The Creators Podcast

Rainier Wylde
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Remember history class? Ever wonder about the ones they didn't talk about? The rule breakers? The rebels, the misfits, the poets, and the prophets who refused to follow the script? Enter The Creators Podcast bringing you the untold stories of those who flipped the world upside down. These are the footnotes of the encyclopedia, written in a trail of blood—stories buried, burned, or ignored because they didn’t fit the mold. This is history like you’ve never heard it before. The voices they didn’t want you to know? You’ll know them now.

  1. 4d ago

    Visionaries: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

    Jerry Siegel (1914–1996) & Joe Shuster (1914–1992): Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were the writer and artist who created Superman. They met as teenagers at Glenville High School in Cleveland, and created The Superman hoping to make a comic book.. After years of rejection, Superman was finally published in Action Comics #1 in 1938. Siegel and Shuster had sold the rights to the character to Detective Comics for $130. Superman became one of the most recognizable fictional characters in the world, while his creators spent decades fighting for compensation, ownership, and eventually even the restoration of their names to the work.  For More: Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster-- Brad Ricca Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero--Larry Tye Want even more? Create Yourself Alive: November 2-3 Join me in Charleston for Create Yourself Alive! It’s a two day immersion for creators who are ready to fully own their calling. This will be a powerful and intimate time. Click here for more To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This is a gathering for creators who are finished performing indifferently and are ready to make something worthy of their attention. THE SALON

    Visionaries: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

  2. Sep 23

    Myths: Creativity Will Save Us

    In this episode Rainier explores the myth that art can save us or that making beautiful things necessarily makes us better people. He travels to Córdoba, Spain, following the strange history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated Jewish manuscript that survived expulsion from Spain, censorship in Venice, Nazi occupation, and the siege of Sarajevo. What begins as a story about the survival of a beautiful object becomes an investigation into creativity itself and what it means to build toward the kind of world we actually want to inhabit. For More: People of the Book: Geraldine Brooks Create Yourself Alive: November 2-3 Join me in Charleston for Create Yourself Alive! It’s a two day immersion for creators who are ready to fully own their calling. This will be a powerful and intimate time. Click here for more

    Myths: Creativity Will Save Us

  3. Sep 15

    Heretics: Mary Renault

    Mary Renault (1905–1983): Mary Renault was a British novelist best known for her historical fiction set in ancient Greece. Born Eileen Mary Challans in London in 1905, she studied English at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, before training as a nurse at the Radcliffe Infirmary. There she met fellow nurse Julie Mullard, who became her lifelong partner. Renault worked as a nurse through much of the 1930s and during the Second World War, publishing her first novel, Purposes of Love, in 1939. Her 1947 novel Return to Night won a $150,000 prize from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, giving Renault and Mullard the financial means to move to South Africa in 1948, where they remained for the rest of their lives.  Renault published The Charioteer in 1953, a novel centered on relationships between gay men in wartime Britain. She then turned to the ancient world, including the Theseus trilogy. Her books brought together extensive historical research with fictional accounts. Renault was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1959 and continued writing until near the end of her life. She died in Cape Town in 1983 at the age of seventy-eight. For More: The Charioteer: Mary Renault The Last of the Wine: Mary Renault Mary Renault: A Biography: David Sweetman To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This is a gathering for creators who are finished performing indifferently and are ready to make something worthy of their attention. THE SALON

    Heretics: Mary Renault

  4. Sep 1

    Myths: Deal with the Devil

    In this episode, Rainier goes looking for the myth insisting that talent isn't earned, that it's beyond our control. He traces the story of blues legend Robert Johnson, who allegedly made a deal with the devil for his skill. The search widens to Niccolò Paganini, whose own audiences swore they saw the devil guiding his bow. And then looks at an ancient Greek legend about what happens when we claim to have talent that isn't a gift from the gifts.This is a story spanning three thousand years and asking the question: why do we need someone besides the person to take credit for the work? For More: Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues — Elijah Wald Metamorphoses, Book VI: Arachne — Ovid, trans. A.S. Kline The Devil's Violinist — dir. Bernard Rose The Creators Collective: Join us for our next masterclass on Anthony Bourdain and Julia Child, two of the most joyful, most enthusiastic apprentices to mastery this country's ever produced. We're talking about enthusiasm as a discipline, and delight as a skill you can build the same as any other. This is a gathering for creators who are finished performing and ready to make something worthy of their attention. Sign up today. THE SALON THE RECLAMATION This September 13, I'm leading a six-week live immersion called The Reclamation. It's for anyone who senses that some essential part of themselves has been buried beneath expectation, fear, responsibility, or simply years of surviving. Together we'll explore what it means to recover your own creative voice. Through live gatherings, weekly practices, thoughtful prompts, and a community of fellow creators, we'll make room for the life and the creativity that has been waiting for your full attention. If you're ready to reclaim your creative self, I'd love to welcome you. FIND OUT MORE HERE To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE

    Myths: Deal with the Devil

  5. Aug 18

    Myths: The Lone Genius

    In this episode Rainier explores the myths of the lone genius and the idea of authorship itself. He travels to Amsterdam to look at the work of Johannes Vermeer, discovering that what is often credited to the master is actually the work of an anonymous hand. The mystery pulls him further into the work of the Dutch realists, eventually taking him to Paris to trace the story of Alexandre Dumas, whose name alone survived a courtroom battle with his uncredited collaborator, Auguste Maquet. What begins as a search for a painter's true intention becomes an investigation into where the whole idea of the solitary author came from, and how recently, and for what reasons, we invented it. For More: Tim's Vermeer — dir. Teller "What Is an Author?" — Michel Foucault, in Language, Counter-Memory, Practice The Other Dumas--dir. Safy Nebbou The Creators Collective: Join us for our next masterclass Sunday August 23 at 11am Eastern, on Envy, and its importance as an engine for creative development. This is a gathering for creators who are finished performing and ready to make something worthy of their attention. Sign up today. THE SALON THE RECLAMATION This September 13, I'm leading a six-week live immersion called The Reclamation. It's for anyone who senses that some essential part of themselves has been buried beneath expectation, fear, responsibility, or simply years of surviving. Together we'll explore what it means to recover your own creative voice. Through live gatherings, weekly practices, thoughtful prompts, and a community of fellow creators, we'll make room for the life and the creativity hat has been waiting for your full attention. If you're ready to reclaim your creative self, I’d love to welcome you. FIND OUT MORE HERE To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE Correction: the Cupid painting discussed in this episode is Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, held in Dresden's Gemäldegalerie, not the Rijksmuseum

    Myths: The Lone Genius

  6. Aug 11

    Outlaws: Audre Lorde

    Audre Lorde (1934–1992): Audre Lorde was an American poet, essayist, librarian, teacher, and activist whose work explored race, sexuality, gender, motherhood, illness, and the uses of power. Born in New York City to Caribbean immigrant parents, Lorde began writing poetry as a teenager and published her first poem in Seventeen magazine while still in high school. She later worked as a librarian and taught at institutions including Tougaloo College and John Jay College, while emerging as one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century American poetry and feminist thought. Lorde described herself as “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” refusing to separate identities that the culture around her often treated as incompatible. Lorde argued for the necessity of difference, self-definition, and speaking what has been silenced. She died of cancer in St. Croix in 1992 at the age of fifty-eight. For More: POWER--Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals — Audre Lorde The Black Unicorn — Audre Lorde Warrior Poet (A Biography)--Alexis Devaux Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This is a gathering for creators who are finished performing indifferently and are ready to make something worthy of their attention. THE SALON THE RECLAMATION SEPTEMBER 13 I'm leading a six-week live experience called The Reclamation. It's for anyone who senses that some essential part of themselves has been buried beneath expectation, fear, responsibility, or simply years of surviving. Together we'll explore what it means to recover your own creative voice. Through live gatherings, weekly practices, thoughtful prompts, and a community of fellow creators, we'll make room for the life and the creativity hat has been waiting for your full attention. If you're ready to reclaim your creative self, I’d love to welcome you. FIND OUT MORE HERE To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE

    Outlaws: Audre Lorde

  7. Jul 27

    Rebels: Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam

    Osip & Nadezhda Mandelstam (1891–1938 / 1899–1980): Osip Mandelstam was one of the 20th centuries great poets and founder of the Acmeist movement in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, Osip composed his poems aloud, committing them to memory rather than paper, until sixteen unwritten lines mocking Stalin got him arrested, exiled, and finally killed in a transit camp near Vladivostok in 1938. His wife, Nadezhda, spent more than two decades in deliberate invisibility, carrying his life's work in her memory. Together their lives ask what it means to know something by heart and to commit fully to that knowing. For More: Hope Against Hope — Nadezhda Mandelstam The Voronezh Notebooks — Osip Mandelstam A Dictator Calls — Ismail Kadare THE RECLAMATION This August, I'm leading a six-week live experience called The Reclamation. It's for anyone who senses that some essential part of themselves has been buried beneath expectation, fear, responsibility, or simply years of surviving. Together we'll explore what it means to recover your own creative voice. Through live gatherings, weekly practices, thoughtful prompts, and a community of fellow creators, we'll make room for the life and the creativity hat has been waiting for your full attention. If you're ready to reclaim your creative self, I’d love to welcome you. FIND OUT MORE HERE To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This is a gathering for creators who are finished performing indifferently and are ready to make something worthy of their attention. THE SALON

    Rebels: Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam

  8. Jul 20

    Myths: The First Artist

    The Chauvet Cave (c. 36,000 years ago): Chauvet Cave preserves some of the oldest known works of human art. Discovered in 1994 after being sealed for more than twenty thousand years, its walls are alive with animals, many of which are now extinct, rendered with astonishing technical mastery. The cave was never a home. These paintings weren’t created for public display, but for purposes that remain profoundly mysterious. Chauvet challenges one of our modern assumptions about creativity: that art exists to be seen. Instead, it offers a vision of making as ritual, devotion, community, and participation in something far larger than recognition itself. For More: The Cave of Forgotten Dreams — Werner Herzog Chauvet Cave: The Art of Earliest Times — Jean Clottes THE RECLAMATION This August, I'm leading a six-week live experience called The Reclamation. It's for anyone who senses that some essential part of themselves has been buried beneath expectation, fear, responsibility, or simply years of surviving. Together we'll explore what it means to recover your own creative voice. Through live gatherings, weekly practices, thoughtful prompts, and a community of fellow creators, we'll make room for the life and the creativity hat has been waiting for your full attention. If you're ready to reclaim your creative self, I’d love to welcome you. FIND OUT MORE HERE To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This is a gathering for creators who are finished performing indifferently and are ready to make something worthy of their attention. THE SALON

    Myths: The First Artist
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Remember history class? Ever wonder about the ones they didn't talk about? The rule breakers? The rebels, the misfits, the poets, and the prophets who refused to follow the script? Enter The Creators Podcast bringing you the untold stories of those who flipped the world upside down. These are the footnotes of the encyclopedia, written in a trail of blood—stories buried, burned, or ignored because they didn’t fit the mold. This is history like you’ve never heard it before. The voices they didn’t want you to know? You’ll know them now.

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  • Creator
    Rainier Wylde
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    64
  • Rating
    Explicit
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