2021 HAS WRAPPED UP AND WE’RE LOOKING BACK AT THE FIRST YEAR OF THE CREATIVE 4 LIFE PODCAST. WHAT STARTED AS “THE G’MANGO SHOW” TOOK ON NEW MEANING AS THE STORIES OF OUR LIVES OF CREATIVITY GOT META & TRANSFORMED INTO SOMETHING MUCH DEEPER.

The desire to let people know they are FREE to Do & Go Be Creative, to follow your passion, is what drives the Creative 4 Life Podcast & John & Gordon’s lives.

The Creative 4 Life Duo take some of our amazing listener’s spot-on questions about Creativity, Motivation & Why…?

It’s been amazing to discuss the Transformations our guests have had in their lives: Creatively, Personally, Spiritually. We’re so grateful to have had such amazing guests & close friends!

We’re also grateful for our listeners, and we want to give them our best - our beneficial insights, our spiritual connection, the greater love we share in life. We are moved that we have had such insightful questions about Creativity in Life.

We dive into our suggestions & actions for helping and moving you forward in an inspired & positive direction!

Let’s keep doing our best work in bringing our message of Transformation and Creative 4 Life to you.

We’re so grateful to have you join us, ENJOY!

• Why and for who are we doing our best work?
• Doing what you do for the love of doing. We are joyful in the now of doing.
• Our Universal connection and service.
• The courage and resilience to follow your path.
• Living in a deeper and more meaningful state.
• Sharing love and alleviating suffering is our service, and Creativity does this

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FIND MORE ABOUT CREATIVE 4 LIFE AND GREEN SKIN MANGO...

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GO. BE. CREATIVE.

“Into the Light” by Nora Lim / Jason Kennedy (2021) used by permission.

The desire to let people know they are FREE to Do & Go Be Creative, to follow your passion, is what drives the Creative 4 Life Podcast & John & Gordon’s lives.

The Creative 4 Life Duo take some of our amazing listener’s spot-on questions about Creativity, Motivation & Why…?

It’s been amazing to discuss the Transformations our guests have had in their lives: Creatively, Personally, Spiritually. We’re so grateful to have had such amazing guests & close friends!

We’re also grateful for our listeners, and we want to give them our best - our beneficial insights, our spiritual connection, the greater love we share in life. We are moved that we have had such insightful questions about Creativity in Life.

We dive into our suggestions & actions for helping and moving you forward in an inspired & positive direction!

Let’s keep doing our best work in bringing our message of Transformation and Creative 4 Life to you.

We’re so grateful to have you join us, ENJOY!

• Why and for who are we doing our best work?
• Doing what you do for the love of doing. We are joyful in the now of doing.
• Our Universal connection and service.
• The courage and resilience to follow your path.
• Living in a deeper and more meaningful state.
• Sharing love and alleviating suffering is our service, and Creativity does this

Download > Subscribe > Share > Feedback
https://creative4life.buzzsprout.com

Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-4-life/id1549814066

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2JvJnmB8E0VSkrwZzoMGe9?nd=1

Google:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNjE5MDk1LnJzcw

FIND MORE ABOUT CREATIVE 4 LIFE AND GREEN SKIN MANGO...

https://www.greenskinmango.com

GO. BE. CREATIVE.

“Into the Light” by Nora Lim / Jason Kennedy (2021) used by permission.

The desire to let people know they are FREE to Do & Go Be Creative, to follow your passion, is what drives the Creative 4 Life Podcast & John & Gordon’s lives.

The Creative 4 Life Duo take some of our amazing listener’s spot-on questions about Creativity, Motivation & Why…?

It’s been amazing to discuss the Transformations our guests have had in their lives: Creatively, Personally, Spiritually. We’re so grateful to have had such amazing guests & close friends!

We’re also grateful for our listeners, and we want to give them our best - our beneficial insights, our spiritual connection, the greater love we share in life. We are moved that we have had such insightful questions about Creativity in Life.

We dive into our suggestions & actions for helping and moving you forward in an inspired & positive direction!

Let’s keep doing our best work in bringing our message of Transformation and Creative 4 Life to you.

We’re so grateful to have you join us, ENJOY!

• Why and for who are we doing our best work?
• Doing what you do for the love of doing. We are joyful in the now of doing.
• Our Universal connection and service.
• The courage and resilience to follow your path.
• Living in a deeper and more meaningful state.
• Sharing love and alleviating suffering is our service, and Creativity does this

Download > Subscribe > Share > Feedback
https://creative4life.buzzsprout.com

Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-4-life/id1549814066

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2JvJnmB8E0VSkrwZzoMGe9?nd=1

Google:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNjE5MDk1LnJzcw

FIND MORE ABOUT CREATIVE 4 LIFE AND GREEN SKIN MANGO...

https://www.greenskinmango.com

GO. BE. CREATIVE.

“Into the Light” by Nora Lim / Jason Kennedy (2021) used by permission.

Hope you enjoyed the first 2 parts of Nora and Jason’s journey, I’m sure you’re really going to enjoy this third and final part of our podcast discussion with them.

We’re looking forward to more chats with both of them in near future!

So grateful to Nora and Jason for allowing us to share their song “Into the Light”… we’ll keep using it on our intro and outro! Loving it!

Like Nora and Jason chatted with us about in this episode...
Let’s keep doing our best work in bringing our message of Transformation and Creative 4 Life to you.

We’re so grateful to have you join us, ENJOY!

• Why and for who are we doing our best work?
• Doing what you do for the love of doing. We are joyful in the now of doing.
• Our Universal connection and service.
• The courage and resilience to follow your path.
• Living in a deeper and more meaningful state.
• Sharing love and alleviating suffering is our service, and Creativity does this.

Download > Subscribe > Share > Feedback
https://creative4life.buzzsprout.com

Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-4-life/id1549814066

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2JvJnmB8E0VSkrwZzoMGe9?nd=1

Google:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNjE5MDk1LnJzcw

FOR MORE INFO ON NORA AND HER TEACHING, VISIT ‘THINK OFF THE MAT’...
https://www.thinkoffthemat.com

FIND MORE ABOUT CREATIVE 4 LIFE AND GREEN SKIN MANGO...
https://www.greenskinmango.com

GO. BE. CREATIVE.

“Into the Light” by Nora Lim / Jason Kennedy (2021) used by permission.

Hope you enjoyed the first part of Nora and Jason’s journey, I’m sure you’re really going to enjoy this second part (of three) as well.

The key word is RELAX… just TRUST and things will unfold if you do the work.

You have to do the work - meditate, breathe, practice compassion and positivity.
The universe has your back!

Nora and Jason also share a song they composed & recorded called
“INTO THE LIGHT”, which you can hear in the intro.
But the full version is at the end of this episode and can be found at the link as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMHPDWFQmOo

So RELAX and enjoy part 2 of Nora and Jason’s journey of transformation.

• Realising our unique path. Our paths and understanding may not be evident at the present time, but is important to stay in the moment.
• RELAX. Things will unfold as they will.
• The universe has your back. Allow the universe to work for you. Just keep doing your work.
• Yoga is the state of missing nothing. Everything we need is within us. Trust and do the work.
• Let go of the expectation and follow your bliss is doing & being.
• Do not attach yourself to the fruits of your labour, but offer these fruits to the highest.

Download > Subscribe > Share > Feedback

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Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-4-life/id1549814066

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2JvJnmB8E0VSkrwZzoMGe9?nd=1

Google:
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNjE5MDk1LnJzcw

FOR MORE INFO ON NORA AND HER TEACHING, VISIT ‘THINK OFF THE MAT’...
https://www.thinkoffthemat.com

FIND MORE ABOUT CREATIVE 4 LIFE AND GREEN SKIN MANGO...
https://www.greenskinmango.com

GO. BE. CREATIVE.

“Into the Light” by Nora Lim / Jason Kennedy (2021) used by permission.

OUR STORY BEGINS AT THE BREAK OF DAWN ALONG THE COAST OF CHENNAI, SOUTHERN INDIA....

Nora Lim and Jason Kennedy are good friends of mine who, I met here in Hong Kong, and are currently living in Chennai, South India for the past 5 years.

Both are teachers of music and yoga who bring their message of positivity, love and inner growth wherever they travel.

We had a such a rich and insightful conversation about mindfulness, spirituality giving ourselves space to breathe.

Time just slipped by and we now have 3 Episodes!

Their life stories of transformation is in many parts and we are so grateful they could share their wonderful journey with us.

Hope you enjoy this first part of Nora and Jason’s story of Creativity and Transformation.

Download > Subscribe > Share > Feedback
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Apple:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creative-4-life/id1549814066

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/2JvJnmB8E0VSkrwZzoMGe9?nd=1

Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNjE5MDk1LnJzcwk

FOR MORE INFO ON NORA AND HER TEACHING, VISIT ‘THINK OFF THE MAT’...
https://www.thinkoffthemat.com

FIND MORE ABOUT CREATIVE 4 LIFE AND GREEN SKIN MANGO...
www.greenskinmango.com

GO. BE. CREATIVE.

“Into the Light” by Nora Lim / Jason Kennedy (2021) used by permission.

Jason Freeny. Dissectibles. Foodie.

We reunite with our very special guest Jason Freeny in this episode to chat about his life of unending Creativity & the Transformations he’s gone through to get where he is today.
We also chat about our time working together as studio & site artists back in the ‘90s in NYC. Oh, and we talk a LOT about his passion for food, Asian food, as well as his journeys around the globe.

“I just want to do the things that make me happy. I want to eat my yummy food. I want to travel. I want to make stuff and hope people like it. And I’m thankful I can do something I enjoy for a living.”

Jason Freeny is a New York based sculptor and toy designer. Voted "2014 Fan Favorite" by Clutter Magazine readers, Freeny blurs the lines between toy design, art, science and teaching. Known for his iconic anatomical character dissections, Jason utilizes his industrial design prototyping techniques to create hyper-polished, hand made sculptures that are often confused as actual mass produced toys. Openly displaying his process and techniques in extensive work-in-progress posts on social media as an online classroom (Facebook) (Instagram).

Born in Silver Spring Maryland, Jason studied industrial design at Pratt Institute in New York City and spent most of his early career in production, retail and properties design with MTV Networks and ESPN before going solo in 2010.

Since 2006, Jason has been meticulously exploring the innards of some of our favorite characters for our enjoyment. In 2015 Jason teamed up with Singapore based toy company MightyJaxx to produce limited edition sculpture reproductions and manufactured toys based on his creations, most can be found at his partner site www.mightyjaxx.com.

Find more of Jason’s amazing works on his website
https://jasonfreeny.com

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/gummifetus/

Jason Freeny: https://jasonfreeny.com/

Mighty Jaxx: https://mightyjaxx.com/collections/jason-freeny

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX9-woOfKQJjIdugR6hPX4g

“K11 OUTSIDE IN: An Unconventional World of Art Toys” / Hong Kong 2020

https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/art/outside-in-an-unconventional-world-of-art-toys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Freeny

Become a subscriber to “CREATIVE 4 LIFE” on all your favorite streaming platforms and check out the podcast notes for more links and info.

You can also visit our website at greenskinmango.com for our awesome streetwear, eclectic music and comedy.

GO BE CREATIVE!

Our special guests this episode are Hilcia Pena (Architect / Walt Disney Imagineer) & her husband / returning guest Jameel Haiat (Author / Poet / Creative / Punk). Jameel and I were both living and woking (our dreams!) in NYC on September 11, 2001.

We both were starting our mornings, heading to work on that blue-skied, crisp, early fall morning when everything changed in our city, our country, our world. There would be positive and negative transformations to come from this event: some emboldened to spread their negativity, while some positively heroic & giving of their lives to helping others.

It is this TRANSFORMATION which we Jameel and Gordon will be remembering in this Episode.

To avoid setting off any triggers, this is not a retelling of the horrific events of that day. Instead, we are focussing on how we personally transformed or had a new reality transform all around us.

Perspectives change.

Change for positivity.

LOVE

To find out more about the events of September 11, 2001 in NYC, please visit https://www.911memorial.org/

Find more about Hilcia and Jameel's Creative Life:

https://localyetnot.com/about-us/

https://www.jameelhaiat.com/

This episode features the beautiful instrumental score “Wayward” by John Witcher. https://music.apple.com/us/album/wayward/917718468?i=917718484

IN THE BEGINNING... John Witcher & Gordon Meier started the podcast to talk about their creative experiences: successes, failures, inspirations & what influences them to continue collaborating creatively for over 30 years.

In creating those first 20 podcasts, they grew in understanding and awareness, both individually and in working more closely together than they had in 25 years.

The episodes went from being “topical” to “discovering meaning”, from the shared experiences of their past to what has become part of themselves, as individuals, today.

NOW is a new phase of self-discovery and of TRANSFORMATION.

Going beyond “topic” to “faith in living the message”.

Change is now embraced more than ever, and the next episodes will revolve around the lives of our guests, their history, their creative transformations and faith to follow that voice in their head.

Practicing what we Preach!

GO. BE. CREATIVE!
www.greenskinmango.com

UPCOMING EPISODES

SEPTEMBER 23: VINCE KADLUBEK / DISRUPTOR

OCTOBER 7 : JASON FREENY / DISSECTIBLE