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Find Joy...No Matter WhatEpisode 128: Read Some PoetryThanks for joining Jill Baughan today on Finding Joy ...No Matter What. Make a Joy Box for Someone You Care About: https://jillbaughan.com/joy-box/ Angelou, Maya. “And Still I Rise.” Boynton, Sandra. Pajama Time. Workman Publishing Company, 2011. Howard, Bethany. “Scared to Fly.” Permission Granted: Embrace Who You Are, Cultivate Courage, Impact Your World, 2020. Limbong, Andrew. “We Need Art Right Now. Here’s How to Get Into Poetry.” Life Kit: Tools to Help You Get It Together, April 20, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/823944128/we-need-art-right-now-heres-how-to-get-into-poetry Oliver, Mary. “The Uses of Sorrow.”...2022-08-1514 min
The Creative Life ShowCreativity, spirituality and money, with David NichternDavid 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 choose one at a time? David Nichtern joins me to answer some of those questions, and we also get to meditation - how *do* you fit it in? - starting vs completing things, harmony and dissonance, and the power of habits to create focus. This is a wonderful, inspiring...2019-10-0739 min
The Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getCreativity, spirituality and money, with David NichternDavid 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 choose one at a time? David Nichtern joins me to answer some of those questions, and we also get to meditation - how *do* you fit it in? - starting vs completing things, harmony and dissonance, and the power of habits to create focus. This is a wonderful, inspiring conversation from a man who...2019-10-0739 minThe Creative Life ShowTaking 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 of personal discovery that went from from sound-baths to yoga, writing to silent retreats, as well as facing some difficult truths about her past. One result was writing her first book, while another was setting up her own s...2019-09-1632 minThe Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getTaking 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 of personal discovery that went from from sound-baths to yoga, writing to silent retreats, as well as facing some difficult truths about her past. One result was writing her first book, while another was setting up her own small publishing and media business where she can be...2019-09-1632 minThe Creative Life ShowLove your superpowers, with Marianne CantwellFrom 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 Range Humans - a sought-after speaker and bestselling author.Marianne shares the story of how, after her first book was a huge, unexpected success, she expected to find herself thrilled and energised. But she found herself sinking into brain fog and apathy, with nothing to say and nothing...2019-09-0331 minThe Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getLove your secret superpower, with Marianne CantwellFrom 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 Range Humans - a sought-after speaker and bestselling author.Marianne shares the story of how, after her first book was a huge, unexpected success, she expected to find herself thrilled and energised. But she found herself sinking into brain fog and apathy, with nothing to say and nothing to write. She talks about...2019-09-0331 minThe Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getFun, fearlessness and founding a joyful business, with Harriet Kelsall21 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 Jewellers. She’s been a driving force behind Fairtrade gold, and is the author of an award-winning book on How To Start A Creative Business. I adored talking to Harriet. She’s fun, bright and endlessly positive. She’s also dyslexic, which, she says has been a big advantage in her journey...2019-07-0239 minThe Creative Life ShowFun, fearlessness and founding a joyful business, with Harriet Kelsall21 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 Jewellers. She’s been a driving force behind Fairtrade gold, and is the author of an award-winning book on How To Start A Creative Business. I adored talking to Harriet. She’s fun, bright and endlessly positive. She’s also dyslexic, which, she says has been a big ad...2019-07-0239 minThe Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getHow to reinvent yourself, even when you feel you've failed, with Judy AppsJudy 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 how nothing in your life is ever wasted - and how the directions you thought you'd given up on can provide the threads for you to weave something more magical and effective than you ever thought possible. As creatives, we HAVE to be able to communicate with people...2019-06-1841 minThe Creative Life ShowHow to reinvent yourself, even when you feel you've failed, with Judy AppsJudy 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 how nothing in your life is ever wasted - and how the directions you thought you'd given up on can provide the threads for you to weave something more magical and effective than you ever thought possible. As creatives, we HAVE to be...2019-06-1841 minThe Creative Life ShowThe joy of multiple passions, with Polymath author Waqās AhmedThis 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 and interest.Being a polymath, he says, may be the single best way to personal fulfillment. What's more, in a world of AI, the ability to see and join links between apparently unrelated fields will become ever more i...2019-05-2439 minThe Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getThe joy of multiple passions, with Polymath author Waqās AhmedThis 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 and interest.Being a polymath, he says, may be the single best way to personal fulfillment. What's more, in a world of AI, the ability to see and join links between apparently unrelated fields will become ever more important. Waqās shares his ow...2019-05-2439 minThe Creative Life ShowA million book sales without a publisher, with author Mel SherrattCan 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 when your success isn't quite lined up with what you TRULY want to do. I wasn't expecting Mel to tell me what she did about what she REALLY wants to write about - and why she's finally got the confidence to go for it. 2019-05-2032 minThe Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getA million book sales without a publisher, with author Mel SherrattCan you really become an award-winning, million-selling novelist without a publisher or an agent? Yes! Mel Sharratt 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 when your success isn't quite lined up with what you TRULY want to do. I wasn't expecting Mel to tell me what she did about what she REALLY wants to write about - and why she's finally got the confidence to go for it. Click to view: show page on...2019-05-2032 min
The Creative Life Show | For creatives, thinkers and world-changers | Get inspired, get noticed, getThe power of YES with Matthew BarleyA lot of creative people I know never release their full talents because something trips them up. 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 to do is find ways around it. That's exactly what my guest Matthew Barley has done. An anxious child, teenager and adult, he's become one of Britain's leading solo musicians, in demand around the world for his boundary-less, innovative, generous collaborations. We...2019-04-0139 min
The Creative Life ShowAnxiety, creativity and the power of yes, with Matthew BarleyIf 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 to do is find ways around it. That's exactly what my guest Matthew Barley has done. An anxious child, teenager and adult, he's become one of Britain's leading solo musicians, in demand arou...2019-04-0139 min.png)
The Creative Life ShowA passion for food, with chef and writer Alan RosenthalThe 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 a fine-dining kitchen, and about what makes his own life either rewarding or frustrating. He also shares how the sudden shock of losing his father took him away from his own creativity, and how it's taken several years to have the courage and the commitment to follow...2018-10-3032 minThe Creative Life ShowKathryn Nicolai: becoming a writer, aphantasia and launching a hit podcastWhen 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 sharing with other people to help them doze off. 'A little creative project, that's all', she thought.13 episodes later, it had been listened to over a million times. That's an extraordinary number for any new podcast, never mind a little indie one from s...2018-10-0931 minThe Creative Life ShowAnna Kunnecke: writing, beauty and the unexpected joy of orderHow 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' even when we just want to hide. We also contemplate the challenge of finding time for our dream when we have a life full of other demands. How should we prioritise our creative work when we have clients...2018-09-2535 min
The Creative Life ShowAaron Dworkin: 'You can do anything', music, mentors and 500 rejectionsNewsweek 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 classical music. He talks about how hundreds of rejections never dented his determination, and the piece of mail that changed everything. You’ll be fired up and inspired by:* Why music practice was the the perfect preparation for taking on a huge, challenging pr...2018-09-1136 minThe Creative Life ShowYour zone of genius and how to rock your story, with Marsha ShandurMarsha 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. And that's how she started her journey that's led to her business as a much-loved storytelling coach, in demand by private clients and events to help them build trust and connection, and make it FUN.2018-09-0439 minThe Creative Life ShowBeing unstoppable, with Monica MichelleMonica 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 started going wrong. Gradually she had to start reducing what she did, as every part of her became weaker and more painful.Then, the diagnosis. And a period of deep introspection and wondering what on...2018-08-2131 minThe Creative Life ShowRoger Mavity: creativity myths and making mischiefSenior 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 client who's not respecting you? Listen now!)Roger demonstrates brilliantly the different sides that creative people can have, simultaneously. Maverick or master, productive or procrastinating? All of it, together.Click to view: show page on Awesound2018-08-0729 minThe Creative Life ShowMia Michaels: fear, courage and being a unicorn in a world of donkeysMia 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 challenge she's ever faced: now. Instead of climbing the next mountain with guts and determination, as she always has done, she's pausing, listening and waiting to what's ready to be born. We also talk about the importance of fear, the 'vortex of craziness' that uncertainty brings, and what brought her...2018-07-2435 min
The Introvert's BubbleFinding Ideas and The Creative Inside: Interview with JoannaHey Peeps, thanks for joining me on the Introvert’s Bubble today. This episode is going to be a fun one! I am interviewing Joanna Pieters ( The Creative Life Show ), whom I met in a Facebook podcasting group. Joanna is a coach and mentor for creatives, just like me and you. She has 20 years of experience in the creative industry and describes herself “as the glue between the creatives and the commercial areas.”
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The Creative Life ShowCreativity, 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 shares how a creative crisis led to growing her website from 5 thousand visitors per month to 19 thousand, in just 30 days. It's a process she still repeats every time she feels blocked, bored or frustrated - which, she says, still happens regularly. 2018-07-1729 minThe Creative Life ShowClaiming the story that's yours, with author Sophie SabbageSophie 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 and transformed her life.
And yet there was another book waiting: one that she'd promised her teacher and mentor to write as he was dying, ten years before. Lifeshocks is 'her greatest creative work', and yet she had to overcome myriad deep-seated fears...2018-07-0929 minThe Creative Life ShowDarren Henley: 30+ books, a radio station, and the most influential UK arts jobDarren 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, in big cities and tiny rural communities.As chief executive of the Arts Council of England, Darren Henley oversees hundreds of millions of pounds going into culture each year. He's also a vocal campaigner for the power of creativity to shape our world from education to loneliness. Somehow he...2018-07-0335 minThe Creative Life ShowBeating perfectionism and building a community, with Carrie Brummer of Artist StrongOne 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 when they were selected for a national tour that she began to reflect on what had been holding her back until that point: perfectionism, a sense of 'should', or, as she says, 'a really loud inner critic'. She talks about how it led...2018-06-2533 min