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Lead like the teachers who changed your life. 🚀 The CREATE Your Calm podcast is where educator, author, and creator of the CREATE Method, Katie Trowbridge, helps you transition from...
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Lead like the teachers who changed your life. 🚀
The CREATE Your Calm podcast is where educator, author, and creator of the CREATE Method, Katie Trowbridge, helps you transition from being burned out and overwhelmed to being grounded, curious, and emotionally awake.
In each episode, Katie uses deeper thinking, creativity, and fearless curiosity as tools for real mental health... not perfection, not toxic positivity.
Just honest conversations, practical strategies, and teacher-tested tools to help you:
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The CREATE Your Calm podcast is where educator, author, and creator of the CREATE Method, Katie Trowbridge, helps you transition from being burned out and overwhelmed to being grounded, curious, and emotionally awake.
In each episode, Katie uses deeper thinking, creativity, and fearless curiosity as tools for real mental health... not perfection, not toxic positivity.
Just honest conversations, practical strategies, and teacher-tested tools to help you:
- Calm your nervous system when life won’t slow down
- Turn burnout into insight, boundaries, and self-respect
- Use curiosity to challenge negative thoughts and old patterns
- Build daily habits that protect your peace and keep your brain flexible
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30 MAR 2026 · Are we facing a learning crisis, or a thinking crisis?
In this episode, Lisa Urbanski sits down with educator, bestselling author, and TEDx speaker Katie Trowbridge to explore why deep thinking, curiosity, and critical thinking seem to be fading in schools, workplaces, and everyday life.
You’ll learn:
• Why Katie says we’re facing a thinking crisis, not just a learning crisis
• Why more information does not automatically create better thinking
• How curiosity supports learning, creativity, and connection
• What shuts down critical thinking in schools, teams, and relationships
• How psychological safety helps people share ideas and take healthy risks
• Practical ways to strengthen deep thinking and ask better questions
• How Katie’s CREATE Method helps people become more thoughtful, engaged, and innovative Connect with Katie Trowbridge & Curiosity 2 Create Website:
- 🌐 Personal Website: http://katietrowbridge.com/
- 🧠 Curiosity 2 Create – The CREATE Method & Programs: http://curiosity2create.org/
Social Media:
- 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-trowbridge/
- 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katie.schmidt.trowbridge/
- ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@katietrowbridge
Transcribed
8 DEC 2025 · Are you tired of feeling mentally fried, reactive, and like you’re never really thinking—just scrolling, stressing, and surviving?
In this episode, host Stacey Chillemi and educator–CEO Katie Trowbridge break down the “thinking crisis” and show you simple, practical ways to rebuild deeper thinking, real connection, and creativity in your daily life.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
🧠 Train your “deep thinking” muscle in a distracted, digital world
💬 Repair generational disconnect and actually communicate with Gen Z
🎨 Use the CREATE method to boost curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving
🤖 Use AI as a tool without outsourcing your brain or your intuition
👪 Raise (and become) a more curious, resilient, emotionally aware human
If your brain feels overloaded but underused, this conversation will help you calm your mind, think more clearly, and reconnect with what really matters, starting today. Connect with Katie Trowbridge & Curiosity 2 Create Website:
- 🌐 Personal Website: http://katietrowbridge.com/
- 🧠 Curiosity 2 Create – The CREATE Method & Programs: http://curiosity2create.org/
Social Media:
- 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-trowbridge/
- 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katie.schmidt.trowbridge/
- ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@katietrowbridge
Lead like the teachers who changed your life. 🚀 The CREATE Your Calm podcast is where educator, author, and creator of the CREATE Method, Katie Trowbridge, helps you transition from...
show more
Lead like the teachers who changed your life. 🚀
The CREATE Your Calm podcast is where educator, author, and creator of the CREATE Method, Katie Trowbridge, helps you transition from being burned out and overwhelmed to being grounded, curious, and emotionally awake.
In each episode, Katie uses deeper thinking, creativity, and fearless curiosity as tools for real mental health... not perfection, not toxic positivity.
Just honest conversations, practical strategies, and teacher-tested tools to help you:
show less
The CREATE Your Calm podcast is where educator, author, and creator of the CREATE Method, Katie Trowbridge, helps you transition from being burned out and overwhelmed to being grounded, curious, and emotionally awake.
In each episode, Katie uses deeper thinking, creativity, and fearless curiosity as tools for real mental health... not perfection, not toxic positivity.
Just honest conversations, practical strategies, and teacher-tested tools to help you:
- Calm your nervous system when life won’t slow down
- Turn burnout into insight, boundaries, and self-respect
- Use curiosity to challenge negative thoughts and old patterns
- Build daily habits that protect your peace and keep your brain flexible
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| Author | Stacey Chillemi |
| Organization | Advisor Global Media™ |
| Categories | Mental Health , Self-Improvement , How To |
| Website | - |
| tman4137@gmail.com |
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