Creative Living with Jamie: Gail McMeekin

This podcast is 32:40.

This week’s guest: Gail McMeekin, President of Creative Success, LLC

Website: Creative Success
Facebook: Creative Success with Gail McMeekin on Facebook
Books:

• 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women, The: A Portable Life Coach for Creative Women
• The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor
• The Power of Positive Choices: Adding and Subtracting Your Way to a Great Life
• The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women Journal

Gail McMeekin, LICSW is a national executive, career, and creativity coach as well as a licensed psychotherapist and writer located in Boston. She has over 30 years of experience helping people to vision and achieve their personal, professional, and creative goals. She coaches clients on how to leverage their creative ideas into heart-felt, prosperous businesses and fulfilled lives. She is the author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women: A Portable Mentor (Conari Press, 2000) which sold out its first printing in 8 weeks and The Power of Positive Choices (Conari Press, 2001) which won the Living in Balance magazine Award in 2001. She also wrote the 90-minute audiocassette workshop-on-tape Positive Choices: From Stress to Serenity which has been featured in Human Resource Executive, Training, The Improper Bostonian and The Lifestyle Book of Tufts Associated Health Plan. She is the author of three new e-books: Boost Your Creativity, Productivity, and Profits in 21 Steps, The Path to Creative Success, and Creativity Courage Cards. Her work has been featured on television and radio as well as in major publications such as Investor’s Business Daily, National Business Employment Weekly, Boston Business Journal, Redbook, Shape, Woman’s Day, Health, The Boston Globe, One Spirit Bookclub, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Sunday New York Times. She was also an AOL Career Center Leader on Success Strategies for five years and she co-created and co-hosted a television series called “Professionals in Transition” in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her company, Creative Success, LLC works with individuals and groups on ways to maximize creative self-expression, the pursuit of fulfilling work, and to experience positive living. She has worked on career development and outplacement projects with organizations in a variety of fields, such as New England Telephone Company, Fidelity Investments, State Street Bank, Bank of New England, Boston College, etc. She currently trains creativity coaches for the Creativity Coaching Association. Gail has been a guest speaker at bookstores all over the country as well as at women’s and other business conferences.

Gail has a B.A. from Connecticut College, an M.S.W. from Boston University, and a certificate in Human Resource Management from Bentley College. She also completed the coursework for The Coaches Training Institute in California. She has coached and trained clients in executive and career development and outplacement, creativity, positive life choices, stress management, positive management strategies, time management, professional development, and women’s business development. She is a member of the Association of Career Professionals, Women in Business Connection, and the Creativity Coaching Association. She has helped thousands of people action-plan their way to success and balance. Her website is CreativeSuccess.com and Gail can be reached at 617-323-1442.

Show Notes…

• I mentioned our celebratory podaversary episode.
• I mentioned Brene Brown’s post sharing Theodore Roosevelt’s quote, The Man in the Arena.
• I talked about M. Night Shyamalan, Signs and The Sixth Sense.
• I quoted a line from Jessie J’s song Who You Are.
• The Next Chapter worked through Gail’s Twelve Secrets of Creative Women and that eventually led to Your Creative Spark.
• Gail mentioned she discovered her ideaphoria through the Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation.
• Gail mentions her Creativity Courage cards.
• Gall talks about the book Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers by Susan Shaughnessy
• She also talked about Creating a Charmed Life: Sensible, Spiritual Secrets Every Busy Woman Should Know by Victoria Moran.
• I didn’t mention it but a couple of years ago, The Next Chapter worked our way through Gail’s book The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women.
• You can join me in for meditation check-ins this month on Twitter and on my Facebook page. For more information about the process, read this post.

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