Lauren Currie; named a top 30 women under 30 changing the world by ELLE, on challenging the norm and the power of confidence

Episode #30 is now live on the air! I interviewed a Scottish designer, innovator, entrepreneur and TEDx speaker who describes herself as “an ambassador of people”. Her popular service design blog; redjotter.com has attracted over 350,000 readers and she is now the Head of Service Design at The Good Lab in the UK.  Management Today named her as one of the UK’s top 35 business women under 35, and ELLE also featured her as one of 30 women under 30 changing the world. Some of the topics we spoke about include: Why fulfilment and finding meaning look different for every person How the design industry and education providers can better work together Encouraging diversity onstage through her social intiative #upfront And why she believes that confidence is the key to unlocking most problems we face I present to you, the super intelligent and wildly thought-provoking… Lauren Currie!  More on Lauren can be found via the links below: Website: http://www.redjotter.com Twitter: @redjotter Email: [email protected] - #Upfront: http://weareupfront.com Twitter: @Upfrontglobal Subscribe to The Giant Thinkers Podcast on iTunes. Do you want to create and send an invoice in under 30 seconds? I highly recommend you checkout Freshbooks. The #1 cloud-based, invoicing software for small businesses. Especially if you’re a freelancer. 5 million people already use FreshBooks to painlessly send invoices & estimates, track time and capture expense receipts. Tina Roth-Eisenberg, Founder of Creative mornings, aka swiss-miss, said “it saves me a huge amount of time.” Forbes said it is “Incredibly user friendly”. FreshBooks is offering a month of unrestricted use to all Giant Thinkers listeners, totally free right now. To claim your free month, go to FreshBooks.com/Giant and enter Giant Thinkers in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section.