LBGT creative benefits
Navigating the world as LGBT gives us advantages in creativity and allows us to see possibilities that others may not see. So how can you reap the creative benefits of being LGBT? Hear all this and more.
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Peter Krask is the founder and creative director of The Creativity Guide, a company that helps entrepreneurs and artists unleash their creativity and provides support and guidance in designing and running a business. He was recently selected as a dedicated mentor at the New Museum in New York City for the sixth grade of the New Inc. program. Peter is also an accomplished photographer and author and has been President of PMK Floral Arts for over 20 years.
In this episode of Queer money® Peter joins us to define creative entrepreneurship and discuss what creatives and entrepreneurs have in common. He explains the connection between being queer and being creative, discussing what creativity blocks LGBT entrepreneurs have in common and how we can harness our ability to see opportunities outside the norm. Listen to gain insights into Peter’s role as a creativity leader and learn how to unleash your imagination and use creativity as a superpower.
We all somehow invent our own way of being queer, and I think that’s a really interesting and powerful motivation to express that in your entrepreneurship as well. -Peter KraskClick to tweet
Topics covered on the creative benefits of being LGBT
How Peter defines creative entrepreneurship
- Requires imagination and making things
- Communicate with the audience, tell a story
What creative people and entrepreneurs have in common
- Both begin with an impulse or an idea
- Participate in the discovery process
Why Peter believes everyone is creative
- Can be labeled differently by “that teacher.”
- The world of work requires finding solutions
The pressure entrepreneurs feel to adopt CEO mode
- Balance between making decisions and “doing the thing”
- Act of imagination to create something that did not exist
The connection between queerness and creativity
- We learn to read the environment and expectations
- Enables a different way of being in the world
- Seeing other possibilities = deeply creative
How queer entrepreneurs can harness their creativity
- Own it and work on being in harmony with yourself
- The best entrepreneurs respond to changing the world
The most common creativity blocks among queer entrepreneurs
- A remnant of shame, I’m still trying to prove something
- Difficulty speaking through work as your true self
- Who do you think you are? (imposter syndrome)
Why Peter sees creativity as a superpower
Enduring a bullying campaign in the dorm during the first year of college
Writing an editorial in a school newspaper stopped a behavior
Peter’s role as a creativity leader
Project whisperer (therapist, coach and co-creator)
Help chart the path and realize a vision
Peter's best advice for Queer Money listeners
Say YES and then find out
Don’t be paralyzed by decisions, just get started
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