So the moment I first saw my guest, Tanya Catan, on stage a couple months back, I knew immediately I wanted to sit down with her for a deeper conversation.
She was absolutely captivating, and it was partly about her story.
So she was actually born in New York, grew up in Arizona with a lot of challenges, but also knowing that she was always a very different kid than everyone around her.
And then the other part was the way that she basically stepped into the world, the way that she embraced unapologetically who she was, and then brought her unique lens, her voice, her creative abilities, her flair for creativity and drama into jobs, arenas, entire industries, companies, in a way that completely defied the descriptions on paper of what she was doing, brought them alive, brought the cultures alive, and in doing so, completely transformed.
Wherever she ended up landing along that journey, she also created a massively viral campaign that would sort of redefine what it was to be a woman, especially in the world of tech and business.
And her book, called Creative Trespassing, is a really fun and super informative deep dive into sort of the fundamental principles and extractions that she has really divine from this journey in an effort to share them with anyone and everyone so that they can understand how to turn whatever it is that they're doing into what they need it to be to make it more creative and more alive in every way, shape and form.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I remember the playground in our school, and the playground was actually just cement.
And we did an exercise where we.
Which for those outside of New York, is normal.
Oh, totally typical.
Yeah, yeah.
And I remember though, that the cement kind of fell away.
We did an exercise where we were lying on our backs and we were asked to look up at the clouds and name what animals and things we saw in the clouds.
And I thought, wow, what a transcendent experience.
And I realized, though, that the ability to see, you know, a bunny rabbit in the clouds as a kid is probably the beginning of my creativity and curiosity in the world.
Were you that kid?
Were you that kid who was kind of walking around sort of like in your head, creating things and seeing things?
Yes and no.