Creativity Roots - Episode 28 by Ronald ParedesCultural appropriation its a controversy in its own term, culture doesn’t belong to anyone, it doesn’t have intellectual property so it can not be appropriated. Culture is an ever-changing and dev

Evaluating Our Cultures - Creativity Roots - S3E27

May 18th, 2020 15m 22s

Creativity Roots - Episode 27 by Ronald ParedesCultures are alive entities that evolve, adapt, mature, and change with time. It is important not only to study, understand and preserve our cultures but also to abolish some of the practices and

Conversation with Brendan Davis - Creativity Roots - S3E26

May 8th, 2020 2h 12m

Creativity Roots - Episode 26 by Ronald ParedesBrendan Davis is a filmmaker, producer, consultant, and prolific podcaster with three active podcasts, Big Fish in The Middle Kingdom, How China Works, and If I Knew You Better, additionally he is

Labor Day Episode - Follow Your Own Path - Creativity Roots - S3E25

May 1st, 2020 22m 40s

Creativity Roots - Episode 25 by Ronald ParedesIt is terrible to spend your entire life frustrated stuck in a job that doesn’t motivate you only to wake up at 50 years old to find out that you have wasted your entire life and you don’t even kn

Interview with Ronald Paredes - Co-release by Brendan Davis

Apr 30th, 2020 1h 14m

Creativity Roots - Episode 24 by Brendan Davis / Ronald ParedesThis is a co-release of an interview to me by Brendan Davis with the title “RONALD PAREDES | Floating in Uncertain Waters” originally posted on his podcasts “If I knew You Better”

Change Happens Within - Creativity Roots - S3E23

Apr 21st, 2020 40m 15s

Creativity Roots - Episode 23 by Ronald ParedesNote: For those listeners located in mainland China the podcast is accessible by using a VPN connection.The first quarter of 2020 has been completely overtaken by the COVID-19 pandemic that took

Conversation with Stephanie Fuccio - Creativity Roots - S2E22

1 Aug 28th, 2019 1h 3m

Creativity Roots - Episode 22 by Ronald ParedesStephanie Fuccio is a fellow podcaster, but not an ordinary one. She has made of her passion for podcasting, communication, connectivity, culture, and education an amazing mix that is already tou

Conversation with Alëna Olasyuk - Creativity Roots - S2E21

Jul 27th, 2019 38m 18s

Alëna Olasyuk is an Ukrainian artist who lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Arts College in Khmelnytsky city and later complementing her studies at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology where she obtained degrees in arts a

Conversation with Yolanda Vom Hagen - Creativity Roots - S2E20

Feb 20th, 2019 48m 53s

Creativity Roots - Episode 20 by Ronald Paredes I first met Yolanda through a social media art group when she was making a call for volunteers to participate in one of her photography projects. The first time I met her in person the first impr

Love Induced Creativity - Creativity Roots - S2E19

Feb 14th, 2019 11m 50s

Creativity Roots - Episode 19 by Ronald Paredes Note: For those listeners located in mainland China the podcast is accessible by using a VPN connection. At the moment of recording this podcast, we are celebrating Valentine’s Day and what a pe

I'm Back - Creativity Roots - S2E18

Feb 9th, 2019 11m 19s

Creativity Roots - Episode 18 by Ronald Paredes After a year that closed with struggles that prevented me from producing the podcast regularly, The Creativity Roots Podcast is back with a season 2. It was difficult, but the year ended up well,

Falling Victims of Ignorance - Creativity Roots - S1E16

Nov 8th, 2018 14m 17s

Creativity Roots - Episode 16 by Ronald ParedesAfter all the tragic events that keep happening under our noses I can’t help to think that we have failed to ourselves, we have fallen victims of our own ignorance, our lack of education, our inca

Reflections on Education - Creativity Roots - S1E15

Oct 23rd, 2018 14m 38s

Creativity Roots - Episode 15 by Ronald ParedesIn this episode I reflect on my own experience teaching to a group of highly unmotivated and disengaged group of high school students who have turned this way by being enclosed for several years i

Don't Chase Fame - Creativity Roots - S1E14

Oct 16th, 2018 24m 3s

Creativity Roots - Episode 14 by Ronald ParedesLike money, fame should never be the purpose for doing anything in life, since the arrival of the internet the idea of fame has completely changed, everybody with a camera and an outrageous behavi

Building on Criticism - Creativity Roots - S1E13

Oct 8th, 2018 25m 4s

Creativity Roots - Episode 13 by Ronald ParedesHave you ever being so afraid of being judged or criticized?Criticism is one of the biggest inhibitors that creators and pretty much everybody face, every single person in this planet experienced

Celebrating International Podcast Day - Creativity Roots - S1E12

Sep 29th, 2018 21m 14s

Creativity Roots - Episode 12 by Ronald ParedesToday is September 30th, and we are celebrating #InternationalPodcastDay. It is a good day to think about the reasons why we started podcasting, obviously we all have something we think is worth s

Chef Nino Scordo - Creativity Roots - S1E11

Sep 24th, 2018 43m 42s

Creativity Roots - Episode 11 by Ronald ParedesChef Nino at the Pacific Restaurant at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing is without a question one of the most interesting people I have met in all my years in China, his approach to producing menus, c

Summary on Identity - Creativity Roots - S1E10

Sep 17th, 2018 28m 20s

Creativity Roots - Episode 10 by Ronald ParedesNote: For those listeners located in mainland China the podcast is accessible by using a VPN connection.Given the importance of developing a sense of identity I feel is necessary to summarize the

Benj Kinenga Mushila - Creativity Roots - S1E9

Sep 9th, 2018 30m 32s

Creativity Roots - Episode 9 by Ronald ParedesConversation with Benj Kinenga Mushila, Congolese visual artist and painterCheck the Creativity Roots website www.creativityroots.com for more information about Benj Kinenga Mushila and his work.

What is your Identity - Creativity Roots - S1E8

Sep 2nd, 2018 21m 1s

Creativity Roots - Episode 8 by Ronald ParedesIdentity is probably the most important aspect of an individual, it is what helps us identify ourselves with the different social groups we interact with, giving us a sense of belonging. Knowing w

Sabine Ichikawa Ph.D. - Creativity Roots - S1E7

Aug 26th, 2018 28m 44s

Creativity Roots - Episode 7 by Ronald ParedesConversation with Sabine Ichikawa Ph.D., researcher, conference speaker, developer of programs in luxury and creative industries in Europe & Asia, currently living and working in Shanghai for the l

Summary Episode 1-5 - Creativity Roots - S1E6

Aug 22nd, 2018 22m 48s

Creativity Roots Summary Episode 1-5 by Ronald ParedesAfter reaching the episode number 5 I wanted to make a summary of the topic we touched in the previous episodes to remind ourselves of those things that we know so well but we tend to take

Define Your Success - Creativity Roots - S1E5

Aug 15th, 2018 26m 34s

Creativity Roots - Episode 5 - hosted by Ronald ParedesSuccess is one of the most difficult and challenging aspects of our life. There are external factors that pretend to enforce on us an idea of success that is confusing and wrong, family,

Embracing Failure - Creativity Roots - S1E4

Aug 7th, 2018 18m 30s

Failure can be either a perception or an attitude and it only happens in our brain and later it manifest in our life. We must understand how failure was first implanted in our mind as a concept at a very early age, how it works in our percepti

Brain Gymnastics - Creativity Roots - S1E3

Jul 31st, 2018 15m 29s

Creativity Roots - Episode 3 - hosted by Ronald ParedesI closed the previous episode with the claim that creativity makes us better human beings, which sounds a lot like self-help voodoo, since that’s not what we are doing here, in this episod