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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 spiritu
'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 real
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
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
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 auditio
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
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
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. Anxi
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 i
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
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 ou
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
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 too
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 care
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
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
'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 t
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 bes
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 ti
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 se
Do you get to the end of the day feeling that you used your time and energy in the best possible way? Although we’re making decisions every moment of every day, most of the time we’re not conscious of what goes on behind our ‘rational’ thinking
You've launched your creative business, you've grown it to six-figures and more... then you find that someone else has stolen it. That happened to dancer, choregographer and voiceover artist Jonathan Tilley. But it started him on a journey that
Amrit Singh was a jobbing designer when a friend introduced him to the live-streaming app Periscope. In just 2 years he's attracted over 3 million viewers watching his live art and inspiration sessions. It's led to his own thriving art business
You’ve got a huge vision for a creative, project, you know you have the skills, and you get fantastic feedback – and then all the people in positions of power try to change everything about it. What do you do? You go and build a community of th
Creatives work best when they collaborate, right? And isn’t it the ideal to work with a friend you know and like? Jordan Lloyd’s work as a highly specialist photography colourist relies on strong relationships, but he’s learnt the hard way. He
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