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. 1d ago

    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

    Myths: The Lone Genius

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Jul 6

    Lovers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861):  One of the great poets of the Victorian era. Confined for years by chronic illness, family control, and fear, she produced remarkable poetry from an isolated room. It was only after secretly marrying Robert Browning and escaping to Florence that her fullest work emerged. There she began to live a free life and sense of self, publishing Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh, becoming one of the defining literary voices of her century. Her life asks the question about what happens when we take the creatively courageous step of reimagining the rooms we choose to be in. For More:  Aurora Leigh — Elizabeth Barrett Browning  Sonnets from the Portuguese — Elizabeth Barrett Browning  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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

    Lovers: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  6. Jun 30

    Sorcerers: Jiro Ono

    Jiro Ono (1925– ) Jiro Ono is a Japanese sushi master whose life's work has become one of the clearest modern examples of craftsmanship. Born in rural Japan, he began working in the kitchen at the age of seven, served in a munitions factory during the Second World War, and spent nearly two decades apprenticing in kitchens before opening the ten-seat restaurant that would become Sukiyabashi Jiro, in 1965. His uncompromising standards transformed generations of chefs. In 2007, Sukiyabashi Jiro became the first sushi restaurant to receive three Michelin stars, and in 2014 it welcomed President Barack Obama, who later called it the finest sushi he had ever eaten. At 100, he is still creating.  For More: Jiro Dreams of Sushi — directed by David GelbSukiyabashi Jiro: The Pursuit of Perfection — official restaurant history 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 To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE

    Sorcerers: Jiro Ono

  7. Jun 22

    Visionaries: Varian Fry

    Varian Fry (1907–1967): Varian Fry was an American journalist, classicist, and magazine editor who became one of the most consequential rescuers of the twentieth century. In August 1940, he arrived in Vichy France to do what his own government refused to do. Over thirteen months in Marseille, Fry forged documents, ran a safe house out of a crumbling villa, and built a footpath over the Pyrenees that would carry thousands of creators and thinkers out of occupied Europe alive, among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, and Max Ernst. He was expelled from France in 1941, and released by his organization. His unofficial and un-sanctioned work was not recognized or rewarded during his lifetime by the American government. He worked as a freelance writer and high school teacher before dying of a heart attack at fifty-nine. His country didn't honor him until twenty-four years after his death.  For More: Surrender on Demand — Varian FryVilla Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille — Rosemary Sullivan • Transatlantic — Netflix limited series (dramatized) Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This month, we're exploring shameless creativity—the courage to care deeply, create boldly, and build a life large enough to contain the things that matter most. A gathering for creators who are finished performing indifference and ready to make something worthy of their attention. THE SALON To apply for one-on-one creative mentorship: GO HERE

    Visionaries: Varian Fry

  8. Jun 8

    Healers: Hildegard of Bingen

    Hildegard of Bingen was a Benedictine abbess, composer, mystic, scientist, healer, linguist, and one of the most extraordinary creative minds of the medieval world. Enclosed in a monastery from childhood, she transformed the apparent confines of her life into an astonishing intellectual and artistic career. Over eight decades, she composed groundbreaking music, wrote visionary theological works, produced volumes on medicine and natural history, invented an original language, and corresponded with popes, emperors, bishops, and kings. Hildegard articulated a vision of human flourishing rooted in vitality, imagination, and the courage to follow one's calling beyond the limits imposed by culture, convention, or authority. For More: • Scivias — Hildegard of Bingen • A Feather on the Breath of God — Gothic Voices (recording of Hildegard's music) • Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen — directed by Margarethe von Trotta Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This month, we're exploring shameless creativity—the courage to care deeply, create boldly, and build a life large enough to contain the things that matter most. A gathering for creators who are finished performing indifference and ready to make something worthy of their attention. THE SALON

    Healers: Hildegard of Bingen
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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
    60
  • Rating
    Explicit
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