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. Musicians: Alice Coltrane

    4D AGO

    Musicians: Alice Coltrane

    Alice Coltrane (1937–2007): Alice Coltrane was a pianist, harpist, and spiritual composer who expanded jazz beyond form and into devotion. She grew up in a rich musical environment shaped by gospel, classical training, and the city’s thriving Black artistic culture. In 1965 when she joined the band of saxophonist John Coltrane. Their partnership, both musical and personal, pushed her toward increasingly exploratory forms of sound. After John Coltrane’s death in 1967, she entered a period of profound grief and transformation that led her toward spiritual practice, Eastern philosophy, and a radically expanded musical language. She fused jazz, drone, harp, and devotional music into something entirely her own. In the 1970s she founded an ashram in California and became a spiritual teacher, creating music as offering. For creators, she is someone who represents artistic and spiritual rebirth out of grief.F For More: Turiyasangitananda The Legacy of a Female Jazz Musician The Creators Collective Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective session. This month we’re stepping into the life and work of Johnny Cash in a class called Sacred Rebellion, an exploration of the man in black not as myth, but as a creator who refused certainty, and respectability in favor of real whole hearted living. We’ll look at the tension he carried: faith and failure, love and addiction, darkness and redemption, and what his life reveals about creating from contradiction instead of resolving it. Find Out More

    20 min
  2. Sorcerers: Nikola Tesla (Part Three)

    MAR 30

    Sorcerers: Nikola Tesla (Part Three)

    In this final episode, we follow Tesla’s final years, the strange signals, the obsessive rituals, the rumors of new inventions that would revolutionize the world, death rays and disappearing ships and time travel. We ask a deeper question: what happens when imagination outpaces the conditions that can hold it? Because not every great idea becomes a breakthrough. Some become stories. Some become warnings. And some… wait. This is an episode about creativity itself. How it appears. How it’s received. And what it asks of the people willing to follow it… even when no one else does. FOR MORE: The Art of Grief: Creating Through Despair begins April 6. Through weekly teaching, tangible assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something, and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation. Sign up here

    27 min
  3. Sorcerers: Nikola Tesla (Part Two)

    MAR 23

    Sorcerers: Nikola Tesla (Part Two)

    Nikola Tesla set out to build a machine that could change the way energy moved through the world. A tower on the north shore of Long Island designed to transmit power and information across the planet itself. It was bold. It was expensive. And depending on who you ask… it was either genius or madness. In this episode, we follow the rise and fall of Wardenclyffe, the strange experiment that brought imagination into direct conflict with power, who get’s to control imagination and the unwritten future. For More: The Tower Wardenclyffe by Ernst Willem van Bergh Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually begin living like one? I’ve been expanding The Creators Collective into something much deeper: weekly craft workshops, immersive masterclasses, live salons and open mics, and a growing vault of teachings and creative prompts designed to move you out of consumption and into creation. This isn’t just a class anymore. It’s a living, breathing creative ecosystem. Right now, there’s a short window to join at the Founders Rate, which means you lock in the lowest price the Collective will ever have. If you’ve been feeling the pull to create… this is your invitation. Find out more!

    20 min
  4. Sorcerers: Nikola Tesla (Part One)

    MAR 16

    Sorcerers: Nikola Tesla (Part One)

    Nikola Tesla (1856–1943): Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor and electrical engineer whose ideas helped electrify the modern world. Born in the Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia), he arrived in the United States in 1884 and became a central figure in the development of alternating current power systems, which made large-scale electrical grids possible. But Tesla’s imagination extended far beyond practical infrastructure. He envisioned wireless communication, wireless power, and a planet connected through invisible fields of energy. Through inventions like the Tesla coil and experiments in Colorado Springs and Wardenclyffe, he pursued ideas that often ran ahead of the technology, and the institutions, of his time. For creators, Tesla stands as a reminder that imagination often sees the future long before the world is ready for it. For More: My Inventions — Nikola Tesla Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla — Marc J. Seifer This spring, I’m leading a twelve-week immersive journey: The Art of Grief: Creating Through Despair. Grief strips away what is excess. It clarifies. It refines. Through weekly transmissions, real assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something—and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation. Find Out More The Creators Collective THE SALON THE INNER CIRCLE

    28 min
  5. Outlaws: Lenny Bruce

    MAR 9

    Outlaws: Lenny Bruce

    Lenny Bruce (1925–1966): Lenny Bruce was the comedian who transformed stand-up from light entertainment into cultural confrontation. After serving briefly in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he drifted into the nightclub circuit of the late 1940s and 1950s, where comedians were expected to deliver safe jokes and predictable punchlines. Bruce broke those rules. His routines became rapid-fire explorations of religion, race, hypocrisy, censorship, and the strange contradictions of American life. By the early 1960s he was being arrested repeatedly for obscenity, with police officers sitting in clubs transcribing his jokes as legal evidence. In 1964 he was convicted in New York after a controversial trial. Bruce died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles in 1966 at the age of forty. He is widely recognized as one of the architects of modern stand-up comedy, paving the way for comedians who bravely dared to question the system.  For More: How to Talk Dirty and Influence People — Lenny Bruce Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware — Lenny Bruce Want to go beyond listening about creators and actually live like one? Consider joining the next Creators Collective class. This month, March 22nd, we’re exploring the life and work of Robin Williams in a session called The Cost of Joy, an honest look at the strange emotional territory where comedy, sensitivity, grief, and creative brilliance meet. Together we’ll explore what Williams’ life reveals about creativity, emotional depth, and the courage it takes to stay fully alive as an artist. Sign up here

    26 min
  6. Saints: Madam Guyon

    MAR 2

    Saints: Madam Guyon

    Madame Jeanne Guyon (1648–1717): Jeanne-Marie Bouvier Guyon was a French mystic who taught that dissolving into divine love was the highest spiritual path. Born into minor nobility during the reign of Louis XIV, she wrote in an age defined by monarchy and church authority. She taught that the soul could encounter God directly, without striving, fear, or reward. In A Short and Easy Method of Prayer, she described prayer as a simple act of surrender. Her teachings, later labeled Quietism, were seen as destabilizing to the institutions of her time. She was imprisoned for years in the Bastille. Yet her insistence on interior freedom quietly influenced European spirituality, philosophy and psychology for generations.  For More: A Short and Easy Method of Prayer & Spiritual Torrents— Madame Guyon The Seeking Heart--Fenelon The Art of Grief: A Course for Creating Through Despair. April 6. Through weekly transmissions, real assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something, and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation. Sign up Now The Creators Collective THE SALON

    32 min
  7. Visionaries: Mary Austin

    FEB 23

    Visionaries: Mary Austin

    Mary Austin (1868–1934): Mary Austin was a chronicler of the American Southwest who refused the myth that the desert was empty. Born in Illinois, she moved west where scarcity, wind, and water refined both her perception and her prose. In an era intoxicated by expansion, railroads, aqueducts, and industrial ambition, she wrote about attention, insisting that the land was not backdrop but teacher. Through works like The Land of Little Rain, she articulated a radical cosmology of conservation and care for a living land. For creators, she stands as a reminder that attention itself is an ethical act, and that restraint can be a deeper form of abundance. For More: The Land of Little Rain — Mary Austin The Life of Lozen, Apache Warrior This spring, beginning April 6, I’m leading a twelve-week immersive journey: The Art of Grief: Creating Through Despair. Grief strips away what is excess. It clarifies. It refines. Through weekly transmissions, real assignments, live gatherings, and an in-person closing ceremony, we’ll explore how loss becomes language, and how sorrow can become structure for a new life. If you’re standing in the aftermath of something—and ready to make art from what remains, this is your invitation. Sign up now!

    28 min
  8. Sorcerers: Maxwell Perkins

    FEB 9

    Sorcerers: Maxwell Perkins

    Maxwell Perkins (1884–1947) Max Perkins was an American book editor whose greatest work was not authorship, but fidelity. He spent thirty-six years at Charles Scribner’s Sons, where he reshaped American literature by standing beside writers at moments when their work, and their lives, were most unstable. Perkins edited and championed figures like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. He believed editors should remain invisible, that the book belonged to the author, and that the highest creative labor was helping something become fully itself without claiming it.  For More: Editor of Genius — A. Scott Berg Genius (The Movie) Consider joining The Creators Collective, the community Rainier started for people who want to make art that is alive, grounded, and aligned with their deepest convictions. Inside: live teachings, historical deep dives, creative prompts, and a shared refusal to numb out. Next class is February 22 on PRINCE! Sign up here!

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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
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
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