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30/12/2025

No matter how you pronounce it, we are here for it.
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And our New Year Creativity Kickoff is a powerful workshop designed to help you reset your creative intentions and step into 2026 with clarity, support, and momentum. We hope you’ll join us.
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It’s a beautiful, low-pressure, high-pleasure way to begin the year. We’d love to welcome you. Check out our bio or thesparkfile.com to register today.
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28/12/2025

If you’re longing for a grounded, supportive place to connect with your creative voice, release what no longer fits, and clarify how you want to feel moving forward, join us for The Spark File 2026 New Year Creativity Kickoff on January 3.
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Begin your year with intention and momentum. We’d love to welcome you when you’re ready.
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Find out more via our bio/website.
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24/12/2025

In this episode, Susan shares a true winter ghost story—a chilling tale that’s part ghost story, part true crime, and part meditation on what happens when fear and superstition go unchecked.
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The story includes:
- a quiet local farmer accused of being a hexenmeister (sorcerer)
- a family who becomes convinced he has cursed them
- a murder so confounding it had to be explained as an attempt to break a powerful hex
And like all good sparks, it’s also an invitation: Could this story become a play? A film? A graphic novel? A podcast mini-series?
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May this spooky little tale keep your creative fires glowing on this long winter night.
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Hope you are enjoying a warm holiday season, dear Creative.
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23/12/2025

Looking for a last-minute gift for yourself or a loved one? There are still spots available for our annual live online New Year Creativity Kickoff!
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This powerful workshop is designed to help you reset your creative intentions and step into 2026 with clarity, support, and momentum.
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It’s a beautiful, low-pressure, high-pleasure way to begin the year. We’d love to welcome you. Check out our bio or thesparkfile.com to register today.
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We can’t wait to see what you create!
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23/12/2025

Are you ready to turn “someday” into starting now?
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Join us in BLAZE, our transformational, live, online course in creativity designed to help you clarify and accomplish your BIG creative goals!
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BLAZE is designed to help you:
- Clarify your creative vision and define what success looks like for you
- Build the structure, skills, and habits to move forward with confidence
- Stay accountable with personalized coaching, a proven framework, and a supportive community
- Bring your creative vision to life — whether it’s a piece of art, a business, a career shift, or a whole new chapter
In BLAZE, you’ll have the space, structure, and support to turn that “someday” into starting now.
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If you’re ready to invest in yourself and your vision, we’d love to talk. Book a free no-pressure call with us via our bio or thesparkfile.com to see if BLAZE is the right next step for you.
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We know you have huge potential within you — now let’s ignite it!
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We can’t wait to see what you create!
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19/12/2025

Today, we are shining the light on BLAZE alum Lu Chekowsky as her first book “Don’t Buy What I’m Selling” will be published by Little, Brown & Company in June 2026! We are over the moon with this news as Lu worked on this very book in our BLAZE cohort!
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From Little, Brown & Company: Part memoir, part manifesto, “Don’t Buy What I’m Selling” is the story of a woman determined to go deep inside a business she was raised to hate, so she could save the world – and herself – through advertising. What could possibly go wrong?
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Pre-order your copy today and follow along on Lu’s creative journey to publication on Instagram.
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We love it, Lu! Keep going!
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Do you have a creative project of your own that needs nurturing? The doors for our next cohort of BLAZE are open!
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If you are curious about how we can support your creative dreams, book a no-pressure call with us today via our bio/website to see if BLAZE is the right fit for you.
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We are ready for your next chapter. Are you?
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17/12/2025

If you’ve ever wondered how to build a creative life that gets richer—not smaller—with age… our latest episode of The Spark File Podcast is for you.
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Susan shares a powerful spark: “From Strength to Strength” by Arthur C. Brooks, a book recommended by our late, beloved friend Gavin Creel. What unfolds is a deeply human conversation between Laura and Susan about striving, aging, grief, identity, and the quiet transition many creatives find themselves navigating.
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You can listen to The Spark File Podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google, on the Broadway Podcast Network or anywhere you get your quality podcasts.
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If this conversation resonates, you might love our 2026 New Year Creativity Kickoff — a one-day online retreat designed to help you reset your creative intentions, work with your changing brain, and step into 2026 with clarity, support, and momentum.
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It’s a beautiful, low-pressure, high-pleasure way to begin the year. We’d love to welcome you. (Be sure to use the code EARLY for $40 off before December 20!) Check out our bio or thesparkfile.com to register today.
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We can’t wait to see what you create!
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16/12/2025

To truly see deeply, we must question everything we believe.
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Learn more about how you can discover freedom and possibility in creative uncertainty in “Immaculate Perception” EPISODE ONE of SEASON 7 of The Spark File podcast!
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In this episode, we discuss the wisdom of neuroscientist Dr. Dan Siegel and the fact that there is no such thing as Immaculate Perception. Tune in to learn the inner workings of your own mind.
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You can listen to The Spark File Podcast on Spotify, Apple, Google, on the Broadway Podcast Network or anywhere you get your quality podcasts!
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Looking to tap into your creative wellspring and make certain your 2026 heads in the right direction? Join us for our annual New Year Creativity Kickoff live online on January 3!
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Check out our bio or thesparkfile.com to register today and use code EARLY for a discount BEFORE December 20.
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We can’t wait to see what you create!
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13/12/2025

To be honest with you, this concept can sometimes feel contrary to us. Our brains tell us that once we get everything situated and questions answered, THEN we can be creative.
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But what if we can embrace the uncertainty and allow it to propel our creativity forward?
💥 In uncertainty, our freedom expands. Our imagination expands. We expand.
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When nothing is fixed, the plane of possibility becomes enormous.
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Because while we can’t control what the world brings…we can choose how creatively and courageously we meet it.
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If this idea interests you, we invite you to join us at the 2026 New Year Creativity Kickoff on January 3, 11am–6:30pm ET, live on Zoom.
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During this virtual retreat, we will help you:
- Get clear on your 2026 creative goals
- Find freedom and possibility inside uncertainty
- Learn how creativity can quiet anxiety and activate agency
- Tap the deep wellspring of imagination inside you
- Chart your path for the year ahead
Full price: $99
Early Action Price: $59 through December 20(Code: EARLY)
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Save your spot + claim the early price now via our bio or thesparkfile.com. Come discover what it can open up for you…and for the creative year ahead.
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12/12/2025

Reconnect with yourself, your purpose, and a community of people who believe in making things real at our annual New Year Creativity Kickoff! Scroll down for special EARLY pricing!
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During this one-day virtual live retreat, you will:
- Reflect on what’s shifting (within you and around you)
- Tap into your creative voice and inner guidance
- Release whatever’s been weighing you down or holding you back
- Imagine boldly — without apology  - Build a clear, compassionate path toward your 2026 creative goals
- Take meaningful first steps toward the work you’re longing to make real
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If you’re craving a reset — emotionally, spiritually, creatively — this is your invitation.
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Early price special: $59 until December 20 (use code EARLY). Register now via our bio or thesparkfile.com!
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Come discover what it can open up for you…and for the creative year ahead.
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We’d love to kick off 2026 with you.
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09/12/2025

A creative gift isn’t something you pick off a shelf; it’s something you co-create, or that reflects knowing someone deeply. And its impact on the recipient is often profound.
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We saw this in action at our Spark File retreat held at the gorgeous Saunders Farm in Ottawa, Canada.
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During the retreat, each person was secretly assigned the name of another Sparkler to get to know and one afternoon on the last day, invited to create them a gift. Utilizing our own “craft services” table chock full of art supplies, the gifts created that day had an incredible impact on both the givers and the recipients. Many even created in a discipline they had never tried before.
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Then we all shared our truly one-of-a-kind gifts with one another around the crackling fire you see here. And it was profound and magical.
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What if this season, your gifts could feel like that: a real expression of care and creativity?
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Join us for our FREE live online workshop “The Joy of Creative Gifting” this Thursday, December 11 2025, 6:30 - 8:30pm ET to find out how you can use your creativity to give gifts that make memories. Gifts that tell the other person: I see you. I remember you. You matter.
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The Joy of Creative Gifting is FREE, but you must RSVP in our bio or at thesparkfile.com to claim your spot
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We hope you’ll join us.
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We can’t wait to see what you create!
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The Spark File Podcast w/Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien

Your one stop shop for creative inspiration. Each week, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien reach into their spark files and share stories, ideas and fascinations to ignite your imagination.

Obsessed with creativity, Blackwell and Camien also talk with artists and makers, movers and shakers who have taken the spark of inspiration and fanned it into a flame.

This season, hear from inspiring creatives like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, Zachary Quinto, Leslie Odom, Jr, Rodney Evans, Jonathan Groff, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Gavin Creel and more about their passions and their failures, their inspirations and their aspirations. Refill your creative fish pond with new ideas and fresh perspectives. Listen, then take it and make it!

Find us at www.thesparkfile.com. Email us at [email protected]. Listen to The Spark File podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn + Alexa and more!

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