416 "Love+Live+Life" Podcast - Chie Morita & Greg Taubman - Co-Founders of FORGE NYC

In this Episode, I invited Chie Morita & Greg Taubman, Co-Founders of FORGE NYC; Art Consulting + Development.

We talked about ...

• 80/20 Rule in Creative Practice
• Identity Marker; Claiming yourself as an “Artist”
• Illusion of Work-Life Balance

Guest Bios

Chie Morita (she/her) is a consultant, creative producer, and consummate tinkerer dedicated to retraining our inherited habits and engineering empowering new systems in the arts. She is a Co-Founder + Partner of FORGE, a boutique consultancy devoted to helping artists and organizations take the next step in their own work. By leveraging the potential of proactive planning, holistic mentorship, and collaborative asking, Chie seeks to free Makers from historical hindrances, socialized stereotypes, and negative self-stories.

Greg Taubman helps stories find their form and storytellers hone their craft—primarily as Co-Founder and Partner at FORGE, a boutique consultancy dedicated to helping artists and makers take the next step in their own work. Believing that imagination is the wellspring of empathy, Greg is forever investigating the creative process and its power to engender and deliver a communal sense of meaning. By providing cultivated spaces to work in, tailored tools to master, and expert perspectives to tackle, Greg emboldens creators of all kinds to articulate the ineffable and make visible their inner truths.

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Show Notes

01:30 Intro; Chie & Greg's fun fact that most people don’t know about.

08:30 Creative Process is a creative family planning. Nurturing our “Creative Baby”. Chie & Greg’s 80/20 rule

14:14 Different roles exist in creative family planning - hunger game of theatre making

19:00 Trap of “Labor of Love” , Valuing of artist as a whole human

21:33 Quote “Stop seeing each other as partial people” - Chie Morita

23:35 Identity Marker - Claiming yourself as an “Artist”

29:28 “Quote” “I continued to get the vibe from people around me that my interest and my creations were non-normative and that they were weird. But I also got positive feedback”. - Greg

34:10 What are some challenges you have faced since you two started FORGE?

39:05 Finite vs scarce - Living in abundance

44:30 Illusion of Work-Life Balance

48:15 “Quote” “There’s no answer that you’re going to alive at” - Greg

CALL TO ACTION & Message

• “Your entire self is valuable”. - Chie Morita
• “You have the power to make change. Start small and think about how you can make it better”. - Greg Taubman

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