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Sparks Journal
by Josh Sparks
The Sparks Journal is a podcast at the intersection of purpose, creativity, and cultural impact. Hosted by Josh Sparks, it features deep conversations with visionary leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers who are reshaping how we live, work, and create. Each episode blends soulful storytelling with practical insights to help you align vision with purpose and turn inspiration into lasting impact.Subscribe to The Sparks Journal and join us each week, for new episodes exploring the ideas and stories that spark transformation.
Episodes
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Stephen Schiff | The Storytelling Skill That Moves Customers, Capital & Culture
Stephen Schiff — Pulitzer finalist, former Vanity Fair and New Yorker writer, and Golden Globe–winning, Emmy-nominated screenwriter — joins The Sparks Journal to explore why storytelling is the connective tissue between belief and value. In this conversation, we move beyond “marketing” to examine...
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Joshua Sparks & Mark Bilton CoLab | Healthspan, Being Human, and Purpose
Many leaders and creatives feel run down, disconnected, or unsure how to sustain their energy and purpose over the long term. Others may appear highly successful from a distance, yet find themselves quietly asking, Is this really all there is? In this special Podcasters CoLab, I sit down with…
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Paizley Laura | Getting Gooey: Building a Wellness Brand From the Inside Out
Paizley Laura is the founder of the rapidly growing lifestyle brand Peach Honey, a champion of self care rituals and ‘getting gooey’, and one of the most compelling voices in the new wave of social first founder-led brands. Paizley joins the The Sparks Journal for a raw, expansive and deeply…
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Samantha Wills | Brand Magic: Storytelling, Intuition & Creative Commercialism
Samantha Wills - creative entrepreneur, bestselling author of Of Gold and Dust, designer behind her iconic jewellery brand, and creator of the Marigold children’s series - joins The Sparks Journal for a powerful conversation about creativity, intuition, imposter syndrome and building a life that...
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Laura Day | The Science of Intuition: Healing Ego & Rewriting Your Future
Laura Day — bestselling author, world-renowned intuitive and creator of The Prism — joins The Sparks Journal for an intimate exploration of intuition, healing and human possibility. In this conversation, Laura shares how intuition works not as mysticism but as data, how trauma shapes the ego, and...
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Scott Gooding | The Alchemy of Reinvention: Grit, Growth & Turning Fear Into Fuel
Chef, author, My Kitchen Rules alum and Good Farm Shop co-founder Scott Gooding is one of those rare people who has done the deep inner work to turn a difficult start into a life of meaning, discipline and love. Scott spent his childhood living in English pubs - surrounded by drunk adults, chaos...
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Andrew Bolton | Art x Commerce: The Met Gala, Meaning, and the Power of Dress
The Met Gala, from the man who curates it. Andrew Bolton—Curator in Charge of The Met’s Costume Institute and Anna Wintour’s long-time collaborator—explains how the red carpet functions as a moving gallery and an extension of the exhibition itself. We explore Savage Beauty, Camp, and Heavenly...
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Matt Kaness | American Retail’s Best-Kept Secret: Building Purpose into Profit
Matt Kaness has quietly helped shape the modern playbook for purpose-driven retail — where creativity and commercial discipline amplify each other. At URBN (Anthropologie, Free People, Urban Outfitters), he helped triple revenue and grow e-commerce from ~10% to ~40% of the business. As CEO of...
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Raquel Bouris | No Rules : Who is Elijah, From Garage Start-up to Global Cult Brand
From $40,000 and a garage to a global fragrance phenomenon — Raquel Bouris, founder of Who Is Elijah, has built one of Australia’s fastest-growing beauty brands by doing things differently. In this candid, empowering, and hilarious conversation, Raquel opens up about the creative chaos, the brand...
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Dare Jennings | Two Cult Brands, One Playbook - “All the Same Juice” & the Temples of Enthusiasm
Building one global cult brand is rare. Doing it twice - Mambo and Deus Ex Machina - is almost unheard of. In this inspiring conversation, Dare Jennings reveals the playbook behind both: lead with art and humour that challenge the mainstream, fuse the unrestrained creativity of subcultures…
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Jon Rose | Healing the Helper: Trauma, Psychedelics & the Real Work of Wholeness
Jon Rose has lived a life that reads like myth: a pro surfing prodigy at 17, then the founder of Waves For Water, a guerrilla-style humanitarian organisation that’s delivered clean water to millions in disaster and conflict zones. To the world, he was fearless — the man who ran toward hurricanes,...
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Matilda Brown | Film, Family & the Future of Food
From film to farm, Matilda Brown shares how she found a deeper creative purpose, one rooted in the soil beneath her feet. This is a story about the power of the pivot: regenerative agriculture, saying no to gatekeepers, and growing a mission-led meals brand while raising a family. We explore when...
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Dan Churchill | Purpose, Resilience & the Creator-to-Founder Playbook
Sydney beaches. A MasterChef stage. New York ambition. The inspiring, irrepressible Dan Churchill shows what’s possible when conviction meets clarity — and purpose meets performance. Guided by a clear North Star (“change the world through food”) and a deep commitment to helping everyone achieve...
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Thom Browne | Courage, Conviction, and Creating Without Compromise
Episode 1 of The Sparks Journal podcast is with legendary luxury fashion designer, Thom Browne. Thom is widely considered to be one of the most influential designers of the last century, merging a unique creative vision that has earned enormous cultural cache, with significant commercial success....
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Welcome to the Sparks Journal
The Sparks Journal explores the intersection of purpose, creativity, and cultural impact. Hosted by Joshua Sparks, it features world-class creators, founders, and thinkers who are reshaping the future. Subscribe for deep conversations, insights, and stories to help you align vision with purpose…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Sparks Journal is a podcast at the intersection of purpose, creativity, and cultural impact. Hosted by Josh Sparks, it features deep conversations with visionary leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers who are reshaping how we live, work, and create. Each episode blends soulful storytelling with practical insights to help you align vision with purpose and turn inspiration into lasting impact.Subscribe to The Sparks Journal and join us each week, for new episodes exploring the ideas and stories that spark transformation.
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The Sparks Journal is a podcast at the intersection of purpose, creativity, and cultural impact. Hosted by Josh Sparks, it features deep conversations with visionary leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, and thinkers who are reshaping how we live, work, and create. Each episode blends soulful...
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Sparks Journal is created and hosted by Josh Sparks.
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