The Creative Life Show

Episodes

1. 20

   Creativity, spirituality and money, with David Nichtern

   David Nichtern is a Emmy-winning songwriter and composer, serial entrepreneur, and one of the world's leading teachers of Buddhism. So what does it really mean to bring together creative spark, practical business-building and a profound spiritual practice? And what do you do when you have to…

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   Oct 7, 2019

   39m
2. 19

   Taking charge of your future, with Kay Hutchison

   'I took myself right out of this life and started again - basically putting myself back together'. What do you do when your brilliant life goes off the rails? Kay Hutchison had the high-powered TV career and the lifestyle to match, when she realised it was all wrong. Kay launched into a journey…

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   Sep 16, 2019

   32m
3. 18

   Love your superpowers, with Marianne Cantwell

   From the outside, Marianne Cantwell looks like a classic 'laptop lifestyle' entrepreneur, travelling the world with her business. But it's her much less common approach of embracing empathy, sensitivity and an inner voice that has made her the founder of a loyal and enthusiastic tribe - Free…

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   Sep 3, 2019

   31m
4. 17

   Fun, fearlessness and founding a joyful business, with Harriet Kelsall

   21 years ago Harriet Kelsall was making jewellery on the side of her day job in IT. Today she’s founder of her highly successful bespoke jewellery company (where she still finds time to design), as well as in-demand creative business mentor and Chairman of the British National Association of...

   Jul 2, 2019

   39m
5. 16

   How to reinvent yourself, even when you feel you've failed, with Judy Apps

   Judy Apps is a successful consultant and writer, helping people to communicate, and I wasn't expecting her story of years of what felt like failure and lack of direction. She tells the tale of her early career studying opera, and how an audition in Italy sent everything off the rails. We explore...

   Jun 18, 2019

   41m
6. 15

   The joy of multiple passions, with Polymath author Waqās Ahmed

   This is for you if you have way more interests, skills and things you want to do that the rest of the world can really get their head round. Waqās Ahmed spent five years researching extraordinary people to write The Polymath, a book that flies the flag for living a life of multiple areas of skill...

   May 24, 2019

   39m
7. 14

   A million book sales without a publisher, with author Mel Sherratt

   Can you really become an award-winning, million-selling novelist without a publisher or an agent? Yes! Mel Sherratt tells me how she went from redundancy to selling over a million copies of her novels, and building the life that she'd dreamt of since childhood. But we also talk about what happens...

   May 20, 2019

   32m
8. 13

   Anxiety, creativity and the power of yes, with Matthew Barley

   If there’s one thing that stops creative people releasing their full talents, it’s anxiety. When anxiety takes over, you say NO to things. You stop having great ideas. You don't do the things that allow other people to experience your work. Anxiety isn't easy to cure - but one of the best things…

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   Apr 1, 2019

   39m
9. 12

   A passion for food, with chef and writer Alan Rosenthal

   The Times called Alan Rosenthal 'one of Britain's top foodies' for his food columns and recipe books, his brand Stewed! and his work developing food and restaurants for big UK companies. Alan joins Joanna Pieters to talk about creating a life in food that isn't about being either in an office or…

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   Oct 30, 2018

   32m
10. 11

    Kathryn Nicolai: becoming a writer, aphantasia and launching a hit podcast

    When Kathryn Nicolai decided to launch a podcast Nothing Much Happens: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, she didn't plan much fuss or fanfare. After all, she was a yoga teacher, not a writer. Since she was a small child, she'd told herself bedtime stories to get to sleep, and that's what she was...

    Oct 8, 2018

    31m
11. 10

    Anna Kunnecke: writing, beauty and the unexpected joy of order

    How do you create when the world seems to be full of destruction and pain? How do you keep going when there are so many distractions? Today I talk to the wonderful Anna Kunnecke about the stories we tell ourselves and how we can turn them to our benefit. We talk about showing up 'as a grown-up'...

    Sep 25, 2018

    35m
12. 9

    Aaron Dworkin: 'You can do anything', music, mentors and 500 rejections

    Newsweek named him as one of 15 people who make America great and he was Obama's first appointment to the National Council of the Arts. Yet Aaron Dworkin was just a violin undergraduate with no money or connections when he had the idea for The Sphinx Organisation, to transform representation in...

    Sep 10, 2018

    36m
13. 8

    Your zone of genius and how to rock your story, with Marsha Shandur

    Marsha Shandur was living as she'd dreamed of for nearly 15 years: a job as a successful radio DJ, a life full of live gigs and music, on the brink of the big time. But there was something missing. (Whisper it: she was getting bored). So she took off. She moved continent, with no plan and no job....

    Sep 4, 2018

    39m
14. 7

    Being unstoppable, with Monica Michelle

    Monica Michelle had a thriving, six-figure photography business which she loved. She adored the families, the kids, the women who she did boudoir photos for, as well as the events and the travel she was in demand for. She'd had to give on a career as a dancer, but that was ok. But now, her body...

    Aug 20, 2018

    31m
15. 6

    Roger Mavity: creativity myths and making mischief

    Senior ad man, and CEO of one of Britain's leading design companies, or bestselling author and photographer? Roger Mavity is both, and joins me to debunk some creativity myths, mischief making in the toilets (literally), and taking no nonsense from clients. (Ever tempted to take on work from a...

    Aug 6, 2018

    29m
16. 5

    Mia Michaels: fear, courage and being a unicorn in a world of donkeys

    Mia Michaels, multiple Emmy-winning choreographer is best known for her appearances as judge and choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance and the Broadway show Neverland, and she's worked all round the world with stars from Madonna to Prince. She joins me to talk about the greatest creative...

    Jul 24, 2018

    35m
17. 4

    Creativity, introversion, and going all-in, with Michaela Chung

    'A writer who is not writing is a danger to herself', says Michaela Chung. She's the creator of the hugely popular website IntrovertSpring, author of two books and in-demand expert on how to thrive as an introvert. She joins Joanna Pieters to talk about her own creative and writing life. Michaela...

    Jul 16, 2018

    29m
18. 3

    Claiming the story that's yours, with author Sophie Sabbage

    Sophie Sabbage lived and breathed books as a child: they healed her and made sense of her life. And yet it took decades and the diganosis of a terminal illness that made her finally sit down and write. The result was The Cancer Whisperer, a bestselling book that was translated into 11 languages…

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    Jul 9, 2018

    29m
19. 2

    Darren Henley: 30+ books, a radio station, and the most influential UK arts job

    Darren Henley doesn't much care for how things were done 'before' - he wants to know what people want now. He was journalist-turned-manager of a controversial, immensely popular classical music radio station, and now spends at least half his time touring England visiting arts, culture, libraries,...

    Jul 2, 2018

    35m
20. 1

    Beating perfectionism and building a community, with Carrie Brummer of Artist Strong

    One day in her 20s, Carrie Brummer picked up her paint brush in her sister's basement, with the knowledge it might be the last time. Facing an operation that could take her sight, and possibly her life, she immersed herself into creating two self-portraits. 'I just felt free', she recalls. It was...

    Jun 25, 2018

    33m