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From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

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26 episodes

1 month ago

In this episode, our former interns Rachel Wachman and Eva Phelps interview Sue, Writing Through’s CEO and Executive Director. On this, our 10th Anniversary, she takes time to reflect on the experiences, revelations, and hopes that have led her to grow the organization to what it is now. Sue tells us about the desire to help that has followed her from childhood to the present, and her use of writing as a tool to help herself and others navigate tragedies and difficult histories. She discusses...

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In this episode, our former interns Rachel Wachman and Eva Phelps interview Sue, Writing Through’s CEO and Executive Director. On this, our 10th Anniversary, she takes time to reflect on the experiences, revelations, and hopes that have led her to grow the organization to what it is now. Sue tells us about the desire to help that has followed her from childhood to the present, and her use of writing as a tool to help herself and others navigate tragedies and difficult histories. She discusses...

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Episodes (20/26)

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep12: Hope Is a Muscle, and So Is Creativity (w/ Sue Guiney)

In this episode, our former interns Rachel Wachman and Eva Phelps interview Sue, Writing Through’s CEO and Executive Director. On this, our 10th Anniversary, she takes time to reflect on the experiences, revelations, and hopes that have led her to grow the organization to what it is now. Sue tells us about the desire to help that has followed her from childhood to the present, and her use of writing as a tool to help herself and others navigate tragedies and difficult histories. She discusses...

10 months ago

50 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep11: Art and Social Work in the Creative Zone (w/ Lux Mean)

In this episode, Kristin speaks with Mr Lux, the Executive Director of PEPY Empowering Youth: an organization that runs personal and professional development programs for students in Siem Reap and one of Writing Through’s partners. With Kristin, he discusses the importance of creativity to today’s youth and how to best foster it, his journey as a businessman-turned-photographer and social worker, and the similarities in his creative process while taking photographs and leading PEPY. Other top...

11 months ago

31 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep10: The Joy and Process of being Creative for a Living (w/ Christie Pink)

This week’s episode features Christie Pink, a freelance graphic designer based in Cambodia and the founder of Creation Haus, an organization that offers graphic design services, classes, and workshops worldwide. Kristin invited Christie to the podcast after attending her stellar presentation on the importance of creativity, and together they discuss the importance of playfulness, curiosity, and letting the mind wander. You’ll also hear them talk about the effect of physical space on creative ...

1 year ago

32 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep9: Poetry in Everyday Life (w/Carlos Andrés Gómez)

In this episode, Kristin speaks with Carlos Andrés Gómez, an award-winning Colombian American poet and public speaker. Carlos worked with Writing Through during our first Great Lake Poets Express workshop in Cambodia’s Prek Toal Floating Village back in February of this year, an experience he now considers one of the highlights of his life. On the podcast, they discuss the childhood difficulties that shaped his present creative approach to life, his life-changing encounter with poet Martín Es...

1 year ago

47 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep8: Express Yourself (w/ Andrea McKenna Brankin)

In this week’s episode, Kristin sits down with Andrea McKenna Brankin, a multitalented writer-journalist and long-time Writing Through facilitator based in Singapore. As someone who has always expressed herself creatively through words, fashion, and tattoos, Andrea now works to teach students to do the same, be it in poetry workshops, rugby matches, or yoga sessions. They discuss the difference in rigid and creative teaching styles and their effect on students’ learning, writing about her exp...

1 year ago

29 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep7: Creativity Takes Many Forms (w/ Eugénie Munakarmi)

In this episode, Sue speaks to Eugénie Munakarmi, the COO of Enfants du Mekong (Children of the Mekong), an incredible French organization established back in 1958, that helps children all over South-East Asia. EdM was one of our first partners, so Sue and Eugénie have been friends a long time. This is the first time we have had someone on the podcast who didn’t consider themselves a particularly creative person, and so the discussion around why Sue wanted to speak to her and how she views he...

1 year ago

35 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep6: Rediscovering the Joy of Creative Writing (w/ Lucia Orellana)

In this week’s episode, Sue interviews Lucia Orellana, an Ecuadorian social and clinical psychologist-turned-poet and one of Writing Through’s long-term volunteers. They discuss how living in different cultures, places, and languages can change you, the differences between writing poetry in English and Spanish, and the challenges one may face when translating between both languages. Lucia explains how she rediscovered her first joy of writing later in life and the interesting ways in wh...

1 year ago

31 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep5: Finding the Melody in Music and Medicine (w/ Dr Lisa Wong)

In this week’s episode, Sue is joined by her friend, Dr Lisa Wong, a pediatrician, musician, teacher and musical education advocate. She explains the fascinating links between how and why playing music makes someone a better physician and how the skills that children learn playing instruments can later be applied to the study and practice of medicine. They also discuss the power of giving people of all ages permission to be curious, creative and experimental and how physicians in America have...

1 year ago

33 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep4: The Freedom to Explore (w/ Votey Cheav)

In this episode, Sue interviews one of the members of Writing Through’s fantastic Board of Directors, Votey Cheav. They get into a wide array of topics during their conversation. Votey really has had a fascinating life; she shares her experience as a Cambodian American and a child of refugees, her personal relationship with poetry, creativity and her great love of learning. She explains how she applies her creativity in so many ways, from her business practices, to her efforts to better under...

1 year ago

37 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep3: Cultivating Creativity (w/ Jess Blackledge)

In this episode, Sue interviews Writing Through’s former Deputy Director, Jess Blackledge, who now lives in Edinburgh and works as a Learning Officer for the world-famous Fringe Festival. They discuss her wide-ranging career, which has the common thread of inspiring young people to cultivate their creativity. She also talks about how her life-long love affair with the theater has led her to believe in the vital importance of an arts education and how the arts should be accessible to eve...

1 year ago

41 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep2: The Creative Life (w/ Dara Hout)

In this episode, Sue interviews the incredible Dara Hout, the Chief Executive of Phare Circus, a live show of drama, dance and impressive acrobatics, known as the ‘Pride of Cambodia’. Listen to how he defines creativity, why we should all embrace the feeling of fear and perseverance in the arts and how every decision we make is creative. You’ll also learn more about the history of the arts and circus school supported by this important social enterprise, the remarkable Khmer artists that...

1 year ago

34 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S2 Ep1: Lead With Curiosity (w/ LPX)

In this episode, Sue interviews the fascinating Lizzy Plapinger, known professionally as LPX. They discuss what it means about to be an artist, how we can all live a more creative life, her unique relationship with color and AI and how she rediscovered her first love, visual art, during the pandemic. LPX is now bravely moving out of her comfort zone and living and leading with curiosity. Check out this episode to hear all about it!

1 year ago

39 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

Taking Time To Self Reflect w/ Soucheng

In our Season 1 finale, Kristin is joined by Soucheng, another student from Liger Leadership Academy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Using her unique voice, Soucheng discusses how the pandemic has affected her creativity, the importance of taking the time to write and developing kindness and compassion. We hope you enjoy this episode, and we will see you in Season 2!

3 years ago

23 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S1 Ep 13: Advocating For Yourself and Others w/ Alexa Santillana

This week, Sue is joined by Alexa Santillana, a former participant of Writing Through and the founder of Youth Advocates Club in West Covina, California. She and Sue discuss her first year at university, her expectations vs the reality of studying on the East Coast, and her rewarding work volunteering at a medical center in Baltimore, Maryland.

3 years ago

29 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S1 Ep12: PEPY Empowering Youth (w/ Kim Ann Khlang)

In this episode, Kristin Schuster, our deputy director, is back chatting with the lovely Kim Ann Khlang from PEPY, one of our partners in Siem Reap, Cambodia. They discuss the impact on the PEPY scholarship students when they learn to write creatively in a second language, have the freedom to make mistakes, and question their own limitations. Kim Ann discusses her own relationship with writing and shares a poem written by a PEPY student.

3 years ago

18 minutes

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S1 Ep11: Creating Community (w/ Patty Bierley)

Sue continues her conversation with Patty, discussing the need for creative writing in America and how creative writing can be used as a tool to learn the skills of listening and connecting with others.

3 years ago

17 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S1 Ep10: The Environments That Shape Us (w/ Patty Bierley)

Sue speaks with long-term volunteer and facilitator Patty Bierley about how our environment affects the ways we think and feel. They also discuss how to cultivate an environment where we can be free to express ourselves fully.

3 years ago

17 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S1 Ep 9: Pay it Forward (w/ Jason Baron)

This week, Sue chats with her friend Jason Baron, the founder of the Chelly Foundation, a non-profit in Kampot in Southern Cambodia. He explains how and why the organization began and the ripple effects of bringing education to the young people of that province.

3 years ago

18 minutes

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S1 Ep 8: Living a Creative Life (w/ Roun Ry)

This week we are back with Writing Through alum and professional photographer, Roun Ry to discuss the importance of arts and experiential education. Roun also reflects on his creative journey and takes the time to share one of his poems with us. If you would like to see Roun’s extraordinary work, you can follow him on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/rounry/

3 years ago

20 minutes

From the Magic Pencil: Voices of Writing Through

S1 Ep 7: An Artist's Journey (w/ Roun Ry)

In this episode, Sue sits down with Roun Ry, a good friend and former student of Anjali House and Writing Through. Roun is now a celebrated professional photographer living in Phnom Penh City. He and Sue discuss his artistic process, how he tells stories through both images and words, the importance of self-expression, and how he gives back to his community. If you would like to see Roun’s work, you can follow him on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/rounry/

3 years ago

22 minutes