out into the world.

And today's guest is right in line with that. It's combining all sorts of creative expressions and hip-hop and rap and creative writing, music production, and also then expressing that creativity and helping others through mentorship.

It's a lie. Thank you so much to have me. I'm happy to be on here. Creativity has just brought so much diversity and nourishment into my own life.

And it's great to have an opportunity to share about that and connect with some folks that are either following the creative path already or tentatively getting started on it.

Well, and I think no matter where we are in our creative journey, we always want to figure out either what the next turn is or what the next way to elevate our craft. So it'll be great to talk about that.

Now, you've got your own kind of moniker. I was noticing this idea of the Prince of opposites. And we're always using both sides of our brain. There's opposites in our work sometimes. How do you feel that you've embraced that idea of opposites?

To me, when I kind of look out at life, the universal world, everything, it seems to fall on a general spectrum of light and dark, hot and cold, masculine feminine. There's all these different polarities. And it's quite the experience trying to figure out where do I fit into all of this and trying to identify with who am I and all this this journey and this life and this experience.

And to me, it just kind of seemed like a natural expression of like, I'm not one thing. I'm many different things and I want to embody this full spectrum, this full richness of who I am and not be limited, especially when it comes to my creative process. And you know, a lot of artists as they grow, they kind of get pigeonholed into their stand and their style and they kind of have to conform a little bit to staying with that to maintain their fan base.

And I really wanted to build it in right from the start of like, hey, like I can go any direction. I'm, I'm a multifaceted being.

Yeah, you may not ever know what to expect.

Exactly. Exactly. We got to keep people on their toes. There you go. Well, let's talk about a couple of the projects you're working on. Maybe we start on the right hand side. You've got a novel that's recently debuted.

So I have some chapters out online available now. And then I'm currently working on the second draft and a novel is definitely a big undertaking.

But I'm really happy with the process. I tell you a little bit about it. It's currently titled the Jesse wish, although I think I actually might change that at some point, just because I came up with that name early on.

It doesn't quite fit the language of the story anymore, but it's this story about essentially these rat people and they live in this world covered in garbage.

And really, that's just kind of like, you know, a bit of the imagery, but on a deeper level, it's about finding meaning and belonging in a decaying world.

And so I definitely have some elements of dystopian fiction in there, post apocalyptic, some cyberpunk elements. I really love sci-fi and fantasy for the way that they have kind of taken on this role of modern mythology.

And at least, you know, stuff that has the substance, some of it's just for entertainment, which is fun too.

But so I'm really inspired by that of writing a story that can capture a bit of our time and our place right here and aim for the future of what is possible.

You know, how do we navigate all of this? So it can be, it's definitely a bit of an intense novel because it's a pretty intense time to be alive.

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