Gigi played fangirl in this episode!  Tania Katan shares her wit and wisdom about how to use creativity to challenge with playfulness our rigid organizational cultures.  She works with large and small companies, helping them find new alignment around their daily contradictions through “small c” creative work, facing everyday practical problems with imagination.  She shares the tales of #itwasneveradress (re-seeing the ladies’ room logo into a cape) and challenging the community to arm wrestle for art at the Scottsdale Museum of Art.  She speaks and challenges how we connect virtually in her keynotes and works with organizational leaders through her “Creative Trespassing” classes and new membership organization.

Guest: Tania Katan, CEO, Creative Trespassing

Tania is a transformational speaker, innovation coach, and co-creator of globally viral women’s empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress. Her unique way of formulating ideas led to the groundbreaking bestselling book, “Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life” (Penguin Random House, February 2019).

For over a decade, Tania has been successfully sneaking creativity into Fortune 500 companies, leading tech companies, arts organizations, marketing conventions and innovation summits to teach people and companies the skill of generating creative breakthroughs. Some of the organizations and major conferences impacted by her work include: CiscoLive!, Expedia, Amazon, Google, Humana, Etsy, TED, World Domination Summit, Uber, and Comedy Central Stage.

Katan’s status-quo-busting work has also appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, HuffPost, Time, BuzzFeed, CNN, Adweek, Mashable, Forbes, ReadWrite and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, among others.

If you long to leap from fear to freedom and just need a map… Here You Are: https://taniakatan.com/courses/

• URL: Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life - https://taniakatan.com/courses/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taniakatan/
• Twitter: @taniakatan
• Instagram: @TheUnrealTaniaKatan 
• Inspirational Newsletter (get a FREE chapter of Creative Trespassing when you sign up): https://tania-katan.mykajabi.com/opt-in-833df3d3-9390-46dd-a091-36f10efacca0
• Website: taniakatan.com
• “Creative Trespassing” Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566682/creative-trespassing-by-tania-katan/9780525573401/

Interesting Mentions:

• Sonya Renee Taylor - https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com
• Patricia Stokes, “Creativity from Constraints in the Performing Arts” - https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Constraints-Performing-Patricia-Stokes/dp/0692611991/
• Axosoft - https://www.axosoft.com
• #Itwasneveradress - https://itwasneveradress.org
• Byron Katie - https://thework.com
• Pema Chödrön - https://pemachodronfoundation.org
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk - http://www.seaox.com/thich.html
• Arm wrestling for art at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - https://frontdoorsmedia.com/arm-wrestling-for-art
• Mary Oliver, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”  Poem 133: The Summer Day - https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-133/the-summer-day

Tori and Mabelle talk with Penguin Random House inspirational speaker and creative disruptor, Tania Katan. Tania shares insights about the two Cs of creativity, her life as a best-selling author and Curator of Shenanigans, and how she found her “in” as a public speaker. Tori and Mabelle receive new job titles: Motivational Grader and Storytelling Reporter. Tania drops two writing prompts, including one from her award-winning book, “Creative Trespassing: How To Put The Spark And Joy Back Into Your Work And Life.”

After years of smuggling creativity into the corporate sector without getting busted, Tania Katan has learned that we don’t need to be in a job that is distinctly creative in order to be distinctly creative in our job. In fact, no matter how tedious the task, or how buttoned-up the office environment, we can all learn to conjure imagination anywhere, anytime.

Full of hilarious stories, and wacky, battle-tested exercises for flexing your creative muscles you’ll learn tools and strategies for taking more creative risks and embracing obstacles as an opportunity to accelerate growth.

Recorded live at Business of Software Conference USA 2018, in Boston MA.

For more great talks from expert speakers, go to businessofsoftware.org/videos

When was the last time you were uncomfortable … purposefully uncomfortable? If you dread the feeling at all costs, then you have to hear our conversation today with Tania Katan, author of Creative Tresspassing.

Tania believes in mavericks. She’s a fan of getting messy. She believes you should face your fears. She wants you to be okay with being weird and unique. In the book, and in our conversation today, Tania shares her career story. She discusses the weight she felt in some of her previous jobs, and shares the moments that left her stifled and feeling alone. Tania also talks about how she began to flip those feelings upside down and by leaning in to her creativity to drive more value in her work.

In episode #108 of I Want Her Job The Podcast Tania also talks about the viral women’s empowerment campaign she co-created called #ItWasNeveraDress. In the campaign, the classic female bathroom symbol was reimagined as a cape-wearing power woman. The campaign went global and was featured in Time, New York Times, and CNN.

Learn how you can turn your job into a creative revolution. Consider today’s conversation your Cliff’s Notes on doing just that.

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Do you feel creative? Do you feel like it’s time to unleash your creativity?

It’s kind of a trick question because I always remind people that to be human is to be creative!

It’s in our nature.

Tania Katan wants to inspire you to unleash your creativity!  And she means everyone, from accountants to dancers, and including you!

She’s an innovation trainer and a creativity speaker.   I highly recommend checking out her best-selling book Creative Trespassing to help you sneak more imagination and creativity into your work and daily life.

Tania also busts several myths about what it means to be creative and shares lessons on how to cultivate your creativity.

Lot of great lessons in our conversation including:

1. Getting realistic about the time, energy and focus it really takes to work for yourself.
2. If you don’t feel creative, Tania shares how to look for creativity in your daily life.
3. The impact of going for a walk can have on your creativity.
4. Why she recommends productive disruptions.

Life Skills That Matter In This Episode

• Reframe your mindset
• Plan your actions
• Align your habits

How Tania Works and Thinks

• Wake up time:  5:45 am
• Core work activities + habits:  1) Write, write, write.  2) Listen, respond, learn.  3) Connect.
• Ideal work environment:  A clean desk with all the mess somewhere she can’t see it, a glass of water, and a pad of paper with pens by her computer.
• Superpower:  Humor
• Regains focus by:  Going for a walk and sometimes a second cappuccino.

Inspirational Quotes

“Creativity can help people in every field.”

“When it becomes a barrier to you and your dreams, do it tomorrow, don’t do it today.”

“I did everything that my job asked of me, but the way I chose to do it was very different.”

“Reconnect with the mission and vision of the organization before you go out on your own.  Sometimes we forget to go out on our own within a company or organization and that can be super beneficial.”

Resources + Bonus Materials

World Domination Summit

Creative Trespassing by Tania Katan

Museum of Walking

Jen Sincero

Elizabeth Cutler

Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Related Episodes

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Episode 113: Bestselling author of Creative Trespassing, Tania Katan dares you to find inspiration where others see only limitations.

Guest Biography

Tania Katan is a motivational speaker, bestselling author, and co-creator of globally viral empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress. Her innovative way of formulating ideas led to the groundbreaking bestseller, Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life (Penguin Random House, February 2019).

A potent—and wildly funny—keynote speaker, Katan is highly sought after to teach both people and companies of all stripes how to generate imaginative innovations and creative breakthroughs.Some of the organizations that have been impacted by her talks include Fortune 500 companies, leading tech firms, universities, and major conferences including: CiscoLive!, Expedia, S.H.E. Summit, Amazon, Talks at Google, Business of Software, Uber, Etsy, Humana, World Domination Summit, Inbound, TED Talks, and Comedy Central Stage.

Katan’s transformative work has also appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, HuffPost, Time, BuzzFeed, CNN, Adweek, Mashable, Forbes, ReadWrite and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, among others. For more of Katan’s productive disruptions, visit taniakatan.com.

Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/113

Find more from our guest:

• taniakatan.com
• Twitter
• instagram
• LinkedIn
• YouTube

Mentioned in this episode:

• Tania Katan: "Creative Trespassing" | Talks at Google
• It Was Never a Dress: The Power of a Poetic Leap of Faith! | Tania Katan | TEDxNCSSM
• TEDxScottsdale - Tania Katan - The Power of Voice: Survivability, Sustainability and Nudity
• WDS 2019 Main Stage Keynote - Tania Katan on Creative Trespassing
• Jill Schlesinger - Jill On Money
• The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA)
• Eric Fischl
• Axosoft: Scrum Software - Agile Project Management
• #ItWasNeverADress
• Creative Trespassing: Audio Book by Tania Katan, Penguin Random House Audio

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Tania Katan (https://taniakatan.com/)is a speaker, bestselling author, and co-creator of globally viral empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress. Her inventive way of formulating ideas led to the groundbreaking bestseller, Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life (https://amzn.to/31fZC4U). While she’s now known for her unique ability to make unseen connections, generate imaginative innovations, and foster creative breakthroughs across a wide range of industries, the way she got there was anything but a straight line. From finding the right blend of “pay the bills work" to creative work as a young playwright to subverting the status quo of the art world with arm wrestling events, she’s explored what it means to harness creativity in all kinds of arenas. In today’s conversation, Katan shares the story of how she came to embrace creative trespassing, and what she’s learned about finding opportunities for new ways of working and being, even in the most mundane circumstances.

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