Creativity Connects with Mikki Wilson
Honest conversations with remarkable women connected to the North Shore—about the people, choices, challenges, and creative practices behind the work.
Hosted by Mikki Wilson · Produced by Randyll Collum for Peabody TV · Sponsored by Jenni Stuart Fine Jewelry
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Start wherever a story finds you.
Creativity Connects moves beyond the polished bio and into the real journey. Listen to the full series here, then follow the show on Spotify so the next conversation meets you there.
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Season 2 · Opening conversation
Who are you when the role comes off?
Season 2 opens in Mikki’s living room with Amanda “A” Larson of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. Their conversation moves through belonging, mental health, creativity, a fruit-sticker collection, live music, and the city that helped A turn her brightness up.
Content note: This episode includes discussion of mental health and suicidal ideation.
What you will hear
The story behind the work.
A business can be visible while the person who built it stays hidden. Creativity Connects makes room for the parts that do not fit inside a pitch.
Beyond the polished answer
The unexpected pivots, messy middles, values, and lived experiences that shaped the woman behind the work.
What keeps her creating
The rituals, relationships, risks, and sources of joy that help people keep building when the path is not linear.
A story with somewhere to travel
Each conversation lives across audio, video, editorial, search, social, and email so the story can meet people in more than one place.
Meet your host
Mikki makes room for the truth behind the title.
Mikki Wilson is the founder of Dot Connector Consulting and the host of Creativity Connects. Known as “The Dot Connector,” she brings people, ideas, and communities together through trust-based connection and human-centered leadership.
Her gift on the mic is not turning a life into a sound bite. It is creating enough room for a guest to be candid about the person behind the business, the relationships that shaped her, and the parts of the journey people rarely see.
Meet Dot Connector Consulting ↗
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About Creativity Connects
What is Creativity Connects with Mikki Wilson?
Creativity Connects with Mikki Wilson is a Creative Collective podcast that preserves and shares the stories of remarkable women connected to the North Shore community. The conversations go beyond a business bio to explore the people, choices, challenges, relationships, and creative practices behind the work.
Who hosts and produces the podcast?
Mikki Wilson, founder of Dot Connector Consulting, hosts the series. Randyll Collum produces it for Peabody TV, the community media center serving Peabody and the North Shore area. Jenni Stuart Fine Jewelry sponsors the series.
Where can I listen?
You can listen from the Spotify player on this page or follow the full show on Spotify. Creative Collective also publishes a written story for each episode so you can meet the guest, explore the conversation’s key themes, and follow the links mentioned in the show.
Who appears on Creativity Connects?
The series features women entrepreneurs and community leaders connected to the North Shore. Guests have worked across food, fashion, wellness, art, media, jewelry, nonprofit leadership, civic life, and other parts of the regional ecosystem.
How does one conversation become more than one episode?
Creative Collective develops each conversation into a connected content package that can include audio, video, a long-form article, search content, social storytelling, and newsletter material. That gives each guest’s story more ways to travel and a longer useful life.
Keep the connection going
Come for the stories. Find your place in the Collective.
Creativity Connects is one doorway into a larger community. Choose the membership that fits how you want to participate.
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$100 / year
Get closer to the creative people, events, and small businesses that make Essex County interesting—no business ownership required.
- Member updates and invitations
- Offers, discounts, and experiences
- A closer connection to local creative life
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$480 / year
Build visibility, relationships, and momentum with practical support from people who understand the work behind the business.
- An enhanced directory listing and active promotion
- Peer expertise and practical business help
- Member gatherings, opportunities, and advocacy
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