The Call to Create

About The Call to Create

Your Creative Midlife. With host Betsy Bush. I’m talking to people who are exploring the creative life post-career or as empty nesters: painting, writing, making music, theater, and film making. What about you? Is this the time to write that book? Return to arts you enjoyed as a kid or teen? Curious to try something new? Here’s the thing: It’s never too late to bring a creative practice into your life. My guests talk about the satisfaction they find as they develop their new skills. They also share the uncertainty and fear they felt when they started and the confidence they gained as they kept at it and their skills developed. Even better: their definition of success is their own. Where do you want to go? Dare to follow your muse. Have a creative journey to share? Please get in touch via our website contact page, www.yourcreativemidlife.com (http://www.yourcreativemidlife.com/)

Publisher

Betsy Bush

Category

arts · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Feb 2025

Latest episode

29 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Oct 2026

   Can You Write a Novel in 15 Minutes a Day? Kim Purcell on What Writing Workshops Don’t Teach

   Have you been waiting for the right moment to write that novel? In this episode of Your Creative Midlife, I talk with Kim Purcell, author of Write a Novel in 100 Days: The Busy Writer’s Guide to Finishing Your Book Fast, newly published from Penguin Random House. She’s taught writing for twenty-five years and published critically acclaimed YA novels. In This Episode You'll Learn: → Why 97% of books are never finished → The two types of writers and the pros and cons of both &nbsp...

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   15 Oct 2026

   Can Making Music Keep You Vital? Inside Christine La Monte’s Viva Verdi!

   What if retirement was a time to create, to be in a community with fellow artists? In this episode of Your Creative Midlife, I talk with producer Christine La Monte about Viva Verdi!, the Oscar-nominated documentary she produced with Director Yvonne Russo. The film tells the story of aging musicians in Milan’s Casa Verdi, a home created by renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi. The home opened in 1902 and has since housed more than 1,500 artists. The residents still teach, perform, sing, and...

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   3 Oct 2026

   Can Art Prevent Burnout in Healthcare? | Larissa Trinder of Arts in Medicine Thinks So

   Have you been following the new research about the importance of art and music in healthcare settings? This is such an important part of bringing art and music back into our lives, both as practitioners and also just being in a world where we are listening to music and seeing art, especially in healthcare settings. On this episode of Your Creative Midlife, I talk with Larissa Trinder, the Executive Director of Arts and Medicine for New York City Health and Hospitals. This program has ...

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