Using Creativity to Create Connection featuring Carolyn Blank, Beth Huddleston, and Amy Meyers

About this episode

This episode features three creative women over 60 who are using their talents to foster connection and kindness in the world.

In this episode, I’ve invited three women on the show who also happen to be my dear friends — they don’t know each other, but I’ve known them for decades. And in this past year, I’ve watched each of them explode with creativity. Carolyn Blank Cary published a cookbook, which became a mini memoir; Beth Huddleston developed an app introducing infants and toddlers to the sounds of languages and music from around the world; and Amy Meyers pivoted from a lifetime of executive recruiting and political consulting and started her own business, Mrs. Meyer’s Etiquette. All of these women are over 60, which on its own is inspirational. But more importantly, they’re using their creativity for connection — to create a world where people are kinder to one another, understand one another, and break bread with one another.

People in this episode

Host: Tricia Rose Burt

Guests: Carolyn Blank, Beth Huddleston, Amy Meyers

Topics covered

• creativity
• connection
• inspiration
• women over 60
• personal growth
• friendship

Keywords

• creativity
• connection
• women
• inspiration
• cookbook
• app
• etiquette

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