The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien

S7E28 - Season 7 Finale

Season 7 is officially in the books! In this season finale of The Spark File Podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien look back at some of their favorite sparks from th

S7E27 - Fear or Intuition

Fear vs. Intuition: How Do You Know Which Voice to Trust? When you're facing a big decision, how do you know if you're listening to intuition... or fear? In this episod

S7E26 - Yesteryear vs. The Present Moment

What do a trad-wife time travel thriller, influencer culture, motherhood, nostalgia, and the deep human need to be seen have in common? In this episode of The Spark File

S7E25 - Time to Think

What if one of the greatest creative gifts you could offer someone… was your attention? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien explo

S7E24 - The Feel Good Formula

Feeling stuck, numb, overwhelmed… or just weirdly “off”? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien explore the brain’s four major feel-

S7E23 - Personal Instruction Manuals

What if the people in our lives came with warning labels, gift receipts or invisible instruction manuals? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Laura and Susan expl

S7E22 - The Creative Muse

What if the muse isn’t something you wait for, but something you meet? In this episode, Susan and Laura explore the evolution of the creative muse — from ancient Greek m

S7E21 - Expansion Anxiety

What if the reason you can’t stop obsessing over that one random thing… is actually because something in your life is going really right? In this episode of The Spark Fi

S7E20 - Good + Bad Teachers

What’s the difference between a teacher who changes your life… and one who almost shuts you down for good? On this week’s episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan brings

S7E19 - Feeling Jung

What if the parts of yourself you’ve been hiding from yourself… are actually the key to your creative breakthroughs? In this episode, Laura takes us into the world of Ca

S7E18 - The Artist Date

What if the thing your creativity needs most… isn’t more effort—but more delight? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, we’re diving into the deceptively simple, wi

S7E17 - Defining Creativity

What is creativity… really? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, we dive headfirst into one of the most slippery — and surprisingly limiting — questions in the cre

S7E16 - Creative Hangovers

What happens after the big creative push? In this episode of The Spark File Podcast, Susan and Laura dive into the all-too-real experience of the creative hangover — tha

S7E15 - Ambiguous Grief

What do we do with the grief that doesn’t come with a funeral, a clear ending, or even a name? In this tender and powerful episode of The Spark File Podcast, Laura share

S7E14 - Dopamine Reset

What happens when the thing you reach for to soothe yourself starts quietly stealing your time, your attention, and your creative life force? In “Dopamine Reset”, this w

S7E13 - Flip The Script

Our latest episode of The Spark File Podcast, Flip the Script, is a dark spark with a bright creative payoff. When Laura has a vivid, unsettling dream she perceives as a

S7E12 - Creating Community

This episode of The Spark File Podcast, Creating Community is your reminder that creativity doesn’t thrive in a vacuum — it thrives in connection. This week, Susan and La

S7E11 - Creation By Recombination

What if creativity isn’t a lightning bolt… but a mashup? In this episode, Laura shares a Blue Man Group–born concept that can instantly dissolve the “I’m not original en

S7E10 - I Love You vs. Small Talk

In this week’s episode of The Spark File, “I Love You vs. Small Talk,” Laura opens up a BIG spark (100 pounds of topic in a five-pound bag): love—romantic love, friend lo

S7E9 - Making For Minnesota

In “Making for Minnesota,” we’re asking a question that feels both tender and urgently practical: when the world is loud and scary, what can you make? Susan shares what