About Laynie Tzena

Ideas Made Real Founder-Director Laynie Tzena is a multi-disciplinary artist (writer, performer, and visual artist). She also had a wonderful brother, never at a loss for words, who once told her, "You need to find the intersection between what you love to do and what the culture will pay you to do." Another way of describing this is "the intersection of creativity and business." That's where Laynie Tzena and Ideas Made Real clients live. Welcome.
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Nice Doing Business With You

Eek! “Send it back to the manufacturer.” We all know what that means.

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Escape From the Land of Burnout: Take A Break!

Thus began my career as a grocery cashier–if a summer can be called a career.

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Who Do You Know?

Emily Dickinson never intended to have her poems sit in a drawer.

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Pass It On

Edith doesn’t know this yet, but we actually are related.

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What’s Your Story?

Stories are wonderful: They make life rich—when you read them, when you sing along with them, when you watch them unfold at the movies. Who doesn’t love a great story?

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Many Roads to Rome

Suddenly he said that he had a question for me.

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So Work

No, he explained patiently, he wanted to be Laurence Olivier.

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Conversations About Creativity

Check back soon to hear talk about creativity from a variety of thinkers. For now, you’l find food for thought and plenty of opportunities to join the discussion at facebook.com/ideasmadereal. (Remember to “like” the page to stay in the loop.)

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