The official letter from The Innovation Doctor. Your weekly prescription of practical creativity to get your ideas unstuck.
🎙️ Was your 'wrong' path the right one?
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Hey Reader, Three years into The Innovation Doctor, I’ve been looking back at the seed that started it all. It wasn't a straight line. This week's lab notes are about the beautiful detour that led me here. Dear Creativity, I don't think there was ever a time we weren't in conversation. But looking back, our partnership has had distinct seasons. When I first took the brave step of leaving my teaching career, we were hand-in-hand. That "teacher gap year" was a whirlwind of experiments with you: creativity challenges, maker spaces, learning to get comfortable on video. The plan was a business called Edstoria. But when I went back to teaching, trying to juggle both proved to be too much. Edstoria, the path I thought was the path, turned out to be the wrong one for that season. Yet, that "wrong" path was the very thing that opened the door for The Innovation Doctor to take seed. It wasn't a failure; it was the required coursework. And now, all these years later, I feel us hand-in-hand again, on the precipice of something extraordinary. It’s that same feeling—the one that brings you chills because you know it's right, and you are terrified, yet excited for what is to come next. What beautiful detours have we all taken that were secretly the direct path to who we are today? Innovatively yours, “From the Studio” is where The Innovation Doctor shares her weekly lab notes. The call-in lines are always open. If you have a question or a story for the Doctor, you can leave a message for her right here. |
The Doctor Is in // From the Studio
The official letter from The Innovation Doctor. Your weekly prescription of practical creativity to get your ideas unstuck.
Hey Reader, The work I'm doing on my new zine has unlocked something profound—a memory that has reshaped my entire business. I'm excited to share it with you in this week's letter from the studio. Practicing setting up my cameras in my Creative Studio/Home Office to go live on YouTube. Dear Creativity, This is it. For weeks, I’ve been untangling signals, evolving the vibe I want to bring to the world. It all started with a simple idea for a zine. Working on this little paper book, I realized...
Hey Reader, I'm in the middle of running my Next Move Incubator, and this week, my own participants taught me a powerful lesson about my own next idea. More in this week's letter. Cover page of my 8-page zine lo-fi prototype in progress. Dear Creativity, Three weeks into my incubator, it was time for me to move on my own idea: a polished digital zine, a small step toward a future book. I was ready to dive deep. And then, I was humbled. The participants in my own program encouraged me to move...
Hey Reader, I was all geared up to host a live play experience in my community this week... and it turned into something completely different. I wrote about the beautiful lesson I learned from a party for one. Explorong my new Ohuhu alcohol markers with my A brighther year tiny coloring book. Dear Creativity, Last week, I planned a "Pop-Up Play Lab" for my community, a delightful hour of coloring and conversation. I was so excited. And then, no one was able to make it. For a moment, I was...