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This is a podcast for people of all creative persuasions, whether your inspiration comes from designing businesses painting pictures or watching Netflix, we’ll be discussing issues through honest open conversations, and hopefully having some fun doing it.
Follow on Show Notes Have you ever felt not quite worthy of the praise you are receiving or a little bit worried that someday others will find you out to be a fraud? Perhaps when you try something new, your self-confidence disappears and you find yourself wondering why you left that job you were so […]
In this month’s Creative Life episode, Katie talks to Davide Neri an executive coach, consultant and facilitator in people skills. Davide reflects on creativity as a balance of two pillars of self-knowledge and connection.
Yes were finally back with a creative book club edition. This month we’ve been reading “Humour, Seriously: Why Humour is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life” by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas. Published by Random House in 2020.
Vishal and Katie have just finished running a career training and coaching programme at a top business school and they managed to sit down at the airport on the way back to get the Raise Your Voice episodes back on track.
In the first episode of 2022, Katie talks openly about the grief of losing her brother Toby in early January, as well as how that has reopened the feelings of loss of the rest of her family of origin. As heavy as that sounds, we try to do this in a light way, hoping to encourage others to be open about their losses and not suffer them alone.
For our last Creative life episode of 2021, Katie interviews Lynn Stewart her design teacher and head of department from secondary school. It’s been 20 years since they last spoke and Lynn is an inspirational as ever, with her thoughts and experiences on life and design.
In this Raise your Voice episode, Vishal and Katie discuss the challenge of defining a “personal brand” while allowing yourself a somewhat fluid identity and complexity, how that connects with showing vulnerability in storytelling and life and what role language plays in all of this. We also share our stories on intelligence, taking you into Vishal’s head and over to Guatemala in the late 90’s.
In this month’s solo episode, we look at the interaction between play and focus in a creative process, something hinted at by all our guests this month. Katie shares how she applies this in creating abstract art and theatre as well as courses for executives. We learn some things from children, the masters of play, and delve into how we might choose to be more playful (since most of us are better at the focus part).
In this extra creative life episode, Katie speaks with Cyril Moulin Fournier, who uses his learnings from being abducted by Boko Haram to demonstrate how to unlock the human potential to face adversity and uncertainty.
This month our Creative Book Club reads “Against Creativity” by Ali Mould. This was a book we choose because it seemed to have such a different approach to most creativity books, and it did not disappoint. Whether or not you agree with the key message of the book, you will find ideas that will make you question your own role in the so-called Creative Class.
This is a podcast for people of all creative persuasions, whether your inspiration comes from designing businesses painting pictures or watching Netflix, we’ll be discussing issues through honest open conversations, and hopefully having some fun doing it. Our aim is to inspire you to lead your life and your business with creativity and play.
We’ve got four different types of episodes for you to look forward to. There are solo episodes where I’ll look at one aspect of creativity, and leading your creative life, there are guest episodes where I’ll be interviewing and normal person leading a creative life, there are find and raise your voice episodes with me and Vishal Thacker, about the importance and challenges of telling our own stories. And there’s a monthly book club episode, where we’ll focus on one book and examine the content and issues it raises.
Vishal Thacker
