Episode 63 || Cultivating Creativity

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How do you raise creative kids? Do small towns foster creativity better than big cities do? Annie and guest Emily McKenna chat about these questions, plus book hangover and what they're reading right now. Emily is the product developer for Everfan, a superhero and imaginative play company located right above The Bookshelf in Thomasville. Emily is also the owner of You're Maker, where she teaches classes to adults and children. Books mentioned in today's episode: - Imagine by Jonah Lehrer - Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (plus the Austin Family Chronicles and Walking on Water - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy - Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warlick (preorder here) Plus, Chip Kidd's TED talk, and How to review the podcast on iTunes. Full show notes here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 63 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.
0:10.3	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:16.5	And today I'm joined by Emily McKenna.
0:19.1	Emily is an entrepreneur and the product developer
0:21.7	Forever Fan, a superhero cape company that actually shares buildings with the bookshelf.
0:27.3	Today we'll be chatting about entrepreneurship, making, our favorite books for creatives,
0:32.4	and of course what we're reading right now. Before we get started, this is your friendly weekly reminder to
0:38.8	rate and review us on iTunes. If you are an avid listener of the podcast, we would love to know what
0:44.0	you think. And every rating or review that we get on iTunes helps us spread the word about the
0:50.0	bookshelf and about from the front porch. So there's a link in the show notes that will take you
0:54.2	to some directions, help you figure out how to rate and review us. It's a simple, easy process. It
0:59.0	only takes a couple of seconds. And I do hope you will do that for us so that we can spread the
1:03.1	word about what we're doing here in Thomasville. All right, let's go ahead and get started. Hi, Emily. Hello.
1:09.9	Welcome to my home. It's awesome. It's really cute.
1:13.2	Oh, thank you. Okay, I'm super excited to have you on the podcast because you're actually the first
1:18.9	ever fan person to be on the podcast, which is weird because y'all are our neighbors.
1:24.4	Neighbors and former. Yeah. So I probably should have Scott on at some point.
1:30.5	But I wanted to talk to you about Everfan, especially this week.
1:34.2	Y'all had some pretty exciting news.
1:36.5	MSNBC.
1:37.4	Yes.
1:37.7	Came to interview Scott and did you get to be interviewing?
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